Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "This subtle Monty Python reference was originally the first verse of the They Might Be Giants song Particle Man, but the reference was deemed too obscure."

• They Might Be Giants
• the god that can be killed was never god in the first place
• If I was a woman I'd be a feminist too
• She was too beautiful to be human
• The Enigmatic Head of They Might Be Giants
• It was the Fourth Verse that they couldn't deal with
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• Adam really was the first man
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• I was not made for love songs, and love songs will never be made for me.
• Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• So I was drinking with the son of Man the other night, and...
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• The Man Who Was Thursday
• This wasn't how it was supposed to be
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• I'm Rudy Giuliani! I was mayor of New York on 9/11! I Should Be The President!
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• this is unlike the story it was written to be
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Man was created in God's image
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• RIT was supposed to be built in New Mexico
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• If this was an Olympic Sport, I'd be world champion
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• His love was enormous; it cleared rooms that desperately wanted to be full.
• The first time I saw him was I emit tsal ehT
• My first and last attempt at a one night stand was raided by the police
• I was supposed to be dead when this picture was taken
• Your husband was a great man
• for a long time i was afraid i would forget; now i'm afraid i might not
• I was a free man once, in Saigon
• The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
• John 3:16 was said to one man, at night
• Could you be any more of a poseur? 'Changes' was a best-of!
• Tribute to the Man Who Never Was (document)
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• the title is an obscure reference to a thing, i am actually a guy
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• My father's secret life was never meant to be secret
• The total sum of all things would be zero if it was not for love
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• Starving in the greenhouse
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• /but what was the question?
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• I was so cool, that first afternoon
• After all, the Bible says Jesus' first miraculous sign was to make 180 gallons of wine for a party!
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• The first time I knew I was different
• My very first mentor was a heroin junkie
• If God was willing to let it be
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
• My man was shot for his sheep coat
• There was an Old Man on some rocks
• Man Was Made to Mourn
• man when you are telling me how it was
• this was supposed to be a parable about the power of the imagination
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• References to Tolkien in Led Zeppelin songs
• Lyrical references in Blink 182 songs
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• Nobody cares if it was originally a nodeshell
• The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
• Jesus was a Gay Black Hippie Jew (song only) (recording)
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
• It was better before they came
• I was the man who never lied. I never lied until today.
• they does not know what it might be to live without them
• I was into them after they were hip
• He was a man stuck between the objective and the subjective
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• If I were watched alone, I'd be considered insane
• Because the weather is always beautiful, they don't even know that storms can be beautiful too.
• The secret mission of E2 is to train us to be reference librarians
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• I was supposed to be somebody by the age of 23
• I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
• but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• Where's the kaboom?
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
• (and it wasn’t in my time nor yet in your time: but a very good time it was for all that)
• It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• The first iron-on transfer I made myself was controversial
• Oxygen was the world's first pollutant
• Hot pursuit
• She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• God was created in man's image
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• Cain was the first technologist
• If love was a circus, you'd be a clown
• The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
• There was once a Man
• The world was designed for giant squid
• Willy Loman was wrong in life but he was right on the inside
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• There was a man and a woman
• Jesus was a black man
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• That man was a sock puppet on the hand of God.
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• Of Gods and Men: Who Was This Man Called the Christ?
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• This Dust Was Once the Man
• The Man Who Was (user)

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