And one more of these that has a slightly political tinge to it,
I guess.
It comes from a phrase in a song by a pop
group called the Canned Heat, and the phrase
is "Up the country."
They say, going up the country.
But I like "Up the country."
[LAUGHTER]
Travel up the country, and you'll see them--
the hippies who thought, when the truck breaks down,
that's where we live, then broke down in Orange County.
[LAUGHTER]
The secretary whose dress is too short for her girdle,
a dreaming dog who kicks a chair that falls on him--
[LAUGHTER]
--the president who really wants to know why the Europeans threw
eggs at him, the Pismo Beach Chamber of Commerce promoting
the famous clams, a fly wading through October to get out
the summerhouse window--
[LAUGHTER]
--the pensioner demanding respect for the greater
property of others, the New Yorker building a bomb shelter,
a white-faced steer eating grain in a feedlot near the rail
yard, and me, still going up the country.
[LAUGHTER]
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