Comments on Cranky Fitness: Take Me To The Closet, Bub

Oh, and I love Jon Carroll's modegreen archive. I...

2009-10-30T16:04:05.830-04:00

Oh, and I love Jon Carroll's modegreen archive. I wrote him after discovering it and asked why he doesn't have any more recent columns, and he tells me people just aren't coming to him with new ones anymore.

But surely new ones exist. (I totally cracked up at Gina's son's namesake! Tommy, indeed.)

I can't believe nobody else has yet mentioned the ...

2009-10-30T16:01:08.252-04:00

I can't believe nobody else has yet mentioned the Stevie Nicks classic:

"Just like the one-winged dove, sings a song, sounds like she's singin'..."

I'm pretty sure it was literally over a decade before I realized that the dove had WHITE wings. Duh.

I am proud to say I got "deuce" instead of "douche" (although I still don't know what that's supposed to mean), but I thought it was followed by "you know the runner in the night." I surely did not know that runner.

Blinded by the Light is full of them. Not just "w...

2009-10-30T14:49:24.537-04:00

Blinded by the Light is full of them.

Not just "wrapped up by a douche", but also the line that follows, "another roller in the night" or "a marauder in the night", as you prefer (which of course got new life after the release of Potter Book 4).

I would probably listen to Eddie Vedder mumble his way through anything.

My son asked me if I had ever heard the song "Barb...

2009-10-29T18:59:57.016-04:00

My son asked me if I had ever heard the song "Barbara Ann" and I said no...until he played it. I am 36 years old, when I heard this song as a kid I thought they were singing "Bob a wren" - doh. Great blog ...loved it.

Here's my fav from some friends and I: "apple pie...

2009-10-29T09:53:08.109-04:00

Here's my fav from some friends and I:

"apple pie cheese, boots with the fur" /
instead of "apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur"

Flo Rida - Low

Don't forget Bang a Gong - Get it On by T. Rex. . ...

2009-10-29T02:59:02.394-04:00

Don't forget Bang a Gong - Get it On by T. Rex. . . "your doodie's sweet and you're my girl"

My brother-in-law, when he was little, used to go ...

2009-10-28T23:03:09.617-04:00

My brother-in-law, when he was little, used to go around singing, "Ma-cho, ma-cho maaaaaan ... I wanna beat ... a macho man ..."

Extremely funny coming out of a four-year-old.

Good for a laugh. I had not seen this one before. ...

2009-10-28T22:27:55.679-04:00

Good for a laugh. I had not seen this one before.
I can't think of a a song though.

LOL! I am so guilty of making up my own lyrics! I ...

2009-10-28T20:30:01.865-04:00

LOL! I am so guilty of making up my own lyrics! I even have the nerve of sticking with them after I know what the real words are!

My son is still mad at me for "ruining" The Red Ho...

2009-10-28T19:57:47.466-04:00

My son is still mad at me for "ruining" The Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Zephyr"....after he caught me singing to it " I call you on my cell phone...I call and call - you're not home" I truly did think that is what it said. Now we call it the "cell phone song"

My favorite is my sister singing in church "The Lo...

2009-10-28T17:33:55.059-04:00

My favorite is my sister singing in church "The Lord is missin'" instead of "The Lord is risen"...

I gotta try that site because I still don't know a...

2009-10-28T16:51:27.819-04:00

I gotta try that site because I still don't know a one word that Axle Rose said in "Paradise City", and James Brown? Fuggedaboudit!

"Joni Mitchell's : "A gay pair of guys put up a pa...

2009-10-28T16:00:26.762-04:00

"Joni Mitchell's : "A gay pair of guys put up a parking lot"
(They paved paradise and put up a parking lot);"

LMFAO XD

I thought "The bathroom on the right" referred to ...

2009-10-28T14:02:50.974-04:00

I thought "The bathroom on the right" referred to one of your many pit stops cross country.

As for Madonna, she's been touched a whole lot more than 31 times and probably hasn't seen virgin territory since listening to Meat Loaf on 8 track tape.

was laughing out loud when a client came in and I ...

2009-10-28T13:13:08.531-04:00

was laughing out loud when a client came in and I had to share what I was laughing about! That Manfred Mann one always gets me! What ARE the real lyrics?

Thank you for re-runs. I hadn't seen this before....

2009-10-28T13:10:55.016-04:00

Thank you for re-runs. I hadn't seen this before. You and the commentators had me laughing so hard my guy had to come over and see whatsup. Then he was laughing, too. (It good to exercise the funny-bone...therefore, this is totally fitness related).

I named my first son Tommy. I was asked why that name. I said I was listening to a song on the radio (which I know now is by the Cranberries...I'm musically out-of-it...I don't know who does what, nor do I see many videos).

Anyway, they kept singing "TOMMY! TOMMY! TOMMY-ME-ME!!" I really liked it and said, "That's what we should name the baby if it's a boy!"

They got a good laugh at my expense and told me the words were "ZOMBIE! ZOMBIE! ZOMBIE-BE-BE!"

I'm still keeping "Tommy."

From my friend: "Wake me up and pour me cocoa." (W...

2009-10-28T12:38:08.941-04:00

From my friend: "Wake me up and pour me cocoa." (Wake me up before you go-go.)
But my favorite, courtesy of my dad, "Bright golden curls stolen from a cheap Israeli." (White gold and pearl, stolen from the sea, she is raging." From "Running To Stand Still" by U2.)

My little cousin used to think the lyrics to dirty...

2009-10-28T11:40:57.509-04:00

My little cousin used to think the lyrics to dirty deeds were "dirty knees, thunder jeep!". She's a rough and tough girl who likes to ride 4-wheelers and get dirty so it made sense to her.

Another friend of mine swore the lyrics to "rock the casbah" were "rock the cashbox", I think there has since been a parody about this common lyrical misunderstanding.

"Go tell a duckie." Back in the summer of '69 ther...

2009-10-28T10:34:30.971-04:00

"Go tell a duckie." Back in the summer of '69 there was a song with the lyric "oh, Heather honey." To me we were to tell the aquatic wildfowl.

Heh...I ran into this at the Moby concert I went t...

2009-10-28T10:23:31.201-04:00

Heh...I ran into this at the Moby concert I went to friday night. I don't look up lyric sheets as I find often what I think the words are mean more to me than what they really are. There is the odd song though that just makes no sense at all - In Moby's song "Why does my heart feel so bad?" it sounds like the woman singing is singing the saying "Eeeeeeeeee poppadom!". Yup made no sense to me either, but made me smile nonetheless.
When I actually saw her face (and Moby-squeee!) I was fascinated to find out she was singing the words "keys open doors".

That makes SO much more sense!

I was trying to pretend this is a fitness post, bu...

2009-10-28T10:08:34.911-04:00

I was trying to pretend this is a fitness post, but my imagination's not that good...

I've recently been sent some of these, retitled fo...

2009-10-28T09:20:36.115-04:00

I've recently been sent some of these, retitled for aging baby boomers.

"There's a Bathroom on the Right" makes perfectly good sense when you put it that way, and next to "The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Name" (Saw Your Face), "I Can't See Clearly Now", "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Walker" and the like.

Reminds me, too, of the games for aging Baby Boomers that went around a while back.

I am trying to keep from guffawing as I sit here a...

2009-10-28T09:09:36.011-04:00

I am trying to keep from guffawing as I sit here at work.

Here's my contribution:

"I wanna new cat, I wanna new cat too!"

Actual lyrics: I wanna make it, I wanna make it witchoo ("with you").

Last year, my kids listened to this song constantly while doing their homework.

I'm still trying to figure out a few of the old so...

2009-10-28T09:01:28.737-04:00

I'm still trying to figure out a few of the old songs! Probably never will :-)

This reminds me of the Friends where Phoebe thinks...

2009-10-28T08:17:56.431-04:00

This reminds me of the Friends where Phoebe thinks the lyrics to Elton John's Tiny Dancer are "Hold me close, young Tony Danza."