Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard
or tough.
and people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
and you feel that you've had quite enouuuuuuuuugh...
Just
re-
member that your standing on a planet that's evolving,
and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour...
That's orbiting at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned,
the sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
are moving at a million miles a day.
in an outer spiral-arm at forty thousand miles an hour
of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars,
it's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand lightyears thick,
but out by us it's just three thousand lightyears wide.
We're thirty thousand lightyears from galactic central point,
we go 'round every two hundred million years.
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions,
in this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
in all of the directions it can whiz.
As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light you know;
twelve million miles a minute, that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when your feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'cause there's bugger-all down here on earth!
I thank you.
No, no, *I* thank *you*, Aslef.
That's made my day. I'm going to set it as my wallpaper. Cheers.
Just remember you are quoting from a script that was written,
written by Graham Chapman esq...
(c) Jim Yoakum 2000
the Animaniacs did a very similar song about the Universe as well as I recall. They also did these other great ones about all the countries of the world and all the states of America and their capitols. Animaniacs was usurped by the early Freakazoid, which I will vote as one of the funniest Warner cartoons ever, most of the first series were hilarious, but it did have off the boil episodes, and the later series got a bit crap in places, I think they only actually made 2 series then cancelled it. The Johnny Quest spoof cartoon on it was class though.
What about Blur's version?
Eric Idle, yess....what a talented writer-performer, and astute parodist, he was then. What a terrible transatlantic hasbeen he is now.
I have a zipped karaoke version of the song. Put your e-mail here if you want it (it contains a complete sound file).
Eric seems to be pleased with pissing from his legacy from a great height. He loves to be payed tons for doing nothing but playing tired 25 year old 'comedy songs' to crowds of sycophantic Americans who all 'LOVE YOUR MONTY PY-THON' and want to hear the dead parrot sketch for the millionth time. Well done Eric.
I think he made the right decision staying out of that abortion of a "reunion" for BBC2 a while back. Has the sight/sound of John Cleese shouting bollocks ever been less amusing?
Has anyone noticed that Cleese can no longer move his upper lip?
It is an ex-lip.
I'll go now.
>It is an ex-lip.
LOL. Peter you're good.
Kinder, you're easily pleased!
Be thankful she is, I am.
You're easily pleased, or your thankful she's easily pleased?