Trivia Time
It’s time to pick your Squiddie brains again… See how much you know about Squid Row… answers will be printed in the blog on Tuesday.
It’s time to pick your Squiddie brains again… See how much you know about Squid Row… answers will be printed in the blog on Tuesday.
It’s embarrassing, on too many this time my response is “I should know that!” For Randie’s breakfast and the location of Lava Luna’s I can recall the real-world equivalents, but not your variations.
Heh, as the first time, the song that comes to mind for Squish’s beer….
Oh, the year was nineteen seventy-eight
How I wish I’d never tried it now
When a score of men were turned quite green
By the scummiest ale you’ve ever seen
{Refrain}
God damn them all, I was told
This beer was worth its weight in gold
We’d feel no pain, shed no tears
But it’s a foolish man who shows no fear
At a glass of Garnet’s home-made beer
Oh, Garnet Rogers cried the town / How I wish…
For twenty brave men, all masochists who
Would taste for him his homemade brew
{Refrain}
This motley crew was a sickening sight / How I wish…
There was caveman Dave with his eyes in bags
He’d a hard-boiled liver and the staggers and jags
{Refrain}
Well we hadn’t been there but an hour or two / How I wish…
When a voice said: Gimme some homemade brew
And Steeleye Stan hove into view
{Refrain}
Now Steeleye Stan was a frightening man / How I wish…
He was eight feet tall and four feet wide
He said: Pass that jug or I’ll tan your hide
{Refrain}
Stan took one sip and pitched on his side / How I wish…
Garnet was smashed with a gut full of dregs
And his breath set fire to both me legs
{Refrain}
So here I lay in me twenty-third beer / How I wish…
It’s been ten years since I felt this way
On the night before my wedding day
{Refrain}
Here’s the song that this song was stolen from – Stan Roger’s Barret’s Privateers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMV34CwNMY0
Garnet Rogers is the brother of the late Stan Rogers, and his homemade beer was INFAMOUS!
The Auld Grump
Beetle… ah… it must be time to read thru the archives…yes? (or just wait for the answers tomorrow).
Grump… Wow… that’s quite a song. So it’s a parody of another funny song… gotcha. And uh… nobody’s breath should set fire to anything! scary. Maybe Ryan should write a ditty about Squish’s homemade brew… that’d be fun! So it would be a parody of a parody of a funny… oh, never mind.
Ayuh – and, as such things sometimes happen, I heard the parody first….
Barret’s Privateers is a bit of a parody on The Fame of Salem – a Yankee privateer in the American Revolution that took three times the value of the ship on her maiden voyage.
Barret’s Privateers is about some of the Canadian privateers in the same war, who had less than stellar luck.
My girlfriend and I have performed that song in front of a junior high American History class. 🙂
The Auld Grump