Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Banana slugs and songs about poop and your tax dollars at work





Definitely money well spent.



First, California is teaching our children to terrorize innocent slugs.


I doubt this makes the slugs feel any better things.



This can't end well.

Second, California is teaching our children songs about shit.


The only problem with this scene is the song.



Scuse me?




How can I argue with that?!  Sigh.


A couple of comments on the last post.




  1. omgosh! that is adorable. I would so love to have had a teacher like that. I would have taught them the (lets talk dirty to) The Animals song by Gilda Radner. It would have been a firing but so worth it to hear a group of kids sing "eat shit mr bear" - guess its a good thing Im not a teacher

  2. Well kids talking about poop is aways fun for them. Wow I'm amazed that they got everyone to kiss a slug. I know I wouldn't be doing it.

  3. I'm wondering if this camp was in Santa Cruz, where their school mascot is the beloved Banana Slug. Californians are so frickin' weird!
    I love your "artwork!"

  4. Is it bad that I was hoping the they'd be singing about "sh*t" and not "scat"? Obviously, I'm not a parent. I'm off to look up the meaning of scat on

    That's good that your daughter had a good time. I imagine these kind of trips can go one of two ways!

  5. If she needs to learn more camp songs about poop you can send her to the camp I went to as a kid:

    So much nature it'll make her sick.

    My personal favorite:

    Dan, Dan, the lavatory man
    Chief inspector of the outhouse clan
    He issues the tissues, the paper and the towels,
    And Listenin' to the various bowels

    Down, down, down beneath the ground
    All the little poopies go swimmin' around
    Dan, Dan, the lavatory man
    Scoops up the poopies in his old tin can!

    My 2nd favorite begins: Oh Johnny Rebeck, Oh Johnny Rebeck How could you be so mean? We told you you'd be sorry for inventing that machine. Now all the neighbor's cats and dogs will never more be seen. They'll all be ground to sausages in Johnny Rebeck's machine.

    I got a million of 'em kids

  6. Holy Shit! You should seriously think about sending Princess to Space Camp next year.

    Uh, any way you could upload that video to YouTube? Definitely sounds like "viral" material to me!

  7. Silly fifth graders! Banana slugs don't have lips. Wait. Let me re-read that.

  8. I bet the slugs in LA are already packing heat.

    You couldn't pay me to make out with one of those things.

  9. Who the fuck came up with an idea to kiss a banana slug?

    This is totally going to give all of the perverted little boys in her school an idea...

    "Hey, kiss my "banana slug" and you're automatically placed into the "banana sucking... I mean banana slug club" All the cool girls do it.

  10. First of all, why would anyone bother with anything other than White Cheddar Cheez-Its? There is no justifiable reason.


    B) Seriously, way more people in churches and schools and other institutions where Prudes work (my apologies to prudes or churches or schools if they feel offended) need to familiarize themselves with urban dictionary. It is shameful and disgusting what they end up accidentally promoting because of nothing more than ignorance. The tools are here, people. It's called the internet. Just do 6 seconds of research and you can avoid unwittingly teaching kids about dirty stuff that you don't even know exists. Is it ironic that people who know about these things are the ones being appropriate with kids because they know what NOT to say?

  11. You have a lovely blog! Very honest and sincere. Good job :)

  12. I'm speechless about the slugs and the shit song. Although I shouldn't be, tonight I asked my daughter what her favorite game was, and without hesitation she replied "Toilet Tag." WTF?

  13. Always love your stuff!

    Just gave you an award on my blog! Congrats :-)

  14. I was just watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory when they mentioned Banana Slugs. I grew up in Castro Vallley (I live in Michigan now) and went to camp in 6th grade in The Santa Cruz mountains and of course, I kissed a banana slug. My little cousin asked me, "What's a banana slug?". So I googled it nd showed him a pic and then I came across your blog. Hilarious! thanks for the memories!