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Duration: 2:07 
Release Date: 1974  (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Lyrics By: George Carlin (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Music By: N/A (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Produced By: Monte Kay/Jack Lewis/George Carlin (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Released By: Little David LD 3003 (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Published By: Dead Sea Music Inc. (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Licensing: BMI (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Keywords: BUGS, DATED COMEDY, DRUG CULTURE, FILTH, INACCURATE, MEAT, METRIC, RODENT 
Reviews:
Facts:
  • A bit ostensibly about the metric system turns out to actually be all about...meat. (Stavro Arrgolus)
  • Recorded during that rather short-lived optimistic period between Watergate and the malaise of the Carter administration when people actually believed that lazy, drug addled boomers would adopt the metric system beyond the drug references to it. No go. The pitiful attempt to metricize the country turned out to be nothing more than another '70s fad.

    Though metric is still used when buying drugs...or so I've heard. (Stavro Arrgolus)
  • Song Lyrics:
    Dig this. The metric system...is coming into the USA and use in the USA soon and that means you and your old lady will go down and cop a kilo of hamburger! Can you imagine cleanin' up a key of hamburger? Roll one, smoke one, eat one; roll one, smoke one, eat one. You could always get a lid of baloney if you didn't have much bread. Nickel bag of giblets. "Don't get the meatloaf, man, somebody snipped on it. The meatloaf is cut with veal and pork, man." Gram o' ham.."Hey, wanna do a coupla lines o' ham?" "Yeah, all right. Gotta get this gristle outta here, man."

    In New York City, a consumer group measured all the hot dogs and what they had in 'em...and there are allowable levels of what's called "filth". By the...Yes...Food and Drug Administration has "filth limits" and it's all part of our ever increasingly interesting values system but the filth thing is very small and they're measured in "bug parts, roach droppings, rodent hairs", okay? So they study all these hot dogs; sixteen brands in New York and they get your- "fifty percent water, ninety-nine percent fat" and a lot of large things and then some stuff that looks like meat that a guy threw in when he was thinking of meat...or looking at a picture of some meat...and then, ya got yer filth, what ya call yer filth and every one of the sixteen brands had some traces of...rodent hairs, roach droppings...bug parts. Which, I think this means that someday, we will advertise hot dogs like cigarettes. "Low tar, low nicotine" "Yes, we have less roach droppings than the other leading brands!"
    (Stavro Arrgolus)
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    Current Rating 8.8 (2 votes)
    Played on 1 show:
    08-02-08, #MMCZ_0082
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