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==The Near Future== |
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In the near future the world shall change immensely, there will be blocks of cheese guarding the streets and borders to ensure that you will not escape. If you attempt this impossible task you shall be put down immediately, not only getting rid of one more rebel of the cheese overlords but scaring the other captives, thus there will be fewer attempts of escaping. You will all work on farms and factories either milking cows for the cheese or blowing up the factories that make the disgusting knock off of the real cheese who's name I despise so...Processed Cheese. I shutter every time I hear the name, luckily, they are destroying the factories. You will have scarce amounts of food for the cheese overlords of the world will conceal and horde it all to themselves and their cheese accomplices so your only chance of survival will be taking out some of the cheese guards for nourishment and future rations. The only downside to it is you will have to eat cheese for the rest of your life, but, thats not very bad at all because cheese is delicious and no one could ever possibly grow tired of it. Although the lactose intolerant people will die out, that just means there is one less disease in the world to infect our human species. So basically, you will eat cheese for the rest of your life and work on farms milking cows, even though you may wish for this event to not occur, it shall, and the human race will be enslaved by our obvious superior rulers, CHEESE! |
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Revision as of 05:13, 21 January 2009
The Near Future is the name of a song written by Irving Berlin in 1919. It is better known for the small part of its lyric that took on a life of its own: "How Dry I Am".
The term "Dry" in that time period meant abstinence from alcohol, and support of Prohibition. Those who took the opposite approach and/or view were often called "Wet". Prohibition became fact in 1920, in "the near future" after the song was issued.
This portion of the song...
- How dry I am, how dry I am
- It's plain to see just why I am
- No alcohol in my highball
- And that is why so dry I am
...became known for its ironic use, by people getting drunk and singing it, sometimes in harmony, in all manner of popular media, especially Warner Bros. cartoons. That usage necessitated removing the parts that overtly denied drinking, which tended to reduce the song to these two lines:
- How dry I am, how dry I am
- Nobody knows how dry I am... Hooow dryyy I aaaaaam!
On the other hand, the origin of the ditty “How Dry I Am” predates Berlin's song and the prohibition era. It is documented as a song being sung by day-laborers in 1907 and is certainly much older.[citation needed]
“How Dry I Am” has come to represent what may be the single most widely used four-note sequence to begin a popular song. The notes, in the key of C, are G4-C5-D5-E5. In any key, the notes, based on their position in the major scale, are 5-8-9-10.
The idea that “How Dry I Am” is based on an old spiritual is probably valid. A scan through a church hymnal may reveal dozens of songs and hymns with that same beginning sequence.
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The Near Future
In the near future the world shall change immensely, there will be blocks of cheese guarding the streets and borders to ensure that you will not escape. If you attempt this impossible task you shall be put down immediately, not only getting rid of one more rebel of the cheese overlords but scaring the other captives, thus there will be fewer attempts of escaping. You will all work on farms and factories either milking cows for the cheese or blowing up the factories that make the disgusting knock off of the real cheese who's name I despise so...Processed Cheese. I shutter every time I hear the name, luckily, they are destroying the factories. You will have scarce amounts of food for the cheese overlords of the world will conceal and horde it all to themselves and their cheese accomplices so your only chance of survival will be taking out some of the cheese guards for nourishment and future rations. The only downside to it is you will have to eat cheese for the rest of your life, but, thats not very bad at all because cheese is delicious and no one could ever possibly grow tired of it. Although the lactose intolerant people will die out, that just means there is one less disease in the world to infect our human species. So basically, you will eat cheese for the rest of your life and work on farms milking cows, even though you may wish for this event to not occur, it shall, and the human race will be enslaved by our obvious superior rulers, CHEESE!