Recently I wrote a post in bed one night. Literally (although I suppose these days that’s hardly a big achievement). I was reading through a list of new apps that had been released on the iPhone’s App Store and one had caught my eye – iBlogger…
After installing it, I was eager to give it a try, so I immediately posted this article about two gaming stores being next to each other in a shopping centre in Sydney, Australia (Games Workshop, and the appropriately named, Game store).
Well… Little did I know it, but I was being watched. The people who made the highly excellent software that I had used to create the article were looking to see how it was being used, and they stumbled across my little missive. They noticed that I had managed to reference a Polka in the article too. They even posted about it on their main site. Apparently I had inadvertently referenced the polka classic “In Heaven There Is No Beer”.
Well… At first I thought that it was really really awesome that the company that had made the software that I had used (and really really really enjoyed too by the way 
) had linked to the article that I had written. It didn’t take long however until I started to feel a little guilty…
I had not deliberately referenced a polka…
Doubt filled me and I started to worry that people would think I was some kind of polka charlatan. So, here are my Polka Credentials.
- I spent most of my childhood in country Pennsylvania. There is a lot of Polka in Pennsyvlania…
- I really like the Finnish Black Metal Polka band Finntroll
- One of my favourite characters in Home Alone is John Candy’s character as Gus Polinski, the “Polka King of the Midwest”
- I recently cheered mightly at the Polka house band at the Lowenbrau restaurant at the Rocks in Sydney
Monday, 29. September 2008
so….was there a copious amount of beer involved in writing this post?
Monday, 29. September 2008
Some, yes… But it is an article on polka, so it’s kind of mandatory, right?
Monday, 29. September 2008
I can’t believe you forgot to mention our National Polka, The HEEL AND TOE POLKA.
Say it with me now, “Heel and Toe,heel and Toe, slide slide slide slide, Heel and toe, heel and toe, Slide slide slide slide,
Right hand clap, left hand clap, both hand clap, slap your knees, swing our partner round”.
Tuesday, 30. September 2008
I bow to your superior knowledge of polka…
Wednesday, 1. October 2008
I’m not hearing the oom pah pah, Mardo.