Friday, August 22, 2008
from left to right: Sarah, Emily, Allison, Karina I know it's small - you can click on the image to see it bigger
We celebrated Sarah's 11th birthday by taking her and 3 of her friends to see "My Fair Lady" in the open air theater. We took them to a nice restaurant beforehand. And bought fudgecicles at intermission.
The car rides were so loud that by the time we got to the restaurant, I seriously needed a glass of wine. These girls had only seen each other here and there throughout their jam-packed summers, so they were a bit overexcited to be together - which I think added a couple notches to the volume.
And then they decided to sing the most obnoxious camp songs any of them had learned.
I think the winner was Karina - she sung "My Name is John Johnson." I feel I must share it with you because this song is so insidious that it will just glom onto your brain. And why should I be the only one with this experience?
My name is John Johnson.
I come from Wisconsin.
I work in the lumberyard there.
When I walk down the street, all the people I meet say
Hey, What's your name?" And I tell 'em:
[Repeat]
If you want to learn the tune from a couple of Indian-sounding guys who don't know the words (kind of funny - kind of irritating) - here it is -
It reminded me a lot of being a preteen (maybe a little older) and getting to go to the local mall with my friends and going into the luggage shop and pulling all the strings on the laughing heads they had there. Well come on if you are going to have a collection of laughing heads in a store - what are the chances that at some point, someone is going to make them all demonstrate their abilities?
It appears that being a preteen is all about this fine mix of doing adultlike things (getting to go to the mall without your parents, going to a birthday party that's dinner and a musical instead of a kiddie birthday party) and acting like a complete 'tard (pulling pranks and singing dorky camp songs). And saying things like you're a complete 'tard.
We celebrated Sarah's 11th birthday by taking her and 3 of her friends to see "My Fair Lady" in the open air theater. We took them to a nice restaurant beforehand. And bought fudgecicles at intermission.
The car rides were so loud that by the time we got to the restaurant, I seriously needed a glass of wine. These girls had only seen each other here and there throughout their jam-packed summers, so they were a bit overexcited to be together - which I think added a couple notches to the volume.
And then they decided to sing the most obnoxious camp songs any of them had learned.
I think the winner was Karina - she sung "My Name is John Johnson." I feel I must share it with you because this song is so insidious that it will just glom onto your brain. And why should I be the only one with this experience?
My name is John Johnson.
I come from Wisconsin.
I work in the lumberyard there.
When I walk down the street, all the people I meet say
Hey, What's your name?" And I tell 'em:
[Repeat]
If you want to learn the tune from a couple of Indian-sounding guys who don't know the words (kind of funny - kind of irritating) - here it is -
It reminded me a lot of being a preteen (maybe a little older) and getting to go to the local mall with my friends and going into the luggage shop and pulling all the strings on the laughing heads they had there. Well come on if you are going to have a collection of laughing heads in a store - what are the chances that at some point, someone is going to make them all demonstrate their abilities?
It appears that being a preteen is all about this fine mix of doing adultlike things (getting to go to the mall without your parents, going to a birthday party that's dinner and a musical instead of a kiddie birthday party) and acting like a complete 'tard (pulling pranks and singing dorky camp songs). And saying things like you're a complete 'tard.
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Note to self: must teach Sarah and Becca "The Song That Doesn't End."
Lyrics:
This is the song that doesn't end!
Yes it goes on and on, my friends!
Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was,
And they'll continue singing it forever just because..."
That's a dandy one, huh?!
You'll have to work on that over Xmas :)
OOH YES - I found it on YouTube! Sarah and Becca are expected to know this by December. I'll get working on Zac.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNTxr2NJHa0&feature=related
Oh my god it's LAMBCHOP
Just let me know when the songfest is about to begin. I'm heading for the hills...oh, wait, this is Florida, there are no hills!
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