Some Pot

8 thoughts on “Some Pot”

1. It’s called sum pot because the amount of money in to the pot is equal to the sum of all the contributions. Product pots, much like pot products, are banned under federal law.Report

2. I didn’t know it was an Irving Berlin song, but I shouldn’t be surprised.

   I imagine that most Gen Xers first heard the song in the same place I first heard it: Cartoons.

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   1. Apparently the full song is called “The Near Future.” There’s a video of the lyric on YouTube, but it has no audio. I can’t find the full song, even on paid streaming services:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Near_FutureReport

      1. Notably, although the song, a dialogue between a customer at a restaurant and a waiter who offers him only soft drinks, is clearly about Prohibition, it was written the year before Prohibition was enacted, hence the title.Report

         1. I had no idea! Whenever I’ve heard the song sung, it was with a drunken slur.

            [Man:]
            How dry I am, how dry I am
            It’s plain to see just why I am
            No alcohol in my highball
            And that is why so dry I am
            Waiter, Waiter

            [Waiter:]
            What do you want? What do you want?

            [Man:]
            I’m just as thirsty as can be

            [Waiter:]
            What’ll you have? What’ll you have?

            [Man:]
            Suggest a little drink for me

            [Waiter:]
            Of the very finest soft drinks we have all the best

            [Man:]
            I don’t know a thing about them
            What would you suggest?

            [Waiter:]
            Have a little Coca-Cola
            Really, it’s a lovely drink
            Percy, Clarence, Reginald, too
            They will recommend it to you
            Have a little Coca-Cola
            It’s the very best I think
            It isn’t alcoholic but you can have a frolic
            If you take enough to drink

            [Man:]
            They are much too dry

            [Waiter:]
            Then how’d you like to try
            Sarsaparilla, try sarsaparilla
            Sarsaparilla ought to do
            Rockefeller drinks sarsaparilla
            And what’s good enough for Rockefeller
            Is good enough for youReport

   2. When I was a very small child watching these Saturday morning cartoons I had no trouble at all recognizing that this was a song people sang when they were drunk. No one was hiding the ball here.Report

      1. The ball that was, I guess, being hidden was that it was a song about *NOT* being drunk (though wanting to be).

         I thought it was a song about denying how one was drunk.Report

      2. Also played in the background when some character was crawling through the desert, just like Anchors Away if they were on a ship.Report

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