Well. 150 posts. It was bound to happen eventually, and means there's now 150 good bits of evidence that I have way too much time on my hands.

Setting a dangerous precedent, I'm using this as an opportunity for a music quiz... of sorts. No prizes for the right answer - be as weird as you want. I want to see exactly how weird a song can get by optionally replacing every second line with a line from another song.

So, click, play, have fun.

[Poll #572309]

Date: 2005-09-17 09:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leila82.livejournal.com
Congrats on the 150 posts! Arbitrary milestones are nice to have.

Date: 2005-09-17 09:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Thanks!

And indeed they are, but they'd just get silly if they happened too often.

Date: 2005-09-17 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leila82.livejournal.com
I suppose celebrating every 10 posts could get a little out of hand.

Date: 2005-09-17 07:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
You get enough nonsense every week without codifying it.

Date: 2005-09-17 09:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] channonyarrow.livejournal.com
My 768 posts seem shallow now.

Also, I was laughing out loud while doing the poll, but I was disappointed to find out that none of the nonsense lines were Obladee-oblada.

Date: 2005-09-17 09:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Had I thought of it, it would've been in there. I was looking for other nonsensy things to use, and that would've done excellently.

Some days, I have a very poor memory for nonsense lines.

Date: 2005-09-17 10:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sing1118.livejournal.com
You should have used fa la la la la or lirum, lirum or fie fie fie fie fie or um, oh, I liked "co co co co co co co co dae".

Date: 2005-09-17 12:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com
funiculi, funicula, funiculi, funicula...

And if 150 means you have too much time on your hands, what does that say about me (http://blog.donnael.com/2005/08/whooshing-sound-they-make-as-they-fly.html)?

Date: 2005-09-17 10:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captainsblog.livejournal.com
I want you to know I only went and did that because you used the full album version, not the compressed piece of shite I heard the first several years it was out. In fact, his second sort-of hit, "The Entertainer," describes what happened to the previous song:

I am the entertainer
I come to do my show
You've heard my latest record
It's been on the radio
Ah, it took me years to write it
They were the best years of my life
It was a beautiful song
But it ran too long
If you're gonna have a hit
You gotta make it fit
So they cut it down to 3:05

Date: 2005-09-17 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
There's a compressed piece of shite version? What kind of person would do that?

Date: 2005-09-17 10:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] one-bullet-left.livejournal.com
*amusement*

Also, *delight* at the s-o-d-a soda bit. That is one of my favorite parodies.

Also also, surprised at how many songs I recognize from random lines in a very random poll.

Date: 2005-09-17 07:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Yay!

Yoda is one of my very favourite parodies, and 900 years is pretty old.

They were supposed to be fairly recognisable ones, mostly snipped out of my Winamp playlist (with some others I just randomly thought of). I thought slipping in lines from other Billy Joel songs was especially fun.

Date: 2005-09-17 04:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eighthcloud.livejournal.com
::squee!::

Metallica!

Date: 2005-09-17 07:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Some. *nods* There's bits and pieces of lots of things in there, pretty much without rhyme or reason.

Date: 2005-09-17 07:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daphyn.livejournal.com
I love you. That was the best poll ever. You never cease to amaze me. *loves*

(For the record? Piano Man was the first song I ever liked on my own, without my parents showing it to me first. I was 6.)

Date: 2005-09-17 09:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Yay! *loves right back*

Date: 2005-09-17 10:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com
852 entries. HA!

I can't do the poll :( All I can see is the GUD version. Let's put it this way, the first line is, "It was nine o'clock on a Tuesday morning..."

Date: 2005-09-17 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
The right answers are completely uncalled for. You can use dice, if deciding on an option is hard.

Also, I think you've had your journal for longer than I've had mine. Or that you post in a semiregular manner.

Date: 2005-09-17 10:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com
True. Just went and did it, but you were sorely lacking some answers ;)

"And the piano sounds like a carnival, the microphone smells like a beer, and they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and it gets all soggy and sinks to the bottom of the thing."

Date: 2005-09-17 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
You mean you aren't amused by the mental image of Billy Joel at a piano singing 'børk børk børk'?

Date: 2005-09-17 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com
...Well XD I'm more amused by the idea of GUD being SO FUCKING HILARIOUS WRONG...

Date: 2005-09-17 11:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Do GUD ever say børk børk børk?

Date: 2005-09-18 12:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com
Not that I know of.

Date: 2005-09-17 11:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com
"...being a quadruple leap year. I was driving a rented Stingray, and it was overheating. I pulled into the Shell station: they said I'd blown a seal.

I said, 'Fix the damn thing and leave my private life out of it, ok, pal?'"

Date: 2005-09-18 12:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com
Buh?

(Oh, that's articulate.)

Date: 2005-09-18 10:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com
http://www.imao.us/archives/002955.html

Date: 2005-09-19 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com
Okay, funny puns, but what does that have to do with my comment?

Date: 2005-09-19 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com
Very little. "It was 9 o'clock on a Tuesday morning...being a quadruple leap year, etc."

My previous supervisor dubbed me "King of the non-sequitur", and the woman at the next computer over has an "<------ Obscure references" sign up. :-)

Date: 2005-09-20 03:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com
Alright then... fair enough!

Date: 2005-09-18 08:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] justwallpaper.livejournal.com
*laughs*

Best poll EVAR.

Date: 2005-09-18 08:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
I shall call it the Billy Poll. Except not, because that's an awful pun.

Date: 2005-09-19 05:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Over nearly 5 years.

...

Oh. Right. 150 isn't much at all, is it.

Date: 2005-09-19 05:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nyctanessa.livejournal.com
I'm a loyal customer. :)

Date: 2005-09-19 05:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
They should present you with your very own Blue Pencil of Drama, Angst and Fandom.

Date: 2005-09-19 05:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nyctanessa.livejournal.com
They really should. I was here for their first layout, back when it looked like a school notebook.

Date: 2005-09-19 05:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
What did they do before they invented layouts?

Date: 2005-09-19 05:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nyctanessa.livejournal.com
They had two. The default and Punquin.

Date: 2005-09-19 05:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
That sounds like a dark time for people who like their internet pretty.

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