And now for something completely different

[lysana]

I really am not trying to become the YouTube Woman here, but my brain is now broken. And while shared joy is increased and shared pain is lessened, shared brain-breaking is purple farm tools. The Lawrence Welk Show presents a Grateful Dead Brewer & Shipley tune. Stick with it through to the end, as Welk's description is what performs the last

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[sfo2lhr]

The Grateful Dead did Brewer & Shipley's "One Toke Over the Line"!?

[lysana]

Along the way, yes. I've heard the Dead's cover far more often.

ETA: Heck, Garcia was a studio musician on Tarkio anyway.

[sfo2lhr]

I did not know that! Cool, I should find a copy of their cover.

[lysana]

Amended. I can't find proof of it for a hill of beans and a Dead forum I discovered along the way says no such recording exists. Cripes, but that sounded like Garcia singing.

[gerisullivan]

"And while shared joy is increased and shared pain is lessened, shared brain-breaking is purple farm tools."

So true, so true. May I quote you on that?

My brain was destroyed by this one some months ago. The memory of who linked to it was destroyed at the same time.

[lysana]

Yes, you may.

[lysana]

I had a grandmother and aunt of similar sentiments toward Mr. Welk. No clue if I saw that segment, but I remember it being on whenever I'd visit them if it was the right time of day for it.

Thinking about it, I do believe it'd be way keen if someone did a parody of Lawrence Welk with all the deep sincerity intact and skew it akin to A Mighty Wind in temperament.

[emberleo]

And while shared joy is increased and shared pain is lessened, shared brain-breaking is purple farm tools

Do I want to know if purple farm tools is a reference, or just an appropriately surreal phrase?

--Ember--

[lysana]

Appropriately surreal due to its appearance in one of the iterations of the surrealist lightbulb joke.