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metaquotes I mentioned that the new anthem should definitely be "Be Kind to your Web-Footed Friends".

Didn't mention that I had only recently realized that the tune to that song is also the tune to another song (namely Stars and Stripes), so for years I was horribly confused with commercials around Labor Day and Memorial Day and President's Day. Flags, fireworks - be kind to my webfooted friends! Presidents, dollar bills - webfooted friends! Cars, more flags - ducks, and geese, and webfooted friends!

Very confusing.

My mother actually had a similar experience years ago that she loves to talk about. She was watching a very l o n g movie about some guy on an oil field in Texas. And every so often, he'd be walking on his oil field (or maybe it was a ranch, I don't know) and you'd hear, swelling up in the background, the tender strains of "I've been working on the railroad". She was baffled. Oil fields, ranches, Texas, railroad. Where the hell was the railroad coming from? She didn't get it until ages later she heard my dad (an avowed Texan) singing, quite cheerfully "The Eyes of Texas are Upon You", whereupon she screamed "that's the song!" and scared all the neighbors.