Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 12, 2020

Where’s your Google maps when you need them?

I used to get asked that a lot when I lived in Northern California.

Good thing I’m listening to MeTV radio. That will cut down the chances I’ll be singing that to myself whilst trying to go to sleep.

Only earworm worse than that is “The Name Game” (fanny fanny bo fanny, etc.) ugh!

I left my home in GeorgiaHeaded for the Frisco Bay -

I left my heart in San Francisco

I drive out bad earworms with earworms that I like. Eg Shakira at the World Cup in South Africa!

Where is a rat with a bat when you need one?

I doubt that works for many people under the age of 60 or so. Maybe 65? I’m 55, and can just barely recall the tune.

The only other song I know that mentions San Jose is “Beach Baby” by First Class. “We couldn’t wait for graduation day. We took my car and drove to San Jose …”

I had never heard that song until the NHL put a team there.

I know this is nitpicking, but isn’t Goat also lost?

It takes quite a bit of work to come up with clever comments, but I don’t wanna work; I want to bang on the drum all day.

I took the risk of an earworm and looked for this on YouTube. I’m not sure if I’d ever heard it before, but I don’t think having it running through my head is going to be an issue. Maybe there’s a different song with the same name that actually is catchy.

I think she’s wrong. She answered this question, not Rat’s: “Do you know Do you Know the Way to San Jose?”

San Jose? Not my destination. I’m on a highway to hell.

Is a San Jose Resident Here, where I’m at!

My ear worm is Billy Preston’s Outa Space (1972)

Forgive me.

https://youtu.be/V7jel2l_iag

I loved this song. I first heard it on Sirius XM’s 60’s on 6. Dionne Warwick sang it back in the latter 60’s.

…Is anybody going to San Antone? Or Phoenix, Arizona. Any place is alright as long as I – can forget I’ve ever known her.

As someone who live in the East Bay Area, this ranks up there with one the most annoying songs ever (“Are You Going to San Francisco” is #1 in my books because I live 30 minute drive away)

And thank you very little. Well, there’s only one cure for that:

♫ It’s a small world after all,

It’s a small world after all,

It’s a small world after all,

It’s a small, small world! ♫

“Be kind to your web-footed friends, ‘cause a duck may be somebody’s mother…”

She should have answered “I’ve been away so long. I may go wrong and lose my way!” Or maybe Rat should have asked this way. After all, he’s the one who lost his way. I wonder why there are so many songs about Hollywood wannabe actors failing. Do you remember “It never rains in Southern California?”

Sure … I Know The Way To … San Jose Water Group … Stock Symbol “SJW” … Croc Power !

“It’s a Small World (After All)”, your welcome.

I recently watched the film, The Last Black Man in San Francisco," and for some reason I’ve had the tune “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” from its soundtrack running through my head the past week.

Hal David must have been writing his songs on the road. He needed to know the way to San Jose and he was 24 hours away from Tulsa.

Been a long time since I heard that song. Do young people even know it anymore?

My current earworm is “Salve Regina.” I’m not right in the head.

Try this one…https://youtu.be/8N_tupPBtWQ

San Jose – a hundred villages looking for a city.

Apparently she doesn’t know the way, but she does have a lot of friends in San Jose.

A few years back me and a friend were lost. We stopped at a gas station to ask for directions. Half a dozen people in the gas station said they had lived around there for many years and had never heard of the road we were looking for. As we sat in the truck looking at the map I just happen to look up. I seen the road sign across the street. It WAS the road we were looking for. I went back into the gas station and pointed the sign out to them. They all were like dumb founded. They did not know the names of the streets they had drove everyday for years.

Everything is stuck in my head like every Between the Lions song ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=FZLa-1q-lkw&feature=emb_title

Thanks Stephan.

Do you know the way to use ebay?

It,a a small small world,

They need to take their horse to the Old Town Road and,,,,,,.

I’ve had ‘Waltzing Matilda’ stuck in my head for a couple weeks. But I don’t mind it’s a nice song.

L.A. is a great big freeway

Put a hundred down and buy a car

In a week, maybe two, they’ll make you a star

Weeks turn into years. How quick they pass

And all the stars that never were

Are parking cars and pumping gas

Some songwriters try to say something, in a poetic fashion,that will make you think. Others just try to make it stick in your brain, no matter how annoyingly.

Burt Bacharach & Hal David, alas, fall firmly in the second camp.

“A weemoway a weemoway….”

Great song!

“All my friends are Heathens take it slow…”

I prefer the cover version by Frankie goes to Hollywood and it is a plus that on the same album there are tracks like “Relax” and “Two tribes”.

Yesterday someone pulled over and asked for directions as I walked by on the sidewalk. I never knew that could happen in these days, but not everyone has electronic navigation.

Kinda dated reference there, Mr. Pastis.

I lived in the Bay Area when that song was popular and I too will never get it out of the music files in my my head… the ultimate ear worm-

We who came of age in the 60s acquired many ear worms. I use them to remember the names of people I just met.

Why would anyone want to go to San Jose?

L.A. is a great big freeway

Put a hundred down and buy a car

In a week, maybe two, they’ll make you a star

About 20 years ago, I stopped at a service station in the Dallas area to ask for directions. Instead of giving me a straight answer, the guy behind the counter started to give me a rash of B.S. I turned to the three or four women in line behind me and stated, “Ladies, this is why guys don’t like to ask for directions. Once you admit you are lost, you lose all respect in the eyes of other guys like this one.”

Well, you start at Santa Catalina Island, swim northeast 26 miles across the sea to Long Beach, then drive north west for at least 6 hours.

I don’t know the way to San Jose, but is this the way to Amarillo?

I’m having flashbacks to Who’s Line is it Anyway.

99 bottles of beer on the wall…….

I should have made that left turn at Albuquerque.

Hank’s been there…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGj7-R6WPf4

Gag! I got so sick of that song, back in the day when I’d hear it played repeatedly. Made me an un-fan of Dione Warwick….

Rat and Goat, On the Road? Dharma Bums?

Dione Warwick approved

Lime in the cocoanut!

you just lost the game