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Category: Humor
Posted on: April 5, 2008 9:43 AM, by PZ Myers
While I'm not much of a fan of country western music, I might warm to it more if the AM radio back home were this interesting in its choice of subjects. (Warning! Working man's language and rural sexism ahead!)
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Comments
Bwah! First rap, now country, what will be next?
Posted by: HadasS | April 5, 2008 9:56 AM
I can't say I don't like their corollary to Occam's Razor.
Posted by: Dutch Delight | April 5, 2008 10:13 AM
"Two! Three! Five! Seven!"
love the fingers...
Posted by: Anon | April 5, 2008 10:17 AM
Proof positive that chimps are evolving faster the homo sapiens
Posted by: king J | April 5, 2008 10:19 AM
It's no dic to the doc, but it wasn't half bad nun neither...
I's well loved the 2-3-5-7 bit...
Posted by: Lago | April 5, 2008 10:33 AM
As a Tennesseean and country fan, I don't know whether to laugh or be offended...
Posted by: Libertarianchick | April 5, 2008 11:34 AM
"The second (what?) of the film Contact?"
That went by too fast.
Posted by: KevPod | April 5, 2008 11:38 AM
Looks like it was taped in the San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena. Probably a CalTech/JPL production.
Anyway, this reminds me of a story about how the folks at GM installed a bunch of "black boxes" in its big 4x4's in order to determine the major causes of fatal accidents involving those trucks.
They found that the drivers' most common last words were, "Hold my beer and watch this!"
Posted by: caerbannog | April 5, 2008 11:40 AM
"I'm a deoxyribonucleic asshole!" LOL!
By the way, was that Hard "N Firm? I remember they once did a song about pi. The video is also a PBS spoof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfr7xG6smhU
Posted by: The Science Pundit | April 5, 2008 11:47 AM
I believe that these are the same guys who produced this masterpiece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfr7xG6smhU
Posted by: jesustweak | April 5, 2008 11:50 AM
Okay, I just checked out Hard N' Phirm's website and found this explanation.
Posted by: The Science Pundit | April 5, 2008 11:56 AM
I see that they are multilingual. Not only can they sing in Sesame Streetese and country and western, but they have http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Wuitmq4bI for those who want to learn about the heart in español.
Posted by: freelunch | April 5, 2008 12:02 PM
Put my jism in your schism make another organism.
Genius.
Posted by: Abbie | April 5, 2008 12:07 PM
I'll check out more H&F later after watching American Dinosaurs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-yTK22XjtQ.
Posted by: Hugo | April 5, 2008 12:09 PM
My mistake, it included the final dot in the previous link so here it goes again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-yTK22XjtQ
Posted by: Hugo | April 5, 2008 12:12 PM
Put my jism in your schism make another organism
ROFL! I am going to remember that jewel for a rainy day!
Posted by: maxi | April 5, 2008 1:03 PM
I wish I'd just read the lyrics and gotten most of the funny without any of the diety-forsaken music. Give me "Dick to the Dawk" any day!
Posted by: ZekeCDN | April 5, 2008 1:09 PM
I wish they wouldn't phrase Ockham's Razor as "the simplest explanation is best, all other things equal." But I guess the reference to Carl Sagan's Contact indicates they got it from there, and that's how Ockham's Razor was presented in the movie Contact.
Cool vid though.
Posted by: AL | April 5, 2008 1:21 PM
My kinda music! Love those primes...
Posted by: Joe Bob | April 5, 2008 1:42 PM
this is awesome! thx PZ
Posted by: UofTguy | April 5, 2008 2:43 PM
I scrolled by that a few times without watching it; finally did and it was worth it. Good stuff!
Posted by: Kyle | April 5, 2008 3:16 PM
The lead singer is Chris Hardwick
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362534/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hardwick
Posted by: Cthulhu | April 5, 2008 3:17 PM
After 4 hours at the 47th Legislative District caucus (your home town PZ) I needed something that profane and funny. I come to Pharyngula and there it is. Great fun and thank you. The caucus was fun too, but a bit grueling. I was an alternate delegate for Obama. The results matched the precinct caucuses from February. 2/3rds for Obama, 1/3rd for Clinton. The shouts, hoots, and hollers were about 4/5ths vs 1/5th.
Posted by: Kenneth Mareld | April 5, 2008 4:43 PM
Now THAT'S framing! With that kind of attitude, you might actually be able to reach the ignorant masses and sneak in what science is actually about. Science with attitude.
It's kind of like Mythbusters, which is an excellent example of the positive framing of skepticism where the skeptical-vs-credulist viewpoint is treated as a cage-match. One that reality always wins.
It's time to lose the white labcoat shit and get right in their fucking faces.
Posted by: Denis Loubet | April 5, 2008 4:49 PM
No one ever actually quotes Ockham though...
I suppose, "Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate" would be difficult to make rhyme in a country song.
Posted by: Wilder | April 5, 2008 7:21 PM
Not as many belly laughs as "Beware the Believer", but DAMN that was good.
Posted by: Engineer-Poet | April 5, 2008 8:14 PM
"2-3-5-7"? Lame. Gimme "2-3-5-8" 'cos Fibonacci's got loads more rhythm than prime numbers.
Posted by: falterer | April 5, 2008 8:36 PM
Dr. Myers-
You sound like the kind of guy that would like
Willie Nelson-
May I suggest the "Moment of Forever" CD by Nelson-
The song "Gravedigger" is pretty good.
You may want to check if it's available on iTunes...
Posted by: Dark Matter | April 5, 2008 10:52 PM
That was the best country song ever ...
This is awesome!
Posted by: Sophie Hirschfeld | April 7, 2008 7:34 AM
=HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA= [gasp] =ROFL= gimme some =MAO= oxygen!!!!!
Posted by: themadlolscientist | April 7, 2008 4:03 PM