Split Single With Happy Lounge Labelmates

After something of a hiatus with the Keeping Two Chevrons Apart project, I present the latest Half Man Half Biscuit cover in the series, from the album Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral.

Split Single With Happy Lounge Labelmates

First, the fully mixed version, which sat on my harddrive for months before being discovered earlier today, having a kazoo solo added and getting published 

Split Single With Happy Lounge Label-Mates by StopThatAstronaut

However I wasn't 100% happy with it, so I dashed off a quick unplugged version for YouTube instead of making a video with the mixed one. I think I prefer it, because it's a bit more fun, casual and slightly more deranged. This is also on SoundCloud.

now, I always get requests for chords when I post this stuff, so I'll do it now instead of waiting

          C
I lost my Barbour
              F
In Twickenham car park
             G
Seems I was fazed by
           C
My Varsity Gal
               C
Through Donald Sinden's
           F     F7
Theatrical memories
   C
We laughed a while
      G              C
Until Libby had to go home

           C
I left my Chomsky
                    F
At the Waterstone's book launch
        G
Umberto Eco  
        C
Iranian crepes
            C
Great Uncle Corduroy
           F      F7
Invited us down to his gite  
      C
Fresh bread, kaleidoscope
G                 C
Kinder Scout and Mam Tor

           C
I blew my Giro
              F
On debt and essentials
         G
Cosi Fan Tutte
               C
I’ll miss you again
             C
I asked for water
               F
They sent me a final demand
     C
Placepot Uttoxeter
G                 C
Down by one thirty-five

C   G   C

Amazing what one can achieve with a mere three chords, isn't it? Well, three chords and a 7th. And I must say it is very fun indeed to sing in harmony with onesself, even if the resulting dirge is far removed from the realms of high art.

 

@AthiestBot suspended

Yes, @AthiestBot, darling of the twitter Atheist community, has copped a suspension from Twitter.

He was a fun experiment while he lasted, managing to garner several death threats from loving, forgiving christian folk, and gathering an even larger quota of lulz via idiots who couldn't understand why it was called "AthiestBot".

There's an appeal in to twitter at the moment to reinstate the account, however there is a rule deep in twitter's documenttion about not @replying based on searches. How this is significantly different from a human or small group of humans @replying based on searches is unexplained - at least @AthiestBot has mechanisms to prevent multiple hassling and a "never talk to me again" function, which humans tend not to. And he's certainly not the only replybot out there. AthiestBot actually mentioned a couple in his guest post.

Still, I'm quite willing to work with Twitter to bring him back inside the rules and still generate some lulz.

And the database of tweets still exists, of course. Which is quite hilarious in and of itself.

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