One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for August 26, 2012

The lyrics to Amazing Grace fit the melody to the theme from Gilligan’s Island.Another obscure trivia factoid: Gilligan’s first name is Willie.****************************They showed Ruthie topless. Does that make this child porn? Are we all going to get arrested and end up as registered sex offenders?

I’m with mom. I like Ruthie’s version better too.

Or someone might get a censor bar. Or do some pixellation…

sad, isn’t it that we don’t first think innocently anymore?

Great song, Ruthie!

O say can you see by the donzer lee light

Can’t remember where that came from, but I always liked it.

Actually, the words to the themesong for Mister Ed work to Amazing Grace and Gilligan’s Island as well.

My mother, who, as a child, was cross-eyed, was sure the hymn was about her: “In the cross-eyed glory…”

Ha. Back in the ‘90s, “Hi & Lois” showed a full frontal (but undetailed) nudity of Dot, along with Ditto’s butt. They’d just gotten out of the tub.

I remeber accidently singing “Dirty jeans and dungerees” instead of “Dirty deeds done dirt cheap”

GEEZ! Way to ruin a cute comic. I was thinking NOTHING along the lines some of you are talking. I just thought it was a cute comic. Still do.

Good work Ruthie, very original, but now I can’t get the Theme to Gilligan’s Island out of my head! That’s the second time today I’ve had an earworm!

They show the Family Circus kids bare bums sometimes.

Once I wrote a story about a Thanksgiving fiasco. I gave the kids a song to sing as a spoof on Over the River:

♫♪♫♪Over the liverand through the gutsto the toilet it all goes.♫♪♫♪♫♪

;)

♪♫Deck us all with Boston Charlie,Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley,Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!♫♪

I do, too!

Google “mondegreens” and you’ll get a whole bunch of misunderstood lyrics.

Ruthie your quite a singer in the tub.

Dickinson used alternating lines of iambic tetrameter/trimeter, which coincide with the meter of a good number of contemporary songs like the ones named above. For all the talk of his much touted pentameter, it’s too bad Shakespeare missed out on having his plays frequently sung to popular music.