h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

These are DEFINATELY not my thoughts, but the fit was so good to the original that it had to be done...


Well the year is 2001,
Seems that freedom's dead and gone,
Upon the site we call h2g2.
You keep the young ones paralysed,
censored now, for their crimes,
You keep the old ones happy with their goos.
Till a researcher writes an entry,
tell Mark Moxon to get bent (hee),
in the court you'll win the case on links,
Cos you sold us down the river, oh.


Do I act like some ancient roarer?
I like to post, in ancient fora,
these are things that I can't understand.
Well I don't believe in your BBC ways,
don't care about, what Greg Dyke says,
Your policies, will fail the test of time,
Cos you sold us down the river, oh.


Well the forum posts go round and round,
temper goes up and language goes down
but you gotta learn first to clamp down
[insert good line here - I can't think of one]
You get scared when the lawyers come round,
Won't you tell me where it is, we are bound?

Do I act.... (etc)

--
with Apologies to the Levellers ("Sell Out")

Sounds cute, even if I don't recall the song that it is intended to be sung over.

Suggestion for the missing line:
[this lyric removed by moderator]

Wait, no, don't get mad, I really wrote that, it wasn't really anything that was removed, but...

Anyway, people would forever be asking, "What is that line that got removed?"

Know what I think we need around here? Some good old fashioned PUNK ROCK!!!

(To the tune of The Sex Pistols' "Anarchy In The UK")


ANARCHY IN h2g2

RIGHT!!!
Now...
I am a Zaphodista,
I am an anarchist!
Don't want Moderators,
'Cause they just don't get it,
I wanna destroy the asterisks!
'Cause I wanna be anarchy!
Cry Zaphodista!

Anarchy for h2g2,
It's coming some time, it must do,
I post a few links,
Have some virtual drinks,
Your future dream is too squeaky clean!
'Cause I wanna be anarchy!

There's many ways to get what you want,
I use the most,
I use the "Post"!
I use piracy,
I use anarchy,
'Cause I wanna be anarchy!
It's the only way to be!

Is this a corporate plan,
Or is this the Taliban?
Some censors' conspiracy?
I thought it was the BBC!
Or just another company?
Another grey bureaucracy?
I wanna be anarchy!
And I wanna be anarchist,
Get ed,
DESTROY!!!

Oy!

(whilst slam dancing all alone in his puter room)


-THDoM

In case anyone posting to this forum hasn't seen it, please notice that I made a page for a Zaphodistas' Song Contest at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A526006

That is all. Party on.