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Gimme Back That Filet o’ Fish. Why? What For?

2 Mar

March 2, 2010

I admit I don’t get it. And that annoys me because it is a flippin’ McDonald’s commercial I’m talking about. You know the one. Two guys in a car are about to bite into the usually-cardboard-tasting (tartar sauce helps) Filet o’ Fish when one guy gets a call from his Big Mouth Billy Bass, who sings this song:

Gimme back that filet-o-fish
Gimme that fish
Gimme back that filet-o-fish
Gimme that fish
What if it were you
hanging up on this wall?
If it were you in that sandwich
you wouldn’t be laughing at all!

Is he mad because the fish sandwich is made out of him? Does he want to stuff it back, somehow, inside himself? Or is he just hungry and wants to eat it? Maybe it is an existential harangue by the fish on the inequity of life, which finds him stuck on a wall while two slackers eat a sandwich made, possibly, of him?

I dunno. It has a memorable tune and here I am with it stuck in my mind, so I guess that’s the point.

BTW- what kind of “o’ fish” is the Fillet o’ Fish made out of? Alaskan Pollock, which the internet descries as “edible” or, if that’s not available,  a Japanese fish called Hoki, which is also edible but very very ugly.

Hey, anyone remember the old o’ fish song? Where some kids tried to find what the “O” meant and discovered that “Oh we all put the O in McDonald’s Fillet o’ Fish”?

I don’t either.

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Crisis in the Middle East

13 Nov

from September 25, 2007

There was a new uprising in the Middle East today as the new terror leader was revealed.

Colonel Sanders moved to consolidate his power base today as his elite troops closed in on the province of al-Kentucky in the southern part of Saudi Arabia.

Before today, Colonel Sanders was the unknown financier behind the terrorists, but he revealed himself today as the mastermind of fast food politics, as his soldiers soon took down their biggest rival.

Talks between Col. Sanders and Ronald McDonald have broken down in recent weeks, and McDonald is feared lost in al-Kentucky.

President Bush was quick to appoint a new Mid-East negotiator, introduced by Secretary of State Rice at a hasty news conference today.

Mr. Met vowed to find a peaceful solution to the crisis.

Meanwhile, the Pope entertained a delegation of goodwill ambassadors, who petitioned him to get involved and used the traditional breakdance of peace to sway him.

The crisis even spilled over into the sports world, where a broom-wielding protestor disrupted the Cavaliers game.

In the United States, the terror alert level has been elevated to “Mothra” out of fear of prehistoric monsters being awakened during the dispute.

In other mid-east politics, William Shatner and his junta siezed power in Kuwait last night.

It is expected that King Shatner will soon rename the country “Shatner.”

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None of the news photos have been edited. That’s how they appeared in the papers.

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