Guns don't kill people, rappers do

[venta]

I apologise that this journal has currently become simply a means of regurgitating the word of the day from The Calendar, but there's been a run of good 'uns.

Yesterday's word was errorist. Disappointingly, this doesn't denote a person who is willing to resort to hostage-taking and car-bombing over a misplaced apostrophe, but is:

"One who errs, or encourages and propagates error."
   - William Whitney's Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1889.

And while I remember, the Designated Hero of the Week for last week is kissifa, for telling me how to do what I wanted to do in M$ Word. I spent some time rummaging in menus and cursing and failing, but apparently it was all terribly simple and involved text boxes.

Comments

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Guns don't kill people, rappers do

Do your dance team do a number to that? I think that you should make it so!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Might be a little tricky, but I'll see what we can do.

[narenek.livejournal.com]

what is a fantastic idea, thoroughly seconded.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Aye, and all it needs is to persuade Goldie Lookin' Chain to re-record the song in a completely different time signature. It's almost too easy :)

[narenek.livejournal.com]

A mere triffling detail for a lady of your capabilities and resourcefulness.

If all else fails I'm sure this could be made into a challenge for one of your friends who like to put the lyrics from one bit of music into the tune of another. There must be bits of software on the market that can do this sort of thing with their eyes closed. Why if it was a simple 6/8 to 3/4 transition I could probably do it with my eyes closed :-)

Failling that I think a more subversive approach would be to arrange the tune such that it could be played on the more traditional folk instruments that traditionally accompany your dancing. I think a perfectly acceptable immitation of the "ooh ooh oooooh" lyric could be made by blowing too hard on a recorder or similar wind instrument. You ideally want everyone to be able to recognise the tune, but unable to place it.