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Manic Mondays: So many ways to Die

Manic Mondays, Episode 116

Date: July 23, 2007

Full episode: Of Gods And Death

Summary: I wrote I’ll Get Old And Die as a protest against the myriad misfortunes that may befall us as we approach the inevitable.

Tom Rockwell, front man for Sudden Death and host of Manic Mondays, released a new song on the FuMPcalled Getting Old Sucks that essentially protests the basic theme of my song.

And they died, died, died!

But we’re both trumped by the dark, dark humor of The Flu Pandemic, an otherwise bright little ditty by Houston Celtic/folk band The Flying Fish Sailors.

Once you’ve heard the chorus, you’ll be singing along like me:

It was the Flu pandemic
And it swept the whole world wide
It caught soldiers and civilians
And they died, died, died!

Whether they’re lying in the trenches
Or lying in their beds
Twenty million of them got it
And they’re dead, dead, dead!

Ancient history — Or was it?

Lucky for us, that was a long time ago, and we don’t have to worry about any old flu pandemics any more!

Catch I’ll Get Old And Die and The Flu Pandemic on the latest episode of Manic Mondays. A free registration is required to listen.

Dark humor  (1:05).

Posted in: Dementia at 3:31 pm Tue, Jul 31, 2007.