In the days of wayback on AI there was someone with a signature that said "My cat can eat a whole watermelon". To what this alluded to I do not remember. A cartoon or movie perhaps? However this signature became noticed for whatever reason and people began coming up with different variants. And then you had people coming up ones just as jokes or parodies. I believe that mine was "My watermelon is allergic to cats". Silly stuff of course. Somewhere in there Steve Jobs may have become a staple of these signatures however the key was to have something about a cat and a watermelon. It was the fad de jour. It faded in time but it is a part our cultural past as a message board and thus is still referenced.
No, just joking, the whole junior member thing probably gives that away.
So where did the watermelon farmer thing come from?
Andrew
And anyway it's "my cat's breath smells like cat food" I know these things because I don't have sky and I'm forced by the BBC to watch the same episodes of The Simpsons over and over again.
How come if you ask a stupid question so many people answer, but if you ask a question you really need to know the answer to no one replies, or you get one person saying "yeah I have that problem to" ?
That is one of the great mysteries of AI. Stranger still, how is it possible someone creates a signature that takes up more space than many people's posts?
I've been using the variant you mentioned (and may be referencing) for several months now, and mentioned it in the "history of AI" thread (I think) a few months ago. I can't remember who had the original "my cat likes watermelon" sig, but the ensuing wave of silly sigs was indeed a fun time.
sadly, don't have a cat at this time....the coyotes and owls tend to greatly shorten the life expectancy of cats where i live...too bad as we have tons of field mice and pack rats for them to munch on....even smaller dogs tend to disappear into the night....larger dogs are safe enough, except every few years a mountain lion comes through and takes out a couple of the more aggressive dogs on it's way to less populated spots....when we first moved out here i had tons of "green arces" type stories (city folk heading to the country)....my kids couldn't go out to recess one day because a mountain lion was hangin by the swings on the playground at the elementry school...at halloween that first year i was awaken at 3 am to the dogs going crazy at the front dog...we have that damn thick bar glass by the door, so i couldn't see out well enough to tell anything more than something "large" was on the porch....so i grab a baseball bat and open the door to see a freakin 2000 pound bull on the porch...i had put out pumpkins on the porch and surrounded them with hay to look---shit, i don't know---country? authentic?? anyway, the bull smelled the hay, broke down his fence and came about a mile to my house....didn't think the baseball bat was gonna do me much good, so i just cursed a few times and closed the door.....all the hay was gone in the morning...and i haven't used hay since....dang, i miss not having a cat.....g
<strong>"Hoagies and grinders, hoagies and grinders.. navy beans, navy beans, meatloaf sandwich.."
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"Sloppy joe, slop a sloppy joe. Sloppy joe, slop a sloppy joe. Sloppy joe, slop a sloppy joe.
Well I woke up one mornin and what did I see? Oh the pepperoni pizza was a lookin at me. He said 'why do ya burn me and serve me up cold?' I said 'I got da spatula so do what you're told.'
Sloppy joe, slop a sloppy joe. Sloppy joe, slop a sloppy joe. Sloppy joe, slop a sloppy joe."
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(The Cupertino thing is what a windows user asked..)
I like Ralph Wiggum's much better. "My cat smells like cat food."
It might have been AppleCorporateWhore though. What a weirdo that guy was.
No, just joking, the whole junior member thing probably gives that away.
So where did the watermelon farmer thing come from?
Andrew
And anyway it's "my cat's breath smells like cat food" I know these things because I don't have sky and I'm forced by the BBC to watch the same episodes of The Simpsons over and over again.
Andrew
Drew
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Who was that?
I liked it as well, I forget whose it was, but it's from one of Adam Sandler's albums.
<strong>"Hoagies and grinders, hoagies and grinders.. navy beans, navy beans, meatloaf sandwich.."
albums.</strong><hr></blockquote>
"Sloppy joe, slop a sloppy joe. Sloppy joe, slop a sloppy joe. Sloppy joe, slop a sloppy joe.
Well I woke up one mornin and what did I see? Oh the pepperoni pizza was a lookin at me. He said 'why do ya burn me and serve me up cold?' I said 'I got da spatula so do what you're told.'
Sloppy joe, slop a sloppy joe. Sloppy joe, slop a sloppy joe. Sloppy joe, slop a sloppy joe."
Or something like that...
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Adam Sandler - Lunch Lady Land
This is a song
This is a new song
It?s through the eyes of one of the greatest people alive, I feel
The lunch lady
Woke up in the morning
Put on my new plastic glove
Served some reheated salisbury steak
With a little slice of love
Got no clue what the chicken potpie is made of
Just know everything?s doing fine down here in
Lunch lady land
Well I wear this net on my head
Cause my red hair is falling out
I wear these brown orthopedic shoes
Cause I got a bad case of the gout
I know you want seconds on the corn dogs
But there's no reason to shout
Everybody gets enough food down here in
Lunch lady land
Well yesterday's meatloaf is today's sloppy joes
And my breath reeks of tuna
And there's lots of black hairs coming out of my nose
In lunch lady land, your dreams come true
Clouds made of carrots and peas
Mountains built of shepherd?s pie
And rivers made of macaroni and cheese
But don't forget to return your trays
And try to ignore my gum disease
No student can escape the magic of
Lunch lady land
Hoagies and grinders, hoagies and grinders, hoagies and grinders
Navy beans, navy beans, navy beans
Hoagies and grinders, hoagies and grinders
Navy bean, navy beans
Meatloaf sandwich
Sloppy joe, slop-sloppy joe
Sloppy joe, slop-sloppy joe
Come on
Sloppy joe, slop-sloppy joe
Sloppy joe, slop-sloppy joe
Well I, dreamt one morning that I woke up to see
All the pepperoni pizza was looking at me
It screamed why do you burn me and serve me, I'm cold
I said I got the spatula, just do what you're told
Then the liver and the onions started joining the fight
And the chocolate pudding pushed me with all its might
And the chop suey slapped me and it kicked me in the head
It's called revenge lunch lady said the garlic bread
I said what did I do to make you all so mad
They said you got flabby arms and your breath is bad
Then the green beans said you better run and hide
But then my friend sloppy joe came and joined my side
He said if it wasn't for the lunch lady, the kids wouldn't eatcha
You should be shaking her hand and saying pleased to meetcha
She gives you a purpose and she gives you a goal
You should be kissing her feet and kissing her mole
Now all the angry food just leave me alone
And we all lived together in a happy home
Thanks to Sloppy Joe, slop-sloppy joe
Sloppy joe, slop-sloppy joe
Sloppy joe, slop-sloppy joe
Sloppy joe, slop-sloppy joe
Well me and sloppy joe got married
We got six kids and we're doing just fine
Down in lunch lady land