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Song Challenge! Part 9
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Subject: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Áine Date: 21 Feb 00 - 04:01 PM This CHALLENGE! is being posted by popular demand (it would seem) and/or by thread creep from another thread. (For info and inspiration, check out this thread). The CHALLENGE! is to write a song about food -- your favorite food, your least favorite food, the things in your refrigerator, etc. Any food-based topic is fine. Suggested titles are:
My Bulgur Is A 'Bulgin'; . . . I think you get the idea. OK, go for it CHALLENGE!RS!! -- Áine (the acute and acquiesced!!) |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Mbo Date: 21 Feb 00 - 05:17 PM Ahhh....foo songs. I have written many Campbell's soup songs, along with my sister....and we also, over the course of 4 years, wrote more than 100 Damon's Ribs songs, anything from imitation-rap to Renaissance ballads. Ahh..you shoulda been in Printmaking class with me this morning...we were all cracking up, including our hilarious teacher, over musical Printmaking jokes. I'd tell them, but they'd be kinda hard to grasp...if you want to see some soup and/or ribz songs, I'll be happy to oblige! Cracker meal, cracker meal I love the way you make me feel It never has been known to fail Especially when eaten stale! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Áine Date: 21 Feb 00 - 05:24 PM Come on, Mbo -- The challenge is to write a new, complete song -- no relying on your own mouldy oldies now. I think a couple of good titles for your song could be Cold Hocks, Cold Heart or Keep Your Hands Off My Ham Or I'll Drop My Hocks On You or My Bacon Is Taken or My Heart Is Sugar Cured Over You . . . come on, be a mensch! -- Áine |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Callie Date: 21 Feb 00 - 05:30 PM Today the Chocolate Left Me Brown Summer day, flies a-swarmin' On your skin, sweat's a-formin'. Come the three o'clock snackie blues The chocolate bar begins to ooze. Oh dear, what's the matter? The sweetie is stuck to the wrapper. There's this yearning in my glands, But now the stuff's all over my hands. I'll never get a mouthful In this dragonfly-time of the year. So I'll dream of firm brown fields And shed a tear. -Callie |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Mbo Date: 21 Feb 00 - 05:38 PM Oh Bulgur is a tempting treat So nutritious and so sweet Bulgur wheat, bulgur wheat Makes my little ticker beat Bulgur bulgur bulgur wheat Garnished with a bit of peat Oh give me bulgur straight or neat! There's Mazzeppa's fighting band A bulgur smoothie in each hand Bulgur fresh, bulgur canned I wish I was in bulgur land bulgur bulgur bulgur and More b-bulgur white as sand On Tahiti's sunny strand! Wars have came and wars have went All for bulgur's tempting scent Bulgur mortgage, bulgur rent For it I'd give my last red cent Every dollar would be spent Till all my body's pores would vent Bulgur bulgur permanent! Buuuuuuuuulgur! Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuulgar! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Amos Date: 21 Feb 00 - 05:41 PM Hang tough, boys. It's a-working. A |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Mbo Date: 21 Feb 00 - 05:43 PM That's to the tune of a sea chantey "Whisky Is The Life O' Man" by the way. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Áine Date: 21 Feb 00 - 05:46 PM Keep going, Callie!! It's a great start! Suggested Titles for The Lady Mudcats:
I'm Takin' What You're Tellin' Me With A BIG Pinch Of Salt; Somebody stop me . . . |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Callie Date: 21 Feb 00 - 05:57 PM You're making me hungry!!
Forever is a long time,
Life is short, or brief.
So when I say I love you Apologies for lack of scantion etc. I'm on my way to work, and haste makes for bad rhyming and rhythmning! -Callie
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Áine Date: 21 Feb 00 - 06:03 PM Dear Callie, We'll just call it a 'work in progress' -- firm it up after you get home from work -- it's not set in stone until you say it is! -- Áine |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Mbo Date: 21 Feb 00 - 06:14 PM WHAT DOES THE WORLD HAVE AGAINST BULGAR?! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Áine Date: 21 Feb 00 - 06:24 PM What I Flay? (Tune: What I Say) {with sincere apologies to Ray Charles} Come on baby, put your brown bag down, I'm gonna fry your bacon all over town, Hey, hey, Hey, hey Hey, hey now, What I flay? You love bologna and I like spam, Push your cloves into my ham, Hey, hey Hey, hey Hey, hey now, What I flay? What's with this fruit, now ain't it fine, I'll rub your apples until they shine, Hey, hey Hey, hey Hey, hey now, What I flay? See the turkey with white pants on, I'll be cookin right thru 'til dawn, Hey, hey Hey, hey Hey, hey now, What I flay? You like cakes and I like pie, Come to Momma, don't be so shy, Hey, hey Hey, hey Hey, hey now, What I flay? Oooh, baby look at them eggs, They're as pretty as your legs, Hey, hey Hey, hey Hey, hey now, What I flay? You like wheat bread, I like white, Spread that mayo thru the night, Hey, hey Hey, hey Hey, hey now, What I flay? I like liver, you like beef, Gonna call you my 'big meat chief', Hey, hey Hey, hey Hey, hey now, What I flay? You like sherbert, I like ice cream, Scoop me baby, until I scream, Hey, hey Hey, hey Hey, hey now, What I flay? Where's my big pot, where's my spoon? Gonna cook until you croon, Hey, hey Hey, hey Hey, hey now, What I flay? |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Amos Date: 21 Feb 00 - 06:30 PM Holy moly!! Somebody let the Genie right outta the bottle! Dang -- I never heard of now Goddess getting down like that before! Shake yo' relish again, Green Goddess, and poor Mbo's gonna drool himself right off the table! You GO, Texas Chile Cookoff -- that there keyboard has barbecue smoke coming right out of it... A |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Jeri Date: 21 Feb 00 - 06:54 PM This is based on an actual event in my life...
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Áine Date: 21 Feb 00 - 06:59 PM Dear Amos, To quote Mr. Charles: it's all where the mind wanna take you . . . -- Áine |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Áine Date: 21 Feb 00 - 07:17 PM Dear Jeri, Great image! Keep on goin' -- we've got the angst, now's where the sturm??? Dear Mbo, I've got nothin' 'gainst your bulgur -- it's a wonderful song. But, I have a feeling you've got another one cookin' inside that creative brain of your, don't ya . . . -- Áine |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Amos Date: 21 Feb 00 - 07:33 PM Wow -- this has gotta be the hottest Challenge yet. What talent!. Sub-Chef Food Poisoning Blues (Note: If you haven.t heard Dylan sing the original on the Bringing it All Back Home (Open to the sounds of a country rock boogiewoogie intro joined by Spaw's old medicine Look out man Maggie brings brown rice Look out girl Look out, goil Look out kid (Whining steel slides and rhythm fade out) |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Áine Date: 21 Feb 00 - 07:50 PM Dingy dang darn it, Amos!!! If you keep topping everybody in the competition, you're gonna be barred -- I mean it -- quit being so dawl-garned good all the time . . . -- Áine |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Feb 00 - 08:12 PM Pick any blues tune that fits, such as "Rather drink muddy water..." PO' FOOD BLUES by Praise I was lookin' in the icebox, I didn't see no food. I was lookin' in the icebox, I didn't see no food. Oh momma won't you feed me, Something hot and good. Now she's lookin' in the pantry, She say she see some grits. Oh now she's lookin' in the pantry, She say she see some grits. I had 'em six times last weekend, I like to had the fits [sh*ts]. Well she's cookin' at the woodstove, She got the heat up high. Yes she's cookin' at the woodstove, She got the heat up (way up) high. Say she makin' something special, Hey honey, make it right. Well you know I love my po' food, Never throw it out. Sure you know I love my po' food, Never throw it out. Grits with redeye gravy, Grits all in my mouth. Now I could use me some sweet dessert, babe, Come on and do me right. Sure do need your sweet dessert, babe, I know you do me right. Honey you know I love my po' food, I could eat it all the night. |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Amos Date: 21 Feb 00 - 08:18 PM Dang, this is the best line up your compytishun has ever had, Miss Áine! Yew suppose we could go to the State level with our-all soyungs? A |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Áine Date: 21 Feb 00 - 08:33 PM Wow, Praise! A definite Blue Fume Shield contender there!! You're absolootlee right, Amos. I can't wait to see what miss kat and Troll come up with! -- Áine (Amos - our-all soyungs??? Darlin', I'm from Texas, not Virginia!) |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: MarkS Date: 21 Feb 00 - 08:47 PM Does anybody remember who wrote that old nostalgic favorite, "I've Got the Chicken Cordon Blues?" |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Amos Date: 21 Feb 00 - 08:54 PM Oioooooo....groan....talk about breadcrumb sins! A |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 21 Feb 00 - 09:20 PM Mother Hubbard's Blues.
My fridge is empty and my pocket book is too
Looked in the larder, all I saw there was an empty plate,
I looked at the cat, and the cat looked me in the eye,
Grabbed hold of that bowl, and then I grabbed hold of a spoon,
Woke up this morning, feel so sick and so sore
Looked in my larder - it was empty, the cat food was gone Now that is a song in exceedingly poor taste. (Some Dog biscuits on the other hand taste quite good, I used to sneak them when I was a kid. And I can remember my mother asking the butcher for a nice juicy bone for the dog, and we'd make soup out of it before he got it. But Cat food -I never could fancy it.)
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Feb 00 - 09:25 PM Cordon Blue = Steve Goodman, si?? |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Barky Date: 21 Feb 00 - 09:40 PM Spam... Spam... Spaaa-am... It is pink meat it smells like your feet It's something you don't want to… eat?
Spam... Spam... Spaaa-am.
Spam... |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Mbo Date: 21 Feb 00 - 10:10 PM I tell you, sounds like my old soup song: Campbell's Soup in a can That was made by a sweaty man Open the can, pour it in a pot Stick it on the stove and LET IT ROT! No cakes or candy for this little brat I'd rather eat soup that's pumped with fat! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Áine Date: 21 Feb 00 - 10:15 PM Kevin -- Great song! I've had a bite or two of dog biscuit in my day, and you're right, I don't think I'd ever go for the cat food! Well done! Barky -- That's great for your first challenge! But, at 15 years of age, why do I have a hard time believing that you've ever eaten Spam??? Mbo -- I told you before, no mouldy oldies! Although, it's a cutie, just like you! -- Áine (Where's MMario?? I thought this challenge would be right up his vermcelli!) |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Barky Date: 21 Feb 00 - 10:22 PM 'Nuther SPAM one. (oh, another tidbit of info that you really didn't need to know, but oh well: My friend met the guy who shoveled the first load of spam ever!)
The SPAM Blues. (To the tune of Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis) (Anyone want to help with the title?)
Stepped outta my house this evenin'.
Oh I'm so hungry baby.
Now I may not be the smartest,
Oh I'm so hungry baby.
So I'm standing in the corner store,
Oh I'm so hungry baby.
Well I bought all o' that there SPAM,
Oh I'm so hungry baby.
Guitar/Piano solo. for a while.
It was an hour before I could touch it,
Oh I'm so hungry baby. ~Barky |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Mbo Date: 21 Feb 00 - 10:25 PM WINNER WINNER! BLUE FUME SHIELD! BLUE FUME SHIELD! |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Barky Date: 21 Feb 00 - 10:26 PM With a sob and a cry, Áine, I admit it. I have never touched, eaten, nor have I even smelled SPAM to the best of my knowledge. In fact, I make a point of staying away from the stuff. =0)~ ~Barky |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Mbo Date: 21 Feb 00 - 10:35 PM Then there's the ripoff "Treet" which in name alone is less tempting that S.P.A.M. (Specially Packed Artificial Meat). --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Áine Date: 21 Feb 00 - 10:37 PM Wow (again)! Three wonderful blues songs in one day and each one Blue Fume Shield worth -- I'm flabbergasted!! Go CHALLENGE!RS Go! However, having had to make due with Spam when the money didn't stretch far enough for anything else when I was little -- I just may have to work on a song in its defense. (Barky -- it does NOT smell like feet!). I have to say that it was probably due to my mother's excellent skills as a cook that I have no horrid memories of this particular processed food. My father, being a WWII veteran, held fond memories of this stuff from his army days and relished eating it with a poached egg on top of a big fat slice. Of course, he did his duty at Los Alamos, and there probably was some leakage . . . -- |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Mbo Date: 21 Feb 00 - 10:43 PM I know! My mother used to make this stuff when I was 6 years old--way back in '85 when my Dad was overseas. From what I remember, I was rather fond of it. Slap some on a hamburger bun with some cheese--mmmm! I haven't had it since then. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Feb 00 - 10:52 PM Hey!! I thought this was songs only! Didn't we start this when Aine BEGGED us to quit talking about food? huh? Cuz if this is for food stories, I'm gonna have to tell you about peanut butter and onions on hot dogs AND stir-fried Spam! Let's stop the madddnessss.... [:>) |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Barky Date: 21 Feb 00 - 10:52 PM I'm working desperately to catch up to my father's song writing level, although I do think that he'll never write anything about SPAM. (I'd better not tempt him, he might beat me out yet again.)*BG* ~Barky |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Metchosin Date: 21 Feb 00 - 10:59 PM Gee I think we can still get it here because my husband was talking about making Spam Wellington the other day. Well done guys! I love these threads. |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Áine Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:02 PM peanut butter and onions on hot dogs AND stir-fried Spam! Oh dear, Praise, I feel a triple dawg dare comin' on . . . ooopppppssss -- here it is!!! Let's see ya write a song about all that! Come on, don't wuss out now -- you started it -- huh, huh, don't let us all down now ---- -- Áine (and you can even use the fact that my daddy loved to eat sardines and very high sharp cheddar cheese on saltine crackers with a big glass of buttermilk for a bedtime snack!) |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Mbo Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:04 PM Barkster, I'm not sure anyone can beat your Dad at songwriting. I sure can't! I'm much more of a music person, and mind you, if it's a tune any of yous is wanting for your songs, I'm the dude to call. Haven't written a song tune in a good long time! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:10 PM Alright Ah will! After Ah rassle up a mess o' dat po' food for mah HUSban'!! Tomorrow! You guys made me hungry. Those meals have actually been eaten in our house. The hot dogs are actually delish. |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Barky Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:11 PM Mbo, you and I think along the same lines. I'm pretty good at writing tunes m'self. I'm sure you are much better than myself, being more advanced in years. (not very many, though) =) Barky |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Troll Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:25 PM SPAM is short for SPiced hAM. I Draw The Line Now ev'ry body gots somethin, Gots somethin they won't eat. Child you know it's true. Yeah ev'ry body gots somethin, Some people won't eat chittlins, Other folks don' like pigs feet. Now I will eat most anythin, That you can serve up on a plate, Or in a bowl. Yeah I will eat most anythin, Yhat you can serve up on a plate. It don't need to be special, It don't need to be nothin great. Cause I'll eat alligator and I'll eat possum too. Sorry Spaw You know I'll eat alligator, And I'll eat possum too. I loves that cracklin cornbread, A great big heapin bowl of catfish stew. Eat snakes and snails and spinach, Eat sardines right out the can. With chocolate milk. Eat snakes and snails and spinach Sardines right out the everlovin' can. Eat eggs and pickeled herring, eat a sandwich made of Spam. But ev'ry one gots someplace. Gots someplace where they draws the line. You know they do now. Lord Lord, ev'ry one gots someplace. Baby where they draws the line. Yeah ev'ry one gots someplace, And babe you know that I gots mine. I'll eat what you gots to offer, And I'll say it's mighty fine. You know I will I'll eat what you gots to offer. Yes I'll say it's mighty fine. But don' you feed me no eggplant Cause eggplants where I draw the line. troll
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Mbo Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:27 PM Well...there's some contention about that! Tunes come to me very easily if I have words to work with--part of being LI (Lyrically Impaired). Also, if I'm writing a parody of an existing song, it find it easier to write new words. But writing from your own mind requires lots of time to think of ideas. Writing purely musical tunes is often a bit harder...there are so many possible tunes floating through your mind, sometimes you really have to concentrate hard, and use your big net to try and fish out something good. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Mbo Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:33 PM I don't know...after reading "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, it makes you kind take a second thought at what's exactly in canned meat products! Blarg! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:33 PM Songs !! Kids please!!! Must have songs!!! |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Troll Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:35 PM Meebo. Parts is parts. troll |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Mbo Date: 21 Feb 00 - 11:37 PM Does parts include the poor Lithuanian janitor who was accidentally sucked down into the meat grinder? --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Barky Date: 22 Feb 00 - 12:01 AM Oh God, Mbo! Such a graphic picture. I think I'm not too hungry anymore. Now I KNOW I'll never try SPAM!! ~Barky |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Mbo Date: 22 Feb 00 - 12:05 AM I know. That's one scary book. Between that and peoples frozen ears snapping off, and bludgeoning cattle with sledgehammers--almost makes you want to be veggie. I said almost! This was all happening in the '20's. Hopefully things have changed since then. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 9 From: Troll Date: 22 Feb 00 - 12:10 AM The lord of the Spam is a jolly little elf. You can find him in a can on the supermarket shelf. You can share him with a friend,you can keep him for yourself, The lord of the Spam takes care of your health. Ch. Spam, Spam, wherever you may be. I am the lord of the Spam said he. I live in a can with a little metal key, And I'll teach you all to love Spam, said he. Now we don't know where it comes from and we don't know what it's for, But we know that it will laqst through a thermonuclear war. You can eat it in a sandwich, you can tile your bathroom floor. These are not the only uses hteres about a zillion more for ch. sung to the tune of "Lord Of The Dance". No, I didn't write it. I wish I had. troll |
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