Hanging 27: Taco Surfing

Post by **scottidog** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 10:30 am

Ok, I lied. One more. It is such a sweet picture...

http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/groups/weirdal ... PB8gOSyGJx

Tue Dec 10, 2002 12:10 pm

"Strange Al" Yankovic? http://segfault.org/stories/37ce9d0c-0179bfc0.html

Naw, take away the "Weird" and he's still Al. We knew that already. But it's "bargle NAWDLE zouss!"

Hmmm... if the word "bad" is removed from the English language, does that mean that Michael Jackson would have to start singing Al's lyrics instead of the originals? It's an entertaining thought.

--Wired OE (no, I haven't had an orthographical meltdown, I've just had too much coffee today)

p.s. That is a nice pic. With all those gazillions of photos out there on the net of Al producing a wacky grin on request, you can immediately tell the difference when it's a non-professional I-really-mean-it smile-- or, in this case, a matching set of them.

Post by **scottidog** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 7:18 pm

p.s. That is a nice pic. With all those gazillions of photos out there on the net of Al producing a wacky grin on request, you can immediately tell the difference when it's a non-professional I-really-mean-it smile-- or, in this case, a matching set of them.

His smile is nice, but her smile is almost electric. She is very pretty. And they look very happy together. Awwwwww.

Post by **scottidog** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 9:15 am

Ebay alert!

Edited because the link is now dead. If ya snooze, ya looze!

Sun Dec 15, 2002 7:34 pm

Don McLean (best known for writing the music to the Weird Al Yankovic hit "The Saga Begins") recently delighted his biggest fan Garth Brooks by joining him onstage at a big show

Nice to see they had their priorities straight in Austin :biggrin:

Also found a good article on mondegreens at http://www.cuyamaca.net/tpagaard/Pagaar ... greens.pdf which includes the line, "Weird Al Yankovic has made a career out of this stuff."

Ever wondered what Weird Al's favorite love song is? The answer is here at http://www.theatremania.com/news/featur ... 1952&cid=1 Just another piece of evidence to suggest that Suzanne is probably hoping for no serenades from her beloved.

They say there's no evangelist like a converted sinner... http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=3451

Don't go makin' phony calls...

Post by **weird_el** » Sun Dec 15, 2002 8:50 pm

I knew that Al loved Song for the Dumped. He played the video on the last ALTV he did, and he's even sung it onstage with Ben. An mp3 of that would be the Holy Grail for me.

Mon Dec 16, 2002 3:47 am

From a story about the premiere of the re-release of "This Is Spinal Tap" (would that be the re-premiere? The postmiere? The twofermiere?):

To play the song "Big Bottoms" Spinal Tap brought out Weird Al Yankovic with his tuba and infamous bassist Lee Sklar to play with them and in earth-shattering unison, the guys physically shook the House Of Blues; to its foundations.

His tuba?

Post by **scottidog** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 4:02 am

His tuba?

Just another hidden talent. Tho' I'm not sure how you hide a tuba...

OE, glad to see you are putting your time to good use now that the scholarly activities have let up a little.

Mon Dec 16, 2002 4:40 am

Just another hidden talent. Tho' I'm not sure how you hide a tuba...

I've heard that one of the best ways to hide a tuba is to disguise it as an accordion.

Post by **Elvis** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 5:52 am

His tuba?

Well Al "played" a sax in the "Secret Of My Success" video, so sure, why not?

Dave