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Doofus

The Official Fan Page For The Rockingest Fake Band Ever!

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Our first self-titled album, "Doofus" was released in April 1984 and has been out of print for 11 years. Left to right the band is: John J. Doolittle, Skinny, Stimp, Reggie, and Olaf. Olaf left the band after our first album and is doing time in Puerto Rico.

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Our second album, "Lucky Streak", was released in July 1985. It debuted at number 4 on Billboard's charts and went double platinum. We also got sued because we used a copyrighted image without permission.

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Our third album, "Wake The Dead" was relaesed in August 1987. It contained our first number one hit, "Kumbaya"

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"Whoop De Doo!" released January 27, 2003 to record-breaking first-day sales of 32,000,000 copies worldwide...

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A rare print of the cover of our greatest hits, "Songs From The Short Bus".

Lyrics

She's A Betty
She takes a dozen hits of 'e'
And makes a meatloaf just for me;
She'll dance all night in skin-tight skirts,
Then darn my socks and flannel shirts.
From Donna Reed to that skank, Pink
In half the time it takes to blink...
She's future, present, and the past,
And even though you blink real fast
 
She's a betty, She's a betty, She's a betty
She's Britney Spears, she's Estelle Getty,
She'll rock your world and hold you steady
She's a Betty
 
She'll wake you gently, sweet and fair,
Then vomit while you hold her hair,
And treat your bunny's sniffly cough,
Then bite the poor thing's head clean off.
She's everything that's soft and fluffy,
And half those demon things on Buffy,
And though you sense her evil plot,
She's everything you want, or not...
 
She's a betty, She's a betty, She's a betty
She's floor-length skirts and leather teddys
Or that girl from Diff'rent Strokes named Freddy
She's a Betty
 
She's A Betty (Redux)
She's sun and moon, she's dark and light,
She's Patsy Cline and Gladys Knight,
She's cherry coke and sloe gin fizz
She's everything a betty is
She's a betty betty betty
She's Michelle Branch and Helen Reddy
She's a party-girl but she's rock steady
She's a betty
 
She's mostly woman, partly child,
She's sunday school and "Girls Gone Wild"
She's nice aged brie and canned Cheez Whiz
She's everything a betty is
She's a betty betty betty
She's Madonna and your great-aunt Netty
When you're half-drunk she's smashed already
She's a betty
 
Ballad of The Things I Can't Stand
I hate when cults send guys in suits to knock upon my door
I hate when cashiers greet me when I walk into the store
I can't stand barbershop quartets that sing in harmony
Or movie names that start with words that end in I-N-G
I hate the way a dog smells when it comes in from the rain
I can't stand eating tongues or feet or pancreas or brains
 
Black licorice, or neck tatoos, or girls who shave their heads
And little yippy dogs and salads served in pita bread
I'd hate to win a million bucks, then take it all in ones
I can't stand Archie Bunker and I'm kind of scared of nuns
Lawyers, mimes, and traffic cops all tend to make me mad
The Olsen twins, and....o no, wait, their new show's not so bad
 
I don't like hippys, Communists, or socialists, or Reds
I would've hated Hitler and I'm kinda glad he's dead
I don't like Broadway musicals, at least the ones I've seen
Or that guy who goes "Hey, Verne!" and sticks his face up to the screen
There are so many things to see upon this big, blue ball
Yet so few people take the time to really hate them all
 
Here
Here, here I stand, here
I stand here
Right here in front of you
Here, with you, standing right here
Looking at you as you look at me
Standing here with you
 
Here, here I stand, here
I stand here
Remembering when I stood over there
Looking at you
As you looked at me, standing there
And now I'm here, standing
Now,  with you
 
Here, here I stand, here
I stand here
I don't know where I'll be tomorrow
Or the day after that
Will I still be here? With you?
Standing here with me, as I stand with you,  here
Standing here, I stand
Here.....
 
American Doofus

His name is Rufus Martin and you've all seen him before
His parents run the funeral home out by the dollar store
They've all lived in that old gray house since 1964
And every night his bed's a little closer to the door
 
His seventh grade debate team proved the Swiss invented cheese
And he once talked the ear off of a bust of Socrates
He's the assistant relief third shift manager at the Tasti-Freez
And he can sing O Canada in perfect Klingonese
 
(Chorus): His name is Rufus, American Doofus
He's got a simple life, a blow-up wife
and kinda looks like Barney Fife
 
He freeze-framed every Disney film to count the cartoon squirrels
And he owns the sixty-second biggest Death Star model in the world
He's got a custom-built slide rule that's inlaid Mother of Pearl,
And he was thirty-six before he ever kissed a girl.
 
(Repeat Chorus)
 
Well, one dark day at Tasti-Freez a stranger ambled in
And said that Sulu should have died in Star Trek episodee 410
And Rufus cried "Hell no! In that one Sulu rose again!
By reversing the polarity of Vulcan Triptofen!"
 
And so a battle joined from which just one could walk away
And Rufus breathed his last by the soft-serve machine that day
His name is etched in stone three times beside the Tasti-Freez
Once in English, once in Swiss, and once in Klingonese
 
(Repeat Chorus)
 
Heart Held Hostage
Girl you know I love you, girl you know it's true
That it's just like Stockholm Syndrome, my devotion is to you
You're Patty Hearst and Terry Brooks and the fifty in Iran
And I'd trade my arms to Nicaragua just to hold your hand....
 
You're just a heart held hostage
And it's Allah's Holy Way
Like Mohammed's summer sausage
In a cheese and wine display
I paid the ransom for your love in specified amounts
And held them on deposit in a numbered Swiss account
 
I remember kissing you on Graduation Day
And carving in our special tree, "God save the IRA,"
And I remember dancing to the sound of ol' T-Rex
And summers volunteering down at Liberte Quebec
 
You're just a heart held hostage, and it's Allah's Holy Way
You're a briefcase unattended in an open-air cafe
You're just a heart held hostage, you're a nail bomb in the floor
You're an AK-47, you're a kilo of C-4....
 
You're just a heart held hostage
And it's Allah's Holy Way
Like Mohammed's summer sausage
In a cheese and wine display
I paid the ransom for your love in specified amounts
And held them on deposit in a numbered Swiss account