{"id":217,"date":"2008-04-30T11:58:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T18:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=217"},"modified":"2008-04-30T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T19:01:14","slug":"sing-sing-a-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"sing, sing a song&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I hung out online with a very creative group of people in CompuServe&#8217;s Science Fiction Forum.   One of the things we loved doing was writing song parodies.  I found that was something I enjoyed a lot and I think I was pretty good at it.<\/p>\n<p>While I haven&#8217;t done it as much recently as in the past, it&#8217;s still something I enjoy.  My most recent full-length parody was in honor of the show &#8220;Dirty Jobs.&#8221;  I&#8217;m going to post a few of my efforts from years gone by, over the next few days.  It&#8217;s taking me a while to dig up the archives, and some of the songs apparently either never got saved, or got saved somewehere I can&#8217;t find.  Oh, to have Lotus Magellan back again!<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll do my best.  Hope my readers get at least a chuckle out of these.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Unofficial Dirty Jobs Song<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(to the tune of &#8220;I Will Survive&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>At first I was so clean, I was sanitized,<br \/>\nAs dinner plates my floors were oh so very highly prized.<br \/>\nBut then I spent so many nights watchin&#8217; Mike Rowe on TV<br \/>\nI changed my mind, and I thought dirt&#8217;s the way to be.<br \/>\nBut he&#8217;s not here, not at my door,<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s chasing catfish round the pond and grabbing gators off the floor.<br \/>\nI should have cleaned up all that poo, I should have kissed that owl goodbye.<br \/>\nIf Discovery&#8217;s not here soon the smell will make me puke and die.<br \/>\nHelp me please, can&#8217;t find the door<br \/>\nGot piles of filthy turkey feathers sliding slowly to the floor.<br \/>\nWhere can I go to learn to feel a cow&#8217;s behind?<br \/>\nIt looked so easy, I&#8217;m sure the cow wouldn&#8217;t mind.<br \/>\nOh someone please, please call DC,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d post a message on the board if I could only see.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got such a filthy place, don&#8217;t need egg upon my face,<br \/>\nPlease call DC, please call DC, hey hey!<\/p>\n<p>I bought all the Mr. Clean at the corner store,<br \/>\nI went through every single Swiffer and sent out for more.<br \/>\nAnd I used oh so many sponges cleaning up that pile of poo,<br \/>\nIt made me heave, and now my landlord said to leave.<br \/>\nAnd here I am, out on the street,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not that dirt-encrusted fan who thought that filth was neat.<br \/>\nAnd so my cell phone gave a ring and it was someone from DC,<br \/>\nWho said that Mike the Dirty Jobs guy would be coming after me.<br \/>\nHelp me please, I&#8217;m on the floor.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s not a cow flop on my back bumper any more.<br \/>\nWhere can I go to get my Dirty Jobs degree<br \/>\nWho do I thank, for pointing Mike Rowe to me?<br \/>\nOh someone please, please call DC,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d post a message on the board if I could only see.<br \/>\nI had such a filthy place, now I&#8217;ve got egg upon my face,<br \/>\nPlease call DC, please call DC&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I hung out online with a very creative group of people in CompuServe&#8217;s Science Fiction Forum. 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