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Have you ever had a really good idea and then ended up wishing someone else hadn't had it before you? I guess you'll have to trust me when I say I thought of the parody idea myself and then it turned out that not only was the idea 'had' at least four times before I had it, but one of my key lines was identical to a song that already existed in the parodies section on amiright. Needless to say, I'm not submitting mine, but here's an hour that I'll never get back: So...I was browsing songs for my next parody idea, and I start the "Banana Boat Song". And I'm amazed at how easily 'Osama', 'Saddam-a', and 'Al Qaeda' fit into the place of 'Banana'. So I write and research for about an hour, trying to see what role the Taleban really had and what's actually been going on recently. Aside from the well-televised reasons to hate them, turns out most Muslims hate Bin Laden and the Taleban because they follow Wahhabism, an extremist distortion of Islam. And the Taleban story goes back to around 1996 and earlier, but research it for yourself if you want. Only after I wrote some more and learned these odd facts did I do a search for 'banana' on the parodies and find the authors that beat me to the punch. I've been rambling for a while, so my apologies for this entirely unnecessary story and fact session.
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Thin of it this way...you are really up-to-date and educated on this stuff now.   ;D

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And, 2nz, Back in late 2001 I, too, was going to do a "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song) parody about Al Qaeda. It was the "Taliban" for "Tally man" sub that I found irresistible. But then I was forwarded a recorded version of the same idea, so I scrapped mine and did "Merry Poppystan" (to "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious") instead - but I did throw in a "Missa Tallyban" line.
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Yeah, "Taleban" for "Tally man" was part of my line that matched someone elses exactly. I've learned to do hard songs whenever possible because odds are almost no one will gimmick the same idea. Then, if I ever do a simple song, I can go crazy with my '''well-honed verbal matching skills''' and not rely too much on one-line gimmicks.

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My most famous parody, Y.O.D.A.
At the same time a Yank came up with something like it too, and we both weren't impressed when we found out about each other, and were initially convinced the other had ripped us off. We sorted it out though.
Read the story at http://www.lukeski.com/html/yoda.htm (his page).
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that's a pretty interesting story actually, but I agree that the guy is a bit full of himself from reading that story.  I'm sure that your parody couldn't have been that close to his that anyone would have confused the two of them (especially if yours dealt with Empire and his dealt with Jedi).  

He almost sounds as though he thinks the idea that YMCA could be YODA is so unusual that he's the only person who could ever make that connection.  I think it's a good example of why people need to keep an eye on their peers, it keeps them a little more humble.

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LOL


BTW, Im glad you and Mer liked my rhapsody LOL



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Thanks Jack!  You're welcome!  :)

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Thanks Jack!  You're welcome!  :)
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Youre welcome! ;D


I might do another one