Drunken Pumpkin

• LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD?

  Something about this seems so right

  (tags: funny game political satire humor)

This one is as old as the video camera, but is SO worth it.

Original post was a YouTube video (I don’t know why I do that, but I still do from time to time), which is no longer available. The song was called “Don’t Download this Song”, by Weird Al Yankovich. In the interests of providing at least some of the original content for this post, I’ve posted the lyrics below.

Lyrics:

Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge
To break international copyright law
By downloading MP3s from file-sharing sites
Like Morpheus or Grokster or Limewire or KaZaA

But deep in your heart you know the guilt would drive you mad
And the shame would leave a permanent scar
‘Cause you start out stealing songs and then you’re robbing liquor stores
And sellin’ crack and runnin’ over school kids with your car

So don’t download this song
The record store’s where you belong
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh, don’t download this song

Oh, you don’t wanna mess with the R-I-double-A
They’ll sue you if you burn that CD-R
It doesn’t matter if you’re a grandma or a seven year old girl
They’ll treat you like the evil hard-bitten criminal scum you are

So don’t download this song
Don’t go pirating music all day long
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh, don’t download this song

Don’t take away money from artists just like me
How else can I afford another solid gold Hum-Vee
And diamond-studded swimming pools
These things don’t grow on trees
So all I ask is, “Everybody, please…”

Don’t donwload this song (Don’t do it, no, no)
Even Lars Ulrich knows it’s wrong (You can just ask him)
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should (You really should)
Oh, don’t download this song

Don’t donwload this song (Oh please, don’t you do it)
Or you might wind up in jail like Tommy Chong (Remember Tommy)
Go and buy the CD (Right now) like you know that you should (Go out and buy it)
Oh, don’t download this song

Don’t download this song (No, no, no, no, no, no)
You’ll burn in hell before too long (and you’ll deserve it)
Go and buy the CD (Just buy it) like you know that you should (You cheap bastard)
Oh, don’t download this song

Late one Friday night the policeman spotted a man driving very erratically through the streets of Dublin. He pulled the man over and asked him if he had been drinking that evening. “Aye, so I have. ‘Tis Friday, you know, so me and the lads stopped by the pub where I had six or seven pints. And then there was something called “Happy Hour” and they served these margaritas which are quite good. I had four or five o’ those. Then, I had to drive me friend Mike home and O’ course I had to go in for a couple of Guinness - couldn’t be rude, ye know. Then I stopped on the way home to get another bottle for later ..” And the man fumbled around in his coat until he located his bottle of whiskey, which he held up for inspection.

The officer sighed, and said, “Sir, I’m afraid I’ll need you to step out of the car and take a breathalyzer test.”

Indignantly, the man said,

“Why? Don’t ye believe me?!?”

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

In the real world I am a college instructor. The job I have requires me to make a three hour drive every week followed by getting up at 5 in the morning. This past week I slacked off in my work and am now a bit behind, and traffic dropped me into town about an hour past when I would normally get here. Consequently, I’m tired and need to catch up on stuff before my day of torment begins. So, I haven’t read Jeff’s posts, and really have nothing witty (if I ever do) to say about them.

That being said, I am now making a solemn vow that next Friday, as well as having some clever comments about Jeff’s doings the first Podcast will be up. If I welsh on this the following Monday will have footage of Jeff kicking me in the groin for being a bad person. Or, at least, footage of someone getting kicked in the groin, ’cause that kind of stuff never gets old.

I also have plans for some other fun little projects that should see the light of day within the next few weeks, assuming the technology doesn’t trip me up and my current cold will actually let me get something useful done.

Tomorrow we return to our regularly scheduled nonsense.