What's a Muppet?

“Espendrel mort der film der FLIP FLIP FLIP…”

I am quoting the Swedish Chef here from the Muppet movie, when the film melts, [listen here] because last night my monitor went poof. It powers up, makes a clicking sound, but nothing on the screen. I plugged a different monitor onto my machine and it worked fine.

I just said that after buying that ’80 Les Paul, and now that amp that I wasn’t going to make any large purchases fro a while. I’ll have to clarify that by saying no large “guitar-related” purchases. It is a good excuse to finally buy a flat screen anyway. The prices aren’t too bad. I’m looking at a Samsung SyncMaster 19” for about $300.

Here’s a funny Muppet story: A few years ago I worked for an ecommerce company. There was a young guy, probably 19 or 20 years old, working there as an intern. He was related to the guy that started the company (who was a few months younger than me!)

I had a laptop and on startup it played the Swedish Chef song.
[Listen here] One day he heard it and said “What is that?”

“It is the Swedish chef, you know, from the Muppets.” I answered.

“What’s a Muppet?”

Man, did I feel old. Eventually I was able to make a link between the Muppet babies cartoon, which he then remembered, and the actual Muppets that came before them. Whenever I might need to remind myself that I’m an adult now, and that all my best years are behind me, I only have to think of the words “What’s a Muppet?”.