User:Casliber/Flaming Joel-wiki

[edit] We Didn't Start The Fire

Ladies and gentlemen, the Flaming Joel-wiki celebrates events in our collective consciousness as highlighted by the Übermuse Billy Joel in his great song We Didn't Start the Fire...

This award, with a nice pic modified by Debivort is awarded to anyone instrumental in getting any of the below articles linked to FA status. Billy Joel is clearly a more important judge of vital articles than any ol' vital article list. Note that some flexiblity and imagination may allow me to give it to similar articles if we can find a good reason to do so :)

Those prescient enough to develop one which is already an FA (articles noted below), will gain a shiny wiki very soon. Let me know what y'all think and we're off and running... Be bold to modify this or talk on talk page. Come up with ideas for other FAs etc. Note that some words link to two or more articles.

PS: Getting either the songwriter or song to FA status is worth a Flaming Joel-wiki too....

PPS: Feel free to place on on the page of any contributor who worked to get any of the articles already FA below or I'll get onto it tomorrow.

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television

North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjeom

Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

CHORUS - take yer pick there...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron

Dien Bien Phu Falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bar-dot, Buda-pest, Ala-bama, Khrush-chev

Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez

CHORUS

Lit-tle Rock, Paster-nak, Mickey Mantle, Kerou-ac

Sput-nik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge on the River Kwai

Leba-non, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball

Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben-Hur", space monkey, Mafia

hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go(FFA)

U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy

Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

CHORUS

(FFA)Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"

Dylan, Ber-lin, Bay of Pigs Invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania

Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex

JFK, blown away, what else do I have(FFA) to say

CHORUS

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon, back again

Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline

Ayatollolah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune" , Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide

Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law Rock and Roller Cola wars, I can't take it anymore