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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 04:23 PM
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Who here would rather take a bullet to the head than...
Edited on Wed Apr-21-04 04:23 PM by Taverner
...watch or listen to Gilbert and Sullivan musicals?

AAAAAAIIIEE!! AAAAAAIIIEE!! AAAAAAIIIEE!! AAAAAAIIIEE!! AAAAAAIIIEE!!

NO MORE PIRATES OF PENZANCE!
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 04:27 PM
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1. Right here I'm all head....Fire away

Gilbert and Sullivan musicals aka hell on earth
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 04:28 PM
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2. Hey...I kinda like HMS Pinnafore
Especially the all Sideshow Bob version from The Simpson. :)
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 04:30 PM
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4. Well, OK
I can live with Sideshow Bob's rendition
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 04:43 PM
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9. Not me
I had to change the channel on that one.

G&S are just evil all around.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 11:02 PM
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11. I have to respect your consistency
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 04:30 PM
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3. Right Between my Freakin' Eyes
I loathe Gilbert and Sullivan.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 04:30 PM
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5. No, I'd go with G&S.
Gilbert O'Sullivan, on the other hand....
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 04:43 PM
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8. "....hmmm hmmm, hmmm. Alone again, naturally."
:7
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Waistdeep Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 04:38 PM
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6. Aw, come on
Wouldn't you love to see Wesley Clark singing:
"I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major-General"

http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/pirates/p13.mid

GENERAL:

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

ALL:
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

GENERAL:
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

ALL:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General.

GENERAL:
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;

I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

ALL:
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

GENERAL:
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

ALL:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General.

GENERAL:
In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery--
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy,
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.


ALL:
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.

GENERAL:
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

ALL:
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 04:42 PM
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7. NOOO NOOOO MAKE IT STOPPPPPP!!!!!
Waistdeep I never did a thing to hurt ya, bro....
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Waistdeep Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 04:53 PM
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10. Tell me you don't love this
flash animation of Tom Lehrer singing his Elements Song
(to the tune of ".... Modern Major General")

http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html

The Elements
(© 1959, Lehrer Records.)
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discavard.
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