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My November 1st Battle Of The Bands' Battle Of The Booze went down HERE, and it was a contest between Steely Dan's pina colada (or 'Bad Sneakers') and Steely Dan's rum and Coke Coke and rum (or 'Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More'). I expected this to be a nip & tuck race all the way to the finish line, and it certainly did start out that way. With six votes in, it was tied up 3 to 3. But then 'Bad Sneakers' captured the next 6 votes ("including yours and mine, and one more chimp who isn't here").
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Despite the lopsided outcome, I agree with the several folks who said this was not an easy decision. I really like BOTH songs. Daddy's got that Double-F going for it (Funk Factor), but there's just something about 'Bad Sneakers' that really appeals to me. I think it's that slightly odd, extended cadence in lines like this: "Bad sneakers and a piña colada, my friend, stompin' on the avenue by Radio City with a transistor and a large sum of money to spend". It seems like a long, strange trip over many hills and through many valleys to a cozy campsite where the s'mores are waiting. (Helck, I dunno. I just make this stuffs up as I go along.)
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Anyway, my great gratitude to everyone who took the time to visit 'n' vote!
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FINAL TALLY:
Steely Dan = 9 votes
Steely Dan = 3 votes
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So, 'Bad Sneakers' advances to the eventual post-season Playoff rounds, while 'Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More' goes back to New York City, where he came from. ("Get a rope!")
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Please be sure to visit me here on November 15th, because I've got a BOTB's BOTB installment planned that is going to be a ton o' fun and unlike any other Battle I've concocted over these last 11+ years. "See ya soon".
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~ STMcC
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POSTSCRIPT: If you were wondering where the "dog" was in this post, I decided not to include a dog. This is the first time ever that I posted a blog bit sans a dog.
Whew! So glad Steely Dan won this one! ;) ~Ed.
ReplyDeleteHERMANO EDUARDO ~
DeleteI hear ya, man! I was biting my fingernails the whole time. Because prior to the contest, I asked my Magic 8-Ball, "Will Steely Dan win this Battle?"
"Very doubtful", said the 8-Ball.
This goes to show you just how WRONG the 8-Ball can occasionally be!
~ D-FensDogG
Occasionally? omygoodnessgraciousness. I just googled 'reliability of magic 8-ball' - hilarious!
DeleteHA! I'll have to do that.
DeletePrior to your arrival here in BOTB-land, I used to include a silly "psychic" component in my BOTB blog bits. We went through quite a number of psychics trying to predict the contests outcomes. (Oddly, all of the psychics eventually died from getting hit by a bus or train that they somehow didn't see coming.)
I think my first BOTB psychic was the Magic 8-Ball (which was just me pretending to be magic, black & proud-- er... I meant, "round").
After awhile, my friend Beerboy Bryan actually sent me a "real" Magic 8-Ball for Christmas, which I began using in BOTB. (If memory serves, I believe my pseudo-8-Ball persona was correct more often than the "real" Magic 8-Ball was.)
~ D-FensDogG
The masses have spoken and it looks like I am among them. We are right of course. Not left.
ReplyDeleteLee
R. LEE BOID ~
DeleteThe masses have bad sneakers and bad breath. And that's why I *always* wear cowboy boots and drink peppermint schnapps! :^D
~ D-FensDogG
Dang it! I want a 'comment like' button on Blogger! ... do you drink the schappes out of your cowboy boot? ...
DeleteMuh Bruhthuh, Ed ~
DeleteGOL! (Guffaw-Out-Loud!)
That's such a wonderful question.
Ordinarily (and regularly, too), I respond to comments totally off the top o' my noggin' & the tips o' my fingers. BUT(!)... your Q fired me up and I knew that it deserved - no, DEMANDED! - a real goot reply.
So (doggone you, mang!), I was forced to do a li'l bit of personal research in order to provide your Q with a goot A. And, this is what I came up wit(?)...
No. I don't drink my schnapps out of my cowboy boot. What I drink out of my cowboy boot is my (Hoot) Gibsons & my Big Nose Kates.
FUN FACT: When I decided to leave helL.A. in late 1992 and move to Prescott, Airheadzona, I prepared for the move by attending and graduating from a bartenders school in helL.A. They say, "Do what you know". Plus, just before moving to Billy Jack-land, I had worked for many years at U.C.L.A.'s Parking Service Department. However, I knew that Prescott did NOT have a U.C.L.A. nor a Parking Service Dept., but they DID have a "Whiskey Row". So, I prepared for a job (that I never got) in Prescott. Thankfully, I WAS hired by a magazine publisher there.
I still own my 3"x5" Bartenders School index cards, which I had to memorize in order to pass the final exam.
GIBSON (I added the "Hoot" for cowboy purposes) :
2 drops dry vermouth
1 3/4 oz. gin
onion
BIG NOSE KATE (the house cocktail at Big Nose Kate's Saloon in Tombstone, AZ., circa 1992)
1 oz. vodka
1 oz. gin
1 oz. light rum
1 oz. tequila
fill with orange juice
top with 1/2 oz. of grenadine
Although I've never consumed them out of a cowboy boot, over the years I (naturally) invented some cocktails from out-my own imagination (with my diploma experience). Such as...
RUMMY-TUM-TUM (decades later revamped into the COCOMO' RUM)
COCOMOGARITA
FROZEN WALT (the name based on rumors that Walt Disney's body was cryogenically frozen).
I nicknamed my most significant girlfriend "Countess", which was based on Lee Marvin's "Countess" (Jeanne Moreau) in the 1970 movie 'Monte Walsh'. I used to make her a drink which was 1 1/2 oz. of Frangelico liqueur in coffee and topped with whipped cream. She liked it so much that I named it 'HOT COUNTESS'.
Bruhthuh... thanks for the wonderful Q. I can't even remember the last time I did such research in order to supply a goot A.
~ Stephen
Well, dog-GONE-it! I can't believe I missed the missing dog. Cool battle, I've always liked Steely Dan but now I have a new favorite song ;-)
ReplyDeletedIEDRE ~
DeleteI'm glad I could turn ya onto a new favorite song!
And, cheer up, my friend! You didn't miss the dog at all. You found him in the "Postscript". ;^)
~ D-FensDogG
But why no doG in the pre-postscript? This is astounding! You NEVER leave out the dog! You are not dog-less! You're a dog-fearing man! Is it because of recent events?
ReplyDeleteSix
SIR SIX-A-LOT ~
Delete>>... "Is it because of recent events?"
Recent events? What recent events?
Did I miss something?!
Ha!-Ha!
No, it had nuttin' to do with nut'n.
I was making a funny. (I guess you had to be there.)
You see, as soon as I type the letters d, o, and g, the dog is IN. So, I thought it would be ironically humorous if I wrote that there was no dog in the blog bit, thereby placing the dog in the blog bit.
I did a similar thing in my 2-part F-FFF post about Disney's movie 'Mary Poppins' when I wrote this:
This is Part 2 of 2.
(Psst! The "dog" is in Part 1.)
That was the ONLY mention of the dog in Part 2, but he managed to find his way into it by that sneaky method.
You know I'm a bit wacky. It's an STMcC thing, you wouldn't un'erstan'. ;^D
~ D-FensDogG
Ah... I was too dull-witted to catch that! I thought perhaps it was a commentary on the possible near future. As Dickens said, I think: "It was the best of times, it was the end of times." Or something like that.
DeleteFive + 3/4
Ha! No worries.
DeleteBesides, you're right about what methinx. Indeed, the End is coming soon to a country & planet near you! "It is written", and I feel fine.
~ D'DogG
Well, I be I'm on the winning side! I had no idea how this one would go. I totally gave my vote to the song that moved me. As you know, my hearing is awful and I can't understand the lyrics well so it's all about the melody. Thanks for reporting the outcome, my friend. Have a bandtastic week!
ReplyDeleteThanks for checking in on the outcome, CAThy! (If a person can check IN on an OUTcome, can they also check OUT on an INcome? And, can there be something underHANDed aFOOT?)
DeleteI was really expecting this Battle to be a lot closer AND, if I had been forced to guess, I would have guessed that Daddy was going to beat the Bad Sneakers. My predictions are usually pert-dern accurate, but I would have gotten this one wrong.
~ D-FensDogG