Ignorance
"Prejudice" - Tim Minchin

This is a song about ignorance And the feeling of ignorance And a journey to get rid of the... feeling of... ignorance It's called: Ignorance In our knowledge-based modern society There is still stuff that you never knew A word with a cryptic usage Born in a corner of the Internet unknown to you Just five seemingly familiar letters Arranged in a way that will form a word That can bring a smile to the faces of those rare people Who happen to know what it's about A couple of Ts, an R and an E, and also an O Just five little letters all jumbled together Make a word with a meaning you just don't know And it's important that we understand That if these people should happen to choose To use the word to refer to themselves It doesn't mean the rest of you have a clue to its use So never underestimate The power that jargon imparts To those for whom "ottification" is a real word That refers to a subgenre of several arts A couple of Ts - tease them, if you want, about it An R and an E - even go ahead and shout it And also an O - no, in the end you still won't comprehend Even if I spell it out again... Yeah Only an otter would call another otter otter Only an otter would call another otter otter So listen if you value your mental health Better don't become an otter yourself, yeah Only an otter would call another otter otter As an otter you would hardly ever get to bed Spend your nights ketching up on the One True Thread Watching stick figures build sandcastles on the beach Comparing images, pixel for pixel each And you'd learn words like treeish and seaish Molpy, dilgunnerang and riverish But until then it just will seem like gibberish And those words are ours and ours alone Don't you know that... Only an otter would call another otter otter Yeah, only an otter would call another otter otter So if I post a fake ONG And ottify a song Then you wouldn't be wrong To guess I've spent a long while on it But only an otter would call another otter otter Now listen to me We're not looking for sympathy Just 'cause Randall ended the OTC Though the GLR stopped making newpix The otters still keep coming up with new tricks I imagine if you'd see our creOTTivity You'd admire our artistic sensitivity And pretty soon develop a proclivity To ask if you, too, may call us otters And I'd say: "I don't think that's appropriate!" 'Cause only an otter should call another otter otter And all the forumites, they agree it's a fact Once you've gone OTT, you can't go back Only an otter would call another otter otter Yeah go blitz through the thread, all you faithful wowterful blitzers you! Yeah, we learnt to patiently Wait For It The alt-text told us so, and that was what we did Finally we read "The End" after a few dix of "Run" But pretending you were there with us is just not on If you really want to be an otter like us Then you'll have to prove you're not just trying to sh*te us The word you must be able to get right is Semencoffeecancerbaconbabiesonice Yeah, only an otter would call another otter otter Yeah, only an otter would call another otter otter And if you find something neat On the thread, it's a feat You're invited to repeat Or even beat From your seat Only an otter would call another otter otter We write haikus, double-dactyls and panther salve ads Adorn our avatars with buffygirl's hats Make songs and photo-manips that are awefulsome And I don't mean awful but awesome and also fulsome It's a play on words Only an otter would call another otter otter And only an otter could tell the difference from a nutter Just like only a blitzer knows what it's like to blitz in fits, yeah Yeah, only an otter Only an otter Only an otter, yeah We are having a lotta Treeish times and we're not a Bunch of hopeless nerds but a CreOTTivity hotspot that keeps getting hotter Still only an otter would call another otter... otter.

Posted on 2013-08-12 19:43 by svenman.