digger242j
09-12-2004, 11:08 PM
Just out of curiousity...
In Trace Adkins' current song "Rough and ready" there's one line--"Five O'clock whistle, off like a missle..."
Being an old fart, I'm familiar with the practice of a whistle blowing to start and end work times. I personally have never had to work anyplace that had one, but I'm sure with all the mills and mines that once existed here in westren PA somebody around here must have.
That, and the beginning of "The Flintstones" where they pulled the bird's tail to make the whistle are the only way I recognized the reference in the song. I wonder how many of our younger members don't understand that reference at all?
It just got me to wondering--is there anywhere that they still actually blow a whistle at quitting time?
In Trace Adkins' current song "Rough and ready" there's one line--"Five O'clock whistle, off like a missle..."
Being an old fart, I'm familiar with the practice of a whistle blowing to start and end work times. I personally have never had to work anyplace that had one, but I'm sure with all the mills and mines that once existed here in westren PA somebody around here must have.
That, and the beginning of "The Flintstones" where they pulled the bird's tail to make the whistle are the only way I recognized the reference in the song. I wonder how many of our younger members don't understand that reference at all?
It just got me to wondering--is there anywhere that they still actually blow a whistle at quitting time?