# A SDMB Summer Lament - With apologies to Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 20, 2012, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734 "2012-06-20T09:28:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/1 "2012-06-20T09:28:27Z")
There’s a hundred and four days of summer vacation Then school comes along just to end it So the annual problem for our generation Is finding a good way to spend it Like maybe… Joining the Straight Dope Or posting in txtspk Or debating 'bout the World Trade Tower. Discovering something that doesn’t exist (Hey!) Or listening to songs on White Power! Surfing message boards, Creating spambots, Or locating a young hotblond’s brain! (It’s over here!) Debating avatars, Dissing periods, Or driving moderators insane! (Idiots!) As you can see, There’s a whole lot of stuff to do before school starts this fall So stick with us 'Cause gezmo and gvozd are gonna do it all! So stick with us 'Cause gezmo and gvozd are gonna do it all! (Mom! Lacunae Matata is making a title sequence!) ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/2 "2012-06-20T13:12:00Z")
Hey, where’s Cecil? ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/3 "2012-06-20T13:12:57Z")
What cha doin? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/4 "2012-06-20T13:16:22Z")
It’s Geoff. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/5 "2012-06-20T13:18:31Z")
Aren’t you a little young to be doing parody songs? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/6 "2012-06-20T13:50:50Z")
Bravo. What am I missing with the “songs on white power” reference, though? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/7 "2012-06-20T14:03:07Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Bravo. What am I missing with the “songs on white power” reference, though? **gvozd** posted in IMHO about how his dad’s all pissed at him just because he likes [listening to a song that praises Hitler](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=655540) - but it’s totally about the awesome melody, man, he doesn’t even pay attention to the lyrics! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/8 "2012-06-20T14:09:51Z")
Er, wow. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/9 "2012-06-20T17:14:08Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Aren’t you a little young to be doing parody songs? You know, I never would have thought of you as a P&F fan. This made me smile. Oh, and big respect to the OP. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/10 "2012-06-20T18:02:10Z")
EVERYbody’s a P&F fan, what are you talking about? Great work, **Lacunae Matata**! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/11 "2012-06-20T18:16:18Z")
> [@Gary\_Kumquat](#): > > You know, I never would have thought of you as a P&F fan. This made me smile. Are you kidding? I can sing every song in Rollercoaster: the Musical! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/12 "2012-06-20T18:23:24Z")
I’m going to use my Avatarizilator™ to create avatars of every member here in the TRI-STATE AREA! ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/13 "2012-06-20T21:55:34Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Are you kidding? I can sing every song in Rollercoaster: the Musical! As a P&F fan with a legal background, you can answer a question that has bugged me for a long time. Do US students really get a 3+ month summer holiday? I mean, that’s a long bloody break. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/14 "2012-06-20T22:30:24Z")
I have no legal training, but it’s not too rare for student holidays to last all of June, July, and August, plus a day or two of September. Most states mandate 180 days of instruction, and school districts are free to design their calendars however they wish. And thanks for the compliments, folks. Not a great parody, but portions kept running through my head while reading this summer’s crop of new posters. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/15 "2012-06-20T22:31:59Z")
> [@Gary\_Kumquat](#): > > Do US students really get a 3+ month summer holiday? I mean, that’s a long bloody break. Depends on the school district, but that’s more or less right. Traditionally, most were out by early June and went back to school after Labor Day (first Monday in September), but more schools are letting out later and/or starting earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/16 "2012-06-20T23:09:50Z")
> [@Gary\_Kumquat](#): > > As a P&F fan with a legal background, you can answer a question that has bugged me for a long time. > > Do US students really get a 3+ month summer holiday? I mean, that’s a long bloody break. Yes, pretty much. Here’s the one that’s bothered me since yesterday: I was talking on the phone with The Littlest Briston while I was at work, and she said she was watching the P&F Halloween special. Now _how_ can they have a Halloween special when Halloween is in autumn?! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/17 "2012-06-21T10:45:51Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Yes, pretty much. > > Here’s the one that’s bothered me since yesterday: > > I was talking on the phone with The Littlest Briston while I was at work, and she said she was watching the P&F Halloween special. Now _how_ can they have a Halloween special when Halloween is in autumn?! I don’t remember if they did this for Halloween, but the Christmas show one year has a custom opening song: There are two wondrous weeks for our winter vacation, Before New Years and school comes to end it. So the holiday challenge for kids of all nations, Is finding a good way to spend it… ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/18 "2012-06-21T11:06:04Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > I don’t remember if they did this for Halloween, but the Christmas show one year has a custom opening song: > > There are two wondrous weeks for our winter vacation, > Before New Years and school comes to end it. > So the holiday challenge for kids of all nations, > Is finding a good way to spend it… You’re _good._ ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/19 "2012-06-21T11:09:33Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > I was talking on the phone with The Littlest Briston while I was at work, and she said she was watching the P&F Halloween special. Now _how_ can they have a Halloween special when Halloween is in autumn?! Unfortunately, it appears they didn’t adapt the theme tune as per Bricker’s christmas lyrics: > **[Phineas and Ferb Theme](https://phineasandferb.fandom.com/wiki/Phineas_and_Ferb_Theme)** > > "Phineas and Ferb Theme" is the ska-rock theme song for Phineas and Ferb, performed by the band Bowling For Soup. First heard in the pilot episode "Rollercoaster", the music mainly accompanies an introductory cinematic describing the plausible summer... > [@](#): > > For the 2011 Halloween special “That’s the Spirit” and “The Curse of Candace”, the original song was used, but the ending of the title sequence was changed as follows: > New background image during Phineas and Ferb’s dance with spiders coming down on a silk thread, a hand reaching out of the ground next to a grave, and Dookleberry Bats flying. > The “fly-by” pictures include scenes from “The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein” and “One Good Scare Ought to Do It!”, along with a production/concept picture for “Are You My Mummy?” > Candace complains, “Mom! Phineas and Ferb are making a Halloween special!” ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734/20 "2012-06-21T17:12:21Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > I don’t remember if they did this for Halloween, but the Christmas show one year has a custom opening song: > > There are two wondrous weeks for our winter vacation, > Before New Years and school comes to end it. > So the holiday challenge for kids of all nations, > Is finding a good way to spend it… They also had a “A Phineas and Ferb Family Christmas” where they decided they liked Christmas, and it would be cool to do a Christmas special in the summer. My three-year-old in on a P&F kick right now, it’s one of the few cartoons these days that my wife and I also enjoy. Great songs, clever writing, and a secret agent platypus. Plus we all learned what an aglet is. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sdmb-summer-lament-with-apologies-to-dan-povenmire-and-jeff-swampy-marsh/625734.md?page=2)