Let me be Ribber The First - to compliment you on this well-written and funny parody.

You and TT..gone head to head on this...both excellent spoofs

HOLY MACKREL, you've mind melded with a turtle! LOL!!!!! Great one, Fiddlegirl. You & TT are right on the mark today!

Mothers, don't name your kid Henry (or Adolf).

Another fine parody with this title.

Gate the hell out - you and TT on the same theme with the same OS on the same day. I can't decide which is the better parody. Let's have some beers and decide. Fine work Fiddlegirl.

What Mark said! Great take on HL Gates! This is classic! 5's!

Wow! I've often seen the same song on the same day but never with the same story - especially liked the handcuffed line

Andy - Merry and Pippin did "Cecilia" and called it "Sicilians" on June 23, 2008. I did the same thing on the same day to the same song with the same theme. One catch, we planned it that way. Pippin and I wanted to make it look like a coincidence, but Merry did a thumbs down to that idea.

The Great Gatesby saga continues... great stuff!
BTW, Ewe and TT appear to share a mystical connection... scary!

OK, you wanna run with the big dogs, it's time to start separating yourself from the wanna-bes. 'Stead of going with an off-line and making excuses for it, try *thinking* for five or ten seconds, as this writer just did, and change the line to:

"Booked myself on MS-NBC"

Scans beautifully, no fiddling (hehe) with the meter or parenthesizing. Likewise, since the English maven appears to be familiar with elisions, as in "conf'rences", why not do that at the start of lines, PRN -- e. g., "'Steemed Professor Gates...." rather than the parent-hectic-all sillybull? (btw, English teacher or not, not every parody line or lines must be a complete sentence, and the subject "I" is understood anyway. File that for future ref.)

First, we both post on the same day songs with the word "pelagic" in them, and now this? It must be ESPN! ...btw, when Gene Pitney passed away, AFW and I both posted tributes the next day, entitled, "World Without Pitney" (from his hit, "Town Without Pity". I just DK why it took me a week for this to hit me -- I feel quite sheepish about it (that was probably the distracting issewe). Having said that, it's a brilliant title switch (hehe), and otherwise well-executed, which is more than can be said for the actions of 2/3 of this trio. The genre deserves multiple panning (for parodic gold), and you've genre-ated a (Bill) Gates' worth of addition to it. Wanna have a beer some day? 555

Now that you mention it, going "head to head" with FG sounds like a fine idea! (You can write a parody about it when I send you the video.)

Thanks, all, for the nice comments!
@2Eagle: or Judas
@Guy: Hahaha for the pun!
@TJC: I'm actually TT's "Gates-sha" girl ;)

Guy - I just missed them - I started posting regularly from 17th July 2008

I'm not sure that anything positive came out of President Obama's "teachable moment" - other than a gold mine for parodists. Very good job of spoofing the sham.

Also a good take on the Gates/Crowley comedy hour.

TT set henry up and you knocked him down...good one

Thx to Andy, Timmy, Alvin and John. I'm not sure anything specific was actually "taught" from that moment, either. Unless it was the night-and-day difference between the self-important hand wringing of the media and the collective laughter of most "ordinary" citizens (and a few extraordinary ones, like those on AIR!)

Running with the big dogs, eh? I'm reminded of the old adage that, unless you're the lead dog, the scenery never changes. Still, a girl could do worse.

You're right, the change you proposed would have been better-- although the point about "making nice" for the cameras then continuing to pursue his own self-aggrandizing agenda might have been lost.

Wouldn't have thought about 'Steemed Prof Gates, but I love it. He *was* pretty "steamed"...aren't you the clever turtle? ;)

"aren't you the clever turtle?"
As opposed to which other one? ... seriously, far be it from me to be so rude as to dispute such a profound observation from a friend. ;-)

Got an account on inthe00s for a PM? ... or one disposable email address in which to cloak yourself in anonymity (guess that's all JoElla was cloaked in), in which case, click the link in any of my copyright notices, capture the captcha, and drop me a line -- one comment I'd like to pass, but not publicly. Guarantees: no personal attacks, no obsessive love-stalking, just private. You'll understand afterward. tnx.

Very good--and welcome to Amiright!

Excellent as usual. You nailed the crux of the problem with the line "And everyone worships Henry" Nice work!