I come from the land Down Under. Where women roar? Roll? And men thunder! Can you hear can you hear the — wait, thunder? (Again? Whoops.) You better run, you better take cover.

This is one of the songs that transports me to the early ’80s, to being a child with two teenage sisters around. Sisters wearing those short gym shorts with the white piping (really, interwebs? on this of all things you are going to let me down?) and discussing crucial things like, “Did you know Vegemite is real? I swear! It’s a meat spread or something.”

Such wisdom one could glean from quietly lingering on the edges of teenage girldom. Much more there is to say about that, some other time.

Men at Work disappeared from my consciousness for twenty years or so, until Colin Hay showed up on “Scrubs” singing the painful and moving “Overkill” in one of the creepiest and best episodes ever. Renewed affection for Colin Hay — who is the same person as Colin Quinn in my mind, which makes me love him all the more — and renewed interest in the land Down Under.

I hope to get there someday. Or at least get my hands on a Vegemite sandwich.

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