Dregs of Society

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#49 Lessons

Emperial

on March 29, 2007

Don't you hate it when you're reading a fable or hearing a story, and there's some moral, only it's totally the wrong moral?

Unless the point is to be funny. Then the moral mix-up is in good taste. Like on Animaniacs and the Wheel of Morality. Anyone remember that show? Somewhere, I have Yakko or Wakko singing a song with all the states and all the countries. It's buried in my harddrive somewhere, but I think I also had one of the two songs on tape.

Remember cassette tapes? Those things weren't so bad. I had the Empire Strikes Back soundtrack on cassette, and I perfectly memorized how long to hold down the rewind so I could listen to my favorite 30 seconds of music from the entire Star Wars soundtrack over and over again. It's the bit where the Millenium Falcon is in the asteroid field and does that wonderful loop to fly into the cave. Only it later turns out the cave is a giant spaceworm. But the part when they fly in, that's a great piece of music.