Quote:Ah, but the trouble with using "Lie in our Graves" for that is:
You should see what "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds" does... Doug once quite effectively stopped a bank robbery without lifting a finger by playing that song.
Quote:...Doug's not exempt.
When I'm walking by the water--
splish-splash, me and you taking a bath--
when I'm walking by the water,
come up through my toes to my ankles to my head to my soul.
I'm blown away.
Quote:Somehow, I get this feeling that any party that Doug is invited to has a carefully chosen playlist for maximum metagift entertainment, just on the offhand chance that he forgets his tuneplug....
What do you mean? Doug's always popular at parties. At least the ones he choses to go to...
Quote:And that's two reasons why he shouldn't play it -- it's not an effect he wants, and it's indiscriminate. For six minutes, every married female eye he meets lusts for him -- burns for him -- and their inhibitions drop to zero. If he's in the middle of a crowded mall and his tuneplug goes south on him just as this starts playing on the P.A. system...well, there aren't many men who can say they've had the opportunity to run screaming from an unwanted orgy. Visions of the old gag of Doug getting dogpiled and clawing his way out from underneath with his clothes in a shambles come to mind.
The only married woman Doug's interested in is Maggie. And besides, Eddie Money's "Take Me Home Tonight" is much more efficient.