Lyr Add: Cookie is Corrupt

27 Feb 01 - 05:39 AM (#407054)
Subject: Cookie is corrupt
From: The Crazy Bird

I started my 'puter this morning and it said: "Your cookie is corrupt" -- the reason I guess is that I signed on at work also y'day, or maybe some other reason, but it tickled my fancy to think that my "cookie was corrupt" -- I've been accused of a lot of things, but never that!

Anyways -- I got a long drive to work in the morning, so I made this up while waiting for the traffic to move:

COOKIE IS CORRUPT
(by Chuck Cliff -- a Gilbert and Sullivan tune will do)

When I woke up this morning,
     with nothing else to do,
I thought I'd go to the "Mudcat"
     and check out what was new.
I booted my computer,
     I got my browser up...
But when I pushed the button
     -- my COOKIE WAS CORRUPT!

All day, I've gone 'round mumbling,
     "My God, what shall I do!"
I've heard of cookies crumbling,
     but can this be true?
I know I was connected,
     and there was coffee in my cup.
But when I pushed the button
     -- my COOKIE WAS CORRUPT!

Some folks will go to heaven,
     the rest will go to hell;
Just which will host the most,
     it's kind of hard to tell...
The only thing I need to know,
     when my time is up,
Is: no one's gonna tell me --
     "your COOKIE IS CORRUPT!"

I've been living in this world
     for nearly sixty years
I've shared a little heartache,
     I've choked back some tears
I've seen both sides and there's been times
     I've thought, "I've seen enough!"
Believe me man, it hits the fan
     when your COOKIE IS CORRUPT!

rgrds CrzyBrd

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27 Feb 01 - 06:01 AM (#407058)
Subject: RE: BS: Cookie is corrupt
From: Joe Offer

I was all set to tell you to post your request in the help forum....

Inspiring, Crzybrd, truly inspiring.

-Joe Offer-

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27 Feb 01 - 07:34 AM (#407080)
Subject: RE: BS: Cookie is corrupt
From: katlaughing

yeah, that was great Crazy Bird, I was all set to tell you the same as Joe...LOL...thanks for sharing!

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27 Feb 01 - 07:59 AM (#407096)
Subject: RE: BS: Cookie is corrupt
From: MudGuard

If your cookie is corrupt, offer it some money - perhaps it will accept it...

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It should not be because you were online at work. I regularly go to Mudcat from work and from home and have no problems with a corrupt cookie
MudGuard

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27 Feb 01 - 08:11 AM (#407102)
Subject: RE: BS: Cookie is corrupt
From: McGrath of Harlow

Classic. It'd also go very well to the tune of "My Old Man's a Dustman" as sung and assembled by Lonnie Donegan .

But I just checked , and the DT doesn't seem to have that one (it probably does, in some variant but a search for "dustman" didn't throw it up) - I found the words on this useful site of children's songs

And here they are:

Now here's a little story
To tell it is a must
About an unsung hero
That moves away the dust
Some people make a fortune
Others earn a mint
My old man don't earn much
In fact he's flipping skint

Chorus:
Oh, my old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman's hat
He wears gorblimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat

He looks a proper 'nana
In his great big hobnail boots
He's got such a job to pull them up
That he calls them daisy roots

Some folks give tips at Christmas
And some of them forget
So when he picks their bins up
He spills some on the step
Now one old man got nasty
And to the council wrote
Next time my old man went round there
He punched him up the throat

Chorus
I say, I say, Les.
Les: Yeah?
I found a police dog in my dustbin.
Les: Well how do you know it's a police dog?
He had a policeman with him.

Though my old man's a dustman
He's got a heart of gold
He got married recently
Though he's eighty-six years old
We said "Here, hang on Dad,
You're getting past your prime."
He said "Well, when you get my age
It helps to pass the time."

Chorus
I say, I say, I say.
Les: Huh?
My dustbin's full of lilies.
Les: Well throw them away then!
I can't, Lilly's wearing them.

One day whilst in a hurry
He missed a lady's bin
He hadn't gone but a few yards
When she chased after him
"What game do you think you're playing?"
She cried right from the heart
"You've missed me, am I too late?"
"No, jump up on the cart!"

Chorus
I say, I say, I say.
Les: Not you again! My dustbin's absolutely full with toadstools.
Les: How do you know it's full?
Because there's not mushroom inside.

He found a tiger's head one day
Nailed to a piece of wood
The tiger looked quite miserable
But I suppose he should
Just then from out a window
A voice began to wail
It said "Oi! Where's me tiger's head?"
"Four foot from his tail!"

Chorus
Next time you see a dustman
Looking all pale and sad
Don't kick him in the dustbin
It might be my old dad.

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27 Feb 01 - 08:15 AM (#407105)
Subject: RE: BS: Cookie is corrupt
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler

"Les" being his then guitarist, Les Bennetts who was later to have his own group, Les Hobeaux, I believe.
RtS

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27 Feb 01 - 08:20 AM (#407109)
Subject: RE: BS: Cookie is corrupt
From: Noreen

I like it!

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27 Feb 01 - 10:56 AM (#407184)
Subject: RE: BS: Cookie is corrupt
From: The Crazy Bird

Thank you Mudgard, for the suggestion.

However, offering the cookie a bribe, is that how one tells if it is corrupt (when it accepts) -- or is that how I make it corrupt?

In general, I don't approve of "sting" operations, but in the case of getting rid of corrupt and/or corruptible cookies I might go along with it ;-)

Uh, I'm not really sure if I'm answering your post or am just tagging on the end of the thread -- I'll submit, that is press the sub.msg. button and see what happens

CrzyBrd

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27 Feb 01 - 10:56 AM (#407185)
Subject: RE: BS: Cookie is corrupt
From: wysiwyg

I also have a corrupt cookie, in fact three or four among all the membershipsin our household.

Both songs go great BTW to "I'm a Woman," right down to the C-O-R-R-U-P-T.

To get past my corruption I have to delete cookies in IE from View Temp Internet files. But as soon as I sign back in and try to sign out again, it's baaaaaccckkk.

The Creeping Corruption Crud. I thought I'd try holy water next.

~S~

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27 Feb 01 - 10:59 AM (#407186)
Subject: RE: BS: Cookie is corrupt
From: The Crazy Bird

McGrath -- thanks for the tune tip, Lonnie Donnegan, gosh, he's even older than me, I hope.

CrzyBrd

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27 Feb 01 - 11:05 AM (#407192)
Subject: RE: BS: Cookie is corrupt
From: wysiwyg

CrazyBird, now you've done it. What if the clones start requiring that help requests be submitted in song form?

At least that way they'd get some entertaiment value out of all the requests!

~S~

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27 Feb 01 - 11:07 AM (#407194)
Subject: RE: BS: Cookie is corrupt
From: Áine

FYI You all -- My Cookie Is Corrupt! is now in the Mudcat Songbook -- Yeehaw!

-- Áine

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