Apr 23

xkcd: We Didn’t Start The Fire?

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Does the alt text in today’s xkcd remind anyone else of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire”?

… a less painfully eighties (is there any music-video cliché not used in this video?) lyrics-only version can be viewed here instead.

Telescopes and bathyscaphes
and sonar probes of Scottish lakes,
Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse
explained with abstract phase-space maps,
some x-ray slides,
a music score,
Minard’s Napoleonic war:
the most exciting new frontier is charting what’s already here.
(Chorus)

No? Just me then?

4 Responses to “xkcd: We Didn’t Start The Fire?”

  1. GameVortexGeck0 Says:
    April 23rd, 2010 at 8:58 pm

    Well, I can see your point, although I was thinking it fit “The Very Model of a Modern Major General” a bit better…

  2. randomer Says:
    April 23rd, 2010 at 9:13 pm

    well, i thought it was clever. and slightly better than the star wars adaptation on youtube.

  3. Stuart Says:
    April 24th, 2010 at 12:10 am

    My favourite version of The Major-General’s Song ;)

    The Elements by Tom Lehrer is pretty incredible too…

  4. annabeth patelle Says:
    May 8th, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    I also like the Major-General’s song and The Elements song. Is it just me or is TES faster?

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