Comments on: Whatever Happened To…? http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/ America's favorite blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:03:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: hedera http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23150 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:18:13 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23150 Very good, Dave M. After I had logged off the other night, I realized what was wrong with dee's version of the "Colonel Bogey" lyrics. The version I learned had different first 2 lines, which went Hitler has only half a ball, Goering has two but they are small... I think my first line scans better than dee's, as the major emphasis (and the high note) lands on the word "half" - in hers, it's on "got". And a very sad farewell to Molly Ivins. What a woman. There are people who speak truth to power, and there are funny people, but she was both, and that's priceless. She gave me my favorite insult, which she originated about some nameless Texas politico: "If his IQ was any lower, we'd have to water him twice a week." Very good, Dave M.

After I had logged off the other night, I realized what was wrong with dee’s version of the “Colonel Bogey” lyrics. The version I learned had different first 2 lines, which went

Hitler has only half a ball,
Goering has two but they are small…

I think my first line scans better than dee’s, as the major emphasis (and the high note) lands on the word “half” - in hers, it’s on “got”.

And a very sad farewell to Molly Ivins. What a woman. There are people who speak truth to power, and there are funny people, but she was both, and that’s priceless. She gave me my favorite insult, which she originated about some nameless Texas politico: “If his IQ was any lower, we’d have to water him twice a week.”

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23123 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:45:09 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23123 Katie, it's ok so long as you also remember to dance. Katie, it’s ok so long as you also remember to dance.

]]> by: Katie http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23120 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:22:39 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23120 Cooper - I just read that article and was coming over here to post it! Scary stuff. Katie p.s. Thanks. Now I'll be humming "Safety Dance" all afternoon..... Cooper -

I just read that article and was coming over here to post it!

Scary stuff.

Katie

p.s. Thanks. Now I’ll be humming “Safety Dance” all afternoon…..

]]> by: cooper http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23119 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:52:32 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23119 hedera, don't you mean "...<strong>A</strong> bomb"? hedera, don’t you mean “…A bomb”?

]]> by: Dave M http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23116 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:47:51 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23116 Down in Fallujah they don't say hallelujah for the USA Down in Fallujah
they don’t say hallelujah
for the USA

]]> by: hedera http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23114 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:38:48 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23114 Dee, <i>thanks</i> for reminding me of the words to Colonel Bogey's March - I was just trying to remember them, after David's recollections, and there they were! I wasn't born until 1946 but I knew those words - never heard David's though. I can't do these things but surely one of the members can make a haiku including "Ahmedinejad" - it's 5 syllables - how about Ahmedinejad Ranting loudly in Teheran Thinks he wants a bomb. This assumes "Teheran" is pronounced with 2 syllables, so it's weak. But haiku don't have to rhyme... Surely someone can do better than that? How about for "Fallujah"? Dee, thanks for reminding me of the words to Colonel Bogey’s March - I was just trying to remember them, after David’s recollections, and there they were! I wasn’t born until 1946 but I knew those words - never heard David’s though.

I can’t do these things but surely one of the members can make a haiku including “Ahmedinejad” - it’s 5 syllables - how about

Ahmedinejad
Ranting loudly in Teheran
Thinks he wants a bomb.

This assumes “Teheran” is pronounced with 2 syllables, so it’s weak. But haiku don’t have to rhyme… Surely someone can do better than that? How about for “Fallujah”?

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23112 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:22:40 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23112 Life might not be the party we imagined it would be, but yes, we can still dance, and as Harold so beguilingly put it, we can dance to any song we wish, m'lords and ladies. Life might not be the party we imagined it would be, but yes, we can still dance, and as Harold so beguilingly put it, we can dance to any song we wish, m’lords and ladies.

]]> by: cooper http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23109 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:22:25 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23109 Incase you missed "Countdown" tonight, Keith Olbermann did some fact checking of the President's claims about stopping terrorists plots against the US in his SOTU speech last Tuesday. How did Mr. Bush do? Well... not so good. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16893899/ Incase you missed “Countdown” tonight, Keith Olbermann did some fact checking of the President’s claims about stopping terrorists plots against the US in his SOTU speech last Tuesday. How did Mr. Bush do? Well… not so good.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16893899/

]]> by: Lurker Dave http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23108 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:59:04 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23108 We can dance if we want to We can leave your friends behind 'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance Well they're no friends of mine I say, we can go where we want to A place where they will never find And we can act like we come from out of this world Leave the real one far behind And we can dance -With many apologies to the one hit wonder Men Without Hats, and to the FanAppers who have to endure the silliness Commence Lurking We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
‘Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance
Well they’re no friends of mine
I say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can dance

-With many apologies to the one hit wonder Men Without Hats, and to the FanAppers who have to endure the silliness

Commence Lurking

]]> by: Harold http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23107 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:16:05 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/01/29/whatever-happened-to%e2%80%a6/#comment-23107 We can dance to any song you wish, m'lady. We can dance to any song you wish, m’lady.

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