#EnthusiasticNonsense

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Today's idiocy: Trying to Reason with Monotreme Season (One Song to the Tune of Another)

Today's burst of idiocy:

Singing the words of the Perry the Platypus theme to a couple Jimmy Buffett riffs.

The verse lyric kind of fits the "Fins" verse melody.

"He's Perry the Platypus" fits the first measure of "Cheeseburger in Paradise"'s chorus.

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I saw this sponsored ad in passing, and my brain immediately parsed the shape and layout as “Paramount is putting out retro console cartridge games for Star Trek: Lower Decks”?

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Songs That Are Fun to Sing in My Dad's Voice (Sarcastic Heavy Brooklyn Accent)

https://thegroupwbench.blogspot.com/2021/11/songs-that-are-fun-to-sing-in-my-dads.html

Waterloo, ABBAFernando, ABBA

Keep Their Heads Ringing, Dr. Dre

Forgot About Dre, Dr. Dre and Eminem

Lady Marmalade (Moulin Rouge version) - Mya, Pink, Christina Aguilera, Lil Kim, Missy Elliott

Berzerk, Eminem

Thrift Shop, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

Love Runs Out, One Republic

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Songs That Are Fun to Sing in a Chipmunk Voice

https://thegroupwbench.blogspot.com/2021/11/songs-that-are-fun-to-sing-in-chipmunk.html

Chip Away the Stone, Aerosmith

Immigrant Song, Led Zeppelin

Vacation, Go-Gos

Dancing in the Moonlight, King Harvest

Fire, Jimi Henrdix

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Songs That Are Fun To Sing in A Kermit Voice

https://thegroupwbench.blogspot.com/2021/11/songs-that-are-fun-to-sing-in-kermit.html

Red House, Jimi Hendrix

You Shook Me All Night Long, AC/DC

Closer, Nine Inch Nails

I Wanna Be Sedated, Ramones

Life During Wartime, Talking Heads (noting the verses can be sung to Rainbow Connection) 

(This will be updated as I recall more of them)

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With nothing to consider, they forget my name?

https://thegroupwbench.blogspot.com/2021/11/a_11.html

(Frage making her coffee in the kitchen.) (UIM in the living room, working on data correction and singing along with 'That's Not My Name'.) UIM: "They call me quiet / but I'm a riot / Mary Jo, Lisa / It's all the same...") (UIM looks up as Frage walks with her coffee back to her spare-room work area.) Frage: "I have never called you quiet..."

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I Got Your Oak Wisdom Right Here, Buddy.

https://thegroupwbench.blogspot.com/2021/10/i-got-your-oak-wisdom-right-here-buddy.html

My brother Shell called me for my birthday.

During the call, I threw out a new Dad-riff idea:  "Dad as a Druid."

He ran with it immediately.

"Oh, sure, the holly berry is sacred - because it's growing on my trees, you damn moochers."

"Goddamn squirrel chewing the thatch of my hut. I cast spells, it does nothing.  Damn squirrel won't listen."

"I shoulda listened to my father and joined the warrior class."

I contributed:

"The goddamn sacred pool is full of goddamn flies, because the goddamn birds aren't doing their job."

Later in the day, when my brother Stringer called, and I updated him on these gags, he responded, "Well, now I have my next character for D&D."

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Same situation, different emphasis.

https://thegroupwbench.blogspot.com/2021/10/same-situation-different-emphasis.html

One of the old Dumb Ideas from one of the previous iterations:

Doors covering 'Love Shack'.

B52s covering 'Roadhouse Blues'.

I know it's not as simple as 'switch major key to minor key' and 'switch minor key to major key'.

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The Six Words Frage Has Come to Dread

https://thegroupwbench.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-six-words-frage-has-come-to-dread.html

When I moved in with my then-girlfriend-now-spouse, one of the communication compromises we needed was a balance between my "I just thought of/read/saw this thing I must share right now" with her "Sudden noise/movement/conversation startles the hell out me".

Apparently, a 6-foot 215-lb man bounding into the room at top speed cackling about ... oh, let's say a posting on Fark.. is really really stressful to a 5'2" woman who has been living quietly with her cats for most of the previous decade.

Eventually, I understood that 'so startled she can't appreciate whatever I'm trying to say' was not a rejection of love.  (Had I learned that earlier in life, I'd have been a lot more pleasant to be around.)

And so, we developed the Six Words That Frage Dreads:

"I feel the need to share."  

Usually, the scene will be thus:

(Frage and UIM laying in bed.)

(Frage is playing game on her phone, half-listening to either an audiobook or whatever is on Hallmark Mystery Channel.)

(UIM is obsessively scrolling through YouTube or through the same six text web sites he always reads on his Kindle .)

(UIM laughs at something.)

(Pause.)

(UIM takes out his earbuds.)

(UIM takes a breath.)

(Frage holds her breath, hoping against hope.)

UIM: "When you reach a stopping point."

Frage: (weary) "yes?"

UIM: "I feel the need to share."