Heads or Tails #6 (Key)

Coming Into Los Angeles
Words and Music by Arlo Guthrie

Coming in from London
From over the pole
Flying in a big airliner
Chickens flying everywhere around the plane
Could we ever feel much finer?

CHORUS:
Coming into Los Angeles
Bringing in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please
Mister Customs Man

The words and music of Arlo Guthrie from the Woodstock soundtrack form the musical accompaniment for our post today because the song contains the word "keys," a slang word for kilograms.

As if Americans weren't confused enough about the metric system.

If a key is an object that opens something, the what does key lime pie open, huh?

Or Key Biscayne? Key Largo?

We open baseball games with Francis Scott Key's composition. (Bonus points -- name the original English drinking song to which Key's lyrics are sung.)

We open our beer with a churchkey. So what do we open churches with?

Did you ever notice that if you put your key in a car it goes... but if you key a car you're a vandal?

And what exactly do the keys on my computer keyboard unlock? Heck, I got two keys here that says they are locks.

(Did you peek at your own computer just now? That's right: Caps Lock and Scroll Lock. And are those confused keys.)

So visit Barb today at Skittles' Place for more Heads or Tails. I got nothin'.