Sixteen Tons ... (was Re: the Hazards of Instant Communications)

Jan 05, 2006 0 Replies


and dangerous by anyone's standards. Wasn't there a popular song


> several years ago which went (something like this} "Work (some amount)
> of hours, and what do you get, another day older and deeper in debt;
> Saint Peter don't you call me cause I can't go; I owe my soul to the
> company store."....

The song is "Sixteen Tons" by Tennesee Ernie Ford.



For a modern video takeoff on it, used by General Electic in an advertisment, check out:



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may be power, but communications is the key snipped-for-privacy@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]



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