As I thought about tonight's topic, I knew I'm in a musical phase. A quick check of diaries past quickly nixed the "Irish/Celtic-themed music" as soooo last year. However, as far as I can tell I haven't yet inflicted Green Songs on Top Comments, so grab your emerald-tinted beer and follow me below the field of green orange clovers after a word from our sponsor...
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Here are a few songs with green in title or lyrics. Please add your own in the comments!
- Bein' Green, by Jim Henson - It's not easy being green... but green's the color of Spring.
- If I Had A Million Dollars, by Barenaked Ladies - If I had $1000000 I'd buy you a green dress (but not a real green dress, that's cruel)
- Everything's Gone Green, by New Order - It seems like I've been here before...
- Joseph's Coat, by Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber - How he loved his coat of many colors, it was red and yellow and green and brown and blue...
- Blue Green Hills Of Earth, by Paul Winter - For the earth forever turning, for the land, for skies and sea. To our Source we sing returning home to our blue green hills of earth.
- Green, by Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - Check out the view from the rooftop. They've got a horse and a big trampoline.
- Emerald, by Thin Lizzy - They had come to claim the emerald without it they could not leave.
- The Green Lady, by Big Audio Dynamite - Dry your eyes Salomé Mona Lisa too. Lady in the picture frame my heart belongs too you
- The Green Fields Of France, by Eric Bogle, covered by the Dropkick Murphys - The countless white crosses in mute witness stand to man's blind indifference to his fellow man. And a whole generation were butchered and damned
- Thinking Out Loud, by Ed Sheeran - 'Cause honey your soul could never grow old, it's evergreen
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From Mindful Nature:
In the self-parody category, I offer this remarlkable thread begun by gjohnsit, with this comment! (From slinkerwink's diary on a prospective Clinton administration.)
From greenbird:
here it is! unless you already got it ... what ? are your ears ringing ?
(This comment, from LeftHandedMan.)
From Catte Nappe:
This comment by DocGonzo is one for the ages. Covers the issue comprehensively and aptly in the context of the diary, but also serves as a good reference regarding invoking the Godwin's Law objection in other settings as well.
From high uintas:
I love this comment by CatM. She makes her case with such elegance. I really like it.
(For context, the comment is a reply to this comment, by Geenius at Wrok.)
From Angie in WA State:
this #Punny thread, started by our Trix with this comment.
In ericlewis0's Breaking diary about the "I quit" Republican US Rep. who is apparently stepping down ahead of the torches and pitchforks in Illinois ... home of our faux-illustrious Speaker, John "Orange" Boehner.
The following thread is #Punnilicious to say the least :-)
And ...
this TERRIFIC comment by Mopshell. Mopshell's comment relays to the wider Community a rule in the US House Ethics investigation process which is a clear benefit to us all to know about. To force a US Rep to pay the price for Ethics Violations? We musn't allow them to get delays and finish out their Term of Office before that Investigation comes to a finding!
From Avilyn:
This comment by arizonablue in Kerry Eleveld's diary nails it perfectly regarding when Hillary won't need to talk about women/women's issues anymore.
From Yours Truly, brillig:
Dallasdoc names the civil rights struggle of our time in Laura Clawson's Eric Holder and Barack Obama are the real racists, says Missouri lieutenant governor
Top Mojo for Monday, March 16, 2015, first comments and tip jars excluded. Thank you
mik for the mojo magic! For those of you interested in How Top Mojo Works, please see his diary
FAQing Top Mojo.
1) As has Jon Voight by Paleo — 107
2) The writer of the Redstate article read by Calvino Partigiani — 96
3) Is it too late by beltane — 94
4) The "Any War Will Do" celebrity roster. by inclusiveheart — 86
5) No. I'm beginning to believe that bottling water by peregrine kate — 84
6) BREAKING: Iran increasingly full of Iranians by WinSmith — 76
7) The racist politicians in that town have made life by doroma — 76
8) You're due a Mishaberach by sfbob — 74
9) God knows, if I were Omniscient and Omnipotent, by AnacharsisClootz — 74
10) Not to mention by Elwood Dowd — 73
11) And they'll know we are Christians by kenwards — 72
12) Heh, it was published yesterday. by pico — 72
13) It's good that he worries about campground... by markthshark — 71
14) we're reaching the convergence by Laurence Lewis — 70
15) Mass amnesty for all bench warrants issued by... by joe from Lowell — 66
16) Yeah, all that shake down money has paid by a2nite — 66
17) I read an article on SF Gate about that by enhydra lutris — 65
18) Whoâ„¢? n/t by JeffW — 65
19) It was also patronizing... by penelope pnortney — 64
20) Freedom to practice religion their way by Shockwave — 64
21) But what if the wrong evil lizard gets in? by James Wells — 62
22) A Harvard degree ain't what it used to be..... by skillet — 60
23) Ferguson makes Jim Crow look civilized by Shockwave — 59
24) As long as he's not Left Behind. by here4tehbeer — 58
25) Well that explains by mojo11 — 57
26) Shouldn't bottled water come from places with by Mrcynical — 57
27) I want to see really interesting ideas from her by slinkerwink — 53
28) In Wingnut world, anything is possible by Jeff Y — 53
29) this is tough news BFS by TrueBlueMajority — 53
30) In the beginning by side pocket — 52
31) As Sorkin wrote in The American President by Dallasdoc — 52
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