Ahh, that's much better, Julie. I was having such trouble putting the words to the proper tune with the funny line breaks (though having the Sneaker Pimps playing in the background wasn't helping either, I suppose).

There are so many reasons why Waltzin' Matilda would be a better national anthem than the one we've got. (Exhibit A: "Our home is girt by sea". Someone should ban the word 'girt', it just ain't right). Sure, as is the song's major theme seems to be that we admire those with the guts to off themselves and save the state the trouble of incarcerating them, but I'm willing to compromise a lot to avoid singing "For those who've come across the seas, We've boundless plains to share" because the current hypocrisy of those lines makes my teeth hurt. Also, I'd now be able to mumble the filky version to myself - it'd be instant entertainment for those dull anthem-requiring functions!

Edit - Hee, Julie ya seemed to have dropped a tag. Tho' it does make my rambling more compact...And now it's fixed, so nevermind.

Exhibit A: "Our home is girt by sea". Someone should ban the word 'girt', it just ain't right

Personally, there's far too much toiling in there for my tastes!

Edit - Hee, Julie ya seemed to have dropped a tag. Tho' it does make my rambling more compact...And now it's fixed, so nevermind.

I did? It did? It is? I won't :)

And on edit I can see that I was still editing my html after you posted. So I guess that cleared up one little mystery. Four thousand three hundred twenty one to go. No! Wait! That's tears, right? hm.. I wonder how many more little mysteries there are??

I kinda like girt assuming that's Aussie for girded.

Girt is a good old English word, from the same root as garter and girder and girdle.

So it is girded. I feel girt by that knowledge, not in my loinage area necessarily, just a general, overall girt. Girt ist good.

Girt ist good

s'alright for you folk that are gartered by Canada and girdled by Mexico.

What did we get girt by? The Pacific. And the Pacific isn't terrific.

And the Atlantic isn't romantic. And the black sea isn't what it's cracked up to be

I got up early this morning to take care of Spikelet, read the Waltzing Matilda filk and went back to bed. The second time I woke up (yes, spikelet again) I realized I'd been writing filk to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme song in my dreams:

There once was a mighty slayer lass
a watcher brave and true...

That's just... now I know for sure that having too many children too close together breaks your brain.

That's just... now I know for sure that having too many children too close together breaks your brain.

Okay, that explains Cindy.
The boy? Not so much :)

There once was a mighty slayer lass
a watcher brave and true...

which is exactly why there are international treaties banning me from filking!!

I did not realize Anzac Day way today. Of course, I only know anything about Anzac Day because of those time-filler features on NBC during the Sydney Olypmics, so maybe there was a reason to suffer through John Tesh as a sports commentator.

As a side note, I played a scrabble game once in which my father was left with seven tiles in his possession. He couldn't resist showing us them, because they made a perfect word in some alternate universe he could almost touch: W-O-T-Z-I-N-G. So close to a triple word score with 50-point bonus for using all your letters! So close and yet so far!

So close to a triple word score with 50-point bonus for using all your letters! So close and yet so far!

It's like every scrabble game I've ever played. Though I maintain that I suck at scrabble because we're always playing in cafes, which for some reason refuse to kept a dictionary handy. So no one ever believes me when I claim that 'practicable' is a word.

which is exactly why there are international treaties banning me from filking!!

Bah, no one actually obeys those things. It's like whenever there's a war people get all het-up about Geneva Convention this, and human rights that and in the end peoples is still dead...uh, so filk yourself happy, is what I think I'm saying.

Edit - it is just my browser that's showing all the posts on the last page after Julie's filk post in -1 font?