OK, usual sort of rules: 1:2:3 voting, as there's quite a lot to get through, all votes in by Sunday week (24th October)

Tie-break rules: I'm going to break with tradition - in the unlikely event that the number of votes is tied, it'll be a draw - we'll have two winners and a third place (or whatever).  I don't see that we really have to force the issue, and in this round, I make the rules :p


1 Merry and Pippin - "Turning Siamese"
(A cut-down (64 bitrate) MP3 of the original
Recording of the parody)


2 Rick D - "They're Coming To Take Them Away Ha-ha"


3 The Invincible - "Two Teeth"


4 Agrimorfee - "Teacher"
(original lyrics)


5 Jared - "The Governor is Mister Freeze"


6 Jeff Reuben - "Talk Nerdy To Me"


7 Johnny D - "The Charge-It-To-Ya Chorus"
(mp3 of the original)


8 2nz - The Ring is Mine"


9 Luke Brattoni - "Troopsofparodiesheremimicthisoverdoneopus"


10 Paul Robinson - "Thumbed Out! (A Baseball Manager's Lament)"


11 MarthaDTox - "The Music Got Me"


12 Arwen - "There's A Stain"


13 Guy DiRito - "The Techs Of The AOL Helpdesk"


14 Robert J Pagliaro - "The Ballad of Osama Bin Laden"


15 Phil Nelson - "(Telemarketers) Get You Hangin' Up The Phone"

16 John Lomain - "The Donuts (The Cop Song)"

17 Phil Alexander - "Try Contraception"

18  Rice Cube & Watt Daddy - "There's A Bathroom On The Right"





Best of luck everyone.  And may the best song win :)

Admittedly my fault from the start, but is there any way to get the comments section turned on?  I would love to have feedback - I also noticed that Rice has the comments turned off (and he may not want them turned on) and I'd like to comment on his too.

(The reason why mine was turned off is that I wasn't aware that you had to "turn it on" when submitting a parody.)

Otherwise, no big deal - I can leave comments here.

Thanks,
bob

Oh, good luck all.

3 pts - #10 Paul Robinson - "Thumbed Out! (A Baseball Manager's Lament)"

2 pts - #13 Guy DiRito - "The Techs Of The AOL Helpdesk"

1 pt. - #18  Rice Cube & Watt Daddy - "There's A Bathroom On The Right"

And guys, this was a tough one among the three of you.  Also, honorable mention to Luke and Phil - nice job fellas.

bob

The parody we submitted was way before comments were implemented into amiright :)

#6  3 pts
#3  2 pts
#14  1 pt

3 points ---M&P for "Turning Siamese"

2 points to Arwen for "There's a Stain"

1 point to Paul for "Thumbed Out"

OK, usual sort of rules: 1:2:3 voting, as there's quite a lot to get through, all votes in by Sunday week (24th October)

Tie-break rules: I'm going to break with tradition - in the unlikely event that the number of votes is tied, it'll be a draw - we'll have two winners and a third place (or whatever).  I don't see that we really have to force the issue, and in this round, I make the rules :p


1 Merry and Pippin - "Turning Siamese"
(A cut-down (64 bitrate) MP3 of the original
Recording of the parody)


2 Rick D - "They're Coming To Take Them Away Ha-ha"


3 The Invincible - "Two Teeth"


4 Agrimorfee - "Teacher"
(original lyrics)


5 Jared - "The Governor is Mister Freeze"


6 Jeff Reuben - "Talk Nerdy To Me"


7 Johnny D - "The Charge-It-To-Ya Chorus"
(mp3 of the original)


8 2nz - The Ring is Mine"


9 Luke Brattoni - "Troopsofparodiesheremimicthisoverdoneopus"


10 Paul Robinson - "Thumbed Out! (A Baseball Manager's Lament)"


11 MarthaDTox - "The Music Got Me"


12 Arwen - "There's A Stain"


13 Guy DiRito - "The Techs Of The AOL Helpdesk"


14 Robert J Pagliaro - "The Ballad of Osama Bin Laden"


15 Phil Nelson - "(Telemarketers) Get You Hangin' Up The Phone"

16 John Lomain - "The Donuts (The Cop Song)"

17 Phil Alexander - "Try Contraception"

18  Rice Cube & Watt Daddy - "There's A Bathroom On The Right"





Best of luck everyone.  And may the best song win :)

Round "T" Comment on Rice & Watt's #18  (Since the "Comment" section on this parody was not open)- This was Great!  And so true.  On my trip up North in January I suffered through the last 100 miles or so...I drank too much water and soda on the drive and I had to stop about 3 or 4 times from that point on.  At least I learned my lesson - only "sipped" the water I drank on the way back down to L.A. later in the month.  I gave it "5"'s in my ratings.

Comment on BobbyPags #14 ("Comment" section not activated here, either) - Funny stuff, Bob. This one sure got a lot of action back when you first posted it.) 

Here we go:
3 points- 12 Arwen - "There's A Stain"
2 points- 10 Paul Robinson - "Thumbed Out! (A Baseball Manager's Lament)"
1 point- 5 Jared - "The Governor is Mister Freeze"
Comments:  #14- Very funny take on everything.  5's
                  #18- That's how I always heard that line.  Good job on making it into an entire parody.  5's

Another superb round

here are my votes

3 points to Arwen .. "There's a stain" :  12  cos it is a very cute and clever parody: 
2 points to Jeff "Talk Nerdy to me"    :  6  this one just made me laugh
1 point to Phil "Telemarketers"          :  15  great take on a great subject

so hard to choose from this great selection .. !

3 pts--Merry & Pippin
2 pts--Johnny D
1 pts--Invincible

Veryclose runnerup mentions I want to give to Arwen and Phil. Good stuff all around!

Very good round, many good entries.  I'll go with these:
3 pts  #12 There's A Stain
2 pts  #9 Troopsofparodies
1 pt #18  There's A Bathroom

A highly enjoyable session.

3pts to #06 Jeff
2pts to #13 Guy DiRito
1pt  to #17 Phil

;D

This was an incredibly good round.  On almost every one I read I was thinking,  "This one is gonna be in the Top 3", until I had about 10 or so "Top 3's"...Anyway, here goes:

1st place:  #18 Rice Cube & Watt Daddy - "There's A Bathroom On The Right"
2nd place - #3 The Invincible - "Two Teeth"
3rd place - #13 Guy Dirito - "The Techs Of The AOL Helpdesk"

All three of these numbers resonated strongly with me from personal experiences - and that kind of tipped the balance in their favor.  Also registered on my "personal experience" scale and right there with these three were Arwen's "Stain" and Phil Nelson's tale of Telemarketeering's constantly annoying bombardments.  If I hadn't signed up for that "No Call" registry that one probably would have got my 1st place vote but, remarkably enough, signing up for that actually DID stop virtually ALL the JUNK calls I used to receive. 

Okay...

3 points to "Talk Nerdy to Me"
2 points to "Turning Siamese"
1 point to "Try Contraception"

OK, this'll be rough, but

3 points: "Two Teeth"

2 points: "There's A Bathroom On The Right"

1 point: "TroopsOfParodiesHereMimicThisOverdoneOpus"

Apologies to Arwen, who I have long considered a friend, and did have a very funny song

3 pts:  #12 Arwen:  As I read this, I looked down at the fresh coffee stain on my shirt and lost it.  One of my favorites of yours
2 pts:  #8 2nz
1 pt:  #3 Invincible

Honorable mention:  Phil Nelson...most rounds it would have gotten points from me.

Votes as follows :

3 pts :  13 Guy DiRito - "The Techs Of The AOL Helpdesk"

2 pts :  12 Arwen - "There's A Stain"

1 pt :  10 Paul Robinson - "Thumbed Out! (A Baseball Manager's Lament)"

:)

3 points: #12 Arwen's "There's a Stain"
2 points: #8 2nz "The Ring is Mine"
1 point: #16 John Lomain's "Donuts (The Cop Song)"

Usuall story: there were three other songs that were in this list temporarily as I changed my mind a few times... so honourable mentions to Rick, Luke and Rice&Watt

3 points for "Thumbed Out! (A Baseball Manager's Lament)" Parody by Paul Robinson

2 points for "There's A Stain" Parody by Arwen

1 point  for "Turning Siamese" Parody by Merry & Pippin

Bless you Phil, for making this one two weeks long instead of one week - I just haven't been too 'with it' time-wise lately. :)

3 points to #12: Arwen's Lewinskyesque laundry trouble

2 points to #2: Rick's bescnitten doggie

1 point to #9 Jake's satirical Super-scathe

3 Pts - 18 Rice Cube & Watt Daddy - "There's A Bathroom On The Right"

2 Pts -  9 Luke Brattoni - "Troopsofparodiesheremimicthisoverdoneopus"

1 Pt  -  7 Johnny D - "The Charge-It-To-Ya Chorus"

I'm not sure how the voting deadline will work given the way the messageboard has been acting, but I won't be able to vote until this Thursday. My grandmother passed away this weekend, and I spent today with my family and friends at the wake. Tomorrow I will also be spending the day with my family for the funeral. Regardless whether the voting closes or not, I will be commenting on Thursday.

My tenure in these voting contests has been conspicuous for its leniency... seeing as the board was down before voting closed, and I was just about to come here to announce an extension anyway, I'm going to set the extension to midnight on Thursday (whichever timezone you happen to be in).

Sorry to hear about your grandmother, 2nz.

LOL for no apparent reason.

After much deliberation (due to many different sources, but including my 'I'll procrastinate tomorrow' nature) here's me top three:

3 points: #17 "Try Contraception" by Philbo

2 points: #12 "There's a Stain" by Arwen

1 point: #1 "Turning Siamese" by Merry and Pippin

Honorables to everyone else. Good round to the rest of you, but your name had to have something to do with LOTR to place in my top three...um, apparently. (It's just a coincidence, your honor. I'm not biased, I swear.... What was MY entry for the contest? That's... not important... :-\\ :D)

I knew there was a reason to keep the voting open for you 2nz ;)


I hereby declare the voting closed.. but I'll have to be off shortly so I might not get the votes tabulated till a bit later...