Vulture gets on an airplane with a dead rabbit under each wing.
Host: Sir, you can’t bring those on board.
Vulture: Why not? They’re carrion!
Is there anybody under the age of 60 that would get the Kansas song? I guess cartoonists know their target audience well.
I was traveling back from Boston with a rubber chicken my wife asked me to get at a novelty store there. I had it in the outside pocket of my carry-on bag, head sticking out. When the gate agent saw it, I just said, “carrion luggage.”
Oh, that Kansas. I thought you had to be from the state of Kansas to get it. (Also, isn’t there a song about a squashed armadillo?)
May be you mean “Dead Skunk”?
Lost in Ann-Arbor says: May be you mean “Dead Skunk”?
Yeh, that’s usually where I start when listing out the membership of the mostly musical clan of Wainwright / McGarrigle / Roche / Cohen …
No, on reflection it begins with Loudon II (or was he Jr?), the presidential politics writer for Life Magazine and father of the “Dead Skunk” singer, Loudon III. We also should footnote that he was not all about novelty songs.
Shouldn’t his job have been unfulfilling?
“Carry on My Wayward Son” experienced a revival several years ago within the Supernatural fandom.
“Is there anybody under the age of 60 that would get the Kansas song?”
Yes. Both of my teenagers are very familiar with lots of ’80s songs. I think it’s mostly because they get resampled for TikTok videos. Then when I’m playing the song later, they’re suddenly interested to find that the sound was a real song and they ask about it.
Also, it was in “Guitar Hero (2?)”, so one of them comments on that fact whenever it’s played.
Armadillos are easier to accidentally squash than skunks, because they seem to think that nothing can harm them through their armor, and skunks at least know that they can get run over.
But squirrels are the easiest because they run past you and when they realize what a close call they had they run back to give your car a second chance.
There’s also a song by Jeff & Maya Bonhoff – called Carryons, it’s about carry-on luggage from the point of view of the flight attendants. “Carry-ons, they weigh a ton…” I was surprised to discover the original song some months after I encountered Carryons.
Then there was that series of British comedy movies from the 1950’s and 1960’s: Carry On Nurse, Carry On Camping, Carry On Up The Khyber and so on.
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Carry on my Wayward Son?
Carrion, my wayward son.
Vulture gets on an airplane with a dead rabbit under each wing.
Host: Sir, you can’t bring those on board.
Vulture: Why not? They’re carrion!
Is there anybody under the age of 60 that would get the Kansas song? I guess cartoonists know their target audience well.
I was traveling back from Boston with a rubber chicken my wife asked me to get at a novelty store there. I had it in the outside pocket of my carry-on bag, head sticking out. When the gate agent saw it, I just said, “carrion luggage.”
Oh, that Kansas. I thought you had to be from the state of Kansas to get it. (Also, isn’t there a song about a squashed armadillo?)
May be you mean “Dead Skunk”?
Lost in Ann-Arbor says: May be you mean “Dead Skunk”?
Yeh, that’s usually where I start when listing out the membership of the mostly musical clan of Wainwright / McGarrigle / Roche / Cohen …
No, on reflection it begins with Loudon II (or was he Jr?), the presidential politics writer for Life Magazine and father of the “Dead Skunk” singer, Loudon III. We also should footnote that he was not all about novelty songs.
Shouldn’t his job have been unfulfilling?
“Carry on My Wayward Son” experienced a revival several years ago within the Supernatural fandom.
“Is there anybody under the age of 60 that would get the Kansas song?”
Yes. Both of my teenagers are very familiar with lots of ’80s songs. I think it’s mostly because they get resampled for TikTok videos. Then when I’m playing the song later, they’re suddenly interested to find that the sound was a real song and they ask about it.
Also, it was in “Guitar Hero (2?)”, so one of them comments on that fact whenever it’s played.
Armadillos are easier to accidentally squash than skunks, because they seem to think that nothing can harm them through their armor, and skunks at least know that they can get run over.
But squirrels are the easiest because they run past you and when they realize what a close call they had they run back to give your car a second chance.
There’s also a song by Jeff & Maya Bonhoff – called Carryons, it’s about carry-on luggage from the point of view of the flight attendants. “Carry-ons, they weigh a ton…” I was surprised to discover the original song some months after I encountered Carryons.
Then there was that series of British comedy movies from the 1950’s and 1960’s: Carry On Nurse, Carry On Camping, Carry On Up The Khyber and so on.
“They also serve, who only carry on.”