We're Proud

You yearn to stay in the moment, to breathe properly to adjust the weight of your backpack, to enjoy the scenery, to stay hydrated--and still, sometimes, silly things pop into your head when you are hiking in the High Sierra. In my case, a parody of a song NBC developed ruing the early 1980s called Proud as a Peacock. I had worked for two NBC-TV affiliates and had friends at the network who slipped me a cassette copy (now, alas, long lost) featuring a parody, sung by the same singers who sang the original. You can see the parody lyrics here (I remember them slightly differently). So picture me singing to myself, "An 18 rating a 14 share, do you think we care? No! We're just proud to be NBC. We're Loud!" It sure seemed odd to me. I was tickled to find, upon my return that a) I remembered I had sung it to myself (as an effort at discipline and staying in the moment, I took no paper or pencil with me) and b) the whole scenario was laid out at Wikipedia.