In my experience, it's harder to parody a rock song with witty writing that we're known for; the structure of your typical show tune seems to lend itself better. So I'm especially happy to find one like this by Jesse Frankovich.
Re the office highjinks Mrs Claus exploit: that's just horrible. Practical jokes are the lowest form of humor (yes, lower even than stupid puns). Of course she looked like she was going to cry! She was being persecuted, and you were participating in it.
Re sex dreams: I will take the liberty of assuming the person who wrote that is a woman. I think that men have an anatomical advantage with sex dreams, the same advantage that allows them to view the entire world as their urinal. It's more difficult for women to reach satisfaction while asleep, which means that sex dreams can veer off into sexual frustration dreams. The comedy element is a nice touch.
For April Fool’s Day this year, I snuck an actual ostrich egg into our chicken coop for my wife to find when she collected eggs. Didn’t go quite as well as planned, since one of the girls immediately thought it was her duty to hatch it, but nobody was hurt or offended - just a little confused (especially the bird).
Best shot? No way no how. Merely most recent. She did ultimately like the effort, but first had to pull it out from under the bird’s wing because she thought a light bulb had fallen into the nesting box or something. My intent was for her to find a clutch of regular eggs and one really big one. I thought it was too large to trigger the birds’ instincts.
Can we assume that because Pat the Past Perfect snuck in a parody Invite, and while you were being a dutiful consort out of town, no less, means a visit to partners counseling?
Re: "And the winner of the Big Ol’ Word Nerd socks for best song:" -- it doesn't say what song it's a parody of. Or of what song it's a parody.
Hazarding a guess, I think it worked to If I only had a Brain. But then again lots of song lyrics fit in other songs…
Yup! Thanks -- I just failed to copy that link. It's there now.
Whoops! That's been fixed. Terri Smith was right! Thanks for pointing that out.
My favorite is 34th Guilty Verdict. And that Stones video is super groovy, man!
In my experience, it's harder to parody a rock song with witty writing that we're known for; the structure of your typical show tune seems to lend itself better. So I'm especially happy to find one like this by Jesse Frankovich.
Yes, the gender and orientation of the sex dream writer make a big difference in the interpretation.
Re the office highjinks Mrs Claus exploit: that's just horrible. Practical jokes are the lowest form of humor (yes, lower even than stupid puns). Of course she looked like she was going to cry! She was being persecuted, and you were participating in it.
Re sex dreams: I will take the liberty of assuming the person who wrote that is a woman. I think that men have an anatomical advantage with sex dreams, the same advantage that allows them to view the entire world as their urinal. It's more difficult for women to reach satisfaction while asleep, which means that sex dreams can veer off into sexual frustration dreams. The comedy element is a nice touch.
“Let’s be cruel to somebody” doesn’t seem like it should qualify as a ‘prank’, no more than walking around and slapping strangers in the face would.
And yet that's what most "pranks" essentially are, I think.
For April Fool’s Day this year, I snuck an actual ostrich egg into our chicken coop for my wife to find when she collected eggs. Didn’t go quite as well as planned, since one of the girls immediately thought it was her duty to hatch it, but nobody was hurt or offended - just a little confused (especially the bird).
This is your best shot at a non-sadistic prank?
Okay. Not bad, I guess. It's cute and poignant that a hen felt duty-bound to sit on the outsize egg. Did your wife find it funny?
Best shot? No way no how. Merely most recent. She did ultimately like the effort, but first had to pull it out from under the bird’s wing because she thought a light bulb had fallen into the nesting box or something. My intent was for her to find a clutch of regular eggs and one really big one. I thought it was too large to trigger the birds’ instincts.
A great bunch of songs! Along with the Worm in His Brain, I particularly liked "Because Biden." Also "Bigots on Parade."
So many clever entries, but the one that tickled me most was Trump or Biden (to Love and Marriage).
I would very much like to see the results of an identical cognitive ability test given to Biden, Trump and RFK, Jr.
Snarky, snarkier, snarkiest.
Can we assume that because Pat the Past Perfect snuck in a parody Invite, and while you were being a dutiful consort out of town, no less, means a visit to partners counseling?
I think the best song parody was about an Indian dish... but for some strange reason, it wasn't in the results.
Yeah, they all suck. I killed it, with extreme prejudice.