Category: Fun
What Do You Get When You Cross Cee Lo Green and Elmer Fudd?
There are days when my mind takes a weird turn. Perhaps, I’m overtired or maybe just feeling silly, but my mental train jumps the tracks and decides to head for the hills. There, the bumping around causes me to mash completely unrelated items. Maybe, I’ll pit Papa Smurf against Voldemort or maybe I’ll ponder what drugs Dora might be on to make her think that a monkey is her best friend and that she needs to keep items away from a kleptomaniac fox.
Recently, my boys have gotten addicted to a certain song by Cee Lo Green: Forget You. The original version of the song uses another F word in place of "Forget." However, "Forget You" is the radio – and kid – friendly version. If you haven’t heard it yet, here it is:
Now, my track-skipped mental train picked up this song and headed in a zig-zag manner across my mind’s landscape. It collided head-on with another favorite song, albeit from a totally different genre.
Yes, I started combining Cee Lo Green and Elmer Fudd. You’d think two such different lyrical sources wouldn’t mix. However, as I got the kids ready for bed, I found myself singing the first few lyrics to the song. I stopped, whipped out my phone, and typed them out lest they be lost when my mental train righted itself. Later on, when I had some free time, I pulled the real lyrics to Forget You and wrote out the rest of the song.
Now, at one point, I considered filming myself singing this in my best Elmer Fudd impersonation. Then, I remembered two things: First of all, I’m not a great singer. I’m not horrible, just not great either. Were I to try out for American Idol, I wouldn’t get passed to the next round, but I wouldn’t be one of those weird, horrible singers that they highlight either. I’d be so boringly average that I wouldn’t even make it on air. Second, my Elmer Fudd impression isn’t that great. Sure, it amuses my kids, but that’s about it.
So I’ll leave it to the better Elmer Fudd-impersonating singers out there. If you want to video this, link up to this blog post to let me know about it. (Perhaps I’ll even feature your video here.)
And now, without further ado, here is Kill The Wabbit from the Wabbit Kiwwer album performed by E Fudd Green:
[Chorus:]
I see your footpwints in the woods as I twack you down,
and I say
Kill the wabbit!
I got my double bawweled shotgun and a cawwot twap,
and I say
Kill the wabbit!
Kill the wabbit!
If I wah smawter, I woulda got ya,
Now my gun’s all pwugged up (plugged up)
And though I still twy to bwast, it just bwows me up thanks to that,
Skewy wabbit!I’m sowwy, but the duck told me
That it was wabbit season now.
You say to shoot him, the duck says to shoot you
And my bwain hurts, it just ain’t fair.
So I take my AAAAAim and fiwe away
(Such a loud blast)
Well
(Duck bill’s spinning)
ooooh
I hit the duck weal good
Yeah. Pwonouns just confwuse me.[Chorus]
Now you know, I had to twack you
Stick my gun in your wabbit howe
But you tied it, in a knot
Doncha ya know these guns ain’t cheap
I just want to shooooot, that waskily wabbit
(But he kissed ya)
Well
(On the lips, ew!)
Oooooh
He dove into his howe
Ooooh, I hate that skewy wabbit![Chorus]
Be vewy, vewy, vewy, quiet look hew are wabbit twacks
(Tracks, tracks, tracks)
I twied to chase ya thwew a wog but wound up fawwing off of a cwiff!
(A cliff, A cliff, a cliff)
Uh, Wabbits. Uh! Wabbits! Uh!
WABBBITS!
Oh! I hate them! Oh! I hate wabbits! Oooh![Chorus]
Gaming Addicts
I think I’m raising a pair of video game addicts.
A couple of weeks ago, we went to visit my parents. While there, they insisted on buying the boys a gift. I tried to steer NHL to a Transformer figure since he loves the show, but both he and JSL wanted more video games for the Nintendo DS. At first, I’ll admit that I was against it. We have plenty of games and I didn’t think NHL needed another one. After awhile, though, I accepted it. Especially after we found Lego Indiana Jones for the Nintendo DS.
NHL loves the Lego series. He has (and has finished) both of the Lego Harry Potter games and has the Lego Star Wars game as well. Since we recently introduced him to Indiana Jones (specifically, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark), we figured he might like this. (Plus, I wouldn’t need to help him changing this "toy" from a vehicle to robot and back.)
JSL, meanwhile, really needed some games. Most of the games we have for the Nintendo DS are for NHL’s skill level (if not higher). JSL can try these, but he’s probably just going to wind up frustrated. He wound up getting a dinosaur game that is perfect for his age level.
As soon as possible, the boys loaded up their new games and began playing. Then, they swapped games and played each other’s games. They’ve been playing them (or begging to play them) ever since.
That’s not it, though. Even before this, the boys would keep asking me when a certain game was going to be released. They counted down the days and, when it finally arrived, they waited impatiently while I downloaded and installed the playable demo. They were hooked on the previous versions, are hooked on this version, and will likely get hooked on the mobile versions once we get our smartphones.
Yes, my boys are in love with the Angry Birds. They’ve tossed the birds at pigs in many environments. Now they need to take into account orbital mechanics to defeat the piiiigs in spaaace. (Oops, sorry. Wrong piggies.)
With all of the video games they like playing, it’s no wonder that I suspect that I’m raising a pair of gaming geeks. I don’t know where they get it from. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to play some Lego Indiana Jones on the Nintendo DS.
The Forever Swing
While visiting my parents over the weekend, we took the boys to a playground. As they had a blast, I began to think about the animated GIF capabilities of PhotoScape, our Picnik replacement. (Yes, I’m a geek.)
So, since I’m too tired from the trip home to write out a coherent post, here’s an animated shot of my boys doing one of their favorite things in the world: Swinging at the playground. I call this one, The Forever Swing.
Of course, NHL should get some swinging in, so here’s The Forever Swing, Part 2: Forever More.
Doesn’t that look like fun?
Aloha Friday: Grown Up Indoor Playground
Over the weekend, we went to Cousin B’s second birthday party. It was held in an indoor play area. Waiting, the boys all but drooled over the long trampoline, foam pit, zip line, climbing net, balance beams, bounce house, and more. As the boys removed their shoes and socks, they asked if I would go on everything with them. I told them that grown-ups weren’t allowed on anything, that it was only for kids.
Then, the staff member corrected me and let me know I *could* go on almost everything.
As the kids raced to each item, I accompanied them from time to time. NHL and I bounced on the trampoline together. JSL buried me in the foam pit and I chased him through the bounce house. (I did sit out the zip line, though, as that was one of the 
not-for-adults items.)
In all of the bouncing, foam-climbing fun, I worked up quite a sweat. After the play portion of the party was over, I joked with the staff member that they should open the place up at night for adults.
As I thought about it more, I began to wonder. How many grown ups, like me, hate the idea of a gym with lines of stationary bikes, treadmills, and other "boring" exercise equipment? How many adults would love to feel like a kid again as they bounce along a trampoline, crawl through a foam pit, and climb up a rope bridge?
My Aloha Friday question for today is: Would you go to an indoor playground for grown ups?
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Aloha #127