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    Commenter Of The Day: Leaving On A Jet Plane Edition

    The song "Leaving On A Jet Plane" may have been made famous by Peter, Paul and Mary but it was actually written by high-like-the-Rockies John Denver while stuck in an airport waiting for his flight. It was such a hit for PP&M some people believe the John Denver version is the cover and not the other way around. After writing the song he named it "Oh Babe I Hate To Go" but that name was mercifully changed by one of his producers. We always took Liz Phair's "Stratford-on-Guy" from Exile in Guyville as the stuck-circling-Chicago-O'Hare equivalent of Denver's song, but maybe that's us. Ben highlighted the trouble with flying your car on this plane-crazed day and Graverobber had an airborne song of his own to match.

    Loading my Ferrari onto a plane
    I thought I might go and drive it in Spain
    I need to be there by six
    For a date with two chicks
    And then I'll come home once again

    My Scuderia is fast
    My Scuderia is red
    It cost many rubles
    From drug sales and making competitors dead

    I have much more money
    Than with which I know what to do
    So I make them fly my Ferrari
    While I eat caviar fondu

    Of economic collapse
    I know not a thing
    My drug sales are up
    I'm Mother Russia's cocaine king

    So we fly here for lunch
    And I drive up to the bar
    I get out of the car
    It's really not that bizarre

    I meet my two dates
    Give each a kiss on the cheek
    Then sit down for a dinner
    Of grilled snapper and leeks

    Then off to an Inn
    For a quick threesome romp
    Then I bid them до свидания
    And race back to the Aeroflot

    I fly on back home
    To make sure my business stays true
    And to keep profits high
    and my competitors few

    It's good to be the king
    Or drug lord in this case
    And to have it all
    At least until you get shot in the face

    Of course, he's talking about drug dealing the day after we do a Clipse Edition COTD...

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