Come on, admit it.  You've heard the song.  You've sung along when you're drunk.  It's called Escape, although everyone knows it by the alternative title, The Pina Colada Song.

As I was walking back home tonight, I heard that song playing, and people were singing karaoke to it.  Silly tourists.

But the song's an earworm, and it got me thinking.  How many of the things in the song are things people really like?

Let's take the personal -- how quaint by the way, sending it by snail mail to a post office box.  What, no looking them on up Facebook?  You have to like:

• Pina coladas
• Getting caught in the rain
• Making love at midnight at the dunes of the Cape

You also can't like yoga and you need half a brain.

Guess I'm not her man.  I think pina coladas are way too sweet.  And getting caught in the rain, unless it's a warm summer rain, sucks.  And I don't like to schedule my love making.

Plus, I like yoga and if the class I attend is indicative of the women who like it, all I can say is giggity.

The only thing I've got that the woman wants is a brain.  Will a full brain make up for all the other things?

I can't be the only one who thinks this.  But somehow, the song is one of those that people of all ages know and sing along to. 

Go figure.

What's funny is that Rupert Holmes, the singer of the song, says he loves it for making him wealthy and famous and he hates it because nobody knows him for any of his more serious songs.

I guess it's better to be known for a super cheesy song than to not be known at all.