Cujo – sometimes I tie long bundles together with nylon string, cheap, tough and flexible.

When I think of it, I’ll show my favorite low-cost super-functional under-desk cable-management trick.

Neil, love that last verse – never heard it before.

Square dancing… oh, my.

Okay, a bit of an overreaction…maybe…

  I guess I feel the same way about that song that DOF feels about zip ties…I’m sure it’s good for something, I just haven’t figured out what.  Just like I’ve never figured out why anybody would tie a kangaroo down anyway… 
  My problem could be emotional contamination of a sort…that song was a hit about 10 years before I was born, and I had heard it a few times on oldies radio stations, kid’s tv shows, etc, but not a whole lot. 
Then in my freshman year of high school one of the required P.E. classes was six weeks of square dancing, and this song was used at least once per class and a lot more while learning the routine.  I couldn’t believe that in late 80’s California, at a decent-sized high school with a semi-decent budget, that there would be or could be such a thing as six weeks of required square dancing.  The only thing that made it tolerable (and yet more humiliating in a way) was the fact that it had to be co-ed.
  I have a theory that it was a ploy to minimize snobbery, social pressure and sexual tension among the students…I mean, how seriously could one take any of those pressures after spending six weeks at a forced hoedown with dozens of other random students?
  Anyway, it permanently damaged my perception of this song and a few others as well.

  I did actually listen to it for old times sake, and I noticed it didn’t have the last verse, which was the only one I ever liked-
“Tan me hide when I’m dead, Fred
Tan me hide when I’m dead…
so we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
and that’s it hangin’ on the shed!”

A death scene is okay in general, but no corpse jokes?  Was that too rough for television at the time?  Or was the song just too long?

And, thanks to internet exposure to Aussie culture I noticed for the first time, the verse stating “let my aboes go loose”…
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