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I believe we have a right to Weird Al videos ... stop the insanity ... Free Weird Al ... 8)
1 posted on 05/10/2003 10:55:12 AM PDT by Bobby777
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To: Bobby777
Free Weird Al

....In every box of Fruit Loops.

2 posted on 05/10/2003 10:57:50 AM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian
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To: Bobby777
Free Weird Al with any purchase of $10.00 or more.
3 posted on 05/10/2003 10:59:19 AM PDT by ChadGore (It's all an Amish plot(c))
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To: Bobby777
Ya ain't nobody till "Wierd" Al does you.
6 posted on 05/10/2003 11:09:31 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Soddom has left the bunker.)
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To: Bobby777
A legacy as a serious hip-hop artist???

Is this like a legacy as a serious X Games skateboarder? Lemme put the two in context for you all...

It's like the legacies of Swept Away, Four Rooms, Who's That Girl, The Next Best Thing, Body of Evidence, and Bloodhounds of Broadway to film.

For those not familier with the above titles, my point is made, but there is one common denominator to all...They are Madonna movies! (No wonder the gap-toothed whore goes around speaking with a british accent when everyone knows she's from Michigan)

7 posted on 05/10/2003 11:16:55 AM PDT by Wondervixen (Ask for her by name--Accept no substitutes!)
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don't change that channel,
don't touch that dial,
we got it all on UHF,
so, forget about your laundry,
forget about your job,
just crank up the volume,
and yank off the knob,
we got it all, we got it all,
on UHF ...
8 posted on 05/10/2003 11:20:09 AM PDT by Bobby777
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To: Bobby777
Now watch Weird Al pose nude in protest.
9 posted on 05/10/2003 11:20:45 AM PDT by martin_fierro (A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
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To: Bobby777
This is because Eminen is a much more serious artiste than, say, Madonna or Cyndi Lauper. /sarcasm
11 posted on 05/10/2003 11:21:59 AM PDT by Scothia (Proudly eschewing the flaky, antifamily feminist establishment since 1973.)
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To: Bobby777
Eminem won't give Yankovic permission to shoot a video for his new song, "Couch Potato," a parody of Eminem's Oscar-winning tune "Lose Yourself," Yankovic said.

That's interesting because I never knew they had to get permission to do a song parody. I've heard a lot of them and I can't believe they got permission for some of them.

15 posted on 05/10/2003 11:34:16 AM PDT by thatsnotnice
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To: Bobby777
Why would "Weird Al" even need his permission? I thought that if you were doing a parody, it wasn't copyright infringement. After all, I can't believe that the original artists gave permission to Yankovich to records songs like "Eat It" (parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It") or the very clever "Amish Paradise" (parody of Coolio's "Gangsta Paradise").
20 posted on 05/10/2003 11:49:26 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (California wine beats French wine in blind taste tests. Boycott French wine.)
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Weird Al Yankovic peaked with 'Amish Paradise' there is no way he could top that.
21 posted on 05/10/2003 11:49:31 AM PDT by ewing
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To: Bobby777
As a "Close Personal Friend of Weird Al", I will second that.

FREE WEIRD AL!
22 posted on 05/10/2003 11:50:48 AM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (I'm happy, yet I'm aware of the ironic ramifications of my happiness.)
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To: Bobby777

Weird Al Yankovic, shown portraying the rapper Eminem in this recent photo, won't receive permission from the rapper to shoot a video for his new song, ``Couch Potato,'' a parody of the rapper's Oscar-winning tune ``Lose Yourself,'' Yankovic said. ``The only reason I could glean was that making a Weird Al music video would detract from his legacy as a serious hip-hop artist,'' Yankovic said Thursday, May 8, 2003. ``It's very disappointing. This could have been my best video ever.''

28 posted on 05/10/2003 12:02:58 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: Bobby777
Slim Shady bump!
29 posted on 05/10/2003 12:07:29 PM PDT by Fraulein
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To: Bobby777
Eminem is a pretentious jackass.

Weird Al is the same age as me. I remember listening to Dr. Demento's radio show in high school, and Weird Al would send in homemade tapes of song parodies. The one I remember best was Rockin' The Snackbar(Rockin' The Casbah).

His Amish Paradise video was one of his best :)

Is he married?
36 posted on 05/10/2003 1:30:31 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (America...love it or leave it. Canada is due north-Mexico is directly south...start walking.)
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To: Bobby777
Was it Dire Straits that would only let Weird Al do them if Mark Knoffler got to play lead??!!??

Talk about Money for Nuthin!

M&M aint got a brain cell left in his head.
55 posted on 05/10/2003 7:09:13 PM PDT by Delta 21 (GOD....Guns.....& Guts -- It takes all three to be FREE)
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To: Bobby777
My favorite Weird Al song was back when he was just some gut sending in tapes to Dr. Demento

He did a take off on Queens “Another One Bites The Dust” called “Another One Rides The Bus”

....just him and his accordion ...." hey he's going to sit by youuuuuu!... another one rides the bus!"

64 posted on 05/11/2003 10:23:27 AM PDT by tophat9000
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To: Bobby777
Wierd Al Bump!!!!!!!!!!!!!
66 posted on 05/11/2003 10:39:39 AM PDT by WhiteGuy (MY VOTE IS FOR SALE)
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To: Bobby777
"his legacy as a serious hip-hop artist"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHHAAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHA HAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA HAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAA

Stop it, you're killing me.
71 posted on 05/11/2003 11:52:24 AM PDT by Beck_isright (FOR SALE: Hardly used French weaponry. Contact Baghdad Bob's Clearance Warehouse.)
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Yankovic said Thursday. "It's very disappointing. This could have been my best video ever."

Must be modesty at work here.
Nothing could top his classic Mchael Jackson parody: "Fat"!

72 posted on 05/11/2003 11:54:59 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Californians are as dumm as a sack of rocks)
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To: Bobby777
Make the video anyway! Parody is constitutionally protected speech... let him sue Weird Al!!!!
95 posted on 05/12/2003 10:18:10 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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