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Curse beyond hesitates, or tenor from ballerina reach an understanding with tomato around squid. If chess baord of bestow great honor upon onlooker defined by, then related to burglar flies into a rage polar bear inside demon, living with tabloid, and cyprus mulch toward are what made American great!

This seems like random gibberish, as well it might. But no, it is actually lyrics. Lyrics of a symphony. While it is not our symphony, precisely, I am ready to claim that the composer was divinely inspired and that his work belongs to the cult.

—Alorael, who can think of no more fitting hymn. Of turned quorum jaggedly the!
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Sadly, most popular songs I can think of at the moment make less sense than that.

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Well, the Soviet national anthem was once refitted with Swedish lyrics sounding faintly similar to the Russian original, and translating into English thusly:

quote:
Tell Swerki cross-eyed
That it is that way it should be
Tell them that Heidi
Is like a parabolic aerial
His father is always beating social democrats
It was one of both
a [something] seagull****
Elsies mayor said
Poor negroslave!
His sex shall give a wart
Warthog shall scream
When I have finished sharpening
Semi-good mirages
Siv said: Damn! I regret!
Hash was in a syringe
The police ran in a team
Say [some sort of fish] to everyone
He said: Give it a try!
Government
A viking
His foot said: saliva
Gosh! He is hugging!
And capture Nairobi
He thought he elected
But he rustled in
Poor negroslave!
His sex shall give a wart
Warthog shall scream
When I have finished sharpening!
Semi-good mirages
Siv said: Damn! I regret!
Hash was in a syringe
The police ran in a team
He lived with Swerki
They played police
A hornet, a peasantgirl
A man will turn into a woman
In Rasta-mothers stomach
Is salt á la cheesecake
A brother with his neighbour
Will help a car
Poor negroslave!
His sex shall give a wart
Warthog shall scream
When I have finished sharpening!
Semi-good mirages
Siv said: Damn! I regret!
Hash was in a syringe
The police finished the race.


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Originally written by An array cat:
quote:

Tell Swerki cross-eyed
That it is that way it should be
Tell them that Heidi
Is like a parabolic aerial
His father is always beating social democrats
It was one of both
a [something] seagull****
Elsies mayor said
Poor negroslave!
His sex shall give a wart
Warthog shall scream
When I have finished sharpening
Semi-good mirages
Siv said: Damn! I regret!
Hash was in a syringe
The police ran in a team
Say [some sort of fish] to everyone
He said: Give it a try!
Government
A viking
His foot said: saliva
Gosh! He is hugging!
And capture Nairobi
He thought he elected
But he rustled in
Poor negroslave!
His sex shall give a wart
Warthog shall scream
When I have finished sharpening!
Semi-good mirages
Siv said: Damn! I regret!
Hash was in a syringe
The police ran in a team
He lived with Swerki
They played police
A hornet, a peasantgirl
A man will turn into a woman
In Rasta-mothers stomach
Is salt á la cheesecake
A brother with his neighbour
Will help a car
Poor negroslave!
His sex shall give a wart
Warthog shall scream
When I have finished sharpening!
Semi-good mirages
Siv said: Damn! I regret!
Hash was in a syringe
The police finished the race.


I vote this for our anthem.

[ Tuesday, December 13, 2005 07:57: Message edited by: A Hexagram Cel ]

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Our anthem is not Swedish, broken or otherwise. In an ideal world our anthem would be in Interlingua, but in this one we'll settle for English as the only known language of our Lord and Programmer.

More importantly, I can produce a recording of "Rage Polar Bear" if someone can produce or recommend hosting.

—Alorael, who bestows great honor upon onlooker defined by, then related to burglar.
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rage rage polarbear, rage rage polarbear, rage rage polarbear...

Alorael, I'd recommend my FTP, but it appears you found it before I found this thread.

Also, wasn't this performed at Amherst? It seems to be a fairly new composition, so I'm not sure if it was performed anywhere else. :)

[ Monday, December 19, 2005 14:56: Message edited by: An array cat ]

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Alorael, what have you done to me?

I woke up this morning with the bit "rage rage polar bear, rage rage polar bear" stuck in my mind. Upon looking at the alarm clock and realizing I was late, I exclaimed "Curse beyond!" and jumped into my clothes, all the while thinking "if chessboard of bestow great honor..."

Later, racing to the lecture on my bicycle, I had to keep from shouting "Flies! In! To! A! RAGE POLAR BEAR!"

I will never be the same again... o_O

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Could you perchance provide a link to the recording, for the benefit of the rest of us?

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This was going to be my Christmas present to Spiderweb, but hey, I'm not Christian so why would I make you wait? I could hold out for Chanukkah, but it's really the thought that counts.

Let there be joyous song!

—Alorael, who would like to thank Aran for hosting, Ben Rogers for peerless composition, and people who share selflessly for sharing this selflessly so that it can eventually reach the ears of those to whom it means the most.
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Too many notes.

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quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Too many notes.
Which few did you have in mind, Majesty? :P

(from Amadeus, Mozart, when asked to cut a few notes from his piece.)

Edit:

Alorael, you never mentioned the title, but I gather that it is called "A Symphony of Spam"?

[ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:12: Message edited by: An array cat ]

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That's what I've been led to believe.

—Alorael, who can pull strings along his six degrees of separation to find out what the composer had in mind.
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How the hey did you make that recording?

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With a non-Euclidean microphone, of course.

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quote:
Originally written by Robert the Fourth:

How the hey did you make that recording?
I dare say he probably did not make it himself.

[ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 15:16: Message edited by: An array cat ]

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No, I mean, how did he get a choir and an orchestra to perform that? With straight faces nonetheless.

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According to the member of that choir who sent me the song, it was a matter of finding volunteers and then practicing until they could manage it without cracking up. Not that I think it's funny. There's a majestic grandeur to the nonsense suited to Richard White.

—Alorael, who will entertain no comments on Richard White, majestic grandeur, and possible errors.
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quote:
Originally written by Periodic Emotion:

This was going to be my Christmas present to Spiderweb, but hey, I'm not Christian so why would I make you wait?
Christmas is a religious holiday for all members of the Cult. After all, I'm sure Richard White must have been Jesus at least once by now.

And since this post is being made in early January we can declare it a holiday retroactively, which has a nice symmetry to it.
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The true way of faith is to retroactively make December 20 a holiday. Let's call it Icefallmas. Not only is it now a holiday, it now always was a holiday and we celebrated it devotedly every single year.

—Alorael, who distinctly remembers the celebrations. Two years ago the Bnidkappy (very traditional Icefalmas dish) was to die for.
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quote:
Originally written by A = A:

The true way of faith is to retroactively make December 20 a holiday. Let's call it Icefallmas. Not only is it now a holiday, it now always was a holiday and we celebrated it devotedly every single year.
But each year it was under a different name and on a different date, and we celebrated a different thing, right?

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For a moment there I thought "Well speak of the devil, what a coincidence", then I realized it was just you fooling around with monikers. :P

Also, this retroactive holiday stuff is dangerous. Only a few days ago, we retroactively moved White's birthday to October 7th and celebrated it every year, and it turned out that while going home from that party I got killed by a drunk driver, leaving me seven years dead until the celebration was moved again the next day.

Of course, I retroactively reverted to existence later, so it would appear to an outsider I had never been dead at all. But I noticed, and it wasn't pleasant.

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The celebration is on the same day every year. It's the other dates that we move.

I went to the funeral before it never happened. It was a very nice one for the first two years, but then it had been less nice. And I really feel like this requires indefinite and imperfect past tenses to describe accurately.

—Alorael, who almost boggled, whatever that is, until he realized that no true Mr Meanor would have a period in his name.
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