>Because Apparently, Prairie Dogs Use ChemLawn and Attract Beautiful Women.
>The other day, I was cleaning up around our desktop computer when I found strange words scrawled on a scrap of paper.
Take me down to the prairie dog city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.”
Written in the hand of my 15-year-old iPod addict stepdaughter, I knew it had to be one of the songs she’d been attempting to find and download.
“Prairie dog city?!” I snorted to myself. “Prairie dog city!”
I held in my hands a Hope Diamond of mockery.
“You won’t believe what I found today,” I smirked to Hubs later in the kitchen while 15 searched for a snack in the pantry.
“What?”
“I found a piece of paper that said, Take me down to the prairie dog city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty!” I snickered.
15’s head popped out from behind the pantry door. “That’s not how it goes?”
“It’s Paradise City!” I said. “Guns n’ Roses! Paradise City!”
“So that’s why I couldn’t find it on iTunes…” she said bemusedly. “Well, Jessica told me it was called ‘Prairie Dog City.”
“15,” I said, “Why would the grass be green and the girls pretty in a city full of PRAIRIE DOGS?!”
“I don’t know!” she blustered. “I never really thought about it!”
Prairie. Dog. City. I imagine that right about now, Axl Rose must be rolling over in the grave he dug for himself after releasing The Spaghetti Incident.
Junior high never seemed so far away.
>Oh my God that’s hilarious!!!!!
>Oh, Lucinda (I still like calling you that). You just made me feel old.While laughing my ass off. That was hysterical.
>When Dr. B was a youngster he thought the words were, “Joy to the vicious and the people who see” instead of “Joy to the fishes in deep blue sea”. I like to think it was because if his innate goodness-thinking even the evil people deserved happiness-but his older brother tells me it was because he was stupid.
>You know the Beastie Boys’ song “No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn”? My girlfriend thought it was “No Sleep ‘Til Football.”Because you know how my insomnia kicks in before fall.Prairie dogs! HA!
>That is so funny. You are right it does make junior high so long ago. Darn, I remember getting in trouble for listening to Guns n Roses and now I sign it is the mini van with the kids.
>Holy Shizz, that is funny. It’s not fair that she wasn’t more embarrassed. At least our generation gets a kick out of it.
>HAHAHAHAHA! SNORT! HAHAHAHA!Oh,I would so use that to embarass her later. That’s as good as any naked butt baby pictures, I think.We are so much cooler than those kids, aren’t we?But, wait…the fact that we like Guns and Roses, um, doesn’t that make us old and dorky? Sigh…well, it was fun while it lasted!
>Sounds like something my 9yr old would sing! :DOh, and why are your post a day ahead of me??
>Don’t laugh. Weird Al will probably read this, do that song and make a bazillion dollars off of it. If you were smart you’d copyright that sucker now!
>It pays to be a hip momma, Lucinda! This is an education they can’t pay for at any college. It is a good laugh for us as well.
>Oh to only see Axle singing about Prairie Dogs…what a hoot! Thanks for the chuckle
>Can’t you imagine hundreds of prairie dogs banging their little heads to Slash’s guitar solos? Just me?
>Sounds like Ms. 15 (and you, too, L.) need to visit http://www.kissthisguy.com/. ;^)
>How sad. I knew I recognized the words but would never, ever have know what they were really from. I AM OLD.Oh well, I guess I can’t know everything. Very funny and now I will be singing that song the rest of the day!
>Hilarious! And does she know the name of Axl’s dance? No, it’s not the Robot.
>OMG, I hope I didn’t wake my son up from his nap from laughing so loud. I can hardly wipe the smile off my face. Priceless.
>I love making up words to songs just to see my kids roll their eyes. I think I got that from my dad.On the other hand, I post lyrics to a variety of songs at times, and you’d be amazed at the google searches that bring people by (full of wrong words)
>I am cracking up – and I will admit – I STINK at song lyrics. STINK. I’m reminded of my flub, which was made in a car full of people. “Take Me Home Tonight” by Eddie Money had just come out, and I was singing along to it (believe it or not). So happy that I knew the lyrics to something. I loudly sang, “Feed my little baby…” while everyone else sang, “BE my little baby…” Seriously, doesn’t it sound like that? I drive my husband crazy with, “What does that say?” during just about every song. I am lyric challenged.
>That was so funny!
>I used to wonder why Johnny Rivers sang about a secret “Asian” man when I was humming along to my parents’ Golden Oldies as a kid.
>What? It’s not Secret Asian Man? Wow. That totally changes what I think about when I hear that song…
>that is funny – at least she wasn’t upset or embarrased by the mistake.jr high was a long, long time ago..
>I love, love LOVE songs lyric mistakes! I love them! LOVE (lalala!) them! more, please! Can you solicit more?! I have 2 (or 3?) I can add!
>I’m the one who thought it was Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief.But Prairie Dog City is priceless! Thanks for the laugh!
>i always thought that scar tissue song was about scott tissue, the kleenex, i could never figure out why they were singing about kleenex.
>my teen really did look at me one day and ask ….”Mom …who’s The Beatles? ” It was a hard days night 🙂
>I used to think ‘…hike your skirt up a little more’ was ‘…hold you shirt up there, little boy’.Dave Matthews, back off the mike and stop mumbling, eh?!
>I have read this 3 or times right now, and, I’m still laughing my ass off!
>As a child, I thought “SanFrancisco” by the Village People was “Sandman Disco”.Feel free to laugh at my expense. I deserve it. :-)C
>oh crap- I’m old. that is hysterical
>This is da bomb, baby. Great fodder to embarrass her on her dates!!!!!!
>I could of busted out my Guns-n-Roses “Appetite for Destruction” vinyl for her to listen to – the album sleeve has the lyrics on it too!I am simply amazed that the 15 year olds are rockin’ out on the ‘good’ GnR from back in the day. So funny!
>Oh God. That’s perfect. I can see the prairie dogs w/ mullets now……
>I keep picturing Axl in his white leather getup while I read this. I can see the video as clear as a bell….and if I recall, there were NO prairie dogs anywhere in sight. Being in MT, I KNOW a prairie dog when i see one. That was great.
>I used to think Axl was sooooo cool. And now he’s getting beaten up by Tommy Hillfiger… Did you read about that? They got in an altercation at a party a few weeks ago and Tommy totally smacked him around.
>ROFLMAO!!!! Remember the song dedicated to the bathroom on the right? I won’t tell you how long it was before I realized they were talking about a bad moon!!<|:))
>HEHEHEHE. SOOOO funny.Remember the Aeorsmith song, “dude looks like a lady?” I had a friend in high school, she was older, who was married to this super preppy fancy boy and she was at a party with his friends one night and that song came on. And Shelley was singing at the top of her voice” DO THE FUNKY LADY”. All the friends of the husband stopped and were like, what are you SINGING? She was so embarrsed. Everytime I hear that song I sing, “do the funky lady” just in Shelley’s memory! So funny….
>I think the one the 15 is looking for goes “Take me down to Prairie Dog City where the grass is full of holes….”
>LOL. Teen step kids are always the best entertainment…
>About 10 years ago I was bringing my youngest daughter home for a break from her first semester at college.’Mom”, she said “A bunch of us were sitting around and we had a question we can’t answer and I thought you might know” Assuming she was going to ask about the meaning of life I readied myself. ANd she asked’ In Purple Rain does Jimmy Hendrix say kiss this guy or kiss the sky?”
>That’s hilarious! I wonder which was worse…knowing she’d gotten the lyrics wrong or knowing that you actually listened to GNR back in the day!
>So it’s NOT prairie dog city? And all this time, I thought….
>Oh my god, how funny. My 16 yo was looking for “Rock This Way” on I-tunes the other day. Turned out she wanted Walk This Way by Aerosmith.
>Okay, THAT is funny. I love the taunting material. My parents had great fun with that sort of thing when I was young, so I’m just waiting for my turn…