Thump Britney with an Ancient String Prefight

Father Bingo · Post by **Father Bingo** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:04 pm

My roommate is anorexic and recently showed me photos of herself from three years ago, weighing 60 pounds. It was like looking at a fresh corpse. You could see everything through her skin. I haven't stopped thinking about the image and was going to use that as fuel for "We Are All Made Of Strings," but I can only seem to get out four lines and no music. I would be honored if anyone took this and ran with it.

How did you stand on shoestring legs?
Held together with tight knots under latex skin.
Thick yarn veins larger than the arms.
We are all made of strings, but you're not supposed to see them.

Dan Wrekenhaus 2 · Post by **Dan Wrekenhaus 2** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:01 pm

I was just kidding with my first comment, but I think that string (no s) is more used as like an ingredient.. like, saying this scarf is made of string is like saying this cow is made of muscle. I don't know that I'd call either "plural" per se. And I'm listening to music that isn't allowing me to think, so maybe there are other examples I am missing that are contrary to this.

blue · Post by **blue** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:03 pm

sos rejoins you for "Ancient."

toddlans · Post by **toddlans** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:15 pm

http://www.grammerfight.com
anybody in?

Dan Wrekenhaus 2 · Post by **Dan Wrekenhaus 2** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:26 pm

toddlans wrote:http://www.grammerfight.com
anybody in?

I'd be even worse at this than I is at songfightin'

nyjm · Post by **nyjm** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:41 am

Father Bingo wrote:My roommate is anorexic and recently showed me photos of herself from three years ago, weighing 60 pounds. It was like looking at a fresh corpse. You could see everything through her skin. I haven't stopped thinking about the image and was going to use that as fuel for "We Are All Made Of Strings," but I can only seem to get out four lines and no music. I would be honored if anyone took this and ran with it.

How did you stand on shoestring legs?
Held together with tight knots under latex skin.
Thick yarn veins larger than the arms.
We are all made of strings, but you're not supposed to see them.

that is one creepy image. i'll steal some of these lyrics, if you don't mind.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:05 am

toddlans wrote:http://www.grammerfight.com
anybody in?

Is that a fight where we make tributes to the dude from Frasier? That would be even scarier than grammarfight.

EightLeggedOedipus · Post by **EightLeggedOedipus** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:12 am

I will be dodging the grammarfight this week and finishing up songs for <a href="http://songfight.net/forums/viewtopic.p ... erFight</a> due Monday.

tviyh is right in that "string" is the measurable plural and "strings" is the countable plural. As long as the definition you use can answer the question "how many strings are you made of?" you will be grammatically accurate.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:29 am

(although it would be MORE accurate to answer the question "of how many strings are you made?")

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:40 am

tviyh wrote:(although it would be MORE accurate to answer the question "of how many strings are you made?")

Actually, while grammatically more accurate, it's still clunky English; I would avoid the sentence altogether .... hahahahahaha!

j$

blue · Post by **blue** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:44 am

being ukian, you'd probably mumble something incomprehensible like "wot's yer stringers?" and then expect everyone who speaks american to guess at a possible answer.

we're wise to your tricks.

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:33 pm

Yes, and when you didn't understand, blame it on your corruption of our beautiful language :p Damn I am so transparent!

j$

NeilThrun · Post by **NeilThrun** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:15 pm

Father Bingo wrote:My roommate is anorexic and recently showed me photos of herself from three years ago, weighing 60 pounds. It was like looking at a fresh corpse. You could see everything through her skin. I haven't stopped thinking about the image and was going to use that as fuel for "We Are All Made Of Strings," but I can only seem to get out four lines and no music. I would be honored if anyone took this and ran with it.

How did you stand on shoestring legs?
Held together with tight knots under latex skin.
Thick yarn veins larger than the arms.
We are all made of strings, but you're not supposed to see them.

Remember, anorexia is a lifestyle choice. NOT a disease. Its perfectly sane to starve yourself.

Regardless, Neil Thrun and the Doom Fairies have produced a song for ancient.

Smalltown Mike · Post by **Smalltown Mike** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:47 am

Hi. Long time reader, first time poster.
I realized (too late) that "Oh Britney" rhymes with "Hit me" and "Not a girl, not yet a woman" rhymes with "Oops, she's going to sing it again." Sort of.
Not great, I know, but yours if you want it.

Edge of LA · Post by **Edge of LA** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:41 am

Not that I'm submitting anything this week, but this thread brought up the notion of string/s and strand/s of string/s. And if you think about it, we truly ARE made of of string/s in the form of strand/s of DNA. Hmmmmm.

nyjm · Post by **nyjm** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:04 pm

Edge of LA wrote:Not that I'm submitting anything this week, but this thread brought up the notion of string/s and strand/s of string/s. And if you think about it, we truly ARE made of of string/s in the form of strand/s of DNA. Hmmmmm.

yeah, that made into some lyrics for me. i'm looking forward to seeing what niveous does with the music end.

in other non-noah-singing news, c-hack and i are in for "ancient". cower before the french literary allusions! mwahahahaha!

or something.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:29 pm

Smalltown Mike wrote:I realized (too late) that "Oh Britney" rhymes with "Hit me" and "Not a girl, not yet a woman" rhymes with "Oops, she's going to sing it again." Sort of.

okok am i the ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD whose first impulse upon reading that title was not to think of THAT britney?

(the title instantly recalled to *my* mind that fleetwood mac song "oh diane")

HANK. · Post by **HANK.** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:55 pm

You're so anti-pop and on the fringe.

j$ · Post by j$ » Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:49 pm

I have a feeling 'Ancient' will be the big one this week; if so I will be making it one bigger, if you see what I mean. I tried to recreate the mood of my popular vote-winner that was my cover of Octothorpe's 'on my block' only it went somewhere very different ... you shall see

j$

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:57 pm

I'll be submitting an "Ancient" as well (but perhaps not as good).

Tonamel · Post by **Tonamel** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:47 am

Well, I've gone and made a First Time Ever submission to We Are All Made of Strings.

My humiliation across the Internet may now commence!

Daj Werkenhorse 1 · Post by **Daj Werkenhorse 1** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:14 am

tviyh wrote:
okok am i the ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD whose first impulse upon reading that title was not to think of THAT britney?

(the title instantly recalled to *my* mind that fleetwood mac song "oh diane")

I didn't think of her at first either.
For some reason, the title made me thing of a Mooney Suzuki song called 'Oh Sweet Susanna'

Thump Britney with an Ancient String Prefight

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