[SCA-AE] OT: SCA "Bad Song" Survey

[windsingerbard04 at aol.com]

Dear gentles,

Here's a bit of ... well, ALMOST harmless fun.  :)

(If you wish your input to count towards the final results, please send 
it to "children_of_lir at yahoo.com".)

~F

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If you're a fan of Dave Barry you may remember, years ago, that one 
innocuous — well, pretty vicious actually! albeit honest and accurate — 
slam he made on Neil Diamond generated a huge volume of impassioned 
mail.   He decided to ride the flood-crest and asked his readers to 
decide, by popular vote, what they believed to be the Worst Song Ever, 
and weeks of hilarity ensued.

(Copies of the column/s are available online here: 
http://www.lovedungeon.net/humor/dave/the_bad_song_contest_i.html   
Additional material that wouldn't fit into the column was compiled into 
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs, a tome absolutely no bathroom should be 
without.)

Anyway.  The point?  Oh yeah.

Someone recently asked a group of us:

"What are, in your humble opinion, the most overplayed/ oversung songs 
that you hear CONSTANTLY around the SCA campfires and just have to roll 
your eyes at when they start?"

Well, now.  :)  That would be telling, wouldn't it?

Response to the question was surprisingly limp.  So I offered to take 
it to the streets, and am doing so now:  "If there's one song that 
you'd rather eat arsenic than hear sung/played at a bardic circle 
again, EVER, what is it?"

Two weeks from now I'll announce the Bottom Five...and any other 
Notable Mentions.

Have at it.


~Lady Fionnghuala na Lamh-Bann
http://www.geocities.com/children_of_lir

Weblog "Fionnecdotes": http://windsingerbard.livejournal.com
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