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Change and impetus

I'm dropping the Zombie Lawnchair reference in my promotion, not liking the drift of popular meaning. Instead I've retitled the Blog "eat some furniture" which is from a line spoken by Dean Martin to Johnny Carson in 1973. This reminds me of a raggedy sofa I used to own many years ago. It was over-all scruffy black, with red accents and was made by Duncan Hines, which I tend to associate with chocolate cake. I don't really know if Dean was referring to being so hungry as to eat some furniture or being so bombed as to fall right in-to a couch or chair. Irregardless, I have to get some of my tunes together onto a CD to satisfy a request my sister made many months ago. I doubt I'll get much inspiration from writing about it here except to possably scold myself for not doing it if I come back here and it hasn't been sent off yet...

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  1. UnknownMarch 5, 2012 at 12:41 PM

    I'm informed by my lovely wife that Dean's remark is reference to Euell Gibbons series of books about "the natural health foods that grow wild all about us"
    A 1974 television commercial for Post Grape-Nuts cereal featured Gibbons asking viewers "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euell_Gibbons

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