Tralantula

Me were driving home tonight, froms a rather good internship meeting, and i decided to entertain myself in the silence (my iPhone was rather low on juice) with a rather poor but boisterous rendition of Day-O by Hairy Belafonte (wonderful song no??)

Besides ba-humming the smashing bass line and yodeling the Day-O's and the Talibans (you know... Come Mr Taliban, tally me bananas.... it 3 in the fricken morning) i found myself to be rather deficient in the remaindeer of the songs deep deep lyrics. Got to the bit which goes, you know, "Dum di Da da... Dum TRALANTULA???" when i realised that i could no longer pronounce the Majestically Feared Spiders name!!!?!!......

...Tra-lan-tru-la...

...ta-tran-mo-la...

...tru-lanlu-lo....

.....got totally flummoxed as to how to say it. Went through the whole sound-it-out like a 3rd grader trick and bam...

...of course...

" Tra-Lan-Tu-La... Got It!!!

was so darn proud!!

Forgot all about my wonderful Belafonte rendition in my grammerical pride and felt suffused with the joyful glow of success and victory!!!

Wasn't till i got home and checked the All Powerful Dictionary (yes my glow wasn't all that confident) that i realised it is spelt 'Ta-ran-tu-la'.

disapointment