amen

Wow, Johnny. Well said. 5-5-5

For some reason this parody made me thirsty.

I like this so much, I may perform it at one of our Thursday bashes. Even though I am in favor of the space program, I just love it when you go all shmaltzy.

Thank you Royce, Jan, Guy, and Rick D.

Rick - I am in favor of the space program, too. Everybody - believe it or not - I am in favor of humanity putting billions of dollars into intelligently-planned space exploration ..... but ..... at the same time ...... I want to see humanity put even GREATER resources of money, brainpower, and compassionate effort into alleviating the suffering of our brothers and sisters here on the good Earth.......yes, we can have our cake and eat it too, if we just freakin' work together instead of picking fights with each other. Thank you for bearing with me as I vent. Peace.

I couldn't picture Bob Dylan singing the original, but I can see him singin this one. Sounds like a Dylan-like protest song. Good job man.

I'm gonna say temporary DKTOS, and start my hunt for the song when I get off work today. See ya later, Johnny.

Very funny and timely, Johnny D. I think we can now surmise what happened on Mars. A once lush, green, planet was reduced to a red dustbowl through the depletion of its rainforests by greedy Martian corporations.

I like it. Good parody idea and original song too.

Thank you, TGK, 2nz, David, and Rice!

Ooops, somebody's cookies might not have been on - there's one vote that appears not to have registered.... folks, please check when you get a chance - thanks very much!

Johnny...I'm going to have to ditto what you said about having our cake and eating it too if we freakin' work. In fact, take your whole paragraph and pretend that I wrote it....:D Very good! 5's

Good job johnny... i gave you 5-3-5 because i didn't find it particularly funny but it's well written and pretty powerful and certainly doesn't deserve under a 3 in any category. I actually wrote a parody about what could potentially have happened to the martians (although mine is clearly science fiction and this isn't) and i think it's one of the most underrated parodies i've done. It's called "alien invasion" and most of you probably don't know the original but i'd apprecite it if some of you would read it as a pom and leave comments to say what you think about it.

Thank you, Adagio and Ethan.

Ethan - I will indeed check out your "Alien Invasion" parody and comment on it - you may have seen the evidence of my examination of your work recently - my votes and comments throughout the first part of your catalog - so you can be assured I will keep my word. Take a look a little later today.

OK, Ethan, you'll see I'm a man of my word - I invite you to check out my comments on your parody "Alien Invasion".

quite poignant......5s

Thanks Alvin.

Johnny D - Now sometimes the word "brilliant" gets tossed around too easy...but not in this case. This one is, well, brilliant...wait no it;s not, it's BRILLIANT!!!!....There, that's better. I also agree most wholeheartedly with your comments from around noon today on this screen. Couldn't have said it better myself, although I certainly could (and would) have used quite a few more words. Ethan, I'm going to take a look at your "Alien Invasion" item in a minute. I'm ALMOST ashamed to admit that when I read your note above to Johnny and I saw that you asked it be read as a "pom" if DKTOS that my not quite 20/20 eyes anymore read that mispelling of "poem" as "porn" and I was suddenly more than mildly curious. But, hey, I like "poems" or "poms", too. Have even written some myself. You know, now that I look at them again "pom" and "porn" look virtually identical to me on the screen. There is only the tiniest of space between the "r" and the "n" in "porn" when I view it here. Maybe I need to increase the print size in my screen-view. Or get reading glasses.....YUCK.....increase the screen-view size!

Thanks Paul..... did your vote register? I'm not sure the count changed.

Well written, although I'm very in favor of the space program (and now I've read that you are too)...and I'd like to see them proceed intelligently.

Johnny D - Went back and tried to vote again, count stayed at 13, so it must have counted my first click. It might be my imagination but I think the site is picking up the vote postings somewhat strangely. At one point today the votes and comments on my current posting didn't seem to add up but when I went back a little later they did. On the other hand unless I actually were to write down the number of votes at a certain point it's hard for me to be sure of anything in that realm.

Gee, Martian water! What a great discovery! And I always thought NASA was spending money for nothing. ::)

And they didn't even find water! Only compounds that *could have* formed in water. Which was magically transformed by the media into proof of life within hours...

Thanks Jeff, Paul, Jonathan C., and Steven.

Great job, Johnny!

Thanks Jack!

Excellently written, JD.

Thank you, Phil.

Thought provoking and raw.Well done Johnny.

Thank you, Birgitta.

Sail on space program... rockets fly...

Thanks Cap'n mac!

Excellent Johnny! I've been saying this for years. But.... where would we be without velcro and TV dinners? :-O ;-D

Thanks Merry - velcro and TV dinners, LOL!

Johnny D - How in the world (or I should say, "in all of the worlds") did you forget "Tang". 'Course it's not the BEST type of "tang" but I understand you must always keep your Pressurized Space Suit on when you're up in space.

Very well done, Johnny. You certainly defend your case about leaving lines untampered-with valiantly.

Thank you 2nz.

Outstanding parody, JD. I find it interesting that British bookies just stopped taking bets about whether life once existed on Mars. I don't know how many people placed the bet, but the odds decreased from 1,000 to 1 to 16 to 1in the past 30 years before they stopped taking bets this week.

Thanks JJ. When I heard that NASA was going to announce "significant findings" about Mars later that day, I began to wonder if maybe they'd actually found a fossil of some kind of shellfish. When I heard that the discovery was an array of minerals that could only be explained by the presence of ancient water, I was a little disappointed...but it's still fascinating.

The right thing at the right time. The heads of government really do have their heads up their butts where their priorities are concerned.

Sorry I'm late, JD. A-Lo-Ha! Right on!

Thank you, Grace and Peregrin........ two of you posted comments yet only one additional vote appeared..... please double-check - thanks, folks!