Why is this “Arlo”? Everybody knows that the name of the breed sound like “$#!+“, and most of the corresponding jokes have already been retread into the grave.
By the end of the week they’ll be eating shiitake…
Question: “Why is this “Arlo”?”
Answer: “Everybody knows that the name of the breed sound like “$#!+“”
When I was 11 years old we used like to giggle about the line from the song “I’d like to build the world a home and furnish it with love”. Goes to show the lengths 11 year olds will go to to have 11 year old humor.
@woozy, I asked my inner 11-year-old, but couldn’t find anything in that bit you quoted. Or was that just you identifying the song, and “the line” from it that you mean is some other one, that some readers may be able to fill in?
@ Mitch4 – I’m pretty sure that woozy’s 11-year-old self took the phrase “…furnish it…“, and moved the space two characters to the left, resulting in “…furni $#!+…” Yes, it’s a long stretch, but woozy did indicate that it wasn’t going to be simple. In any case, the “shock” value is about the same magnitude as the classic children’s song “Hello Operator” (see the column labeled “California”).
Thank you, that was quite an interesting rabbit hole! I had to check out the article on the other song they warned might be confused with this one, and from “the lady with the alligator purse” had to work out which Alfred Hatchplot film used that rhyme (Marnie I think).
Probably the first book of academic film criticism I read, in the late 1960s, was about Hitchcock (not the Truffaut volume about him, which I also read about the same time) and referred to the “red suffusions” in Marnie, which I had not yet seen. The phrase is so striking and descriptive, I have not forgotten it. And a Google search for the phrase still gives (in like fifth or sixth place, after birds) a link to a book discussing Marnie.
@woozy: Any chance you’re misremembering the NATIONAL LAMPOON parody of the Coke jingle?
I’d like to teach the world to sing
And tell it jokes and stuff
Then pull its pants down to its knees
And chase it through the rough
Then knock it out and tie it up
And check its purse for change
Then leave it out at Moose Grin hall
With cousin Ernie who’s deranged.
I call this one a semi-geezer. Loved the Spy Kids movie. “Oh, shi … take mushrooms.”
I’d swear a local supermarket spells the mushrooms with one “I” and two “T’s”.
I was surprised to see them get a second day out of it. But on the first strip, I would have expected Jeremy to say, “Gesundheit.”
One of the early, and successful, desktop publishing software packages was named Publish It!
The “Hello Operator” song is similar to “The Clean Song” by Oscar Brand, about the sailor who spied through his glass, and found a fair mermaid sitting on her island where seagulls fly over their nests, she combed her long hair which hung over her shoulders and so on.
“Hello Operator” reminded of Benny Bell’s “Shaving Cream” (introduced to later generations by Dr. Demento), although that uses only a single mind rhyme repeated many times. In German, there’s “O hängt ihn auf” which is ostensibly a song of praise for a prince, but through repetitions of the truncated first half of lines is full of insults.
Mr. Grumpy: The joke itself is pedestrian, but Alexa Vega’s delivery was impeccable and really sold it.
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Why is this “Arlo”? Everybody knows that the name of the breed sound like “$#!+“, and most of the corresponding jokes have already been retread into the grave.
By the end of the week they’ll be eating shiitake…
Question: “Why is this “Arlo”?”
Answer: “Everybody knows that the name of the breed sound like “$#!+“”
When I was 11 years old we used like to giggle about the line from the song “I’d like to build the world a home and furnish it with love”. Goes to show the lengths 11 year olds will go to to have 11 year old humor.
@woozy, I asked my inner 11-year-old, but couldn’t find anything in that bit you quoted. Or was that just you identifying the song, and “the line” from it that you mean is some other one, that some readers may be able to fill in?
@ Mitch4 – I’m pretty sure that woozy’s 11-year-old self took the phrase “…furnish it…“, and moved the space two characters to the left, resulting in “…furni $#!+…” Yes, it’s a long stretch, but woozy did indicate that it wasn’t going to be simple. In any case, the “shock” value is about the same magnitude as the classic children’s song “Hello Operator” (see the column labeled “California”).
Thank you, that was quite an interesting rabbit hole! I had to check out the article on the other song they warned might be confused with this one, and from “the lady with the alligator purse” had to work out which Alfred Hatchplot film used that rhyme (Marnie I think).
Probably the first book of academic film criticism I read, in the late 1960s, was about Hitchcock (not the Truffaut volume about him, which I also read about the same time) and referred to the “red suffusions” in Marnie, which I had not yet seen. The phrase is so striking and descriptive, I have not forgotten it. And a Google search for the phrase still gives (in like fifth or sixth place, after birds) a link to a book discussing Marnie.
@woozy: Any chance you’re misremembering the NATIONAL LAMPOON parody of the Coke jingle?
I’d like to teach the world to sing
And tell it jokes and stuff
Then pull its pants down to its knees
And chase it through the rough
Then knock it out and tie it up
And check its purse for change
Then leave it out at Moose Grin hall
With cousin Ernie who’s deranged.
I call this one a semi-geezer. Loved the Spy Kids movie. “Oh, shi … take mushrooms.”
I’d swear a local supermarket spells the mushrooms with one “I” and two “T’s”.
I was surprised to see them get a second day out of it. But on the first strip, I would have expected Jeremy to say, “Gesundheit.”
One of the early, and successful, desktop publishing software packages was named Publish It!
The “Hello Operator” song is similar to “The Clean Song” by Oscar Brand, about the sailor who spied through his glass, and found a fair mermaid sitting on her island where seagulls fly over their nests, she combed her long hair which hung over her shoulders and so on.
“Hello Operator” reminded of Benny Bell’s “Shaving Cream” (introduced to later generations by Dr. Demento), although that uses only a single mind rhyme repeated many times. In German, there’s “O hängt ihn auf” which is ostensibly a song of praise for a prince, but through repetitions of the truncated first half of lines is full of insults.
Mr. Grumpy: The joke itself is pedestrian, but Alexa Vega’s delivery was impeccable and really sold it.