Ship of Fools: Coo coo ka choo

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Posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard (# 368) on :

Which?

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

Martin, I've no idea what you wanted to discuss here, or why you started this thread in Heaven. Care to elucidate?

Thanks

Ariel
Heaven Host

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

Great thread title though.

Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :

Who is the eggman?

My understanding of this walrus incident is that lack of ice due to incessant burning of hydrocarbons is the cause. A spectacle to be sure, but not one to be happy about.

Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :

...Mrs. Robinson.

Posted by Horseman Bree (# 5290) on :

I'm not sure that there is any discernible link between Mrs. Robinson (or for that matter, Joe DiMaggio) and a herd of walruses. I am now intrigued to know what this link could be.

Posted by Fr Weber (# 13472) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard:
Which?

And here I was expecting something to do with Mrs Robinson!

I'm sure you mean "Goo goo g'joob."

Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :

Perhaps you mistake Lucy in the sky for the Mrs?

We could ask one of The Osmonds.

"To fathom Hell or soar angelic,
Just take a pinch of psychedelic"

[ 02. October 2014, 15:59: Message edited by: no prophet ]

Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Horseman Bree:
I'm not sure that there is any discernible link between Mrs. Robinson (or for that matter, Joe DiMaggio) and a herd of walruses. I am now intrigued to know what this link could be.

Here ya go.

Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :

Mrs. Robinson was a walrus?

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

That's not very kind about Anne Bancroft!

In any case, I saw the heading and thought Alvin Stardust..

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

It'll be those Australian cockatiels again.

Posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard (# 368) on :

I just love being wrong for nearly 50 years.

Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :

Perhaps they're weeping to see, instead of ice, such quantities of sand?

Posted by Gracious rebel (# 3523) on :

I still don't understand the link with the walruses. But then why should I should expect a thread started by Martin to actually make senses to us lesser mortals!

Posted by Gracious rebel (# 3523) on :

Bad form to double post I know, but Google has found me the answer.

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

You must be very young!

I got the double EP for my birthday - and still have it, original sleeve and all.

The interesting thing about the track was the recording hidden in it from King Lear - but I didn't appreciate that till years later.

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

I am not the walrus!

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Stetson:

quote:
Originally posted by Horseman Bree:
I'm not sure that there is any discernible link between Mrs. Robinson (or for that matter, Joe DiMaggio) and a herd of walruses. I am now intrigued to know what this link could be.
Here ya go.

I worked that show and saw it too: 50-plus Morgan Fairchild starkers!

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
I worked that show and saw it too: 50-plus Morgan Fairchild starkers!

I was so high up in the balcony (same venue as Sir Kevin, but before I knew him). Between the distance and the dimly-lit stage it could have been Morgan Freeman -- naked or fully-clothed -- from what I could see.

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

I think I was in the 20th row, maybe closer, but then she was back-lit...

Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Fr Weber:

quote:
Originally posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard:
Which?
And here I was expecting something to do with Mrs Robinson!

I'm sure you mean "Goo goo g'joob."

A very important distinction. Well-cited, Fr. Weber.

If one is going to center one's point around a cultural reference, it needs to be correct.

Posted by Kaplan Corday (# 16119) on :

Coo coo ka choo? Goo goo g'joob?

What a load of crap!

Give me real lyrics any time, like "Bop shuop, m'bop bop shuop"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSjD5rjQB0g

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

Any minute, someone is going to post -

“To be is to do - Socrates

To do is to be - Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”

So let's get it over with, shall we?

Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
I am not the walrus!

I am the walrus, and so is my wife.

Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :

My heart goes boom-bang-a-bang, boom-bang-a-bang when you are near...

Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Starbug:
My heart goes boom-bang-a-bang, boom-bang-a-bang when you are near...

Perhaps you need this: Goodness Gracious Me (Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren, boom, buddi boom buddi boom etc)

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

No!

Ying tong, ying tong, Ying tong, ying tong,
Ying tong diddle I po;
Ying tong, ying tong, Ying tong diddle I po,
Diddle I po! [Yipee]

Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :

quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
Perhaps you mistake Lucy in the sky for the Mrs?

We could ask one of The Osmonds.

Surely, if we are dealing with the Walrus, the reference should be to The Carpenters, Alice?

Posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard (# 368) on :

Gracious Rebel. The answer and the question are in the first SODDING LINK!

Posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard (# 368) on :

And Mrs. Robinson's the one in the middle.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Martin PC not & Ship's Biohazard:
Gracious Rebel. The answer and the question are in the first SODDING LINK!

Play nicely, children. Or the thread's for the hey willy wallachy, how John Dougal alane quo rushety, roo, roo, roo.

Firenze
Heaven Host

Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :

My Google-fu is letting me down so I can't link to it, but does anyone else remember the advert for VH1, probably in the mid 90s, which featured a series of clips of the "coo coo ka choo"'s, "la la la"'s, "do do do"'s etc (very similar to the sort of references made here). It closed with the tag line something like "VH1 ... music that means something".

Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :

I've no idea of that, but I have many odd little rhymes in my brains. The alligator one I know goes like this:

Ung guy mung guy
chickie chickie ung guy
alligator ung guy oh

We used to repeat it as children over and over and giggle ourselves silly to the point that one of us would have to sit in the front seat of the car between parents.

Another was:

Higglety pigglety beebullee binkie
hobblety gobblety boobulee bonka
-with additional variations as consonants and vowels are changed. Dangerous to use an F as the starting letter within earshot of parents, slightly less bad is "I was born on a pirate ship" which can sound like something naughty if said while holding your tongue.

We didn't get a TV until 1968, so I spent a fair bit of time doing Silly Things. I have only been to one Ship Meet, might oddly rhymes be a good activity for something like that or church meetings? better than the "how did you spend your summer holidays" or "everyone tell something that makes then unique", both of which I want to respond "burying the bodies of people I had to kill for having the nerve to make us answer such questions". Or maybe such questions as "ice breakers" are a local western Canadian thing at church meetings?

Posted by Timothy the Obscure (# 292) on :

We still don't know who put the bomp in the bomp-sh-bomp-sh-bomp...

Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :

So this is not about the upcoming Kevin Smith movie Tusk, about which I feel conflicted because it seems simultaneously salacious and yet creepy/disturbing?

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