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Are you quite polite? : silly dilly manners songs
Presents humorous lyrics to such familiar children's songs as \"Pop Goes the Weasel,\" \"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,\" and \"Hey Diddle Diddle.\"
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Overweight Sensation
Allan Sherman was the Larry David, the Adam Sandler, the Sacha Baron Cohen of 1963. He led Jewish humor and sensibilities out of ethnic enclaves and into the American mainstream with explosively funny parodies of classic songs that won Sherman extraordinary success and acclaim across the board, from Harpo Marx to President Kennedy. In Overweight Sensation, Mark Cohen argues persuasively for Sherman's legacy as a touchstone of postwar humor and a turning point in Jewish American cultural history. With exclusive access to Allan Sherman's estate, Cohen has written the first biography of the manic, bacchanalian, and hugely creative artist who sold three million albums in just twelve months, yet died in obscurity a decade later at the age of forty-nine. Comprehensive, dramatic, stylish, and tragic, Overweight Sensation is destined to become the definitive Sherman biography.
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I'm still here in the bathtub : brand new silly dilly songs
Well-known songs, including \"Itsy Bitsy Spider\" and \"Farmer in the Dell,\" are presented with new words and titles, such as \"Tiny Baby Brother\" and \"I'm in My Room and Bored.\"
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Smelly locker : silly dilly school songs
Well-known songs, including \"Oh Susannah\" and \"Take Me Out to the Ballgame,\" are presented with new words and titles, such as \"Heavy Backpack!\" and \"I Don't Want to Do Homework!\"
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The cult of amphioxus in German Darwinism; or, Our gelatinous ancestors in Naples' blue and balmy bay
Biologists having rediscovered amphioxus, also known as the lancelet or Branchiostoma, it is time to reassess its place in early Darwinist debates over vertebrate origins. While the advent of the ascidian-amphioxus theory and challenges from various competitors have been documented, this article offers a richer account of the public appeal of amphioxus as a primitive ancestor. The focus is on how the 'German Darwin' Ernst Haeckel persuaded general magazine and newspaper readers to revere this \"flesh of our flesh and blood of our blood\", and especially on Das neue Laienbrevier des Haeckelismus (The new lay breviary of Haeckelism) by Moritz Reymond with cartoons by Fritz Steub. From the late 1870s these successful little books of verse introduced the Neapolitan discoveries that made the animal's name and satirized Haeckel's rise as high priest of its cult. One song is reproduced and translated here, with a contemporary \"imitation\" by the Canadian palaeontologist Edward John Chapman, and extracts from others. Predating the American \"It's a long way from amphioxus\" by decades, these rhymes dramatize neglected ' species politics' of Darwinism and highlight the roles of humour in negotiating evolution.
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The backwards birthday party
At the backwards birthday party, a donkey pins the tail on the guests, the ice cream is hot, and the candles are not.
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Humor, fun, and novelty in song
This article will explore some humorous songs for use in the private studio. These songs, just like any comedic performance, take many forms: intended, unintended, silly, novel, parody, subtle, broad, urbane, bawdy, witty, satirical, slapstick, or dry. Indeed, just about any song can be performed in a humorous way. Songs that were written to be serious can become humorous when the singer adds props, facial nuances, or other nonmusical features. Some songs become humorous as time passes and connotation of the words used changes significantly. Others are funny due to mondegreens: misinterpretation of the words of a song.
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There's a hole in the log on the bottom of the lake
An adaptation of the traditional folk song, \"There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea,\" with additional repetition and tongue twisters. Includes sheet music.
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Words as Weapons
Benesch talks about Dubulu iBhunu, a song that rose rose a hailstorm of debate in South Africa. Among friends and fans at his boozy 29th birthday party in March 2010, the South African youth leader Julius Malema cocked his right thumb, pointed his linger like a pistol and chanted \"Dubulu iBhunu.\" The crowd sang along merrily. Malema sang Dubulu iBhunu again a few days later at a rally at the University of Johannesburg, but this time it was aired on television and translated into Afrikaans, in which 'Boer' originally meant 'farmer' and is now a derogatory term for Afrikaner. Whites especially feared that the song was inspiring black South Africans to kill Afrikaner farmers. In recent years, hundreds of white farm owners and managers had been murdered, mostly in connection with robberies, but often with gruesome violence, and sometimes with their wives or children. But the ruling African National Congress (ANC) defended Malema, then head of its Youth League, and the song. Party spokesman Jackson Mthembu took responsibility for it on behalf of the ANC, saying it \"was sung for many years even before Malema was born, and must be understood in the context of the anti-apartheid struggle.\". Adapted from the source document.
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