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Subject: How old r u parody authors?
I'm 17. Am I young?
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18. And I thought I was the youngest!
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I'm 32...but definitely not the oldest
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Mike Armstrong is a combined 39, with me being 20.
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I'm a young 46 ;)
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14. I win! ;D
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15. There are quite a few young ones here!
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Well then, I'm not the oldest.
44.
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18 nice round number.
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old enough
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23, 24 next month
Capricorns RULE!
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younger than Billy, older than Lebeiw...(you can just look in my profile to see the real age... ;))
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If anyone wants to know how old Pippin and I are, all you have to do is look in our profiles...
Oh! Wait! You gotta find the right profiles first.... Heh heh. ;)
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Even if Capricorns did rule, the mighty Leo knows how to rock the party! And we know how to fight!
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not saying :p
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wdh= somewhere in early 30s
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i'm 21
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wdh= somewhere in early 30s
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really, wdh? I thought you were a kid.
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really, wdh? I thought you were a kid.
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I'm flattered ;D
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I've been alive forever.
And I wrote the very first song.
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I'm, like, right in the middle at age 17. I will turn 18 on January 28, 2004. I'm already planning on doing a parody of Alice Cooper's "Eighteen" to commemorate the event; it will be submitted before my birthday, and will be up on Amiright on my birthday (at least that's what I hope).
And Jeff, you're 36?? I knew you were older than 21... I would never have noticed... :)
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I've already said it elsewhere on Amiright, so why not here as well? I'm 45.
The "curve" of original songs I most enjoy parodying starts climbing somewhere in the 1960's, reaches a peak in the mid-to-late 1970's, and tapers off with some minor spikes in the 1980's and 1990's. I try to be eclectic when it comes to choosing parody material, but like lots of other folks, I seem to focus on the music I enjoyed in my high school and college years.
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Well, the famed S.T.G. is only.................18 yrs. old
Just turned 18 in November. That's sad that I had my hit song when I was 15.
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IM 18!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......THATS OK!
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Wild Man's Birthday is April 22 1957... so far he's the oldest. Older than me! Good things were made in 1957!
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you 18 year olds think *YOU'RE* young?? well, i'm probably one of the youngest people on the site if i'm 11...
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Just turned 32. One year closer to qualifying for posthumous awards!
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(My stock answer:) I'm not older than dirt, but I do remember when Dirt v1.0 was in beta testing.
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Only a future-shaver of America would be so concerned with knowing everybody's age. Hint: Look at the majority of the songs we parody. What decade are they from? Hellooo? Is this really sooo important? Well?!!
. . . Okay, okay, I admit it. I'm 49. A damned good 49!
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wdh= somewhere in early 30s
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30? wow, thats old...thats like 21 Jump Street old..... ;)
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I've been alive forever.
And I wrote the very first song.
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In the beginning was the Word, and the word was Spaff. Go spread the Word ;-)
Oh, goodie, I'm not the oldest at 37 :-)
Phil
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33---and holding.
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We need more teen parody authors! <.< >.> I'm surrounded by people twice my age! :o
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32, right there in the middle....
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Age is like Cottage Cheese.....were not getting older....were getting better ;D
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Similar sentiments and age as Johnny D. I just turned 45.
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I've already said it elsewhere on Amiright, so why not here as well? I'm 45.
The "curve" of original songs I most enjoy parodying starts climbing somewhere in the 1960's, reaches a peak in the mid-to-late 1970's, and tapers off with some minor spikes in the 1980's and 1990's. I try to be eclectic when it comes to choosing parody material, but like lots of other folks, I seem to focus on the music I enjoyed in my high school and college years.
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I just turned 15 last month
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30? wow, thats old...thats like 21 Jump Street old..... ;)
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Don't make me whack you with my cane ;)
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STG has a parody on today's (Friday's) new parody list inspired by this thread. It's pretty good, too. :)
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My kids are as old as some of you writers. I am 50, but not the oldest. Mari is younger, but not by much. I started writing funny songs in 1976, when Dr Demento was big in Los Angeles (and syndicated elsewhere.) It was a goal to get songs played on his show, since he was one of the only people that would play crappy home recordings. This was how Weird Al got his start. I notice Al got married recently. Hmmm. Now I know why he's rich and famous and I'm here!
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19. Twice. And that´s how I like my women too. ;-)
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NOTE: If this shows up twice it is NOT from senility. I was in the middle of posting and going to do a "proof-read" first and then got an "error 53" message and don't see what I keyed in. Fortunately for me (if not you), I had clicked "Copy" just prior and that WAS saved so I just pasted it back in to a new message. SO...I'm not going to proof-read -just straight to "Post" so please excuse any spelling/tense errors. This is what I have to say here: Well, I see a couple of folks who "declined to state" that I suspect MAY be in the running, but since I have nothing to hide (about my age, anyway) I will leap to the fore here with my big 5-3, as in 53 years old. Even if anyone tops that I doubt that they willl have April 1st, 1950 topped as a birthday for a parody writer. Come on someone, prove me wrong. Oh, by the way, please keep in mind that there isn't anything I can't do today that I couldn't do at 52. I don't even know if that made any sense and you know what? I'm too old to care and I'll beat any young zippersnapper about the head and ears if they give me any lip about it. God, there's GOT to be SOMEONE older on the site. I really never imagined it even possible that I MIGHT be the oldest. Hey, all you youngsters out there, just remember,.......uhh....uhh...ah...ahh...No seriously, A couple of points. (1) Aging is mandatory, but maturity is totally optional. Wait, was that really serious? Maybe, but whatever, it really IS true. and (2) I have no idea what (2) was gonna be, forgot, really. But that doesn't have to happen to you. Hey, this was fun. Thanks for the inquiry. OH...and I'm glad to see some younger people who like to work with words and use their brains to see what can be done with them. TRULY - no BS. Also, I've seen some nice stuff from some of you already and maybe I'll be noticing some more. Well, I've rambled enough. Later...
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NOTE: If this shows up twice it is NOT from senility. I was in the middle of posting and going to do a "proof-read" first and then got an "error 53" message and don't see what I keyed in. Fortunately for me (if not you), I had clicked "Copy" just prior and that WAS saved so I just pasted it back in to a new message. SO...I'm not going to proof-read -just straight to "Post" so please excuse any spelling/tense errors. This is what I have to say here: Well, I see a couple of folks who "declined to state" that I suspect MAY be in the running, but since I have nothing to hide (about my age, anyway) I will leap to the fore here with my big 5-3, as in 53 years old. Even if anyone tops that I doubt that they willl have April 1st, 1950 topped as a birthday for a parody writer. Come on someone, prove me wrong. Oh, by the way, please keep in mind that there isn't anything I can't do today that I couldn't do at 52. I don't even know if that made any sense and you know what? I'm too old to care and I'll beat any young zippersnapper about the head and ears if they give me any lip about it. God, there's GOT to be SOMEONE older on the site. I really never imagined it even possible that I MIGHT be the oldest. Hey, all you youngsters out there, just remember,.......uhh....uhh...ah...ahh...No seriously, A couple of points. (1) Aging is mandatory, but maturity is totally optional. Wait, was that really serious? Maybe, but whatever, it really IS true. and (2) I have no idea what (2) was gonna be, forgot, really. But that doesn't have to happen to you. Hey, this was fun. Thanks for the inquiry. OH...and I'm glad to see some younger people who like to work with words and use their brains to see what can be done with them. TRULY - no BS. Also, I've seen some nice stuff from some of you already and maybe I'll be noticing some more. Well, I've rambled enough. Later...
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Paul, you're only about 10 months older than my oldest brother - so I definitely know where you're coming from, dude! Besides, I'm 45.5, so I was Eleventeen when Woodstock happened...you would have been Eighteen...I think we have a few bong-hits in common, dude. Peace!
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Paul, you're only about 10 months older than my oldest brother - so I definitely know where you're coming from, dude! Besides, I'm 45.5, so I was Eleventeen when Woodstock happened...you would have been Eighteen...I think we have a few bong-hits in common, dude. Peace!
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Whooops, I mean, you, Paul, would have been not Eighteen, but Nineteen when Woodstock happened....can you tell all us young-folk a story or two about those days?
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Whooops, I mean, you, Paul, would have been not Eighteen, but Nineteen when Woodstock happened....can you tell all us young-folk a story or two about those days?
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But surely if he could remember those days, he wasn't there?
;-)
Phil
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Ditto. Turns out I'm closer to the forum's mid-range than I thought. I have at least one kid who's older than some of you and my mom is younger than at least one of you.
Mel.
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Phil Ochs said: "And now it can be told / I'm a quarter of a century old / But I'm half a century high." Therefore, I am a full century high... and old enough to have seen Phil Ochs live! In an earlier posting, Rick said that I'm younger than he is but not by much. Therefore, "not by much" must equal "three months." Every year, for an entire summer, I'm always a year younger than Rick. I believe that you're as young as you feel. Therefore, sometimes I'm 20 and sometimes I'm 60, with alll variations in between. I'd explain what all of the therefores mean, but I forgot.
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But surely if he could remember those days, he wasn't there?
;-)
Phil
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Hey man, like, have purple monkeys ever flown out of your nostrils? Or have robots ever laughed at you when you were flossing your teeth? And what about all those elves' faces grinning back at you from the patterns in the oriental rug, hmmm??
'scuse me dude, gotta re-light my pipe
:-?
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Johnny D (and others) - sorry it took me so long to reply to your remarks but I'm just not as quick as I used to be at some things (although there are a couple things I'm a little too quick at, but I think that's more of one of your or Malcolm's parody topics). Uhh...what did you ask me, sonny? OH....Woodstock...wasn't there. BUT, many hilarious times much resembling the "Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" did truly occur; Por ejemple (did I spell that right?) - Roommate I had in or around that time-frame was growing this green, weedy kind of stuff in our apartment closet using lights and tin-foil, etc., we were told there would be a "building inspection" one day and that evening we figured we'd better move the plants. But WHERE? where, indeed...This very cute young lady named Kathy C. (16 years-old at the time...sigh...) lived in the back duplex across the driveway and volunteered to baby-sit our youngin's for the evening. We were just about to trot them across in the moonlight when we spot this LAPD squadcar pulling into the driveway. Many very quick back-tracking footsteps occurred pursuant to this sighting. We then poked our heads out onto my balcony that overlooked the driveway to see if the "fuzz" were coming up to get us. They pulled in back of the house that was in front of the duplex and parked by the back door. Now the front house there was occupied by this somewhat severe but still attractive woman from Viet Nam and two teen-age girls also from 'Nam. They were in the...ahh..."holesale" business, if you catch my gist. Well, the guardians of Law & Order went in the back door of the duplex and after about 40 minutes were realized they were going to be busy a bit longer. We couldn't stop laughing until another 45 minutes had passed and when we looked out again the squad car was gone so we called up Kathy C and trotted the plants over in the moonlight. OH...The INSPECTION? some guy poked his head in the front door nodded his head and said "ummm...ok...thanks". This left us laughing on our asses once again still. It's a true story...for real. See there's still no older fogey in the realm willing to state as much. I'd throw out the gauntlet again but my shoulder is still sore from yesterday.
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BUT, many hilarious times much resembling the "Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" did truly occur;
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May I point out this one, which you might find amusing, under the circumstances ;-)
Phil
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Another average one: 19. As can be easily told from all of last year's parodies about getting into college, and all this year's parodies of being in college ;-).
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19 used to be about average here when i was 19... now its really young
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what does it matter, so long as your work is good!
make sure then, that your work is good!
eye1
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I'm a less than a year closer to being free from my mom's shackles and own my own!
I'm 40!
Naw, just 17 and one step closer to beautiful freedom.
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Mari - Naw, you're as old as you look, which in your case puts you under the median. Laughing with Rick must keep you young. Mr. D did quite well.
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Phil Ochs said: "And now it can be told / I'm a quarter of a century old / But I'm half a century high." Therefore, I am a full century high... and old enough to have seen Phil Ochs live! In an earlier posting, Rick said that I'm younger than he is but not by much. Therefore, "not by much" must equal "three months." Every year, for an entire summer, I'm always a year younger than Rick. I believe that you're as young as you feel. Therefore, sometimes I'm 20 and sometimes I'm 60, with alll variations in between. I'd explain what all of the therefores mean, but I forgot.
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Neo M. - How's this for a TRULY & TRIPLY depressing thought: I'm more than THREE TIMES your age, checking in at 53. On April 1, 2004 I turn 54. Let's see, in about 20 more years you would be half my age (37/74), if I'm still ticking and kicking. Seriously, and I may be repeating myself here; Aging is Mandatory, but Maturity is Totally Optional...But by all means bring on more youth, there's no future without them!~
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We need more teen parody authors! <.< >.> I'm surrounded by people twice my age! :o
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Naw, just 17 and one step closer to beautiful freedom.
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Freedom was supposed to come with adulthood?! ;) Man, they slipped the other end of my training shackle off of my mom's wrist and right onto something else, then I found out it was just the first in what has become a large and ever growing collection. ;) (But, you love your mom and if you're lucky, you'll love a lot of what you're shackled to as an adult.) Enjoy being a kid. Once it's over, you're an adult until it kills you.
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Melhi - Yeah, freedom no more comes with "adulthood" (whatever that is supposed to mean) than "maturity" comes with "age". Only "aging" comes automatically with "age". But it's all ok...got to be...when the chronology says you are "53" or whatever the only way not be to "54" 365 days from then is to die somewhere in between. What would I do if I were suddenly 16 again? Probably get real stupid and immature real fast, like I was the first time I was 16. Being an adult age is not so bad and I have no other choice anyway. Being a kid was ok back then for the same reason...
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Freedom was supposed to come with adulthood?! ;) Man, they slipped the other end of my training shackle off of my mom's wrist and right onto something else, then I found out it was just the first in what has become a large and ever growing collection. ;) (But, you love your mom and if you're lucky, you'll love a lot of what you're shackled to as an adult.) Enjoy being a kid. Once it's over, you're an adult until it kills you.
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Melhi - Yeah, freedom no more comes with "adulthood" (whatever that is supposed to mean) than "maturity" comes with "age". Only "aging" comes automatically with "age".
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...unless you're Cliff Richard, I guess ;-)
I was tempted at this juncture to put in the "do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery" joke, but I'm not going to bother...
Phil
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Memories...
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Well OK Paul I admit it I am older than you (54) but didn't get into the parody writing game til I was 49 and wrote and performed my first comedy review at 51 .. now do one woman shows ...so being 50 was for me a bit of a wake up call!
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NOTE: If this shows up twice it is NOT from senility. I was in the middle of posting and going to do a "proof-read" first and then got an "error 53" message and don't see what I keyed in. Fortunately for me (if not you), I had clicked "Copy" just prior and that WAS saved so I just pasted it back in to a new message. SO...I'm not going to proof-read -just straight to "Post" so please excuse any spelling/tense errors. This is what I have to say here: Well, I see a couple of folks who "declined to state" that I suspect MAY be in the running, but since I have nothing to hide (about my age, anyway) I will leap to the fore here with my big 5-3, as in 53 years old. Even if anyone tops that I doubt that they willl have April 1st, 1950 topped as a birthday for a parody writer. Come on someone, prove me wrong. Oh, by the way, please keep in mind that there isn't anything I can't do today that I couldn't do at 52. I don't even know if that made any sense and you know what? I'm too old to care and I'll beat any young zippersnapper about the head and ears if they give me any lip about it. God, there's GOT to be SOMEONE older on the site. I really never imagined it even possible that I MIGHT be the oldest. Hey, all you youngsters out there, just remember,.......uhh....uhh...ah...ahh...No seriously, A couple of points. (1) Aging is mandatory, but maturity is totally optional. Wait, was that really serious? Maybe, but whatever, it really IS true. and (2) I have no idea what (2) was gonna be, forgot, really. But that doesn't have to happen to you. Hey, this was fun. Thanks for the inquiry. OH...and I'm glad to see some younger people who like to work with words and use their brains to see what can be done with them. TRULY - no BS. Also, I've seen some nice stuff from some of you already and maybe I'll be noticing some more. Well, I've rambled enough. Later...
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I'll tell y'all but y'alls gonna have to work for the answer.
My age - 110100
I was born in 0001 1001 0101 0001 ;D
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Guy? Where'd the extra two years go? Do you subtrack the two years you spent in Tibet learning that the meaning of life truly is DoRitos? ;D Anyway, I'm 10101 and I've been doing this on and off for about 6 months. 8)
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Curse u and your binary!
:P
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Guy? Where'd the extra two years go? Do you subtrack the two years you spent in Tibet learning that the meaning of life truly is DoRitos? ;D Anyway, I'm 10101 and I've been doing this on and off for about 6 months. 8)
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Sorry about the confusion. The date was done is four octets. Example: the number 2004 translates to 11111010100.
The year 2 0 0 4 Arranged in octets translates to:
0010 0000 0000 0100 or 2 0 0 4. Get it?
The age was a straight translation from decimal to binary. I didn't actually write the date as a numeric field per se.
I told y'all I wasn't making this easy.
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Martha, Well, darn...That WAS my main claim to fame around here...No, seriously - it's very encouraging to me that you started so late and are now doing a comedy review. I didn't write my first fully COMPLETE parodies until sometime in the last half of 2003, although I had fooled around with lyrics and done partial stuff since the late 1960's-early 1970's.
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Well OK Paul I admit it I am older than you (54) but didn't get into the parody writing game til I was 49 and wrote and performed my first comedy review at 51 .. now do one woman shows ...so being 50 was for me a bit of a wake up call!
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Gosh, Guy, you really expect me to try and figure that out? I'm real good in 10 decimal math, almost "programmed" actually - can add/multiply/divide, etc., in my head up maybe 3 or 4 digits x 3 digits with accuracy, although not as fast as today's computers. I had an 8th grade Math teacher (really a Shop Teacher, actually) who put a problem on the board, turned and saw me sitting there doing nothing so he asked me the answer, which I had. He did it two or three more times, writing the equation of the board and turning very quickly to see what I was doing (when he went more digits I would just do a "table" and jot the result. Then do the smaller "table", jot that and then add). But back to binary - you've got to be kidding! Anyway, my guess is you are close to, but not quite my age, maybe within 2 or 3 years. Will I find out if I was right?
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Sorry about the confusion. The date was done is four octets. Example: the number 2004 translates to 11111010100.
The year 2 0 0 4 Arranged in octets translates to:
0010 0000 0000 0100 or 2 0 0 4. Get it?
The age was a straight translation from decimal to binary. I didn't actually write the date as a numeric field per se.
I told y'all I wasn't making this easy.
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Heh heh! Pippin and I combined then will amount to:
1010111
(in just slightly over a month... ;) )
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Heh heh! Pippin and I combined then will amount to:
1010111
(in just slightly over a month... ;) )
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Happy birthday to... one of you. I'll bring some Longbottom Leaf. Wait, I get it now. One of you is 74 and the other one is turning 13 next month ;D
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Happy birthday to... one of you. I'll bring some Longbottom Leaf. Wait, I get it now. One of you is 74 and the other one is turning 13 next month ;D
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You are close to the money, 2nz! :)
Although our ages are interchangeable ;D