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Butthole Surfers.


The list of items that this band has misplaced mis·place  
tr.v. mis·placed, mis·plac·ing, mis·plac·es
1.
a. To put into a wrong place: misplace punctuation in a sentence.

b.
 over the last 20 years sounds like a recipe for a yard sale at a mad scientist's genetics laboratory. Have you seen...

--A red saxophone

--A leather vest

--X-rays of girls in sweat sock g-strings

--Giant walls of strobe lights that bring sight back to the blind eye that sees all

--Enough fog machines to smoke out Perry Mason Noun 1. Perry Mason - fictional detective in novels by Erle Stanley Gardner  inside the whirling hall of knives

--Broken projectors and thousands of miscellaneous drivers education and nature film splices.

--Boxes of burnt cymbals cymbals (sĭm`bəlz), percussion instruments of ancient Asian origin. They consist of a pair of slightly concave metal plates which produce a vibrant sound of indeterminate pitch.  and bullhorns to fight the creep in Verb 1. creep in - enter surreptitiously; "He sneaked in under cover of darkness"; "In this essay, the author's personal feelings creep in"
sneak in

penetrate, perforate - pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest"
 the cellar

--A mysterious ranch somewhere in Texas prepped for a Mexican caravan

--A drummer and a couple of timbales Timbales (or tymbales) are shallow single-headed drums, shallower in shape than single-headed tom-toms, and usually much higher tuned. The player (known as a timbalero  

--Several bass players

--A few brain cells

...and I'll tell you what, they're still surfing after all these years.

In retrospect of this weird stuff perpetrated by sideways monsters, the revolution is recruiting. There's no way to confirm what the objectives are, but we've been receiving audio transmissions and it sounds good. It's good like a field goal that I'm waiting for Jimmy to kick. I'm gonna go get a bike and paint it electric blue.
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Author:Fitzpatrick, Andres
Publication:Thrasher
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 1, 2002
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