Lmfaoooo that was gold! I had a grandad who would have actually tried to have a go at it if I’d wanted it. The other was just the opposite. And both parents were too self obsessed.
I assume your father knew that Casey's real name was John, and that he was sung about in the 1960s by The Grateful Dead ("Riding that train, high on cocaine...").
Ur welcome from nirmal and Gordon!
Lmfaoooo that was gold! I had a grandad who would have actually tried to have a go at it if I’d wanted it. The other was just the opposite. And both parents were too self obsessed.
Thanks Gordon!! 😄
Perhaps he was sweating bullets too, pulled out at the last minute, and roared with laughter at pranking you in order to save face? 😆
Sounds like a collective of bullets were sweated that day. I guess the collective would be called a magazine...?
That sounds about right to me 😁😅
I was sweating bullets. 😂
love it.
Thanks Ian! I'm still convinced he actually wanted to steal it. Come to think of it, has anybody seen it?
there’s something hilarious about the prank being played on the kids and not the museum staff… just crazy.
The Dead probably based their tune on the folk song as it was- they studied American and world music traditions like they were academic musicologists.
Interesting. I know the song and like it :) I was pretty young when everything here went down and barely knew what Casey Jones was at the time.
I assume your father knew that Casey's real name was John, and that he was sung about in the 1960s by The Grateful Dead ("Riding that train, high on cocaine...").
He was probably only familiar from the original folksong recorded on an original phonograph cylinder haha!! (he was born in the 1930s...)
This story really made me laugh - thanks for sharing!