Osler's Razor

We certainly got a lot of interest in the topic of "Songs You Can't Get Out of Your Head!" Our villain this week is Sara Sommervold, who mentioned "My Baby Takes the Morning Train." Grrr.

Our co-winners are Jill Scoggins and Woody. Jill wins for this fabulous suite of poems:

Extreme stress causes
This boomer to hear theme from
Captain Kangaroo.

Over and over,
Jingly, jangly notes repeat
In my stressed-out mind.

Am I seeking to
Revert back to childhood to
Escape from worry?

Whatever. It works.
Mem’ries of Captain, Green Jeans,
Moose, Bunny calm nerves.

Oh to have our old
Zenith TV give me my
Captain K again!

Woody is a champion for this effort, just because his HAIKU go stuck in my head:

de doo doo doo de
daa daa daa is all i want
to say to you. de...

Intriguingly, this was not their first co-championship. In 2006, the all-Waco patriotic essay competition finished with these same two on top, Woody's effort there was titled "My America: A Place Where Doves Cry." It interspersed the lyrics of a Prince song with notations of Woody's favorite things about America, a list that included all of the following:

Sports
Magnets
Brett Favre
Canada (sic. He identified Canada as a "state")
Clown Posses
Puppies
Guns
People named "Don."

Meanwhile, Jill Scoggins submitted an essay titled "I Did Not Order This!" It contained a sharply-worded retort to an on-line propaganda piece by the Taliban.

Both winners received a $9 gift certificate to the IHOP by the expressway, and briefly danced at the celebratory gala.