I'm in love!Keep on Tranglin,
I remember seeing some of these, so they must have still been on occasionally in the late 80's.
I've just watched 15 or so on YouTube. My favourites are Rufus Xavier Sasparilla and Conjunction Junction. Now if I had only seen these more often as a child, maybe I would be capable of forming complete, intelligible sentences as an adult.
Most of the songs are more than a little campy by today's standards, but "Three is a Magic Number" still sounds good. It has certainly aged well. I found a modern cover of it that I would have guessed was written yesterday.
Anthony
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they used that "three is a magic number" (i'm assuming the modern cover of which you speak) on this ad for the "3" phone network a few years ago. i loved it. the past the present and the future... faith and hope and charity...
wv: ktaxbyte - wtf?
You should check out the DVDs of School House Rocks.
I own the DVD's of School House Rock.
Now you have more reasons to come over and eat blueberry pancakes on my couch.
3 is the magic number sounds like the "the 3 R's" by Jack Johnson. good times.
Anthony, I didn't even know you still visited my blog. Seeing this made me smile. I have no idea why so many people were having trouble commenting last night. Oh I know, old blogger won't let me go. I think maybe new blogger was fighting for my honor.
All of those are my favorites as well. And don't forget Interjections! Hey!
Maybe they were trying to leave a comment and their brains imploded from a lack of original content.
I'm just postulating.
Hey Nick, how's that tournament going?
Loz, K-PAX?
Nick, I'll get on that. Right away.
Ubie, if only you didn't live so very far away.
Nadia, not really, you just love Jack Johnson.
Brooke, I do. I visit quite a few blogs, but I have become not much more than a lurker.
Nick, you're such a vag.
Brooke, OH NO YOU DIDN'T! Good one.
How is it a good one? It's all original material, just because you can't appreciate the inherent humor in it doesn't make it unoriginal.
Nick is being a sourpuss lately.
Nick:
1) How on earth is it original material? Almost all of it is referential to pop-culture. Did you create Yoda? Or the Hulk? It doesn't seem as though you are carefully selecting them for any reason either. Originality requries creativity. Your match ups are about as original and creative as filling in the following mad-lib by randomly selecting the blanks from a dictionary:
noun
noun
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2) Has it not struck you that a structure can lose its originality even if regularly stuffed with slightly different content. It was original the first time you did it. Since the concept is so hollow (in the sense that there is no point at all and you could have a match-up between any two randomly selected ideas because there is no criteria for their selection or for "winning") and the juxtaposition of the names is too random to mean anything on its own- lately all I have been doing is copying and pasting other people's ballots- and you make pretty much no effort to adorn anything with such pointless things as meaning, narrative or purpose, there is not a thing new about each subsequent "match-up".
What do I mean?
Every single match-up you have done so far could have literally been this without making a difference:
A
B
And to everybody who is just playing along without taking the time to personally, and without your creative input, consider the real ramifications of an actual fight between Ghandi and The Statue of Liberty (AKA me):
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A
Nick is a vagina.
Now, that was NOT original.
But still funny.
why is everyone being so hard on Nick?
(hehe, i said hard on)
k so I'm late to the party but I too tried to comment on brooke's post but it wouldn't work
I performed in a musical version of the "School House Rock" songs, most fun ever.
Did you want to shit on me too, Kitty?
Because apparently it's fun to shit on Tenille.
New fucking post.
Ever since we got "new blogger" every time I hit tab when I'm done typing a comment the cursor goes to the damn handicap symbol instead of to the word verification box. It's fucking annoying.
Nick is so cute when he's angry.
I'm cute all the time, I just draw more attention when I'm angry.
I like being on top.
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