Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for May 09, 2022

Urea? Moby Dick in the prairie? Explanation, please, anyone. I remember a Disney cartoon from when I was little of a whale singing Shortnin’ Bread. Maybe it’s related.

Hey, it’s Whaleon Jennings…

I think the reference here is to the “vocalizations” in whale song. That’s all I’ve got.

Dave?

Googling “Ureon”…. the only thing I found is that according to a huge “Star Trek” wiki, there’s a (presumably obscure) starship(?) of that name:

“The Ureon is a Warbarge Dreadnought in service to the Orion Syndicate in 2409. "

If that has anything to do with it… it could explain “ON the Ureon” … but not much else, IMHO.

I see no mention of a whale there… but since I don’t know all the jargon, I couldn’t say for sure.

Cute whale. Lol.

Maybe it’s “range” in whale-song? Don’t know; I don’t speak whale.

Yeah, this one was a stretch.

Problem is, the cowboys sitting round a campfire miles away will hear it, too.

I’ll go with whale song

It would sound much better than a bowl of petunias singing “Oh, No, Not Again.”

I absolutely don’t get it! Come on, Dave, how about an explanation?!

I speak whale. Not sure why the whale is singing about “Home, home on the oven”, though.

♪ ♫

Home…on the gas range

Where the beer and the cantaloupe spray…

There’s a great deal of satisfaction in getting an obscure joke when most others don’t. Or so I hear. I’ve never experienced it. Here, either.

And what’s that line going over Whitey’s forehead?

All we ever have is beans. How about some squid?

Who you callin’ ‘Whitey’?" :-D

man, he’s one whale of a singer…