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good luck to everyone in this round it seems you'll need it with this topic.
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Thanks, I will...  ???

He's a good subject, I'm sure: I remember the face, and the voice - but can't think of any parody material at all...

Phil

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OK, you must get your entries in by Friday morning
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..just a thought: you want them submitted as normal?  I guess it'll be pretty obvious which the amIright Idle songs are...

Phil

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..just a thought: you want them submitted as normal?  I guess it'll be pretty obvious which the amIright Idle songs are...

Phil
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yeah.. post them normally, and then respond to this thread with the url like you did for the initial entries.

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I was thinking of parodying Fats Domino's "Im walkin", but I cant make it sound good.....damn
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Yeah, my original idea ("Walken of Choice") kinda fell through too.

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OK, you must get your entries in by Friday morning, at 6 AM. To insure everyone has to write a parody, I picked a topic no one has covered yet. Christopher Walken. http://us.imdb.com/Name?Walken,+Christopher

Why Christopher Walken? well.. the way, he talks, is somewhat funny, don't you think? He was host of Saturday Night Live last week, plus he's been in more movies than I can count. (Pulp Fiction, Catch Me If You Can, Sleepy Hollow, Antz, Mouse Hunt, Pulp Fiction, Wayne's World 2, A View to a Kill, Pennies From Heaven) and the most excellent music video by Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice".
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Im not sure if you did it on purpose or not, but you put pulp fiction twice in your list of movies...

Wow, I probably couldve done it, but with my inability to reach a computer recently, I donno if I wouldve been able to get it in by Friday...Wow, I cant believe I only missed it by .2 of a point!

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Yeah, my original idea ("Walken of Choice") kinda fell through too.
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It's a bugger of a song to parody, too: not helped by the way it's remixed - I've downloaded the video and a couple of (different-sized) copies of the MP3, and they're all slightly different in the way the stanzas are put together.  Might be worth it, if I can figure a suitable alternative for "Halfway between the gutter and the stars"...

Phil

Quoting:When he was 16, Walken had a job at a small, single-ring circus in the north-eastern United States. There he performed a lion-taming act with a 'very sweet' elderly lioness called Sheba. How close would he have to get to her? 'Very close - as close as we are now.' Although he is sitting a couple of feet away, it feels close enough. 'She was so well-trained,' he remembers fondly. 'She was like a dog, a big German shepherd. I would do a little thing and she would go...' he mimes lying on his back with paws in the air. The act, Walken explains, was 'a gimmick'. The actual lion-tamer, who also owned the circus, would finish his own performance with more ferocious big cats. Then Walken would come in, dressed identically, pretending to be his son, and be left alone with Sheba. So he was kind of like Mini-me, Mike Myers's tiny doppelganger in Austin Powers?

'I was a version!' Walken nods delightedly. 'Back when I was a version...' By now he is pronouncing the word to make it sound like 'virgin', as if remembering himself in the Madonna song. 'Like a version, touched for the very first time.'
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Another nice quote from CW:

Quoting:'It's my training,' Walken shrugs. 'I don't know much about acting, but I know a lot about performing, and that word you're not supposed to use, "entertaining", that's what I really know about.'
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Me, I reckon he knows a lot about acting, too :-)

Thanks for the subject, Chucky

Phil

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Chuck, do I just submit my Chris Walken parody to Amiright like usual, for the second round?  Royce Miller
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yup.. just submit it to the site like normal.. and then post the URL here after I approve it

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I'm pleased to give a Christopher Walken parody a try.  I think it's a challenging subject, and regarding Chuck's earlier comment about separating the men from the boys, well, you can throw a woman in there, too.  I know my name sounds like a man's, of course, but since I'm in this second round, I'll just come clean.  
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you know I was never sure.. I thought you were a woman, and then noticed Royce could be male as well... so I was left wondering myself.. good to see at least one woman in the contest, and writing for amiright.. seems like a total boys clubs sometimes..

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Whoo.  Here it is.  *crosses fingers*

http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/fatsdomino0.shtml

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/99/pics/99pcowbell1.jpg
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Veeery good!  :)

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"The ballad of Christopher Walken" tomarrow to the tune of the beatles "Eleanor Rigby"!
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Damn!  Being unhappy with my "Weapon of Choice" parody (and I challenge anybody to do a good and funny parody of that song), I'd pretty much completed an Eleanor Rigby parody in the car on the way in this morning... but it's back to the drawing board...

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Damn!  Being unhappy with my "Weapon of Choice" parody (and I challenge anybody to do a good and funny parody of that song), I'd pretty much completed an Eleanor Rigby parody in the car on the way in this morning... but it's back to the drawing board...
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sorry Phil,   :(
well theres nothing that states that there cant be TWo Eleanor rigby parodies....I dont know.....

well, heres my entry:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/thebeatles31.shtml

called "The ballad of Christopher Walken" to the tune of the Beatles, "Eleanor Rigby"


Of course, someone could try to pull off mmy "Lowrider" idea..lol.."Chris-Walk-en is really good actor"...well, maybe someone could do better than that lol

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Having said it was a bugger of a song to parody, I've just submitted what will probably be my entry, called "Baddie of Choice"... it just had to be done, I guess.
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so have you settled on this for your entry yet? I just updated the Idle page, but was unsure wether you were going to use this entry, or write another.. I'm perfectly ok with people writing a quick parody, or a couple, waiting a day to see the votes/comments, and then picking their stronger parody.. so long as you can do it before the deadline

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OK, you must get your entries in by Friday morning, at 6 AM. To insure everyone has to write a parody, I picked a topic no one has covered yet. Christopher Walken. http://us.imdb.com/Name?Walken,+Christopher

Why Christopher Walken? well.. the way, he talks, is somewhat funny, don't you think? He was host of Saturday Night Live last week, plus he's been in more movies than I can count. (Pulp Fiction, Catch Me If You Can, Sleepy Hollow, Antz, Mouse Hunt, Pulp Fiction, Wayne's World 2, A View to a Kill, Pennies From Heaven) and the most excellent music video by Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice".
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so have you settled on this for your entry yet?
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Not, yet - I've just submitted "Walken in Batman" to the tune of "Walking on Sunshine", which is definitely funnier (well, it talks about Walken's defenstration of Michelle Pfeiffer, and her reappearance in a skin-tight catsuit :-)) - but for some reason, I still prefer the first one, probably because I love the video, but it's much less accessible.

Phil

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Not, yet - I've just submitted "Walken in Batman" to the tune of "Walking on Sunshine", which is definitely funnier (well, it talks about Walken's defenstration of Michelle Pfeiffer, and her reappearance in a skin-tight catsuit :-)) - but for some reason, I still prefer the first one, probably because I love the video, but it's much less accessible.

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ok.. that's fine.. I just don't want to miss an entry.. so far only 3 out of 8 parody author's have submitted their parodies.. I guess they're trying to build tension.. or they're completely stymied by the subject

I totally forgot about his role in Batman Returns..

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ok.. that's fine.. I just don't want to miss an entry.. so far only 3 out of 8 parody author's have submitted their parodies.. I guess they're trying to build tension.. or they're completely stymied by the subject

I totally forgot about his role in Batman Returns..
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so have you settled on this for your entry yet?
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I have now :-)  I've just submitted "A Few of his ninety-three parts" to the tune of "A Few of my Favourite Things"... third time lucky I guess.

Phil
PShttp://amiright.com/parody/60s/mariasoundofmusic0.shtml

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ok.. that's fine.. I just don't want to miss an entry.. so far only 3 out of 8 parody author's have submitted their parodies.. I guess they're trying to build tension.. or they're completely stymied by the subject

I totally forgot about his role in Batman Returns..
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I'll be submitting mine Thursday night.  I'll add the link to the thread Friday as soon as I see it posted.  Is that okay Chuck?  The deadline is 6am, and the song will be submitted by then...but I won't know the URL until it's on the site.
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yup.. the deadline for submission is 6 AM, posting the URL is midnight Friday (ie. you have all day Friday to post it in this thread)..

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I won't be able to reply after 5 am tomorrow. My high school TV station is covering the state wrestling meet, so I have to go there. But, I have noticed how the links are assigned, so I should know the URL as soon as I submit the parody.
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you have until midnight on Friday to post the URL.. if you want, send me a private message with the name of the song, and when it goes up in the morning, I'll post the URL in the thread and on the page..

my biggest concern, is making sure the person who submitted the parody to the website, is really the person entered into the contest (since I don't use a username/password system on the parody submission). I also want to make sure I only post the proper parody (some people have written multiple parodies before they submit their final one)

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I won't be able to reply after 5 am tomorrow. My high school TV station is covering the state wrestling meet, so I have to go there. But, I have noticed how the links are assigned, so I should know the URL as soon as I submit the parody.
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I didn't get your parody in this morning's batch of submissions.. please try and email me in case it didn't go through or if you didn't write one, etc.

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Oh man!  I stayed up on Thursday night until 2:30 A.M. finishing mine so it got in on time.  Heh, it's ok, I'll take a 3rd round pass.   :D
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judging from the results from the first two judges, I'd say the effort was well worth it anyways, I think you have the highest combined score so far (at least the reviews looked the most favorable).

I updated the contest page with the judging results so far. I'm sure I'll get the last set in a little while so we can at least see who scored best.