"Caribou Queen and Shark-Dressed Men..."

Kids have such a wonderful take on things... there is such an innocence about them... for the most part.

While traveling one day last week, I heard two songs on the radio that my kids used to butcher... it was Billy Ocean's 'Caribbean Queen' and ZZ Top's 'Sharp Dressed Men...'


My daughter, Girl Shoes would run around the house singing at the top of her lungs... something about 'Caribou Queen' and Boy Shoes would sing about 'Shark Dressed Men...'

I'm not sure why this photo came up in a search for 'sharks in suits'... but it did...  I have no idea... none at all...




I'm sure when I was a kid, I butchered stuff, but Mom and Dad never left reminders for me... I have made sure that my kids know the nonsense they used to do... think of it as some kind of 'Parental Self-Esteem' influence... that at their young adult ages now, they know that if I were with them, I would be teasing them...

At the time that Boy Shoes was running around singing about men dressed as sharks, there would be a Heart video on TV...  or a ZZ Top video with those scantily dressed gals in them... and Lil Shoes would stop...  stare at the TV set... and say...

"Daddy... I like dose durls..."

Bless his heart... barely three years old, and his lil testosterone mill is running full steam ahead!!!!!  It was strange in that my future ex-wife thought that Lil Shoes reaching premature orgasm over those girls was cute... while at the same time, thinking that I was a bastard for admiring the same images... perceptions... Oh Well...

Speaking of premature orgasm, I read the other night that anthropologists believe that prehistoric man was a 'premature ejaculator'... for no other reason than since he was near the bottom of the food chain, that he had to be 'in-and-out' before a saber toothed tiger got a hold of him... in many ways, most of us guys haven't evolved much...

I remember one evening, Boy Shoes and I were watching some reruns of the old 'Rocky And Bullwinkle Show'... and if you remember that show, whenever one episode would end, the Emcee would beg you to tune in next time for next segment... and he would state the name, and then state it by another name... and the other name for the segment to be shown was... "Star Spangled Boner"... and Boy Shoes started laughing so hard until  I looked at him and I guess he felt embarrassed for knowing what a boner was...  Of course I was amused... Oh well... they can't stay young and innocent forever... no?

~shoes~