This. This is what my wife and I talk about at work. [The Stars and the Cookie Jar]

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strangeselkie: BLUE CANARY INNA OUTLET BY THE LIGHT SWITCH
darthrami: come and I will sing youuuu
strangeselkie: What will you sing meee?
darthrami: I will sing you one-o
strangeselkie: What will one be?

I love my folkie wife.

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There are 19 comments on this entry. (Reply.)

Is it OUTLET?

*always thought it was "alley", outlet make MUCH MO SENSE*

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yeah, no, it's outlet.

*giggles*

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I might actually understand that song now.

I always thought, you know, it was like a toy blue canary someone had thrown out, and "by the lightswitch" was an expression like "by jove" or something....

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Hey! Unrelated to canaries, because we have cats, where are you staying for BEA? No worries either way, just trying to see what's going on. We have a spreadsheet, you know. :-D

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Check out the verse about the "primitive ancestry" now.

:D

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AND COUNTLESS SCREAMING ARGONAUTS!

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Well, I'm not sure that verse is affected by the whole Blue Canary verse....

I kind of assumed that it was all deconstructed postmodernism. Once we got out of the alley we could be anywhere; I just assumed he was looking at a picture while sitting in a museum or something.

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Oh, it's affected.

Once you figure out what the blue canary in the outlet by the light switch actually is, the rest of the song makes a weird but coherent kind of sense.

Hint: it's a little glowing friend.

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It's a nightlight, isn't it? *puzzled*

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*watches the continuing saga with interest*

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Yes.

And the primitive ancestry of a nightlight? Is a lighthouse. That stands on rocky shores and keeps the beaches shipwreck-free.

:)?

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Oho! I get it now. I always had visions of like, the Trojans. 'Cause of Jason and the Argonauts.

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No, yeah, see, the little blue birdie would FAIL at that, and kill off Jason AND COUNTLESS SCREAMING ARGONAUTS. And that is why I love that song.

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I thought, like. He was a member of a tribe who guarded the shores and killed Jason and his Argonauts by mistake. Mistaken identity, that kind of thing.

I actually sorta like my interpretation better. :D

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Well, it's TMBG. They are open to vast interpretation.

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thank you. i needed that.

and i say, way-hey-hey it's just an ordinary day...

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We love us some Great Big Sea!

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You're a pair of total loonies.

Extremely likeable loonies (*grin*), but loonies nevertheless.

What on earth were you singing?

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I was singing 'Birdhouse In Your Soul', I think it's called, by They Might Be Giants. My wife favoured a version of a counting ballad done by Great Big Sea.

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