I'm Going Crazy!!!!

[Erisianmonkey]

Next to spiders, that Burger King mascot is my second all time biggest fear. I have insane nightmares whenever I see that thing more than twice in one day. It has got to the point where I will not eat at Burger King until they kill it off. I would go to their website and tell them this, but I really don't want the nightmares from being faced with the thing. Oh well, I don't eat much fast food anyway.

Mac Tonight never bothered me though. I had a several dreams with him in them though. Usually hanging out with Max Headroom and, for some unknown reason, Ray Charles.

[beowulf67]

I think Burger King is trying to play up to a gay audience. Watch the breakfast commercial where the man wakes up and rolls over and the king is in bed with him. There are a couple of others that have subtle things that imply it, at least that's how I see it.
I'm probably totally wrong on this, but that is the impression I get from the commercials.

[kallen]

I think Burger King is trying to play up to a gay audience. Watch the breakfast commercial where the man wakes up and rolls over and the king is in bed with him. There are a couple of others that have subtle things that imply it, at least that's how I see it.
I'm probably totally wrong on this, but that is the impression I get from the commercials.

That would explain the Lumberjack then
ya know the song..."I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok, I work all night and sleep all day"


*not to be confused w/ Jackyl's song "The Lumberjack Song"*

[Warlock]

Next to spiders, that Burger King mascot is my second all time biggest fear. I have insane nightmares whenever I see that thing more than twice in one day. It has got to the point where I will not eat at Burger King until they kill it off. I would go to their website and tell them this, but I really don't want the nightmares from being faced with the thing. Oh well, I don't eat much fast food anyway.

Mac Tonight never bothered me though. I had a several dreams with him in them though. Usually hanging out with Max Headroom and, for some unknown reason, Ray Charles.

OK, NEW horror thought: Giant spider with giant burger king head. Standing there when you wake up, holding your last meal; a whopper with spider legs sticking out from the bun! Now I need a good stiff drink!

[beowulf67]

That would explain the Lumberjack then
ya know the song..."I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok, I work all night and sleep all day"


*not to be confused w/ Jackyl's song "The Lumberjack Song"*

So I'm not the only one that thinks of Monty Python when I see a lumberjack!!

[ScottEPooh]

So I'm not the only one that thinks of Monty Python when I see a lumberjack!!

It's possible to think of something else?

[auld argonian]

It's possible to think of something else?

Oh, aye.

I think of the picture on the Brawny paper towels, for one.

And when I was a kid, they had the Sportsman's Show at the International Ampitheatre right across the street from my house. They always had a demonstration of lumberjack events...two guys in plaid shirts would race-climb up two humongous tree trunks that they'd cart in and hoist up on end and then they'd do that log rolling thing in a big above ground swimming pool that was part of the stage...ending up with one or more or 'em getting dunked to the applause and laughter of all. This was followed by the trained bear who would wrestle all comers....but that is a tale for another time...

Best

AA

[Dirka Skene]

I guess I'm too young to know about Mac the Knife.

[Monkey@Arms]

Dirka,

From the ever-useful Wiki

"Mack the Knife", originally "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer", is a song composed by Kurt Weill with
lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera. It premiered in Berlin in 1928. The song has become a pop standard.

The Threepenny Opera
A moritat is a medieval version of the murder ballad performed by strolling minstrels, from mori meaning "deadly" and tat meaning "deed". In The Threepenny Opera, the moritat singer with his street organ introduces and closes the drama with the tale of the deadly Mackie Messer, or Mack the Knife, a character based on the dashing highwayman Macheath in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera. The Brecht-Weill version was less dashing and much more cruel and sinister and has been transformed into a modern anti-hero.

Here's Bobby Darren singing it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CBTITHA8twI

Not my favorite version, but no doubt the most popular.

Other versions can be seen here.


AA,

That performance you posted by Alan Cummings was something!

Best regards,

Jake

[auld argonian]

AA,

That performance you posted by Alan Cummings was something!

Best regards,

Jake

...and he's a Scot! He can really turn off the accent for some performances but you can really hear it on this one.


AA