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Skipper Dan

Weird Al’s latest song sounds like it should be the theme for a US sitcom or maybe a film. Maybe not his greatest song ever but it has something…

Saw The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain at a packed Liverpool Philharmonic tonight. Like Weird Al Yankovich and Bill Bailey they manage to survive in a world in which music and a sense of humour are no longer combined often enough. They are more than competent musicians able to arrange a well known piece from one musical genre to another in ways that can only be experienced. Add to that a line of banter linking the songs, some great jokes and a few (deliberately) bad ones along the way and I’ve not laughed as much since I saw Hot Fuzz.

Now I was trying to pick one of their songs from tonight to highlight. Should I go with their well known version of Smells Like Teen Spirit? The excellent medley Fly me off the Handel? Perhaps the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? In the end I decided to go with my favourite cover, their swing/Yorkshire version of Wuthering Heights…

There was a letter through my front door this morning addressed to Mr Pizza Lover. Junk mail from Domino’s Pizza (a national chain of pizza shops) announcing their new outlet near here. The leaflet says Save Over £176.37 (the 37p is a nice touch although I’d say rounding it to £176 isn’t going to make many people change their mind about how good an offer this is) so I thought I’d have a read. It includes 25 vouchers for various special offers: the ususal stuff money off, free pizza, free garlic bread, free bottle of coke etc. The offers expire on September 20th and today is 15th. So I have 5 days to use 25 vouchers. No more than one voucher can be used for an order. They are open 12 noon to 11pm seven days a week. In order to use all their offers I’d need to place 5 orders a day. I havn’t worked out how much pizza I’d have to eat or how much I’d have to spend but it’s a lot. I’d have to order a pizza each evening to have for breakfast cold the next day. Maybe I can have a couple more pizza cold on the 21st. All in all it doesn’t sound like a very healthy diet. In fact it sounds more like a Weird Al song…

So no official release for Weird Al‘s Straight Outta Lynwood in the UK. I feel an Amazon order coming on. If you don’t have a clue what I’m talking about go to the web site and download new songs like “White & Nerdy”, “You’re Pitiful!” or “Don’t Download This Song”.