8/20/2005

Musical Mayhem

The guys I work with now are quite goofy much of the time, with a fair amount of banter going back and forth, including song scraps and lines from movies. So when one of them said (in a conversation I only heard part of) "cabana boy", I immediately came up with the following:

Cabana boy, the towels, the towels are soggy
Look at this mess of wet things on the floor
Bring me a fresh one so that I can dry myself
Don't make me stand here, dripping by the door
Cabana boy, I really need a towel now
My hair's all wet and dripping in my eyes
Bring me a great big cotton terry one
So I can be all snug and warm and dry.
That got me started on the the thought that "Danny Boy" is set to the tune of "Londonderry Air", which of course led to puns:
The girls in France act like they are too good for me
But English girls at least pretend to care
I'm going to go across the Channel now
And try to get some London derriere
and:
There was a farm outside of London town
The sweetest milk came from the cattle there
When people passed, they'd hold their breath and cry:
"My god, it's London dairy air"
See what I mean?
And just in case that's not bad enough, think about this: "Amazing Grace" scans to the tune of the theme from "Gilligan's Island". Try it; it works, but it's really quite disturbing. :-)

Sorry to keep you waiting so long

It's been quite awhile since I last posted here. I've been quite busy in the interim. Among other things, I'm now working on a new assignment. It's a better fit for me than the last one, making great use of my particular skillset. It's also a beautiful location; I don't know who designed it, but they really put the "park" in "office park".

On the artistic side, I've finished the last of the blocks I was making for the star sampler swap, and everyone loved them. Now I'm working on another swap; this one's mini Christmas blocks.

My partner's doing a little better than she had been lately. Her bad leg has been getting worse; the fused bones have been bowed for as long as I've known her, but in the last couple of months it seems the bowing has gotten worse. So she was in a lot of pain (more than usual, that is) while her body adapted to the new position.

Anyway, that's all the news that's fit to print right now.