Friday, August 31, 2007

I got to thinking about my offhand remark about "what song (or snippet of a song) would make the MOST INAPPROPRIATE horn "ringtone" on a car."

And I thought: I should ask my readers to come up with ideas; they're creative, they'd probably think of stuff that would make me laugh. (And believe me, after this week, I need to laugh.)

Then I thought: wait, I should make it a CONTEST.

So - here is the over-Labor-Day challenge to you: Drop in the comments (either here or on the previous post) what song (or section of a song) you think would be most inappropriate for a car horn to play. (If it's a particular bit of lyrics, you might supply those - I don't always remember lyrics of a song based on the title).

The winner (provided I have more than one person who bites) will be the one who makes me laugh the most. (Sorry, I know that's totally subjective, but it IS my blog after all). The winner will receive some kind of small prize in the mail - perhaps yarn, perhaps a couple of quilter's fat quarters, perhaps some tea from Adagio teas - prize will be dependent on the interests of the winner.

So start thinking of that last song you (or perhaps your friendly local Highway Patrol dude) would want to hear blaring out of the horn of a car.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Teen Angel"--That fateful night, the car was stalled upon the railroad track, etc....

Or,

Mozart's Requiem

Anonymous said...

"Hey, Good-Looking" Lyrics: Hey, Good-Looking, What you got cooking, How's about cooking something up with me?

That should be good for a ticket for solicitation if not speeding.

Charlotte
cat16@mindspring.com

Anonymous said...

"Love Shack" by the B52s?

-- Grace in MA

Lydia said...

Hmm. I originally thought about Dar Williams's "Are You Out There" (with the line 'Last night we drank in parking lots...It's the first time I stayed up all night/It's getting light I hear the birds/I'm driving home on empty streets')

or Simon and Garfunkel's version of Maybelline (speeding and having one's car break down)

or Cry Cry Cry's Highway Patrolman about making a high speed chase of one's brother (must have done a hundred and ten) on murder charges before pulling over and letting him escape into Canada

but I think that I'd have to go with 'Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde' about picking up a young lady at a truck stop and unwittingly becoming her getaway driver before getting arrested.

(Oddly enough, since the lyrics include the phrase 'a long way to Richmond,' this is what my brother listened to every time he drove to Richmond to visit his future wife when they were in college. Considering the way he tricked out his minivan, I'm glad those horns weren't available then.)

Anonymous said...

My kids wanted me to submit "Convoy" and "Stop! In the name of Love." Ok, maybe not in the spirit of what you wanted (maybe "Love Shack" isn't either) but it was the topic of conversation at our dinner table!

-- Grace in MA

Anonymous said...

I'm thinking just about any part of Meatloaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" would be so good and so very bad!

Any of the Beach Boys or other surfer guy type bands - "409", "Fun, Fun, Fun ('til Daddy takes the T-Bird away)", "Little Old Lady from Pasadena" - that genre.

kbehroozi said...

Paradise by the Dashboard Light?

Anonymous said...

Anything by Asleep at the Wheel.


Anne in TN

Anonymous said...

A few bars of "I Can't Get Started."

Xanthippe

R a i n said...

The chorus from Pretty Fly for a White Guy: "Give to me baby, UH HUH UH HUH, Give to me baby, UH HUH....." sung by Offspring.

LOL that would be hilarious!!!!

dragon knitter said...

55, by sammy hagar

the exact lyric?

I CAN'T DRIVE FIFTY FIVE! OH NO!

Anonymous said...

I am not going to be original this time, so all I am going to say that your blog rocks, sad that I don't have suck a writing skills