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'Beneath You'


The Crying of Natter 49  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Vortex - Jan 11, 2007 10:06:43 am PST #2043 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Yeah, you add sugar in, and I'm really screwed. Or that Harry and David Moose Mix stuff? With the chocolate? A bag of that disappears around here really fast.

or some parmesan cheese out of the green can, right when the popcorn comes out, so it melts a little / mmmmmm


Kat - Jan 11, 2007 10:07:38 am PST #2044 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

you all are making me hungry.

It was bad enough that Natter forced me to have Indian food last night. And now this!


Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2007 10:07:39 am PST #2045 of 10001
brillig

Soy sauce is good on popcorn.

I learned this in college.


Dana - Jan 11, 2007 10:08:12 am PST #2046 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I have feta. I was tempted, but it probably wouldn't work so well with popcorn.


shrift - Jan 11, 2007 10:09:20 am PST #2047 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Maybe, shrift, it's couscous and not an alien ninja baby in your sinuses?

I'm fairly certain that my sinus migraine was not couscous-induced.


DavidS - Jan 11, 2007 10:10:03 am PST #2048 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I have feta. I was tempted, but it probably wouldn't work so well with popcorn.

Feta is salty. Salty popcorn is good. I see how this could work. Maybe not like parmesan, but it could work.


Jesse - Jan 11, 2007 10:10:35 am PST #2049 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

or some parmesan cheese out of the green can, right when the popcorn comes out, so it melts a little / mmmmmm

Also with hot sauce, and the cheese sticks to the hot sauce and YUM.


sarameg - Jan 11, 2007 10:13:35 am PST #2050 of 10001

If I'm not paying attention, I'll even forget that I don't like popcorn because it shreds my mouth.


JZ - Jan 11, 2007 10:15:30 am PST #2051 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Totally random hivemind (traditional music department, division of folk son lyrics) question:

Many, many years ago in my long-gone preteenhood, I saw an episode of M*A*S*H shelters a busload of war orphans. In it, there's a brief scene of Radar singing a lullaby to a restless wee one. It's haunted me ever since, and I've been using the tune for Matilda lullabyes since she was born. Last night I decided to hunt down all the lyrics so I could sing her the whole original song if I felt like it, not just the chorus and single verse sung by Radar.

Except I can't find the damn thing anywhere. The lyrics as sung on the show are:

By lo, baby,
by lo baby,
by lo baby,
by lo baby, by.

Daddy still loves you,
Daddy still loves you,
Daddy still loves you,
Though he's gone to war.

I feel like a Google idiot. Every possible spelling variation of by and lo (except for "buy low, baby," which seems unlikely) comes up with nothing much: eBay auctions for a doll called a By-Lo Baby or for sheet music to a minstrel-era song that's (a) kinda racist and (b) metrically all wrong anyway. Spelling variations with "lullaby," "song" or "lyrics" turn up the creepy minstrel song.

Googling the second verse brings up a Simpsons message board post by a guy who uses that as his tagline, and a Songs Sung On M*A*S*H Episodes website (also a couple of children's music CDs with a "By-Lo Baby" on the playlist, but on account of the creepy minstrel song I'm leery of shelling out money for a CD sight, or lyrics, unseen).

Am I blindly forgetting to Google something really obvious, or is it just a haunting little faux-old-timey song that in fact only dates back to whenever that M*A*S*H episode was written?


Pix - Jan 11, 2007 10:15:57 am PST #2052 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Generally, I don't like popcorn. Yes, I know that this makes me (even more of) a freak.