Mafia: The Conspiracy

white on white
translucent black capes
back on the rack
bela lugosi’s dead
the bats have left the bell tower
the victims have been bled
red velvet lines the black box
bela lugosi’s dead
undead undead undead
:wink:

:::Steps up to Microphone:::

:::clears throat:::
It’s Close To Midnight And Something Evil’s Lurking In The Dark
Under The Moonlight You See A Sight That Almost Stops Your Heart
You Try To Scream But Terror Takes The Sound Before You Make It
You Start To Freeze As Horror Looks You Right Between The Eyes,
You’re Paralyzed

'Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
And No One’s Gonna Save You From The Beast About
Strike
You Know It’s Thriller, Thriller Night
You’re Fighting For Your Life Inside A Killer, Thriller
Tonight

You Hear The Door Slam And Realize There’s Nowhere Left To Run
You Feel The Cold Hand And Wonder If You’ll Ever See The Sun
You Close Your Eyes And Hope That This Is Just
Imagination
But All The While You Hear The Creature Creepin’ Up
Behind
You’re Out Of Time

'Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
There Ain’t No Second Chance Against The Thing With
Forty Eyes
You Know It’s Thriller, Thriller Night
You’re Fighting For Your Life Inside Of Killer, Thriller Tonight

Night Creatures Call
And The Dead Start To Walk In Their Masquerade
There’s No Escapin’ The Jaws Of The Alien This Time
(They’re Open Wide)
This Is The End Of Your Life

They’re Out To Get You, There’s Demons Closing In On Every Side
They Will Possess You Unless You Change The Number On Your Dial
Now Is The Time For You And I To Cuddle Close Together
All Thru The Night I’ll Save You From The Terror On The Screen,
I’ll Make You See

That This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
'Cause I Can Thrill You More Than Any Ghost Would Dare To Try
Girl, This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
So Let Me Hold You Tight And Share A Killer, Diller, Chiller
Thriller Here Tonight

[Rap Performed By Vincent Price]
Darkness Falls Across The Land
The Midnite Hour Is Close At Hand
Creatures Crawl In Search Of Blood
To Terrorize Y’awl’s Neighbourhood
And Whosoever Shall Be Found
Without The Soul For Getting Down
Must Stand And Face The Hounds Of Hell
And Rot Inside A Corpse’s Shell
The Foulest Stench Is In The Air
The Funk Of Forty Thousand Years
And Grizzy Ghouls From Every Tomb
Are Closing In To Seal Your Doom
And Though You Fight To Stay Alive
Your Body Starts To Shiver
For No Mere Mortal Can Resist
The Evil Of The Thriller

[Into Maniacal Laugh, In Deep Echo]

From elyrics.net

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Tonight, for your listening pleasure, Funeral March for a Marionette.

(Otherwise more well known as the theme song for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour.)

::slides Rumpleminze towards HazelNutCoffee. Come on, baby, make my night!

Nobody wants to sing Rush’s “Witch Hunt”?

I think people might get a bit disturbed if I start singing “In the Midnight Hour” by Wilson Pickett. :smiley:

As long as you don’t start singing Alice Cooper’s “I Love the Dead”… we already know you’re a sick, sick mane for being a necrophiliac… we don’t need to hear more about it. Geesh! :rolleyes:

How about Werewolves of London? 'Specially for MHaye?

Oh yes, something slightly more interesting than Karaoke.

Blaster Master said this and I mentioned ABM which stands for “Anyone But Man Utd”. It is also discussed as ABU or “Anyone But United”

This comes from the time when Man Utd where winning everything in sight (not quite true, but close enough) and the general feeling started that it didn’t matter who won the season or trophy, as long as it was not Man Utd. Can also be applied to Chelsea as well nowadays.

Is there a similar point of view in the USA in any of the major sports, where you don’t care who wins as long as it isn’t a particular team?

I am not looking to do any strategising or meta gaming, I am actually curious to know if anyone outside the UK thinks like this or if it is a peculiarly British attitude?

Ah, here it’s Anybody But…Carolina, Duke, the Cowboys…etc.

So does that mean you would have no problems with your local team losing if it meant the the Cowboys could not make the playoffs?

Something like that. I hate the Cowboys.

Since we’ve gone from drinking to karaoke to sports…I’m working on a NHL Mafia setup. :smiley: I don’t know if anybody would ever be interested in playing, but it’s been fun thinking it up. Other games I’ve got pen to paper on…The Simpsons, Star Trek TOS, and Star Trek TNG.

The only thing that consoled me after the Indians lost in the ALCS (the semifinals of baseball’s playoffs) was that at least the Yankees weren’t going to the World Series.

Although I should say that the Red Sox are becoming much like Chelsea is in the Premiership these days… buying their all-star team instead of developing them.

Agreed. There are several sports teams that you either love or hate. The Cowboys are much like that, and being a Redskins fan, even moreso… if the 'Skins are doing poorly, it’s some consolation if the Cowboys are doing as badly or worse.

Although, the greatest offender at this point is… The Patriots. Good GOD, I HATE HATE HATE them. Sure, the media is ablaze about “how great they are” and “what a dynasty they’ve made”… but you talk on the street, and most people are just sick of hearing about them.

Then again, probably even moreso than Manchester United, is the Yankees. They’ve won, what, 26 World Series? Even when they don’t win, they’re still one of the best teams in the league… I can’t remember the last time they missed the play-offs… at least ten years. …I’m just glad I’m not a baseball fan.

Blakes’ Seven version with Blake and the crew vs Servalan and the Alliance vs the invading Andromedans.

Now that would be fun :slight_smile:

I step out of the bar for a few minutes, and I come back and it’s SPORTS?

I think we might have to start giving the zombies makeovers to counteract this testosterone laden environment. :slight_smile:

You all don’t know the half of it. At least you guys have several teams from different cities in different sports to be bombarded with. Here in Canada, it’s all Toronto Maple Leafs, all the time. We’re talking about a team that hasn’t won a Stanley Cup since 1967, has never won in a league with more than 8 teams, won the vast majority of the championships in a 6-team league and hasn’t made the Finals since expansion.

And yet every Saturday, CBC shows Toronto playing some scrub team. CBC at least paid for that with pretty low ratings when Toronto’s provincial rival made the Finals. In the past a Canadian team in the playoffs has been money for CBC but apparently Canadians don’t want to watch a team they’ve never gotten a chance to watch.

Rysto, are you sure you wanna get me started on hockey? Canes play Montreal again tomorrow night…lessee, when do we play the Leafs again…ah, December 18…I already have tickets. :smiley:

Anybody But Bush???

Simpsons would be pure awesomeness. I thought about trying to piece together a rugby one, with the forwards as town and the backs as Mafia, but didn’t complete the thought.