Allright, I read the Vodka song and had to bring up Alcohol by Bare Naked ladies, then thought, Ya know, they have other songs too, ...
4 songs included here. 3 Power, 4 indeterminate
I'll post You-tube links as well, since that seems to be the thing to do now. No promises on them being any good, they won't play right for me.



Alcohol by the
Bare Naked Ladies

Alcohol, my permanent accessory

Alcohol, a party-time necessity

Alchool, alternative to feeling like yourself

O Alcohol, I still drink to your health

I love you more than I did the week before

I discovered alcohol

Forget the caffe latte,

screw the raspberry iced tea

A Malibu and Coke for you, a G&T for me

Alcohol, Your songs resolve like

my life never will

When someone else is picking up the bill

I love you more than I did the week before

I discovered alcohol

O Alcohol, would you please forgive me?

For while I cannot love myself

I'll use something else

I thought that Alcohol was just for those with

nothing else to do

I thought that drinking just to get drunk

was a waste of precious booze

But now I know that there's a time

and there's a place where I can choose

To walk the fine line between

self-control and self-abuse

I love you more than I did the week before

I discovered alcohol

Would you please ignore that you

found me on the floor

Trying on your camisole?

O Alcohol, would you please forgive me?

For while I cannot love myself

I'll use something else

Would you please forgive me?

Would you please forgive me?





I really have no idea what this one would do, Save maybe summon a whole
freaking bar.

Actually, scratch that, I know what it'll do. It'll get his mage-gift
Drunk. Not Doug, just the mage-gift. What potentially delightful havock.

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Be my Yoko Ono  by the Bare Naked Ladies
If there's someone you can live without,

then do so.

And if there's someone you can just shove out;

do so.

[Chorus]

You can be my Yoko Ono

You can follow me wherever I go

Be my, be my,

Be my Yoko Ono.

Isn't it beautiful to see two people so much in love?

Barenaked as two virgins hand in hand and hand and hand in glove.

Now that I'm far away it doesn't seem to me to be such a pain.

To have you hanging off my ankle like some kind of ball and chain.

[Chorus]

Oh no, here we go, our life is just one big pun.

Oh no, here we go as Yoko sings

Aieee!

I know that when I say this,

I may be stepping on pins and needles;

But I don't like all these people

slagging her for breaking up the Beatles.

(Don't blame it on Yokey)

if I was John and you were Yoko,

I would gladly give up musical genius,

just to have you as my very own, personal Venus.

(Hit it)

[Chorus]
Power would as a side effect render poor Doug into a look-alike of John Lennon, and someone else into Yoko Ono.
To be honest, I can't see any truly good effect to this one, other than as a fanatic's wet dream made real.
However, it just might let Doug write his own songs, or the Yoko alike to write them.
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If I had 10,000,000 Dollars by the Bare Naked Ladies
If I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
I'd
buy you a house (I would buy you a house)
If I Had $1000000 (If I
Had $1000000)
I'd buy you furniture for your house
(Maybe a nice
chesterfield or an ottoman)
If I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
I'd
buy you a K-Car (a nice Reliant automobile)
If I Had $1000000 I'd
buy your love.
If I Had $1000000 I'd build a tree fort in our
yard.
If I Had $1000000 You could help, it wouldn't be that hard.
If
I Had $1000000 (Maybe we could put a little tiny fridge in there
somwhere.)
We could just go up and hang out. (Open the fridge and
stuff. There would be
food laid out for us, little pre-wrapped
sausages and things.) Mmmm. (They have
pre-wrapped sausages but they
don't have pre-wrapped bacon.) Can you blame
them? (Well, yeah!)
If
I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
I'd buy you a fur coat (but not a
real fur coat that's cruel)
If I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
I'd
buy you an exotic pet (Like a llama or an emu)
If I Had $1000000 (If
I Had $1000000)
I'd buy you John Merrick's remains (ooh all them
crazy elephant bones)
If I Had $1000000 I'd buy your love
If I
Had $1000000 We wouldn't have to walk to the store
If I Had $1000000
We'd take a limousine 'cause it costs more
If I Had $1000000 We
wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner.
But we would eat Kraft Dinner.
Well of course we would we'd just eat more. And
buy all the fanciest
ketchups for it...dijon ketchup! Mmmm..
If I Had $1000000 (If I
Had $1000000)
I'd buy you a green dress (but not a real green dress
that's cruel)
If I Had $1000000 (If I Had $1000000)
I'd buy you
some art (a Picasso or a Garfunkel)
If I Had $1000000 (If I Had
$1000000)
I'd buy you a monkey (haven't you always wanted a monkey?)
If
I Had $1000000 I'd buy your love
If I Had $1000000, If I Had
$1000000
If I Had $1000000, If I Had $1000000
If I Had $1000000
I'd
be rich.

Possibly a song that normally backfires, from, say, not enough mana. He gets Monopoly money. Or, the stated 10 million Dollars in, oh, Australian or Canadian rather than the (I think) usually stronger USA. (I'm not good with money, so forgive me if I was just insulting)
Most assuredly not 10 million worth of Local currency, which, depending on where he's at, could be livestock.
Or, for giggles, it makes a simulacra of Nabiki Tendo

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The Ninjas by the Bare Naked Ladies
I woke up this morning and everything was
different

Something was strange in the air

I woke up this morning and everything was different

I knew that the ninjas had been there

I looked all around my bedroom, underneath the dresser

Behind the bed, but nothing could be found

There was nothing left behind them, nowhere that I could find them

No fingerprints or crumbs on the ground

The ninjas are deadly and silent

They're also unspeakably violent

They speak Japanese, they do whatever they please

And sometimes they vacation in Ireland

The ninjas are deadly and silent

They're also unspeakably violent

They speak Japanese, they do whatever they please

And if you tear off their masks they'll be smiling

No Clue here, as the song implies the Ninja have allready vacated the premisis.
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Funimation, BioWare Work on Animated Dragon Age Film
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... anime-film

And they've cast all four Beatles.
I can't decide if this is going to be a soulless rape of one of my favorite childhood experiences, or too awesome for words.
(The first person to say "both" gets whapped.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I've got what's turned into the first part of a four-part arc written.  I've done a test run-through by myself, but I'd like to get a full group in to stress it and see if it works the way I want it to.  Let's say 9 PM EDT on June 7 -- please give me a hand.
Thanks!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Having earned all the crafting badges with Evangelia except the 1000- and 2000-items-made badges (which I will continue to work on, as I've decided to make IOs for many of lower-level toons that they couldn't otherwise get on their own), I'm now turning my attention to AE.  And I was just wondering if folks think a multi-mish arc based on opening a gate for Looney Toons so that he can move on in the Walk from Paragon City would be a good idea to explore.  I'm not going to try to do it right away, though -- I'm going to play with the editor and do up a couple "learning exercises" first.  But I'd like people's help in testing and whatnot.  Eventually.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what the music behind this AMV would do?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T4KzNzjSXg

Going by the animemusicvideo.org page, it's a mix of two versions of the song "Watch Them Fall Down" by DJ Spoke.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

Okay, thanks to SilverFang's rec on a magnificent Calvin and Hobbes one-shot and the fact I've been up fro 24+ hours now, I got me a plot-tigger.  No, this guy's too fiesty to be a wascally wabbit, he's a tigger.
Initial Kicker: Calvin and Susie realize they have a LOT more in common when Hobbes 'comes to life' in the presence of both of them.  No, you may not examine this too closely.  This is Bill's sandbox I'm playing in, and the fact that Susie and Calvin can see Hobbes at the same time is bending the rules as it is.
Conflict: The two still go at it like the British and the French in the Napoleonic period.  Lovely, eh?
Complications: During a class trip to the local National Parks/Wildlife Preserves (one of those really rare ones that involves an overnight campout), Calvin and Susie somehow get lost and seperated from their group.  I'm thinking a river should be involved.
Other Factors: Because it was an overnight trip and involving the great outdoors, Calvin brought Hobbes along.  Also, taking Calvin's interest in everything wild and outdoors into consideration, his parents got him a survivalist guide - not one of the boring ones, but the kind that is fully illustrated for kids with ADHD.  Calvin treated it like gospel.  Finally, Susie's a Girlscout.  She can pull her own weight, but knows that there is safety in numbers.  Plus, it helps that you got a tiger along to help, right?
Thoughts?

This wonderful graphic over at Cracked.com takes RIAA claims about losses from piracy -- and the Pirate Bay in particular -- and subjects them to some fairly devastating, if elementary, arithmetic.  Put in these terms, it's a wonder anyone even believes the RIAA's estimates.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Ever since Rob mentioned it in the alt-Fenspace thread, I've been pondering precisely WHAT A.C.'s S.H.I.E.L.D. dress uniform looked like. Essentially, I've gone for something like US Navy Service Dress, but a bit flashier. The current description is included below.

While I was trying to build it up, I realised that the Supers are big on interfactional cooperation and good at public relations and as such someone like A.C. will have extras for her uniform from other factions that others won't, and the uniform itself won't be standard because of it. A.C. probably would prefer the Sailor Mars fuku or a super costume to the S.H.I.E.L.D. dress uniform.

At the moment, I'm missing contributions from three factions (the Wizards because they and A.C. are based in the Belt, the VVS, and Stellvia) but if anyone can figure out other factions that may have a reason to grant the use of recognisable elements of their uniforms I'll consider it, but there has to be an reasonable official reason for the paperwork (as noted in the writeup, because they find it funny to see how the Supers and A.C. will incorporate said element is more likely the true reason).

Please read the below description before offering extra components. It IS supposed to be an actual dress uniform.

Just wondering about the 2010 Worldcon, I know on the wiki and in other places that the Fenspacers see the 2008 Worldcon as the last with the annual FenCons its place in their calendar in-conjunction with being the major political todo/qango. However what about those Fen with a fear of SPACE! the average Con-goer who would not like to have TSAB confiscate or quarantine most of their souvenirs and travel gear, those that prefer hardtech.....

I could go on but it just boils down to: Aussiecon 4/Worldcon 68 does it still happen, if so what Fenspace thing could happen there. I'd love to unveil a MakoTaxi there but I'm still trying to wrangle out an origin piece or any bit of writing from the long-term writers block I've got....oh for a traditional RR board or a targeted essay, how I've missed thee.

*wanders off to look at the cost to go http://www.aussiecon4.org.au/index.php?page=27* hmm perhaps I might contemplate being a volentold....

--Rod.H (who really needs to fix his mouse)