Sunday Shorts

• Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield is the only pop song I know of to use the word moot:
  I feel so dirty when they start talking cute
  I wanna tell her that I love her, but the point is probably moot
• If walking on sunshine is supposed to feel so good, then what's The Big Deal over fire-walking?
• If you re-arrange the letters in the name "Ayn Rand", you get the name "Dan Ryan", the guy for whom the expressway in Chicago is named. Come to think of it, did you ever see them both in the same room together? Hmmmmmm . . . .. .
• Charmaine Yoest is having a contest: Guess the salaries of the heads of the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. Interesting stuff! I was off by one dollar on each one . . .
• In Wisconsin kids never get off for Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday and the like. Oh, they get days off, but it's always to accomodate the teachers. Like when all the teachers all across Wisconsin get together on the last Thursday and Friday in October for their convention in Madison. Too bad they couldn't find a way to fit it in their vacation seeing as how they get the whole summer off.
• The Wisconsin teachers have so much money that their union is one of the sponsors of the Green Bay Packers Radio Network. Must cost 'em a pretty penny, since the Packers are so popular here. And then their commercials are all about how the schools all need more money. It's getting to the point that satire is almost impossible these days.
• Billy Idol was a much better singer than Bob Dylan ever was, and if you don't agree with me then you're just stupid.
• Did you hear about the prostitute who mistook KY Jelly for glazing compound? All her windows fell out . . .

Comments

[david]

And doesn't it just tick you off to no end when people pronounce it "mute" -- and you know that they probably think that it really does mean "mute," too? Grrrrr...

[Tom McMahon]

And it's men like Jessie who pronounce it that way! And he's got my girl! Life just isn't fair, I tell ya . . .

[Paul Brewer]

Barb loves to point out Springfield's use of the word "moot" (no, really). As for me, I find an unsettling undertone in the man's music; to me, "Jessie's Girl" is told from the point of view of a creepy who doesn't realize how creepy he is. I won't even get started on "I've Done Everything for You." But maybe I'm overthinking it...

[Maven]

Ok, I had to use the vast power of the universe on this one, and here's what I found:

Artist: Toad The Wet Sprocket
Song: Reincarnation song
Album: Dulcinea
A legal precedent
Could set us straight
But no one's brought up suit
And I'm assuming
That if they did
The point would still be moot

Not really a great stanza no matter how you look at it :)