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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+77Emo lyrics translated:
Untitled - Simple Plan
I'm confused as to why this series of events has occurred involving me.
Although I have made mistakes I have no way to deal with the issues at hand.
Others will continue to live however I will be committing suicide. - jexdawg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+47I was waiting for someone to pull the "racist" card.
OH GOD, A WHITE COMEDIAN POKING FUN AT BLACKS? GOOD GOD NO, THAT MAN SHOULD BE KILLED FOR HIS BIGOTRY! - nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29don't forget to kill dave chappelle for his bits on white people, and black people for that matter! he uses that n-word so much, tsk tsk. they should kill these racist comedians!
- artofwar420, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30no you don't
- phatvolvo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Master P's Theatre!
excellent. - stuartjmoore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22naw... sarcasm...
As a white person, I never get to throw around the race card, it sucks. - SeptBoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21hes a comedian, would it have been funny if he used everyday words?
- idesign, on 10/28/2007, -2/+20Real Time is such a good show. I wish it was on more than once a week.
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17afro-Americans?
lol - CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Once again a whining conservative adds political whining to an otherwise non-political topic.
=( - SirBriggs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19How many white people speak like that? We aren't masters of proper English usage.
- SenatorPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12you may be smart but not that smart because if you was smart then you would know that when you type and you read out loud what you type it is confuse
- CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15"the beat..."
Makes sense, certainly isn't for the lyrics... - reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I like Maher's show on HBO but he's a bit too smug and laughs at all of his jokes.
- Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Just serves to illustrate how nauseatingly crude and bereft of imagination most rap lyrics are.
- tracespeck, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14I'm not a fan of Bill Maher but that was certainly funny and hes an alright guy.
- Poland, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Now I get it...
- pauleku, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I always found race funny.
In order for something to be "white" there must be a "black"
White and black are not languages. Ironically white and black are not colors either.
I just always thought people who talk about "talking black" must not have their t's straight. Ebonics is not a language. People have to go out of their way to talk like that. Ebonics isnt a dialect either.
People defined "being black" or "talking" black as something. But that way of talking has obviosly nothing to do with being black. I know plenty of black guys that talk just like me. They might "change" to this type of behavior when they are with their buddies, but you know its just a superficial culture-followed trend.
George Carlin was always really funny with stuff involving language. - SeptBoot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8anyone got links to the originals?
- Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7All I can figure is that you're probably being dugg down by kids who've never even heard of Steve Allen -- or if they have, at least don't know that he originated this type of comedy schtick.
I think he did it better, too. I remember seeing him do the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" when I was a kid, and I thought it was hilarious. The look on his face after he recited the part that goes, "He can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me" was priceless. - bat-21, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Stop being such a prick, twinklyJesus.
I remember the day Steve Allen died, Bill Maher said at the beginning of "Politically Incorrect" that all late night talk shows should fly their flags at half-mast because Allen invented the format. He said Allen was a great influence, mentor and friend to him. - twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6wow
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Thanks for letting us know.. We were all talking earlier about whether you would digg this or not.
- cmos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Very well said.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3We can't ban people making fun of other races.. otherwise there would be no black comedians, It's thier bread and butter to make fun of whites.
- aks123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree with you on that one. Translating ebonics to "white" english is just as funny as translating spanish to english.
- Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I wasn't saying that I didn't like Maher's piece, which was obviously inspired by Steve Allen's. Also to be fair, Maher isn't really doing exactly what Allen did. Allen read, usually in a serious tone, the actual lyrics of the songs -- revealing that a lot of them sound pretty stupid without the music. Maher isn't reading the actual lyrics -- he's "translating them to White." A little different, though you can tell that Steve Allen was the inspiration.
By the way, does anybody remember Peter Sellers' spoken versions of early Beatles tunes like "A Hard Day's Night" and "Yes, It Is"? Same thing. Pretty funny, too. "It's been a hard day's night, and I've been...working...like a DOG!!"
Also, there used to be a guy on the World Famous KROQ 106.7 FM called "Shakespeare Man" back in the '80s (when KROQ was great and actually worth listening to, IMO). He'd recite KROQ songs in a Shakespearean voice. Pretty hilarious listening to him do something like Depeche Mode's "Master and Servant." It's a lot, it's a lot, it's...a lot. It's...A LOT!! It's a...lot. It's.... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I shoot people and then leave promptly to avoid incarceration"
Classic! One of the best lines ever! - Recluse, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4http://uhh4d.blogspot.com/2006/08/rap-lyrics-translated-rapping-for.html
- chubbstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hahaha were ignorant white people! hahahaha! those crazy blacks! hahaha! theyre soo different ahahaha! i love it when white people abuse an already tired joke premise of translating black people! its totally original! hahahhaha!
- c1rcasurv1ve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I completely agree. But I'm only going to nitpick because I feel that responding to what you wrote in only 3 words isn't just adequate.
Anyways, white is the only thing that isn't a color. Black on the other hand, is a combination of all colors. :P - Marfanity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's a rap translation that's older, more accurate, and a lot funnier than Bill Maher's attempt.
http://www.bizbag.com/Misc%20articles/Rap%20Lyrics%20Translated.htm - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He didn't say they were interchangable, That's why he callled them different names. But if you are talking about *both* you need to use *both* names in the same sentence, It's a fact of language.
Besides, who gives a *****. - FuManchuX, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Watched it. Not very funny.
Won't bury as lame though - tracespeck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3twinklyJesus you got dug down for putting down Bill Maher for no real reason. You portrayed his use of Allen's joke in a negative light which wasn't necessary. If you had simply said Steve Allen originaly did this joke and Bill Maher got the idea from him, you probably would have been dug up for adding some interesting information to the article. But no, you had to be sarcastic and mean.
- twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8@ Wavey:
Yeah, my mistake was not just worshipping Bill Maher, or saying something negative about Bush or something.
I didn't mean to imply that Bill Maher wasn't funny, just that the forgotten original should've been mentioned, as this really is an homage to Steve Allen. For all that don't know, Steve Allen originated:
Carson's Carnac the Magnificent, Teatime Movie skits, many of the other characters Johnny Carson did were imitations of bits that Allen did before he started the Tonight Show. Oh yeah, Steve Allen started the Tonight Show.
David Letterman's gags and bits often are homages to Steve Allen. Allen did a bit where he wore a suit of teabags and was dipped in a vat of hot water. Later, Letterman did the velcro suit, the nacho chip suit, where he was dunked in a vat of guacamole, etc.
Jay Leno's "Jay Walking" is an homage to a bit Steve Allen did, where he would walk up to people on the street and ask them straightforward questions about current events or public figures. Reading headlines or misquoted in newpapers was also one of Allen's gags.
The list goes on... I just didn't think it was right for people to think that Maher was the genious behind that bit. He's funny, and a lot of people have been made to think he's a genious, but the only stroke of genious he had there was in thinking that no one would remember who wrote that bit. - omaryak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is some of his earlier work. A more recent translation, I think on his HBO show, was more entertaining.
- rekrapt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Sure he does...
- dkokkos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ok this is straight out funny...
- bat-21, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Stop being such a DEFENSIVE prick, twinklyJesus.
- ProfessorRiffs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Don't digg a man down for the truth.
- peritonlogon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1humor is derivative
- captjc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Classic Bill Maher. I love it.
- twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2From your spelling, you could probably take english as a foreign language....
- bat-21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Steve Allen never used sarcasm. Tsk, tsk.
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Though laughing at sheer stupidity of rap lyrics is long overdue, this particular technic of "translating" lyrics into prose can be applied virtually to any rhyming legacy.
Previous day all my negative emotions seemed irrelevant. Now they are relevant again. I believe that previous day really happened.
Quite unexpectedly, I am not equal to half of myself, which I was sometime in the past. Some object is covering me from sunlight.
With sad emotion I note that previous day happened unexpectedly. I do not understand why the woman left. I do not know because she was not inclined to speak. I communicated false information. Now I reflect on the emotions of the previous day.
The day before today the superficial mutual affection was achievable with almost no effort. Now I need a habitat to conceal my location. With negative emotion I say that I believe that previous day really happened. I do not understand why the woman left. The day before today the superficial mutual affection was achievable with almost no effort. Now I need a habitat to conceal my location. With negative emotion I say that I believe that previous day really happened. [Making sound as if I have something tasty on my lips] - chubbstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i thought brown was a combination of all colours and that black was a shade in the same way white and grey are shades.
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Shoot! After rereading it it steal reads like "OMG, ponies".
- twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@bat21:
That wasn't defensive moron, that was sarcasm. This was defensive. DICK! - TheKoopaBros, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That was pretty entertaining. I didn't laugh but I came close.
Those translations fall pretty much in line with what the average popular rap songs do mean. -
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