Reality Check by Dave Whamond for July 19, 2023

There’s still a stairway to Heaven.

That’s what Joni Mitchell said.

If you take the Highway to Hell direction, do you hear AC/DC?

How come they’re not in a Big Yellow Taxi?

Take down their license plate number!

Ralph’s on the ball today!

“Putting up” a parking lot always sounded a bit off to me. You could put up a parking garage.

With a pink hotel and a boutique and a swing’ hot spot?

So what are we going to do with all those jokes about the quickest way to Paradise is through Intercourse (PA)?

Where are all the good intentions?

Welp, that’s Life in the Fast Lane! Nyuk-Nyuk-Nyuk!

don’t it always seems to go…….

♫♪ And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking

Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away ♪♫

— John Prine, Paradise, 1971

Writers: Michael Garvin, Matteo Saggese, Raymond St. John

Quoting Joni Mitchel from a 1970 song for a punchline? How lazy can you get?

Hit the road Jack, and don’t ya come here no more.

Nuts, so what do I do with the two tickets I have? Can I get back my Money?

The road to He!! is paved with good intentions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2595abcvh2M&ab_channel=JoniMitchell

What a long, strange trip it’s been.

Coming up, in about 50 miles, for one’s entertainment, BURMA- SHAVE….to the right….

Get back to where you once belonged.

Many good comments here. Thanks to those who posted links. Stay safe and healthy my friends.

Look for signs and beware … but don’t believe all the signs you see.

And a big one, with Costco, Sam’s Club, Walmart, Target, and Five and Dime (that’s $5 and $10) next to each other.

And as we wind on down the road…ope, wrong song.

REST AREA … Pull Over …!!!

( close enow )

But Heaven is in your mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAIywSUAq4o

I guess you’ll have to use the narrow way.

They can still find Paradise by the Dashboard Light.

We’re looking forward to when you Get Back. (To where you once belonged.)

the PUNS!!!

8^)

Can’t take that path… they’ll never know the difference.

Detour there’s a bumpy road ahead.(Patti Page,my parents must have had the record, because Google says the song is a year older than me).

There’s a great tree museum there

Maybe, we could get there on Electric Avenue

At this point, if the road is paved and smooth, I will gladly drive it.

Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty!

Someone turned off the dashboard lights?

Nice one, Dave!!!❤️

Real detour sign in my city (Cambridge, UK) a couple of decades ago: “Paradise …. closed, follow Adam and Eve…” (Ellipses mine and I bet that the sign writer had a sense of humour).