You know the drill...

[Spud]

Dana Wears Dresses
Due: Sunday, 06/06/10 9:59am pdt
mp3 with artist name sent to fightmaster@songfight.org

subject: Dana Wears Dresses
message: Your Band Name
attachment: yourbandname_dwd.mp3

[king_arthur]

Okay, assuming that Caravan Ray will be writing the song about why certain X-Files episodes are more beloved than others... must find another idea...

Charles (KA)

[Caravan Ray]

Okay, assuming that Caravan Ray will be writing the song about why certain X-Files episodes are more beloved than others... must find another idea...

I've never actually seen the X-files - so you've lost me there (though I assume it has something to do with the tasty looking red-headed sheila I've seen pictures of). I also don't understand the title of this thread. I dunno, you kids nowadays....it's like you speak a different language

[jeff robertson]

I've got to be in now, with these lyrics I just wrote.

[JonPorobil]

Not fond of this title, but I'm still on a high from Nur Ein, so I'll see if I can't force something out.

[AJOwens]

I've got to be in now, with these lyrics I just wrote.

And fine lyrics they are!

[king_arthur]

So, okay, I started writing this song:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shootingstar27/2419211235/

...and then it inspired me in a bit of a different direction (on the back of the same envelope, even , so I have some lyrics... it's gonna be another King Arthur song about the difficulties of impending geezerhood, but I guess nobody else is gonna write King Arthur songs, so it's up to me...

Charles (KA)

[bdog5778]

Could someone illuminate me on the finer points of this Songfight title? Searching the internets did me no favors. In fact, I ran across a few NSFW items -which is a troubling thing to do whilst on lunch break.

[jb]

They don't all relate to something. Some titles are independent of other references-- so you need to dig deep and craft a story or message appropriate to the title.

Unless you want to use one of those NSFW items, this time the Internet isn't doing your work for you.

JB

[AJOwens]

Could someone illuminate me on the finer points of this Songfight title? Searching the internets did me no favors. In fact, I ran across a few NSFW items -which is a troubling thing to do whilst on lunch break.

Did you find Dress up Dana? Eminently SFW, or SFG anyway.

Like Caravan Ray, I was trying to figure out how "You know the drill" related to "Dana wears dresses." Was there a cross-dressing Dana in a military situation, say M*A*S*H or Catch-22? Or did it maybe have something to do with dentistry? Looks like it was a wild goose chase.

Not that I have time for an entry this week anyway.

[jeff robertson]

Was there a cross-dressing Dana in a military situation, say M*A*S*H or Catch-22?

Hmm... well, the star of China Beach (about the Vietnam War) was Dana Delaney. But I only remember her wearing green army fatigues. Probably not related to this title.

[Spud]

In some cases, this being one of those, the title of the thread is more meta than at other times. In this case, it refers to the long-standing history of the prefight thread, which was originally just named by the title with the words "prefight thread" in parenthesis. It has always bothered me to name a thread with the word "thread", so I try to be creative. In this case, I just decided that my little bit of creativity was getting a bit old, and everyone knows what this thread is for anyway. Thus, "you know the drill".

No reference to the actual title was intended or should be inferred.

[AJOwens]

Apparently there is a cotton weave called "drill," and you can buy a "drill dress." This quite apart from the "drill dress" required by some military or quasi-military institutions, including some private schools I'm glad I know nothing else about.

If not for Spud, I would never have been able to discuss these things!

[Steve Durand]

Oh yeah, Spud, then how do you explain this?

http://ultimatecheerleaders.com/2010/01 ... m-of-2010/

[Spud]

I forgot about that.

[Ross]

Oh yeah, Spud, then how do you explain this?

http://ultimatecheerleaders.com/2010/01 ... m-of-2010/

But this is called "Dana wears dresses," not "Dana un dresses."

[jeff robertson]

Holy crap, is the title about Dana Plato? It was announced *before* Gary Coleman died!

[Caravan Ray]

Spud killed Gary Coleman!!?!?!?!?

Watchootalkin' about jeff?

[Rabid Garfunkel]

Wow, this is an ugly title. So far only the Swedish Chef interpretation is doing anything for me... "Dan-a-ware-sa-dresses"

Which is total shit.

But there's a three day weekend, so who knows?

[supremeedible]

I remember having great trouble writing something for "Your New Dress". Why another dress title within the year? Oh well.

Despite my reluctance to write about dresses, I have a chorus. We'll see if more develops...

[king_arthur]

Despite my generally great enthusiasm for writing about dresses (and the girls who wear them), I'm not coming up with anything that would make a good song...

Charles (KA)

[Lonbobby]

Been a while. Title spoke to me, so I'm in.

Looking forward!