If you like the TUBES, come help me save my sanity!

[Chef Troy]

After searching forever for a copy of the Tubes album "The Completion Backward Principle" on CD and being told by Amazon that it's only available as a pricey import (with the tracks in the wrong order, yet!), I actually found a domestic CD of it in a used-CD store. I am happily listening to it but there are no lyrics in the liner notes.

Here's where I need help: In the middle of "Sushi Girl," Fee Waybill sings the following stanza:

"Suck a tentacle - dip it in sauce!
(mumble mumble mumble) - sure is boss!
My only vice is to slice it nice
and wrap it in rice - oh, what a device!"

Despite listening to the track until my ears are nearly bleeding, I CANNOT make out what the hell he's saying in the second line above. Fellow Tubesters, please help! My mind can't let go of the enigma.

(oh, and if you have "Outside Inside" on CD and don't want it anymore, I'll take it - email me for shipping instructions...)

[techchick68]

Take you to the Sushi bar and buy you some

Filet and claw, clam and tuna,

Gonna eat it raw

She's my abalona

Suck a tentacle, dip it in sauce

Hot green root, sure is boss

My only vice is to slice it nice

Wrap it in rice, what a device

[Chef Troy]

Techie, I love you I love you I love you I love you...

Of course! "Hot green root" = wasabi...

It's a cute, naughty song:

"will my Sukie find me in time,
Or will her sushi spawn?
The odor drives me out of my mind
As the scent goes straight to my prawn..."

although not as naughty as "Tip of My Tongue"...that's one of my favorite Tubes songs...)

[Satan]

You're going to love me too, Chef.

Guess who is putting out the new Tubes record?

Yep. The label yer pal Satan works for...

Shoot me your snail-mail address and I'll send you out a copy of the radio single (not for sale), and posters from the disc.

You have to buy the CD though... I mean, you're a fan, right? Fans pay my salary!
__________________
Yer pal,
Satan - Commissioner, The Teeming Minions

I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR:
Five months, two weeks, four days, 20 hours, 44 minutes and 55 seconds.
6874 cigarettes not smoked, saving $859.32.
Extra life with Drain Bead: 3 weeks, 2 days, 20 hours, 50 minutes.

"I'm a big Genesis fan."-David B. (Amen, brother!) [/b]

[Chef Troy]

Yes, Satan, I DO love you too. In a platonic, no-danger-to-your-tuckus way, so don't start protesting your heterosexuality all over again, mmmmkay?

I sent my snail mail addy to you. Thanks buddy!

[hijack] everyone, I came THIS CLOSE to winning a game of Scrabble against the Horned One. (holds up thumb and forefinger less than an inch apart) Then, on the LAST round, he dropped an 80-pointer on my head like he was the pigeon and I was the statue. Sigh. [/hijack]

Let me know when the new Tubes CD is available, big guy.

[Chef Troy]

[further hijack] Satan, I notice you are a Genesis fan. I'm not surprised... after all, that book of the Bible was the first time you got your name in print if I'm not mistaken, you serpent you.

[magdalene]

I know nothing about The Tubes, just a hijack to say I wanna play Scrabble with Satan and Chef Troy.

My Grampa plays for money with his three sisters each week. He is a Scrabble FIEND. He taught me everything he knows (except a few tricks that he can use to still kick my ass when I'm getting cocky) although I cannot match his dedication. The man studies the Scrabble dictionary looking for obscure words in order to trick you into challenging him. Unfortunately, after playing with him for 10 years I can't play with mere Scrabble mortals anymore. I've lost boyfriends because of it - after all I can't date sore losers, and I can't respect men who can't spell. (NO, iampunha and SPOOFE, that was not a flirting invitation).

So I hereby invite (challenge?) the two of you: someday, we will get together in the same place at the same time with the deluxe version of Scrabble, a big-ass dictionary, and some snacks and liquor. SDMB Ultimate Scrabble Championship!!!!!!!

And Cheffieeeeeeeeee (whine) where's my mash note? I'll write you another if it will help you break your writer's block (that WAS a flirting invitation), just say the word.

[Chef Troy]

TRUST me, Magdalene, unless you have an unassailable ego like mine you do NOT want to play against Satan.

Until I started playing him, there were a few occasions on which someone edged me out at Scrabble, but I have NEVER experienced the kind of systematic humiliation IRL that I've suffered at Brian's taloned hands. He STOMPS me with dreary regularity - we're talking scores that are as much as 200 points apart. It is an unfamiliar and unpleasant sensation, and yet I can't seem to stop.

I admit I've become a much better player under the relentless pounding, and our games have been closer of late... I cherish the dream that one day I will beat him.

Even though I know it will immediately be back to pound, pound, pound with the very next game.

Brian, how much does that online version cost? I wanna download it so I can originate games with Maggie.

PS - I swear I haven't forgotten your mash note, sweetie...I have had zero time to devote to erotica because my company was preparing for a major conference, but now that it's done I hope to catch up. When I do, I'll post an announcement so people can go back to the original thread.

In the meantime, please feel free to email me another one...it never hurts to prime the pump. *grin*

[magdalene]

Cheffie,

See, my Grampa DESTROYS me most of the time (those 7 letter words that cover a triple when most of the board is closed off from play with three letters left in the bag) but about 25% of the time I rally and beat him. So that's probably what I could hope for with the Dark Prince here.

Scrabble secret: 50% of winning is just closing off opportunities for others.

As for the mash note - If I email it to you instead of posting it I can write something reeeeeeeaaaaaaallllllly dirty, right? Subtlety out the window and all that....

I'll see what I can do.

[Satan]

1. I've never protested my heterosexuality. I revel in it. Don't judge me for who I sleep with, okay? I just have to be true to myself.
2. I sent you out a package with a couple of posters, the bio, 8x10 B&W picture and the radio single. Expect shortly.
3. The word I beat Cheffie with on the last play of the game was VERMEILS, and the natural puns of a) don't cry and b) don't be a dick would have made me look like an out-of-place football fan in a comedy - yes, the exact opposite of Dennis Miller!
4. I have no affinity for the band Genesis or prog rock in general. That said, it was too priceless for our anti-Creationist moderator pal for me to NOT quote it.
5. magdalene - I started a game with you. I shall now beat you and your grandfather simultaneously... *devilish grin*

_________________
Yer pal,
Satan - Commissioner, The Teeming Minions

I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR:
Five months, two weeks, five days, 18 hours, 56 minutes and 21 seconds.
6911 cigarettes not smoked, saving $863.94.
Extra life with Drain Bead: 3 weeks, 2 days, 23 hours, 55 minutes.

"I'm a big Genesis fan."-David B. (Amen, brother!) [/b]

[magdalene]

You started a game with me? Ummmmmm.....where? You're ON, baby!

I don't know what Vermeils means. Does it mean I'm screwed?

[Satan]

Yes.

It's in your e-mail box.

Yes.
_________________
Yer pal,
Satan - Commissioner, The Teeming Minions

I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR:
Five months, two weeks, five days, 19 hours, 15 minutes and 7 seconds.
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Extra life with Drain Bead: 3 weeks, 3 days, 0 minutes.

"I'm a big Genesis fan."-David B. (Amen, brother!) [/b]

[Chef Troy]

Originally posted by Satan
I've never protested my heterosexuality. I revel in it. Don't judge me for who I sleep with, okay? I just have to be true to myself

That's kind of the point I was making, big guy. When I say you protested your heterosexuality, I meant that you were fending me off earlier by proclaiming it - protesting a (non-serious) pass by hastening to mention that you like chicks.

In fact I'm leaving off my sig just so there aren't any misunderstandings.

[Satan]

Geez... Do i have to put a smilie EVERY TIME I make a joke?!?!?
__________________
Yer pal,
Satan - Commissioner, The Teeming Minions

I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR:
Five months, two weeks, five days, 19 hours, 23 minutes and 1 second.
6912 cigarettes not smoked, saving $864.04.
Extra life with Drain Bead: 3 weeks, 3 days, 0 minutes.

"I'm a big Genesis fan."-David B. (Amen, brother!) [/b]

[SuperNelson]

Chef Troy,

You might want to check out http://www.secondspin.com for "Outside Inside." They're a used CD clearinghouse that I've used from time to time. Right now, all they have is "Genius of America," but inventory changes daily.

-Super Nelson

[elelle]

Well, I don't know, nor play, shit about Scrabble...

But Fee Waybill?!!??? What up with him, Satan? Is this a new recording, or old stuff heaped up on the Scrabble board of histry?

:elelle is rummaging through the scrap heap of her mind, and comes up with a particular Tubes record that was the Soundtrack of Being at around age 22:

Shit, Satan; tells me more!

[Chef Troy]

Originally posted by SuperNelson
Chef Troy,

You might want to check out http://www.secondspin.com for "Outside Inside." They're a used CD clearinghouse that I've used from time to time. Right now, all they have is "Genius of America," but inventory changes daily.

-Super Nelson

Much obliged, Supes... I'll check it out.