Friday, December 26, 2003
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Bar Trivia
A patron recited this to me last night:
"I had a little bird,
its name was Enza.
I opened a window,
and influenza."
You are asked to identify its source:
(a) one of the tracks from "Britney Does Rap"
(b) a public service announcement by the Center for Disease Control
(c) a 1918 Top 40 song
(d) a winning entry in the Poetry Contest that we constantly encounter in spam and pop-ups.
While (d) is the logical choice - any entry deemed sincere will be a winner - the correct answer is (c). This little ditty was sung by schoolchildren during the 1918 flu outbreak which killed about 540,000 Americans.
Guess I'd better blow out Amy's candles and hurry off to work.
A patron recited this to me last night:
"I had a little bird,
its name was Enza.
I opened a window,
and influenza."
You are asked to identify its source:
(a) one of the tracks from "Britney Does Rap"
(b) a public service announcement by the Center for Disease Control
(c) a 1918 Top 40 song
(d) a winning entry in the Poetry Contest that we constantly encounter in spam and pop-ups.
While (d) is the logical choice - any entry deemed sincere will be a winner - the correct answer is (c). This little ditty was sung by schoolchildren during the 1918 flu outbreak which killed about 540,000 Americans.
Guess I'd better blow out Amy's candles and hurry off to work.
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