Did I hear that right?????

So we went to a baseball game the other night and after getting comfy in our hard, plastic, butt-numbing seats we were told to all rise for our national anthems....two....because our Winnipeg Goldeyes (which are fish by the way - the name, Goldeye...not the players) were playing an American team.

I have always loved the American national anthem...when you sing...'O Say!!! does that staaarrrrr spppanngleedd baaaannnneeer yeee....eet waaave'.....you are truly moved.

And for the Spanish persuasion....there are people who sing...."Jose, can you see by the dawns early light......???"

Of course I am a fish not a bird....meaning I don't sing, I just mouth the words. But I am singing on the inside!

So after waving the American flag we had to sing the Canadian national anthem and I commented (perhaps too loudly) "...and now we sing our boring old anthem" ( insert jam to ribs by husband here).

Well, it is true..... ours starts out dreary....Ohhhhhhhh.... Caaaaa...na.....da!...... and never picks up. To add insult to injury some of the best lines now have to be sung in  French.

'True patriot love in all thy sons command' is sung in English.

French version  'ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux'   - literally translates as.....'thy brow is wreathed with a glorious garland of flowers.'  HUH?

AND later on this gem of wisdom.....'thy history is an epic of the most brilliant exploits.' I kid you not.....Who wrote that?????

Really........not even close to the original song. What the hell???

BUT my all time favorite Country song....country as in USA...not country as in Nashville....has got to be The Stars and Stripes Forever....or as my generation lovingly knows it "Be kind to your web footed friends."

Yes - many a weenie has been roasted over a backwoods Canadian campfire as we all sang....'Be kind to your web footed friends, for every duck has a maaaawwwtthhhther, who lives at the end of a swamp, where it's cool and doooommmppp.' Or words to that effect.

John Philip Sousa knew how to write 'em.....our guys....not so much!

Keeping with the song 'theme' or thyme, as the French would say, snicker snicker.... of this blog.....I am always amused (even guffawed out loud a few times) when I come across people who hear song words wrong. Years ago we commonwealth Canadians had to sing before school started each day.A friend of mine used to sing "send her six story books, happy and glorious" instead of "send her victorious" when belting out God Save the Queen. I mean, really, they expect six year olds to know what victorious is??? Besides YOU can't send the Queen anywhere...she goes where she pleases and usually in a Rolls Royce.

ANYWAY.....there seems to be a 'law' earwig in the following:

Billy Joel song

We didn't start the fire
it was always burning
Said the worst attorney

REAL lyric:
We didn't start the fire
it was always burning
since the world's been turning

10,0000 Maniacs song

Because the night belongs to lawyers
because the night belongs to law

REAL lyric:
Because the night belongs to lovers
because the night belongs to love

Cee Lo Green song

I guess he's an expert and I'm more an attorney

REAL lyric:
I guess he's an Xbox and I'm more Atari

Elton John song

Some with cankers, some with goiters

REAL lyric:
Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers.......SEE that one actually was about the law!!


Things I've learned this week:

When people ask me "where do you come up with all this STUFF?" I have to say that newspapers, the Interweb and McLeans Magazine (which is a virtual gold mine for useless information)......really do provide a lot....it is just research. You don't just sit down and write a Blog you know...it takes work. Oh, and I have to give some credit to the voices in my head.

Some people (namely all the people in the world who are NOT from Manitoba) don't know what a Goldeye fish looks like, okay here it is:

HAHAHA actually that is NOT a fish - that is Goldie the Goldeyes Baseball team mascot who loves to dance and run around and bang a drum and cheer us on...well you get the idea. And of course when you have to design a mascot costume based on a fish you can use some.....ah.....liberty. Or else you would have something that looks like this

Which would just scare the crap out of little kids who line up for autographs.

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After thirty odd years I can still make my husband laugh. While driving to the cottage we listened to the latest CD he had worked on. The song The Look of Love came on and he commented, "This would be a great song to make love to." I thought for a second then replied "Well, it is three minutes." He laughed, and laughed, and laughed.....  

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The Brick Furniture is having a back to school......mattress sale. Really? I kid you not.