Found at Home
Came across these things while home over the weekend:
What a cute baby I was...
What a cute kid I was. This was taken at a birthday party at Plaster Carousel, where kids paint things made out of, you guessed it, plaster. Lots of kids in my neighborhood had birthday parties there. My masterpiece was a plaque that said Down With Homework and featured a pencil snapped in two. I thought it was very clever at the time, and treasured it for years, until I accidentally knocked it to the ground and it shattered into about a thousand pieces.
And now, something that's embarrassing. I was in 5th grade when Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" hit #1. At the time, I made a bet with a girl in my class that I knew all the words to the song. To prove it, I wrote them out in full. Turns out, I didn't know all the words. Not by a long shot. Compare my version with the actual lyrics; I've highlighted what I had wrong:
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Windshield, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Student Baker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenberg, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Pad Moo John
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's Got a New Queen
Marshmallow, Liberace, Santayana, Goodbye
(chorus)
Joseph Stalin, Alan Call, NASA and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Blocks
Roy Gone, Walk Around, Tuscaninny, Akron
Bin Bin, Foo Falls, Rock Around the Clock
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's Got a Winning Team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardow, Budapest, Alabama, Cruise Jets
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Sewers
(chorus)
Little Rock, Passinack, Mickey Mantle, Cadillac
Sputnik, Joe and I, Bridge On The River Kwy
Lebanon, Chalsador, California Baseball
Stark weather, Homicide, Children of the Little My
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edselina No-Go
U2, Sigmond Ree, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
(chorus)
Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land
Building, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beat Romania
Old Miss, John Glenn, Liston Beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politicians, Sex
J.F.K. Blown Away, What Else Do I Have To Say?
(chorus)
Birth Control, Hochie Men, Richard Nixon Back Again
Moon Shot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punk Rock
Bacon, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the Airline
Ayatollahs in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, Heavy Metal, Suicide
Foreign Debts, Homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Burning Jets
Hypadermics on the Shore, China's Under Martial Law
Rock and Roller, Color War, I Can't Take It Anymore
(chorus)
Burning jets instead of Bernie Goetz? Trouble in the Sewers? What was I thinking? And I really had trouble with the start of the second verse. But I'm most ashamed of thinking British Beatlemania was British Beat Romania. As a classic rock lover, I'll never live that down.
2 comments:
I prefer Color Wars to Cola Wars.
Wow, I came across your pictures today, too.
Talk about the plaster carousel! Whoa!
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