Pronunuciation of superfic'ial
To make the rhyming work you have to pronounce superficial and artificial with the stress on the last 'i' :-)
Superfic-eeal, artific-eeal....
Btw, where I am we don't get Good Friday off.
Why look at that, it’s 07:00 GMT Friday, the slot when The Register usually runs “On-Call”, our tales of tech support woes. But this Friday is Good Friday, so much of the Reg-reading world has the day off. We therefore decided to deviate a little from the On-Call template with this contribution from reader “Patrick”, who is …
Which is actually at 13:00
You've forgotten about the equation of time. There's an extra (approx) 2 minutes 40 second difference between solar noon and clock time at this time of year.
Oh, but if you're working to solar time there's an even bigger correction for longitude that has to be made to compensate between clock time and local solar time.
To be honest, I think most people just go by clock time. But that's cheating. :)
Wasn't it Bang Bang Susie who had a little duck? And wasn't it a table, not a cardboard box? Too much spilt milk under the ol' bridge ...
(Do kids learn this kind of pseudo-rude nonsense song (cadence?) anymore? Or has the entire concept been swept under the table as being politically incorrect?)
"Can you make it Easterish with frollicking lambs and cuddly bunnies?"
Unlike BBC Radio 4 who at the end of this morning's programme played a song about someone being nailed to a cross. Reminds me of my primary school days. When we had to spend the morning in church singing such bloody songs - before we were officially allowed to start enjoying the end of term two week holiday.
I do have a baritone voice (though, until I get rid of this lingering cold, more a basso) and a friend who is an opera soprano. I wonder... with some coaching by her... and the appropriate "uniform" (short sleeve shirt with pocket protector and a tie, natch)...
Of course, I will now be humming this for the next month or so.
I'm reminded of a time when our former CTO wanted everything in VMware, and there were various factions doing distributed computing in different ways...
To the tune of "Every Sperm iIs Sacred", from Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life"... TAke it away, Eric the Orchestra Leader !
Every Hertz is sacred
Every Hertz is great
If a Hertz is wasted
God gets quite irate
Let the Griddies spill theirs
On the dusty ground
God shall make them pay
For every Hertz that can't be found
Every Hertz is wanted
Every Hertz is good
Every Hertz is needed
In your neighbourhood
Windows, Linux, MacOS
Spill theirs just anywhere
But God loves those who share their
Hertz on VMware
Every Hertz is sacred
Every Hertz is great
If a Hertz is wasted
God gets quite irate
Every Hertz is sacred
Every Hertz is good
Every Hertz is needed
In your neighbourhood
Every Hertz is useful
Every Hertz is fine
God needs everybody's
Mine And mine And mine
Let the Griddies spill theirs
O'er mountain, hill and plain
God shall strike them down for
Every Hertz that's spilt in vain
Every Hertz is sacred
Every Hertz is good
Every Hertz is needed
In your neighbourhood
Every Hertz is sacred
Every Hertz is great
If a Hertz is wasted
God gets quite irate
Anyone know how to do single line breaks in these comments?
There are also (blockquote), (code) and (pre) tags available
but they're no better
Even trying to fake it using (sub)
and (sup) tags doesn't work.
M.
So let's just test whether this works...
Disclaimer: This filk may take severe liberties with the cyber conversion process, or may actually be more realistic than the one portrayed in Dr Who. Tradmarks included should be considered to be abused wantonly, I am not Adele and nor am I a Dell.
I wonder how many of the millennials would recognise G&S songs? In the 1960s they were commonplace. Boys schools could do musical productions which only required a couple of significant women characters.
One of our VIth Form boys was an avid G&S fan. He used to sing his Geology litany to "Modern Major General" as an aid to memory.
Gilbert reckoned that "The Gondoliers" would last throughout the twentieth century, and in "The Pirates of Penzance", the plot device expires in 1940. (And Japan copped it in 1945.) But a modern young audience has any amount of new silly songs to choose from.
CBeebies (BBC for toddlers) is putting on "The Tempest" today. From looking in, they cut away frequently to William Shakespeare explaining the action to one of his Kickstarters, they get through it in about an hour, and I'm nearly sure that Sir John Gielgud in the buff won't be involved. If you'd prefer to see the Clangers, I don't disagree. :-)
Lets not forget the spendid efforts of Spitting Image and their joyful ode to the ubuiquitous RS232 interface lead. I'm sure it must be on you-tube but can't be bothered to look for it.
Or Lennon+McCartney et al......
Yesterday.....
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Suddenly....
All my files have gone away.
Oh how I yearn for yesterday.
The EFF are too twacked out of their red berets on nyaope. The only thing they're expropriating is each other's drugs and cheap booze at the shabeen. It was the ANC hooking up one of Ramaphosa's cronies with a free farm, while the DA sat there and threatened them with the ConCourt and the FF+ kept preaching to a choir.
Mu cousin's school used to do an annual G&S production (to an incredibly high standard), and I was allowed to attend a performance each year free - Mum had to pay. I got sucked in rather, and learned most of the plot lines and songs. However, as my school was somewhat less {cough} refined {cough} the instinct for self preservation kicked in and I never shared this with my school mates.
Way back in 2015 I wrote this, sung to the tune of a well known Pink Floyd song, from one of their more famous albums. I've been a programmer for longer than I've been a musician, so I refactored out the duplications, to avoid The Wall of text. Insert David Gilmour guitar solo where appropriate.
We don't need no compilation.
We don't need no source control.
No damn subversion in the repo.
Coders leave them bugs alone.
Hey! Coders! Leave them bugs alone!
All in all, it's just another bug in the code.
All in all, put just another bug in the code.
Crashed, run it again!
If you don't edit yer code, you can't have any debugging. How can you have any debugging if you don't edit yer code?
You! Yes you behind the segfaults, STAND STILL LADDIE!
I always liked the Animaniacs version: I am the very model of a cartoon individual.
A series sadly not only not continued, but also not repeated!