Tuning out the telly

Recently Blog This! issued a challenge for bloggers to write about their hidden talents. I loved the idea of this challenge but at the time thought: " I have so few talents that I'm always blabbering on about them, there's no room for any hidden talents."

Then yesterday I remembered that I do have a secret talent. A talent that only a few of my nearest and dearest know about. A talent so unique, so special that it deserves to be outed, deserves to have its day in the sun. I love TV theme songs. I not only love them, I have devoted a rather large section of my brain to remembering TV theme songs. If there was Who Wants to be Millionaire TV Theme Song edition, I would be a millionaire many times over. And all those people say that watching too much TV won't get you anywhere!

Theme songs are great - they're catchy, cheesy and, most importantly, pointless. They bring back so many good memories, sad but true. A lot of people think they are good at remembering TV theme songs but I find there is a simple test to weed out the rookies. Simply ask them to sing both the Family Ties theme and then the Growing Pains theme.

Here's a little bit of completely useless trivia - Alan Thicke who played Jason Seaver (the dad) in Growing Pains co-wrote the theme songs for Different Strokes and The Facts of Life. What a talented man, what a contribution he has made to popular culture.

Here are a few lines from some of my faves. Let me know if you can guess them:

1) People yakety yak a streak and waste their time of day

2) Love, life's sweetest reward. Let it flow, it floats back to you.

3) A man is born, he's a man of means. Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans.

4) Not getting hassled, not getting hustled. Keeping your head above water. Making a wave when you can.

5) Wake up in the morning, feeling shy and lonely, gee, I gotta go to school.