everything i know i learned from tv
I can't be the only person watching the Greece/Albanian hijacking thing unfold while singing:
Albania! Albania!
You border on the Adriatic.
Your land is mostly mountainous
And your chief export is chrome...
Comments
Ah, Christmas time in Albania...
Wait a sec, those guys aren't Russians! They just want to get the hell away from the family holiday shennanigans - TAKE ME WITH YOU!
Posted by: shank | December 15, 2004 10:43 AM
Yup, I was singing it under my breath while scrambling eggs.
Posted by: SarahW | December 15, 2004 11:17 AM
chrome? shoot, i thought their chief export was corn.
hell, corn doesn't even sound right, either.
Coach ruled.
Posted by: mikey | December 15, 2004 11:39 AM
My sister thought their chief export was "crones."
Posted by: SarahW | December 15, 2004 12:18 PM
Quick, someone call Keanu Reeves.
Posted by: Faith | December 15, 2004 12:36 PM
I think it's "your terrain is mostly mountainous".
Posted by: mikeski | December 15, 2004 12:45 PM
I remember it as "land."
Let's fight!
Posted by: Joe Geoghegan | December 15, 2004 01:14 PM
Holy Shit!
I thought I was the only one in the world who sang that whenever Albania is mentioned.
Posted by: Ryan | December 15, 2004 01:24 PM
OMG! You're scaring me now!
Posted by: creatively evil | December 15, 2004 02:22 PM
Ryan, you thought you're the only one?! My whole frickin' family sings it in unison when the country is mentioned (well my side of the family, my wife's is too refined to do that)!
Posted by: JFH | December 15, 2004 02:25 PM
I thought it was tin.
Posted by: Enrak | December 15, 2004 02:58 PM
I'll be damned. Twas chrome. I've been singing that song wrong for a long time.
Posted by: Enrak | December 15, 2004 02:59 PM
I never sing that song, but only because my college roommate and I wrote an Albania song of our own in 1988. It has a similar theme:
Posted by: Xrlq | December 15, 2004 04:45 PM
"Ryan, you thought you're the only one?! My whole frickin' family sings it in unison when the country is mentioned (well my side of the family, my wife's is too refined to do that)!"
LOL!
I get the strangest looks when I break inot the first verse.
Posted by: Ryan | December 15, 2004 05:40 PM
I thought their chief export was drugs and cheap labor?
Posted by: Peter | December 16, 2004 12:33 PM
Peter is tyte! Why do they always call Albanians "ethnic Albanians" anyway?
Posted by: Minus the Jihad | December 16, 2004 01:34 PM
Didn't we invade Albania a while ago?
Oh, wait... that WAS Wag The Dog, sorry.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | December 16, 2004 07:05 PM
Me, too, Michele -- damn, but what a great character Coach was! Such innocence...
Posted by: david | December 19, 2004 10:47 PM