Comet (song)

"Comet" was a well-known humorous children's song in North America. It describes the deleterious effects of consuming Comet cleanser—a powdered cleansing product.[1] The most prominent and often-occurring effect in the song is that it turns one's teeth green. Among other effects alleged by this song are an unappealing taste and, unsurprisingly, a tendency to vomit.[2]

For the song by Björk, see The Comet Song.
A can of Comet

Although this song, like many in its genre, has widely variable lyrics,[3][4] a common version contains the following words:

Comet - it makes your teeth turn green!;
Comet - it tastes like gasoline!;
Comet - it makes you vomit;
So buy [or "eat" or "get"] some Comet, and vomit, today!

The melody of the song is the "Colonel Bogey March".[5]

gollark: Something like that. There are loads of term crates.
gollark: Or just general coloring.
gollark: I think there's a rust library for 256 color or whatever.
gollark: I don't know how that happened.
gollark: Also, it then proceeded to stop my shell prompt running, because that calls out to external processes too.

See also

References
  1. Bronner, Simon J. (1988). American Children's Folklore. August House. p. 80. ISBN 0-87483-068-0.
  2. Chotzinoff, Robin (2006). Holy Unexpected: My New Life as a Jew. New York City: PublicAffairs. p. 105. ISBN 1-58648-308-0.
  3. Winsor, Charlotte B. (1975). Dimensions of Language Experience. Agathon Publications. p. 155. ISBN 0-87586-052-4.
  4. Kun, Michael (2005). You Poor Monster. MacAdam/Cage Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 1-59692-119-6.
  5. MacDonald, Ann-Marie (2003). The Way the Crow Flies. HarperCollins. p. 97. ISBN 0-06-058637-0.
  6. Transcript Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine of "Stark Raving Dad"
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