When I lived in Ohio, the woman I dated for several years (and my whitewater river partner) was named Jenny... and had the number 867-5309... she was quite amused that it was available when she asked for it... lol
bill_g wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:52 am
I'm fainting.
An American that has never heard 8675309.
Umm, I count TWO Americans who never heard the song - MN-Skeptic and ol' Wifehorn. And those are a couple of the most thoughtful and mature women in my life. As you know, MN-Skeptic is a font of quiet wisdom around these parts, and has many, many more talents than being able to recollect rock music hits. The same is true for ol' Wifehorn, who is a pure joy to discuss stuff with, as long as it isn't about things that were important to me in my childhood.
Luckily, my boys had me to complete their education.
Anyway, I am not critical of those who don't know the lyrics to Jenny/867-5309. AND I put a YouTube in the Music Free For All thread for those who missed it.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 1:02 pm
by Clairez
#11 for me
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 3:33 pm
by Shizzle Popped
No love for Joan? #3 for me. I was 20.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 3:51 pm
by MN-Skeptic
Shizzle Popped wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 3:33 pm
No love for Joan? #3 for me. I was 20.
Oh, I like that song! I was just checking on Spotify for I Love Rock 'n Roll and discovered that Weird Al Yankovic had put out his own Weird Al version -
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:47 pm
by Shizzle Popped
Ha! I never saw that one. He was pretty inventive.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:11 pm
by raison de arizona
He had a tweet a couple months back about Kid Rock's new (and horrible) video and song:
Al Yankovic @alyankovic wrote:
To everybody that's congratulating me right now on my new Kid Rock parody video, let me clarify - that's not me. That's actually Kid Rock.
The Kid Rock video & song, in case you missed it, is so bad that it actually half amusing to listen to. I'll stick it under the spoiler. Lots of bad words. And bad music. It sucks. It's so bad it's funny though.
► Show Spoiler
OMG I listened to it once when it came out, I'd already forgotten how bad it is. But at least he got to hang out with tfg at the Whitehouse in its heyday (mayday?)
► Show Spoiler
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:35 pm
by filly
From OSG’s Chief of Staff to shilling for PC Matic in TV this is where Mick Mulvaney is these days! Anyone else seen him on the commercial?
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:04 pm
by Foggy
OK, obviously I totally misjudged MN-Skeptic, if she liked Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and she posted an Al Yankovic video. Ol' Wifehorn maybe has some idea who Weird Al is, but never listened to any of his music. I asked, and she has heard of Joan Jett. Sort of.
I missed MN-Skeptic's list somehow this morning, and had to look around to find out what y'all meant by #11, #13 and like that.
... and, while I recognize most of the songs on that list, and could sing the tunes of maybe half of them, in 1982 I was listening to the Smiths more than any other band, and I don't see anything by the Smiths on that list.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:30 pm
by neonzx
Foggy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:04 pm
... and, while I recognize most of the songs on that list, and could sing the tunes of maybe half of them, in 1982 I was listening to the Smiths more than any other band, and I don't see anything by the Smiths on that list.
The Smiths? Gosh, you were thoroughly baked back then.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:36 pm
by MN-Skeptic
It's partly because of a Weird Al video that we got DSL when we did.
For quite a while we made do with dial up internet. But starting in 2006 my husband was sometimes working from home and trying to do telecons using his laptop over a dial up internet line. That was sad. And later that year Weird Al came out with White and Nerdy. My brother showed us that video when we visited him. That was it. Enough of dial-up! My sweetie needed the faster speeds for work and I wanted to be able to actually stream videos. So, in early 2007, we got DSL.
The Weird Al video that I LOVE (and Donny Osmond is great in it!) -
The lyrics are great too, but they're said so fast that you might miss them. They're long, so I'll include them in a spoiler tag.
► Show Spoiler
They see me mowin'
My front lawn
I know they're all thinking
I'm so white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Can't you see I'm white 'n' nerdy?
Look at me I'm white 'n' nerdy
I wanna roll with
The gangsters
But so far they all think
I'm too white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Really, really white 'n' nerdy
First in my class here at M.I.T.
Got skills, I'm a champion at DND
MC Escher, that's my favorite MC
Keep your 40, I'll just have an Earl Grey tea
My rims never spin to the contrary
You'll find that they're quite stationary
All of my action figures are cherry
Stephen Hawking's in my library
My Myspace page is all totally pimped out
I got people begging for my top 8 spaces
Yo, I know Pi out to a thousand places
Ain't got no grills but I still wear braces
I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
I'm a whiz at Minesweeper, I can play for days
Once you see my sweet moves you're gonna stay amazed
My fingers movin' so fast I'll set the place ablaze
There's no killer rap I haven't run
At Pascal well I'm number 1
Do Vector calculus just for fun
I ain't got a gat but I got a soldering gun (what?)
Happy Days is my favorite theme song
I can sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
I'll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
I'm fluent in Java Script as well as Klingon
They see me roll on, my Segway
I know in my heart they think I'm
White 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Can't you see I'm white 'n' nerdy?
Look at me I'm white 'n' nerdy
I'd like to roll with
The gangsters
Although it's apparent I'm too
White n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
How'd I get so white 'n' nerdy?
I've been browsing, inspectin'
X-Men comics you know I collect 'em
The pens in my pocket, I must protect 'em
My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me board
Shopping online for deals on some writable media
I edit Wikipedia
I memorized the Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now have you ROTFLOL
I got a business doing websites
When my friends need some code who do they call?
I do HTML for them all
Even make a homepage for my dog
Yo, I got myself a fanny pack
They were having a sale down at the GAP
Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap
Pop pop!
Hope no one sees me get freaky!
I'm nerdy in the extreme
And whiter than sour cream
I was in AV club and Glee club
And even the chess team!
Only question I ever thought was hard
Was do I like Kirk or do I like Picard?
I spend every weekend at the Renaissance Faire
I got my name on my underwear!
They see me strollin'
They laughin'
And rollin' their eyes 'cause
I'm so white 'n' nerdy
Just because I'm white 'n' nerdy
Just because I'm white 'n' nerdy
All because I'm white 'n' nerdy
Holy cow I'm white 'n' nerdy!
I wanna bowl with
The gangsters
But oh well it's obvious I'm
White 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Look at me I'm white 'n' nerdy!
Foggy - share this video with your wife. You might make a Weird Al fan out of her.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:56 pm
by RVInit
I just became a Weird Al fan. I have never heard that before. White and nerdy. That is hilarious.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 1:54 pm
by mojosapien
Q- Why was the fundamentalist thrown out of Stop&Shop?
A- I told him that the eggs came from dinosaurs.
In 82 i was listening to The Roches and Manhattan Transfer on vinyl. My car radio was busted and I had no radio at home. I missed a lot apparently.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:23 pm
by Gene Kooper
MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:36 pm
It's partly because of a Weird Al video that we got DSL when we did.
For quite a while we made do with dial up internet. But starting in 2006 my husband was sometimes working from home and trying to do telecons using his laptop over a dial up internet line. That was sad. And later that year Weird Al came out with White and Nerdy. My brother showed us that video when we visited him. That was it. Enough of dial-up! My sweetie needed the faster speeds for work and I wanted to be able to actually stream videos. So, in early 2007, we got DSL.
The Weird Al video that I LOVE (and Donny Osmond is great in it!) -
The lyrics are great too, but they're said so fast that you might miss them. They're long, so I'll include them in a spoiler tag.
► Show Spoiler
They see me mowin'
My front lawn
I know they're all thinking
I'm so white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Can't you see I'm white 'n' nerdy?
Look at me I'm white 'n' nerdy
I wanna roll with
The gangsters
But so far they all think
I'm too white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Really, really white 'n' nerdy
First in my class here at M.I.T.
Got skills, I'm a champion at DND
MC Escher, that's my favorite MC
Keep your 40, I'll just have an Earl Grey tea
My rims never spin to the contrary
You'll find that they're quite stationary
All of my action figures are cherry
Stephen Hawking's in my library
My Myspace page is all totally pimped out
I got people begging for my top 8 spaces
Yo, I know Pi out to a thousand places
Ain't got no grills but I still wear braces
I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
I'm a whiz at Minesweeper, I can play for days
Once you see my sweet moves you're gonna stay amazed
My fingers movin' so fast I'll set the place ablaze
There's no killer rap I haven't run
At Pascal well I'm number 1
Do Vector calculus just for fun
I ain't got a gat but I got a soldering gun (what?)
Happy Days is my favorite theme song
I can sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
I'll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
I'm fluent in Java Script as well as Klingon
They see me roll on, my Segway
I know in my heart they think I'm
White 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Can't you see I'm white 'n' nerdy?
Look at me I'm white 'n' nerdy
I'd like to roll with
The gangsters
Although it's apparent I'm too
White n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
How'd I get so white 'n' nerdy?
I've been browsing, inspectin'
X-Men comics you know I collect 'em
The pens in my pocket, I must protect 'em
My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me board
Shopping online for deals on some writable media
I edit Wikipedia
I memorized the Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now have you ROTFLOL
I got a business doing websites
When my friends need some code who do they call?
I do HTML for them all
Even make a homepage for my dog
Yo, I got myself a fanny pack
They were having a sale down at the GAP
Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap
Pop pop!
Hope no one sees me get freaky!
I'm nerdy in the extreme
And whiter than sour cream
I was in AV club and Glee club
And even the chess team!
Only question I ever thought was hard
Was do I like Kirk or do I like Picard?
I spend every weekend at the Renaissance Faire
I got my name on my underwear!
They see me strollin'
They laughin'
And rollin' their eyes 'cause
I'm so white 'n' nerdy
Just because I'm white 'n' nerdy
Just because I'm white 'n' nerdy
All because I'm white 'n' nerdy
Holy cow I'm white 'n' nerdy!
I wanna bowl with
The gangsters
But oh well it's obvious I'm
White 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Think I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
I'm just too white 'n' nerdy
Look at me I'm white 'n' nerdy!
Foggy - share this video with your wife. You might make a Weird Al fan out of her.
Oh doG, I will never look at bubble wrap the same again.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:29 pm
by pipistrelle
My favorite part was at the beginning when the brother frantically tries to lock the car door...on an open convertible.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:10 pm
by RVInit
pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:29 pm
My favorite part was at the beginning when the brother frantically tries to lock the car door...on an open convertible.
I chuckled at that one, too.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:20 pm
by Greatgrey
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:59 am
by MN-Skeptic
I thought this was so cool. For any of you still working in an office, you might want to consider using this as inspiration for your own cubicle -
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 10:45 am
by bill_g
RVInit wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:56 pm I just became a Weird Al fan. I have never heard that before. White and nerdy. That is hilarious.
For reference - Ridin Dirty by Chamillionaire
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 11:36 am
by bill_g
raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:11 pm
The Kid Rock video & song, in case you missed it, is so bad that it actually half amusing to listen to. I'll stick it under the spoiler. Lots of bad words. And bad music. It sucks. It's so bad it's funny though.
► Show Spoiler
My experience with people claiming no one can tell them what to do .... actually wants to tell everyone else what to do.
Rules are for Thee, but not for Me.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 1:31 pm
by neonzx
Why do all Kid Rock songs share the same riff(back beat)? He not very talented.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 1:44 pm
by pipistrelle
Just saw this in NYT:
Daniel Radcliffe to Play Weird Al Yankovic in New Biopic
The film, “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” will begin production next month and will be available for streaming on the Roku Channel.
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 1:54 pm
by neonzx
pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sun Jan 23, 2022 1:44 pm
Just saw this in NYT:
Daniel Radcliffe to Play Weird Al Yankovic in New Biopic
The film, “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” will begin production next month and will be available for streaming on the Roku Channel.
That sounds like it might be fun. Radcliffe managed to transition from child actor to adult roles-- which is kinda rare. Looking forward to the production!
Re: Hijack This Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 2:17 pm
by jcolvin2
Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 5:25 pm
In 82 i was listening to The Roches and Manhattan Transfer on vinyl. My car radio was busted and I had no radio at home. I missed a lot apparently.
Loved the Roches.
In 1982, I was listening to the Jam (All Mod Cons and Setting Sons were technically 1970s albums, but I was a bit late to the party) and Squeeze (Eastside Story and Argybargy) on vinyl. That summer, I also discovered that Dylan was more than just folk music and vaguely Christian rock (You Gotta Serve Somebody had recently received a fair amount of radio play) and spent way too much time listening to Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.
Unfortunately, I am familiar with almost all of the songs on the list.
The same is true for ol' Wifehorn, who is a pure joy to discuss stuff with, as long as it isn't about things that were important to me in my childhood.
I'll stick it under the spoiler. Lots of bad words. And bad music. It sucks. It's so bad it's funny though.
I just became a Weird Al fan. I have never heard that before. White and nerdy. That is hilarious.
