I'm proud of my useless knowledge...

Muahahah! That's one of my underrated favorites. It's very lilting and gets stuck in my head for days at a time.

You never know what you'll find when you open up your letterbox tomorrow.
The little bird never tells me anything I want to know, she's my best friend, she's a sparrow.
and I'll never never know what you'll never never never want to know when you know what you are, oh.

the rest, I'll leave up to you. Now it's in my head...



And Cadet: God no. God help us all if I did. I just liked the show when I'd come home from class and grab some lunch.

 

In full disclosure, Flood was the only entire album I ever listened to, and it was spurred by Particle Man and Istanbul being featured in Tiny Toons (I was in sixth grade at the time.) Never had the chance to listen to more, though I like the random singles I've heard since.

 

Flood is my favorite CD of theirs. It might be blasphemy, but I liked earlier TMBG, just the two Johns and the drum machine, more than I like the live band days.

My favorite song, however, is "Don't Let's Start." Check it out, if you haven't already. They also have a podcast i get each week.

 

some philosopher said, paraphrase, we spend most of our lives preparing for events which never occur.

 

I knew a stoner who could rattle off Chaucer's prologue verbatim, in proper middle English and with all the right pronunciation, before a match burned out. It's one of the damnedest things I've seen. He was trying to fuck one of my sister's friends. Guy was at the point in his life where he could no longer separate pleasure from pain, but he had that wacko party trick going for him.

 

Bing Crosby. Carl Reiner.

 

Just think ... Richie Petrie grew up to be Meathead. And the director of Spinal Tap.

 

I know, among many different bits of useless knowledge, all kinds of Billboard chart trivia.

And that Maine is the only state which shares a boundary with only one other state.

And that Windsor, Ontario, is the only major Canadian city located directly south of the United States.

And that the real fastest hat trick in hockey history took only 12 seconds to complete, nine seconds faster than the 21 seconds required by NHL record holder Bill Mosienko.

 

I know that the little diaper-wearing mouse in Tom and Jerry is named Nibbles.

 

I know that the father ape who briefly adopted Bugs Bunny is named "Elvis".

I'm one of the great experts of the defunct Major Indoor Soccer League. From Enzo DiPede to Julie Veee to Steve Zungul to Jan "The Goose" Goosens to Ade Coker to Richard Chinapoo to referee Bill Maxwell to Gordon Hill, I know it all, or at least post-1980.

 

I know where Bea Arthur's secret tickle spot is.

 

What, no love for Gino Dippolito or Toros Kibrijian?