woozy, you’re right, but that’s the joke. That’s usually called a “salt shaker”, but in the lyrics it’s a “shaker of salt”. Thus the other rephrasings.
WW, thanks for that link.
Yesterday’s “Frazz” confirms that Jimmy Buffett is going through a phase of comic popularity:
Well, there goes Monday’s CIDU…
. . . and I submitted it the first time, but not the second (again). BTW, Wayno really HATES JB and his lyrics. Jealous of his success, methinks. He wrote:
“This gag references one of the worst lyrics in the history of popular music, Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville.” In order to set up a rhyme with the word “fault,” he wrote the awkwardly-phrased “searchin’ for my long-lost shaker of salt.” The song is already horrible, but this tortured syntax is the rancid icing on a flavorless cake.
“This sketchbook page shows the results of time spent brainstorming for items to include. I limited my final choices to phrases that syllabically match the original lyric. It’s a shame we didn’t have room for five, or I’d have included “paper of wax.”
My comment (which, surprisingly, he published) was:
“It’s fine to dislike Jimmy Buffett, but not to disparage his lyric writing. To wit: If you drink Margaritas or Tequila shots, you need a salt shaker. If you drink too many of either, you become drunk. If you are drunk, you lose things. Therefore, looking for a ‘lost shaker of salt’ makes sense in this context. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if ‘salt’ came first and ‘fault’ came on board only because it rhymed with ‘salt’.”
KILBY: And much as a fan I am of JB, I still find this comic to be a JBCIDU. Yes, I know JB sings about both time and tide and yes. I know the phrase about time and tide, but what’s the connection to the MidWest? Global warming will make the MidWest into oceanfront property? In time, with tides??
Without reading the comments, I doubt I would have found the Jimmy Buffett song with “shaker of salt”. That this didn’t get a geezer tag for a 1977 song suggests that I am amazingly clueless, since I actually am a geezer and still didn’t know this.
Is there a particular Jimmy Buffett song about time and tide that I can’t find, or is each just a general theme? The Frazz comic suggests that one or the other does matter (which depending on where you are).
Another ‘desert island’ comic . . .
” what’s the connection to the MidWest?”
There isn’t one, which is the point. A JB fan from the midwest may well adopt the “island life” ethos from JB, despite being not-from-an-island, in fact, so not-front-an-island as to be “from the middle of a continental landmass.”
>” BTW, Wayno really HATES JB and his lyrics. Jealous of his success, methinks. He wrote:”
“This gag references one of the worst lyrics in the history of popular music,… The song is already horrible, but this tortured syntax is the rancid icing on a flavorless cake”
This is said by Wayno? What’s next; Justin Beiber complaining about the wretched writings of Anne Tyler?
Well, we sure did, to the point of, after several [many] years, we moved to FL. Of course, he’d left years ago, but that was beside the point for us.
I think the midwest connection is that Frazz is set in Michigan, which is usually considered the upper midwest. As for the lost shaker of salt, one can have shakers of other things. I believe shakers of fairly hot spices are fairly common in some parts of the Caribbean.
woozy, you’re right, but that’s the joke. That’s usually called a “salt shaker”, but in the lyrics it’s a “shaker of salt”. Thus the other rephrasings.
It doesn’t work for me though. The “shaker salt” doesn’t mean “a shaker for dispensing salt” so much as “a shaker filled with salt”. So more like “a glass of beer” than “grater of cheese”.
If Wayno dislikes that lyric so much, I hope he is equally offended by Billy Joel’s Piano Man with the guy and his “tonic and gin”.
He may be, but hasn’t figured out how to make fun of the phrase in a comic. Yet.
Sort of apropos, also to another thread about inappropriate wedding songs, I just found this site . . . https://spinditty.com/playlists/ . . . pick a subject, find a playlist.
Yes I always thought it was an odd lyric, not even counting the incorrect drink name.
That Loose Parts idea was a lot beer.
” I hope he is equally offended by Billy Joel’s Piano Man with the guy and his “tonic and gin””
No, no. It’s a tonic and djinn.
For many years I thought the line was “my lost jigger of soul” which works as well and seems a bit more… profound.
Not far from the glass of tonic and gin saying “don’t you dare” to the man who wants to make love to it is a glass of beer saying “no thanks, I’m good” to the man who wants to nurse it.
@ Bill – Sorry about preempting Monday’s CIDU. I think you can still post it: nobody has explained it yet. I didn’t understand it at all, but I figured that was because I don’t like Jimmy Buffet.
P.S. Maybe I would have liked the comic enough to try to figure it out if Mallett had used Rick Wakeman (Yes) instead.
I didn’t know whether to submit this to CIDUBill as an [EWWW], or just add it here.
Comics I Don't Understand 
I think the Castaway Capers showed up some years ago as a CIDU.
I never thought the “shaker of salt” was “one that shakes salt”. I always thought is was a shaker with salt in it.
Arthur: It was here earlier this year as an LOL (submitted by the same person), although it got discussed as a CIDU.
https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/2019/05/05/sunday-funnies-lol-may-5-2019/
woozy, you’re right, but that’s the joke. That’s usually called a “salt shaker”, but in the lyrics it’s a “shaker of salt”. Thus the other rephrasings.
WW, thanks for that link.
Yesterday’s “Frazz” confirms that Jimmy Buffett is going through a phase of comic popularity:
Well, there goes Monday’s CIDU…
. . . and I submitted it the first time, but not the second (again). BTW, Wayno really HATES JB and his lyrics. Jealous of his success, methinks. He wrote:
“This gag references one of the worst lyrics in the history of popular music, Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville.” In order to set up a rhyme with the word “fault,” he wrote the awkwardly-phrased “searchin’ for my long-lost shaker of salt.” The song is already horrible, but this tortured syntax is the rancid icing on a flavorless cake.
“This sketchbook page shows the results of time spent brainstorming for items to include. I limited my final choices to phrases that syllabically match the original lyric. It’s a shame we didn’t have room for five, or I’d have included “paper of wax.”
My comment (which, surprisingly, he published) was:
“It’s fine to dislike Jimmy Buffett, but not to disparage his lyric writing. To wit: If you drink Margaritas or Tequila shots, you need a salt shaker. If you drink too many of either, you become drunk. If you are drunk, you lose things. Therefore, looking for a ‘lost shaker of salt’ makes sense in this context. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if ‘salt’ came first and ‘fault’ came on board only because it rhymed with ‘salt’.”
KILBY: And much as a fan I am of JB, I still find this comic to be a JBCIDU. Yes, I know JB sings about both time and tide and yes. I know the phrase about time and tide, but what’s the connection to the MidWest? Global warming will make the MidWest into oceanfront property? In time, with tides??
Without reading the comments, I doubt I would have found the Jimmy Buffett song with “shaker of salt”. That this didn’t get a geezer tag for a 1977 song suggests that I am amazingly clueless, since I actually am a geezer and still didn’t know this.
Is there a particular Jimmy Buffett song about time and tide that I can’t find, or is each just a general theme? The Frazz comic suggests that one or the other does matter (which depending on where you are).
Another ‘desert island’ comic . . .
” what’s the connection to the MidWest?”
There isn’t one, which is the point. A JB fan from the midwest may well adopt the “island life” ethos from JB, despite being not-from-an-island, in fact, so not-front-an-island as to be “from the middle of a continental landmass.”
>” BTW, Wayno really HATES JB and his lyrics. Jealous of his success, methinks. He wrote:”
“This gag references one of the worst lyrics in the history of popular music,… The song is already horrible, but this tortured syntax is the rancid icing on a flavorless cake”
This is said by Wayno? What’s next; Justin Beiber complaining about the wretched writings of Anne Tyler?
Well, we sure did, to the point of, after several [many] years, we moved to FL. Of course, he’d left years ago, but that was beside the point for us.
I think the midwest connection is that Frazz is set in Michigan, which is usually considered the upper midwest. As for the lost shaker of salt, one can have shakers of other things. I believe shakers of fairly hot spices are fairly common in some parts of the Caribbean.
woozy, you’re right, but that’s the joke. That’s usually called a “salt shaker”, but in the lyrics it’s a “shaker of salt”. Thus the other rephrasings.
It doesn’t work for me though. The “shaker salt” doesn’t mean “a shaker for dispensing salt” so much as “a shaker filled with salt”. So more like “a glass of beer” than “grater of cheese”.
If Wayno dislikes that lyric so much, I hope he is equally offended by Billy Joel’s Piano Man with the guy and his “tonic and gin”.
He may be, but hasn’t figured out how to make fun of the phrase in a comic. Yet.
Sort of apropos, also to another thread about inappropriate wedding songs, I just found this site . . .
https://spinditty.com/playlists/ . . . pick a subject, find a playlist.
Yes I always thought it was an odd lyric, not even counting the incorrect drink name.
That Loose Parts idea was a lot beer.
” I hope he is equally offended by Billy Joel’s Piano Man with the guy and his “tonic and gin””
No, no. It’s a tonic and djinn.
For many years I thought the line was “my lost jigger of soul” which works as well and seems a bit more… profound.
Not far from the glass of tonic and gin saying “don’t you dare” to the man who wants to make love to it is a glass of beer saying “no thanks, I’m good” to the man who wants to nurse it.
@ Bill – Sorry about preempting Monday’s CIDU. I think you can still post it: nobody has explained it yet. I didn’t understand it at all, but I figured that was because I don’t like Jimmy Buffet.
P.S. Maybe I would have liked the comic enough to try to figure it out if Mallett had used Rick Wakeman (Yes) instead.
I didn’t know whether to submit this to CIDUBill as an [EWWW], or just add it here.