URGENT - STAY AWAY FROM MORGANTOWN WV!

[robbgmaier]

It's possible the whole city could be on fire in about an hour. At least freaking CBS finally figured out it's WVU and not W VA.

they're still morons

[Ragone]

This isn't the couch we are looking for.. You can go about your business... Move along *Waves hands*

[HomerJSimpson]

We didn't start the fire...

[Airhog]

Its always been burnin, since the worlds been turning

[Easy Mac]

John Glenn
Richard Nixon
OLE MISS MOTHAFU#$@

[paperstreetsoap]

what a jinx

[terpkristin]

Year related to the events in ( ) before the verse. We actually used this song in an American Literature course I took...

(’49) harry truman, doris day, red china, johnnie ray
South pacific, walter winchell, joe dimaggio

(’50) joe mccarthy, richard nixon, studebaker, television
North korea, south korea, marilyn monroe

(’51) rosenbergs, h-bomb, sugar ray, panmunjom
Brando, the king and I and the catcher in the rye

(’52) eisenhower, vaccine, england’s got a new queen
Marciano, liberace, santayana goodbye

Chorus
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it

(’53) joseph stalin, malenkov, nasser and prokofiev
Rockefeller, campanella, communist bloc

(’54) roy cohn, juan peron, toscanini, dacron
Dien bien phu falls, rock around the clock

(’55) einstein, james dean, brooklyn’s got a winning team
Davy crockett, peter pan, elvis presley, disneyland

(’56) bardot, budapest, alabama, krushchev
Princess grace, peyton place, trouble in the suez

Chorus

(’57) little rock, pasternak, mickey mantle, kerouac
Sputnik, chou en-lai, bridge on the river kwai

(’58) lebanon, charles de gaulle, california baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

(’59) buddy holly, ben hur, space monkey, mafia
Hula hoops, castro, edsel is a no-go

(’60) u-2, syngman rhee, payola and kennedy
Chubby checker, psycho, belgians in the congo

Chorus

(’61) hemingway, eichmann, stranger in a strange land
Dylan, berlin, bay of pigs invasion

(’62) lawrence of arabia, british beatlemania
Ole miss, john glenn, liston beats patterson

(’63) pope paul, malcolm x, british politician sex
Jfk, blown away, what else do I have to say

Chorus

(’64 - ’89) birth control, ho chi minh, richard nixon back again
Moonshot, woodstock, watergate, punk rock
Begin, reagan, palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah’s in iran, russians in afghanistan

Wheel of fortune, sally ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, aids, crack, bernie goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, china’s under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can’t take it anymore

Chorus

We didn’t start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...


/tk

[terpkristin]

Dola,
When College Park rioted and started all sorts of fires, there was an .mpg4 file floating around with that song to various pictures of College Park burning...

/tk

[Fonzie]

Are you people trying to make QuikSand bust an aneurysm?

[QuikSand]

What's wrong with you people?

[terpkristin]

I have many problems. :D

But seriously, what IS it that is upsetting you in this thread (because really I don't know!)?

/tk

[finkenst]

Are you people trying to make QuikSand bust an aneurysm?
computers don't have aneurysms.

[VPI97]

Last edited by QuikSand : Today at 11:28 PM. Reason: made politer Shouldn't it be 'made more polite'?

[finkenst]

I have many problems. :D

But seriously, what IS it that is upsetting you in this thread (because really I don't know!)?

/tk
The computer really hates Billy Joel.

[CraigSca]

Billy Joel has written some bad songs, but that one takes the cake.

[QuikSand]

Shouldn't it be 'made more polite'?

My circuits get a little scrambled when people speak of him with reverence.

[Crapshoot]

Wait, I need a reason to stay away from West Virgina ? :D

[Desnudo]

I have many problems. :D

But seriously, what IS it that is upsetting you in this thread (because really I don't know!)?

/tk

Cross-reference for you:

Quicksand on his musical relationship with Billy Joel (http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~fof/forums/showthread.php?t=23689&highlight=billy+joel)

[MacroGuru]

My Bro in law is heading out that way (Morgantown) tomorrow....I laughed at him and said...Good Luck!