{"id":801,"date":"2022-02-09T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/?p=801"},"modified":"2022-02-09T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T12:10:28","slug":"all-the-worlds-knowledge-and-guess-what-i-use-google-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/all-the-worlds-knowledge-and-guess-what-i-use-google-for\/","title":{"rendered":"All The World&#8217;s Knowledge, and Guess What I Use Google For?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Technology is awesome. Type a few obscure lyrics into google, and boom! There is the song you and your friends sang&#8230; Except songs had different titles then and the only way you can find it is going to the record department at TSS (this is 1979, ok?), and playing &#8220;Name That Tune&#8221; with the clerk behind the counter&#8230;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/google_song.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"501\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/google_song.jpg\" alt=\"Finding songs on Google\" class=\"wp-image-804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/google_song.jpg 501w, https:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/google_song-278x300.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>That&#8217;s right&#8230; I use it to find old, crappy songs from my childhood!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><br \/><br \/>  &#9835;  &#8220;ONCE UPON A TIME I DRAAAANK A LITTLE WINE. WAS AS HAPPY AS CAN BEEEEE. HAAAAAAPPY AS CAN BE!&#8221;  &#9835;  <br \/><br \/>&#8220;Aw fuck I know this one. Fuck! Damn! Piss! Shit! Hey old man, get out here!&#8221;<br \/><br \/>The &#8220;old man&#8221; comes out from the back. He&#8217;s 27. The clerk is just out of high school, and I&#8217;m 14. So yeah, old man. &#8220;Sing it again&#8221;<br \/><br \/>  &#9835;  &#8220;ONCE UPON A TIME I DRAAAANK A LITTLE WINE. WAS AS HAPPY AS CAN BEEEEE. HAAAAAAPPY AS CAN BE!&#8221;  &#9835;  <br \/><br \/>The old man is like &#8220;I know this, fuck! Fuck! Fuck!!!&#8221;. I leave them to ponder this song, stuck in their head, until they stop breathing and choke on their spit, i guess&#8230;<br \/><br \/>The mystery continues for 43 years&#8230; Until today when I searched for it. <br \/><br \/>SEE?<br \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"padding: 2%;\" align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gilbert O&#039;Sullivan  -  Get down      1973    LYRICS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1XhQEU-s_v8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is awesome. Type a few obscure lyrics into google, and boom! 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