Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 14, 2023

Can’t be singing about Lillian; he’s still off by about 15-20 years.

Well she was just seventeen

You know what I mean

And the way she looked

Was way beyond compare

He’s riffing on a Beatles song ‘I Saw Her Standing There’.

I guess the sound quality on radios wasn’t all that great back in the day. Since my teen years, I’ve learned that the Beach Boys were singing about huarache sandals, not archy sandals and that Ricky Nelson was talking about a sweet Fraulein down in Berlin town not his sweet brown eyes down in Burlington.

At least he hasn’t gone country & western.

Old age can do that to you.

I mean I know these jokes are so terrible, and pop and rock lyrics often aren’t proper rhymes, but c’mon—seventy doesn’t rhyme with mean.

At least she’s significantly younger than Ed. He served in WWII, so he’s probably about 101 years old.

Crankshaft’s lyrics are simply more age appropriate.

Well, it would be kind of sick to be singing, say, “…you’re sixteen, you’re beautiful, and you’re mine!” at that age.

And 6 years ago it was … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTunqv1Xt4

Is Ed supposed to be over 70? If Max is in his 20’s, Pam is in her 40s, so I assumed he was mid to late 60s.

I never thought I’d be with a 50 year old, but my lady is 69 now and looks like someone out of Playboy Magazine. I’m blessed, and grateful. I have to go now…

Isn’t Ed changing the lyrics to match his reality? He may enjoy looking at an 17 year old girl, but possibly dating? He hasn’t shown that tenacity.

….And the way she look was way beyond repair.So how could I dance with he mother,When I saw her standing there

I agree, youngsters staring at me, that was lame.

Mondegreens!

“’scuse me while I kiss this guy”

Ed really wants to know will they still feed him when he’s 64.

She was just 85Barely aliveAnd the way she lookedWas way beyond repair

Bad enough we had to have Cranky mangling Beatle lyrics, but did we need to see him DANCING too? There’s not enough eye bleach in the world to make me un-see that!

Close enuff, old man.

Haha! XD

this ran on Batiuk’s birthday