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Exercise in Song Medical

Mr S. wants to go home.
He says that he’s “fed up of the ward.”
Reacted well to SSRIs early on,
Then improved of own accord.

Throughout his week-long stay,
S. got better day by day.
In conclusion, therefore, I recommend
Discharge, effective today.

Exercise in Song Retrograde

Show me the way to go home
Is what you will always hear me sing.
I might be found a-roving over land, sea or foam
But that will not change a thing.

I'm one over the eight,
Though I haven't drunk of late.
Still I want to go to bed as I'm tired.
Where is it: can you indicate?

Exercise in Song Awkward

Show me the, um, the way home:
I’m sorry: I’m, er, not great at verse.
I must have spent an hour rewriting just that line,
But it’s only made it worse.

My metre’s not too hot,
And my rhymes have gone to pot,
And—oh, blast—I’ve nearly run out of time.
This is as far as I’ve got:

Slash dev slash null

19 May 2010

campinmygarden.com has been taken by domain squatters.

If all the people in the world squatted on your A record
Would you tell Tim Berners Lee or would you give in to the squat-horde?
I can see that all the possibilities of evil
Could sway your first decision: subject them all to slash-dev-slash-null

(wop, bop-ba doo-wop, bop-ba doo-wop, bop-ba doo-wop) slash-dev-slash null
(wop, bop-ba doo-wop, bop-ba doo-wop, bop-ba doo-wop) slash-dev-slash null

And do you feel your site is threatened by the fabricated entries

comedy
filk

Oxford Thommo

19 May 2010

(To the tune of "Oxford Comma," by Vampire Weekend. Recording available here. These filk lyrics are licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.

Who gives a fuck about an Oxford Thommo?
Shouldn't he be gently let go
To save
Some money?
That might just be a better way
To economise that's all right
With me,
With me

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