P.C. Shannon

I was listening to “The Flashback Lunch” on 101X today as I went to get some food and heard a song which I though was called “Dead Come Home.” Apparently it’s actually “Nemesis” by Shriekback, but the chorus is still the same:

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big Black Nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home

Parthenogenesis is a means of asexual reproduction that occurs in higher animals, such as snakes, under certain conditions. It amuses me greatly to hear this in a song. It is perhaps the longest word in a rhyming couplet in a pop song ever!

For some reason, I’m also reminded of War Games. When Matthew Broderick’s science teacher asks him, “Who first proposed the theory of asexual reproduction?” he responds, “Your wife?”