I bow down to you Red Ant lol. Is there anything you can't make a good parody of?

Oh my gosh...I love this! Number one...and this is pretty commonly known around here...the word 'bastard' NEVER fails to make me laugh. So...right there you had me. But, dammit, the whole thing is just HILARIOUS! I love the Scrabble stuff...and, well, everything!

GREAT JOB!!

I see what you're doing here, Antman...didn't have an "X" parody for the ABC comp, did ya? It's OK, I'm going to do Xactly the same thing! This is stupendous, mate! 555

"X" hits the spot

An ultra-clever classic...My favorite line: "With no X, there'd be no sex" and , of course, taking that as a true scenario....this song would've been performed by just "Paul And Mary"...High fives to ya

555, a funny parody, so great.

Xtremely good! 5s

This has got the X-factor - 5s

This WAS funny, Jack!! Hehe (or hexhex) 5's

Wow...this is good! Preparing early for that X round. But really, this is Xcellent.

A good idea, and those are hard to come by.

English is a rotten language. 5s

x-tremely clever 5's

First, apologies to Phil Alexander, Rex U and anyone else who has the letter X in their name. No offense was intended towards anyones name. Thanks Huff, Arwen Kristof, Alvin, AFW, Step-chan, John B, LLLB, Pat, Jeff, Royce, Jackie and Carol.

Huff: I'm flattered, but there are several things in the parody world I've butchered, including my one disco song and both raps I attempted. I still don't have a food related parody either.

Arwen: I'm glad you enjoyed this and laughed. Other than that your compliment has me left me speechless. Bastard. ;-)

Kristof: Actually I wrote an X titled parody posted yesterday. This one is funnier though. Look foward to yours. XD

Alvin: Isn't that X marks the spot? (A title I contemplated using and still might eventually).

AFW, I guess there's always "secks".

Step-chan, John, LLLB, Pat, Royce and Carol: After expending much of my brain last night making this I'm feeling exceptionally dull at the moment, so I'll just re-iterate thanx again.

Jeff: X Round? The idea never Xed my mind. :-)

Jackie Paper: True, but it makes great parody fodder.

X-cellent.

That letter can be rather X-asperating. In fact, somebody should turn Carly Simon's "Anticipation" into "Exasperation."

Brilliant, RA. Absolutely brilliant :-)

Thanks John, Michael and Phil Alexander! Be proud of that X, and also be glad I do not speak with a Spanish accent or I'd probably pronounce it as Ale-hander. ;-)

And this was followed by a parody to a song from the band Extreme, I can see the line of thinking that went on, and it was x-rated for xure.

Red Ant, YOU ARE SESAME STREET MATERIAL!

Thanks Peter, I'd like to think that was a coincidence but you may have something there. Oh, since you adopted 3 X's in your name I guess I should tell you how that would sound: The only proper name I know with a r before the x is Xerxes, who I believe was a CEO for a Persian rug company. ;-) Anyway, that is pronounced Zerk-seas, so following the same convention Anderxxon becomes Anderkson or possibly Anderkszon.

2LD4U: ? (Thanx, I guess).

Xcellent parody.

Thanx Rick.

yeah, good point about X-TREME sounding more than extreme - INXS also works better than "In Excess" - I'm actually in the X camp though - I kinda think it's the coolest letter - XXX

Thanks Stu, I could see where a former calculus teacher (you were, right?) would find X useful and cool - or perhaps the XXX you left meant you find it cool for other reasons. ;-) Why is it though, and I kick myself now for not including this in the parody, that ecstasy sounds like it has an x but doesn't? As for INXS, the first time I saw that band name on a t-shirt I thought "Who are the INKS?" lol.

(SOTM06) Already voted and commented.

[SOTM] You make X's seem almost fairly useful...Why not do one about C's? They sound like either S's or K's...Anyway, 555, this is great stuff.

[SOTM] Yeah, I hate those effin' Greeks as well. You can curse the Romans just as much.

(SOTM) Xcelent one of your best... and while I'm voting... (ABC-X) Xcelent one of your best!

Some great lines in there. We would all be much madder if there was not sex. Very funny stuff, Red Ant.

This marks the spot! 555

SOTM - Already commented, but I forget to mention that being born 65 also makes me a member of what Douglas Coupland named the Generation X. :-)

Ex-cellent and ex-ceptional, Red. Ex-traordinary stuff. I think you ex-hausted every ex-pected use of X, ex-cept...

xoxox
Spaff

(SOTM) I still love this! (notice the xclamation point)

SOTM - I think there's a joke about all my X's live in teXas but I wouldn't go there. It makes a good ice-breaker question, though. If you had to kill a letter, which one would you choose? I don't think pirates would like the removal of X, nor would tic-tac-toe enthusiasts.

(SOTM) - yes, ecstasy SHOULD have an x - it deserves it more than most - and yes I was once a calculus teacher, and secretly loved your horizonal-axis line (but am only now admitting it).....Pacing-wise, I also loved, "Spell EXPLORE for a big score" - this is a well-executed great idea, AGAIN, Red Ant - why don't you shove a few of those ideas my way?

(SOTM) X-cellent!!! 555!!

(SOTM) See above...you're going from strength to strength, Antman. This is an xtremely confident tour de force. Brilliant; no more, no less. 555

(SOTM) After getting off to a rocky start with pacing (me, not you) I loved it. The Scrabble references and internal rhyme are great enough to make me spell my name differently for once.

(SOTM) Introducing the newest member of the X-MEN ...... the amazing "Red Ant", whose mutant super-power is....writing SUPER-PARODIES! ;-) 555

I'm sorry, all the X-rated parodies are X-iled to WhatFreaks. I X-pect this to be X-punged in an X-peditious manner. X-ellent. Seriously, though -- well done.

(SOTM) HIlariously funny parody, 555

SOTM: Still great...see above!

(SOTM) very funny n witty, but pacing was a bit off for my liking, 455

(SOTM) Creative idea

Thanx Pat, Silver Power, bobpiecheese, Matthias, 2nz, Agrimorfee, Peter, Spaff, Rick, Tim, Stu, Jack, Kristof, wbmj, Johnny D, Claude, Larry, Jeff, Josh 2, Chris F. and Phil A.

Silver Power: Good idea and observation on C. I'll keep that one in mind for the future.

Peter: And what Pepsi bastardized into "Generation NeXt ". I think I too am at the tail end of Gen X.

Spaff: Yeah, didn't cover the xoxo but that too gives me an idea for a future parody.

Tim: That does make a good icebreaker question. Though I don't have any intentions of changing the alphabet if I had to choose a letter to kill X would be it. Ever notice how many prescription drugs that have X in the name get recalled or have bad side effects? Bextra, Vioxx, Zyprexa, Xanax, etc. Pirates and tic-tac-toe enthusiasts could always use a t.

Stu: 'Explore' was one of the parts I though about for a while. It's worth a minimum 66 points (16+50 for 7 letter score with no bonuses). As far as great ideas go all I can say is that for me to get them I have to write about 6-10 'average idea' parodies and one to two bad ones (which never get posted) before I run across one. Then to find the best OS for it.....

Kristof: Thank you and I still await your X parody.

wannabemustangjockey: Thanks for mentioning/noticing the internal rhyming, I went out of my way to out-do TOS on that point.

Johnny D: I'm truly flattered. However I think if any more X-Men movies are made ants won't be in them; it's too hard to move in those spandex suits.

Claude: Your X-puns have given me two news ideas, only one of which has a chance on AmIRight. ;-)

(ABC) Is this parody eligible for ABC Round X ? If so, it's a contender!

(ABC) X-actly what i said before!

I liked it, 5's!

(ABCX) yep, I've already over-commented on this one, and it is definitely one of your finest, Red.

(ABC) See above!

Thanks Johnny D, Agrimorfee, Dominic L, Stu, Larry and Matthias.

(ABC Finals) See above!