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Poem & music sounds like home, lol. A rollicking earworm at that... loved this comment: "@sparkimusmcfeely5131
2 years ago This album is the shisnit for the dental visits with Nitrous..." Lol!... next song(s) for me after was 17-minutes of Pink Floyd (DSOTM) :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon has played in my ole house many times. It's gotta be one of the all-time great albums. I clearly remember buying it, taking it home, tearing the cellophane off the cover, sliding the record out of the sleeve, holding it by the edges with the tips of my fingers, setting it on the turntable, spinning it up and holding a wooden handled lint brush over it for a couple of turns, adjusting the rpm to 33 1/3 with a strobe light device on the turntable, rubbing my finger across the needle to check for lint (and speaker gain — rrrip), gently setting the needle in the groove, and cranking the volume knob (you know, so the neighbors can rock out too).
Nowadays I just say — Hey Siri, play me some Floyd.
She says — Okay, playing Floyd Dixon's Hey Bartender.
I say — No Siri, not Floyd Dixon, Pink.
She says — Okay, playing P!nk's Let's Get This Party Started
I say — No Siri, it's from the 20th century
She says — Okay, playing Pink by Aerosmith
I say — Arrgg
Never bought the album myself, had it on 8-track and cassette I believe, but have played it too many times to count. I watched a laser light show featuring DSOTM at De Anza college in Cupertino, CA circa 1980 that was amazing :) I get the same type responses from Alexa. Sometimes I'll ask for Pink Music instead of Pink Noise and get stuff by Pink instead of my sleep aid noise, lol.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Ya know one of the cool things about an 8-Track player is that you can listen several tunes at once. The head on my machine never quite seemed to line up with the tape.
My 8-Tack's pumpin' out a country song
'bout a girl that's done me wrong
It's a Tennessee tradition
To loose your inhibition
So c'mon honey sing along
^Doesn't really work as a limerick. Here's the tune:
https://youtu.be/UbpWBEQwfhc?si=RBmurmBgICQZboko
Brian Setzer, 8-Track
Bonus, there's yodeling!
The limerick is fine by my standards... a rollicking quick pickin' ditty with yodeling that manages to dovetail nicely... Enjoyed :) Reminded me a bit about Hot Rod Lincoln :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Now yer talkin’! Rockabilly limericks
Hot Rod Lincoln
Outta San Pedro and he may not survive
So he shoved it on down into overdrive
Man, what a ride
Then he sighed
If only I had a 8-Track tape drive
https://youtu.be/MBUfNxfc2w4?si=wodbrBUUefKWEPag
Maybellene
There once was a fella named Chuck
Who was drag racing his V-8 truck
Rain water blowing all under his hood
Knew that was doing his motor good
But was leading the pack so he didn't give a ... darn
https://youtu.be/RMkIK0qZnjw?si=P_oMunWIN61FjLXe
Uneasy Rider
There once was a fella named Flynn
Went to a joint called the Dew Drop Inn
Cross the Mississippi line
Ordered the redneck wine
Then barely got outta there with his skin
https://youtu.be/952h-AJ3Bcg?si=a26IMf-elQ444lD_
Nice tune by Brian Setzer, Sancho! It's good that everything is digitized today. I remember tape recorders and 33 1/3 rpm records. I still haven't got Siri, but she might be listening for all I know. My most tormenting earworm for me was Bird Is The Word, Tailor. I hesitate to even mention it.
This week Esther Chilton offers "candy" for her limerick challenge: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/12/...-limerick-261/
Though I used to think candy was sweet,
well, it is and it was. I could eat
my fair share of the stuff
even more than enough
even more than my share. It's so sweet.
Lololol!!! Classics !
Bird is the word... sing it often, lol! and a song by Timbuk3 "I study nuclear science... "
Maybe a little off topic:
Blind Justice
reminds me of a red VW microbus
pertaining to Alice's restaurant's garbage fuss
included 27 - 8 x 10 color glossy pictures
in a soliloquy bordering on scriptures
about Officer Obie's court distress
12/8/2025
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...B&opi=89978449
Candy, eh... sweet. I wrote a tiny poem (thought it was a Haiku) once about Candy in a different vein:
Candy's Walk
Mimicking a tawny owl
invading the shadow'd light
Death coos: oo-oo, oo-oo
10/10/2013
I'll see what I can come up with :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Hell yeah! Protest music.
A dispatch from the Group W bench.
I’m protesting high caloric snacks:
I think it’s time for a reduction
Or perhaps a course of liposuction
Been eatin’ Pecan Sandies
And hard-rock candies
But my waistline’s on the eve of destruction
Barry McGuire, Eve of Destruction:
https://youtu.be/Zu0hh7eI4_A?si=AaOqot914nxoSglF
Years ago on this website we got to chatting about diets and weight reduction programs. Somebody asked about methods for combatting sugar cravings late at night. Being a midnight snacker myself, I suggested eating a pickle because the salty, vinegary taste acts as a natural appetite suppressant.
I don’t want a pickle
I Just wanna ride on my motorcicle
And I don’t want a tickle
I Just wanna ride on my motorcicle
And I don’t want to die
Just wanna ride on my motorcycle
Motorcycle song, Arlo Guthrie
https://youtu.be/g266Uwp6ZnI?si=Jtt-9F4zGZu4kcoP
Enjoyed the low calorie limerick :) Another classic song... Here's one that reverberated in my home at the time prior to getting my draft card... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0feH6a3FKg
I used to sing Arlo's pickle song to my grandkids when they were little... and this one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QQhWSQV5P0
(So I'm Told)
There once was a lass named Cotton Candy
Had big feet and her legs were bandy
As a barmaid she was unsurpassed
Catering to the upper classed
Her hair ravishly scented with jaborandi
12/8/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Draft card. Yikes. In the 80s I got a nastygram from the gov’ment for not registering for the selective service. I reasoned it was a moot point since I was on active duty at the time.
On to more pleasant endeavors. Some would call it a deformity, but equine-minded folks say it just makes sense.
There once was a bandy legged gal
Who rode her horse from the corral
There was a melding
Of her and the gelding
Explained by an orthopedic rationale
A case of the Government's left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.
Lol, a melding with a gelding :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Haha
Thanks, T. That one just wrote itself.
More barnyard rhymes to work into a limerick later:
Supine with the swine
Wonky for the donkey
Making a scene with a holstein
In a state of zen with the hen
Fell asleep with the sheep
At peace with the geese
In a state of flux with the ducks
There’s always trauma with the brahma
I remember Motorcycle Mama although I don't think I ever knew most of the words until listening to it now. And I do remember the draft.
This week Esther offers "sleigh" as the prompt: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/12/...-limerick-262/
It’s away in a sleigh we will go
though it’s warm and there isn’t much snow.
In fact, it’s quite hot
and the reindeer are not
really reindeer. Oh, well. Here we go!
Nice! Tis the season, eh?
I’m trying to think of something original, but I’ve got an ear worm right now, which is making it problematic:
Our cheeks are nice and rosy and comfy and cozy…