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Aerlinn
Lorien
Feb 18 2007, 12:24am
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How about a parody challenge to get the non-visual ball rolling?
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I was going to just do this myself - but where's the fun in that? Talking to dernwyn I used the title of this song (from Flower Drum Song), which led to the inevitable idea of a parody. Give it a shot - why do you (or don't you!) think you're Going To Like It Here?
I am Going to Like it Here
I'm going to like it here.
There is something about the place,
An encouraging atmosphere,
Like a smile on a friendly face.
There is something about the place,
So caressing and warm it is.
Like a smile on a friendly face,
Like a port in a storm it is.
So caressing and warm it is.
All the people are so sincere.
Like a port in a storm it is.
I am going to like here.
All the people are so sincere.
There's especially one I like.
I am going to like here.
It's the father's first son I like.
There's especially one I like.
There is something about his face.
It's the father's first son I like.
He's the reason I love the place.
There is something about his face.
I would follow him anywhere.
If he goes to another place,
I am going to like it there.
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Okay, clearly "[ ]" doesn't work.
TORn – where everybody knows your name!
And J.R.R. Tolkien’s middle names… and the name of his publisher’s son … and the name of Aragorn’s great-great-great- grandfather on his mother’s side… and what Frodo’s name almost was…
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diedye
Grey Havens
Feb 18 2007, 5:03am
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Just what the heck are you doing and who are you doing it with?!
*whispers*
Can I join in?
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Aerlinn
Lorien
Feb 18 2007, 5:11am
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er... never mind. Nothing to see here. Go write a parody.
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Okay, clearly "[ ]" doesn't work.
TORn – where everybody knows your name!
And J.R.R. Tolkien’s middle names… and the name of his publisher’s son … and the name of Aragorn’s great-great-great- grandfather on his mother’s side… and what Frodo’s name almost was…
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dernwyn
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Feb 19 2007, 12:43am
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I'm "Getting to Know" these boards!
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*applause* "father's first son", eh? How appropriate for a B-girl!  I noticed a little picture-posting going on, elsewhere - these new boards are getting quite a "christening"!
Now, here's one I worked up while out shopping this afternoon (BJ's Warehouse, of course, where else does one find enough food to keep two teens plus pets satisfied  ). A little take from "The King and I":
Getting to Know Them
It's a rather modern saying,
But a true and honest thought,
That if you want to be posting
These Board formats, you must be taught!
As a TORnsib I've been learning -
And testing as I post -
And I'm trying to be an expert
On the Boards that I love most:
(spoken) The new One Ring message boards!
Getting to know them,
Getting to know all about them,
Getting to like them,
Getting to hope they like me...
Getting to know them,
Putting it my way, so nicely,
They are precisely
Lembas to me!
Getting to know them,
Getting to feel free and easy
When I am posting
Getting to know this new way
Haven't you noticed
We are all still wild and crazy
While loving all the beautiful and new
Things we're learning we can do
Day by day!
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Still 'round the corner there may wait
A new road, or a secret gate...
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JPB
The Shire
Feb 19 2007, 2:37am
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To Foreigner's Hot Blooded
Well, I've just posted, check it and see
I've got a post count of a hundred and three
Come on user, do you edit advanced?
I've just posted, just posted
You don't have to read my sig... to know what things I dig
User, you outa know
You reply so fine... go read my signature line
Please don't boot... what you doin, after the Moot?
Now it's up to you, we can send a PM or two
Just me and you, I'll translate Quenya like you never knew
That's why I've just posted, check it and see
I've got a post count of a hundred and three
Come on user, do you edit advanced?
I've just posted, just posted
If my prose is alright, maybe you can reply just right
Shall I leave you a link?
But you've got to ping my pong, please use a kind emoticon
Tell me, have you made it to Bree? You sure look that way to me!
Now it's up to you, we can send a PM or two
Just me and you, I'll translate Quenya like you never knew
Well, I've just posted, check it and see
I've got a post count of a hundred and three
Come on user, do you edit advanced?
I've just posted, just posted
Just posted, five times tonight
Just posted, my fonts look alright
Just posted, edit window's gone
Just posted, it's ten minutes long
..etc...
(This post was edited by JPB on Feb 19 2007, 2:38am)
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Lalaith22
Registered User
Feb 19 2007, 4:00am
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Fabulous, wonderful, amazing, etc etc etc... 
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Aerlinn
Lorien
Feb 19 2007, 4:16am
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Here's my farewell to the old boards, for what it's worth:
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We Are The One Ring
Strangers have come
Time after time
Critiquing the format
More annoying than mime
Crashes and stalls
We've had a few
We've had our share of stats beamed into space
To make us blue
chorus of TORnadoes:
But we mean to post on and on and on and ooonnn...
We are The One Ring, my friends
And we'll keep on posting
Past the end
We are The One Ring
We are The One Ring
Calling all users
Back to The One Ring dot net
On the seventeenth
The fat lady sings
We'll trade RPG
For Gossamer wings
It won't be easy
Saying goodbye
But a new era's about to begin
Prepared on the sly
We are The One Ring, my friends
And we'll keep on posting
Past the end
We are The One Ring
We are The One Ring
Calling all users
Back to The One Ring dot net
It's taking its bow
Its curtain call
To you who bring us "edit", "search", off-topic and moot boards -
We thank you all
Through eel-infested waters
It's no pleasure cruise
Though some of us may be nervous about leaving this place
Still, how can we lose - ?
chorus of TORnadoes:
For we mean to post on and on and on and oooonnnn...
We are The One Ring, my friends
And we'll keep on posting
Past the end
We are The One Ring
We are The One Ring
Calling all users
Back to The One Ring dot net
We are The One Ring, my friends
And we'll keep on posting
Past the end
We are The One Ring
We are The One Ring
Calling all users
Back to The One Ring ...
Based on Queen's "We Are the Champions", with a verse added.
| TORn – where everybody knows your name!
And J.R.R. Tolkien’s middle names… and the name of his publisher’s son … and the name of Aragorn’s great-great-great- grandfather on his mother’s side… and what Frodo’s name almost was… |
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Loresilme
Valinor
Feb 19 2007, 5:51am
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Brava!! Love it :-) <---- retro smiley face *nt*
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dernwyn
Forum Admin
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Feb 19 2007, 2:45pm
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But...but...wouldn't you talk to Treebeard?
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Still 'round the corner there may wait
A new road, or a secret gate...
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dernwyn
Forum Admin
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Feb 19 2007, 2:53pm
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*applause* Brava! A poster's theme! (nt)
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Still 'round the corner there may wait
A new road, or a secret gate...
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Feb 20 2007, 4:23pm
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Well, I've been feeling like an immigrant
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so I based my little parody on the old immigrant song "Green Grow the Lilacs".
Green grow the mallorns all sparkling with dew.
I'm lonely, old TORn boards since parting from you.
But by next Fiesta I hope to prove true
And change creaky old boards for the shiny and new.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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Chance Meeting at Rivendell: a Tolkien Fanfic
and some other stuff I wrote...
leleni at hotmail dot com
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Foe
Lorien
Feb 24 2007, 2:19pm
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I'll give it a go since I've not written a parody in quite a while.
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I'm rusty, but here goes nothing...
Sing to: "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt
"Old boards were brilliant.
Some thought them brilliant
Some thought them poor.
I saw an admin.
Her posts obscure.
She posted 'bout switchovers.
She seemed that she was mad.
But I won't lose no sleep on that,
'Cause she's got a plan.
There's new TORn boards.
There's new TORn boards.
There's new TORn boards, it's true.
OT I adore, modding's no more
Let us all ring in the new,
And bid the old boards adieu..
When we say good-bye,
No one can deny.
There's a really good chance that we might,
F'n cry,
And I know that we won't see her again,
But we shared a forum that will last 'till the end.
There's new TORn boards.
There's new TORn boards.
There's new TORn boards, it's true.
OT I adore, modding's no more
Let us all ring in the new,
And bid the old boards adieu
There's new TORn boards.
There's new TORn boards.
There's new TORn boards, it's true.
There must be an admin with a smile on her face,
When she decided that an update was due.
But it's time to face the truth,
You deserve a big thank you."
THANKS ALTAIRA (AND MR.A!)
Email Foe!
Foe's LiveJournal!
Foe's Myspace!
YIM, AIM, MSN= foehelm
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Magpie
Immortal
Feb 24 2007, 3:24pm
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especially cause I love Weird Al's parody as well. I want to hear it sung now.
no longer just aMagpie... I'm now *the* Magpie
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linkin-artelf
Lorien
Feb 24 2007, 5:41pm
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Now I'll never here that song the same way again.
"I walk along the shore and I gaze
At the light that radiates down
Will it travel forth to you
Far across this shimmering sea?"
formerly linkinparkelf
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Kimi
Forum Admin
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Feb 24 2007, 10:48pm
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Both as a farewell to the old boards, and a wish for the new ones.
To the tune of "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" from "My Fair Lady"
I've grown accustomed to this place.
It almost makes the day begin.
I've grown used to signing in
Morning, night and noon.
The smiles, the frowns,
Its ups, its downs
Are second nature to me now;
Like breathing out and breathing in.
I was serenely independent and content before we met;
Surely I could always be that way again-
And yet
I've grown accustomed to its look;
Accustomed to its folk;
Accustomed to this place.
  
Promises to Keep: a novel set in 19th Century New Zealand.
The Passing of Mistress Rose
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
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