June 23, 2004

  • Perversion of a Good Song ...


    Last week, you guys left me some fantastic comments.  One of you left a comment on the Chocolate Sex blog that has had me giggling ever since.  Why is it that I find the clever juxtaposition of a familiar song with new lyrics to be so funny?  (Yes, I have a keen appreciation for Weird Al ... )  Tim is especially good at this.  I would be humming a tune around the house and he would sort of join in, then I'd realize that he wasn't singing the lyrics I was singing.  More than one song was ruined for me because his version would be so wicked funny that I couldn't hear the original without his lyric popping into my mind. 


    I can't say I had no warning.  It wasn't long after we were married that he was listening to the radio and a country song came on ... "Just call me lonesome, heartbroke and then some ..." It was my sister's shrieking laughter that alerted me to pay closer attention.  He was singing, "Just call me handsome, well-hung and then some ..."  And I'll stop there, because the rest of it just got way, way beyond the PG-13 line I try not to cross on this blog. 


    For thirty years, I've enjoyed Neil Diamond's Song Sung Blue.  And for the past week, I've been humming that tune ... but it's Liz A's lyric that I can't get out of my mind.  "Thin thong blue, creeping up my hiney.  Thin thong blue, thongs are so darned tiny ..."


    What kind of song makes you smile?  Do you have a twisted lyric that tickles your funny bone? 


    I'm off to the beauty shop.  There are no salons in Malvern - we have the good old-fashioned beauty shop like you saw in Steel Magnolias.  My goal today is to have the split ends trimmed from my hair and I have the vague notion I'll get come kind of conditioning treatment to counter the effects of hanging around in the water park.  I don't even have to speculate about what else I'll come home with, gossip flows like trouble from a couple of three year olds, naturally and with a great force of cooperative harmony the likes of which the Sesame Street people would take pride to see.  So my prayer before I go is that my two ears will stay open and my two lips will stay closed. 

Comments (12)

  • Can't think of any funny lyrics, as the ones that I catching my ear are are the opposite end of the spectrum.

    But... Weird Al is coming home to perform at our county fair this summer!

    Enjoy the shop talk, girlfriend.

  • My mother used to think "I'll Tumble For Ya" by Boy George was "I'll call my lawyer," and "Jump" by Van Halen was "My friend Joe." When I hear those songs, I sing her lyrics. They're better!

    Enjoy the salon gossip.

  • Why don't you just go ahead and get one of those southern BIG hair doos while you are there?  Then if you could just learn to chew gum, smoke and cuss at the same time you would be an official southern belle.

  • I can't take credit for that. I heard it on some T.V. talk show a bazillion years ago.

    My youngest son has one that he sings in place of the actual lyric sfor a current popular song, but I can't for the life of me remember what it is. He's at school right now, and I'm on my way to work, so I'l lget back to you on that one!

  • My dh does that all the time, complete with rated R (or worse) lyrics. Sometimes it's really funny, sometimes all I can do is roll my eyes. I can't think of any examples right now though.

  • I love changing words to songs..those are some good ones!

  • songs from Terri's twolips, huh? 

  • Thin thong blue
    Creeping up my hiney
    Thin thong blue
    Thongs are so darned tiny

    My thin blue string's flying through the air again
    When the string's too tight then the thong
    Sewn seams give out again
    Shot my eye again

    Thin thong blue
    Wizzing like an arrow
    Thin thong blue
    Stretched to tight around this fellow

    Cotton thing, but it can sting, hitting with such force
    But before you duck, it starts flying true
    And nothing feels much worse.

    ..............................................................

    It's bad ... but I was put on the spot!   I just barely remember the song... and can't remember how it ends after the break in the lyrics.

  • Great.  I love Neil Diamond....and now everytime I hear that song...oy.

    Every time I hear 'Shameless' by Garth Brooks, I think of when my sister was 5 or 6..and she'd sing.." I'm Shavin' "...soooo cute!!

    And then there is the ever famous song "Life's a Dance" By John Michael Montgomery.  But I can't give those lyrics here..( since you've said PG-13)...But ummm...think..oral.

    Hope your hair looks great!!
    xoxo
    me

  • LOL... thinking about a phone call...

    ::::stilllaughing::::

  • Bahahahaha!!!

  • Hair dresser in Malvern I suggest Twisted Sister and have the owner Kelly fix you up.. She does a great blonde... I think she shoud go blonde....

    This is too the BARNEY THEME.....

    I hate you..... you hate me...... We are a disfunctional family... With a great big slap and a kick in your ass..... Wont you stay the Hell away~ from~ MEEEEEEEE.

    Ok I know this was bad but it was my familys family in mind not mine.....

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