Savant Musak...

or actually a polka. So have you seen this bathroom fixture commercial showing the guy going la-la-la-la-la-la in the shower only to be scalded by an evil mini villain from inside the shower head. Like yeah, comma, yeah...that's purty dumb isn't it? But there is this delectible melody played once the action (and I use that term loosely) is unleashed on the unsuspecting viewer. It's kind of a quasi Italian (the mandolin) and almost Yiddish sounding polka. (do the Yiddish polka?!) It's like a gypsie-scalding-the-fat-yodelling-fella-celebration. Or, what is commonly referred to as a GSTFYFC. Anyway, after tolerating this moronic commercial for at least three months, it finally dawned on me that it had in fact succeeded in planting it's "catchy tune" in my head. I was walking around aimlessly singing the polka day and night. Suddenly, as discussed in a previous musical post here, I started hearing bit's o' lyrics. (o' lyrics...NOT O'Leary...leave that poor woman alone! Her cow did not burn down Chicago!) Anyway, all I could pick out was "I'm picking out a ___ - ___ for you. Not just any other ___ - ___ will do!" WTHeck? Where have I heard this rubbish? Was this some old Bugs Bunny tune I had subliminally memorized in front of the boob-tube at four years of age? Not getting it, I did what any clear thinking citizen would have done. I went to Google. Once again!

The miracle of internet:

"Oh, I'm picking out a thermos, for you
Not an ordinary thermos, for you
But the extra-best thermos, you can buy
With vinyl, and stripes, and a cup built right in
I'm picking out a thermos for you
And maybe a barometer too
And what else can I buy, so on me you'll rely
A rear-end thermometer too"

-as sung by Steve Martin in the motion picture "The Jerk", 1979

The only problem is...I don't recall ever seeing this movie.

I only recall hearing about it from an aunt that baby sat us.

No wonder our family is warped.

I need a new brain please.