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I recently posted the Best Woke Pick-Up Lines so it’s only fair to do the flip side, as well. So let’s get right into it. Here are the best MAGA pick-up lines for a guy to pick-up a traditional woman.
10. After dinner, would you like to get on Twitter and troll some liberals?
9. Does it turn you on when I say I never watched a second of the January 6th hearings?
8. If the COVID vaccine makes me immune to your love… well, I still won’t get it. But you DO boost my happiness.
7. Three things that best describe me — ultra fun, ultra cute, ultra maga.
6. Hey baby, thinking about you gives me a January 6th sized ins-erection.
5. Actually, it IS an ar-15 in my pocket, but yes I’m happy to see you, too.
4. You wanna do some role-play? I’ll be a border patrol agent and you’re crossing illegally.
3. You want me to talk dirty to you? Ok. Abortion is murder. Capitalism. Fauci stinks.
2. You’re like COVID booster shots. I keep needing more of you.
1. President Biden and I both need kneepads. He falls off bikes and I’m falling in love.
Hello there and thanks for checking out my post today. I post every day at 1pm central. Yesterday’s writing was about this great song I heard for the first time a few months ago. But right meow, let’s watch a TV commercial that might be fur-miliar to you. It’s from Philadelphia Cream Cheese.
Purr-haps you saw this and wondered like I did… “Umm, what?” There is cat fur EVERYWHERE! Can you imagine having cat allergies and spending an hour in this home? Yikes.
It turns out the ad wasn’t aimed at furries at all. According to those behind the ad, they were clawing at the multi-sensory experience people have when eating food they enjoy. I guess this cat lady is brought to a soft, safe, non-sneezy place when she eats the cream cheese?
The Music. The soundtrack to this fan-cat-stic commercial is “Take A Look” by Irma Thomas.
It is worth noting that this song also accompanies two other ads in the cream cheese campaign. Here they are…
“Take A Look” was released in 1965. That year, gas was 30¢ per gallon. Muhammed Ali was the boxing champion. I was 13 years away from being born into a body that’s allergic to cats. Lots of other significant things happened that year, check this site for the list.
What do you think about the Philadelphia Cream Cheese commercials? If you loved the cat themed commercial and wish you had your entire home covered in cat hair, you might be a furry.
A few months ago I was putting together a playlist, and came across a song that I love using to test my portable Sony speakers. I had never heard it before but I recommend it highly. It’s called “Song to the Siren” by This Mortal Coil.
It’s from the mid-80s (when I was listening to the Beach Boys and Richard Marx, I guess?) and has been covered a lot since then. So that is to say, if you need a version with more percussion and/or bass, try Sinead O’Connor’s rendition.
Want a more stripped down version from a legendary rocker? Here’s Robert Plant’s take on it.
There’s a haunting, folksy version with the acoustic guitar by Jeff Buckley’s father, Tim Buckley.
More covers are out there but I’m sticking with the original for the moments I need a song that will echo throughout a neighborhood, rattle my brain, and make my soul shiver.
I’ve heard of beer at a softball game, beer while you’re watching sports, or someone going for a beer run… but is it a good idea to literally do a beer run? As in… drinking beer after a jog? Michelob Ultra says yes.
My first reaction was, “That’s dumb,” and I’ll admit I didn’t know that beer does have some value for a post run/workout. According to this article, it’s not all bad for your but you gotta keep the level of alcohol in the beer lower than 4%. I’ll stick with good ol’ H2O after exercising but I guess if the world’s ending and beer is the only choice, I’ll take a sip.
The Music. The soundtrack to this commercial is a song called “The Hardest Working Woman” by Martha High. The song sounds like it’s from the 1950s or 60s, but not so fast! It was released in 2016 on the album “Singing for the Good Times.”
Back to the commercial, the second woman was so slow that the other woman had enough time to go inside, grab a couple of beers, get drunk, text an ex, cry with regret, and be back in the driveway before her friend finished. Perhaps they should be less focused on the beer, hmmmmmmm?
I was recently putting together a playlist of music for my niece’s 21st birthday event. I was looking for songs that are upbeat, positive, and songs where you don’t need to pay close attention to the lyrics. Just great background music to keep people in a good mood as they arrive and chat with friends, get some drinks or snacks, etc. My niece and I came up with a lot of good songs so I love the list! It was designed to include a lot of her favorite songs and bands, too, so that made it even better. I came across a song that was perfect. It’s “Joy” by Ben Rector.
See? It’s a great song! It was perfect for the occasion however it was dropped from the playlist for only one reason. While I appreciate very much what Ben did in the final 2 minutes— giving credits and shoutouts to people who helped him with the song and the full album (especially since I know what it’s like to work behind the scenes in the entertainment industry… hard work!) — those 2 minutes are very weird to hear in the background of a party. I tested the song out a few days earlier with a group of family members playing corn hole. A few comments were made about the “talking” part. The best solution I can think of — for this song and the next two I’ll mention — is to diving this track into 2 tracks. They can still play smoothly one to the next, but then for those of us who want just “Joy” on a playlist, we won’t have worry about the awkwardness of those final 2 minutes at a birthday party for a 21 yr old girl.
The next one is a phenomenal song by NF called “The Search.” I think NF is amazing, possibly an artist that is years, maybe decades, ahead of his time. This song is tied for my favorite (the other favorite is “Clouds”).
Was your mind blown? Such a talented rapper. This song is on a couple of playlists of mine, one being a workout/run soundtrack. So here’s my thing, especially when I’m running: I need the music for every step I take! When my mind is challenged, my body steps up to the plate. Alternately, when my mind is discouraged, my body loses a step. “The Search” is such a great song for running… except for the first 35 seconds. There’s the slow build up in that time, but while I’m running or working out, it’s basically a silence that feels like an eternity, bringing any momentum I had to a halt. I think if it were 5 seconds, maybe 10, I could get through it without feeling like I’m hitting a mental wall, but over half a minute is a long time when every second, every step, counts.
The last song has an effect similar to the NF track. It’s by TobyMac, one of my all-time favorite people going way back to the DCTalk days. DCTalk has music that I’ll love the rest of my life and as a solo artist TobyMac has added to songs I’ll love forever, too. I thought this song might be his best ever, until “Promised Land” came out. That’s gotta be his best, especially the version with Sheryl Crow singing with him. But before that was “Lights Shine Bright.” It’s not quite as fast as some other music of his, but I feel so encouraged by it.
But just like the Ben Rector song that started this post, this one has about 40 seconds of talking at the end. It’s humorous, sure, but nothing is less motivating during a run or workout for me. A simple solution is to separate it out as a short track that plays after “Lights Shine Bright.” Otherwise, I can’t keep it on my training playlist and hesitate to play it without being right next to the phone so I can skip past the end before it plays.
All of these are great songs, that’s the second most important take-away here. I just wish they’d add a separation between the meat of the song and the fluff. What do you think about this list? Do you have songs you’d add, songs that could use a tiny bit of tweaking? Chime in below and thanks for dropping in…
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