Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread IX: The 24-Hour Version (Fifth Time)

On my bus ride home ... some "lady" started cussing out the bus driver for hitting some pot holes.

"OW" "Damn ... watch for fracking pot holes!!!"

she didn't use the word fracking.

If she uses that kind of language, then she's no lady!

she certainly wasn't.

no no.

she would be thrown out of Rockhopper's court!

She certainly would! Silly human!

That reminds me, there was a song that was a big hit in Latin America when when I was nine or ten. It went,

Lady, lady, lady,
Se pinta los ojos de azul

For some reason, just about any song that was big on the radio when I was in grade school through junior high makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

It's hard for me to get the warm fuzzies about some of the winners [sic] from my early years. I mean, "Run, Joey Run" or "Oh, What A Lonely Boy" just don't stand the test of time all that well. Mostly, I feel profound shame that I ever thought this type of bilge was worth listening to.

Of course, every era has its crappy music. Also, at least I can say that my age was only in the single digits back then.

My mom used to listen to all these funny things when I was a kid ... AC DC ... Lover Boy ... Supertramp ....

I still like some of them.

They did a hilarious version of "Run, Joey, Run" during the first season of Glee.

Loverboy, now they had some super-catchy tunes. Who can forget Mike Reno hitting that disco-diva high note during the middle eight of "Take Me to the Top?"

And, of course, we did a thread on the lyrics of "Lovin' Every Minute of It" here in the MMB recently.

My mother's music of choice when I was growing up was (and still is) Elvis Presley. She also likes Neil Diamond and Tom Jones.

My folks and I have never really seen eye to eye on music. When I was a kid into bubblegum pop and the like, they scoffed at that. Now that I'm largely a jazz/Blues/R&B fiend, my mother still scoffs.

One reason I'm glad that I never had kids. I used to hate when my folks went out of their way to mock stuff I liked, and I'd probably do the same thing to my own kids. You know, the ability of heredity to overpower common sense...

My mom and I actually have a fair amount of overlap in musical tastes, although a lot of what I like is actually older than what she prefers.

My go-to playlist on my iPhone is sacred choral music, which I actually find wonderful background music for working out. I think that's just me.

I'm a choral music director, and I think Rocky has out-nerded me.

So there'll be no "Showdown at the OK Chorale" then?

[ducks]

I think this is a vocation vs. avocation thing. My own organist/choirmaster was surprised when I told her that I listened to that music on the elliptical.

Any chorale group that has either Tracker or me in it would be a whole lot better than just "OK"!

There was a band in the 80s named Oh OK. Never heard any of their music, but I like their name.

Okeh was the legendary "race records" label that gave so many jazz and Blues pioneers their start in the biz.

I generally prefer to spell out the word as "okay", but I use "OK" sometimes. Some people use the spelling "okeh", but that looks odd out of context.

And then, of course, there's "okey-dokey", which I think has a certain charm all its own.

I would love to see a sing off between Rocky and LT!

... DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE CHOREOGRAPHED DANCE MOVES!

I'm sure Tracker would win easily. He's a pro and I'm an amateur.

I still wanna' see you guys sing in matching pirate costumes. Or Rocky could dress as his avian alter-ego and Tracker could dress up as Polar Boy.

[dreamy sigh]

I actually own three or four pirate shirts. I couldn't tell you why. I just do.

I wonder if Rocky's home planet shouldn't have a pirate theme?


boats that sail or float across the ice ... lots of pirate dressed sailors ...

I wonder if Rocky's home planet would be similar to Denmark? It was the leader of Scandinavia for centuries.