Wow. I worked at an Ace Hardware a few decades back, but I STILL get excited going into a hardware store. I can't look at the materials and tools they sell without getting all kinds of ideas of stuff to build or modify. But more than that, it's a little odd that you caught the excitement Weird Al expresses about a new hardware store in town, but no acknowledgement of a crazy-long list of items found there IN RHYME and presented in one single superhuman long breath.
"Trailer hitch demagnetizers" & "Automatic circumcisers" seem unlikely wares, however, they might be regional offerings and I simply don't find them in my hereabouts.
Also you understand this song is making fun of people who camp out to buy things like I-phones or tickets to a movie and such. It's meant to be humorous and a joke.
Its also making fun out how much people in a small town will hype up even the most normal things simply because there's so little else to talk about. My friend's small town went crazy when they opened their first Domino's.
Two amazing things about the song: That fast, long run was done in a single breath. He does that in live performances. Then the multiple voices meshing in the chorus, in a Queenesque fashion, to coin a phrase. Per usual, all the voices are Al.
Weird Al himself said that a lot of studio magic went into making that part happen. That was NOT in one take or one breath. And he has never even tried it live. It's still highly impressive, though.
Yeah it's crazy how he rattled off that entire list of hardware store products. Reminds me of John Moschitta Jr, the Micro Machines Man . (If Weird Al ever does a music video about small cars, he NEEDS to get that guy to do it with him. Lol )
I know it seems stupid to think about but I think the deal on hammers is that every 27 customers, the counter gets reset so they could give it away every 27. They probably had too many arrive in shipment by accident.
@@kelticladiThe atomic *mass* is ~ 27, but it's element #13! (Cobalt is 27 btw) Either way, he started using 27 all over the place (in Albuquerque, for example, there are multiple instances: "... she fed me sauerkraut until I was 26 1/2..." and the number of times at the end [besides when he spells it out] that he says "Albuquerque" in the first place.) Either way, that just turned into "huh? Huh?"
