When I was your age..
I was recently over at a friends house, watching me some Survivor Guatemala (So I like *one* reality TV show, big whoop, want to fight about it?). In between watching people stab random strangers in the back for a large pile of money, I ended up seeing a commercial. The thing to realize is that my friends have a PVR, so they never watch commercials. They stopped at *this* commercial and said.
“This is what happens when we are talking to our kids”.
On comes a Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper commercial. It starts off with a girl on a date, listening to the guy talk about himself when she looks down at the drink, grabs it, and looks back at him. The guy then utters the magical words “Mahna Mahna”, followed by everyone one else saying “Doo doo daa doo”
He had me at “Mahna Mahna”.
This song has some history in my family. My brothers may tend to want that history kept in the deepest darkest closets known to man, but I am not the kind of person to repress such WONDERFUL memories.
When I was still just a young pup, my family would go on many a vacation road trip. Somewhere along the line my sister Julie and I found this song.
We could go on for HOURS. I’d start off “Mahna Mahna”, she’d respond “Doo-doo-da-doodoo”. After about hour number 8 the other siblings would finally break. This resulted in them trying to out annoy us (Brian and his wierd noises) or just general threatening. It was then we realized that we had tremendous power to annoy, and we used it as much as we could.
It got to the point, I could be walking through the house, see Julie and say “Mahna Mahna” and she’d respond right back “Doo-doo-da-doodoo”. We were a well oiled TEAM!
So, in memory of those good times, here are a few links
Dr. Pepper Cherry Vanilla Commercial
The original Muppets Short
The mp3 of the muppets
Oh, and Julie “Mahna Mahna”
Darn you and your funny addictive blog! Wandered around the office randomly singing “Doo-doo-da-doodoo” all morning (while avoiding my paperwork like the plague). Yea! Found out Wallace & Gromit comes out today (while reading the paper and avoiding the paperwork). And now am apparently commenting on your blog (while still avoiding the paperwork). Sigh. I better start on my paperwork.
I knew there was a reason we got along so well! My mom can tell you that I loved “Mahna Mahna” as a kid and would sing it endlessly.
Maybe we should make it a shibboleth for being a SIB webmaster. We send them an e-mail that just says “Mahna Mahna”. If they don’t reply something that can be parsed as a variant of “Doo-doo-da-doodoo”, then “No website for you!”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_Na_Mah_Na
Craig
C.G. Happy to do my job š
Craig: It’s got a simple kind of feeling to it, no? š
And I just want to send an e-mail out to the webmasters, and see who responds
Doo-doo-da-doodoo!
Scrolling down, I got excited to see the mahna mahna muppets. Ah, good times. I may just steal this for my own blog. š
Feel free.
Dooo Dooo Dudooo