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Roy Zimmerman keeps writing those songs
Category: Creationism • Humor
Posted on: May 8, 2007 6:28 PM, by PZ Myers
As a fan of Roy Zimmerman — I've mentioned his Creation Science 101 before, among other lovely songs about the modern world — I have two revelations for you. If you're a guitar player, he has released a short clip that is a tutorial on how to play Creation Science 101. There are fingerings and keys and chords and things that lost me. If you aren't a guitar player (like me!) you can still enjoy the wisecracks.
Secondly, he has a new YouTube video titled "Ted Haggard is Completely Heterosexual". Watch out, it's a little bit risque — he rhymes "schism" with … well, it's obvious from the subject matter, isn't it?
Comments
Wow! We've needed this guy since 1965! Acerbic, politically active, polysyllabically-rhyming, and damn funny! His songs really should be played on a show-tunes instrument, a category in which the guitar does not, alas, qualify. So I just imagine he's playing a six-string piano.
Posted by: Johnny Vector | May 8, 2007 6:46 PM
Excellent.
Posted by: Steve_C (Secular Elitist) FCD | May 8, 2007 6:47 PM
...he rhymes "schism" with ... well, it's obvious from the subject matter, isn't it?
Fism? Bism? Lism? Proprietism? Momism? I guess I'll just have to watch.
Posted by: jimmiraybob | May 8, 2007 6:48 PM
That's terrific. And the rhymes are syllier than you think.
Posted by: Skeptyk | May 8, 2007 6:53 PM
I love this guy. Jerry Falwell's God is my favourite.
Posted by: Laurence Boyce | May 8, 2007 7:24 PM
Laurence, that one's brilliant... "Abstain with me" and "Defenders of Marriage" are almost as good. This one's sure funny, but not on par with previous offerings.
Posted by: forsen | May 8, 2007 8:01 PM
"B;ess" this guy's little cotton skeptical socks.
Posted by: beepbeepitsme | May 8, 2007 8:29 PM
I feel stupid. "ted's a little haggard but he's thankful for the schism" ??? what? I don't get it.
Will my "english isn't my native language" excuse fly?
:P
Posted by: TAW | May 8, 2007 9:17 PM
As a public service:
Jism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jism may refer to:
* A slang term for semen, a fluid secreted by the gonads of male animals;
* A term in Hindi meaning body;
* Jism (film), a 2003 Bollywood film;
* The Jordan Institution for Standards and Metrology.
* The Joint Initiative Synergy Movement;
* A song by Tindersticks;
* Jizz-fest - the name of the world famous dyslexia festival.
Posted by: AlanW | May 8, 2007 10:19 PM
oh, LOL, i bet he is.
and you know, evangelical sex is the best!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX79GiZPP1Q
Posted by: TAW | May 8, 2007 10:36 PM
I still don't understand what The Jordan Institution for Standards and Metrology has to do with Ted Haggard?
Posted by: John W. | May 9, 2007 1:16 AM
Between science and religion there ain't no schism,
it's just antidisestablishmentparliamentarianism!
Posted by: The quantum pancake | May 9, 2007 2:24 AM
I agree, this guy's the best thing since Tom Lehrer.
-jcr
Posted by: John C. Randolph | May 9, 2007 5:27 AM
.. creationism of course, that's the real 'dirty' word
Posted by: Paul | May 9, 2007 8:15 AM
Thanks, but I suggest that people watch the video. It is far more clever than the implied ryhme for schism.
It may have something to with the delivery, but I actually chortled when he got to that point.
Posted by: Mike Haubrich | May 9, 2007 11:12 AM
Rhyming schism with syllojism... pardon me, syllogism, is a perfectly innocent jack, er, jerk, er, joke.
Posted by: Cyan | May 9, 2007 11:20 AM
...and he even managed to rhyme it without making a neologism.
(rimshot)
(ow, again)
Posted by: Carlie | May 9, 2007 8:05 PM
Never heard of this guy before, which is too bad because that was funny as hell.
Posted by: Deepsix | May 10, 2007 1:33 AM