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First, happy birthday godswraith!!

Also, I feel the need to note that the bustling Norwegian metropolis of Yay, Chocolate (yay-chocolate.myminicity.com) has been going through some hard times; comments disappearing from the News Bulletin, population fleeing for scenic Greenland, that sort of thing. I'm instituting mandatory holidays, though, and hoping that turns things around.

Finally and most importantly, I wish I could speak with whoever's in charge of organizing my longterm memory.

Do I remember anything from the Japanese course I took two years ago? No. Any physics equations? Not really. Anything useful from that photography course? Not as such.

On the other hand, there's been a song in my head for the last three days, and it's rare and obscure and most of all it's bad. Oh my god it's bad. My friend Kelley played it for me once, maybe twice, at some point in the early '90s and it's been lurking in my brain like a tentacled Cthulhic horror ever since.

So, of COURSE I'm about to share it with you.

First important note: it's children's music.

Second important note: y'know how Public Enemy sampled a small portion of a Martin Luther King Jr. speech to kick off 'Fight the Power', and it gave everything that happened next in the song a whole different dimension? A similar thing happens here, except in place of Dr. King you have the sound of a stream of fluid hitting something plastic, and then the voice of a very small child squeaking, "Ah DID it!"

*ahem*

RUBY PEED IN THE POTTY CHAIR

Ruby peed in the potty chair!
Ruby peed in the potty chair!
Ruby peed in the potty chair!
Her mother and her sister and I were there!

I pause here to note that this is obviously a family with boundary issues.

I wish to god that was the only verse I could remember, but no. The weak of stomach might want to turn away now, because what you've read so far pales before Verse 2:

She gave a little 'mmph!' and it came right out!
Gave a little 'mmph!' and it came right out!
Gave a little 'mmph!' and it came right out!
Ruby peed in the potty chair!

I wish I could tell you more about this band (which was, in fact, a family, Dad on banjo and vocals, Mom on keyboard, daughters on tambourine) but sadly, it was pre-internet and Google and Wikipedia have not caught on to their wonders. (I'll also admit that I typed "peed in the potty chair" into Google with a LOT of trepidation). But no. All I have to offer is that 12-second sound snippet.

Which has been playing in my head for the last THREE DAYS.

Argh.