User talk:AVRS/Archives/2008

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I agree the resolution is far too high. I've tagged the image with {{non-free reduce}}. If you still feel unhappy with the image, you can take it to WP:FUR Papa November 22:01, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Result: The image size has been reduced and it was replaced with Image:Prin logo.png. Maybe deletion of fair use logos is not first priority ATM (compare with replacable fair use screenshots), so a careful choice should be made about the images in that Pringles article. --AVRS (talk) 19:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

“usually very well known”

What's the point of mentioning that? Unless it is “usually little known”, isn't everything about “usually very well known”? - AVRS 10:58, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Re-read the sentence again and you will probably see how silly the question is. The object of musical parody is USUALLY a very well known piece of music (in its original form) - if only because it makes a better joke that way. On the other hand this is far from always the case - some parody has become much better known than the "original" - in fact most people may not even know it is a parody. Sometimes the original joke was pretty obscure, or wasn't even really meant to be funny. To put it another way - music that is parodied is "usually well known" - but it is "sometimes not so well known". Soundofmusicals 01:40, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Pedants (NOT saying you are one) VERY often lose the ability to make sense of passages of connected prose altogether, because they can't see anything in context - words and phrases have become more important than sentences, and sentences more important than paragraphs. Most importantly, style is more important than meaning, in fact meaning has lost its importance altogether. Might I suggest it is impossible to constructively criticise the the style of a passage one does not understand? Soundofmusicals 01:58, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Result: The discussion has been moved to Talk:Parody music#“usually very well known” and stalled. --AVRS (talk) 19:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)