Comments on: Twas the parody before Xmas

Twas the parody before Xmas

Wet Spot — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:06:04 -0800

Twas the night before Xmas and all through the net,
The geeks would be googling the ascii character set;
Metafilter refreshed on their PCs with care,
In the hopes that their FPP soon would be there;

Then up in the blue there arose such a clatter,
Mathowie sprang up to see what's the matter;
When, what to my wondering eyes there should be,
The canonical list of "Twas" parodies.

By: ecrivain

ecrivain — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:37:29 -0800

'Twas 3 days before Xmas in the MeFi 'hood, A lone poster commented, "This is good."

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:52:55 -0800

If you're already tired of doggerel verse, Just wait 'til the thread starts. It's bound to get worse.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:56:10 -0800

haiku that ain't.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:07:25 -0800

I once wrote a "Night Before Christmas" parody, for a discussion board on an "adults-only" web site. I will say no more.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:12:45 -0800

J'adore the Dictionary version: The prepubescent siblings, comfortably ensconced in their respective accommodations of repose, were experiencing subconscious visual hallucinations of variegated saccarinose fruit confections performing choreography through their cerebrums. My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head-coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the Arctic-like gloom when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof. Heh.

By: Wet Spot

Wet Spot — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:13:28 -0800

Now! quonsar, now! dhartung, now! XQUZYPHYR, and oissubke, On! riffola, on! donkeyschlong, on! fold_and_mutilate and madamjujujive; To the cries of "Newsfilter"! To the pancakes and ponies! Now flame away! flame away! You and your cronies!

By: i_am_joe's_spleen

i_am_joe's_spleen — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:22:38 -0800

'Twas the night before Christmas And all through the house Not a soul was stirring Not even a mouse Because somebody had stolen all the spoons.

By: jamespake

jamespake — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:34:16 -0800

Just in case some of those parodies are a little too political (like the adolescent ramblings under 'Afghanistan'), here is a purely phonetic parody: Tweeze Denied Beef Worker Isthmus.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:44:00 -0800

These parodies are only really enjoyable if you are interested in the theme, i.e., I love Wet Spot's parodies, but the David Duchovny one was a minute of my life I'll never get back.

By: ed\26h

ed\26h — Mon, 23 Dec 2002 07:55:44 -0800

I read the first two. They were fairly racist, right-wing nonsense. I had to go!

By: 2sheets

2sheets — Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:48:40 -0800

Fuck that racist, jingoistic bullshit. Really.