Let's blow this popsicle stand!

Earlier this afternoon I was writing an email to Liz and I used the phrase, "blow this popsicle stand", as in, "I can't wait until 5:30 when I can blow this popsicle stand." What a funny statement. Where in the hell did this come from? Looking it up on the internet comes with all kinds of explanations. Most of them just weird.

So then my random mind takes it another step. Like a game of word association, the first thing that popped into my head after that statement was the Cheech and Chong movie "Nice Dreams". Anybody remember that one? The one where they're selling dope out of an ice cream truck. Also had Pee-Wee Herman in it. And the famous, "Hey man, what does poison oak look like" and "Scratch my balls!" lines!

I literally laughed out loud here in my office when I remembered watching Cheech in a straight jacket rubbing his ass along the floor yelling for somebody to scratch his balls! Sometimes I crack myself up. Figuratively, that is.