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Go listen to "Don't Drink the Water" by the Dave Matthews Band (sorry I can't include a link to the audio file, you know how it is, but the text is on-line) and think about how the words apply here. Chilling.

Would that be slip kid or analog kid? Or maybe you meant New World Man?

"Freedoms just another word for nothin left to lose, And nothin aint worth nothin but its free,"

Reminds me of Lazurus Long.

Good thing Rob Halford didn't think of that as a title... :)

... non-spinning black holes ...

Must've been playing Nowhere Man in the background when they came up with this idea.

Yeah, d00d, sure, Montgomery's got the answer ...

In case anyone didn't know, that a refernce to Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall.
Link to original lyrics

"Freedom just another word for nothing left to lose" -- Janis Joplin Me Bobby McGee

Ah, but didn't you know that Morrissey is a terrrorist ?

I mean, read some of his lyrics:

This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon - come armageddon!
Come, armageddon! come!

In the seaside town ...that they forgot to bomb
Come, come, come - nuclear bomb

This man is calling for nuclear terrorism against the west. He must be stopped, and stopped quickly.

And as if that wasn't bad enough, he's got 10,000 maniacs following his every word.

"Kokomo.. didn't the Eagles sing something about that.. or was that somewhere in hawaii?" Actually it was the Beach Boys that sang the song Kokomo. It is an island in Montego Bay, Jamaica. It is actually owned by Sandals Royal Caribbean.

Cold, Cold Heart by Hank Williams

Lyrics taken from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/h/hank-williams/64082.h tml

I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my every dream.
Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme
A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart

Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do
In anger unkind words are said that make the teardrops start
Why can't I free your doubtful mind,and melt your cold cold heart

You'll never know how much it hurts to see you sat and cry
You know you need and want my love yet you're afraid to try
Why do you run and hide from lies,to try it just ain't smart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart

There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me
But now I know your heart is shackled to a memory
The more I learn to care for you,the more we drift apart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart

Cheers
Stor

She couldn't see the irony in her favourite film being Clueless, despite the fact that such a dialect originated when her own parents were teens!

Hello me, it's ME again....

Now Steve's Sweating BULLETS.

Just when we're hearing that the Music Publishers' Association is demanding jail time for folks who put up lyric sites, we get Google blithely putting up...a lyric site index. I know they're claiming that their partner sites are providing these, but my first hit was on lyricsfreak.com, which I suspect is hardly legal. It's like Google is daring folks to sue them. Awesome.

Nobody else got the joke, I'm sure, but it's god damned hilarious.

Mod this man up!

CIV III could have stood to have been a bit more humerous.

I found the following amusing when trying to change governments:

You say you want a revolution?

• Yes. You know it's gonna be alright.
• No. You can count me out.

HEADLINE: /. mods serenaded from under bridge and bite hook, line and sinker. Troll deserves a +5 Troll for their wonderful parody of "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" .

It's not easy when you're big in Japan.

... Mental wounds not healing
Who and what's to blame
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/o/ozzy-osbourne/103982. html/

... at least according to Fatboy Slim.

"Beelzebub has the source code put a-side for me-ee-ee, For meee... For meeee!"

I'm sure someone here can take the lyrics and turn it into a cool parody. :)

I lack the imagination. :/

"You make a grown man cry."

Well, if it could make a "dead man come", that would be really special.

Actually that's a quote from a Neil Young song. Take a look: My My Hey Hey - Neil Young

Damn Americans know nothing about good British music ... Grumble, Grumble...

RadioHead: The Bends:Fake Plastic Trees

Are we not men? We are Devo!

Why have them, supported by newer or existing leglislation, why not have them Ride the Lightning.

"The Original Lyrics here..."

THE SPIRIT OF RADIO

"All this machinery
Making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted
It's really just a question
Of your honesty"

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rush/120011.html

Too much ham and spam is bad for you. No wonder the email servers are always choking.

Replace DramaticMusic with old 8-Track tunes:
Bad Moon Rising

Uhmm...

Unskinny Bop

'Nuff said.

Not that this date tree will necessarily be as bad, mind you.

You really shouldn't learn to spell things from song titles. Musicians are frequently the worst authority on literacy. The word you want is Vaseline.

You, sir, are a dumbass. Everyone knows there are FIVE "karma"s. See?

I remember it from the beginning of Supertramp's Fool's Overture. Gotta admit that the Iron Maiden lyrics made better sense for more obvious dramatic historical context, though.

let's get over a few of these preconceptions. When I was in school some time back I didn't have internet where I lived, okay, I didn't even have electricity. Anyways, I spent a ton of time at the local truckstop since it offered reasonable dialup (25 cents unlimited) and strong coffee (65 cents unlimited). I'd bring my laptop and work on code, surf the net, etc.

Everyone there knew me and I got to know a good deal of truckers. Many had laptops even back then. I am sure these days with laptops being as cheap as a dvd player it's standard equipment.

Now mind you, you probably think I am an ignorant hick, but I found the people at the truck stop to be generally quite intelligent. I even got to know a driver whose brother was one of the top engineers at Nortel. And some actually read Slashdot.

I would even go so far as to posit that most truckers have more of a hacker mind than most deskjockies. Further, this is why the internet bubble crashed -- there was not enough of a hacker community to create an anthem as compelling as Convoy . I would even go so far to say that Texas doesn't want an internet version of Convoy so they are trying to put the kaibosh on all of that with the excuse of porn when they realized truckers used the net more than tourists in caravans.

And yes, most experienced truck drivers would be taking a pay cut to become Network Admins and where did you get the idea that becoming an admin would help you loose weight...face it, physically, driving a computer is about the same thing as driving a truck.. nonstop sitting and snacking

From now on, a kilo is the amount of coke a mexican hooker can snort in one week.

Why not pepsi?

Or course, that is under STP.

I am, I am, I am, I said I wanna get next to you...

Bongoman, don't give up!
Congoman, live up, yeah!
Binghi-man don't give up!
Keep your culture:
Don't be afraid of the vulture!
Grow your dreadlock:
Don't be afraid of the wolf pack!...

Michael Jackson agrees with your physics professor.

Found this on Stallman's computer the other day. Apparently he wanted to use this song as 'The Free Software Song' but I guess he was afraid of a lawsuit from Iron Maiden for copyright infringement.

[best sung on the melody from 'Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness']

Give me some code to wonder,
to wonder if I'm free.
Give me some code to wonder,
to wonder if I can tweak.
Give me the strength to put my code up,
share it with everyone.
Don't need no DRM to unlock this code,
Gonna make my own fork,
Break out of this place!

[chorus]
Can I play with my code,
I just stared at my EULA.
Can I play with my code,
there's no freedom here at all.
Can I play with my code,
But Gates just looked and he laughed at me.
Can I play with my code,
He said you're blind, too blind to see.
[/chorus]

I screamed aloud to the rich man,
I said don't lie don't say you don't know.
I say you pay for your poor code,
in this world or the next.
Oh and then he fixed me with a copyright note,
and the patents raged in his eyes.
He said do you wanna have the code son,
I'll give you the code.
Your soul's gonna burn in the court.

[2 x chorus and then do the moonwalk for the rest of the song]

Original lyrics here - http://www.lyricsfreak.com/i/iron-maiden/68047.htm l
The current "Free Software Song" - http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html

and why did we port those mainframe programs to Win32 10 years ago?

KEEP THE CUSTOMER SATISFIED, that sounds good.

Does anyone stop to think that there may be too many flavors of Linux for the average user?

You are the government
You are jurisprudence
You are the volition
You are jurisdiction
And I make a difference too

"Name like that"?

Have you never heard of the many many other things which use the word Xanadu?

Either Fisher-Price's Little People or Playskool's Weebles, and I'm almost leaning toward Weebles given that the MSN Messenger guy has no legs.

I wouldn't buy CDs from little Susie or Grandma, if I were you. Little Susie's reputation was shot some years ago, and Grandma suffered a tragic holiday accident, putting her out of business for a while.

<sorry>

Maybe we should compare it to the albert hall?

And another one bites the dust

"God rest ye merry merchants, May
you make the Yuletide pay..."
(Sung to the tune of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen".)