Wouldn't it be great if Pied Pipers were real?

To try to cheer myself up with all the mouse trouble, I wrote a parody of Sixty-Minute Man. The original is a pretty trashy song, I think, but I adore the parodies Sixty-Second Man and Creepy Criminal. And the tune is always getting stuck in my head. So I took the lyrics of the original song and re-wrote them to be about a Pied Piper who charms and sings to and pets the creatures and gets them out of people's houses within a minute. The arrangement is the one Rockapella uses, which I read is one they got from The Persuasions.

If your house is filled with mice,
Come see old Piper Dan
I'll rock 'em, roll 'em all day long
I'm a sixty-second man

If you don't believe I'm all I say,
Come up; I'll tell my plan
Then I'll have you cry "Oh yeah!"
I'm a sixty-second man

There'll be fifteen seconds of charmin'
They'll say "Danny, Danny, please don't stop!"
Fifteen seconds of singin',
Fifteen seconds of pettin',
Fifteen seconds of them blowin' their tops

If your house ain't sealed up tight
Come see old Piper Dan
I'll rock 'em, roll 'em all day long
I'm a sixty-second man

Sixty-second man
Gotta please 'em
That's the plan
I'll rock 'em, roll 'em all day long
I'm a sixty-second man

There'll be fifteen seconds of charmin'
They'll say "Danny, Danny, please don't stop!"
Fifteen seconds of singin',
Fifteen seconds of pettin',
Fifteen seconds of them blowin' their tops

If your house ain't sealed up tight
Come see old Piper Dan
I'll rock 'em, roll 'em all day long
I'm a sixty-second man

Charm 'em charm 'em
Pet 'em pet 'em
All day long
I'm a sixty-second man

Old forgotten fic plans.

I've been going through old stuff today, trying desperately to find my plans for Carmen fics unwritten that I could still write now. I found several!

1 - There's a cyber stalker causing problems and the ACME crew matches wits with him. He ups the ante by locking down ACME and sending new dangers at the detectives, maybe mechanical traps that ACME set up to catch intruders?

2 - Something about a power plant. I have no idea what that was supposed to be.

3 - The Beaches of Cheyenne-inspired fic, with a ghost who wants the mystery of her death solved. This is similar to some Ginger and Lou fics I've done, so I may or may not do this one.

4 - Something based around The False-False Teeth episode.

5 - (I remembered this one before, but I'm adding it to the list so I'll keep remembering.) The fic where they're running around in Utah County and maybe Juab County chasing a crook. That one was supposed to come immediately after the stalled Bryce Canyon/Red Shadow fic, since that one also takes place in Utah. I might be able to pick that fic up again, but regardless, I could probably do this fic without finishing the other one first.

There's also one based around The Boll Weevil Retrieval that I started but didn't finish. And some cracky thing about Sean meeting his double, The Food Deliveryman. LOL. I don't know if I'd actually do the latter, but the thought is definitely entertaining.

Also, I learned that the evil double is supposed to kidnap Elliott and take him to Charleston in A Change in My Life, and Scott has to conquer his fears of the place to rescue Elliott. I think I'll probably still go with that idea, because that's far more poignant than them just going there because of wondering if the mystery will be solved there.

I am so glad this search was profitable!