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  1. Re:WTF by bberens · · Score: 1 · on UK's National Rail Shuts Down Free Timetable App

    http://www.capsteps.com/sounds/tsa-strangersonyourflight.mp3

  2. Re:What the people want by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Court Action Does Not Reduce File-Sharing
    Stop it! You just made me squirt milk out my nose!

    Are you honestly saying that the US Congress allows a thought process to happen? Those fools on the hill "think" with their wallets and egos the way Quagmire thinks with his divining rod.

  3. Re:Heh by Misch · · Score: 1 · on Piracy Setup Discovered in WV Capitol Building

    He'll be thrown out onto the Capitol Steps

  4. Re:Precedents? by brilinux · · Score: 1 · on Parody or Satire? Threat To Sue JibJab

    I actually believe that he, as well as other satirists such as The Capitol Steps must get permission from the artists and copywrite holders, as well as state that they had permission on the album cover or wherever the music is, in order to parody it. While they may not have to pay copywrites on the songs, they do have to seek permission and state that they have it.

  5. Capitol Steps by fleener · · Score: 1 · on Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

    The Capitol Steps take swipes at Washington and world leaders.

  6. Re:Cease and... by jesser · · Score: 1 · on RIAA Warns Individual Swappers

    Patriotically,
    Octagonmost

    Upholding the American lay of wife?

  7. To Steer a Mir you clearly need a beer. by AFCArchvile · · Score: 2 · on Pranks Show Lighter Side of Mir
    Ya know, hiding booze around the space station is an early warning sign of alcoholism.

    On that note, I begin "To Steer a Mir you clearly need a beer" by The Capitol Steps:

    (sung to the tune of that "Plains in Spain" song from "My Fair Lady"; TT text is sung by cosmonauts.)

    To Steer a Mir you clearly need a beer.
    Comrades have got it?
    Comrades have got it!
    How do you get from there to here?
    We will steer! we will steer!
    Yeah, and what is crystal clear?
    Our beer! Our beer!
    YEAH!
    To Steer a Mir you clearly need a beer!
    Houston, we have a drinking problem!
    Objects in Mir are nearer than they appear!

  8. One good political satire site/radio show: by AFCArchvile · · Score: 1 · on Politics With A Slice Of Lemon

    The Capitol Steps. They do a radio show on NPR on New Year's Eve, April Fool's day, Indepence Day and Halloween. The site also has some of their parody songs on MP3 and AU (for you Solaris buffs). Their Halloween show is coming up soon, and since it's an election year, the show is bound to be hilarious. Check the station and time for your area, and hear parodies of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George W., and more.

  9. Re:More from Capitol Steps by AFCArchvile · · Score: 2 · on Slashback: Invitation, MIR, History
    Here's a good one from those same guys who did the "To Steer a Mir" song. This one features a parody of Al Gore, singing "Put Ten Grand in the Hand." (don't know if that's a parody of a classic, but funny nonetheless). http://www.capsteps.com/sounds/gore-puttengrand.mp 3

    This MP3 is perfectly legal; it was referenced from their website.

  10. To steer a Mir you clearly need a beer. by AFCArchvile · · Score: 4 · on Slashback: Invitation, MIR, History
    This was a song made up by The Capitol Steps Sing this to the tune of that rain in the plains of Spain song from "My Fair Lady." (text in Times is Boris Yeltsin, cosmonauts sing in a different font)

    To steer a Mir, you clearly need a beer!

    Comrades have got it? Comrades have got it! To steer a Mir, you clearly need a beer!

    How will we get from there to here?

    We will steer, we will steer! Yeah, and what is crystal clear? Our beer! Our beer! Ya!

    To Steer a Mir, you clearly need a beer!

    Houston, we have a drinking problem! Objects in Mir are nearer than they appear!!!
  11. Re:Some responses. by jesser · · Score: 2 · on Slashback: cubans, crises, code-dependency
    3. Fair use is true. If you're using a logo, or something created by an organization to make fun of them, you're in the clear. (as done on my microsoft and aicn parodies) however, that movie wasn't making fun of the photo. It was making fun of the situation. If the material had been used to parody the photographer directly, or the AP directly, OK, bu that wasn't the ends of the means.

    So what allows The Capitol Steps to write "parodies" of popular songs that are clearly political commentaries and do not generally make fun of the original song?

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