What a difference a day makes huh? I guess this topic is no longer unfunny, 10 line songs no longer an object of scorn, OS is known by just the right people and apparently no one was sufficiently offended to make mention of the offense. Congratulations, let me add my 555s to your effort.

Fine sentiments, Rob .. nicely expressed

And to Onslaught -- Song parodies are generally humorous, but you CAN go in a different direction. You can express outrage, joy, sadness -- I've done all these things with song "parodies". Sometimes the word parody is a misnomer for what the end result is. I think this is the case here. Rob clearly isn't poking fun at the situation; it looks more like an expression of unbridled joy

I know that, I thought it was good. Yesterday it was a different story now wasn't it, or weren't you here for that?

Thanks guys! The deal here at AiR is that the majority of parodies are not even funny. They are largely sarcastic and witty, artistic to morbid, and so on... and usually based on current news items. I do WHP as a base song b/c it is a challenge to come up with different ways to change essentially a very poor Beatles song that is junk. So far, I have found 141 ways! Same for Hawkin's IPASOY, although Barry started that in the hundreds and by blocks of them. Mine are different b/c I use them as info-parodies for aviation, tech, military, and historical lessons and I reached 500 first. I hate it when someone 1-bombs my parodies b/c they either hate or do not understand my topic. With this WHP, I was elated like everyone else that the girls were all alive and wanted to express that in a simple manner w/o getting into the morbid aspects and horrors of their captivity by a depraved and sick man.

'Wild Honey Pie' is far from a piece of junk. It's an atonal, innovative, part interlude/part reprise with some funky harmonizing on one of the boldest, most experimental (and greatest) collections of pop tunes of all time. Composers still study the deceptive structural complexity of seemingly simple songs like 'Julia' and 'Blackbird', to name just two, in vain attempts to discover the secret of genius.

This is a piece of junk though - 10 repetitive lines rehashing the news of the day with the same old litany of half a dozen songs that seem to be the limit of your repertoire. You call that info-parody? I call that someone with too much time and too little to do with it.

As for 'miracles', yeah right. Three girls are enslaved and horrifically sexually and physically abused for ten years and are lucky enough to escape. Thank God for his mercy. Like the girl who miraculously survived 10 days unscathed under the Bangladesh collapsed garment factory where a thousand lives were snuffed out by greed and exploitation. Apparently Allah is merciful too.

Don't get me wrong. This is not a personal attack. Your parodies and your comments often have their merits, though your output is excessive in my book, a problem I've alluded to elsewhere. I just think you've done better, especially when you get away from the same old songs, and this piece had more praise than it deserved. I think 'Onslaught' has a valid point about his own parody on the topic, which employed original song-matching.

I don't blame you for having a 'love affair' with this wonderful site. You're not alone there. Maybe you could spend a little more time appraising other people's work, which you seem to spend little time doing, rather than (your own word) 'dominating' the site.

So, an attacker comes out into the open. LL or maybe I am talking to Meriadoc as they seem to appear and disappear frquently at the same time- I have for the record almost 2000 parodies that have more artists than ALL of yours and Meriadoc's parodies combined!!! I do some serial parodies for fun and numbers sake. You are taking just 2 out of hundreds while discounting all the Vet retreads of their SAME OLD DATED MATERIALS of the Beatles, Sinatra, Nat King Cole, etc... as I stated earlier. Count my total artists out of the 2000 and they far outnumber the majority of vets and it didn't take me half a decade to a decade to achieve- I did them in record time. Btw, who are you to tell me what I can and cannot write about? I lead in several artist categories beyond Hawkins like Gaga for example and do modern artists like: Beyonce, Ke$ha, Rihanna, Bieber, Gomez, Lovato, One Direction, Victoria Justice, Pussy Riot, a large amount of modern KPOP beyond Psy, as well as still popular Shakira, Madonna, Britney Spears, Backstreet, MJ, JJ, and the list can go on and on and on. My artist page backs me up while all you spout is hateful opinions that are not factual. I'm sorry that you again failed in a veiled personal attack but my numbers and my topics speak for themselves and vets much higher than you have praised much of my work for the information alone. As for ratings and appraising, I am physically disabled and am doing a slow-down here due to physical therapy and having fun in the California sun doing other things than just writing parodies. I am a poet as well and online author, NG and forum participant in areas of tech you wouldn't understand, and am known worldwide for my knowledge on display. And lastly, I do not need your approval for anything here. My work speaks for itself and its huge production volume of diversity. Maybe you should spend less time worrying about what I am writing and post more of your own parodies. You and the self-appointed pacing police are the only ones that like to tear people down with your "constructive criticism." WHY do I need your comments when I have 5 ratings? I don't. You just add pithy commentary that is irrelevent to me or treble-rate people with good ratings to ruin theirs or 1-bomb in silence. Also, I see the way you make positive comments on others parodies and then 444 them or treble-rate them at 5-2-3, etc... You wouldn't last on an unmoderated group of any kind with that MO. If you don't like these OS parodies of mine, WHY do you even come here to comment? And yours is the only negative. If you are a LIFELIVER then go out in the sun and do something fun instead of trying to tear others down for their own productivity. JAB leads the group for numbers and he did blocks of IPASOY, has done serial parodies of the same artists with the same OS as well as our mutual parodies of parodies- yet you do not make negative comments about him. WTH??? So forgive me for not taking your points seriously. Btw, I don't think anyone else is either, except your crew of: "Mr. Footnotes, One-half of the Undynamic Duo, and Chopped Liver... plus their associated False S/Ns!!!"

@Rob
First, you should know I've never submitted a comment under any other name but this (except once when I used 'Deathdier' as a light-hearted dig at one of Al Silver's more morbid efforts). I've never silently 111'd anybody, and on the rare occasions I've voted thus I've explained why. What's more, I've never 111'd you. Or silently 555'd. I never vote without offering a comment. I want people to know who's commenting and I agree that it's cowardly and spiteful to do otherwise, not my style at all. I use this name because I survived a cancer scare a few years ago and since then every day is a bonus. You wanna joke about my name - Arndt you funny! If you want my real name you'll find it in the author contact pages.

How interesting you should refer to Meriadoc aka Merry, a prolific collaborative parodist with a fine body of humorous work here, and who was as known and respected for her generous, perceptive and wide-ranging comments as for her own creativity. AFAIK, she hasn't made her presence felt here for some six months, for personal reasons as I understand it. I doubt whether she would do so just to take a crack at you. But it wouldn't surprise me at all if she consistently ignored your efforts out of sheer irritation, and so is a suspected 'attacker'.

This is not an attack, it's feedback. Read my words. Your production rate is excessive, and it has a deleterious effect on the quality of your work. You've spoken of your ill health before, and my sympathies for that. If you need to slow down, why don't you? Do your doctors know you produce as many as six pieces in a single round? Or do they encourage it as therapy? That's not counting your frequent, long, impassioned essays on weapons and war (admittedly impressive in their detail, depth and scope, though I wonder how many read them all, especially with the lack of formatting, a discourtesy to the reader I've criticized you for before). I've sometimes enjoyed them, and said so (with no acknowl).

I don't think your OS choices are quite as diverse as you say. Apart from your repeating favorite six or so, many of the others seem to comprise advertising jingles, children's songs and obscure original hymns. The OS standards you use are often copycatted from other parodists. But I concede you do give the contemporary stuff like Lady Gaga a fair shake. I gather you are no spring chicken so I don't know how you can listen to that stuff, but that's none of my business.

I think John Barry's blitz of endless thematic variations on one song was a bad example for you to follow, and the competition which developed from that should have been conducted privately, with you publishing a sample of the mutually agreed best ones (that's just a personal opinion). Why do I v/c on his work and not yours? Because his wordcraft is truly exceptional, he breaks the mould; and because he takes the trouble to appreciate my efforts. But I don't like his singleminded pursuit of the ultimate 'Spell' or 'WHP' any more than yours.

There are other, quite serious issues to address, but I'll leave it at that for now.