88 lines about 44 ____

January 25, 2013 1:03 PM

Inspired by 88 lines about 44 women (official video, NSFW "mondo documentary" footage), here are 88 lines about 44: fangirls, presidents, bloggers, rats, 2011 news stories, sitcoms, men (track 8), Simpsons, yelpers, e-cigs, cars, and mefites.
posted by zippy (23 comments total)

For the curious, here's the Google search I used: "88 lines about 44 *" -intitle:"44 women"
posted by zippy at 1:16 PM on January 25 [2 favorites]

Wow, so many people in the 44 Mefites song that you don't see on Mefi anymore. It's clearly time for a sequel.
posted by roll truck roll at 1:19 PM on January 25

I just played that in Turntable today on a whim, the first time I've heard it in years!
posted by gemmy at 1:39 PM on January 25

Is it bad or good that I get all of the references in the fangirl song? Even the ones I wish I didn't know about (like Gor).
posted by jb at 1:41 PM on January 25 [2 favorites]

The mefite one is BRILLIANT!
posted by _paegan_ at 1:42 PM on January 25

GOd I love this song so much. I don't know what it is, but there are few moments in any music more viscerally thrilling to me every single time than "Jezebel went forty days drinking nothing but perrier / Dinah drover her chevrolet into the San Francisco Bay." I can't describe it. It just spins the whole tenor of the song around from "dude talking about women he's known/dated" to a desperate "people need help, yo." Every damn time.
posted by Navelgazer at 1:44 PM on January 25 [6 favorites]

Sideshow Bob is a psychopath
Who uses proper Kelsey Grammar
posted by 256 at 1:52 PM on January 25 [3 favorites]

And don't forget 88 Lines About 44 Mefites.
posted by ocherdraco at 1:53 PM on January 25

I can't find a copy online, but Keith Knight did an abbreviated version about 22 roommates in one of his earliest books (probably Dances with Sheep) that was pretty funny. "Patrick was a hippie, liked to hang out in the nude/Mona liked to let it rip and say it wasn't rude."
posted by dlugoczaj at 1:54 PM on January 25

As soon as I saw the title, I thought to myself "wouldn't it be funny if they didn't include cortex's mefi version?" Actually, I find it a bit interesting that people still regularly make derivatives of 44 Lines. It is a good song though, so maybe not that interesting.
posted by mysterpigg at 1:54 PM on January 25

(Or, in other words, ocherdraco needs to work on reading comprehension, as that was clearly in the post.)
posted by ocherdraco at 1:54 PM on January 25

Ocherdraco says they'll work on
Reading com-pre-hen-sion
posted by zippy at 1:57 PM on January 25

Sorry, com-pre-hen-si-on ... I was suffering from hyphen deficit.
posted by zippy at 2:06 PM on January 25

Created by Mefites, 88 Rumors About 44 Fantastist.
posted by Joey Michaels at 2:38 PM on January 25 [1 favorite]

Back when I wrote the now-defunct blog about law school from which I drew my username, I studied for my 1L Constitutional Law exam by writing 88 Lines about 44 Plaintiffs. Of interest only to others who have taken a 1L Constitutional Law class, I'd imagine, but it covers most of the big cases and I did pretty well on the exam, so there's that.
posted by Partial Law at 3:06 PM on January 25 [1 favorite]

Wow, so many people in the 44 Mefites song that you don't see on Mefi anymore. It's clearly time for a sequel.

Someone else has to do it this time.
posted by cortex at 3:33 PM on January 25

88 Lines is a good song, but a much better trope.
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:52 PM on January 25 [2 favorites]

Is there an 88 lines about 44 songs about 88 lines about 44 things?
posted by BrotherCaine at 4:27 PM on January 25 [1 favorite]

You beat cortex to it. (Though to be fair, he didn't even have six years to get it done.)
posted by languagehat at 5:13 PM on January 25 [1 favorite]

I GOT A LOT OF HOBBIES, JEEZ
posted by cortex at 5:56 PM on January 25 [3 favorites]

Cortex has a lot of hobbies,
He composed the meta song,
Had six years to follow up,
Can't be assed to get it done.
posted by zippy at 6:09 PM on January 25 [3 favorites]

I just played that in Turntable

Reason #426 why I'm overjoyed to be older than snot: ability to throw Mood Swing LP onto actual turntable . . . especially since "Everytime I Touch You" is an even better song.
posted by FelliniBlank at 6:13 PM on January 25 [1 favorite]

Kathleen's point of view was this:
Take whatever you can grab

Oh yeah. </80s kid>
posted by Lexica at 7:50 PM on January 25