Ode to Can I have a free ticket please?
Regular readers of Dr Mumbo may recall that last year marketing graduate Daniel Kerr blagged a free ticket to Mumbrella360 through the device of delivering a large slab of chocolate brownie.
This year, the philanthropical golden ticket to Mumbrellaa360 goes to this effort, which arrived in his in-box today, somewhat topically inspired by CommBank’s Ode To Can:
There’s a four letter word as offensive as any
It holds back a few, puts a stop to the many
You can’t climb that mountain. You can’t cross the sea
You can’t become anything you want to be
You can’t hit a century. They can’t find a cure
She can’t think about leaving or searching for more
Because can’t is a word with a habit of stopping the ebb and flow of ideas
It keeps dropping itself where we know in our hearts its not needed,
And saying don’t go when we could have succeeded
But those four little letters that end with a T,
They can change in an instant when shortened to three
We can take off the T
We can do it today
But if I change the A to a U
I will have to find my own way
We can build. We can run. We can follow the sun
We can push. We can pull. We can say I’m someone
Who refuses to believe life can’t be better,
With the removal of one insignificant letter
You CAN have a golden ticket to Mumbrella
As long as you remember: mate, you owe me
(And please when you’re there don’t drink all the tea)
Dr Mumbo’s golden ticket is now gone.
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She wore a tall dress and long petticoat,
over the stage her figure would float.
Strutting, swaying, stylish and loud,
with her first high kick there were cheers from the crowd.
With a ‘t’ would be hopeless,
break dancing without lino?
It wouldn’t make sense,
like a bar without vino?
Can-can, yes yes, oh for sure, lets do it,
would be replaced by fck it and screw it.
There is a positive from “can’t-can’t”,
double “can’t” means “can”, ending this merry rant…
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Always found the way some Japanese pronounce QANTAS particularly endearing in this context of the A/U shift..
I hope somebody in the paste-up graffiti community comes up with some good addenda to overlay on the CANT signs..
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