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.

~~By entering, you are agreeing to read and comment on all the other entries and vote.

~~Anyone who enters but does not both comment on all entries and vote by the end of the month is disqualified and may not participate next month, while all points will be forfeited, an entrant who has been disqualified may still participate next month if (s)he goes back and comments on all entrants from the month (s)he got disqualified prior to the end of the entry field (s)he is trying to get involved in.

~~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. and so on
If the points total and votes are identical, it will be left as a legitimate tie

~~Any entrant whose votes don't show a time stamp prior to midnight on the last day of the month (ie. according to the "inthe00's meantime" clock as it appears BEFORE you log in - not a timezone corrected version) is disqualified, no exceptions.

~~A medal known as the FUCA shall be awarded to the highest ranking parody which did not make the month's podium and is of an original song which has not previously earned any medal

1. Blah by Below Average Dave
   Yeah

2. S.O.B. by Matthias
   O.P.P.

3. 404 by The Conqueror of Parodies
   Fireflies

4. Carry-On by Jeff Reuben
   Carry Out

5. Chain Reaction (Apocalypse Version) by The Charnstar
   Chain Reaction

6. He Moved the Rock by Mark Scotti
   I Am A Rock

7. Boil to Lance by Warren Baker
   Bad Romance

8. Kills on Film by Peter Andersson
   Girls on Film

5 points:  Below Average Dave
4 pts:  Matthias
3 pts:  Conqueror
2 pts:  Warren Baker
1 pt:  Charnstar

5 Points: Jeff Reuben
4 Points: Below Average Dave
3 Points: Charnster
2 Points: Conqueror of Parodies
1 Point: Warren Baker

5 points to Matthias
4 points to Below Average Dave
3 points to Jeff Reuben
2 points to Warren Baker
1 point to Conqueror of Parodies

5 points to Matthias
4 points to Below Average Dave
3 points to Jeff Reuben
2 points to Warren Baker
1 point to Conqueror of Parodies


Thanks Charnstar, You aren't a SOB!

5 to Mathias
4 to Warren
3 to Peter
2 to jeff
1 to Conqueror

HM to Charnstar

1 Point to Mark Scotti

2 Points to Warren Baker

3 Points to The Conqueror of Parodies

4 Points to Jeff Reuben

5 Points to Matthias

5 to BA Dave
4 to Mark Scotti
3 to Jeff Ruben
2 to Matthias
1 to Conqueror

Thanks, Warren & Dave!!!

1 point to Warren
2 points to Matthias
3 points to Charnstar
4 points to Jeff
5 points to BAD

5 points to #4: "Carry-On" by Jeff Reuben.
I liked this one a lot and apart from those naked scanners at Heathrow (soon to be everywhere) you nailed pretty much everything, including the stewardess. 555 thumbs up (see picture):
www.boingboing.net/2010/05/24/schneier-at-the-airp.html

4 points to #2: "S.O.B." by Matthias.
This was a really good parody and it turned out educational for me, for some reason I've been under the impression that the phrase S.O.B. was only to be used on males (i.e sons). Have I totally missed a sudden shortage in hip-hop of derogatory new words for women? :-)

3 points to #3: "404" by The Conqueror of Parodies.
This is a top notch parody in the 404 genre, I especially liked the passage about ten million 404s and how counting can calm you down (though personally I tend to fall asleep already around 4.2 millions…)

2 points to #1: "Blah Blah" by Below Average Dave.
The original song has a kind of annoying persistence that goes very well with the new lyrics, also the length of the original goes well with the new theme about a nagging ho stalking you, though I'm obviously out of the loop on some in-jokes thrown in for good measure here.

1 point to #7: "Boil to Lance" by Warren Baker.
I didn't know what it meant until I googled it, now I hope I'll never have use of that knowledge. Funny how this series of SOTM parodies to judge turned out for me, it started with Dave's stalker being a pain in the ass and ended with your more literal version of the same problem.

Honorable Mentions (In Order Of Appearance):

#5: "Chain Reaction (Apocalypse Version)" by The Charnstar.
So Twinkies going out of date is a sign of the Apocalypse? That explains a lot about my country - we don't even have Twinkies! :-)

#6: "He Moved the Rock" by Mark Scotti.
Well, as much as I liked to see that I'm not the only one going for not funny this month this didn't really tickle my top five judgement day, though I'm not against country per se so don't hesitate to go down that road again.

The Results are in. . . and the top three were separated by a mere 2 points


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1st Matthias with 27 Points

2nd Jeff Reuben with 26 Points

3rd Below Average Dave with 25 Points
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4th The Conqueror of Parodies with 14 Points
       Fireflies by Owl City has been on the podium once and once only but. . .

5th Warren Baker with 13 Points <<FUCA Winner
        Bad Romance by Lady GaGa has not yet been a top three podium song

6th Charnstar with 7 Points

7th Mark Scotti with 5 Points

8th Peter Andersson with 3 Points



Congrats to Matthias and Jeff Reuben, thank you for my votes, and Congrats to Warren Baker on the FUCA Award

Whoo-Hoo!!! My 2nd ever win!

Congrats to Matthias, Jeff and Dave! :)

BTW - Dave, am I the first person to go from first place one month to last place the next? ???

Congrats to Matthias, Jeff and Dave! :)

BTW - Dave, am I the first person to go from first place one month to last place the next? ???


I'm not sure Peter, though it's an interesting question.  I nearly did that last month (Won February and was only one point from last in March)  but you didn't bottom out though, I don't remember names, but I know people have gone from a top 3 spot to 0, and that was when there were a lot more participants. . .I know people have slid more than 24 points from one month to the next. . .hope that helps ;)

I'm number 5!!!

Wooohooo!!!

I'm not sure Peter, though it's an interesting question.  I nearly did that last month (Won February and was only one point from last in March)  but you didn't bottom out though, I don't remember names, but I know people have gone from a top 3 spot to 0, and that was when there were a lot more participants. . .I know people have slid more than 24 points from one month to the next. . .hope that helps ;)


Don't worry about it, was just a question from the top of my head since I know you're working on some sort of stats page. :)

How's that coming along BTW?

Don't worry about it, was just a question from the top of my head since I know you're working on some sort of stats page. :)

How's that coming along BTW?


I hope the entire new site will debut sometime later this month or Early July, the contest section shouldn't take much longer past that.