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January 25th, 2011
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Is "Nothing" by the Fuggs funny?
Poll #1672404
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 25

Funny?

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Yes
8(33.3%)
No
10(41.7%)
Other (explain in comments)
3(12.5%)
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3(12.5%)


I posted about the video at Less Wrong, and so far, no one else thinks the video is funny. Is it that very few people think it's funny, or just that the humor preferences at LW are unusual?


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From:ritaxis
Date:January 25th, 2011 04:58 pm (UTC)
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Video?

I only know it as a song.
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From:nancylebov
Date:January 25th, 2011 05:06 pm (UTC)
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The video is probably folk art. I don't know whether there's a video of it being performed.
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From:beamjockey
Date:January 25th, 2011 06:32 pm (UTC)
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As I understand it, the Fugs were themselves mighty close to folk art.
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From:vvalkyri
Date:January 25th, 2011 05:06 pm (UTC)
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i think you need to be kinda dadaist. i found at least the beginning amusing.
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From:ice_hesitant
Date:January 25th, 2011 05:14 pm (UTC)
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I'm quite fond of CIA Man.

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From:supergee
Date:January 25th, 2011 05:17 pm (UTC)
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Mildly. They did much funnier stuff.
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From:tod_hollykim
Date:January 25th, 2011 05:25 pm (UTC)
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Actually, it was boring. I lost interest less than a minute in and had to force myself to pay attention to the rest of it.
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From:terriwells
Date:January 25th, 2011 05:47 pm (UTC)
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Yeah, I had a similar reaction. It was boring and kind of depressing.
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From:vvalkyri
Date:January 25th, 2011 05:50 pm (UTC)
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I didn't have more than a minute to look at it, as I had a conference call starting.
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From:filkerdave
Date:January 25th, 2011 06:30 pm (UTC)
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From:lilairen
Date:January 25th, 2011 08:00 pm (UTC)
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This.
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From:lysystratae
Date:January 25th, 2011 10:53 pm (UTC)
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yep, me too...
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From:asakiyume
Date:January 25th, 2011 05:26 pm (UTC)
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I loved it, when I was introduced to it back in college. But then, part of it was just the deliciousness of hearing names like Lenin and Stalin and Trotsky in a song. Sure, I think it's funny!

(And by "it," I mean the song. I haven't clicked on the video yet.)

Edited at 2011-01-25 05:27 pm (UTC)
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From:filkerdave
Date:January 25th, 2011 06:30 pm (UTC)
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Funny would imply that it was at least something I wanted to listen to. I found myself waiting until it was over. I mean...errr....someone made money recording this?

The Yiddish was at least a teeny bit less tedious.
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From:beamjockey
Date:January 25th, 2011 06:31 pm (UTC)
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I was introduced to the song by a pal in grad school who thought it was quite funny. (And was disappointed that I did not share his enthusiasm.)

I would rate it as very, very mildly funny. Less funny than John Hartford's "Boogie," which is only sort of funny.



I do admire the thoroughness with which the the Fugs follow through on their premise, exploring Nothing in multiple languages and extending it throughout the calendar and through multiple realms of human experience. However, even the escalating layers of sophistication don't make the song very much funnier.
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From:schemingreader
Date:January 25th, 2011 06:38 pm (UTC)
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I posted a link to this last night! It's weird--I think it's both funny and depressing at the same time. It's also very dated, which has to affect things.
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From:vvalkyri
Date:January 25th, 2011 08:06 pm (UTC)
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i tried googling for lyrics, but found none... anybody?
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From:kgbooklog
Date:January 25th, 2011 08:10 pm (UTC)
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i tried googling for lyrics, but found none...

Now that is funny. Funnier than the song, at least.
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From:nancylebov
Date:January 25th, 2011 08:22 pm (UTC)
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http://www.lyricsmania.com/nothing_lyrics_fugs_the.html

On the off-chance that you weren't joking.
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From:vvalkyri
Date:January 25th, 2011 08:24 pm (UTC)
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wasn't joking -- was mostly on a ocnference call
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From:nancylebov
Date:January 25th, 2011 08:44 pm (UTC)
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My guess was that if you were joking, you'd have said that you found nothing.
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From:vvalkyri
Date:January 25th, 2011 08:51 pm (UTC)
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yep.
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From:thnidu
Date:January 25th, 2011 09:46 pm (UTC)
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I luvd the Fugs. I listened to them in the sixties, and I probably still have at least 1 LP of theirs in the basement. I certainly enjoyed this song and used to sing it myself a lot -- maybe adding languages as well. I haven't watched the video, and seeing people's reactions to it maybe I won't either.

This song is actually a filk of a Yiddish song, Bulbes:

"Sunday potatoes, Monday potatoes..."

etc. See here and here among others.
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From:agrumer
Date:January 26th, 2011 01:07 am (UTC)
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It's a bit funnier knowing the origin. But still not all that funny.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:January 26th, 2011 12:12 am (UTC)

no

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From:sodyera
Date:January 26th, 2011 10:56 am (UTC)
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Hey, it's a song about nothing. What's not to like?
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From:sodyera
Date:January 26th, 2011 11:08 am (UTC)
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Dammit, now I've got that song stuck in my Internal Audio®! Now you have to find us the lyrics by Lunacon.
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