Walkabout #10: Dental Floss Tycoons

Just hanging with farmerchuck and AnotherMassachusettsLiberal tonight - this video is just too funny to keep to myself.

•  tipsy jar

  Tipsy jar - does anyone know all of the lyrics from this Frank Zappa song?

  by Stranded Wind on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 07:06:04 PM PDT

•  Wow, I always wanted to be famous...

  ...but I'm not quite sure I wanted to be infamous!

  by AnotherMassachusettsLiberal on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 07:11:32 PM PDT

•  Mi-ohn-ee-on-tie-ay! n/t

  \

  by phaktor on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 07:14:46 PM PDT

•  Mental toss, flycoon

  I miss Zappa, too.

  Miss HST, miss Joplin, miss a lot of people who could be helping us now. And you know? I really am pissed at Cyrus Millie and Avril and even Madonna, because our artists should have seized this moment to articulate
  our pain.

  by The Raven on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 07:15:34 PM PDT

  •  ouch

     Read your post - the laughter just stopped here :-(

    by Stranded Wind on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 07:19:15 PM PDT

  •  WOW, you might be as old as me!

    I saw some of them at the Fillmore East.

    by mlandman on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 07:19:36 PM PDT

    •  Thanks for the Fillmore East memories.

      Used to be the only thing to do in that stretch of blocks was
      to have something to eat at Rattner's.

      by Creosote on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 10:00:04 PM PDT

•  I might be movin' to Montana soon

  I have always loved Zapa. I use to go to his Holloween show at Madison Sq. Garden every year.

  What a blast!

  Just to raise me up a crop of
  Dental Floss

  Raisin' it up
  Waxen it down
  In a little white box
  That I can sell uptown

  By myself I wouldn't
  Have no boss,
  But I'd be raisin' my lonely
  Dental Floss

  Raisin' my lonely
  Dental Floss

  Well I just might grow me some bees
  But I'd leave the sweet stuff
  To somebody else . . . but then, on the other hand I would

  Keep the wax
  'N melt it down
  Pluck some Floss
  'N swish it aroun'

  I'd have me a crop
  An' it'd be on top (that's why I'm movin' to Montana)

  Movin' to Montana soon
  Gonna be a Dental Floss tycoon (yes I am)
  Movin' to Montana soon
  Gonna be a mennil-toss flykune

  I'm pluckin' the ol'
  Dennil Floss
  That's growin' on the prairie
  Pluckin' the floss!
  I plucked all day an' all nite an' all
  Afternoon . . .

  I'm ridin' a small tiny hoss
  (His name is MIGHTY LITTLE)
  He's a good hoss
  Even though
  He's a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or
  Blanket on anyway
  He's a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or
  Blanket on anyway
  Any way

  I'm pluckin' the ol'
  Dennil Floss
  Even if you think it is a little silly, folks
  I don't care if you think it's silly, folks
  I don't care if you think it's silly, folks

  I'm gonna find me a horse
  Just about this big,
  An' ride him all along the border line

  With a
  Pair of heavy-duty
  Zircon-encrusted tweezers in my hand
  Every other wrangler would say
  I was mighty grand

  By myself I wouldn't
  Have no boss,
  But I'd be raisin' my lonely
  Dental Floss

  Raisin' my lonely
  Dental Floss
  Raisin' my lonely
  Dental Floss

  Well I might
  Ride along the border
  With my tweezers gleamin'
  In the moon-lighty night

  And then I'd
  Get a cuppa cawfee
  'N give my foot a push . . .
  Just me 'n the pygmy pony
  Over by the Dennil Floss Bush

  'N then I might just
  Jump back on
  An' ride
  Like a cowboy
  Into the dawn to Montana

  Movin' to Montana soon
  (Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
  Movin' to Montana soon
  (Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
  Movin' to Montana soon
  (Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
  Movin' to Montana soon
  (Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
  Movin' to Montana soon
  (Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
  Movin' to Montana soon
  (Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
  Movin' to Montana soon
  (Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
  Movin' to Montana soon
  (Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
  Movin' to Montana soon
  (Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
  Movin' to Montana soon
  (Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
  Movin' to Montana soon
  (Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
  Movin' to Montana soon
  (Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)

  by mlandman on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 07:18:25 PM PDT

•  I sure wish I could've been with you guys.

  What a group!  :-D

  Iraq Moratorium

  by One Pissed Off Liberal on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 07:19:51 PM PDT

•  Oh and hail zappa.

  Tore a big hole in the convertible top.
  Whatcha gonna tell your mom and pop?

  Mom, Pop, I tore a big hole in the convertible top.

  Iraq Moratorium

  by One Pissed Off Liberal on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 07:22:52 PM PDT

•  Then there's...

  She's only 13 but she knows how to nasty
  Make 'er do a nasty on the White House lawn
  Smother that girl in choc-o-late syryp
  And eat 'er till the cows come home

  (sorry)

  Call any vegetable
  And the chances are good
  That a vegetable will respond to you

  Iraq Moratorium

  by One Pissed Off Liberal on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 07:27:14 PM PDT

  •  send us your phone number

    We need to have a group sing ... and it's just not the same without you.

    by Stranded Wind on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 07:30:33 PM PDT

    •  Much as I regret it I can't right now...

      got shit going on...sorry, I'd love to but...

      another time for sure

      Iraq Moratorium

      by One Pissed Off Liberal on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 07:57:26 PM PDT

      •  NetRoots

        I guess we're all going to NetRoots for a singalong ... and you're invited :-)

        by Stranded Wind on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 07:58:17 PM PDT

        •  I'll be there brother.

          Iraq Moratorium

          by One Pissed Off Liberal on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 04:40:42 AM PDT

•  and believe it or not

  no beer was harmed in the making of this video.

  by farmerchuck on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 08:20:09 PM PDT

•  Well, I'm home...

  I didn't have any Zappa in the car, so I had to be happy cranking Pink Floyd all the way home!  Next time we should visit lyrics.com before attempting any Frank...

  The trip home went a little quicker than the trip out.  Great meeting both of you - now let's firm things up over the next few weeks and see where it goes.  Time to change the world!

  by AnotherMassachusettsLiberal on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 10:12:32 PM PDT

  •  plotting revolution

      I know that common space room saw discussions of Thomas Paine's Common Sense when it was fresh off the presses ... feels right for the plotting of further revolution.

    by Stranded Wind on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 02:48:26 AM PDT