Top Space Man
3Kinda like Mad Ape Den, when all the words have to be 3 letters long, they redid Space Oddity by David Bowie using only the 1,000 most common words in the English language. It's called Up-Go.
There's also an insert in the lower left of the original video, which they also parodied.
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SPACE WEIRD THING
(David Bowie's "Space Oddity" translated into Up-go)
Ground control to top space man
Ground control to top space man
Take your small food rocks and put your head-safe on
Ground control to top space man
(ten, ten less one, ten less two, seven,
Start the numbers-down, big fires on
six, five, four, three, two, one, up-go!)
Check the start thing and may God's love be with you...
This is Ground Control to top space man,
you’re really first in class
and the papers want to know which person's shirts you wear
now it’s time to leave the space-house since you’re there
This is top space man to Ground Control,
I’m stepping through the door
and I’m relaxing in the air and it’s weird
and the stars look very different today
For here am I sitting in a lunch box, far above the world
Home space ball is blue, and there’s nothing I can do
Though I’m past five hundred hundred hundred hundred feet,
I’m feeling very cool
And I think my space car knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much -- she knows
Ground Control to top space man,
your talk line’s dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, top space man? Can you hear me, top space man?
Can you hear me, top space man?
Can you....here -- I’m relaxing in my lunch box
Far above the space night light ball
Home space ball is blue, and there’s nothing I can do
Catalyst (thing that makes causes)
I saw this; was linked from ExplainXKCD (XKCD did a comic diagramming the Saturn Five rocket with the 1000 most-used words in the English language. I love it! There is even a web-app text editor that you can use to compse using the "ten hundred most used words."