Senior Citizens do you remember a record that goes?

I think this may be what you are looking for RB.

The Credit Card Song

Well, I guess this story must begin

That fateful day a way back when

I decided I should have a credit card

So I filled out this application

Listed all my recommendations

Sent it off in the mail

And in a month or so the mailman brought me my brand new charge-all card

Better than checks, safer than money, and not near as dirty!

Well it laid around for a couple of days

And finally I thought "What the hay?

Why not see if this thing'll really work!"

So I went down to my favorite store

Picked out three or four shirts or more

A pair of pants and a strip-ed tie

And the man came by and said:

"Yes Sir, cash or charge?"

I said: "Just put it on my credit card

Write that dude up! Ahhh, convenient!"

Now I put that card away in a drawer

And I never charged one dollar more

Then one day in the mail I got this bill

Typed on a card all full of holes

That says do not staple, bend or fold

Was the astronomical figure of thirty-two hundred dollars and forty-two cents... When!

There's been a mistake!

So I got on the phone... "Hello? Hello?"

I got Mr. Black and Mr. Brown

And then I got the run-a-round

'Til finally Mr. Green came on the line

I said "Sir, this may be hard to take

But your computer's made a mistake

It says I owe more money than I've ever seen"

And he said "People like you make mistakes

Computers do not lie

Send us the bread. PDQ!"

Well this had just about done me in

So I grabbed that computer card again

The one with all those holes punched out so nice

And I threw it on the floor and I stomped it twice

And then I whipped out my pocket knife

And punched out a few more holes where there hadn't been no holes before

And I bent it double...

Stapled it across the end...

Drove my car over it...

Stick that up your computer!

I sent her back in and never heard no more

'Til one day the mailman came to the door

With a special delivery from the charge-all place

Inside was a note from Mr. Green

Said: "We ran your card through our machine

And it tells us that you overpaid your bill!

Enclosed is a check payable to you...

For nine thousand dollars!

We appreciate your business"

Well I got back on the phone again, called Mr. Green

And he was I,

And I said: "I think there is something you should know"

Then I told him what the computer had done

And I said "Just remember, you're the one...

That told me computer's do not lie

Thank you!

What 'as long you are up' posted was very apt but lets have a little intellectual honesty here. 1984 was a book written by George Orwell who was, for a while, a dedicated and active Left Winger and then He found out the truth about the Stalinist Regime and became completely disillusioned by The Soviet Union. Hence the book. He actually wanted to call it '1948' but his publishers thought that there would be a 'diplomatic incident' and they persuaded him to change the title. What has evolved since both 1948 and 1984 is State Surveillance in virtually every country in the world. With easy acquisition of lethal means to disrupt and even destroy, any State that does not take security measures pays the price. What Democracy has to do to preserve what Freedoms are left, is to be the continuous watchdog and be aware of what is going on and what is being done, and raise voices and raise the alarm. Freedom has to be perpetually guarded and even fought for, otherwise it gets taken away all too easily.

Sorry RB I don't recall one like that. But I did have a woman from the hospital call me about paying a bill that I supposedly owed them and she wouldn't believe me that I have never been a patient in her hospital. She said the same thing, computers don't lie or make mistakes. I told her no but people who operate them do. Come to find out it was the mayor of a city near by that had the same name as I have.

I dont remember ever hearing that and I always bought records. It reminds me of the IBM keypunch machines and the time we first heard about a computer, I think it was called ENIAC.

I can't recall the name of such a record. I'm most curious now & I too, would like to know the name of it & the man who is arguing with the company. Could you please give us a little more info about this record. (year it was out, etc.)

Never heard of this but I would love to talk to a computer that actually tells l me I 'overpaid". Computers are often confused, and they confuse me too..

The Credit Card Song - by Dick Feller.

Clever - never heard it before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMpJl38NtmI

DeeJay.

[Well done GSD !]

"The Credit Card Song" is written and sung by Dick Feller.

Here is his official website :

http://www.dickfeller.com/home.htm

I don't know the song, but my computer lies to me All the time!...It says I've won a computer or a t.v., a shopping spree......a lucky winner !!! YEAH!!

Wish I could help you RB, don't remember that one.