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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Chocolate (I Just Couldn't Resist)

I just can’t not write about this:


“A 21-year-old US man ended up in hospital after spending two hours trapped in a vat of chocolate, police in Wisconsin said on Friday... Th
e accident involved dark chocolate." (BBC)

It reminds me so much of the Smothers Brothers song:

Tom (singing): I fell into a vat of chocolate. I fell into a vat of chocolate...

Dick (singing): What’d you do when you fell in the chocolate?

Both: La dee doo dum la dee doo dum day...


Tom (singing): I yelled ‘fire’ when I fell into the chocolate...

Dick (annoyed, singi
ng): Why’d you yell ‘fire’ when you fell into the chocolate?

Tom: I yelled ‘fire’ ‘cau
se no one would help me if I yelled
‘Chocolate!’

Both: La dee doo dum la dee doo dum day.


Tom and Dick Smothers, from ‘Chocolate,’ on The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers LP.




8 comments:

  1. Sheesh! And I thought I was clumsy. *knocking on wood* I've NEVER fallen into a vat of chocolate. Probably just lucky.

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  2. Now that would be my ideal way to leave this earth!

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  3. The Smothers brothers were before my time. But I've heard that song on my Dad's old CDs--I mean LPs.

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  4. I remember the chocolate song and routine well - the Smothers Brothers were my favorite at that time. ec

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  5. I, too, remember the Smothers Brothers.

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  6. ha! that was great. What a way to go :) Smothers Bros are great too.

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  7. The Smother's Brothers were great. As good as their comedy was, though, I always thought it was a shame they never cut just a straight music album.

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  8. I never remembered hearing that particular song, even though I remember the Smothers Brothers.

    When that story was aired on NPR it prompted a listener to write in that it reminded him of the Smothers Brothers song so NPR played. I can now say that I've heard them do it. Those guys always could crack me up.

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