Earworm of the Day: Wynken, Blynken and Nod

Jeopardy! had a clue, recently, whose question was "who are…" the Eugene Field creations turned into  a  memorable song or two or three. Naturally, this started a song in my head, which started the whole world – wait a minute. Let's not go down the Bee Gees highway, today.

Anyway, Field had ties to my home region (he attended my alma mater's rival college for a year), so it pleases me when local-boy-does-good gets a mention in international entertainment media. It also means earworms normal people generally don't have to suffer.

But if you grew up hearing any one of the many versions of the Dutch Lullaby in song, maybe it'll put you to sleep tonight.

Flashback!

John also shared an embedded video of the old Wendy's ad, featuring the old "Parts is parts" line. And seeing the ad again (it took a while to load it, with my slow connection) brought back memories of the book, Pigs is Pigs, by E.P. Butler. Mom & Dad probably read it to me at bedtime a few dozen times, when I was little. I had to dig it out of the parents' library, just now, & sit down to re-read it.

The book is a century old, now, and is available for free, in plain text, at Project Gutenberg, as well (so you don't have to borrow my folks' first-edition copy).

The story is of a man who has ordered a pair of guinea pigs, as pets for his kid. The railroad station manager informs him that, since the guinea pigs are pigs, they are livestock, and therefore the handling fee is five cents more per animal than the fee for pets. The man refuses to pay the extra dime for the pair, goes home, and starts writing letters to the various offices, in an attempt to straighten things out. Meanwhile, the fecund guinea pigs are still at the station, together in a single box...

All in all, the happy memories are just another reason I want to go back to Wendy's for supper tonight.