Jokes/puns/shaggy dog tales in songs?

Let us consider The Beatles' Rocky Raccoon:

Rocky Raccoon checked in to his room only to find Gideon's Bible.
Rocky had come equipped with a gun to shoot off the legs of his rival.
His rival it seems had broken his dreams by stealing the girl of his fancy.
Her name was McGill, and she called herself Lil, but everyone knew her as Nancy.
Now she and her man, who called himself Dan, was in the next room at the hoedown.
Rocky burst in, grinning a grin, and said "Danny-boy, this is a showdown!"
But Daniel was hot, he drew first and shot, and Rocky collapsed in the corner.

The doctor came in, stinking of gin, and proceeded to lie on the table.
He said "Rocky, you've met your match." Rocky said "Doc, it's only a scratch.
And I'll be better, I'll be better Doc as soon as I am able."

Rocky Raccoon, fell back in his room, only to find Gideon's Bible.
Gideon checked out, and he left it no doubt, to help with good Rocky's revival!

You have a subtle use of the word 'revival' that's pretty cool. You also have potentially the first reference to an obscure Firesign Theatre line in 'everyone knew her as Nancy'. In Firesign's 'The Further Adventures of Nick Danger', you have Nick looking for his old flame and talking to the butler.

Nick: "I'm looking for Audrey Farber"
Butler: "Audrey Farber?"
Nick: "Meloney Haber?"
Butler: "Meloney Haber?"
Nick: "Susan Underhill?"
Butler: "Susan Underhill?"
Nick: "How about... Betty Jo Bialofski!" (cue dramatic organ music)
Butler: "Oh, you mean Nancy! She's in the aviary stunting trees. I shall fetch her immediately. You can wait here in the sitting room or sit here in the waiting room."

I'm curious if Proctor & Bergman got the idea for their line from The Beatles.

So, the question is: do you know of any other songs that have subtle humor like this in them?

The World Cup Streamed LIVE! In ASCII Graphics...

I've seen some pretty cool ASCII graphics over the years, but I've largely ignored them for a while. Well, these people have converted the World Cup into a streaming ASCII feed. Color me amazed! All you need is a telnet program.

http://www.ascii-wm.net/

telnet ascii-wm.net 2006

Have you noticed the higher number of goals in this cycle's World Cup?

Adidas designed a new ball for the game, it is much smoother than the traditional ball. And that's causing a lot of problems for goalies.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71206-0.html

Fundies say the darndest things

A fun web site. Amazing how many ignorant schmucks there are out there. I really liked this one, it was selected as Troll of the Month:

"The fallacies of gravity

just curious if anyone can explain these errors that many people are aware of when it comes to the theory of gravity

number 1. the way gravity reads, scientists have you think that objects of larger mass would have more of a gravitational pull then objects of smaller mass. so tell me how this makes sense

when we look at the sun we see the earth orbiting the sun, and the moon obriting the earth. if gravity were true, shouldnt our moon be orbiting the sun??? oh better yet, how come a planet way out in the distance such as neptune will orbit the sun, yet its moons will not orbit the sun??? something is wrong here, even at thise immense distances the moons will orbit the planets and not the sun, yet the suns "gravity" is strong enough supposedly to keep the planets in orbit.

number 2. why is it, only planets have orbits?? you could put a space shuttle in outter space and a astronaut will not orbit it. you could put the smallest pebbble into outter space and it will not orbit the space shuttle. why is this???? if gravity were true then surely such small objects would orbit larger ones, especially in space

number 3. on earth we see things that defy "gravity" on a daily basis. birds and airplanes for example. are you going to tell me that the gravity of the sun is strong enough to keep PLUTo in orbit but not an airplane or a little bird??????

number 4. scientists dont know how gravity works. or what it really is, and even then we see anaomolies in space that defy gravity

so my point is that gravity(like other scientifist "tHeories" is very on shaky grounds. it doesnt have the evidnece to back it up, and when examined critically it falls under the pressure(no pun intended )

show me a pebble that orbits a mountain or a bird that orbits the earth and then gravity will make sense. or better yet just show me how gravity works(if it works at all) and then maybe it will be more than just a theory

how do you evolutionsts explain gravity???"

http://fstdt.com/

The Perry Bible Fellowship -- a web comic

I have no idea where he got the name from, but this really funny stuff. He has a real sucker punch style, panels 1 & 2 are nice and pleasent, and then *WHAM!* he does the final panel.

Unfortunately this is an archive, he's supposedly setting up another site, so I don't know if he's adding more strips or what.

http://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/stilltemporary/archive.html

My friend who had a tumor removed last Friday?

Doing reasonably well. The operation lasted six hours, after two hours in recovery he was moved to ICU and Sunday was moved to a regular room. It looks like they were successful in removing the tumor entirely, so that's good. He's going to be on a colostomy bag until he loses another 150 lbs, then they'll be able to reattach everything.

I spoke with him tonight, he was in good spirits but pretty tired, he'd had two guests for a couple of hours and was kinda fatigued. He had a bit of a complication that was discovered today, the suture site (well, staples, actually) developed a subcutaneous infection. They had to remove the staples, clean it up, and pack it. That'll slow his recovery just a bit, I don't know if he'll be able to walk much until that heals.