[Shotimes] "My Bologna" song

[Donald Mallinson]

Growing up in the middle of the midwests biggest Amish (no 
Omish?) community in Arthur Illinois, I got a huge kick out 
of that parady.  He nailed the Amish 100% with his look and 
acting.

Just so you know, I think most of them would have a sense of 
humor about it, but they still don't like anyone to take 
still or moving pictures of them since they believe that it 
steals the soul.  (really!).  Tourism has reduced that 
belief to some degree as they need the money.

Amish are mostly gentle people that just want to be left 
alone (except when you are buying their merchandise) to live 
their own life.  My mother drove a school bus and got to 
know a lot of the grade school children and their parents. 
(Amish take their kids out of public school after about 6th 
grade and stunt their exposure to the outside world by 
putting them into their own schools when they get to the 
impressionable teenage years).

As I have written before, growing up in Amish country means 
you learn car control and slalom well, since you have to 
dodge the "road apples" left by the propulsion devices of 
the Amish (horses).  :)

Don Mallinson

shewitt@hypercon.net wrote:
> Wierd Al is playing here in Buffalo this weekend...  Maybe he'll make a 
> dedication to all of us w/ My Bologna.  My personal favorite is the 
> remake of the Coolio song, Omish style. :)
> 
> Scot H