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What’cha gonna do? Ghostbusters!
Last night playing poker, I was watching the action after getting knocked out. It was down to the final 5 players, and one of them went all-in. The guy with the most chips called, and then the last guy, who had the least amount of chips, made a call that was mathematically correct, even though his cards weren’t really good at all. Turns out the guy who didn’t have very good cards ended up with a full house, winning the hand and tripling up. We were discussing the hand afterwards, and about how he had to call with garbage, beating two much better hands. One of the guys said, “What are ya gonna do?” and then the older lady who runs the tournament and was also watching burst out with, “Ghostbusters!” and started laughing. She knew that technically, you’re supposed to say that after someone says, “Who ya gonna call?”, but she couldn’t help herself.
And, I mean, really…what child of the 80’s hasn’t songspoken this? Last night reminded me of that, and it also made me search for the original music video. I found it, and boy, had I forgotten what a gem it is. The celebrity cameos are amazing, and Ray Parker, Jr.’s creep factor is through the roof. So I’m gonna post it here. Know why? ‘Cause bustin’ makes me feel good.
Tags: 80s movies, 80s music, bustin' makes me feel good, celebrity cameos, creep factor, full house, ghostbusters, ghostbusters music video, poker, ray parker jr, what are ya gonna do, what are you gonna do, who ya gonna call, who you gonna call
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songspeak
Daughtry’s long lost twin?
Matt and I have a friend that, we think, bears an uncanny resemblance to Chris Daughtry. I’ll withhold his name to protect the innocent, but you can be the judge:
The funny thing about this is, we tease him about it every now and then, and last year a bunch of us were going to get together to play poker. We emailed him during the workday before playing about how appreciative we were that he was taking time off his busy tour schedule to play poker with us. Then, that night, Matt got pretty low in chips in the game and all but counted himself out of the game. Our friend, completely oblivious I might add, just said, “It’s not over”. Matt asked him to repeat himself, because Matt realized before the rest of us that he had unknowingly songspoken the first major Daughtry hit, It’s Not Over, which was getting heavy airplay at the time. I still hear it every so often on the radio at work, and am always reminded of this story.
Tags: 00s music, chris daughtry, daughtry, it's not over, poker
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Do Daryl Hall and John Oates play poker?
(1:56:51 PM) Jamie Bousquet: because there’s so many people and they’re such a diverse group, poker nights at the VFW are ripe with songspeak and “that’s what she said”
(1:57:12 PM) Matt Larsen: you should introduce them to the concept of songspeak then
(2:01:18 PM) Jamie Bousquet: I don’t think this crowd is gonna go for that
(2:01:36 PM) Matt Larsen: no can do?There’s nothing quite like an IM reference to I Can’t Go For That by Hall & Oates to get one through the day. Actually, maybe it’s Holland Oates.
Tags: 80s music, hall and oates, holland oates, poker, that's what she said, vfw
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Give a little bit of your chips to me
I’m a poker player, so I watch a lot of poker on TV. Especially old World Series of Poker reruns and The World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel. There’s more songspeak than one would expect in poker, and I always love it when it happens.
At the 2004 World Series of Poker main event, Marcel Luske belted out his own version of Give a Little Bit by Supertramp. You can view it here (the video is lengthy, but the songspeak in question appears at about the 5:05 mark):
Tags: 00s tv, 70s music, give a little bit, give a little bit of your chips to me, main event, marcel luske, poker, supertramp, travel channel, world poker tour, world series of poker
