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I've heard of restaurants with atmosphere. I've even heard of bars with atmosphere. But I ain't ever heard of no moon with atmosphere!

cleaning off the desktop

Sometimes I get bored at work. In certain jobs I have a *lot* of time to think but not much ability to concentrate. Often these are the jobs where I'll also listen to music. The result is filk. The following is because of one line that scanned just perfectly to an LJ name. The rest of the song is very difficult to scan with anything other than the original lyrics. As a result it lingered on my desktop for months.

From the tune to "The Girl from the Wadi Hammamat" by The Pogues:

( cut for length and sanity )

And the original lyrics for those who haven't memorized them and too lazy to google:

( cut for length )