Comments | thewronghands: 88 Lines about 44 Presidents

thewronghands

88 Lines about 44 Presidents

Jan 21, 2009 00:39

Blame wealhtheow and Grover Cleveland. (Okay, and the song.)

88 Lines about 44 Presidents

Washington was quite reluctant
Didn't want to rule the land,
Adams, more enthusiastic,
Claimed Sedition Acts were grand,
Jefferson bought half the nation,
Headlined the two dollar bill,
Madison's Federalist Papers
Seemed to give him quite a thrill.

Monroe was a ( Read more... )

politics, history

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as I'm sure others will mention cheetahmaster January 21 2009, 12:13:47 UTC

I'm not as big a fan of Mr. Coulton as others are, but he has a song called "The Presidents" that's in a very similar vein. It's finally helped me remember the progression from Tyler to Polk to Taylor.

Re: as I'm sure others will mention thewronghands January 21 2009, 15:57:24 UTC

I haven't heard much of his stuff, probably because like you I am not as blown away by it as everyone else I know. But neat!

Re: as I'm sure others will mention birdofparadox January 21 2009, 15:59:16 UTC

He has a few gems. Even though the math isn't right, I still dance like Snoopy to "Mandelbrot Set."

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thewronghands January 21 2009, 16:02:45 UTC

I had a lot of fun with it. I wanted to work in some of the weirder history to keep it from becoming too serious -- I *had* to get Grant's horse and buggy speeding ticket in there.

drwex January 21 2009, 14:43:12 UTC

Your lead-in URL incorrectly attributes the song "88 lines about 44 women" to They Might Be Giants. In fact the song was done by The Nails. See here: http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/thenails.htm
and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nails

thewronghands January 21 2009, 16:50:09 UTC

Fixed. It was just the first lyrics link I came up with when I Googled.

drwex January 21 2009, 16:58:20 UTC

Thanks. It's OK, I'm just a nitpicker. And it led me to a historical curiousity I blogged on my LJ, so all in good fun.

l_stboy January 21 2009, 16:00:20 UTC

Brilliant, I love it!

thewronghands January 21 2009, 16:01:42 UTC

Hooray!

arensb January 21 2009, 16:15:26 UTC

Under what license, if any, is this released? And if you don't mind it being spread around, how would you like it credited?

thewronghands January 21 2009, 16:43:46 UTC

Free to everyone for whatever they want. Just link back here for credits; that'll do. Glad you liked it!

arensb January 21 2009, 21:16:59 UTC

I figure dKos has more readers than either of my weblogs, so I've reposted there.

thewronghands January 21 2009, 22:09:52 UTC

Wow. I've never been on Kos before. I feel Internet-famous.

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