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Springtime, for taxes, in America…

· Humour

…and Carla Howell has just the song to put you in the mood!

March 20th, 2009 |

11 comments to Springtime, for taxes, in America…

  • Sam Duncan
    March 20, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    A slightly adapted Talking Heads song just came to mind: “We’re on the road to serfdom…”

  • Laird
    March 20, 2009 at 9:04 pm

    From the headline I thought this was going to be a parody (if that’s the right word) of the song from The Producers: “Springtime for Hitler and Germany”.

    Cute song, though.

  • Bod
    March 21, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    Wow.
    “I’ll Godwin that thread in two, Mike”
    🙂

  • Dale Amon
    March 21, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Youse guys know me to well. I can’t even slip a literary reference past you these days 😉

  • Alisa
    March 21, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    Dale, I’m sure Mel would be stunned and delighted in equal measure to hear anyone refer to his work as “literary”:-) “Men in Tights”, the opera?

  • DavidC
    March 21, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    “We’re on the road to serfdom…” – Interesting line of thinking. Remember the rhyme:
    “When Adam delved and Eve span. Who was then the gentleman?”

  • Laird
    March 22, 2009 at 5:43 am

    Hey, Bod, I don’t think that counts as a true “Godwin”. It was a real song title!

  • PersonFromPorlock
    March 23, 2009 at 1:57 am

    In the ‘No quibble too petty’ department: “Springtime, for Taxes, in USA” would be more faithful to the meter of the original.

  • kentuckyliz
    March 27, 2009 at 4:06 am

    Ah, Alan beat me to it!

    Everybody’s gone serfin’
    Serfin’ USA!

    Actually, the “mad as hell” scene from the movie Network is circulating like wildfire on facebook. An old college buddy and I were joking around and cooked up a cockamamie idea to have the same screamfest, but when to do it? Tax Day! April 15, noon ET and equivalent times in other time zones. Noon ET–the politicians and financiers more likely to be out for lunch, to witness people pouring into the streets screaming.

    Here’s a link to this facebook group/event, please join us, especially Amurricans. Should appeal to the tea party crowd so active nowadays!

    “I’m Mad As Hell – April 15 2009 Yellfest” :
    http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=59887953180

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