So I wanted, for no good reason, to Tweet a particular line from a particular song, and I couldn’t quite piece together the words.  When one of the words in a song sounds like “mack-a-dang-dang,” and your ears are old and getting bad like mine are, you look them up.

So I tried to look them up.  Finding words to songs has never actually been difficult; this is among the easier Google searches in the world.  However, for some reason, when the artist’s name is Lyrics Born, finding the lyrics to his song suddenly gets real complicated, especially when the song is called Knock Knock and there are a bunch of songs by that name already.  Note that I still can’t actually find the lyrics anywhere– I have found a few videos and several places to stream the song, but not the actual lyrics.  Even my usual lyrics sites, usually on the top in the Google searches, have failed me.

(Resist the urge to be a smartass and find them; that’s not the point.)

Anyway, here’s what I thought I was hearing:

The name is Lyrics Born, AKA mackadangdang
Live from the 0-1-5 doing my thang thang

Silly, right?  Sure.  LB has some impressively complicated songs, “Knock Knock” isn’t one of them.  It was running through my head and I wanted to Tweet it.  But I could not make “mackadangdang” turn into a phrase I understood.  But it sounded pretty clear, right?

What the hell; I googled “mackadangdang.”  A few minutes and some spelling variations led me to this:

You would think this would end the story, with me sheepishly realizing I was officially and irrevocably an Old and that there were words that The Kidz were using that I knew nothing of.

No.

Instead of Tweeting the silly line from the silly song that was in my head and giving my followers an essentially meaningless Tweet to skip over and not read, I Tweeted this:

Wait, “maka-dang-dang” is an actual slang term? GOD I’M OLD. @lyricsborn

— Luther M. Siler (@nfinitefreetime) August 14, 2014

Because I wasn’t done being dumb yet.

And LB, because the world is a dumb place and it is endlessly fun to make fun of me, retweeted it.  To ten thousand people.

So now ten thousand people who have never heard of me know I’m old and dumb.

The end.