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2019-09-26, 01:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-26, 06:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Toby keith is the go to guy for good country parody. Trailerhood, red solo cup, dude has that style of song down pretty solid. I bet he could do a good job with the premise.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-09-26, 08:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-26, 09:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Half of all country song lyrics I hear on the radio amount to:
"My baby done left me up in Tennessee
Now I'm here in Texas as drunk as I can be.
My dog done died my truck broke down my boss says I'm a bum.
Etc"Last edited by Max_Killjoy; 2019-09-26 at 09:23 AM.
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2019-09-26, 09:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-26, 10:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-26, 10:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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I thought that Toby Keith was a genuine country & western singer, it's just that he's so deep into "the life" that to the rest of us it looks exaggerated and cartoony. Hard to tell the difference, I guess
Definitely something I could see Rodney Carrington doing, though. He's already got a seasonal album called "Camouflage and Christmas Lights", which is exactly what it sounds like...
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2019-09-26, 11:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XV: I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! I Told You This Thread Was Weird
If anyone is a country parody singer, I think Brad Paisley might qualify - as highlighted below the comic. He writes perfectly country-styled songs, but his lyrical material is about guys whose wives leave them because they go fishing too much, and overweight nerds who live in their parents' basement and chat with girls on Myspace. He's got plenty of 'serious' material too, admittedly.
On the other hand, the only country song I've ever heard that matches the stereotype 'lost my dog, lost my truck, lost my wife' is by Toby Keith. So it's hard to tell.Last edited by The Glyphstone; 2019-09-26 at 11:07 AM.
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2019-09-26, 11:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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The Austin Lounge Lizards will always do my favorite country-music parodies. "Old Blevins", "Stupid Texas Song", and maybe my Favorite, "The Dogs, They Really Miss You".
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2019-09-26, 11:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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"Jolene" is pretty country right?
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2019-09-26, 11:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-26, 11:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
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2019-09-26, 11:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-26, 12:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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If you listened to Carrie Underwood, you'd think all country songs were about angry women getting revenge on their abusive/cheating/scumbag boyfriends/husbands.
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2019-09-26, 12:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cherlene (Cheryl) from Archer cracks me up.
https://youtu.be/SBObHdXtwiU
(Slightly risque album art.)It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
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2019-09-26, 12:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Also jesus. Sometimes he takes the wheel. And Wraith, Toby is very much so legit country, its just he is so famous and rich off of his music he can toss out songs like red solo cup for fun and still be on the record charts. You can tell he is just enjoying the heck out of life with stuff like that. And for whoever mentioned carrie underwood, i still say toby beat her to it with How Do You Like Me Now? Its an excellent song about how the other person screwed up that gets kinda dark when you stop to pay attention to the lyrics rather than just going "YEAH BABY! Thats what im talking about!" Carrie is guilty of about a dozen felonies by the end of her song, toby is celebrating a broken woman sobbing by herself at home while her kids listen in when she could have been with him instead.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-09-26, 07:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-26, 09:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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As far as problem goes, Sven's is not as bad as many people 's.
Still can suck for him, when you feel like a hack and everyone hates when you pour your heart into it.
Reminds me of Terry Nation who wanted DR Who to not be about silly space monsters. And then everyone fell in love with the Daleks.
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2019-09-27, 12:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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I love that song - it's so clear the singer is an awful person who the woman made an excellent choice in ignoring, for all that her life is still miserable without him. That and 'As Good As I Once Was' are my two favorite songs by him, especially with the music videos helping drive the point home that Toby-The-Singer is not nearly as cool as he thinks he is. His legit-country stuff isn't nearly as much fun, the only one I can say I like is his duet work with Willy Nelson on 'Beer For My Horses'.
Gunpowder and Lead is another go-girl country song, so much I thought it was an Underwood work as well. Turns out it's Miranda Lambert instead.Last edited by The Glyphstone; 2019-09-27 at 12:10 AM.
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2019-09-27, 11:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2019-09-27, 10:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Old Country. Maybe even Elder Country.
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2019-09-29, 09:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Awwww
He's made for May
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2019-09-30, 01:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ahhh, Sven's got the gifted kid problem: never had to work hard for anything early on, but still succeeded, so now he doesn't know how to deal with failure when it does rear its head. Makes sense with how he dealt (or rather, didn't deal) with Faye breaking up with him, too.
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2019-09-30, 02:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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It could be a little bit of both. I seem to recall that a long time ago (pre-comic, even) Sven was dumped by a girl that he truly adored, which has put him off genuine relationships with women ever since. That's not necessarily "avoiding failure" in the way that Dora suggests.
Speaking of Dora, this is the closest emotionally that he's been to her for years, and yet immediately she's judging him with amateur psychology and listing all of his faults when all he wanted was a coffee. I couldn't blame the guy for finding that irritating.
Bear in mind that "gifted kid problem" was Dora's perception of Sven when her neuroses was at its peak, before she was seeing a therapist and listing all the ways in which she felt inadequate around him. We haven't yet heard Sven's side of the story - it's entirely possible that he knows his own mind and is simply being honest.~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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2019-09-30, 06:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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"Every time I've let myself be vulnerable, it's come back to bite me in the ***" is not gifted kid problem.
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
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2019-09-30, 07:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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It is entirely possible that I am confusing the two; I started reading both comics around the same time, though I don't think I have read LICD this decade, mostly because...
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2019-09-30, 07:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Marten's backstory of "my dad is gay and my mum is a dominatrix" isn't dark, it's just... quirky.
If I recall correctly, Dora's backstory is also pretty normal - no sob stories there.i am going to make it through this year
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