SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!

The Song Challenge:   This Challenge! was suggested by sophocleese (thanks!). If you're getting those summertime doldrums (or wintertime doldrums, if you're one of our NZ/OZ friends), here's a frisky little Challenge! that ought to blow those doldrums right away (hehehehehe):   So A Man Walks Into A Bar With A Fox Under His Arm And... -- "This whole story has been blown out of all proportion," said a spokeswoman for the Over and Sons garage in Aspatria. "It's true that last week a man walked onto our forecourt in the Market Place with a fox under his arm, pushed the nozzle of the compressed air line into the animal's rectum, put 20p in the slot, and pumped it until it exploded. But what the newspaper reports didn't mention was that the animal was already dead."   The spokeswoman explained that the garage had been under siege for several days following reports about the incident. A report appeared in the local paper, talking about 'this sickening and horrible act,' and next day the nasty phone calls started. Animal rights activists even threatened to make reprisal attacks on the garage, and more staff were called in.   But what had really happened was that an amateur taxidermist had brought the dead fox in, and asked if he could pump some air between the fur and the skin, to loosen the pelt. After apparently 'overdoing' it a bit, he then ran away in embarrassment. The garage's spokeswoman continued, "It ought to be obvious to anyone that the animal couldn't have been alive. I mean, it's hard enough to even hold a live fox, let alone insert an air-line up its rectum.  I should imagine."   Police later confirmed that they had spoken to a man about the incident. "We are convinced that no criminal act has taken place, but we did warn him about the inadvisability of inflating animals in a public place." 

We Blew It In The Wind by Áine
(Tune: Blowing In The Wind)

How many times did I say 'hold the hose',
Before the fox tail flew by?
Yes, and how many times did it slip out its nose,
Before we gave its bottom a try?
The answer, officer, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Why did we think that this trick was gonna work?
At the time it seemed real fast and real quick,
Didn't we know we'd both end up looking like a jerk,
And the PETA people waving their sticks?
The curses and stones are flyin' in the wind,
And we're runnin' like we're flyin' in the wind!

Why didn't we stop when the gage hit ten pounds?
Why did we keep going 'till fifteen?
The sound that it made was just like ammo rounds,
With fox schrapnel buzzin' inbetween,
The little furry bits went flyin' in the wind,
The furry bits went flyin' in the wind.

I agree, officer, it was not a brilliant plan,
For saving energy and some time,
Our school project failed, it's as flat as a plan,
We can't turn in something 'small as a dime,
It's summer school for us, 'cuz we blew it in the wind,
No final grade, we blew it in the wind.

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