That's great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes, and aeroplanes
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs
Don't mis-serve your own needs
Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no, strength
The ladder starts to clatter
With a fear of height, down, height
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games
And a government for hire and a combat site
Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry
With the Furies breathing down your neck
Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
Six o'clock, T.V. hour, don't get caught in foreign tower
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Lock him in uniform, book burning, bloodletting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh oh
This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline
It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
I feel fine (I feel fine)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
The other night I drifted nice continental drift divide
Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs
Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right, right
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: John Michael Stipe / Michael E. Mills / Peter Lawrence Buck / William Thomas Berry
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine) lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
C.: Well, d.c. wanted to talk to me about the puppy’s itinerary, so I told him to text me that he was going to email me to let me know that he was going to call me. He said that he would, after he got through setting his DVR to record The Weather Channel during his vacation. He wants to know when the best time would be to set off his sprinklers. Since he has manual sprinklers, that’s going to be hard to do while he’s away visiting family in a different state!
After he did that, he sent me an instant message that he didn’t like going through all these steps to make a simple phone call. In his IM, d.c. asked me to call him back when I got off work. I’ll call him and try to find out why he needs the puppy’s itinerary. I’ll turn the volume up on my phone so d.c. can hear it, because he’s hard of hearing. He can read lips, but that’s impossible to do when talking on a phone, unless we’re using facetime. (RING) d.c.’s old school, though, he likes to do things the old-fashioned way and just use the phone for talking and texting, not facetiming (RING).
While I’m waiting for d.c. to answer his phone, I’ll let my mind wander.
If a fat cat is known as “El Gordo Gato” in Spanish, does that mean that there are no female fat cats? I’ve never heard anyone call a cat “La Gorda Gata.” (RING) And why is the term “gordo” a term of affection in Spanish? Isn’t saying someone is fat an insult, not a compliment? (RING). And how did the most popular rock and roll band of all time come up with a name for their band that denotes disgusting coleoptera? Aren’t all insects undesirable? (RIII) Oh, hi, d.c., what took you so long to answer the phone?
d.: I didn’t hear it because I was in another room, and I had my ringer turned off.
C.: That’s why I turned my volume up, so that you could hear your phone ring.
d.: Cal.E., turning your phone’s volume up doesn’t make my phone ring louder (or at all, if the volume is turned off).
C.: Okay, d.c., I see your point (but if you wear a hat, no one will notice-hehe).
d.: Anyway, I asked you, when I texted you to tell you that I was emailing you to say that I was going to call you, to IM me the puppy’s itinerary. Why haven't you done that?
C.: Because I just got home from work. Besides, I need to know why you want the puppy’s itinerary before I email it to you, or just simply walk next door and hand it to you. Are you planning on kidnapping her, or something like that?
d.: No, Cal.E., I don’t want to kidnap the puppy, or hurt her (much) at all!
C.: Why do you want to know where the puppy will be every minute of every day, then?
d.: I need the puppy’s itinerary because I… (ring). Hold on, my phone’s ringing. I’ll need to call you back when I get done with this phone call. It may be a literary agent or a publisher, so I need to take this call.
C.: Well, it’s nap time for me, so I suppose I’ll just need to talk to you tomorrow, along with our readers. Please join us tomorrow for another episode of Cal.E.’s Korner.
What does d.c. have planned for the puppy? Is it the end of the world for her? And does a cat really think in English? If so, is there really such a thing as a multilingual cat? If there is, why do most cats not obey commands in any language? For answers to these and other questions, please join us tomorrow for another episode of Cal.E.’s Korner.
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