{"id":154,"date":"2006-09-02T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2006-09-02T04:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T04:42:00","slug":"a-phish-a-puppy-and-a-byrd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"A PHISH, A PUPPY AND A BYRD."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a> Wow! You guys are good. You correctly guessed seven out of ten songs in the VTB’s “Name That Mystery [iPod] Meat” challenge.<\/div>\n
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I must say that I’m impressed…particularly with our friend Harsh<\/a>, who likely destroyed all future prospects of picking up chicks by correctly guessing the LazyTown<\/a> song.<\/p>\n

And yes…I *do* have several LazyTown songs on my iPod.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The winner of the contest, however, was The Big Finn<\/a>. He correctly guessed three songs…and did so despite his exhausting luxury vacation schedule. As for his prize, he wins a closet full of XXL Tommy Bahama shirts which–coincidentally–are already in his closet.<\/div>\n
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So, what of the three songs that nobody guessed? Here are the answers:<\/div>\n
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#1. “Chalkdust Torture” by Phish.
[It rocks…but, don’t EVEN try to make sense of the lyrics.]
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#2. “Hot Smoke and Sassafrass” by Bubble Puppy.
[What?! You’ve never heard of Bubble Puppy?! Well…that’s them pictured above. What?! You’ve never heard “Hot Smoke and Sassafrass?!” Well…you must (absolutely MUST!) go <\/strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> and listen for yourself. It’s one of my favorite songs. <\/strong>Euro-Trac<\/strong><\/a> will love it. <\/strong>Lady Di<\/strong><\/a> will hate it. <\/strong>Angie<\/strong><\/a> will be both confused and frightened.]
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#4. “My Back Pages” by The Byrds.
[…albeit written by Bob Dylan.] <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Great job, kiddies! <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow! You guys are good. You correctly guessed seven out of ten songs in the VTB’s “Name That Mystery [iPod] Meat” challenge. I must say that I’m impressed…particularly with our friend Harsh, who likely destroyed all future prospects of picking up chicks by correctly guessing the LazyTown song. And yes…I *do* have several LazyTown songs … Continue reading A PHISH, A PUPPY AND A BYRD.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75qi3-2u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":155,"url":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=155","url_meta":{"origin":154,"position":0},"title":"NAME THAT MYSTERY [iPOD] MEAT!","author":"Sal DeTraglia","date":"August 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Excuse me while I steal an idea from Mr. and Mrs. The Big Finn...which they, BTW, stole from someone else.The idea is this...I crank-up my iPod Shuffle and write the opening lyrics to the first ten morsels of iPod meat that come screaming from the ear buds.You, gentle readers, must\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 27 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 27 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=155#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":210,"url":"https:\/\/www.saldetraglia.com\/?p=210","url_meta":{"origin":154,"position":1},"title":"MY NAME IS SAL, AND I\u2019M ADDICTED TO LAZYTOWN.","author":"Sal DeTraglia","date":"March 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I suppose it\u2019s strange that a thirty-eight year old man and his three year old daughter have the same favorite TV show. 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