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I think the Lymenuts need a group of back-up singers called the Coinfections.
It could be an all-girl group, kind of like Diana Ross and the Supremes, starring Bartonella, Ehrlichia, Babesia, Anaplasma, Mycoplasma and Tularemia.
And remember, the big money is in merchandising. In addition to the CD and concert tour, we need T-shirts, action figures, baseball caps - not to mention the ever-coveted Lymenuts and the Coinfections picc-line cover!
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You all are cracking me up..and boy did I need a laugh!
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The lead singers could all be wearing Godzilla Tick costumes made by Lymemomtooo and the back up singers could all be naked- cause that's the best way to check for ticks!
What a way to get the message across!
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Now digitally remixed: "ME AND MY SHADOW"
Shades of night are falling and I'm lonely Standing on the corner feeling blue My wifes out for fun, leaving me home Guess I'll wind up like I always do, with only
Me and my LYME Caneing down the avenue Me and my LYME Not another soul to tell my troubles to
And when it's 7 o'clock, we CRAWL UP the stair We never knock, for nobody's there Just me and my LYME All alone and feeling blue
When the sun sets on the far horizon When the wall start creeping in BABS,ERLY AND BART, put their SHOES on They're all set. but we'll still NOT go, so lonely
Me and my LYME Wheelchairing down the avenue Me and my LYME Not another soul to tell my troubles to
And when it's 8 o'clock, we can't fall asleep We ask for help, but nobody's there Just me and my LYME All alone and feeling blue
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Oh man, this group has outdone itself!!
And marnie's song even has a healing message!
Some songs just don't need much editing:
I'm so dizzy my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
And it's you, Bb, making it spin
You're makin' me DIZZY
I know I want Meryl Streep to play me in the Lymenuts movie! Even though I am not that old!
The LLMDs and Lymenetters can be a fine looking group, with Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Christian Bale, Scarlett whatever her name is, Judy Davis (add your favorites)
Steere will have to be played by someone with proper gravitas. Marlon Brando and Bela Lugosi are already gone, so it will have to be James Earl Jones or Anthony Hopkins.
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Ok kids..these are good..But I had been afraid to look for days since sci med calls us lymenuts. Thought is was about them.
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Hi fellow nutters -- this is so much fun checking on what everyone's doing here! Congrats on everyone's creativity -- our musical Lyme careers started here...
So, two touring groups(well, three if Lisi's family want to join in) -- the LLMDs and the Lymenetters, and the Lymenuts and the Coinfections.
The all-female Coinfections will develop a following as Bart, Ehrl, Babs, Ana, Myco and Tule. They could have as a guest Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever as a cowboy type perhaps.
You know, I know what the ketes look like, but not the others. Whatever that is can be incorporated in the dress style.
Oh excuse me -- if we take up Cobweb's suggestion, we won't have to worry about a dress code, and there'll be no problem with attracting an audience. "Now we'll show you all how to look for ticks."
I recommend some set designs to go along with each of the songs.
We can have creative Lyme drinks at the concerts.
Ok Vermont -- you plan the movie...
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quote:Originally posted by Robin123:
The all-female Coinfections will develop a following as Bart, Ehrl, Babs, Ana, Myco and Tule. They could have as a guest Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever as a cowboy type perhaps.
When I suggested the Coinfections as the back-up group, I completely overlooked the Country music potential of all this - and I love Country music! Thank you, Robin for rounding out the musical appeal.
I agree, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever will join the Coinfections, and Lone Star Tick will join the Lymenuts, for a rousing rendition of John Denver's "Rocky Mountain Lyme."
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It is only fitting the LymeNuts perform a tribute to Hall & Oates, considering their brush with lyme.
Michelle
(changed only a couple words -- the rest of them fortuitously worked out just fine...)
Rich Duck
Sung to the tune of "Rich Girl" by Hall & Oates
You're a rich duck, and you've gone too far
cause you know it don't matter anyway
You can rely on the same grant money
You can rely on the funding honey
It's a bit@h girl but it's gone too far
cause you know it dont matter anyway
Say money but it wont get you too far,
Get you too far
And don't you know, don't you know
That it's wrong to take what is given you
So far gone, on your own
You can get along if you try to be strong
But you'll never be strong
cause
You're a rich duck, and you've gone too far
cause you know it don't matter anyway
You can rely on the same grant money
You can rely on the funding honey
It's a bit@h girl and it's gone too far
cause you know it don't matter anyway
Say money but it wont get you too far,
Get you too far
High and dry, out of the rain
It's so easy to hurt others when you can't feel pain
And don't you know that a love can't grow
cause there's too much to give, cause you'd rather live
For the thrill of it all, oh
You're a rich duck, and you've gone too far
cause you know it don't matter anyway
You can rely on the same grant money
You can rely on the funding honey
It's a bit@h girl and its gone too far
cause you know it don't matter anyway
Say money but it won't get you too far,
Say money but it won't get you too far,
Say money but it won't get you too far,
Get you too far
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Any of you with teenage kids may like this one:
To the tune of Rush (Into the Rush) by Aly and AJ:
Into your head, into your mind Twitch in your eye, unexplained pains, You can't escape, you can't escape.
Into your life, into your dreams, Out of the dark, wish you could sleep. You can't explain, they can't explain.
You can feel it, You can feel it, Ringin' in your ears, Rushin' through your veins, You can feel it, You can feel it,
Don't let the doctors tell you, your life is over, Or that there's nothing wrong with you, Lyme really sucks now, But you gotta know how, Getting well will take some time.
You wake up, the world's spinning around, You can't lift your feet, off of the ground, You can't believe this is happening now.
You can feel it, You can feel it, Rushin' through your nerves, Rushin' through your veins, You can feel it, You can feel it,
Don't let the doctors tell you, your life is over, Or that there's nothing wrong with you, Don't be in a rush now Be careful of thrush, Wow, Getting well will take some time.
It takes you to another place, imagine hell, if you can. You start the drugs and herx again, You wonder if it will ever end.
You can feel it
Don't let the doctors tell you, your life is over, Or that there's nothing wrong with you, Lyme really sucks now, But you gotta know how, Getting well will take some time.
Don't let, the doctors tell you, Don't let, the doctors tell you, Don't let the doctors tell you, your life is over, Or that there's nothing wrong with you, Lyme really sucks now, But you gotta know how, Getting well will take some time.
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i think i lay want to keep the movie rights. i gace up my cd rights but not my movies rights.
we could have steere play Donald DUCK Dr K to play BUGGY Bunny if course i get to play GOOFY. tony plays elmer fudd and gets to shoot the wabbit. Lucky you tony.
does anybody get to shoot the duck!!!!! i don't even have to act to play goofy. marnie gets to play MR. Peabody. and gigi gets to play the nutty professor.
what a group. i'll have to now write a screen play got to go, i'm sure you guys can come up with more characters
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Going on third page here! I am so impressed! Some songs I don't even know --makes me wanna hear them!
Obviously getting the songs recorded is the strongest way to go, but wondering also if the verses themselves could be published -- as long as copyright considerations are checked on.
We need a Texan country song for the Lone Star tick. Don't forget to include that it has spread, or been spread, to the East coast as well now.
Next up is...
This Lyme is my Lyme, this Lyme is your Lyme From California, to the New York Island In the redwood forests, by the gulfstream waters This Lyme was made for you and me.
A tick was walking that ribbon of highway A tick was falling from trees in my way A tick below me, there in the valley This Lyme was made for you and me.
I roamed and rambled, and in my footstep A startling brand of ixodes inserts And all throughout me, infection spreading This Lyme was made for you and me.
(PS I was bit on my foot)
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quote:Originally posted by Robin123:
We need a Texan country song for the Lone Star tick.
Well, there is a successful Country band called Lone Star. It's only fitting that they record it!
Isn't the Lone Star tick disease referred to as STARI?
For all you baby boomers like me, there was that Don McLean song of "Starry, Starry night" which could easily be convered to "STARI, STARI night."
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Robin...stay out of my mind....
Just thought this one up this morning....
Sung to the tune "I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy"
As I sit in a doctors office at someone who looks as bad as I do....and sing
....I hear by your symptoms that you are a lymie
answer
....I hear by your symptoms that you're a lymie too
duet
.We hear by our symptoms that we are both lymies
....If you get a tick bite you can be a lymie too!
zman How's that robin?
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WOW...great stuff!!!!!! Posts: 6641 | From Michigan | Registered: Jun 2001
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Geez....I did'nt think the song was THAT bad!
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Docdave has said, I (Marnie) get to play Mr. Peabody.
Well...you all will get a chance to see my character on the big screen soon:
DreamWorks Animation announced in September 2006 that they are making a movie version of Mr. Peabody and Sherman, to be directed by Rob Minkoff
So...I'm a DOG who has ``adopted someone to have company in my life" ?
And Gi Gi (who HAD lyme and is still here trying to help)...is the "Nutty Professor"?
Not so Nice, docdave.
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i'm not trying to be mean. you two always seem to have all the answers, so I gave you two those parts. noby answers more questions on lymenet than you two. and what's wrong with being a smart dog. would you rather be sherman the stupid kid???? OK will make GIGI the road runner, and Cavey can be the Nutty Professor, how's that now Cavey don't get made at me for the parts change, i'm sure we'll make more casting changes as time goes on. I think we should change Tony to Butthead. lol several parts now auditioning:
Duckter Doolittle PoppedEyes Homebound Simpson The Grinch Underduck Supersickman Fatman Betty Poops Bart Simpson Heckle, Jeckle and Babs Wondering Woman BorisBadEnough & NatashaFatale Wheelchair Annie Dumber Duck. and for you comboy fans ****er Pete Yosemite Samonella
all parts now being cast, input will be taken for all parts. new parts will be considered.
our total for Dr. Duck as of Wed 6:00 is drum roll please!!!!!!!!!! $000.00 keep up the good work guys
and whoever has Buggy Bunny practice your big line "WHAT'S I'VE GOT DUCK??????"
DUCKDAVE SENIOR CASTING DIRECTOR
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I thought you were going to visit the "butthead"?
Hummmmmm.
Head to Key West and get into the ocean...for the healing powers...
And then there's always Sloppy Joes Or Jimmy's place...
for fun and to alter lipids...
Take the fast speed boat from Ft. Meyers.
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Hey Marnie...I thought it was right on you being mr peabody!
But hey...you can be the butthead if you want...I would rather be the "canned monster " guy in the closet!
Ok dave...how come you did'nt visit me you naughty boy... I think you'll qualify as.......Beavis....if I gotta be butthead!...
Hey cavey....how the hell did you girls get all the points?? Whose giving out these points anyway!!??
AND CAROL......YOUR STILL IT! whether you figure out which one or not!
later tater.....don't let yer meat loaf!
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Hey Tony- have you been to I'm It on General? Carol B is stuck in Freeze Tag and can't move to tag anyone else until she gets tagged. Ha Ha I got her.
I thought of another good song but forgot it before i could post. Such is life with Lyme.
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Reminds me of a Song of the South
Zip-a-dee-duck doo, zip-a-dee-ay My oh my what a herxiful day! Plenty of medicines heading my way Zip-a-dee-duck doo Zip-a-dee-ay.
Mister Lonestar on my shoulder It's so small but will attach y'all Then Chronic Lyme becomes more factual Zip-a-dee-duck doo, zip-a-dee-ay!
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Nice going webhead!
But I think you missed one zipety ay in the first stanza!
Hey Cavey...so you EARN them hun!
What is that something you learned from Smith/Barney?
or Monica Lewinsky!!!!!!
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ok -- we have heard zero zero point zero zero do we hear anymore zero zero point zero zero? going once going twice no wait I double my bid: zero zero point zero zero once again the bid still stands at zero zero point zero zero anyone else wish to double their bid? now's your chance going going
Soon we'll have enough raised to start sending checks to the ducks. Anyone got some addresses? They could start getting some interesting checks from bidders(signed -- brain fog, etc) made out to IDSA Lyme/co-infections research.
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dedicated to cobweb's lost song, and anyone else's
To the tune of: on top of those noodles -- I forget what they're called
Because of my brain fog, I lost my own song Forgot my own lyrics -- Did somebody sneeze?
It rolled off my tongue, then Right onto the floor And then my poor song, it Rolled right out the door.
It rolled while I muttered "There's something 'bout 'street'" I think those poor meatballs My mind did delete.
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more characters for duckdave sr casting director:
Stuporman Bart Slumpson Little Miss Buffeted Winnie the Pooped Alice in Underland Peter-Did-Not-Pan-Out
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Robin-
Tony- I edited-flows a little better- but let me look up lyrics again to see if I forgot a stanza. Webhead-I like that-better than Butthead.
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I bid everything I've got-which is $000.00. And that includes brain cells.
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Did you just up the bid? Is $00.00 passe now? Looks like our top bid is now $000.00, folks. Do we hear $0,000.00?
I fear to think where this is headed -- I mean, do we really want to raise that much for duck and company?
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yeah, this creative effort is a rather humorous form of activism, but I looked at the activism site and it's not very much used. This site seems to be the one everyone comes to. I think people have enjoyed reading and participating in this ongoing thread here. So what to do?
One more thought: maybe there is a medical question here behind all this, which is, what is the healing value of laughter?
A lot has been done on this topic. Norman Cousins' book, Anatomy of An Illness comes to mind, where he watched Marx Bros movies, got kicked out of the hospital for being too happy, and laughed himself well(along with the help of some Vitamin C) from ankylosing spondylitis..
So we are participating in the answer to that medical question right here. I think this thread makes a lot of people laugh and that's good for us. Raises our endorphins. It's Lymenet Flash medicine of the nondrug kind. If anyone heals their Lyme/co's because of us, do let us know.
Stymie, I'm recovering from the flu, but the ducks did not help me with it, so I think I'll send them a duck bill for .10
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Yeah, Marnie -- how else would we ever get to see you sing your science?! -- lizards a-leaping to you!
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Geez Cavey if you're gonna insult me with such big words...
at least get out yer Funk & Wagnall and get the spelling correct...
I do believe you are missing an R!
But hey...What's a little lymebrain between friends....
By the way...I think that song was originally called
.........On top of Spaghetti......
Just thought I would clear that up a little! LOL
I know Tree...perhaps next week when loub comes back he'll move it where it belongs....I know I can't......
Here's one for music from strangers in the night by Franky!
lou B lou b Lou
What are the chances
you'll keep this post here
despite the lances
Tree and others throw
To kill our cre a tive Flow!
Cus we're just lymies in the nite
exchanging stanzas
We're just lymies in the nite
What were the chances
When we said our first hello's
little did we know
We would come together and our friendships would all grow...
LouB louB lou
da da da daaa da
Lou B lou b lou zman
Oh well...they can't ALL be Gems....
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Hickory Tickory Tock The tick crawled up my sock The clock struck one Now I'm done
Hickory Tickory Tock The tick crawled up my sock The clock struck two It fell in my shoe
Hickory Tickory Tock The tick crawled up my sock The clock struck three It found my knee
Hickory Tickory Tock The tick crawled up my sock The clock struck four I'm sicker than before
Hickory Tickory Tock The tick crawled up my sock The clock struck five The spirochets thrive
Hickory Tickory Tock The tick crawled up my sock The clock struck six It's time for its fix
Hickory Tickory Tock The tick crawled up my sock The clock struck 7,8,9,10,11 Can't wait for heaven
Hickory Tickory Tock The tick crawled up my sock As twelve bells rang The IDSA said dang And I wish they'd crawl under a rock.
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Hey Stranger In the Night-it took me a while to catch the tune-but it is a gem!
I'd have no reason to get out of bed if it wasn't for this thread. It's Manna for the Soul- a medical necessity for the down hearted.
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Let's see- first one: is that guy trying to throw a stick in the mud?
second one: you would all like us to kiss your bumper. are you that starved for affection?
third one: Nah Nah Nah Nah BOO BOO I'm gonna tell on you.
cute, real cute- I'd go undercover if I was you.
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quote:Originally posted by Carol B: Let's see- first one: is that guy trying to throw a stick in the mud?
second one: you would all like us to kiss your bumper. are you that starved for affection?
third one: Nah Nah Nah Nah BOO BOO I'm gonna tell on you.
cute, real cute- I'd go undercover if I was you.
Okay Iam goin undercover
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Lymies in the night...zman, I like it! Can you title it so folks get it more quickly which song you're doing? Please don't call it on top of spaghetti -- nope, not that one, that one's taken already.
Cobweb -- another one for the nursery corner... each verse needs its last line added -- either hickory tickory tock, like the original, or a creative one like you did in your last verse. thx!
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ok -- to make tree happy, since this is still a medical questions site, the following is a medical report-back:
THE BOTTLE HYMN FOR THE PUBLIC
Mine eyes have seen the coming Of borreliosis ketes They are munching on the vintage Of the ocular for eats They have loosed their fateful blightening Of their terrible swift feats The ketes are marching in.
(drumroll)
Gory story, I don't see you Gory story, don't wanna be you Gory story, I would flee you The ketes are marching in.
In the juice from South East Asia Hope is born again to see With its antioxidants that can Transfigure eye of me As eye died from keets so lowly Let me drink to make me free The juice is pouring in!
(drumroll)
Mango, mangosteen, I see you! Mango, mangosteen, eye be you! Mango, mangosteen, eye agree with you Your juice is pouring in!
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Robin- picky picky picky- that song(Hickory Tickory Tock) was so long I decided the last line of each stanza could double as the first line of the next stanza. And I was pressed for time.
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