# A celebrity lurks! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335 "2006-10-13T18:10:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Weird\_With\_Words](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weird_with_words/32/385_2.png) [@Weird\_With\_Words](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_With_Words)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/81 "2006-10-18T01:10:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Hi, Al. I have dared to be stupid, and am standing by for further instructions. So funny. So appropriate. I’d sig it were it not for the fact that it’s comedic value probably drops precipitously when context is removed. Weird Al is a national-fucking-treasure. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/82 "2006-10-18T01:33:53Z")
[QUOTE=Weird With Words] So funny. So appropriate. I’d sig it were it not for the fact that it’s comedic value probably drops precipitously when context is removed. Weird Al is a national-fucking-treasure. [/QUOTE] Heeeeey. Who are _ **YOU** _? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_With\_Words](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weird_with_words/32/385_2.png) [@Weird\_With\_Words](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_With_Words)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/83 "2006-10-18T01:59:16Z")
Weird Al Yankovic would be **far** too modest to declare himself a national treasure, so I’m clearly not Weird Al. He’s also far too modest to mention how handsome he is. Did I mention hung like a horse? He’s way too modest to mention that too. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/84 "2006-10-18T02:05:00Z")
[QUOTE=Weird With Words] Weird Al Yankovic would be **far** too modest to declare himself a national treasure, so I’m clearly not Weird Al. He’s also far too modest to mention how handsome he is. Did I mention hung like a horse? He’s way too modest to mention that too. [/QUOTE] That sounds exactly like something Wierd Al would say to make us think it was someone else talking about him. ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_With\_Words](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weird_with_words/32/385_2.png) [@Weird\_With\_Words](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_With_Words)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/85 "2006-10-18T02:14:50Z")
[QUOTE=Hogwash] I’ve spent the last ten minutes trying to write parodies to both Missy Elliot’s _Work It_ (as _Lurk It_) and The Beatles’ _We Can Work It Out_ (as _I Can Lurk It Out_) but my creativity fails me. [/QUOTE] Well, here’s the best **I** can do so far. Sung to the tune of _Work It_ _I won’t besmirch it, Only lurk it, Press my “page down” scroll it and observe it._ [backwards talk]this text is really really coded wrong, this text is really really coded wrong[/backwards talk] _If I were posting, I’d go by “Boiler”, I’ll tell you why right now but it’s a spoiler._ [backwards talk]that’s the room Harry Potter gets killed in, that’s the room Harry Potter gets killed in[/backwards talk] ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_With\_Words](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weird_with_words/32/385_2.png) [@Weird\_With\_Words](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_With_Words)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/86 "2006-10-18T02:17:19Z")
[QUOTE=simster] That sounds exactly like something Wierd Al would say to make us think it was someone else talking about him. [/QUOTE] Or maybe that’s just what I **want** you to think? Which would mean… Wait, WTF **would** that mean? ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/87 "2006-10-18T02:21:40Z")
who. cares. ? ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_With\_Words](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weird_with_words/32/385_2.png) [@Weird\_With\_Words](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_With_Words)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/88 "2006-10-18T02:23:08Z")
You’d care too if you were as cool as us. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/89 "2006-10-18T03:33:08Z")
I care, because I think Al is one of the coolest people ever. He seems like such a genuinely good guy, in addition to being hugely talented. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/90 "2006-10-18T04:08:34Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] In addition to being hugely talented. [/QUOTE] I think that bit about him being hung like a horse was a joke or summat. Aw, bollocks. That was a bit of a balls-up. If I may gush just a little, I’d like to opine that Weird Al is the only person on the planet besides Neil Innes that is genuinely funny in addition to and simultaneous with being really rather clever musically. (Assuming, of course, that W.S. Gilbert and Cole Porter are properly dead and not just hiding out somewhere being offensively, irresponsibly, intolerably and unconscionably _old._) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/91 "2006-10-18T13:26:21Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd] (Assuming, of course, that W.S. Gilbert and Cole Porter are properly dead and not just hiding out somewhere being offensively, irresponsibly, intolerably and unconscionably _old._) [/QUOTE] He’s delirious, he’s decrepit, he’s decomposing! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/92 "2006-10-18T13:40:44Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] He’s delirious, he’s decrepit, he’s decomposing! [/QUOTE] Hee! ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/93 "2006-10-18T15:56:55Z")
“I buy a dozen cars when I’m in the mood I hire somebody to chew my food I’m an upwardly mobile dude This is the life!” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/94 "2006-10-18T16:10:26Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd] If I may gush just a little, I’d like to opine that Weird Al is the only person on the planet besides Neil Innes that is genuinely funny in addition to and simultaneous with being really rather clever musically. (Assuming, of course, that W.S. Gilbert and Cole Porter are properly dead and not just hiding out somewhere being offensively, irresponsibly, intolerably and unconscionably _old._) [/QUOTE] That’s a good start, but there are others I would add to the list. Starting with Tom Lehrer (who most people here have probably heard of) and Andrew Ratshin. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/95 "2006-10-18T16:57:01Z")
[QUOTE=Weird With Words] So funny. So appropriate. I’d sig it were it not for the fact that it’s comedic value probably drops precipitously when context is removed. Weird Al is a national-fucking-treasure. [/QUOTE] Gracious me. Coming from you, that’s got to rank among the five most complimentary things ever said to me on the Dope (Aside to **'luc** : I knew there was something special about that kid from his first post). If you ever change your mind about the .sig, I consider it an honor to grant you permission in advance. –kaylasdad99, blushing ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/96 "2006-10-18T18:21:55Z")
And, of course, PDQ Bach. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335/97 "2006-10-31T03:09:22Z")
I KNEW IT!!! No, wait, I said he was a Doper, but I couldn’t have known that from him just lurking. No, he could still have been influenced by all of our…brilliant discourse without actually posting here. So YEAH, BABY! I KNEW IT!!! I think Scott Adams is a Doper, too. Notice how his “Dilbert” comic changed just after we did a thread about how lame it has gotten? Hunh? Hunh? (Great album, Al. And curling is too a sport.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-celebrity-lurks/376335.md?page=4)