You're a cold-blooded man, TT.

So superbly structured stylistically, semantically, syntactically, syllablically, and alliteratively that I won't pare the pace parameter for a slight superfluity of syllables in several stunning stanzas. In other words, 5s.

I agree totally. Does your mother work for National Geographic?

Jesus H.////...! Wow. .."Perspicacious perorations prepared plu-per-fect-ly"...555

i like the way you tick

First there was John Barry--makes a person wear out a dictionary--and now you?

John B., spent hours of what should have been work time parsing the parody's pace to the OS, which has been in my head since Shelley Fabaricated it; would appreciate specifics... (Warning! Next comment contains plug -- reader discretion advised.) Royce, see "Words" on today's song list; voraciouly varied vocabulary and surfeit of sesquipedality are stuff I savor on this site.

Johny D., John B., Pomfret, Agrimorfee, alvin, Royce: Tommy Turtle tenders ten thousand thanks.

My apologies for a portion of the comment above, Tommy. Pacing's perfect.

Really? You're not just saying that? Thanks, John.

p. s. Surely AmIRighters will not disappoint in appreciating the pun in the bottom comment, or is TT the only fogey old enough to remember?

Think I got it, TT. Shelly was Donna's niece, right? I've had a "Johnny" knockoff brewing for a while. Will post sometime soon.

You're the quickest turtle I know..a shell of a good job, here

AFW is right. You are a quick turtle. I bet I couldn't keep a car-apace with you. 555

I'm once again shelling out 5s for you!

John B. and AIR, Shelley Fabares played Donna Reed's daughter in the eponymously-named "Donna Reed Show"....AFW and Rick C., thanks, in a race, the Tortoise would win by a hare.... Rick, that was a horribly atrocious pun (translation: excellent!)... love this place... PMS, thanks.

A tribute to yourself, huh? 555's

Larry, yes, but wait 'til tomorrow... thanks.

Good use of that sappy old song. You did well describing yourself in rhyme. Who is the idiot that oned you?

Apparently, at least three idiots... "How funny" is always subjective, and "de gustibus non disputandum est", but 1 and 2 on "pacing"? Why don't these Unapacers ever cite the offending line, stacked against corresponding OS line?

Red Ant is very coy about giving out IPs of Unabombers, or even outright flames and trolls, even when the latter are deleted. You'd have to ask him.

Thanks for digging up this noob chestnut from four years ago, and for kind v/c.

I will hold back from voting, but I must say, this parody made me throw up in my mouth a little bit. Did you actually write a parody about how amazing you are? And then have the nerve to call yourself meek and modest? Incredible.

Sissy Starfish: Read the intro comment.

Also, the pun in the bottom comment served as a further disclaimer. Sorry that both ot those went unnoticed or uncomprehended, as the case may be.

Please see the reply to Larry Hensley. On the next day, a trilogy was posted tributing 17 other writers and ChuckyG.

http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/shelleyfabares3.shtml
http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/shelleyfabares2.shtml
http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/shelleyfabares1.shtml

Thanks for the abstinence -- I mean, abstention. ;)
Perhaps seeing the others may ameliorate the nausea a bit, but if not, feel free to vote as you like. The only "request" would be that pacing be judged separately from "funny", as per the comment above in reply to 2Eagle. Thanks for stopping by.

Sissy Starfish: Here is a parody that tributed more than 200 other writers, *self excluded*, although in fairness to one's occasional co-writer, the author team was included:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/bonnietyler44.shtml

I don't know for a fact whether that's a site record for the largest number of *other* authors tributed in one parody, and don't intend to search ~ 80,000 parodies, but haven't seen one with more, and no one's pointed to one with more.

Many, many more parodies tributing individual authors one at a time. Feel free to search the TT catalog for them.

Who cares? I'm talking about THIS parody. And it is woefully lacking. Get over yourself.

Additionally, I think most people have learned to ignore your numerous footnotes and comments as they are RIDICULOUS.

Odd that it has more than 700 page views, well above the median and mean for the site, and overwhelmingly-positive votes -- and note what 2Eagle said about the negative vote(s).

Also, unanimously-positive comments -- until yours. Note, e. g., John Barry''s comment, which separated (or ignored) your concerns from the technique, style, etc.

Unfortunate that you don't grasp such stylistic concepts as comedic use of the third person. (Seems most did.) Were you to grasp the concept of self-mocking humor, I'd point you to -- hmmm. *If* one were to read the intrro, there's an explanation for those who *don't* grasp self-mockery (of one's image), so what the heck:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/gilbertsullivan98.shtml

Still, I do confess to a character flaw in the regard cited. For a partial explanation of the cause (though of course not an excuse), see:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/johnnycash135.shtml

Both ot the above were also very well-received, in votes, comments, and page views. If you're truly interested in the unique problems faced by those described in the latter song, here is a serious article, with scholarly references, and in which I had no hand (flipper?) in contributing -- wasn't even aware of it until a few years ago:

http://www.prometheussociety.org/articles/Outsiders.html

In any event, minority or dissenting opinoins are always welcome, so thanks again for caring enough to read and share your thoughts.

Well, I thought this was a very good read - as were your conversations with Sissy Starfish. Slow and steady wins the race!

Peregrin Phalcon: ( xD) Thank you very much, on both counts!