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the last votes and comments I sent never even got posted anywhere so I feel it's a waste of time to do anymore plus I'm being called an idiot by someone b/c I don't know the words to some of these songs.
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Hang in there, BLO-TOWN
You are doing a good job.  Chucky picked you because you distinguished yourself in the tough competition to be a judge - and Chucky is no fool.  Also, it is a lot easier for those of us who are not judging to nit pick at perceived imperfections in your judging than it is to be in your position and have to make tough calls.

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Hang in there, BLO-TOWN
You are doing a good job.  Chucky picked you because you distinguished yourself in the tough competition to be a judge - and Chucky is no fool.  Also, it is a lot easier for those of us who are not judging to nit pick at perceived imperfections in your judging than it is to be in your position and have to make tough calls.
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oh, it's not a contestant thats on my back. it's some one we all know.

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I'm going to cancel the contest.. people have clearly stopped participating, and I'm not going to chase after everyone each week, I have more important things to focus on..

sorry everyone, nice idea, but clearly it's not going to work
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this really really sucks.....really.....

but, anyway, if its cancelled, weve got the AMiright awards and the amiright hall of fame coming up, dont we?  

If allowed, the first round of the amiright awards could be up this weekend

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but, anyway, if its cancelled, weve got the AMiright awards and the amiright hall of fame coming up, dont we?  

If allowed, the first round of the amiright awards could be up this weekend
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that sounds fine

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I'm going to cancel the contest.. people have clearly stopped participating, and I'm not going to chase after everyone each week, I have more important things to focus on..

sorry everyone, nice idea, but clearly it's not going to work
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Since the contest is over, I will take this opportunity to thank all the contestants.  I do want to make a suggestion.  Any such contests in the future should require that Amiright contest judges have the same official set of original lyrics.  I am not the only contestant to have been subjected to wildly different scores for pacing, which I stress most of all, having written 900 parodies.  Anybody reading this message can be their own judge of whether my pacing for this parody rates a mere "3."

Line by line comparison, with stressed syllables in BOLD:

"These Boots Were Made For Walking"


YOU keep SAYing YOU've got something FOR me.


SOME thing you call LOVE, but conFESS.


YOU've been MESSin' WHERE you SHOULDn't have been a MESSin'


And now SOMEone else is GETtin' all your BEST.


These BOOT are made for WALKing, and THAT'S just WHAT they'll DO.


ONE of these DAYS these BOOTS are gonna WALK all over YOU.


YOU keep LYing, when you OUGHTa be TRUTHin'


And YOU keep LOSin' when you OUGHTa not BET.


You keep SAMin' when you OUGHTa be CHANGin'.


Now what's RIGHT is right, but YOU ain't BEEN right YET.


These BOOTS are made for WALKing, and THAT'S just WHAT they'll DO.


ONE of these DAYS these BOOTS are gonna WALK all over YOU.


YOU keep PLAYin' where you SHOULDn't be PLAYin'


And YOU keep THINKin' that you´ll NEVer get BURNT.


I just FOUND me a BRAND new box of MATches.


And WHAT you know you AIN'T had time to LEARN.


These BOOTS are made for WALKing, and THAT'S just WHAT they'll DO.


ONE of these DAYS these BOOTS are gonna WALK all over YOU.





http://www.amiright.com/parody/idle/contest01_02.shtml

"Played By Walken" Parody by William Tong

Album Cornix

"The Prophecy" is one of the greatest films ever, full stop. And I was pleased as ever to see a quick reference to it. But after that elation, I saw the same problem as last time. The pacing seems to have taken a type of elasticity that gets under your skin.

Now Chris Walken is a tough guy to write a parody about that, and I am trying to be more lenient than usual here. I've been a fan of his since, well, as long as I can remember. A little more study on the man, and I'd be an expert. He deserves a good damn parody or eight.

The humour is pretty good here, it's the stronger of the two main veins here (pacing/humour) and adds to the overall quality of the song. I'd just like to see a little more attention paid to the original song. ("These Boots Were Made For Walkin'")

3/3/3



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to be completely honest, I had trouble singing along with it as well..it hicuped slightly...but anyway, it didnt deserve a 3

and Ill say it too, Thanks to all the other contestants

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to be completely honest, I had trouble singing along with it as well..it hicuped slightly...but anyway, it didnt deserve a 3

and Ill say it too, Thanks to all the other contestants
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Since the contest is over, I will take this opportunity to thank all the contestants.
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:-)  It was an interesting contest, while it lasted.

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I do want to make a suggestion.  Any such contests in the future should require that Amiright contest judges have the same official set of original lyrics.  I am not the only contestant to have been subjected to wildly different scores for pacing, which I stress most of all, having written 900 parodies.  Anybody reading this message can be their own judge of whether my pacing for this parody rates a mere "3."
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It's one of the main reasons I didn't go for that as a source song: when I listened to the original, I immediately thought "even if you get it right, it's going to sound wrong" - the original lyrics have stresses on all the wrong words, so any parody is really going to struggle to be a) accurate and b) seen to be accurate... I thought it was very tight but (not meaning to brown-nose to excess) that's kind of expected for your stuff - I consider (nearly) all of mine to be spot on the pacing, but you do an incredible job of getting the individual word stresses right.

As Leb says - it was enjoyable getting one of yours which didn't have the political kick.

Anyway, to all the other contestants: well done, I hope you enjoyed it as much as me ;-)

Phil