 h a l f b a k e r y A few slices short of a loaf.
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Baker:
I am the very model of a modern British Halfbaker,
I've information quite obscure on DrBob the pisstaker,
I saw the fall of sealybot, and I can quote the Monty Python boys
From Parrot Sketch to Hollywood, with effects of music, sound and noise;
I'm very well acquainted,
too, with matters astronomical,
I remember two thousand and one, and Red Dwarf Oh! so comical,
About newbies real identities I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
Is 8th of 7 really the full length of the hypotenuse?
ALL:
Is 8th of 7 really the full length of the hypotenuse?
Is 8th of 7 really the full length of the hypotenuse?
Is 8th of 7 really the full length of the hypotenuse?
Baker:
I'm very good at coming up with ideas like the wind chime thing,
I call up blissmiss late at night, just to set her phone a-ring,
In short, in matters pointless, dull and really quite obscure,
I am the very model of a modern British halfbaker.
ALL:
In short, in matters pointless, dull and really quite obscure,
She is the very model of a modern British halfbaker.
Baker:
I know 1/2bakery history, bout Buxton/Cornish, MrT;
I can hold my own on pretty things, like crenellated cleavages
I quote in Elizabethan prose, the works of Will the Serious,
In comic moments I can keep the bloody place delirious,
I can pick a dodgy Google search from knowledge known previous,
I can even understand some jokes in Latin, for the devious
Then I can strum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And strike up with the Geordie band a tune or two from Pinafore.
ALL:
And strike up with the Geordie band a tune or two from Pinafore.
And strike up with the Geordie band a tune or two from Pinafore.
And strike up with the Geordie band a tune or two from Pinafore.
Baker:
I can even set a washing machine for transgalactic travel,
Provided (Relativically) the left socks dont unravel:
In short, in matters pointless, dull and really quite obscure,
I am the very model of a modern British halfbaker.
ALL:
In short, in matters pointless, dull and really quite obscure,
He is the very model of a modern British halfbaker.
Baker:
In fact, I know the difference twixt "Pannikin" and "Piccaninn",
I can even quote the episode where MacGyver made a rubber javelin,
In such affairs as mobile phones and inflatables I know a lot,
Im not afraid to let my nuclear physics background show a lot,
I know enough of battleships to quote stats on their gunnery,
I can pull lines out of Hamlet, such as Get thee to a nunnery!
In short, though Ive a talent for surrealistic punnery,
Ill sometimes stay, for weeks, away from Juttas lovely bunnery.
ALL:
Hell sometimes stay, for weeks, away from Juttas lovely bunnery.
Hell sometimes stay, for weeks, away from Juttas lovely bunnery.
Hell sometimes stay, for weeks, away from Juttas lovely bunnery.
Baker:
Despite my breadth of knowledge, charm and wit and pedantry,
Ill sometimes stoop to stir the pot and rile the Yankee peasantry
In short, in matters pointless, dull and really quite obscure,
I am the very model of a modern British halfbaker.
ALL:
In short, in matters pointless, dull and really quite obscure,
They are the very models of the modern British halfbakers. where are bakers from?
http://www.neilphillips.com/halfbakers/ they're from Lewes. [neilp, Jan 20 2006]
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a compliment to our British friends? croissant for the line "Juttas lovely bunnery"....I'm still laughing at that! |
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Thanks runf. I had to fit it in somewhere. |
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:::::::::::::applause::::::::::::::::
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I await the Australian version with eager antici-- |
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(Not to mention the New Zealand, Indian, Israeli, Dutch and Canadian, of course. Although many contributors would appear to be not from this planet.) |
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"Ladies and gentlemen, that distant whirring noise you can hear is Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan rotating in their graves as they spin up to 3,600 RPM ...." |
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Sir Arthur would be OK; his music is safe. He didn't really get on with Gilbert anyway. |
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Ha! ha! Excellent! I like the 'bunnery' line too.
With all the half-baked ditties needing to be done
To be done.
UnaBubba's lot is quite a busy one!
Busy one!
He makes out that he has a firm to run
Firm to run.
UnaBubba, try and pull the other one!
Other one! |
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Thank you, DrBob. I wish it were the case. |
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so.. I challenge you to write 'The Croissant-Spangled Idea' (to the tune of, uh, guess?!) as an ode to our USian friends today. |
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...and I challenge you to write a "Seven Ages of Man" parody. |
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//challenge you to write 'The Croissant-Spangled Idea' (to the tune of, uh, guess?!) // |
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'Anacreon in Heaven' would be the correct tune. |
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Or you could do a take on 'My Country Tis of Thee', hte tune is the same as that of 'God Save The Queen'. |
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I just couldn't spell it. I do know that Francis Scott Key wrote it, and I do know the verse about "Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution..." |
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The remarkable thing about it is how it documents British weapons. Rockets, particularly. |
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that might be because they were rather pleased to have finally beaten us. |
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They didn't beat us. They bet drunken Hessiens, and took us from behind. Terribly unsporting. Poor form. |
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ends and means, my dear, ends and means. |
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You did leave a few buildings as a memento. |
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Plug in the PC, connect, and wait till up comes Home,
Silence the mp3, and with already numb bum
Refresh, refresh, refresh, let the 'bakers come.
Let emails travel continents and seas
Scribbling in the ether "bakery - is it down?",
Put crepe bows round the grey necks of the monitor screen,
Let the pedant policemen each wear a dark frown.
It was my North, my South, my East and West,
My "working" week and my so-called rest,
My noon, my midnight, my rant, UB's song;
I thought that site would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are all offline now: the disconnected ones;
Stuck on BBC news and browsing online 'fun';
For a while the virtual croissant was my only food.
But nothing now can ever come to any good. |
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And his recipe for "Duck A La Banana" will go with him, to his grave. |
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I'm working on the seven ages of man, for hippo. But I'm going a bit slow. This is hard - much respect for your parodic productivity, UB. |
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Excellent "Stop all the clocks", [sappho]. |
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Very good UB. Have been away for a while and only just seen this. Looks like I've got some catching up to do.... |
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I cannot stop this tune running through my mind. |
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Well done, well done. Now I challenge anyone to write a parody of Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements'. Which, of course, uses this tune. |
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Everyone is from Lewes. It's a well known fact. |
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there are a couple of people [DrBob] who, whilst being from Lewes, are currently living elsewhere (see google earth link). |
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That Google Earth link is amazing. It should be more popularised. But one bug - everyone appears twice, with the long/lat reversed. (So I appear at both 51.408,-0.2017 and -0.2017,51.408. |
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That map is V_E_R_Y wrong. Waugs is actually located 1/99th of a centimeter from me. At all times. |
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//But one bug - everyone appears twice, with the long/lat reversed. (So I appear at both 51.408,-0.2017 and -0.2017,51.408.// |
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That's the Halfbakenberg Uncertainty Principle at work. Cool, huh? |
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Of course. I see it now. So, until someone bakes, they are simulaniously at both places, in a box with a cat (toasted) outside? |
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