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Subject: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: Red Ant on 08/09/05 at 2:21 pm
Note to new participants: Welcome, and good luck. Please read all guidelines carefully. Especially, please make sure to read all the entries and vote by the end of the month. The SOTM is not so much a contest as a feedback exchange. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, either in this thread or via personal message. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
~~Vote by replying to this thread with your five favorites in order:
1st choice- 5 points
2nd place- 4 points
3rd place- 3 points
4th place- 2 points
5th place- 1 point.
~~You're not allowed to vote for your own song.
~~Once you've posted a vote, you're not allowed to change it.
~~Voting continues until the last day of the month ends.
~~Anyone who's participated in a SOTM contest may vote.
~~Anyone who enters but does not vote by the end of the month is disqualified and may not participate next month.
~~Voters are strongly encouraged to leave at least a brief comment on every parody, to prove they've at least clicked on them all. Failure to do so will not result in official consequences, but will indicate to others that you're not interested in receiving comments either.
~~In the event of a tie, the parody with the most first place votes wins.
If it's still tied, the parody with the most second place votes wins.
If it's still tied, a brief playoff round will be held.
All participants will have the first week of the month to choose one favorite from among the tied entries.
Tiebreaker voting is strongly encouraged but not required. On the eighth day the one with the most votes wins.
1. Meaning o'Life by Johnny D
DKTOS? Click to hear an MP3 of "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees, from the movie "Saturday Night Fever".
2. O Repoman by Scathe
3. Yellow Submarine (Misheard Version) by Dominic L
4. Fake It, Fake It by Jake A Ralphing (Luke Brattoni)
Original Recording
5. If You Don't Know Who To Come For, Come For Me by Peter Andersson a.k.a. K1chyd
6. Vice President Cheney by Charlie Decker
7. The Baby Bites by Rick Cormier
8. This Song Is So Lame by Red Ant
9. Lady Godiva by Dumb A$$ Kid
10. Evil 'Puter by Adagio
11. Break My Spine by Jeff Reuben
12. Overboard by Tim Mayfield
13. Pieces of Meat by Agrimorfee
14. Irony by Mike Armstrong
15. (Guy with the Mullet) Joe Dirt by Abbott Skelding
16. Kristof Robertson: Do Kris Kristofferson!
by Stuart McArthur
MIDI
17. The Politician by James Squire
18. Applied A Bunch Of Stickers To My S.U.V. by MooRocca
Have Real Audio and DKTOS? Try this link
19. Crazy Makin' Printer by Arwen
20. Killing Children (Wanton murder) by Phil Alexander
21. Just Eat It by the_conqueror_of_parodies
22. A Programmer's Woes by Adam Eccleshall
Note: Please let me know immediately if any links are busted. Thanks.
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: Dominic L. on 08/09/05 at 3:13 pm
5 points:Crazy Makin' Printer-Arwen
4 Points:Irony
3 Points:Kristoff Robertson:Do Kristofferson
2 Points:This Song is so Lame
1 Point:Applied a Bunch of Stickers to my SUV
Wow, I picked a tough month to do my first entry... :-\\
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: Ansky1213 on 08/09/05 at 4:30 pm
Thanks for doing the thread, Red Ant! :)
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: adagio on 08/09/05 at 5:23 pm
5 points - #16 Stuart McArthur
4 points - #1 Johnny D.
3 points - #8 Red Ant
2 points - #7 Rick C.
1 point - #9 D.A.K.
Thanks, Red Ant, for taking the thread.
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: Red Ant on 08/09/05 at 10:43 pm
Thanks for doing the thread, Red Ant! :)
Thanks, Red Ant, for taking the thread.
You're both welcome. I have a much better appreciation of the amount of work Claude puts into this. Thanks Claude!
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: Scathe on 08/10/05 at 11:00 pm
1 point for The Politician by James Squire
2 points for Applied A Bunch Of Stickers To My S.U.V. by MooRocca
3 points for Crazy Makin' Printer by Arwen
4 points for Break My Spine by Jeff Reuben
5 points for This Song Is So Lame by Red Ant
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: agrimorfee on 08/11/05 at 12:19 pm
Whew!
5pts=Stu
4pts=Charlie D
3pts=Rick C.
2pts=Adagio
1pt=Arwen
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: jreuben on 08/12/05 at 8:32 am
5 pts: #19 Arwen and her printer
4 pts: #18 MooRocca and her SUV
3 pts: #7 Rick Cormier and his baby bitten boobs
2 pts: #16 Stu McArthur, Kris and Kristof
1 pt: #1 Johnny D and his Flying Circus
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: Johnny_D on 08/22/05 at 8:55 am
5 points for #22. A Programmer's Woes by Adam Eccleshall
4 points for #18. Applied A Bunch Of Stickers To My S.U.V. by MooRocca
3 points for #16. Kristof Robertson: Do Kris Kristofferson! by Stuart McArthur
2 points for #10. Evil 'Puter by Adagio
1 point for #19. Crazy Makin' Printer by Arwen
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: K1chyd on 08/24/05 at 10:58 am
Here’s my contribution to the growing monthly suspense:
5 Points: "Applied A Bunch Of Stickers To My S.U.V." by MooRocca
In my younger days I used to have stupid bumper stickers attached to my car. Hence both nostalgia and fun were found in this parody. And where should a parody about bumper stickers be if not in front of the queue?
4 Points: "Meaning o'Life" by Johnny D
I’m old enough to remember when MP first aired in Sweden. Hence nostalgia and fun again (my theme of the month?). I hope MP are in the reruns enough so that the younger writers here get enough of the puns of this masterpiece to appreciate it.
3 Points: "The Baby Bites" by Rick C
I have some early memories. Not that early though. And no kids of my own. Yet. Thank God. For both of those facts.
2 Points: "Fake It, Fake It" by Luke B
I’m sure a recording of this would do wonders for your love life Luke. Though, maybe not in the way you’d hope for.
1 Point: "This Song Is So Lame" by Red A
After having heard the original I had to conclude; “Ain’t that the truth!â€Â
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: MooRocca on 08/25/05 at 10:24 am
5 pts. 5. If You Don't Know Who To Come For, Come For Me by Peter Andersson a.k.a. K1chyd
4 pts. 20. Killing Children (Wanton murder) by Phil Alexander
3 pts. 6. Vice President Cheney by Charlie Decker
2 pts. 8. This Song Is So Lame by Red Ant
1 pt. 17. The Politician by James Squire
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: Red Ant on 08/25/05 at 3:12 pm
Well, I don't think another 6 days left will help me fit my very large short list into 5 spots so here are my votes:
5 points to #20, Killing Children (Wanton murder) by Phil Alexander
4 points to #5, If You Don't Know Who To Come For, Come For Me
by Peter Andersson a.k.a. K1chyd
3 points to #3, Yellow Submarine (Misheard Version) by Dominic L
2 points to #9, Lady Godiva by Dumb A$$ Kid
1 point to #10, Evil 'Puter by Adagio
Since "Just Eat It" didn't have comments enabled, I'll leave mine here:
(SOTM) A bit rough on the pacing but pretty funny.
All parody entries this month were great (though some horrid OSs, including mine), honorable mentions to all.
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: Arwen on 08/28/05 at 1:46 am
I ran out of ink in my pen, adding, and scratching out, and re-adding deserving winners to my top 5 list...
However...I have finally come to a decision...
5 points to #18, MooRocca
4 points to #16, Stuart
3 points to #11, Jeff
2 points to #17, James
1 point to #7, Rick
Another great month, all...thanks for sharing your talent...
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: AdamEcc on 08/28/05 at 1:08 pm
Grrr.. too many good songs... sooo difficult to decide on a list...
Having said that...
5 points - 16. Kristof Robertson: Do Kris Kristofferson!
4 points - 11. Break My Spine by Jeff Reuben
3 points - 20. Killing Children (Wanton murder) by Phil Alexander
2 points - 18. Applied A Bunch Of Stickers To My S.U.V. by MooRocca
1 point - 5. If You Don't Know Who To Come For, Come For Me by Peter Andersson a.k.a. K1chyd
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: philbo on 08/28/05 at 5:55 pm
5 points = #16. Kristof Robertson: Do Kris Kristofferson! by Stuart McArthur
4 points = #18. Applied A Bunch Of Stickers To My S.U.V. by MooRocca
3 points = #22. A Programmer's Woes by Adam Eccleshall
2 points = #6. Vice President Cheney by Charlie Decker
1 point = #17. The Politician by James Squire
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: Dumb Ass Kid on 08/29/05 at 4:39 am
1st Place : "Killing Children (Wanton Murder)" by Phil Alexander
2nd Place : "So When Will Kristof Robertson Do One By Kris Kristofferson?" by Stu MacArthur
3rd Place : "If You Don't Know Who To Come For, Come For Me" by K1chyd
4th Place : "Programmer's Woes" by Adam E
5th Place : "Meaning O Life" by Johnny D
Another good month all round, good luck to everyone :)
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: tmayfield on 08/30/05 at 7:58 pm
I think I'm a sucker for computer related parodies... :-\\
5 Points - "A Programmer's Woes" Parody by Adam Eccleshall
4 Points - "Break My Spine" Parody by Jeff Reuben
3 Points - "Evil 'Puter" Parody by Adagio
2 Points - "Crazy Makin' Printer" Parody by Arwen
1 Point - "Kristof Robertson: Do Kris Kristofferson!" Parody by Stuart McArthur
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: Luke Brattoni on 08/30/05 at 9:16 pm
Gee, all my faves came one after the other... still some fine work in the first half of entries, of course. :)
5 points for #20. Killing Children (Wanton murder) by Phil Alexander
4 points for #18. Applied A Bunch Of Stickers To My S.U.V. by MooRocca
3 points for #16. Kristof Robertson: Do Kris Kristofferson!
by Stuart McArthur
2 points for #17. The Politician by James Squire
1 point for #19. Crazy Makin' Printer by Arwen
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: Stuart McArthur on 08/30/05 at 9:56 pm
5 points...........Johnny D  #1
4 points...........Rick C.    #7
3 points...........Adam     #22
2 points...........Arwen    #19
1 point............MooRocca     #18
I wanted to give honourables, but I would've risked offending the 2-3 who weren't amongst them
phew, tough month!
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: iam4iu42 on 08/31/05 at 4:01 pm
Good month all, sorry for not leaving comments on some of the parodies, but I swear I have a good excuse :-\\
I'll make up for it next month
5 points - Johnny D
4 points - Adagio
3 points - Phil Alexander
2 points - Stu McArthur
1 point - MooRocca
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: Rick Cormier on 08/31/05 at 7:36 pm
Another month of fun. Here are my choices:
5 points...#1 Johnny D.: Meaning o'Life
4 points...#16 Stuart McArthur: Kristof Robertson: Do Kris Kristofferson
3 points...#10 Adagio: Evil 'Puter
2 points...#8 Red Ant: This Song is So Lame
1 point....#4 Luke Brattoni: Fake It, Fake It
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: Red Ant on 09/01/05 at 12:03 am
Results will be posted in the morning (or afternoon at the latest-making sure I can still add). Any votes cast before the tally is posted count.
Subject: Re: July SOTM Voting
Written By: Red Ant on 09/01/05 at 6:16 am
The results for July SOTM are as follows:
1st place, 46 points- Kristof Robertson: Do Kris Kristofferson!
by Stuart McArthur
2nd place, 33 points- Applied A Bunch Of Stickers To My S.U.V. by MooRocca
3rd place, 25 points- Meaning o'Life by Johnny D
The rest are as follows:
25 points, Phil Alexander, who tied Johnny D in points and first place votes. Tiebreaker decided on 2nd place votes: 2-1.
20 points, Arwen
18 points, Adam Eccleshall
16 points, Rick Cormier
15 points, Jeff Reuben
15 points, Red Ant
14 points, Adagio
13 points, Peter Andersson a.k.a. K1chyd
4 points, Mike Armstrong
3 points, Dominic L.
3 points, Jake A Ralphing (Luke Brattoni)
3 points, Dumb Ass Kid
4 Disqualifications this month: Charlie Decker, Abbott Skelding, James Squire and the_conqueror_of_parodies did not vote in time and are inelligible to participate in August SOTM.
Congratulations to Stuart McArthur, MooRocca and Johnny D. Thanks to all who commented and voted.
Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: adagio on 09/01/05 at 6:19 am
Congratulations to Stu, MooRocca and Johnny D. ;D
Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: Rick Cormier on 09/01/05 at 7:11 am
Congrats to Stu, Johnny D and MooRocca! Thank you to all voted for my parody. It's been fun.
Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: Stuart McArthur on 09/01/05 at 8:25 am
firstly, thanks Red Ant, for stepping into Claude's huge shoes and doing the assured, diligent job we all knew you would
but wow, thankyou so much everyone, it's a huge honour - and with the AmIright bar being constantly raised, and with all the new talent entering and improving each month, I consider every single vote a gift, so to win SOTM is a big deal to me, and very humbling. I actually wrote this one for entering into the "K" comp (hence the odd title) but it received such a good reaction I bumped my intended SOTM entry and put this in instead - thankfully
(and thanks Kristof of course, for both rhyming with Kris Kristofferson, and for being underwhelmed by him)
and I'm also glad it won for the fact it represents the communal AmIright opera, Pirates Of Penstanzas, that was such a blast to do - and so thanks again to everyone who contributed to that.
Sorry to bump you into second place MooRocca, as I loved your SUV one, with it's satirical focused edge.
And congrats too to Johnny D, who I gave my 5 votes to, and who I was pleased to see make a late run for third place - and bad luck Phil, for being squeezed out of third, with such a powerful, clever, inspired and masterfully-constructed statement-parody
Like I said in my vote-post, I found this the hardest month yet to work out places, as the quality seemed to go deeper before petering out this month
and good luck for August everyone! :D :D
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Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: Johnny_D on 09/01/05 at 9:03 am
Congratulations to Stuart and MooRocca, and also to my bronze-medal compatriot, Philbo!
Thanks very much to everybody who voted for my Monty Python silliness.
As is my customary practice, I shall base the awarding of medals on vote-count, not on contest-placement --- so, even though according to the SOTM contest rules I won third place because I won the tie-breaker with Phil, I will be awarding Phil a bronze medal too, because he had the same number of votes as the official SOTM third-place-winner.
Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: jreuben on 09/01/05 at 9:57 am
Congratulations to the winners! A great group this time round.
One note, doesn't affect the standings, but Peter Andersson a.k.a. K1chyd had 13 votes, not 12:
Votes came from:
DAK: 3 pts
Mehli: 5 pts
Adam E: 1 pt
Red Ant: 4 pts
Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: MooRocca on 09/01/05 at 11:25 am
Huge congrats Stu, Johnny D & Phil! Thanks to everyone who voted (including those of you who accidentally left me off your top five -- hee hee!) Stu, no need to be sorry for knocking me down to 2nd place, I'm thrilled to have done so well in this round. :) I've been beyond merely crazy-busy in RL, so finding time and energy to vote in this round was extremely difficult for me, this month and I really have to shout out an extra special thanks to everyone whose parodies were a delight to read (and had me shaking in my boots this round) -- especially K1 whose entry still has me in stitches and instantly became one of my overall site-faves the first time I had the pleasure of readiing it. :) Great round, y'all. Thanks again for making my day with one of the top slots!
Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: AdamEcc on 09/01/05 at 12:10 pm
Congratulations Stu, MooRocca and Johnny ;D
Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: Claude_Prez on 09/01/05 at 12:33 pm
Congratulations Stu, MooRocca, and Johnny and a HUGE thank you to Red Ant for takin' care o' business. Great job all -- even though I probably haven't read most of them, experience tells me it was another great round. See you all soon.
Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: Red Ant on 09/01/05 at 2:26 pm
Congratulations to the winners! A great group this time round.
One note, doesn't affect the standings, but Peter Andersson a.k.a. K1chyd had 13 votes, not 12:
Votes came from:
DAK: 3 pts
Mehli: 5 pts
Adam E: 1 pt
Red Ant: 4 pts
Thanks Jeff, modified that on the thread.
This was a very tough month and I didn't have a short list this month either. Congratulations to Stu, MooRocca, Johnny, and Phil.
Thanks for supporting me running the contest this month as well, it was something different. All points scored should be correct now, if anyone elses score is wrong let me know, I'll fix it asap.
Red Ant
Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: philbo on 09/01/05 at 2:47 pm
Have to say that Stu's Krismasterpiece looked like a SOTM winner from the off - well deserved. MooRocca & JD: excellent, well done and all that. Everyone else: looks like we'll just have to try harder this month.
An especial thanks to all those who voted for what was indubitably the unfunniest parody ever to hit SOTM - sorry to make you all read such an unhappy number.
See you next month :)
Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: Dominic L. on 09/01/05 at 9:03 pm
That was fun, but sadly I got one of the least amount of votes, but it's ok, because all these parodies were so good anyway... Uh, Congrats to the winners, and if I even have anything good from August, I will submit for the SOTM this month! :)
Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: K1chyd on 09/02/05 at 12:37 am
Congrats to your second win this year Stu! And congrats to the other medalists too. Also, since MooRocca too has won one round once I think it is safe to say that now with yet another place on the podium for Johnny D there is noone here I’d rather see take that last leap to finally get the gold and glory, the amount of silver and bronze medals in his cabinet must be unprecedented here. (Hmm... well, come to think of it, Spaff might have more bronze and silver medals though, I’m not sure, but I seem to reminisce him having like ten songs in the SOTY 2004, and since all of them can’t have been SOTM winners... But since he’s already made that golden lap so many times there’s quite a difference anyway).
Though I have to say (and I’m glad that Stu already has won once because that makes me feel less like a grumpy old man saying this) that I don’t really feel 100 percent comfortable with this months winner. Of course it’s a good parody and a worthy winner in that respect, and we all know this was a big part in the initializing of the already immortal â€ÂPirates who Penstanzas†project, but it’s the first time a parody about another AmIright writer wins the SOTM. I’m not against parodies about other parodists per se, (heck, I’ve written a couple of them myself), but I’m afraid it’s one of these things that makes the site appear cliquey (sp?), one of these things that might scare of newbies from the site/SOTM if it grows too be too much of it. Hence I hope this is not the beginning of a lasting Amiright/SOTM trend (though I guess in the long run I could endure handle and evaluate a lesser amount of contributions without crying too much). :P
Any opinions on this, or is it just me who’s getting old and grumpy? 8)
Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: Arwen on 09/02/05 at 12:54 am
Congrats to all of our winners... :)
And to address K1's concern...I don't see a problem with a tribute (or any parody about another parodist) winning at all, and the fact that Stuart's parody won...implies that the general population of the site don't see a problem with it either.
And I don't think that Stuart won because his parody was about Kristof...(I mean, really...who can stand that guy?)...he won because his entry was just a good, clever, well written parody...to a hard song. When Spaff won with Darth Vader's Crabs, was anyone really afraid that the growing trend would be to write parodies about Star Wars...or STDs? Nah...
I think we should all encourage folks to write about whatever they want to write about. If people appreciate it...regardless of the subject matter...then it should (and will) be rewarded. If it's too exclusive, or too 'inside' (as tributes sometimes are) then it probably won't win.
I do think, however, that parodies about clumsy but undeniably beautiful elves should be rewarded more readily than others...just for the record.
Subject: Re: July SOTM--Voting Closed, Results Posted
Written By: jreuben on 09/02/05 at 8:30 am
Any opinions on this, or is it just me who’s getting old and grumpy? 8)
I'll be honest. I generally do not vote for parodies that wouldn't be understood by the general public. I realize that almost any song could be put into a clique (Star Wars, LOTR, clumsy elves), but something about a specific amiright writer, while having lots of meaning to most if not all of the voters in this contest, loses something with most people outside of amiright...the casual observer.
That said, Stu's parody made my top 5. First, it was brilliantly written. And second (I read it again before writing this), I didn't feel that a reader needed to know Kristof to enjoy the parody. There was very little that was specific to Kristof, except that he's a parody writer...most focused on Kris (not Kristof), and the wordplay on the similar names.