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SINGALONGA-SPAM!

                                     or
What happens when people get very very bored at work!

This  little  lot came about when we received this virus  warning  from  our
ever-helpful IT support people. Let those system support drums roll Dave..

From: David Tipping 
Sent: 13 December 2001 10:09 
To: All 
Subject: Email

If you receive emails with any of the following subjects please delete them:

If I were God and didn't belive in myself would it be blasphemy
The A-Team VS KnightRider ... who would win ?
Just one kiss, will make it better. just one kiss, and we will be alright.
I can't help this longing, comfort me.
And I miss you most of all, my darling ...
... When autumn leaves start to fall
It's dark in here, you can feel it all around. The underground.
I will always be with you sometimes black sometimes white ...
.. and there's no need to be scared, you re always on my mind.
You just take a giant step, one step higher.
The  air  will  hold  you  if you try,  trust my  wings  of  desire.  Glory,
Glorified...


Now  looking at the content of that lot,  you might think that these subject 
titles  or  email headers all look a little bit girly.  On second  thoughts, 
they all look very very girly indeed.  Also,  they had accidentally combined 
together all on their own, to form a strange kind of doggerel or bad poetry.

So  a bit later on that day,  my own twisted brain got to work,  through the 
alchemy  of  extreme  boredom,  leaving the text in its original  form,  but 
rearranging the format into something that might work a bit better,  or less 
accidentally,  at any rate. At that point, the idea of going from poetry, to 
bad soft metal lyric lurched forward and tapped me on the shoulder,  and you 
can see the end result below..


From: Chris Holland 
Sent: 13 December 2001 15:47 
To: Nick Day; Vic Jennings; David Tipping 
Subject: Bad lyrics from Email headers which are really Virus's (or Virii)

This  list of email headers which are really viruses could be made into  the
worst  soft rock ballad in the world,  do the words "Bon" and "Jovi"  strike
any fear into your heart?!

Why not put on your tight ripped denims, freshly shampooed poodle perms, and
pick up those air guitars!

<-------------------------------------------------------------->

If I were God and didn't belive in myself would it be blasphemy 
Just one kiss, will make it better. just one kiss, and we will be alright.

(Chorus)
You just take a giant step, one step higher. 
The  air  will  hold  you  if you try,  trust my  wings  of  desire.  Glory, 
Glorified...

I can't help this longing, comfort me. 
And I miss you most of all, my darling ... 
When autumn leaves start to fall

(Chorus)
You just take a giant step, one step higher. 
The  air  will  hold  you  if you try,  trust my  wings  of  desire.  Glory, 
Glorified...

It's dark in here, you can feel it all around. The underground. 
I will always be with you sometimes black sometimes white ... 
and there's no need to be scared, you re always on my mind.

(Chorus)
You just take a giant step, one step higher. 
The  air  will  hold  you  if you try,  trust my  wings  of  desire.  Glory, 
Glorified...

(Song  ends,  much  cheering,  and gentle thumping sounds of small  children
hitting the ceiling as they are hurled skyward by ecstatic parents..)

Not quite sure where this would go in though?
- The A-Team VS KnightRider ... who would win ?


Now wouldn't those  make great lyrics for  some really nasty and slushy soft
rock ballad style beer commercial music!

So, how plausible would that be to you, people called Bryan Adams might well 
say "very".  In which case, we'll be watching you extremely closely, for any 
attempts at 'borrowing' or copyright infringement, you naughty Canadian faux 
rocker, you!

Can any of you do any better with that sort of material?  Ever tried putting 
together  a  story,  poem,  or  song,  purely made out of email headers with 
peculiar subject titles?  Fancy doing one for the next issue of Alive!  mag? 
Let's see your efforts for next time folks!

CiH - Dec '01


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