Talk:Colonel Bogey March

I don't suppose this would ever go into the wikipedia, but preserved here for temporary posterity, until the great slaughter of the talk pages in 2018, one set of World War II lyrics to Colonel Bogey, bold and commas for simulating rhythm:

Hitler has only one left ball,

Goebbels has two but they're quite small

Himmler has something sim'lar,

And Mussolini hasn't any, at all!

Ortolan88

Should we ever ammass a treasury of all the variants, here's the page that's currently a redirect to here: Hitler has only got one ball. In the meantime, IMO, it's better all on one article, since I think most readers will read both. -- Tarquin 22:30 Oct 14, 2002 (UTC)

Okay, Tarquin, should the lyrics be here or on the "ammass" page. Don't see any point in both, but if this is offensive, why not pull the skimpy seventh veil of discretion over them and post them on the "one ball" page? Ortolan88 17:17 Nov 4, 2002 (UTC)

I'd say put them all here, unless we start to have dozens of them and it turns into YetAnotherRepositoryOfStuff page (qv collective nouns, etc) -- Tarquin 17:27 Nov 4, 2002 (UTC)

I'd day put one here and tuck the rest away. That will encourage contribution of even more vulgar versions and yet respect the sensibilities of the readers. Ortolan88 23:10 Nov 4, 2002 (UTC)

Yeah, okay. -- Tarquin 23:45 Nov 4, 2002 (UTC) (looking forward to these more vulgar versions!)

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I disagree with moving the "Hitler has only one ball" here. I thought having it on a seperate page with a link to it was a much better solution.

The Colonel Bogey March is a nice piece of music, and the original composer and publication had nothing to do with Hitlerian monorchicism. That subject now takes up some 3/4 of the article. What next, a long discussion of ducks on the John Phillip Sousa page, because some people sing "Be Kind to your Web-Footed Friends" to the tune of one of his marches? -- Infrogmation 16:24 Nov 11, 2002 (UTC)

I agree. I think, salty talker though I am and strong proponent of having these lyrics in the Wikipedia, that it is generally much better to put potentially offensive material on a separate link so people can decide if they want to see it. No censorship, just consideration for the reader. Ortolan88

You're right. Let's put all the lyrics on the other page and make a mention of the piece of music being used as a war song here: it makes more sense. -- Tarquin

How about Colonel Bogey March (alternate lyrics)[?]? Same for "...a duck may be somebody's mother" --Ed Poor

Ed, I think you misunderstand. The lyrics are at Hitler has only got one ball; Infrog's point is that they are a separate entity from the march which is an instrumental piece of music. -- Tarquin

Actually, I think Ed has a point. When I was a kid, the only lyrics I knew to that song were, "Comet, it tastes like listerine. Comet, it makes your teeth turn green. Comet, it makes you vomit. So get some Comet, and vomit, today". Then again, the "Comet" version is an example of a certain category of children's variants of certain songs. Another example I can think of is "Glory, glory hallelujah, teacher hit me with a ruler", sung to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic". So maybe we need an article on children's variants to popular song lyrics. soulpatch

That would be cool. You could add the trademark paranoids to the copyright paranoids. Ortolan88

Well, I think the "Hitler" part of the link is valuable information. I would also think that "web-footed friends" should be mentioned in the other case. Ortolan88

All I care about is where the one-ball lyrics go:

(A) Colonel Bogey March

(B) Hitler has only got one ball

(C) both places

I'd rather not have the duplication of (C), if you don't mind. --Ed Poor

• I've returned it to (B), with (A) having a link to (B). I think that's the most sensible solution, since they are really two seperate (though related) topics. -- Infrogmation 21:40 Nov 14, 2002 (UTC)