The Cult of Lincoln

Holy cow. Ancient files upon ancient disks! I found my first attempt at Potterfic, which unbeknownst to me at the time sparked the Percy Weasley fandom. I found a ridiculous quantity of etymological research I did for my failed Marauderfic. I found pages of early HP4GU message clippings I saved for one reason or another. I found parodies I started, but never completed. And I found this gem from October 2000, back when RML was alive and kicking. God Bless Filks. ::gives Ellie Rosenthal alterego a swift kick in the head for good measure::

I could upload this to the RML website and link it here, but I'm a lazy bum. Come on, scrolling isn't that painful.

Another Mailing List (Another Pyramid, AIDA)
Original music by Elton John and Tim Rice
Parody lyrics by Ellie Rosenthal

Ellie: While you're wasting all your bandwidth
On the rest of all the web
Let your course start to expand with
An entirely different ebb

Now, you know, this means a changing
In the emails you'll receive
There will be a wider ranging
In ideas you will conceive

Now, come on, you know you've gotta
You won't know what you'd have missed.
Send an email to Renata
Start another mailing list

There are many who will join us
Soon we'll have newbies galore.
Though a couple may annoy us
We can put them on "ignore".

If this list is going to last, now
If we want it to succeed
Then our modems must be fast, now
and Renata must take the lead.

Soon our mailboxes will all be filled
And AOhell' be pissed.
Switch subscription forms to "digest"
For another mailing list

Backups: Join it, join it. Another mailing list

Ellie: I hope you have time to read all
Of the email that we send (send!)
You'll become an anti-social
And you'll lose all of your friends (friends!)

By Renata's coronation
We'll have Lincoln on the dime
We'll achieve world domination
One small country at a time.

All our families will gag and choke --
What step in upbringing had they missed? --
When we say we want to meet folks
From another mailing list.

Backups: Join it, join it.
Join it, join it.
Join it, join it.
Join it --

::music::

Ellie: You can check the huge list archive
See how popular it is!
So encourage all your friends to join
Renata's mailing list.