I have Friday off, and you know what that means: Lame Post Thursday! Full disclosure: I’m actually writing this on Wednesday. I have absolutely no idea what to write for my Wednesday post, but I have some very silly ideas I feel like writing now. Ideas silly enough to only be used for a Lame Post.
(Anyways, I like to get a post ahead when I can, because then I can work on my novel during breaks at work. When you write in a notebook on break at work, someone often says, “Are you writing a book?” It’s fun to say yes once in a while.)
Today I have a couple of childhood memories I’d like to share. The other day, for reasons not worth mentioning, the following song started playing in my head:
Party Pooper!
Party Pooper!
Every party needs a pooper
that’s why we invited YOU!
You sing the last two lines really fast and shout the word YOU while pointing at whoever you are making fun of. We thought it was a very hilarious song, because we did not know what a party pooper was. We thought it was somebody who pooped at a party.
Like many small children, we thought poop was funny.
I think it was my sister Cheryl who earned the reputation as a first class wit for another song. We had heard the song, “I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair.” That was, in fact, all we knew of it. I remember thinking it was odd, because I used to watch I Dream of Jeannie, and I knew Jeannie had blond hair. It was also strange to me to think there could be a girl named Jeannie who was not actually a genie. But I digress.
Cheryl’s version of the song went, “I dream of Jeannie with the light pooped pants.” It usually took two or three tries for any of us to sing it without breaking into uncontrollable giggles at the words “pooped pants.” I confess to having a smile on my face as I write this (let my co-workers in the break room make of that what they may).
Well, that was fun to write. Now whatever will I come up with for Wednesday? (As an aside: I did come up with something for Wednesday, and I did work on my novel on breaks at work today. Fun times.)
Mohawk Valley Girl 