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Original song: http://www.guitaretab.com/l/lo...
But now:
    My old man's a gynecologist,
    He wears thin rubber gloves.
    He plays with womens' fleshy parts,
    'Coz that's the job he loves.
BTW, this version has hand gestures, too.

"Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic" was a great song, by the Refreshments (or part of the band), I remember getting a tape of it in the mail back in the 90s when I used to correspond with bands I liked. Lyrics here; a cover on YouTube here (couldn't find the Refreshments version, unfortunately, but the cover sounds good too -- thanks for the memories!). "I realize now my time was better spent drinking." :)

Creativity kills the music industry which runs on the status quo, that top 40 set of songs that we've been listening to for years that lately has been used to associate with product placement.

I like the idea of HACKING Guitar Hero by uploading your own songs.

I mean, if I'm going to shell out at least $200 for a joystick shaped like a guitar and some game with 70 songs when I can get a modestly priced electric guitar for less than than or a really nice acoustic guitar (like a Dobro) and learn how to play some songs from a website or a music instructor (I know a good teacher who charges $14 per session and you get to jam with other people learning how to play), then I think I should damn well be able to play songs not part of the game.

Best of all, I actually know how to play the guitar, get chicks, and won't have something like this happen when the game is over.

By the way YouTube user jnye078 rocks in explaining that song. And the guy whose videos we're talking about are still on YouTube but might not be in a while. He very clearly showed me how to play a Counting Crows song, Mr. Jones

Learning is mostly a process of repeating actions that met expectations formed from the results of previous actions. The more feedback, the better the learning. Our minds leverage our universe's consistency to anticipate it and act how we prefer. One of our best tricks is language, with which we have a great deal of interaction, even to the extent that some philosophers have claimed that "we" really are language, and the "homo sapiens" part is just a vehicle for us.

"You know you've got it
  If it makes you feel good."
  - Janis Joplin, "Piece of My Heart"

Democrats are tired of Republican destruction of Democracy with media collusion. Bush's judicial nominees have been much more rightwing than any prior Republican appointments, even Nixon or Reagan's - so much for objective justice. Our democratic experiment has been spiked by Republicans gaming the system at every turn. Just last Fall, the Secret Service and FBI confiscated the computer of Bill Frist, the Republican Senate Majority Leader, as evidence of his office's cracking the Democatic email server to spy on their strategies for opposing the last round of Republican rightwing judicial nominees. Those were installed during the Congressional recess, an unprecedented cheat of the system. All these antidemocratic implants are disgraceful events on their own. Cumulatively they're crushing the backbone of our great nation. Compare all that to the centuries old technique of filibuster, which the Republicans used to block Clinton nominees.

Politicians aren't like companies. They gain monopoly power in our "winner takes all" system once their opposition is barely smaller than them, much easier than in the real market. So voting "third party" just makes it easier for Republicans to win, by rigging a smaller relevant electorate. Vote Democrat. Then go to work putting reforms like "instant runoffs" and "auditable ballots", as well as "corporations are second class citizens", on the Democrat agenda. It's not easy, but it's at least possible. With Republicans, you won't get access until you've got your first million dollars, or million viewers of your prayer show. Don't waste your vote, and don't leave the rest of us to fend for you ourselves.

"couldn't help but be ashamed to live in a land
where justice is a game"
- "Hurricane", Bob Dylan

Maybe if it's from an acoustic guitar. After all, The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" is just a C chord played over and over again.

Guitar tabs here.

-jdm

Hopefully they will hire the Kingsmen in loo (leui) of Stones to launch the iLoo. Always thought the memorable Lyric We go to go would come in handy .

Here's how it hurts: it means less sales for song books.

For example, let's say you are a guitarist and want to learn a Jimi Hendrix song off of his first album. You can either pay $18 for a book containing the lyrics and chords, or you could go online and find the guitar tabs for free. By getting the tabs and lyrics for free, the publishers have lost a sale of the tab book.

Now, you can build a self-powering cowsie dungsie clock. What will they think of next?

before I secheduled even a phone interview, I'd always search dejanews for the person in question. Sometimes I'd come up with a definate hit (first and last name as well as email and mentioning the local area or some work that was on their resume) and I'd be able to see what kind of person I was really dealing with. That's when I started looking at what I'd posted.

This kind of freaked me out when I started teaching in 1998 - I'd been running a large fan web site devoted to one of my favorite bands, and being heavily into the band, I posted a lot in their newsgroup and participated in more than one flame war. Of course, I was in college and in my very early 20's and late teens, but it's all archived on DejaNews now, with no way to remove it. I really doubt any public school districts are going to wise up to this (or even care, considering the national teacher shortage), but I wouldn't be surprised if it came back to haunt me in some way some day. As a previous poster mentioned, such is the burden of free speech.

An interesting thing did happen to me at the beginning of this school year. I teach high school computer classes, and I was talking about managing that fan web site when one of my students (a junior) opened his eyes really big and pointed at me with his jaw dropped, sort of aghast. I paused and asked him what was wrong, and he exclaimed that he downloaded and used the guitar tabs I'd written years earlier when he was in junior high. I found that kind of amusing!

I think the archiving of the internet is particularly scary when I can still find a lousy guitar tab I did of Pearl Jam's "Footsteps" that I did back in 1992, when I was a senior in high school piggybacking off an account at the nearby university, on my parents' Apple //e, while I was still learning how to play guitar. Obviously, the internet can have a much longer shelf life than a ProDOS 5.25" floppy (excluding news sites that "expire" their articles after limited availability).

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi

http://www.guitaretab.com/gtab/t/15683
Here it is. Just typed in "only nineteen" at google in quotes and got like 20+ results. This was the third.