Re: I am old.

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Actually, I appreciated the sad between the jokes ten years ago, too. But it didn't make me uncomfortable.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 7:23 AM
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This is the "I never meant to give you mushrooms, girl" song.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 7:31 AM
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Off to teach.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 7:35 AM
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Off to enforce The Man.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 7:35 AM
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Off to sell out.


Posted by: Young heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 7:36 AM
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Talking to yourself= old.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 7:36 AM
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or very young, I guess.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 7:36 AM
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Off to teach.

Off to reinforce the subhuman status of 6-chunkers.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 8:17 AM
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Nothing to say about any of this except that you are wrong, heebie -- you are young.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 8:18 AM
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Peep did not see any humor in the song.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 8:46 AM
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Maybe I have a glimmer of youth, because I experienced a hint of humor paired with a twinge of discomfort from this piece.


Posted by: Frostbite | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 9:10 AM
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I grow old . . . I grow old . . .
I shall listen to rappers not so bold.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 9:20 AM
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Listening to that I kept thinking that I know there are other pop songs on that theme, but I'm having difficulty thinking of them at the moment.

Going back a ways, that song could be the grandchild of "Poor Jenny"

I went downtown to see her she was locked in a cell / she wasn't very glad to see me that I could tell / in fact to tell the truth she wasn't lookin' too well / Poor Jenny!

But I think there is also a Velvet Underground song that is related that escapes my mind at the moment.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 10:07 AM
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All the kill-my-wife bits in Eminem songs turned me sour on him completely. I just can't even take him seriously, even when he's jokey, like in the OP's song.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 11:10 AM
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I fail to see any humor in that song. I like Eminem, though. (Not that song, so much, but plenty of his others.)


Posted by: Brock Landers | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 11:53 AM
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13: This has been driving me nuts, and I just placed it. The Everly Brothers, right?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 12:09 PM
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13: This has been driving me nuts, and I just placed it. The Everly Brothers, right?

Yes.

I thought about providing a link, but I assumed that it would be easily googleable.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 12:15 PM
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5: Off to sell out.

Off to not do stupid things like buy 25 mushrooms.

max
['I was always old; I couldn't figure out why anybody would eat those things when you knew quite well that the motherfucker selling them has no idea where they came from and probably found some random shit in a field somewhere to fill out the count.']


Posted by: max | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 12:30 PM
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That song is still straight-up funny. In a dark way, sure, but funny.

Except that Eminem apparently doesn't actually know how hard it is to overdose on mushrooms. You'd have to eat, like, several pounds of them.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 5:22 PM
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(Oh wait, nooo, the guy at the end of the song is just tripping! I see what he did there...)


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 5:23 PM
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Except that Eminem apparently doesn't actually know how hard it is to overdose on mushrooms.

He's probably just got a better supplier than you.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 6:10 PM
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why anybody would eat those things

The hallucinations, mostly.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 8:59 PM
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21: Unlikely, since I'm like hours away from British Columbia, Land of the Good Shit.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 10:32 PM
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I once offered DS a bag from Sasketchywan, but he was having Nunavut.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 10:38 PM
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I was all, like, being a Prince Edward I-land.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 10:41 PM
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Also, Michael Moore is making a new movie? I guess I vaguely knew that, but there seems to be less coverage of it than of his last ones. Or maybe it's just that I'm paying less attention.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 10:42 PM
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Hmm. In my old age I mistook one thread for another.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 10:42 PM
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25, 27: There was a lady involved. It was a Missus Saga.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 10:44 PM
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28: Stanley was all "Nigadon't" but the lady was all like "Nigadoo!" Until Apo said "Nigapleez!"


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 10:48 PM
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Goddammit. That whole joke revolves around this link.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 10:49 PM
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30: It was the best of times, it was the Maritimes.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 10- 2-09 10:56 PM
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31: As opposed to the Sexytimes (per di's thread).


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 3-09 8:26 AM
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Yukon lead a Whitehorse to water but it still might have Nunavut.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 3-09 10:32 AM
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33: Shit, I had forgotten 24. Sorry, Stanley. And I was so proud ...


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 3-09 4:12 PM
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34: Too many cooks in the Kitchener, I guess.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 10- 3-09 4:18 PM
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