Funny/cute stories/grapics are welcomed here in the Canteen.
I was 10 years old and in the 5th grade in 1969 in Southern Calif. Our elementary school held a carnival/bake sale/talent contest and my teacher asked me to MC the talent contest (I was quite the cut-up back then).
We had about 2 dozen acts with mostly singers. A couple of kids got up and did “500 Miles Away From Home”. Well received since it was a popular song at the time.
Well, about three acts later we got another samll group doing the same song. Then a third and finally a fourth.
By the fourth I took to the microphone and said, “Well, I hope that’s the last 500 miles because we’re at 2,000 and will be headed into the Atlantic if we continue”. Got a stading ovation of laughter.
Never forgot that song to this day.