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Emperor MAR's idea originally appearing on the ateaseweb message board Decebmer 10, 2003 then reappearing again (after the board had been rebooted) starting August 4, 2004 as the thread Cornball Madness (Thread Reprise) where other people's ideas are shown as well.
Dec. 10, 2003
Prove Yourself
"Nowhere to sit without a gun in my hand"
Thom & another super glue accident
Creep
"I don't belong here"
uh oh look like someone put the Thom Yorke "Action Figure" in the wrong isle
"she's running out again"
referring to the local record shop running out of RADIOHEAD cds.. Again!
Pop is Dead
"oh no pop is dead"
referring to his soda pop gone flat
High & Dry
"Flying on your motorcycle, watching all the ground beneath you drop"
Referring to Professor Frink
Just
"Can't get the stink off"
Thom reminisces about the time he was sprayed by a skunk
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
"I can feel their blue hands touching me"
A nightmare Thom had after seeing Blue Man Group
"This machine will not communicate"
Thom tries a Windows PC
Man-O-War
"You're my man-o-war"
what Thom sang to his favorite toy
Paranoid Android
"What's that?"
seems that Thom has some hearing issues due to years of Rock
"You don't remember? You don't remember! Why don't you remember my name!? Off with his head man!"
An interviewer forgets Thom's name & Thom calls on his goon to kill him.
Lucky
"I'm on a roll"
another dream in which Thom dreamed he was butter
Let Down
"and one day, I'm gonna grow wings"
written when Thom lived next to a Nuclear Plant
"but he calls me up calls me on the phone tells me all the ways that hes gonna mess me up"
Thom singing about a lost wager
Everything in its Right Place
"Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon"
The rest of the band pulls a Prank on Thom
Optimistic
"Flies are buzzing round my head Put him in the pot"
about how hard it is to get a good shower when on tour
Knives Out
"Catch the mouse Squash his head"
Thom admitting to the fear of mice, originally recorded on an early take of the song when Thom saw a mouse & panicked ordering Ed to "Catch the mouse! Squash his head!" then Ed at a loss, put him in the pot
Sit Down, Stand Up
"Sit down, stand up"
Thom's favorite things to say during Simon Says
"We can wipe you out anytime"
what Thom imagines germs saying to him
Where I End and You Begin
"i can watch but not take part"
Thom mourning how he never got picked for sports at Abington
We Suck Young Blood
"are you hungry? are you sick?"
Thom wonders why baby Noah was crying
I Will
"I will lay me down in a bunker underground"
Thom hiding his secret clone for future generations
The Gloaming
"Genie let out the bottle It is now the witching hour"
Thom & the band watch an hour block of I Dream of Genie
Scatterbrain
"yesterday's headlines blown by the wind."
Thom speaking out against litter
Wolf at the Door
"takes all your credit cards"
Thom singing about women
"Nowhere to sit without a gun in my hand"
Thom & another super glue accident
Creep
"I don't belong here"
uh oh look like someone put the Thom Yorke "Action Figure" in the wrong isle
"she's running out again"
referring to the local record shop running out of RADIOHEAD cds.. Again!
Pop is Dead
"oh no pop is dead"
referring to his soda pop gone flat
High & Dry
"Flying on your motorcycle, watching all the ground beneath you drop"
Referring to Professor Frink
Just
"Can't get the stink off"
Thom reminisces about the time he was sprayed by a skunk
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
"I can feel their blue hands touching me"
A nightmare Thom had after seeing Blue Man Group
"This machine will not communicate"
Thom tries a Windows PC
Man-O-War
"You're my man-o-war"
what Thom sang to his favorite toy
Paranoid Android
"What's that?"
seems that Thom has some hearing issues due to years of Rock
"You don't remember? You don't remember! Why don't you remember my name!? Off with his head man!"
An interviewer forgets Thom's name & Thom calls on his goon to kill him.
Lucky
"I'm on a roll"
another dream in which Thom dreamed he was butter
Let Down
"and one day, I'm gonna grow wings"
written when Thom lived next to a Nuclear Plant
"but he calls me up calls me on the phone tells me all the ways that hes gonna mess me up"
Thom singing about a lost wager
Everything in its Right Place
"Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon"
The rest of the band pulls a Prank on Thom
Optimistic
"Flies are buzzing round my head Put him in the pot"
about how hard it is to get a good shower when on tour
Knives Out
"Catch the mouse Squash his head"
Thom admitting to the fear of mice, originally recorded on an early take of the song when Thom saw a mouse & panicked ordering Ed to "Catch the mouse! Squash his head!" then Ed at a loss, put him in the pot
Sit Down, Stand Up
"Sit down, stand up"
Thom's favorite things to say during Simon Says
"We can wipe you out anytime"
what Thom imagines germs saying to him
Where I End and You Begin
"i can watch but not take part"
Thom mourning how he never got picked for sports at Abington
We Suck Young Blood
"are you hungry? are you sick?"
Thom wonders why baby Noah was crying
I Will
"I will lay me down in a bunker underground"
Thom hiding his secret clone for future generations
The Gloaming
"Genie let out the bottle It is now the witching hour"
Thom & the band watch an hour block of I Dream of Genie
Scatterbrain
"yesterday's headlines blown by the wind."
Thom speaking out against litter
Wolf at the Door
"takes all your credit cards"
Thom singing about women
August 4-5, 2004
"They all drive killer cars"
Thom accidentally vistits a demolition derby
"Let down & hanging around"
another suicide attempt...
"You been stuck in a lift"
Rachel can't get out of her new push up bra
"I am gone everybodys raging"
The band leaves without an encore
"I feel my luck could change"
Thom bets it all on a hand of 3 card monte
"Nothing Touches Me"
what Thom will sing when he's a ghost
"Fitter Happier.."
The boys of RADIOHEAD still amazed by Al Roker
"I stood in front of her face
When the first bullet was shot"
Thom is held hostage
"I resent you calling"
what the guy whose phone # appeared on Airbag\How Am I Driving? said for months on end
"when I go forwards you go backwards"
Thom's former dancing instructor
"but she's out with her answerphone"
Thom dates a telemarketer
"no ripcord"
Thom's bell with cord attached to it is stolen, which he used to call his rip cord b/c everytime he'd rip one (fartuhdepoo) he'd ring the bell in triumph
"This one's Optimistic"
a lyric that Thom didn't write in late 1993
"I wrapped you inside my coat"
Thom sings about a hairless cat he gave phil in which he couldn't afford wrapping paper
Fast Track
-Thom feeds his Paranoid Android
"a man hovers in the dust...dust..dust."
Ed reminisces about the end of the Street Spirit video
"all we want is to be like you"
Ed tells the world about how RADIOHEAD wants to be like me, Emperor MAR (flying hat)
"When I turn 'round you stay frozen to the spot"
Thom Yorke reveals the millennium old secret that he infact is the mythical Medusa
"So unplug the phone Stop all the taps"
Thom's exgirlfriend telemarketer won't leave him alone
"And it seems to fall out of the sky and come down on you Oh baby burn"
Whilst drunk Thom confuses water & fire
"Even though I try I can't"
Thom tries to get the top score on Galaxian
"everything is broken"
Thom confronts a bully in a china shop
"fat houseflies genocide"
Thom comments on how fat houseflies can cause genocide during flysawtter accidents
"Its such a beautiful day"
Thom gets a shiny new calendar
Thom accidentally vistits a demolition derby
"Let down & hanging around"
another suicide attempt...
"You been stuck in a lift"
Rachel can't get out of her new push up bra
"I am gone everybodys raging"
The band leaves without an encore
"I feel my luck could change"
Thom bets it all on a hand of 3 card monte
"Nothing Touches Me"
what Thom will sing when he's a ghost
"Fitter Happier.."
The boys of RADIOHEAD still amazed by Al Roker
"I stood in front of her face
When the first bullet was shot"
Thom is held hostage
"I resent you calling"
what the guy whose phone # appeared on Airbag\How Am I Driving? said for months on end
"when I go forwards you go backwards"
Thom's former dancing instructor
"but she's out with her answerphone"
Thom dates a telemarketer
"no ripcord"
Thom's bell with cord attached to it is stolen, which he used to call his rip cord b/c everytime he'd rip one (fartuhdepoo) he'd ring the bell in triumph
"This one's Optimistic"
a lyric that Thom didn't write in late 1993
"I wrapped you inside my coat"
Thom sings about a hairless cat he gave phil in which he couldn't afford wrapping paper
Fast Track
-Thom feeds his Paranoid Android
"a man hovers in the dust...dust..dust."
Ed reminisces about the end of the Street Spirit video
"all we want is to be like you"
Ed tells the world about how RADIOHEAD wants to be like me, Emperor MAR (flying hat)
"When I turn 'round you stay frozen to the spot"
Thom Yorke reveals the millennium old secret that he infact is the mythical Medusa
"So unplug the phone Stop all the taps"
Thom's exgirlfriend telemarketer won't leave him alone
"And it seems to fall out of the sky and come down on you Oh baby burn"
Whilst drunk Thom confuses water & fire
"Even though I try I can't"
Thom tries to get the top score on Galaxian
"everything is broken"
Thom confronts a bully in a china shop
"fat houseflies genocide"
Thom comments on how fat houseflies can cause genocide during flysawtter accidents
"Its such a beautiful day"
Thom gets a shiny new calendar
July 18, 2007
"I'm walking out.."
Thom quitting the band to work on the Eraser but not letting the public know
"machine gun cameras"
Thom's only clue given about the time he was captured by terrorists
"to be a brilliant light"
Thom refering to On A Friday's long lost television performance
"This is your warning"
Thom writes the lyrics to 4 Minute Warning
"I don't know why I feel so tongue tied"
Thom after the first take of A Wolf At the Door
"You bit me"
The event that made RADIOHEAD hire more security
"Why should I stay?"
A contemplation by Ed regarding a second encore during the Kid A era
"15 Step"
Thom was a really severe drunk
Thom quitting the band to work on the Eraser but not letting the public know
"machine gun cameras"
Thom's only clue given about the time he was captured by terrorists
"to be a brilliant light"
Thom refering to On A Friday's long lost television performance
"This is your warning"
Thom writes the lyrics to 4 Minute Warning
"I don't know why I feel so tongue tied"
Thom after the first take of A Wolf At the Door
"You bit me"
The event that made RADIOHEAD hire more security
"Why should I stay?"
A contemplation by Ed regarding a second encore during the Kid A era
"15 Step"
Thom was a really severe drunk