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Song Parodies -> "Where is the Tilde? (The ~ song)"

Original Song Title:

"Waltzing Matilda"

Original Performer:

Traditional

Parody Song Title:

"Where is the Tilde? (The ~ song)"

Parody Written by:

Laurence Dunne

The Lyrics

For everyone (including Dilbert) who has had trouble trying to locate the Tilde (~) on a keyboard!!! For those of you who have never NEEDED to type a Tilde before, consider yourselves lucky.
Once a jolly surfer set up a site-a-bong
Under Tripod's user directory
And I sang as I typed and designed till my site-a-boiled
Then got a U.R.L. with a Tilde

Where is the tilde? Where is the tilde?
Where on my keyboard can I find this key?
I have tried alt-shift-one, and CTRL-Insert-Function 3
Can you locate the Damn tilde for me?

Look at the keyboard, it's easy to find those keys
I can find backslash and apostorphe
But I curse as I search and it does not occur to me
I cannot find how to type a tilde

Where is the tilde? Where is the tilde?
That's what my friends are all asking of me
It is not Alt-F4, and it's also not Shift-F3
Can you locate the Damned tilde for me?

[mega chorus line finish...]

Where is the tilde? Where is the tilde?
Who was the bright spark who first used this key?
I don't have a hard time with Einsteins relativity
But I just can't seem to find this damn key~

...Oh there it is.....[anticlimactic sound of chorusline singers all going 'oh' and 'okay' and leaving in disgust]

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Royce Miller - May 04, 2004 - Report this comment
I believe this is the comment you gave me--"good idea, but you could have done more with it"---
Phil Alexander - May 04, 2004 - Report this comment
I was thinking of writing "Using a tilde" about words like manaņa ().. but there aren't enough funny ones. I tend to agree with Royce that this had potential to be better..
spelling - May 04, 2004 - Report this comment
Phil, the tilde goes over the first N, not the second. So it would be maņana.
Phil Alexander - May 04, 2004 - Report this comment
Yes, I know... that was supposed to be the joke (but I guess it thought the grin inside the brackets was a HTML command and stripped it from the comment)
Leo Jay - May 04, 2004 - Report this comment
Ha! I'm always partial to parodies that manipulate the original title of the song... Good stuff.
Serafina - May 04, 2004 - Report this comment
Ditto on Leo Jay's comment.
neminem - May 04, 2004 - Report this comment
I certainly don't have trouble finding the tilde on *my* computer, because I use it almost every day, what with my web site being http://www3.hmc.edu/~afield, which I can type in like 5 seconds now ;-). That and using dos. It really pisses me off though when I have to use a different computer and typing to type that, I end up hitting a blank spot on the keyboard where the tilde should go, and I have to figure out where else they happened to put it.

By the way, if you're ever in a position that you want to type something but you don't know where it is on the keyboard, just use the Character Map in Programs->accessories->system tools (assuming you're using one of several versions of Windows). Also allows one to easier type things like ∫ρdθ ;-)
Adagio - May 04, 2004 - Report this comment
Cute!
Jake A Ralphing (Luke Brattoni) - May 04, 2004 - Report this comment
Good one, I used to spend hours of amusement typing 'Waltzing Ma~' into SimpleText and getting all the voices to sing it out. Small mind.... Some fine rhymes here, especially 'curse as I search and it does not occur to me', but some bits were offish, a 4-5-4. Phil Alexander, I can empathise with making whimsical forms of smileys that fail to come up, can someone please explain what a manana is to un-Portuguese me? =)
Phil Alexander - May 04, 2004 - Report this comment
Jake (er.. Luke) - "maņana" means tomorrow in Spanish... it's often used as a way of saying something can be done later (or infinitely later). Come to think of it, "Do it maņana" might make another parody to this song...
Bush League - May 05, 2004 - Report this comment
Nice job! I happen to be at this very moment working on a parody of "Day-O" ("J. Lo") that uses maņana... should be up tomorrow...
Agrimorfee - May 05, 2004 - Report this comment
Funny idea, dude, in spite of pacing. 455. (if you can't find the tilde, just type like this "ma-nya-na". ;))
Jake A Ralphing (Luke Brattoni) - May 05, 2004 - Report this comment
Thanks Phil! (note smiley face after the Portuguese comment, I was aware it was Spanish) I'll catch ya ma-nya-na!
Peter Andersson - November 13, 2005 - Report this comment
Really funny parody here, Laurence, my favorite lines where:
I don't have a hard time with Einsteins relativity
But I just can't seem to find this damn key~

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