Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the Feast of Stephen ( Read more... )

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The time had come to elect a President,
And all the famous candidates thought they were heaven-sent.
They screamed and raved and pounded their hands above their hearts,
But soon their noble promises were hard to tell apart.

Waiting at the pumpkin patch, a dog sincere and brave,
And everybody hoped that soon the country he would save.
The pumpkin said ( Read more... )

A lot of people wonder about the Queen song '39.

"In the year of '39, assembled here the Volunteers in the days when lands were few.  Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn, the sweetest sight ever seen.  And the night followed day and the storytellers say that the score brave souls inside, for many a lonely day, sailed across the ( Read more... )

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If you speed up Jimi Hendrix's Third Stone from the Sun, from 33-1/3 to 45 RPM, an interesting hidden dialog appears at the beginning of the song.

Star fleet to scout ship, please give your position.  Over ( Read more... )

Weird Al's latest album, Alpocalypse, is available from Amazon for $3.99 for the MP3 album!  Offer expires at midnight Pacific time!

http://www.amazon.com/Alpocalypse/dp/B0055DOV66/

I installed the latest versions of Shazam Encore and SoundHound Infinity on a Motorola Xoom.  I then selected 50 songs with varying degrees of obscurity, played them back one at a time and asked each app to identify it.  I tried to use the same segment of the song for each app, usually the very beginning.  If it couldn't identify the song from the ( Read more... )

Ever wonder what the Chipmunks sounded like when they hit puberty?

The Real Witch Doctor.mp3

While screwing around with this song I noticed that the second and fourth lines of the chorus actually end with "walla walla bang bang", not "bing bang"