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Comics about lyrics

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Popularity rank 1 #144. No James Blunt on the plane

August 16, 2006

IN-FLIGHT MOVIE: "And now our mid-flight entertainment: James Blunt takes us behind the scenes at his video shoot."
BRETT: AUGH!
JAMES BLUNT: "See, the song is about a girl."
STEWARDESS: SIR! MY GOD! CLOSE THE EMERGENCY DOOR!
JAMES BLUNT: "And this girl is... beautiful."
STEWARDESS: Closed! Thank God, it's... it's closed....
IN-FLIGHT MOVIE: "James is a lyrical genius. Like Dylan or... that guy from Toto."
STEWARDESS: OK, everyone who lost their pretzels just then, raise your hand....

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Popularity rank 2 #84. I Write the Lyrics

November 30, 2005

JOHN: Whoa. What's with the lyrics, man? I write the lyrics!
DAN: No, yeah, these're just filler lyrics.
JOHN: Filler lyrics are still lyrics! I write the lyrics! I'm the lyricist!
DAN: Fine, I'll just go "la la la" then...
JOHN: No! Not "la la la"! It's... it's "tee diddley dee"! I write the lyrics!
DAN: (sigh) Fine.
JOHN: "Tee diddley dee dah dee"! I write the lyrics! I'm the scribe! I'm the wordsmith!
DAN: It's 3am, man. I'm gonna go catch the bus....

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Popularity rank 3 #18. Song about Carole

April 12, 2005

JOHN: OK. I'm finishing the lyrics to "Screw You Carole" and I need another word that rhymes with "Carole".
DAN: OK.
JOHN: So... so far I've used... "Clairol", "barrel", "feral", "sterile", and... "NARAL".
A pause.
JOHN: What? Carole and I had a complicated relationship, dude....
DAN: "Feral"?

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Popularity rank 4 #11. Where the lyrics come from

February 22, 2005

KULA: Kevin, I'm a huge fan. First, I have to ask, the lyrics of "Spiral Away", so moving. I mean, I wept the first time I heard--
KEVIN EDO: I copied them off a condon ad I saw sitting on the can in Detroit.
KULA: W-what?
KEVIN EDO: "Kevin," I thought. "You spend all this time, you know, thinkin' a words, when there's all these words already written all over the place!"
KULA: But... y-you... there's....
KEVIN EDO: "Too Little Time" is from my VCR manual.

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  • 1 SUBWAY WORKER: Sir, I asked if you want the meal or just the sandwich.
BRETT: I'M SORRY, I CAN'T HEAR YOU RIGHT NOW.

    No James Blunt at the Subway

    4 5 Aug 5, ’06

  • 2 PETER: Well, for what it's worth, I think adopting that hot 19-year-old orphan was, though CREEPY, sort of NOBLE.

    Creepy but noble

    4 4 Apr 30, ’10

  • 3 DAN: C'mon, John. We gotta get to rehearsal.
JOHN: Man, EFF rehearsal... I'm working on a cover for our E.P.

    Scrapbooked EP cover

    4 3 Mar 16, ’10

  • 4 DAN: $25 gets us a ten-word classified ad. So let's see... "Bassist Wanted... for... rock band..."

    Writing a classified ad

    4 3 Aug 23, ’05

  • 5 SCRAPPER: Let me show you the ART of scrapbooking. You have any photos in your wallet?
JOHN: I got one of my mom.

    The art of scrapbooking

    4 2 Mar 15, ’10

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