Bartleby the Scrivener -- Eiffel Tower!

June 15, 2019 8:54 AM

Wiki Titles Singable to TMNT Themesong is a twitter bot that generates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-style title art images based on wikipedia article titles singable to the TMNT theme song. [hat tip to waxpancake]
posted by cortex (21 comments total)

Love it.

"LIST of LIkud KNESset-MEMbers!"
posted by Saxon Kane at 9:08 AM on June 15, 2019 [4 favorites]

OMG I love this. Now I need someone to record singing all of them.
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell at 9:15 AM on June 15, 2019 [1 favorite]

"List of mines in Nova Scotia" dying. I'm gonna try not to come back here and post every one that I love, but no promises.
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell at 9:17 AM on June 15, 2019 [4 favorites]

xkcd did it also
posted by Etrigan at 9:21 AM on June 15, 2019 [10 favorites]

THANK you FOR this ME-ta-FILter.
posted by Beardman at 9:57 AM on June 15, 2019 [9 favorites]

I was expecting this would match articles to the entire song, not just the chorus line. What is the chance of finding such a thing in Wikipedia, Twitter, etc.?
posted by klausman at 10:43 AM on June 15, 2019

xkcd did it also

I see what you did, Etrigan.
posted by klausman at 10:44 AM on June 15, 2019 [17 favorites]

Cotton Chicken Candy Nuggets
posted by dephlogisticated at 11:14 AM on June 15, 2019 [1 favorite]

The late, lamented Bad Gods (by MeFi's own Lore Sjoberg) used to have the Doo-Dah News Network, which would do this except for the first line of Camptown Races.
posted by Pope Guilty at 11:19 AM on June 15, 2019 [4 favorites]

MEta FILter MODerAtors...
Heroes on a half-shift...
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:51 PM on June 15, 2019 [5 favorites]

SHUT IT DOWN:
World Erotic Art Museum
posted by Etrigan at 2:49 PM on June 15, 2019

I can’t. This is making me giggle so happily
posted by Dressed to Kill at 3:29 PM on June 15, 2019

I'm really dying to have a nice six syllable one after every third entry, so I could properly drive Mrs. TheCoug crazy by singing the list out loud forever.
posted by TheCoug at 3:52 PM on June 15, 2019 [2 favorites]

We Sell Our Pizza for 16 Dollars!
posted by museum of fire ants at 4:03 PM on June 15, 2019 [1 favorite]

Work it teenage
Make it mutant
Do it ninja
Makes us turtles
posted by Foosnark at 4:22 PM on June 15, 2019 [19 favorites]

This reminds me of one of my favorite Key & Peele sketches: Ray Parker Jr. Greatest Hits, where the hook for all the movie themes is a variation on "Ghostbusters! I ain't 'fraid a' no ghost!"

Personal fave: "Apt Pupil! There's a kid and a Nazi down there!"
posted by Saxon Kane at 6:32 PM on June 15, 2019 [2 favorites]

It's trochaic tetrameter
It's trochaic tetrameter
It's trochaic tetrameter
The stress is on the first bit
Tetrameter!
posted by Jon Mitchell at 9:04 AM on June 16, 2019 [7 favorites]

This uses Glench's web form to generate them, which explains the xkcd connection. It seems it was a surprise to Glench, though!
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 10:37 AM on June 16, 2019

I'm really dying to have a nice six syllable one after every third entry

Yeah, reading a bunch of these in a row is like waiting for the bass drop that never comes.
posted by thefoxgod at 2:55 PM on June 17, 2019

It does what it says on the tin.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 3:33 PM on June 17, 2019 [1 favorite]

I am saddened to learn that 'tetrameter' is commonly pronounced 'te-TRA-meter', in an iambic fashion. BOO. Still, my way makes more sense, as does 'thermo-meter' for the temperature measuring device.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 3:42 PM on June 17, 2019