Re: Ditty Ditty Bop

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Hey, if you read to the last paragraph of this post, Amanda Marcotte is proposing staged readings of the Unfogged comments.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 4:57 PM
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Even if you don't.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 5:23 PM
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I don't know what I was expecting when I went to listen, but it sure wasn't that.

ogged, with all due respect, if you think the cool kids are all about the mandolin driven country pop...well, let's just say I'm starting to believe you when you say that you weren't popular in high school.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 7:58 PM
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You don't like? I love that song.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 8:01 PM
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Eh, it was OK. I prefer my twang with steel guitars and more, I dunno umph. Handsome Family or Neko Case, if we're talking recent stuff, Johnny Cash or Merle Haggard if we're looking at older stuff.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 8:09 PM
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Ah well. I don't know if would like many mandolin country pop bands, or even their other songs, but that one sure is catchy.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 8:11 PM
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Well, it's catchy enough that the vocal line is sticking in my head. Unfortunately, that means it's driving out the Treepeople song discussed earlier, which I find that I do not own. THus, I am relying on a decades-old memory to recreate a song I once loved and now your song is killing it.

Thanks ogged.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 8:16 PM
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It's the story, of a lovely lady,

Who was raising three very lovely girls...


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 8:19 PM
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Is that supposed to be an earbug?


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 8:23 PM
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Yup.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 2-05 8:25 PM
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Mandolins rule.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 7:35 AM
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Well if Ben says that mandolins rule, then I guess I was wrong about what the cool kids like.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 8:01 AM
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Hey, eb and ben, we've already established that biscuit conditionals rule.

("Biscuit conditional" = "There are biscuits in the sideboard if you want some" etc.)


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 8:49 AM
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I can see why you're telling eb that, but not me.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 8:53 AM
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Different stresses. I'm telling eb "biscuit conditionals rule"; I'm telling you "biscuit conditionals rule" (not mandolins).


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 8:54 AM
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Are biscuit conditionals the only thing that rule? If so, somebody better tell Van Halen circa 1978.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 8:56 AM
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Can you do that? I don't think you can do that.

If biscuit conditionals and mandolins got into a fight, who do you think would win? Mandolins. Four courses of fury.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 8:56 AM
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You know that's not a biscuit conditional, right?


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 9:01 AM
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Yeah.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 9:03 AM
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Your face isn't a biscuit conditional.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 9:04 AM
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Yo' mama's a biscuit conditional. Smothered with gravy.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 9:23 AM
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The oedipal issues surrounding smothering one's mam in "gravy" are just, well, ish.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 9:36 AM
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mama, obviously.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 9:36 AM
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The other, I'm totally okay with, although contractive slang is not really my thing.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 9:37 AM
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I'm not smothering my mama in gravy; I'm smothering yo' mama in gravy.

But not at the Mineshaft.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 9:40 AM
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You know, the one and only time I've gotten into a bar fight, it was because I cracked wise about sleeping with someone's Mom. I have never understood why this is such a powerful insult.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 9:57 AM
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So, w-lfs-n, what the fuck do the under-30s call ice cream?


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 10:21 AM
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I'm pretty sure we all just call it "ice cream".


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 11:38 AM
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Ah, you were fucking with us oldsters. Here in Wisconsin we eat custard, anyway.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 1:58 PM
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In North Carolina they add crunch to the custard.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 4:00 PM
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Is it just me, or does "adding crunch to the custard" sound like a euphemism for something really dirty?


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 6:48 PM
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I think you're missing the point, Weiner. They call it "ice cream" in quotes. It's ironic.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05- 3-05 7:36 PM
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