{"id":1140,"date":"2010-06-28T19:42:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T01:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2021-10-21T07:03:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:03:20","slug":"1140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Chocolate Rain” by Tay Zonday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, this<\/a> isn’t a song that I like much.\u00a0 But my friend Uncle Furry has never even heard of this meme.\u00a0 Actually, he’s never even heard of the word “meme”.<\/p>\n

This can only mean one thing.\u00a0 Uncle Furry spends his free time doing far more productive things than me.\u00a0 So be it.<\/p>\n

Would you believe I STILL haven’t done my taxes?\u00a0 I may do them on Thursday.\u00a0 That’s “Canada Day” for all you Non-Canadians out there.\u00a0 It’s kind of like Independence Day for the Yanks, but rather than celebrate a victorious guerrilla war fought for independence from a colonial power, we celebrate the point at which Mother Britannia came along and said “Right then… can you get on with this whole country-running thing yourselves please?\u00a0 Cheerio!”<\/p>\n

That’s not incredibly accurate, historically speaking, but you get the idea.\u00a0 The Queen of England is still technically our head of state.\u00a0 God save the Queen!<\/p>\n

Here’s a joke for you.<\/p>\n

Q: What’s so great about the Canadian nickel?<\/p>\n

A: \u02d9\u0279\u01dd\u028c\u0250\u01ddq s,u\u01dd\u01ddnQ \u01dd\u0265\u0287 qn\u0279 pu\u0250 \u0279\u01dd\u028co \u0287\u1d09 u\u0279n\u0287 u\u0250\u0254 no\u2144<\/p>\n

Okay, sorry for that.\u00a0 That’s pretty fucking tasteless.\u00a0 Also, some of you may not get it.\u00a0 Whether this is due to unfamiliarity with the Canadian nickel, or whether this is due to the fact that you can’t read upside down text is an open question.<\/p>\n

And what’s with that upside down text?\u00a0 On my phone, I can’t get the characters too look right and all I see is a bunch of question marks.\u00a0 Or maybe it’s just empty boxes.\u00a0 Whatever.<\/p>\n

I was going to provide you with a Canadian nickel wasn’t I?\u00a0 Yes I was.\u00a0 hang on.<\/p>\n

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\nNow you understand. Forecast to be falling yesterday.\u00a0 I was going to talk some about this song too, wasn’t I?\u00a0 Well, here it is<\/a>.\u00a0 I know I linked to it above, but I like doing things twice.\u00a0 Not much to it.\u00a0 The video is funny though, and not intentionally.\u00a0 Mr. Zonday really is serious about being a recording artist.\u00a0 I don’t think that’s why this video has over 53 million hits though.<\/p>\n

So… want to hear another joke about the Queen?<\/p>\n

Perhaps I’d better not.\u00a0 Or maybe I’ll save it for another time.\u00a0 I don’t know if CSIS is watching the interwebs for people saying bad things about ol’ Lizzie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, this isn’t a song that I like much.\u00a0 But my friend Uncle Furry has never even heard of this meme.\u00a0 Actually, he’s never even heard of the word “meme”. This can only mean one thing.\u00a0 Uncle Furry spends his free time doing far more productive things than me.\u00a0 So be it. Would you believe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[109,344,343],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-00s","tag-memes","tag-tay-zonday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11733,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/11733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}