stormdog | Entries tagged with silly

I went to a couple of thrift stores this morning with my parents, as early as possible to minimize other people. I was still anxious because it was more time spent indoors than over the past month or two combined.

But anyway, I found Tom Lehrer's "That Was the Year That Was," and I'm pretty excited about that. But I realized later that this even more...exciting?...45 had been stuck into the cellophane the album was wrapped in.

This 1977 single by an unknown Canadian artist will rock your world (if your world is centered on making sure that you are aware of discounts and insurance savings available to you as the purchaser of a new car in Canada in 1977). It's called "Please Play Before Driving 100 Miles." Just to hear this record, I set up my stereo and turntable temporarily on the floor of the living room and started it up.

Friends, I was amazed. If you travel back in time to 1977, visit Canada, and choose to buy a new vehicle, you *must* listen to this record.

Here's the info on this single from discogs.com: https://www.discogs.com/release/11680383-Unknown-Artist-Please-Play-Before-Driving-100-Miles

Current Mood: giggly

While going through Livejournal looking for dates for my permanent residency application, I found this from October 2010. It made me laugh again.

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Windows just crashed (in the middle of writing something of course) with a "Bad Pool Caller" error. My mind went to a smirking bare-chested man with a cruel grin sitting atop a lifeguard chair. "Alright you brats, out of the pool! Adult swim time!"

"No!" chorus the fresh-faced youngsters as their game of beach-ball catch splashes to an abrupt stop. "Please sir; we've only been in for ten minutes!"

"Watch me not care!" shouts the guard, an evil glint in his eye. "Out now or you'll be down to *five* minutes like *last* time!"

With a tear gathering at the corner of his eye, the young boy with the ball sniffles, "You're a bad pool caller."

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Or maybe it's just a couple of 1s and 0s out of place somewhere in the guts of this infernal thing. But I like the former explanation better.

Crossposts: https://stormdog.livejournal.com/1400241.html

Our mortgage was paid through something called PayLease. I logged in to the site today and was greeted with a message that "PayLease is now Zego!" I immediately said "Zego, the Carpathian! Zego the destroyer! You are like the buzzing of flies to him! ...Why am I dripping with goo?"

Current Mood: silly
Crossposts: https://stormdog.livejournal.com/1367236.html

1st of May, 1st of May! Outdoor...snuggling starts today!

https://youtu.be/gEjRHFom1Kk

Jonathan Coulton's "First of May" with sign language performers.

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Could we *please* have some dry weather now? I'm not snuggling or doing anything else outside in the rain!