I am Going to the Lordy

[dusematic]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Guiteau


I am going to the Lordy, I am so glad,
I am going to the Lordy, I am so glad,
I am going to the Lordy,
Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah!
I am going to the Lordy.
I love the Lordy with all my soul,
Glory hallelujah!
And that is the reason I am going to the Lord,
Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah!
I am going to the Lord.
I saved my party and my land,
Glory hallelujah!
But they have murdered me for it,
And that is the reason I am going to the Lordy,
Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah!
I am going to the Lordy!
I wonder what I will do when I get to the Lordy,
I guess that I will weep no more
When I get to the Lordy!
Glory hallelujah!
I wonder what I will see when I get to the Lordy,
I expect to see most glorious things,
Beyond all earthly conception
When I am with the Lordy!
Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah!
I am with the Lord.



Also:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Station_UVB-76

generally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_stations

example:  http://www.swldxer.co.uk/e14.wma

[stray]

What does the first guy have to do with the Numbers Stations?


Or rather, wtf prompted this thread in general?

[dusematic]

Nothing in common with one another.  I just thought both were interesting, but didn't justify a separate thread for each.

[Tale]

Should I take from this:

1. a) In these days of President Barack Hussein Obama, we should note that a past presidential assassin thought he was a patriot doing God's work
or
1. b) lulz old ppl wr0t3 liek tards

2. a) Mysterious radio signal may indicate something sinister like a Cold War-esque Russian conspiracy.
or
2. b) olga bzzt beep igor borscht

[dusematic]

I thought Guiteau was about as hilarious as an assassin can get.  The shortwave radio thing fascinated me, as I was hitherto unaware.

[Yoru]

You should also take away that Stephen Sondheim is awesome.

[Simond]

The Conet Project's got a bunch of recordings of number stations: http://www.archive.org/details/ird059
Some sound like they should be background music to Fallout intros or similar post-apocalyptic things. For example: http://ia300124.us.archive.org/3/items/ird059/tcp_d1_07_gong_station_chimes_irdial.mp3
Tell me you can't picture a camera panning over the ruins of a nuked city when that is playing.

[Numtini]

You should also take away that Stephen Sondheim is awesome.

Absolutely.