Songs NOT by Al

Post by **scottidog** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 5:54 am

QUOTE and if we also count double posts.......

Mike

Well, yeah. But those weren't my fault. My computer has a stutter at times.

Post by **JDTurnbull272** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 5:18 am

I make it a goal to make 10 post per day. I have only been a member here for 5 days. Anyways in a online lyric site, they had all of Al's ALbums listed under Yankovich. Also every person older than 30 that I meet never heard of "Weird Al" Yankovic, but has heard of "Weird Al" Yonkovich.

minnick27 · Post by **minnick27** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 5:38 am

Well dont post something dumb just to make your quota, you should really only do it whenever you have a response to something. ive been on messageboards where people do it just to get the highest posts, and it becomes dull, and we dont want something about Al to be dumb, do we?

Mike

Post by **scottidog** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 8:46 am

Edited just because...

Post by **WHiZZi** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 12:24 pm

I make it a goal to make 10 post per day. I have only been a member here for 5 days. Anyways in a online lyric site, they had all of Al's ALbums listed under Yankovich. Also every person older than 30 that I meet never heard of "Weird Al" Yankovic, but has heard of "Weird Al" Yonkovich.

The user has recieved a warning, and has now a total of 2 warnings of a maximum 3 warnings

Hopefully you get the hint.

It's NOT a race how many posts you can have.

It's NOT a way to get favorite

Please, don't put old topics on the top with a (no offence) stupid-post

This is the final warning, one more time this joke and you'll be gone..

again, this is NOT a race to gain posts. You won't be anything better to have 600 posts or more..

Post by **scottidog** » Mon Nov 04, 2002 7:29 am

"Livin' La Vida Yoda?"

I'm thinking NOT Al. Tho' I would dearly love for there to be an AL video...

whoo hooOOooo!

Sat Nov 23, 2002 9:57 pm

I've always loved that article! The Onion cracks me up!

I was just taking another look at the "Livin' La Vida Mocha" article and I cracked up all over again.

It's funny enough that the Onion has Dr. Demento writing about it in the Atlantic Monthly but I just realized that they've also got the good Doctor quoting William Butler Yeats.

"The protagonist of 'Livin' La Vida Mocha,' like all of Yankovic's greatest anti-heroes, is a study in contradictions," Demento writes. "He knows that his crazed desire for Starbucks, a desire that mirrors our society's suicidal embrace of a cruel and morally bankrupt materialistic individualism, is destroying his mind. Yet, like our own out-of-control consumer culture, he is helpless to stop his spiral into the widening gyre. It is sure to make number one on the Funny Five."

The Second Coming [/i]W.B.Yeats"]
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...

Not only is it funny, it's also pretty plausible... you could imagine Barry Hansen quoting Yeats. :biggrin:

Post by **scottidog** » Sat Nov 23, 2002 10:21 pm

Not only is it funny, it's also pretty plausible... you could imagine Barry Hansen quoting Yeats. :biggrin:

Yeah, but when would he have the time to read Yeats? Have you read Dr. D's article at The Onion?

http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub370 ... _3704.html

If it hadn't been for the Good Doctor--that kindly purveyor of all things demented on the airwaves--I almost assuredly would have had to find a real job by now. As has been well-documented, Barry Hansen discovered me back in the mid-'70s when he decided to give some airtime to a gangly 16-year-old accordion-playing nerd who happened to send some unsolicited tapes to his nationally syndicated radio show. The Doctor and I have been close friends ever since, and I'm told that to this day I hold the enviable title of being his most-requested artist.

The Dr. Demento Show has been on the air for more than 30 years now. It is a bona fide American institution--a national treasure. In an era when pop music sometimes took itself a tad too seriously, Dr. D kept the art form of the novelty song alive by introducing a new generation to Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, Allan Sherman, Spike Jones, and a plethora of other warped geniuses <Scottidog adds the name Al Yankovic to this list.> His show is an oasis of insanity in a desert of drab conformity. Thank God for Dr. D.

Thanks God for Dr. D indeed, Al. My sentiments exactly.

Tue Nov 26, 2002 8:41 am

Yeah, but when would he have the time to read Yeats?

Why, the same time that everyone reads Yeats-- in college lit courses. That's the great thing about Higher Education... if you apply yourself for a couple of years, and are blessed with a good memory, you can pass yourself off as well-read for the rest of your life!

A tip of the hat to Dr. Oasis! The field is pretty crowded with Yeats scholars, but he's carved out his own specialty, wherein he remains unrivaled.

Post by **scottidog** » Tue Nov 26, 2002 8:54 am

Why, the same time that everyone reads Yeats-- in college lit courses.

I guess I took the wrong lit classes. All I can remember is depressing existential stuff like Samuel Beckett. Ick.

I did take a Shakespeare class just for fun.