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Other useless songs?
07-06-2005, 04:51 PM
How about Surfin' Bird by the Trashmen?
Would that be completely useless to Doug or what?
Pa-pa-pa ooh mao-mao
Pa-pa ooh mao mao
Pa-pa-pa ooh mao-mao
Pa-pa ooh mao mao
Well don't you know about the bird?
Everybody knows that the bird is the word!
Pa-pa-pa ooh mao-mao
Pa-pa ooh mao mao
Pa-pa-pa ooh mao-mao
Pa-pa ooh mao mao
etc.
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them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
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Re: Other useless songs?
07-06-2005, 05:31 PM
It might be fun for a throwaway scene in DW VI, letting Pen-Pen go surfing for a while...
(Which would lead to no end of comments from Doug, since he can't surf.)
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Re: Other useless songs?
07-06-2005, 06:58 PM
Actually, I was imagining it as something Doug might use to boggle the kids in your Nadia story, Rob, but hey, Pen-pen hanging ten (hanging Pen?) is a great, goofy image.
Oh, and it's not that Doug can't surf in the sense that he is physically unable, he just never learned how. He keeps promising himself that one of these days, he'll get a board, and take some leave time, and... well, it never happens.
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Re: Other useless songs?
07-06-2005, 07:18 PM
My original "okay, I can't see that giving any power" example, which prompted me to ask the question:
Monty Python's "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song On the Radio".
I bet you they won't play this song on the radio,
I bet you they won't play this new [BEEP] song.
It's not that it's [BEEEEP] or [HONK-HONK] controversial;
Just that the [DING]ing words are awfully strong.
You can't say [BLATT] on the radio,
or [SWISH] or [DART HITTING DARTBOARD] or [PAINED YELP];
You can't even say "I'd like to [RATTLE] you some day",
Unless you're a doctor with a very large [TWOING].
So I bet you they won't play this song on the radio,
I bet you they daren't [RUBBERY SQUEAK]ing well programme it.
I bet you their [CASH REGISTER]ing old Programme Directors
Will think it's a load of horse [BRONX CHEER].
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Re: Other useless songs?
07-06-2005, 11:43 PM
Quote:
Monty Python's "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song On the Radio".
Replaces spoken words, within Doug's hearing, recognized as "Foul" language with random silly noises.
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Re: Other useless songs?
07-07-2005, 12:55 AM
Hmm. That might actually work.
Fortunately I've got a backup, also from Monty Python, which occurred to me later when I was trying to remember that one:
"Do What, John?".
Do what, John? Do what, John? Come again - do what?
Do what, John? Do what, John? Do what? Do what? Do what?
Do where, John? Do where, John? With what, with whom and when?
T'riffic, really t'riffic; pardon? Come again?
Except in a fairly thick accent (one of the numerous ones classified as "British"), such that "what" comes out mostly as "wot" and "with" comes out as "wiv" - and most of the questions are inflected instead as statements.
If you can come up with a plausible power for that one, I'll hang up my hat and stop trying to suggest "powerless" songs.
Re: Other useless songs?
07-07-2005, 04:48 AM
Well....for the 'Do What John?' song....sounds like a Power Word: Confuse song to me. The song's target stands dumbly around, unable to decide on any course of action. It may or may not only target people named John, depending on how silly you want to get. 
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Re: Other useless songs?
07-07-2005, 07:49 PM
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It may or may not only target people named John, depending on how silly you want to get.
Which, of course, means that Doug used the song during the Buckaroo Banzai step...
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Re: Other useless songs?
07-08-2005, 02:08 PM
Aw geeze, it would be great -- if I weren't setting DW4 after the movie and making Hanoi Xan the villain of the piece.
Hm. Maybe some Red Lectroids got away and are working for Xan....
Hm...
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"...Is your friend?" I completed with a tilt of my head and a raised eyebrow.
Xan snorted. "Is a convenient minion," he corrected me.
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Re: Other useless songs?
07-08-2005, 06:43 PM
"The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less." Rule 29, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates, Howard Tayler
(Sorry; off-topic, but I couldn't resist.)
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"Do What, John?".
07-08-2005, 08:21 PM
Quote:
Do what, John? Do what, John? Come again - do what?
Do what, John? Do what, John? Do what? Do what? Do what?
Do where, John? Do where, John? With what, with whom and when?
T'riffic, really t'riffic; pardon? Come again?
This acts as area effect Fast-Penta affecting only people named John (may include all phonetic variations of the name) with in 300 feet of Doug. Affected "John"'s will be inclined to tell Doug the five w's of any planned action that John will be participating in.
(Doug may want to isolate a specific John to preserve sanity)
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Re: "Do What, John?".
07-12-2005, 01:58 PM
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Re: "Do What, John?".
07-25-2005, 06:30 AM
Well, while we're on Monty Python...
"I like Chinese"?
...or, really strange stuff, "Every Sperm is Sacred"?
The mind boggles at that one...
Balentius
(who REALLY hopes the last one doesn't work. For ANYTHING related to the song...)
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Re: "Do What, John?".
07-25-2005, 09:42 AM
"Every Sperm is Sacred" would probably make every female in the area, regardless of species, EXTREMELY fertile. A mass pregnancy song, if you will. Useful for jumpstarting new civilizations/species, if such a situation were to come up.
On the other hand, the Lumberjack song could have an amusing effect. *********
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Re: Other useless songs?
07-25-2005, 08:25 PM
All the music on theese two sites will be totally worthless to Doug:
talmusic.barsoom.cc/mft1arc.html
talmusic.barsoom.cc/mft2arc.html
Althoug Kang Battle March and Song of Maddness pushes it a bit.
Enjoy. ^_^
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Talislantan songs
08-01-2005, 07:04 PM
... more stuff to listen to at home. Why do I let these things sit so long before reading them, and only read them at work?
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Re: Talislantan songs
08-02-2005, 03:19 AM
Enjoy the music.
SMS does not care about the site and he's freely released the tracks from those two cd's into the P2P servers.
The two songs from Wizard Hunter here:
www.talislanta.com/products/music3.htm
Are all you are going to get. He's got the others locked up, because he's using them as some sort of sel promotional item.
Omen. A mountain in Talislanta that is made out of the skulls of over several million people. The song is suitable creepy for that mountain.
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Re: Talislantan songs
08-02-2005, 02:02 PM
Tonight. I swear, tonight.
Assuming I don't end up playing "Son O'God" some more over on the Liberty server...
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Re: Talislantan songs
08-06-2005, 12:20 AM
Son O God?
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Re: Talislantan songs
08-06-2005, 06:59 AM
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Son O God?
One of my recent experimental COH characters, based on an old National Lampoon comic book parody from the 1970s.
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Re: Talislantan songs
08-16-2005, 03:38 PM
BTW Bob have you listened to the songs of Talislanta yet?
Talislanta would be an interesting place for a step.
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Re: Talislantan songs
08-17-2005, 07:05 PM
Not yet. I have the RealAudio files downloaded, but never got around to playing them.
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