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Embryon
Since: Mar, 2010
2011-04-19 16:16:00
Do you remember the tune? You could try humming it into Midomi
and see what comes up.
packardcaribien
Since: May, 2010
FuzzyBoots
Since: Jan, 2001
2011-04-25 11:03:04
Don't know if it's related, but there's a Javelin commercial featuring someone using the excuse of a goldfish in the front seat as a reason not to race
. :-P It would be bizarre if there were more than one reference to that excuse...

I remember a very small part of a song. It was kind of a 60s surf pop thing, more like Jan & Dean then the Beach boys (but it could be either) and the only lyrics i remember were something about the narrator being unable to race with somebody because they had a goldfish in the front seat. Despite the odd concept, google hasn't helped.