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Friday, January 28, 2011

Do You Kazoo?

Today is National Kazoo Day.  According to the Bizarre Holiday Website:

"Alabama Vest of Macon Georgia made the first Kazoo in the 1840's. Actually, he conceived the Kazoo, and had Thaddeus Von Clegg, a German clockmaster make it to his specifications. "


He conceived a kazoo?  Something in my biology education left that out of the realm of possibilities.  Perhaps old Alabama Vest of Macon Georgia was an extraterrestrial being! 
The Bizarre HolidayWebsite goes on to explain how to play a kazoo:
Kazoos are easy to play. Simply hum a tune into the kazoo, and you're an expert. Kazoos can be played solo, or in groups. It plays a great tune both ways.


Hum into the kazoo!  That's my kind of instrument.  Now when I'm caught humming I can say I'm practicing for my kazoo solo.  I think that's how I will audition at the Pearly Gates. 
 
St Peter:  Kim, why should we let you into Heaven?
 
Kim:  just listen to these  riffs. 
 
Then I will take out my kazoo (Note to self:  1.  Purchase kazoo.  2.  Put in Last Will and Testament to be buried with kazoo...) and I will play the song that will make St. Peter laugh and open the gates for me.
 
It's time to start looking for that song.  Of course just about anything played on a kazoo at the gates of Heaven will probably make St Peter laugh.  The idea of me showing up at the gates at all might even make him chuckle. 
 
I'd better plan to take some homemade hummus to bribe him, just in case.

5 comments:

Kathleen said...

You make me laugh! And hum. And picture a kazoo out the wazoo.

Kim said...

Farting through a kazoo would probably make St Peter crack up! (no pun intended...)

Ellen said...

You two need a place to do your stand-up comedy act.

Kathleen said...

There's a place for us...
A comedy place for us...
I think they call it the Funny Bone
Maybe it is the Kazoo Zone..

Anyhoo, there's a place for us....

ron hardy said...

Somewhere, somewhere. The song St Peter will like on the kazoo is Somewhere from West Side Story. Soooomewherrre sooommmmewherrrreeee. I made a kazoo out of a comb and wax paper when I was a small child.