Radio Silence

New song parody from Barsoom Tork Associates ...

Title: Radio Silence
Artist: Moulton
Composer: Roger Taylor and Barsoom Tork Associates
YouTube: Radio Ga Ga ~ Queen

I'd sit alone and catch your light
My Wiki friend through sleepless nights
And everything I had to know
I heard it all from Allio

You baleeted all those vandal stars
Through edit wars down pits of tar
You made us laugh, you made us cry
You made us feel like we could fly (Allio)

So don't become some faded pearl
A private cult for chippie girls
Who just don't know or just don't care
And just complain when I endure

You had your time, you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Allio (Allio)

All I hear is radio silence
Allio silent
Radio silence
All I hear is radio silence
Allio nah nah
Allio, what's new?
Allio, someone still loves you

We watch the trials, we play our parts
We Google search for hours and hours
We hardly need to use our heads
How thinking changes through our dreads

Let's hope you won’t retreat old friend
Like all good things we must defend
So keep the faith and make amends
When we grow tired of drama trends

You had your time, you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Allio (Allio)

All I hear is radio silence
Allio silent
Radio silence
All I hear is radio silence
Allio nah nah
Allio silent
All I hear is radio silence
Allio nah nah
Allio, what's new?
Someone still loves you

Radio silence
Allio silent
Radio silence

You had your time, you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Allio (Allio)

CopyClef 2019 Roger Taylor and Barsoom Tork Associates.
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Radio Ga Ga ~ Queen

Good Time Allie’s Got the Blues

New song parody from Barsoom Tork Associates ...

Title: Good Time Allie’s Got the Blues
Artist: Moulton
Composer: Danny O’Keefe and Barsoom Tork Associates
YouTube: Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues ~ Danny O’Keefe

Everybody's gone astray
Like they're acting in a play
There's not a soul I know around
Everybody's feeling’ down

Some caught a slight, some caught a pain
Where’s the sunshine? Down the drain
They said this tale’s a waste of time
I guess they're right, it's wastin' mine

Some gotta win, some gotta lose
Good time Allie’s got the blues
Good time Allie's got the blues

Ya know my heart keeps tellin' me
"You're not a kid at fifty-three"
"Ya play around, ya gin up strife"
"Ya play too long, you waste your life"

I got my thrills to ease the pain
Can't find a thing to please the brain
I'd love to try and clear the frown
But everybody's feelin’ down

Some gotta win, some gotta lose
Good time Allie's got the blues
Good time Allie's got the blues
Good time Allie's got the blues

CopyClef 2019 Danny O’Keefe and Barsoom Tork Associates.
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Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues ~ Danny O'Keefe

How I Snared a Nigerian Scammer Before Breakfast (and You Can Too)

Twenty-five years ago, when I worked as a Visiting Scientist in the Educational Technology Research Group at BBN, one of our distinguished managers was the late Beverly Hunter, who came to us after a stint at the National Science Foundation.

Sadly, Beverly died a year and a half ago at age 77.

Thus I was startled, two days ago, when I received a message purporting to be from Beverly on Facebook Messenger.

Two days ago also happened to be the birthday of her widowed husband, Hal. So my first guess was that some family member had fired up an old computer and inadvertently logged on with Beverly's credentials. That hypothesis was quickly dispelled when the person on Messenger claimed to be Beverly.

To make a long story short, my correspondent on Facebook Messenger who was impersonating a dead colleague of mine turned out to be a Nigerian scammer using a newly created Facebook Messenger account, pretending to be Beverly Hunter.

He connects to FB Messenger from a mobile in Nigeria and tries to induce Beverly's friends into texting a scam operator about obtaining grant money for "old school and retired people as well as disabled people."

I busted him. Here is a screenshot of my conversation with the Nigerian scammer pretending to be Beverly Hunter.

Messenger Chat Log with Nigerian Scammer

P.S. Update: As of this morning, the fake Messenger account has been deleted by FB.