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My question is, why would they be chanting "plates, plates, plates" rather than "ham, ham, ham"? Stupid Canadians.

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It's possible that my position on this matter will become clearer through analogy. Like if there was a band and all their songs were about soup. Now I like a good soup (almost as much as I like to party), but in a band I can only tolerate three, maybe four songs about soup. Maybe if a band released a concept album about soup, then I could get behind that too, but you get what I'm driving at. If this band had too many songs about soup, or if all their songs were about soup and the songs were all called things like 'Let's Get Wet With Soup', 'Souper Trooper', 'Souper Man', and 'The Soup Soup Song' eventually they would run out of meaningful things to say about soup, and while it would eventually become obvious that to only sing songs about soup was supposed in itself to be a statement, perhaps their purely soup-based subject matter would get a bit thin or even a little cloying and I'd be like, 'Hey, I get that you like soup, but what about exploring other avenues, or even write a song that was ambiguous in its feelings about soup. Hell, you could even write a song that looked at some of the more negative aspects about soup instead of being so relentlessly pro-soup all the time since while soup is good, man cannot live on soup alone. Sometimes a guy just wants a sandwich, and that's not a slight against soup, just a wish for variety because if you have it all the time then you forget what makes soup so special.' And it's really the same with Andrew W.K.