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Shall we play a game?

Date: 2004-08-16 10:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unclelumpy.livejournal.com
Here's a little game I'm trying to make popular at filk-meets called the "Every Rose Challenge". It's where you take the chorus from "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Motley Crue and try to come up with a spoof for it, maintaining the first and last lines and the rhyme scheme. Allow me to demonstrate...

First, the original:

Every rose has its thorn
Like every day has its dawn
Like every cowboy sings a sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn

And now, my variation:

Every rose has its thorn
Like Iowa has its corn
Like Halle Barrie really sucks as Storm
Every rose has its thorn

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Date: 2004-08-16 12:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] selenesue.livejournal.com
Do the middle lines need to rhyme with "thorn"?

Every rose has its thorn
Like every car blows its horn
Like, every rotten Monday Morn
Every rose has its thorn

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Date: 2004-08-16 12:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unclelumpy.livejournal.com
Third line doesn't scan.

Needs 10 syllables.

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Date: 2004-08-16 01:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] selenesue.livejournal.com
Okay, like every FILTHY rotten Monday Morn. I am having one of those days.

You didn't answer the question about whether lines 2 & 3 need to rhyme with "thorn" or just with each other.

(no subject)

Date: 2004-08-16 02:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unclelumpy.livejournal.com
MEMO
From: Me
To: Me
Re: Bothering SeleneSue on Mondays

Dear Me,

DON'T DO IT!!!

Signed,
Me

.
.
.
.

And to answer your question, just like the original, it just sort of ambigously needs to rhyme with "thorn", on a purely phoenetic level.

Re: Shall we play a game?

Date: 2004-08-16 08:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sylverwolfe.livejournal.com
every rose has its thorn
like ev'ry bad fanfic we mourn
like all the grammar rules they ignore
every rose has its thorn

Re: Shall we play a game?

Date: 2004-08-17 08:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unclelumpy.livejournal.com
Syllable trouble again...

May I suggest "Like bad fanfics that we mourn"?

Re: Shall we play a game?

Date: 2004-08-17 08:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] filkertom.livejournal.com
Oh. You mean... "fanfics"? (grin, duck, run)

Re: Shall we play a game?

Date: 2004-08-17 10:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unclelumpy.livejournal.com
Yeah, like this one pile of steaming, vicious yak-crap that combined the Muppets with Rocky Horror!

Oh, wait....

[Just kidding, of course. "A complexion like Frankenstein's yogurt" is one of my favorite insults!]

(no subject)

Date: 2004-08-16 12:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] braider.livejournal.com
So, when do I get to read that program book bio that I hear you've been charged with writing? Wanna see! Wanna see!

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