I've just been watching the news and I'm glad that anti-war protestors didn't seem to have a vocal presence at the Anzac services. (Uh, unless they did and that both stations I watched edited it out which I think is unlikely). There was some worry about there being a disturbance in previous weeks, I think, but really since the day is designed for remembrance of those killed in war, turning up as a 'protestor' would have been a bit nonsensical.

Damn. Makes me weepy.

What always gives me allergies is the playing of the Last Post (which, for un-antipodeans who mightn't know is this proudly melancholic trumpet solo they play at all the services). I get the good kind of shivers listening to that piece.

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(No, seriously, go scroll the black and tan!)

I saw it. I saw it hours ago. Was that the boy?

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I saw it. I saw it hours ago. Was that the boy?

Lookit all those glorious capital letters :)

grrrr line breaks argh!

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I saw it. I saw it hours ago. Was that the boy?

Lookit all those glorious capital letters

I went to look again, and couldn't find it this time.

But I still ask - despite your capital letters comment, because

a) that's not an answer

b) sometimes, when one filks, one copies the original piece from a website, and it might be too tedious for one to go un-capitalize all the words that aren't being changed in the filk, hence one just sticks with the capitalization present in the original piece

c) That ender is vintage boy-sounding, whether or not it be he.

eta...

Now I've found the original again, and I see "An Australian's" response to it, so I know it's the boy.

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Dear Cindy o' the alphabetised Questions,

Hee. I was going to repost it here, but the line breaks nearly broke me.

(Okay, the Roy Orbison/Cling Wrap slash nearly broke me, the ice-cream with cowboy sauce brought me to the precipice, but it was the line breaks in a cut and paste that pushed me over.)

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I think if you do t pre

at the head of a copy and paste thing and

t /pre

at the end, it will preserve whatever formatting was in the original. Let's test that theory.

Okay - it does leave the line breaks as is, but it made the board fat, and apparently the manually input line breaks were going to cause an international incident with the aussies, so it's gone now.

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Maybe you can also add a t font size=1 or a t ul (that last one's my favourite for indenting.) becuase, at this point the lines are wrapping into two when they should be one.

ie. ""Where's that vamp that you've got in
your Slayer's bag?",

And you do realise he's a local Lurky McLurker (But, for those reading Fray, never a lurk :)

Also? I'm getting mighty spun around about what I'm posting to you and where.

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I wrapped them into two lines manually, to keep the board from being fat. What does t ul do again, and what does it stand for?

If you like, I'll edit the filk out of my post and you can try again. But I'm too lazy to fool with it any more, unless it's breaking the board for anyone.

And you do realise he's a local Lurky McLurker

Yep. He's sometimes a local lurky mcposter, too - usually in NAFDA. Then all the bronze colored Buffistas (myself included) come out and make like we're on some airport tarmac at the start of the British Invasion, seeing The Beatles for the first time. Then he hides (or possibly goes and does a spell, himself - I'm not sure).

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It breaks the flow to break the lines... but that's just me, cause I know the tune.

Lessee...

This is what t ul does

Are you Australian? Or do you just want to be?

Once a quipy Slayer camped by a hellymouth
Under the shade of a California tree
And she sang as she watched and waited till her mocha boiled
"Who'll come a-waltzing a demon with me?"

Down came a vampire to drink at the bronzy club
Up jumped the Slayer and grabbed him in glee
And she sang as she dusted him away with her pointy stick
"You'll come a-waltzing, O' demon, with me'".

Up rode the Master a-riding his demon dog
Up rode her Xander - her scared cavalry,
"Where's that vamp that you've got in your Slayer's bag?",
"You'll come a-waltzing O' Slayer with me".

But the Slayer she up and jumped into the water hole
Drowning herself by the California tree,
But her Xander breathed life and she sealed up the hellymouth,
"Who'll come a-waltzing some demons with me?"

Anzac Day- if I had to be in a foxhole, I just as soon be in one with an Australian. I'm just sayin'...

Yep. He's sometimes a local lurky mcposter, too - usually in NAFDA. Then all the bronze colored Buffistas (myself included) come out and make like we're on some airport tarmac at the start of the British Invasion, seeing The Beatles for the first time. Then he hides (or possibly goes and does a spell, himself - I'm not sure).

Not quite how he tells the story. Except for the bit about the spell :)

wow. I really broke the board the first time.

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Ahh, that's much better, Julie. I was having such trouble putting the words to the proper tune with the funny line breaks (though having the Sneaker Pimps playing in the background wasn't helping either, I suppose).

There are so many reasons why Waltzin' Matilda would be a better national anthem than the one we've got. (Exhibit A: "Our home is girt by sea". Someone should ban the word 'girt', it just ain't right). Sure, as is the song's major theme seems to be that we admire those with the guts to off themselves and save the state the trouble of incarcerating them, but I'm willing to compromise a lot to avoid singing "For those who've come across the seas, We've boundless plains to share" because the current hypocrisy of those lines makes my teeth hurt. Also, I'd now be able to mumble the filky version to myself - it'd be instant entertainment for those dull anthem-requiring functions!

Edit - Hee, Julie ya seemed to have dropped a tag. Tho' it does make my rambling more compact...And now it's fixed, so nevermind.

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