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The Gold Standard (To A Modern Tune) by Robert Wynne Music: "MmmMmmMmmMmmM" by the Crash Test Dummies (or, if you prefer, "Headline News" by Weird Al Yankovic) © 1998 Once, there was this guy who Wrote a bunch of filksongs and thought that they were cool But when he sent them in to a fanzine, they were bounced back in his face He didn't understand it, The tunes were so well known MmmMmmMmmMmm (etc...) Once there was an editor who published filkdom's very best and most prestigeous journal But when she got these filksongs She found she didn't know the right music She asked all of her friends and they didn't know them either MmmMmmMmmMmm (etc...) It wasn't that the songs were bad But it sure made that poor guy mad And so he went to USENET And said that she had unfairly rejected his poor filk songs But he found to his dismay She was well loved by all of the folks there They flamed him rather soundly and put him in their killfiles MmmMmmMmmMmm(etc...)
This is the other song i got out of the Cineviews flameware on rec.music.filk in 1998. (If you really want to know, see the notes at the bottom of The Flamewar Never Dies. This one is more specifically addressing the topic of that flamewar, and as a result doesn't hold up as well over time, but I'm fond of it for the reaction it provoked. While I tried to keep the tone neutral and reporting merely what actually happened without actually showing favour to either side, I got a vitrolic e-mail from Cineviews accusing me of being a "Lee Gold Apologist". I related this to Lee, and suggested that perhaps we could form a "Lee Gold Apologist Society" and get little buttons to wear at cons and maybe a neat graphic for our webpages and stuff. One day I'll actually get around to designing those...
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