After reading Slider_Sarah's admittedly very clever BFA Song, I started trying to think up a retaliatory ABL song that touched on the themes of war, men, patriotism... and berets. To my surprise I realized there actually was one: "The Ballad of the Green Berets". A little re-jigging and we have:

*The Ballad of the Anti-Berets*

Watching Sliders
on Sci-Fi;
Or maybe Space,
Perhaps on Sky;
We're men who mean,
Just what we say:
We'll rid this board,
Of all berets.

Chorus:

We are the side,
That's tastefully dressed;
We're fighting men,
BritSlider's best;
We'll hunt them down,
Those B.F.A.'s;
And we will burn,
All their berets.

Five captured men,
In a B.F.A. base;
Escaped on foot,
Without leaving a trace;
What they had seen,
Was dark and foul:
Unspeakable things,
Involving towels.

(Chorus)

At home today,
Sits a young wife;
Those B.F.A.'s,
Took her husband's life;
He died to save,
The fashion-oppressed;
Leaving her,
With his last request.

"Keep our son,
Tastefully dressed.
Make him one,
Of BritSlider's best.
He'll be a man,
Who'll post one day;
And rid this board,
Of those scummy berets."

Blinker 7:-)

P.S. Doesn't anyone find it a little odd that Slider_Sarah wears a peace symbol while cheerfully waging a war?

P.P.S. Suppose from now on all actual Sliders-related posts should be labeled "NBR" [Non-Beret Related]?

Hey!
Date: 2/18/99
From: Slider_Sarah

Okay,

1) It's still a fairly peaceful war. We haven't gone out with guns or threatened to burn things (like you have) so it's a peaceful war. We have other, much more effactive tactics to win you over.

2) It's also the anti-nuclear symbol which I am very against. However, some people may not know what I mean if I call it that. I will call it the anti-nuclear sign from now on and refer all those asking to you.

"We're here. Then again, maybe we're not."

Slider_Sarah (she of the powder blue beret with lilac ANTI-NUCLEAR symbol)
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dreamworld/7247/slidindex.html

P.S. I like my song better cos I actually know the tune of mine.

P.P.S. When's your part of the story going up?

P.P.P.S. I get to watch Season 8 of Red Dwarf tonight on BBC2!

< a tear to the eye > (end)
Date: 2/18/99
From: Poolboy19

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Slider_Sarah
Date: 2/18/99
From: Blinker

I'm pretty busy right now. You can post your part of the story first.

Blinker 7:-)

Outstanding!!
Date: 2/19/99
From: BritSlider

Blinker, that song was inspired! LOL!

I hearby grant you a field promotion to the rank of Sergeant, and I'm pround to announce that you will become the first recipient of the 'Order of the ABL' medal.

Wear it with pride my loyal soldier. Your song will now be sung at the start of all our meetings.

BritSlider
C in C of the 'Anti-Beret League'

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