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Well gee, STG, I love you too ;D

Lemme see here...I'm trying to do this by who makes me laugh most.

10.  Robert J. Pagliaro -- not sure why he stopped writing but he had some good stuff going :)

9.  Evan L. Heller -- same thing, and he was the resident Beatlemaniac too!

8.  Lebeiw15 -- for such a young lad, he sure knows his 80s 8)

7.  Spaff.com -- the latest Boardwalk parody had me and my friends in stitches, hehehe ;D

6.  Mike Armstrong -- sports parodies and the 99 Great Cartoons, excellent quality all around!

5.  Royce Miller -- she's quirky ;)

4.  Steven Cavanaugh -- he's got some kind of nerd complex going but I think it works for him :D

3.  Phil Alexander -- always a fun read.

2.  Claude Prez -- ditto

1.  Jeff Reuben -- I Got To Pee Now and Free Parking are the parodies I show off to all of my friends.  Absolutely brilliant material.

And of course I didn't include us for obvious reasons ;D  I honestly don't think we compare to some of these guys.
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I see how it is, Rice ;)

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awww....didn't make anyones...oh well...

*goes to think on her list.*
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Me either. What a suprise.
*works on list also*

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 This is a real good way to boost someone's self-esteem.  ;) 8)
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And a great way to make you want to die, if you're like me and have no votes.  :(

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how did I forget about Syncronos?!?!?!?!!? AHHHHHH!
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I know...shame, SHAME!  :-/

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Thanks so much to all who put us on your lists. I feel all warm and fuzzy now.... :) And wdh, are you sure that list wasn't backwards? :D

We will try and work on our list over the weekend - since we haven't been here that long we need some time to look over some of the major contributors; there is so much talent out there!
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lol, it wasn't backwards, I just really like your work.

However, nobody seems to like mine  :'(

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lol, it wasn't backwards, I just really like your work.

However, nobody seems to like mine  :'(
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Well, we really appreciate your support. I took a look at yours, but most are songs I am not familiar with. However, if I have some spare time this weekend, I will download a bunch and then look them over and vote... :)

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10-William Tong
9-Jeff
8-Merry and Pippen
7-Rice Daddy
6-My Name is Kenny
5-Syncronos
4-Malcom
3-Tone Def
2-The Florio's
1-STG

no particular order in the last 5...
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gee, thanks Brit...#2, wow  :) ;)

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10-William Tong
9-Jeff
8-Merry and Pippen
7-Rice Daddy
6-My Name is Kenny
5-Syncronos
4-Malcom
3-Tone Def
2-The Florio's
1-STG

no particular order in the last 5...
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Yay!  Thanks, Brit!

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I wanted to put a bit more detail in... but realized that if I did, I'd still be composing this list in December.  There's a lot I'll have missed out, sometimes because I just haven't had time to look through, but mostly it's because there's guys here who use too many recent songs for their parodies, and an old fogey like me just doesn't know them well enough...

Anyway, here goes:

#1 Merry and Pippin
Funnily enough, M&P started much lower down my list... till I started looking through: they have a wonderful ability, and can take a song and subject and wring each last laugh out of it.  The number of times I've thought that there could only be one or two jokes in a song, and they've managed to keep me chuckling all the way through - it's this, and their use of words which put them in at the top for me.

#2 Steve Cavanaugh
It was his "New Orcs, New Orcs" parody that started me liking Steve's stuff: it's still the one parody on amiright I really wish I'd written.  His Star Wars parodies are superb, too.

#3 John Jenkins
Well crafted parodies - the Super Tacos parody was damn near perfect.  

#4 Will Tong
Will is IMO the best of us when it comes to writing well-scripted parodies that match the originals - he has a quite remarkable ability with words.  The reason he's not higher is partly the subject monomania, but mainly because they're not as funny.

#5 Royce Miller
Well, she's finally overtaken me... Royce has written some fine parodies with just my quirky sort of humour.

#6 Rice&Watt
Great range of parodies - witty and sharp.

#7 Guy DiRito
For his techie parodies - Workin in old EDLIN/Parity Error

#8 Claude Prez
If only for parodying one of my all-time favourites "Dream On" by Aerosmith... But nobody's in this list for just one song- he's done a lot of good ones.

#9#10 The Florio Brothers... I didn't want to cause internecine strife by putting one above the other :-)  Between them, they've done some great parodies.


Honorable Mentions:
Taoist - Underrated - doesn't write many, but they're good.
Melhi - Again, a quirky kind of humour.  I especially like "Stealin' Movies" (59th Bridge St Song)
Bob Gomez - Nearly got into the top ten on the strength of "Only 14"...


New kids on the block:
Floyd's Garage/Spaff - both started pretty well.  Definitely ones to watch.

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Thanks Phil...

sure that list isn't upside down?  ;)

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I wanted to put a bit more detail in... but realized that if I did, I'd still be composing this list in December.  There's a lot I'll have missed out, sometimes because I just haven't had time to look through, but mostly it's because there's guys here who use too many recent songs for their parodies, and an old fogey like me just doesn't know them well enough...

Anyway, here goes:

#1 Merry and Pippin
Funnily enough, M&P started much lower down my list... till I started looking through: they have a wonderful ability, and can take a song and subject and wring each last laugh out of it.  The number of times I've thought that there could only be one or two jokes in a song, and they've managed to keep me chuckling all the way through - it's this, and their use of words which put them in at the top for me.


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Phil

I have to say (as I know Merry also would) that I am sincerely flattered by your comments.  :-[ :) :D

Merry and I really must get around to making our list...sorry people!

I get a good laugh out of most of the stuff I see, my only restriction is that as 'older' contributors, both Merry and I are sometimes left thinking "What is that song (the original)"...so, Phil, you are not alone in the old fogey club  ;D

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le sigh...
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We still love ya, Brit ;) :-*

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ok i'm doing mine now but i'll start at #1 because going backwards would mean i'd have to write it down first. I'm also not putting myself in here even though i think i probabnly should be in here somewhere

1) William Tong. I know his subject matter can be a bit repetitive but there are professional political satirists, some of home probably don't do it nearly as well as him. He also gets the number one spot for writing a ridiculously high amount of parodies to show that its possibly and inspiring others (especially malcolm) to try to catch up. His controversial material found on his own site often lead people to amiright where they sometimes stayed to write their own parodies so he has been extremely valuable to the site

2) STG - the original amiright idol. I've looked at the archives back when chucky posted the link and in the early days of the site it seems it was just stg keeping the site going.

3) Claude Prez. In my opinion he's the funniest writer on the site. Although neither was a top 10 song i think that "beam gimme" (beam cindy crawford not richard gere) and dinner cold (slow-move slom-move waiter) are 2 of the best songs on the site. And he's got some other really good ones too

4) Phil Alexander. Very diverse, very talented. Unlike me, actually seems to have some knowledge about thae subjects he writes about.

5)  Malcolm Higgins. Anyone who can write as much as he did that quickly with over half of them actually being pretty good songs has a lot of talent.

6) Leibew15. Writes well for a grown-up, let alone someone who i think is just starting highschool  next year. And he should get even better as he gets older and learns new words and becomes familiar with more things to write about

7) Mike Florio. Would probably be a place or two up if he used spellcheck; the errors are often so bad it makes the songs hard to read. but he's a good writer and like leibew seems a good deal older than he actually is

8) Jeff Rueben. He's written some decent songs

9) Mike Armstrong. I don't know the tunes of a lot of theirdies but they seem well written and i trust the voting results

10) Merry and Pippin. Ditto for my mike armstrong comment. And you were also pretty influential in amiright in general for a little while

11) Jim A. Probably should take more than one sitting to write a parody a little more often but has still written a lot of ok parodies and some really good ones

12) Royce Miller. brings a unique brand of parody writing to amiright

13) Syncronos. Probably the most prolific writer of well written rap parodies on the site and his other stuff is pretty good too

14) My Name Is Kenny. He should spend less time writing quizzes and more time writing songs.

15) Billy Florio. Not Bad for a wooden statue

16) Michael Pacholek. Might've been a little later on the list but is helped out by his artistry on the comments files.

17) Darkjon64 he id most of his writing before i came here but since he's apparently a legend i'll include him here

18) Spaff.com. A newcomer and not that many songs but just about all of them are great

19) Guy Di Rito. a talented guy - its hard to believe how little time its been since he started writing here

20) Rice Cube and Watt Daddy. The fruit fly song is great and i can't leave out the authors of the definitive "there's a bathroom on the right"




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4.  Steven Cavanaugh -- he's got some kind of nerd complex going but I think it works for him :D

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:o
That may be the most insightful comment I've ever had.
Now THAT quote has to go on my site! Thanks Rice!

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:o
That may be the most insightful comment I've ever had.
Now THAT quote has to go on my site! Thanks Rice!
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F'shizzle 8)

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Added Rice Cube and Watt Diddy-Daddy ;D to my honorable mentions list because they somehow disappeared from it.
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S'coo dawg 8)

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S'coo dawg 8)
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;D

Seriously though, I could've sworn you were on there somewhere, and it just kind of went "poof". ??? ::) :D

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I hope this thread becomes inactive soon. It makes me want to kill myself.
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You know what, WDH, I recently read most of your work and you are very good!  I dotn know why you dont get mroe votes...

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This is how I think of it:

10: Syncronos

9: Ghetto John

8: Mike Florio

7: Billy Florio

6: Spaff.com

5: Bill Tong

4: Junior

3: lebeiW15

2: Phil Alexander

1: S.T.G.
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thanks for putting me on your list!  Sure it wasn't upside down?

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This is how I think of it:

10: Syncronos

9: Ghetto John

8: Mike Florio

7: Billy Florio

6: Spaff.com

5: Bill Tong

4: Junior

3: lebeiW15

2: Phil Alexander

1: S.T.G.
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wow, Im listed better than my brother...thanks man

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This is how I think of it:

10: Syncronos

9: Ghetto John

8: Mike Florio

7: Billy Florio

6: Spaff.com

5: Bill Tong

4: Junior

3: lebeiW15

2: Phil Alexander

1: S.T.G.
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Thanks bro, and all those who put me on their list, thanks to you all as well.

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OK I thought of a list.....

1: S.T.G.
2: Michael Florio
3: Jeff Reuben
4: Billy Florio
5: William Tong
6: Merry & Pippin
7: Wolveroses - Flat out the best at doing rap songs!
8: Spaff.com
9: Phil Alexander
10: Everybody Else  ;D
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Then technically, I made the list!

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OK I thought of a list.....

1: S.T.G.
2: Michael Florio
3: Jeff Reuben
4: Billy Florio
5: William Tong
6: Merry & Pippin
7: Wolveroses - Flat out the best at doing rap songs!
8: Spaff.com
9: Phil Alexander
10: Everybody Else  ;D
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Thanks man!

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Thanx everyone that put me on their lists, I know my parodies haven't been all that great, but just wait one of these days I'll have a parody that will be a big hit again.

I'll soon be taking a vacation so I'm making a bang with the rest of my parody CD.

So far I have

1: I Vegetate
2: Just Smoke
3: Weed
4: Bong
5: Drug Lover
6: Stoned

Future songs
7:A High (parody of "A Flat")
8: My Dealer (parody of "Crawl")
9:Munchies (parody of "Spleen")

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Need I remind you what S.T.G. stands for? Well for those who dont know, it means, Simply. The. Greatest. Dude you are my hero, and if anyone is writing crap parodies its me! You rock dude.

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I am not gonna lie, Ghetto

You and many other people's support are the reason I am still here. If I didn't have so many encouraging friends and fans, I wold have packed up and left. But thank you all.

from S.T.G.
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S.T.G., Its been an honor to be on the same list with you, and Its been an honor to write so many great duets with you.My goal on this site has always been to be as successful as you. Ive said this before and Ill say it again. You are Simply The Greatest.

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Thanks Jimmy J. for putting me on your list! :D

Say, what's your name on amIright? ???
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I use the same name I do here.  Use this link:

www.amiright.com/cgi-bin/search_authors.cgi?AUTHORJimmy%20J.AUTHOR

ps: Your Welcome ;)

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I just have something to say to everyone.  The list that I made up were the people that I enjoyed their parodies most.  Sure, S. might not be the best, but to me he is.  If I were to put together a list of the best people period, it would go something like this:

10: lebeiW15

9: Jeff Rueben

8: The Florios (I listed you guys as one, if you don't mind. ;))

7: Royce Miller

6: Phil Alexander

5: Syncronos

4: Rice & Watt

3: Guy DiRito

2: Mer & Pip

1: Spaff.com
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Thanks man

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I’ve held off registering here for awhile; seems like a whole new level of time commitment, plus I’m way too chickens**t to post a list of favorites.  I appreciate everyone who mentioned me and wish I could do something to make people who’ve been underappreciated feel better.  I considered starting a thread of top ten overlooked writers but then the people who don’t get mentioned in THAT thread would feel even worse; there’s no way around it.  One thing that I’d like to point out is just how popular this site has become--I get the impression that some of the underappreciated writers, especially the younger ones, would have had much more success if they’d been here from the beginning; It just stands to reason.  It’s like this crapload of invaders (like me for example) came in and ruined a party or something.  I’d also like to mention that it makes sense to me that a lot of the writers on the top ten lists are older--I’d be embarrassed as hell to show people stuff I wrote in high school.  It’s amazing to me just how many excellent young writers there are here, who clearly put in a lot of effort to do something creative.  Anyway, I hope I don’t sound like a jerk or anything; I just hate to see people get discouraged over something like this.  Thanks.

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Well welcome aboard, Claude...heh, that rhymed...anyway, Id just say that its harder to get a hit now than it used to be...

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I’ve held off registering here for awhile; seems like a whole new level of time commitment, plus I’m way too chickens**t to post a list of favorites.  I appreciate everyone who mentioned me and wish I could do something to make people who’ve been underappreciated feel better.  I considered starting a thread of top ten overlooked writers but then the people who don’t get mentioned in THAT thread would feel even worse; there’s no way around it.  One thing that I’d like to point out is just how popular this site has become--I get the impression that some of the underappreciated writers, especially the younger ones, would have had much more success if they’d been here from the beginning; It just stands to reason.  It’s like this crapload of invaders (like me for example) came in and ruined a party or something.  I’d also like to mention that it makes sense to me that a lot of the writers on the top ten lists are older--I’d be embarrassed as hell to show people stuff I wrote in high school.  It’s amazing to me just how many excellent young writers there are here, who clearly put in a lot of effort to do something creative.  Anyway, I hope I don’t sound like a jerk or anything; I just hate to see people get discouraged over something like this.  Thanks.

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Im sorry to say that there is a good number of stuff I wrote in high school on this site....some of its good....in fact, some of them were hits lol.....but I guess the stuff Ive written during my stay at College is better......

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So tell me, what was it like in the early days?  I've been on this site just over two months.  I see some of the all time hits have hundreds of votes on them.  Just how many people frequent this site?  It would seem to me that not too many people frequent right now or at least they don't vote.  Is there anyway to tell how many times a particular song has been looked at like this thread shows how many times it has been viewed.  Does anyone know why is there such a discrepancy in ratio to votes of the person in first place to the rest of the board.  Number two person is about 100 songs behind number one, but number 1 has 10 times more votes?  I don't get it.  I guess I'd have had to be here a lot longer to understand that.  

So my favorites?  No particular order but I list those I like reading as Royce M., Phil A., Florios, sometimes Malcolm, Wildman, Sometimes W. Tong when he does something other than scrub or pResident.  It is good but just gets old.  Sometimes Michael P., Tone Def, Rice Cube and for sure Merry and Pippin, and Bubba.  Can't remember the rest but I'm sure there are more.  But not particular order to my list.  There are a lot of great writers out here.  Really enjoy this site.  
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Thanks  :D glad you like my work... ;D

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So tell me, what was it like in the early days?  I've been on this site just over two months.  I see some of the all time hits have hundreds of votes on them.  Just how many people frequent this site?  It would seem to me that not too many people frequent right now or at least they don't vote.  Is there anyway to tell how many times a particular song has been looked at like this thread shows how many times it has been viewed.  Does anyone know why is there such a discrepancy in ratio to votes of the person in first place to the rest of the board.  Number two person is about 100 songs behind number one, but number 1 has 10 times more votes?  I don't get it.  I guess I'd have had to be here a lot longer to understand that.  

So my favorites?  No particular order but I list those I like reading as Royce M., Phil A., Florios, sometimes Malcolm, Wildman, Sometimes W. Tong when he does something other than scrub or pResident.  It is good but just gets old.  Sometimes Michael P., Tone Def, Rice Cube and for sure Merry and Pippin, and Bubba.  Can't remember the rest but I'm sure there are more.  But not particular order to my list.  There are a lot of great writers out here.  Really enjoy this site.  
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thanks for the mention......




ah, the early days.....you know, Ive been writing for this site since November 2000, and I have yet to get 100 votes on a song?  It seems pathetic, but its true lol.........

and technicly my ten year annerversery as a parody artist is coming up next year.......wow.....I just realized that.....shoot, I better do something...like record....

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So tell me, what was it like in the early days?  I've been on this site just over two months.  I see some of the all time hits have hundreds of votes on them.  Just how many people frequent this site?  It would seem to me that not too many people frequent right now or at least they don't vote.  Is there anyway to tell how many times a particular song has been looked at like this thread shows how many times it has been viewed.  Does anyone know why is there such a discrepancy in ratio to votes of the person in first place to the rest of the board.  Number two person is about 100 songs behind number one, but number 1 has 10 times more votes?  I don't get it.  I guess I'd have had to be here a lot longer to understand that.  
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Some interesting questions, some of which I wonder about myself...

A good M&P parody may get into the high 20's or mid 30's, a not as good one in the teens.

I look at the top 10 and wonder to myself how they got hundred's of votes.  I can only assume there are not as many people frequenting the site, but then again, in the 6 months or so that I have been here, it seems to be getting more popular, so who can pick it?

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Some interesting questions, some of which I wonder about myself...

A good M&P parody may get into the high 20's or mid 30's, a not as good one in the teens.

I look at the top 10 and wonder to myself how they got hundred's of votes.  I can only assume there are not as many people frequenting the site, but then again, in the 6 months or so that I have been here, it seems to be getting more popular, so who can pick it?
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Well, I believe initially it'll only have, say 20 votes tops. Then, when people see it make the Top 10, they all want to read it, because it obviously must be good, to make the top 10. Then they all vote on it, and just like that there are lots of votes, I guess.