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But above all, Al's lyrics are clean. If they're funny while refraining from toilet humour and nonstop obscenities, then the audience is lauging because the content is funny, rather than because you're making it nervous. Case in point: prison bitch by Rodney Carrington. Try searching for other songs by Rodney, and you'll find a bunch of very short or unfinished parodies that aren't anywhere near as funny.

If you search your favourite file-sharing network for "Weird Al" you'll find almost as many songs wrongly attributed to Weird Al as there are actual songs by Weird Al. One of my favourite examples is "Asshole Son", parodying "Blackhole Sun". While the lyrics spring from the same sort of "deliberately mishearing something" as the article puts it, they aren't funny in and of themselves.

So while there's a bit of humor in parodying songs that take themselves entirely too seriously and poking fun at bands and cultural icons, that's not all there is to Al. Because his songs are actually *funny* (which is even more apparent in his original works like "Christmas at Ground Zero", or "You don't love me anymore"), they stand up on their own two feet.

You can call me Betty, and betty when you call me you can call me al.

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/You-Can-Cal l-Me-Al-lyrics-Paul-Simon/79D1AA14FD5250C54825698A 000EF740

Personally, my favourite is his "Why Does This Always Happen To Me", from Poodle Hat. Not only are the lyrics hysterical, but the Ben Folds' Piano is just loverly - I've been really impressed by him as a musician, and I do hope that right after that track is one starting "Screw the RIAA...."

What if God Smoked Cannabis

Yeah, I think it was recorded with a 20 year old walkman, and the band had no monitors.

Anyway, here are some probably accurate lyrics

Lemmy Kilmister agrees

one of these days...

...Orwell was proved right

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

They thought lyrics had been an untapped resource for them and there's quite a bit of lyrics being taken for free on the Web

This license creates a new revenue stream which will guarantee that songwriters are paid for their work

Clearly, there are copyright issues involving these unlicensed sites, which are making good income through advertising and other sources, while the composers are not getting their due

Not everyone in SF gets a license first: Salvage 1 for example.

Freelancing though probably will come about once there are one or more corporate space stations. There are a few reasons for this:

1. The big money is in the lift vehicles, controlled drop vehicles and the station itself. Asteroid hopping vehicles will be relatively inexpensive to build and operate.

2. The corporations don't have to take responsibility for the independant operators. The operators can either be miners or just finders or both. Corporations will only pay for delivery not for unproductive time.

3. Space stations will become the new corporate towns with the new corporate stores and Tennesee Ernie Williams music will see a revival in popularity.

Will stop there as I don't want to completely outline a new science fiction novel for someone or a new future business model. On second thought maybe I should on the latter and patent it.

"Bullshit, my shit's the bomb.
Siamese twins want menage a trois.
Robot bitches want their backs massaged.
They may not be real but them tits is large."
- mc chris, DQ Blizzard

The Sexy Data Tango Lyrics
by Voltaire

If, while you're out in space, love
You're horny as a targ
Take a tip from a security chief, love
That fat slut Tasha Yar
She discovered the pleasures of Data
He became her sexual pet

'cause he's fully functional, and anatomically correct
He's fully functional and anatomically correct

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Sexy-Da ta-Tango-lyrics-Voltaire/527F42FD89452DC148256DAA0 025B8E4/

So back to time, would you know you've reached the beginning? How would you know?

When you've reached the beginning of time, you'll hear this song... :^)

http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/No-Time-lyr ics-The-Guess-Who/384312007592002748256CE90029F9DA

I've got ten bucks that says we see Fett before season 1 is over.

Yup. That episode's plot summary is here.

(Enticed? Hear it here.)

Sadly in Trek cannon he already has one. Voltaire wrote a song about it actually. The Sexy Data Tango [sing365.com]

No no, Jigga Man

Dude, Fat Butt And Pancake Head was one of the funniest episodes ever!

Jennifer Lopez (aka Eric Cartman's left hand)] Burrito. Taco taco. Burrito. Taco. Taco taco.
Don't think just because I got a lot of money,
I'll give you taco-flavored kisses, honey.
Fulfill all your wishes
with my taco-flavored kisses.

Taco taco. Burrito burrito. Taco taco.
Fulfill all your wishes
with my taco-flavored kisses! Taco taco.

It's just sad to think you could find that not funny...

This is what you need

Being an INTP (just found that out recently and it helps explain a lot), I've been a big introvert misfit all my life. In contrast to what TFA says about shyness, I'm pushing forty and have only overcome mine in the past few years through conscious effort. I'm functional, but I'm not going to be running for office any time soon. The Smiths How Soon Is Now? pretty much sums up how I was until some time after I turned thirty. I found liquor helped when going out, but by the time I started loosening up, I could barely talk... They have better treatments for it now, I hear. What I have found that helps is when I have to give presentations in my MBA classes. I've got four coming up over the next two weeks...where'd I put that bottle... Just kidding! Anyways, I hope shyness is not an intrinsic characteristic of all introverts. I'd hate to think that all the other misfits out there like me have had to put up with something so stupid their whole lives too.

You cite Websters; I cite Nirvana:

Just because you're paranoid
Don't mean they're not after you

Something along the lines of a European 2Unlimited. The song that attracted me to them was called "Russian Lullaby". The lyrics can be found here.

However, now I can't get the Ramones song out of my mind from the Stephen King Movie Pet Cemetary.

... I don't want to be buried, in a pet cemetary, I don't want to live my life again...
Full Lyrics here.

Get your facts right.

What about Coolio? I heard that he was upset with Al about "Amish Paradise."

That was a very unfortunate case of misunderstanding between Al's people and Coolio's people. Short version of the story: Al recorded "Amish Paradise" after being told by his record label that Coolio had given his permission for the parody. When Al's album came out, Coolio publicly contended that he had never given his blessing, and that he was in fact very offended by the song. To this day we're not exactly sure who got their facts wrong, but Al sincerely apologizes to Coolio for the misunderstanding.

Have any artists ever turned Al down for a parody?

Even though most recording artists really do have a pretty good sense of humor, on a few very rare occasions Al has been denied permission to do a parody. Actually, the only artist to turn Al down consistently over the years has been the Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. Go figure. I moshed at his show, his band is good :)

Yep. If'n the ole boy lived in Miss'ippi the boss'd be playing solitaire with real cards. (Actually, if it were our DOT, the boss would be propped up in the yellow crew-cab pickup truck reading Hustler).

>Sweet home Alabama

I prefer this version.

Fitter, happier, more productive,
comfortable,
not drinking too much,
regular exercise at the gym
(3 days a week),
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries ,
at ease,
eating well
(no more microwave dinners and saturated fats),
a patient better driver,
a safer car
(baby smiling in back seat),
sleeping well
(no bad dreams),
no paranoia,
careful to all animals
(never washing spiders down the plughole),
keep in contact with old friends
(enjoy a drink now and then),
will frequently check credit at
(moral) bank (hole in the wall),
favors for favors,
fond but not in love,
charity standing orders,
on Sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants),
car wash
(also on Sundays),
no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate,
nothing so childish - at a better pace,
slower and more calculated,
no chance of escape,
now self-employed,
concerned (but powerless),
an empowered and informed member of society
(pragmatism not idealism),
will not cry in public,
less chance of illness,
tires that grip in the wet
(shot of baby strapped in back seat),
a good memory,
still cries at a good film,
still kisses with saliva,
no longer empty and frantic
like a cat
tied to a stick,
that's driven into
frozen winter shit
(the ability to laugh at weakness),
calm,
fitter,
healthier and more productive
A pig, in a cage, on antibiotics.

Here you go.

You should always Blame Canada

It's pronounced arsehole. The t, z, e and r are silent. It's like Hen3ry.

• The DSM IV (diagnostic and statistical manual)
• National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (find your local chapter and get as much support for the rest of the family as for her)
• schizophrenia.com (get literate and read like crazy [oops], and eventually get a sense of humor rather than just crying)
• Voices by Dream Theater, part of A Mind Beside Itself

Don't confuse schizophrenia vs. manic depression with paranoid delusions or other personality disorders. As I understand it, the distinction is that schizophrenics hallucinate (have false senses in realtime, as if something is really seen or heard) whereas that type of manic depressives do not (they may confabulate memories of having seen or heard something).

I know that Peter Gabriel once sampled a dot matrix printer his song Intruder. He added all kinds of processesing, but the dox matrix sound is unmistakable.

Voltaire - The USS Make Shit Up

The smell of burning leather
as we hold each other tight
As our rivets rub together
flashing sparks into the night
At this moment of surrender darling
if you really care
Don't scan me there

Um, probably not, because the sig goes below the little "--" line.

You can't win
You can't break even
And you can't get out of the game
---Michael Jackson

Not all global MTV stations are like that though; on German MTV at one time they played OPM - Stash Up uncensored fairly often.

As everyone knows, and as Lawnmower Deth sang, a good old-fashioned English cricket bat, measured in proper English feet and inches is the de facto standard and benchmark instrument for dealing out a good spanking. Just ask any public schoolboy and Tory MP.

As everyone knows, and as Lawnmower Deth sang, a good old-fashioned English cricket bat, measured in proper English feet and inches is the de facto standard and benchmark instrument for dealing out a good spanking. Just ask any public schoolboy and Tory MP.

If this is paradise I wish I had a lawnmower.

Mmm yes

Number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine

Number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine

Number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine

Number nine, number nine, number...

[...]

Here's what you gotta do -

Pick up the phone

I'm always home

Call me any time

Just ring

36 24 36 hey [36 24 36 8]

I lead a life of crime

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Dirty Deeds and they're Done Dirt Cheap

In other news, the Aussie supergroups Regurgitator and Killing Heidi have joined together for a collaboration known as "Regurgitating Heidi"

Film at 11.

Heck no, that would smack of accountability. I know! Let's blame Canada!

There's actually a song about that argument.

--Which reminds me of this Weird Al Yankovic song:

[[ Dad would whoop us every night till a quarter after twelve
Then he'd get too tired and he'd make us whoop ourselves
Then he'd chop me into pieces and play frisbee with my brain
And let me tell ya, Junior, you never heard me complain

When I was your age.
]]

clicky

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zonealarm? Windows??


LYNCH THE HETHEN.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like Howard Dean screaming

I don't suppose it would improve my situation if I said I was listening to Don't Say You Love Me (Alterate Link) on Windows Media Player, would it?

No, I didn't think so either.

"I'm with stupid - and he's with me." == Scatterbrain

Reference

> "Imagine a world with no posessions."

John Lennon: "Imagine no possessions" (lyrics)
Elvis Costello: "Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions"?" (lyrics)

Suddenly the opening line to one of my favorite songs doesn't seem so far fetched.

How about an excerpt from Ben Harper's With My Own Two Hands"?

elvis is DEAD . .. so who gives a shit what some ass supposes he would think?

-fester