Style Conversational Week 1507: Eat our words
Week 1503 results – a food song contest – is quite the affair. If you sang along with 19 songs, including six video performances, you’d reach number 19, what, half an hour later? an hour? Even with the emphasis on minor songs above, eliminating repetition, etc., this is about the most I can expect from a reasonable reader.
And so my long “short list” is full of clever, funny, well-crafted parodies that loser t-shirts should wear.
I hope you’ll take the time to scroll down the page for all the honorable mentions, and so I’ll try not to keep you in the Convo too long.
But as an example of how deep our bench is: I wouldn’t have guessed it, but so many losers have cleverly used Week 1503’s food theme to write about that famous lunch table tantrum. Used with: The Trump White House Ketchup Split, which was mentioned in a very flattering way. By Assistant Cassidy Hutchinson during the Jan. 6 hearing. Several Ketchup Split entries made my shortlist, with seasoned loser parodist Barbara Surshek scoring runner-up.
Here are the other Splat finalists, in whole or in part:
Pout all you can pout.
(For “Army Goes Rolling Along”, US Army Song)He would scream, mad, when it wasn’t going well, and the ketchup would slide down. Get angry, full of hate, throw his hamburger (and plate), with the ketchup coming down. He would bark and shake, then stuff a well-done steak, turning the walls reddish brown. The taste of the White House was defiled by a rotten baby as the ketchup kept sloshing down.
(West Point grad and longtime loser Randy Lee)
To “Up and Away” Would you like to dine with a handsome tycoon? Would you like to hide from the angry orange baboon? We could have a lovely lunch together while the burgers fly. Yes. He let the ketchup fly and away, like throwing a pie, a cartoon of an angry child spoiling the dining room with this angry throwing loon. This Looney Tunes maroon has defamed the country. He will call the porter, blame it on another man because he can lie, he can lie ketchup and away like a condiment, a condiment typhoon!
(Bridge) He’s stepping on broken crockery. We’ll crawl on the floor to hide. If by any chance your thoughts turn to ridicule. He’s trying to divide us, this loser, fool’s gold Midas. He’s immortalized by a giant baby balloon Flying through the air, allies lampooning our buffoon With his tiny hands he’ll throw our dreams to the sky Because he can lie, and he will. Put the ketchup and away with our beautiful, giant hot air balloon Buffon, keep him away.
(shot by the long-lost Jay Larry)
To “Counting the Flowers on the Wall” (an excerpt) … throwing ketchup on the wall that doesn’t bother me at all. Grabbing my driver’s throat when I need to block a vote. Claiming every court where I’ve lost is just a kangaroo. Don’t tell me now, I don’t have to do anything.
(Barbara Sarshek)
As I regularly do with the plethora of fantastic entries in our parody contests, I’ll be sharing other noteworthy “nicks” over the next few days. Style invitational devotee group on Facebook; Just search on #parodies and a list of posts should come up.
At least one of those will belong to Duncan Stevens, who can console himself by winning another clowning achievement as the first five-time winner of the Disembodied Clown Head on a Stick trophy. Sing along to his parody “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” and see how the lyrics fit perfectly with the melody and rhythm – and more importantly, how they make you laugh: ” Pumpkin-flavored spice in a Belgian waffle. / Pumpkin-flavored spiced potato chips / Pumpkin-flavored burgers: That’s just awful / Pumpkin-flavored Spam? Not on my lips.”
And at least one other runner-up will go to Mark Riffman, who pulled off the rather rare feat of parodying a power chord rock song, in this case the Survivor-screaming “Eye of the Tiger” — his youthful Josh is deliciously ironic when used to sing about fighting constipation with a “high-fiber diet.” (Meanwhile, Mark’s usual parody fodder, “Be Our Guest,” ended without any ink this week, despite at least six losers — none of whom performed “Guest” songs by Mark. ).
Two more veterans fill out this week’s circle of losers: Rob Cohen’s Overeating Song with a Punchline, and Barbara Surshek’s Ketchup Split Ballad add to their list of big parody songs.
Meanwhile, I’m completely won over by Marty Gold & Kids’ upbeat video for “Ode to the Chinese Buffet,” and not just because I’ve always been a sucker for said establishments. Clever lyrics (dad Sam gets co-credit), great singing, an infectious joy – and is that Marty playing, one-man band style, the first orchestration of “YMCA” for multiple clarinets?
But you don’t need an entire stage production to make a great video: I was also mesmerized by Florida first-offender Judy Freed, who sang (beautifully and clearly) into the camera for Knockout, whose Backing was done with a karaoke track. A parody of the song “Corner of the Sky” from “Pepin” in which she mentions therapy by pie. Judy also kept her video under two minutes, as Jonathan Jensen — who can sing, play the piano and look at the camera at the same time (not to mention make funny faces) — “It’s Not Easy Eating Beans. ” with. Without a story or important visual (for example, a slideshow or on-camera action — like the video of Sandy Riccardi putting “nuts” into Nutella), you’re going to have a lot of viewers just sitting there and waiting for their next line. are asking for Several minutes at a time. It helps if the music plays along too.
Meanwhile, if you’ve been inked this time around, most of the parodies shouldn’t look old by the time we hit the Second Chance retrospective in December. I will probably run one from Saturday 1503.
What made Poonch happy: Ace copy editor Ponch Garcia read the print invite, which had space for nine of the week’s 19 parodies, and called them “uniformly clever.” Everyone is a winner! The print list — which favors songs, especially smaller ones, that I think will be familiar to multiple generations — includes the top four winners, plus Beverley Sharp’s Dracula ballad, “If I Only Had a Rag.” “; “Supercalifragilistic Expialadocious” verses by Melissa Balman and Hildy Zampella (even the title was shortened to fit into a type column); “My Favorite (Fattening) Things” by Nancy McWhorter; and excerpts from Marty Gold’s “Chinese Buffet” and Sarah Walsh’s “That’s More Than I’m Eating.”
We’re rooting for you: This week’s all-new state slogan contest
Your more fanatical Invite readers may have recently noticed Bob Stack’s involvement beyond Invite’s weekly cartoon drawing since 1994: “What do you want me to draw?” instead of. Bob often contributed his own illustrations to recent contests, even supplying a well-crafted one for Limerixicon.
I’ve been delighted to have Bob as a colleague – after all, it was his creative input as a temporary replacement in Year 2 that convinced my predecessor, Czar, to keep him on permanently. But as he became one Hugely successful and popular artist and writer Over the next three decades, Bob understandably diverted his creative efforts elsewhere, in several directions at once, and was punctuated by invitations once a week for old times’ sake.
Maybe it’s nostalgia on his part, or just a temporary respite from all his book projects and speaking engagements, but over the past few months I’ve once again found him more of a partner than a man. But have begun to overthink that which I send. assigned to. And then, just recently, Bob sent me an email: “This came to me in a dream last night and I think it has great potential.” He then proceeds with this week’s contest, week 1507, with several convincing examples, almost unchanged.
Since just two weeks ago I ran another place name contest, for “Sister Cities” Loser community residents may still be in map mode, and ready to apply it to this week’s contest: Use the first letters of consecutive US states in a “path” that starts with the state. Root as the first letters of a motto describing a state
An example is very easy to show, as I didn’t use Bob: Florida: A gator always tastes gamey. (FNo Ohno, Yesa., Ohno, Tenn., Yesa.)
Meanwhile: We’ve had state slogan contests in the past, but not for long. A caveat: Don’t describe any situation as not being interesting. In other words, don’t pretend you’re ignorant.
Submit files on past slogan inks (scroll for this week’s new contest winning slogans):
Week 640, State Slogans. (my competition)
Week 231, slogans for the backs of the then new state themed quarters (Contest of the Tsar)
Give it a shot. If I don’t have enough good stuff in four weeks … I think I can find an extra song parody to play.
Inking Out Loud: Coming Up – Feast and Talk on Audio!
I’m eager to see what happens with next week’s invitations and talks: like many of the other articles in the post, they’ll offer an audio version option! It’s automatic, but it’s usually so good that it takes a minute to figure it out. (Here’s a random story from today’s paper; (Click the “Listen” icon just below the image.) Next week’s results will be for the 100 Scrabble tiles from week 1504, which Ms. AI should be able to handle — but what about when we get to the neologisms. is going to happen
Well, enjoy these parodies: Happy New Year to those counting to 5783 — remember, everyone gets one more day. Saturday 1506; The deadline is tuesday, September 27.