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Subject: SOTM March 2010 RESULTS POSTED

Written By: Matthias on 04/09/10 at 6:33 pm

Note to new participants: Welcome, and good luck. Please read all guidelines carefully. Especially, please make sure to read all the entries and vote by the end of the month. The SOTM is not so much a contest as a feedback exchange. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, either in this thread or via personal message. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

~~Vote by replying to this thread with your five favorites in order:
1st choice- 5 points
2nd place- 4 points
3rd place- 3 points
4th place- 2 points
5th place- 1 point.

~~You're not allowed to vote for your own song.

~~Once you've posted a vote, you're not allowed to change it.

~~Voting continues until the last day of the month ends.

~~Anyone who's participated in a SOTM contest may vote.

~~By entering, you are agreeing to read and comment on all the other entries and vote.

~~Anyone who enters but does not both comment on all entries and vote by the end of the month is disqualified and may not participate next month, while all points will be forfeited, an entrant who has been disqualified may still participate next month if (s)he goes back and comments on all entrants from the month (s)he got disqualified prior to the end of the entry field (s)he is trying to get involved in.

~~In the event of a tie, the parody with the most first place votes wins.
If it's still tied, the parody with the most second place votes wins. and so on
If the points total and votes are identical, it will be left as a legitimate tie

~~Any entrant whose votes don't show a time stamp prior to midnight on the last day of the month (ie. according to the "inthe00's meantime" clock as it appears BEFORE you log in - not a timezone corrected version) is disqualified, no exceptions.

~~A medal known as the FUCA shall be awarded to the highest ranking parody which did not make the month's podium and is of an original song which has not previously earned any medal


1. Below Average Dave: "You Are Such A Bore"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/steviewonder20.shtml
   The Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OlG2ek-wzs


2. Matthias: "MapQuest Got Me Completely Lost"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/meatloaf39.shtml
   The Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmPMMitJDYg


3. Jeff Reuben: "Tunnel Vision"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/foreigner41.shtml
   The Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grmLTtPoakA


4. Conqueror_Of_Parodies: "Ow, My Eyes!"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/daftpunk6.shtml
   The Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-0s0pRleg&feature=fvst


5. Arwen: "Don't Fight Me"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/3oh38.shtml
   The Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdB3Oyd5HtU


6. Weird Abbott: "Papa (Mom's A Nazi)"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/ladygaga62.shtml
   The Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BVnL9_UF7Y


7. Peter Andersson: "Dick Needs Vasectomy"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/thepolice159.shtml
   The Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvfb8GcKAWs


8. Andria: "Toilet Trained"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/prince87.shtml
   The Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0k-kNwzUxc


9. Mark Scotti: "Pelts"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/thebeatles2566.shtml
  The Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXh4EuJa2TU

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 Voting Thread

Written By: Matthias on 04/09/10 at 7:07 pm

5 Points: Arwen's Battle of the Brush
4 Points: Jurassic Mark
3 Points: Jeff only has eyes for sports
2 Points: Peter Pecker Vasectomy
1 Point: Boring Average Dave

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 Voting Thread

Written By: kilgore523 on 04/10/10 at 6:36 pm

5 points for Peter's vasectomy ditty (why does that sound naughty to me?  ;) )
4 points for Arwen's epic painter-vs.-elf death match
3 points for Mark's ode to Cro-Magnon clothing
2 points to Conqueror's gouging of the eyes
1 point to Jeff's drunkard sports-fan song

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 Voting Thread

Written By: scottim50 on 04/15/10 at 11:05 am

5 for Jeff's Vision
4 for Matthias' Directions
3 for Andria's Training
2 for Conqueror's injuries
1 for Dave's snore zzzzzzzzzzzz......

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 Voting Thread

Written By: jreuben on 04/15/10 at 2:19 pm

5 pts:  Peter Andersson's Pecker
4 pts:  Arwen's Van A Gogh Gogh
3 pts:  BAD's Bore
2 pts:  Andria's Date with Depends
1 pt:  Mark Scotti's Pelt

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 Voting Thread

Written By: Below Average Dave on 04/19/10 at 3:05 am

1 Point to Mark Scotti

2 Points to Arwen

3 Points to The Conqueror of Parodies

4 Points to Jeff Reuben

5 Points to Matthias

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 Voting Thread

Written By: Matthias on 04/19/10 at 10:58 am

Thanks Dave

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 Voting Thread

Written By: K1chyd on 04/24/10 at 9:08 am

Here are my votes, my comments (directing comments will be placed separately on each parody) and a smiley gif each just because I saw that I could use eight different ones for the eight different songs in eight different kinda ways fitting the various parodies:

5 points for #6 - Weird Abbott: "Papa (Mom's A Nazi)"
  :o
Three numbers: 555!
Two words: Monty Pythonesque!
One complaint: Avoiding the shower three times is at least one to many because the chorus looks like it could be altered in more than one way even for this sick and crazy subject, for one maybe like this:
"Parrots can't be found
But mom is studying oldish Wehrmacht signs
Tell you she's insane-ious
And her ashtray's kinda creepy
Papa-moms a Nazi"

4 points for #3 - Jeff Reuben: "Tunnel Vision"
:D
555 and to pick up on your comment to Matthias I'll add that even as a foreigner (no pun intended) I thought this was about baseball, hence I was expecting a final punchline along the lines of "no third base for anyone that night" or something like that.

3 points for #2 - Matthias: "MapQuest Got Me Completely Lost" :(
Add ten inches to your parody, call 555-MATTHIAS! As for switching to GPS I wouldn't necessarily recommend it, just last year over here there was this guy who drove himself right into a lake because he had one that said it would be a road there (but then again if you trust a machine over your own eyes that could happen to anyone).

2 points for #5 - Arwen: "Don't Fight Me"  8)
I don't have any big problems with you painting Van Gogh as a martial arts expert and yourself as the same in the same parody, because isn't parody writing talent just a minor substitute for an AFK ability to do senseless overkill graphic violence on the world at large, wouldn't all we amirighters be out kicking ass in Bruce Lee's style if we only could, or is that just you?

1 point for #9 - Mark Scotti: "Pelts" :-*
Funny and clever parody but I'll object to the intro, this doesn't explain why alternative lifestyles came around, this explains why the Heidelbergensis and the Neanderthals died out.


Honorable Mentions (In Order Of Appearance):



#1 - Below Average Dave: "You Are Such A Bore" >:(
I would find a parody like this boring to write, then again that's just me, then again again maybe it started as something else, something about beer rather than bore, maybe something like "you are stuck on coors" or something, that I could do and gawd knows where I'd drift off from that before I was done, then again again again the original was such a snorefest that your new lyrics matched the music better than the original words so I voted 555 for it (and I hope I didn't bore you with my rant about the whole thing here).

#4 - Conqueror_Of_Parodies: "Ow, My Eyes!" :\'(
I can't see (pun intended) the fun in this parody TCOP, it's a 513 for me, sorry.

#8 - Andria: "Toilet Trained" 8-P
The dating market is like a forgotten box of chocolate you find weeks after Christmas, all the good ones are taken and all that is left is a few disgusting ones in the corners filled with liquor, but settling for toilet-trained? Naah - surely a parodist can do better!

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 Voting Thread

Written By: WeirdAbbott on 04/24/10 at 9:56 am

Great job everyone, and thanks for the constructive criticism...I do realize I may have used the "shower" line too many times, but thanks for the votes anyway!

Anyway...

5 pts- Dick Needs Vasectomy
4 pts- Tunnel Vision
3 pts- Don't Fight Me
2 pts- Pelts
1 pt- Toliet Trained

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 Voting Thread

Written By: Arwen on 04/29/10 at 2:46 pm

5 points of K1chyd
4 points to Jeff
3 points to BA Dave
2 points to Matty
1 point to Mark

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 Voting Thread

Written By: ThaConqueror on 04/29/10 at 7:06 pm

1 point to Andria
2 points to Abbott
3 points to Matthias
4 points to Mark
5 points to Peter

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 Voting Thread

Written By: Below Average Dave on 05/01/10 at 12:05 am

March Results are in. . .

*****************************************

1st Peter Andersson with 27 Points

2nd Jeff Reuben with 25 Points

3rd Arwen with 20 Points
*****************************************

4th Matthias with 17 Points (Tie Breaker: 1st Place Votes) <<FUCA WINNER

5th Mark Scotti with 17 Points

6th Below Average Dave with 8 Points

7th Abbott Skelding with 7 Points (Tie Breaker: 1st Place Votes)

8th The Conqueror of Parodies with 7 Points (Tie Breaker: 4th Place Votes)

9th Andria with 7 Points


Congrats Peter, Arwen and Jeff, Congrats Matthias on back to back FUCA's. . .and Congrats to everyone for a no DQ month

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 RESULTS POSTED

Written By: Matthias on 05/01/10 at 12:24 am

Didn't you or Aggy win with "Paradise By The Dashboard Lights"?

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 RESULTS POSTED

Written By: Below Average Dave on 05/01/10 at 12:28 am


Didn't you or Aggy win with "Paradise By The Dashboard Lights"?




Not According to the FUCA list. . .NHL is Much More Than Fights did podium in an ABC round, however it was not my entry for SOTM, as for Agrimorfee, I think he's parodied it, but I don't recall reading it in an SOTM, but he's been around long before my first entry in 2006, so unless it was pre-2006 no buddy, Paradise by the Dashboard Lights is not yet an SOTM medalist

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 RESULTS POSTED

Written By: Matthias on 05/01/10 at 12:42 am

Cool

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 RESULTS POSTED

Written By: K1chyd on 05/01/10 at 12:43 am

Woohoo! Thanks everybody! My first win in almost three years. And it couldn't have happened at a better time, come Monday I'll be closer to fifty than fourty (tomorrow is my birthday, do the math) and I've been a bit depressed about that, but now I feel that I can honestly say that I still got game, thanks to this incoming surprise gift!

Outgoing congrats to Arwen, Jeff and Matthias, I'll update the FUCA list later as I'm off to work in a few minutes but from a quick look I'll say that "Paradise City" is the only paradise on the list so far.

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 RESULTS POSTED

Written By: jreuben on 05/01/10 at 3:16 am

Dave,

I had 25 points, Arwen had 20.

Jeff:  3+1+5+4+4+4+4
Arwen:  5+4+4+2+2+3

Congrats to Peter, who also had the best line in my song in his comment (the 3rd base line), and Arwen!

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 RESULTS POSTED

Written By: K1chyd on 05/03/10 at 12:17 pm

The FUCA thread has been updated. For those into strange apocalyptical omens I'll also have you know that all three new future no-nos on the list ended up aligned!

"Don't Stand So Close To Me" by The Police.
"Don't Trust Me" by 3OH!3.
"Double Vision" by Foreigner.

Surely this must be a sign of eminent DDDoom! :o

Subject: Re: SOTM March 2010 RESULTS POSTED

Written By: Matthias on 05/03/10 at 12:39 pm

That's why my song didn't make it... I should have went with "Dashboard Lights By The Paradise" instead!  :D

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