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Last night for some unknown reason I had not only the scenario but the actual music of "Timothy" -- written by Rupert Holmes (who also wrote "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)") and performed by a one-hit wonder band called The Buoys -- running through my head for what seemed like hours on end. A nightmare to end all nightmares, methinks.

So I go to do a little research, and I pull up the lyrics on the site linked from the Wikipedia entry, and what should appear in the "Sponsored Links" but an ad for Florida orange juice under the title "Food Pyramid". ;-)

I suppose the moral of this little tale is that these are times when we find humor where we can just to keep from screaming.

Current Mood: disturbed
Current Location: 98056
Current Music: Timothy

Well, not really.

Since participating in the American Choral Masterpieces festival, I'm reminded of a silly prank in my college choir perpetrated by one of the tenors and repeated a lot by yours truly. The song was Aaron Copland's setting of "I Bought Me A Cat" and the actual song goes like this:

I bought me a cat, my cat pleased me.
I fed my cat under yonder tree.
My cat says fiddle-eye-fee.

The prank was to make a "filk" of just this part of the song, that went:

I bought me a cat, it didn't please me.
I hanged my cat from yonder tree.
My cat went *ack*!
(here simulate the sound of the cat being strangled)

Now I can't get that bit of doggerel out of my head. Ack!

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Location: 98056
Current Music: what else?