BRAINPAN LEAKAGE

Hamster Month Continues on Brainpan Leakage…

Image Copyright © M. R. Sellars – Phyllis had a son who happened to be an extremely cool kid. He’s probably all grown up now – in fact, chronologically, he most certainly is, because back then he was about the same age as my own offspring is now. At any rate, he and some friends from school had formed themselves a band, and called themselves “NERPH”. The truth is, they really couldn’t play the instruments all that well, and none of them had any real musical experience, but they beat and strummed anyway, while singing parodies of popular songs. As I am given to understand, the lyrics captioned in the picture were a parody of a Pearl Jam song titled Animal. Their version – which also became the name of their fictional debut album – was titled, Urinal. The sum of the lyrics that were ever relayed to me are for the most part depicted above. “I’m like a bomb, I gotta lit fuse, I gotta pee…”

I later found out that Phyllis’s son was ecstatic over this particular toon and kept a copy of it tacked on his wall for quite some time. I’m sure he’s forgotten about it now, but hey, it still exists and it entertained him at the time.

More to come…

Murv

Hamster Month Continues on Brainpan Leakage…

Image Copyright © M. R. Sellars – This is likely to be the single most twisted and bizarre “Merp The Tech Hamster” toon ever. It looks innocuous on the surface, but when you know the story behind it, there is a bit of weirdness factor like you wouldn’t believe. As I mentioned before, Phyllis metaphorically played the character of “Doctor Shirley Knot,” Merp’s arch nemesis. There had never been any real explanation behind why she was his nemesis, or even why he had a nemesis to begin with, other than the fact that it gave me something to “draw about”… At any rate, in one of Phyllis’s far more darkly humored moods, she mentioned something about baby hamsters on a plate with cocktail sauce – ala shrimp cocktail. Yeah… Kind of “ewww-bizarre-funny-ewww” all at the same time, I know.

Either way, that little snippet ran through my head and by proxy, Merp’s head too. And so, as he “remembered” the plate of baby hamsters with cocktail sauce he had a Eureka moment that finally explained the adversarial relationship between the two of them.

More to come…

Murv