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if it were changed to "Oh Neasden" or "Manchester" it would work much betterWell they're certainly dark satanic mills  (dody, you should be taking great exception at Manchester being placed in the same context as Neasden  )
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Is it really true that there are more people in DC than in Wyoming? Amazing, if true. And the DC people really should have a vote in Congress. Good grief. Ditto to "Amazing" again.
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In reply to:
and it does have a good "lift" at the end,
Watching the Copa Mundial, I was flabbergasted by the length of the Italian national anthem. It seemed to go on forever, or at least for a fraction longer than it would take to read La Divina Commedia aloud. No wonder the team did so badly, they were out of breath from singing their anthem. God Save the Queen has the great virtue of being short.
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Italian anthemThat would explain much. Our most popular pop singer came to Korea esp. to sing the anthem. What she actually did sing I have no idea, but the tempo indicated she hadn't had a Lucozade (see http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=75331&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&vc=1#Post75331) for days. The team didn't know how to follow the words and they did what we call 'fish-style' singing (opening and closing your mouth without actually making any sound). 2 billion people watched. She (the singer) was banned after Korea beat us 2:0.. That didn't help as Portugal scored 4... Do you remember how it went with the USA? Didn't help much, though...
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Do you remember how it went with the USA?What, against the Poles? Well, the Poles were famously slaughtered by everyone, weren't they? Can't quite remember the result of that one. No, I must be getting the numbers the wrong way around... (USA only eventually beaten by the 2nd best team in this World Cup, mind  C'mon guys, we don't want you good at another sport..)
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the Italian national anthem. It seemed to go on forever...God Save the Queen has the great virtue of being short.A very good point, Vernon (pleased to meet you BTW ). We should get a league table of National Anthems together, marked on length, catchiness, ease of remembering etc.
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The old Siamese Nat. Anthem was good in the shortness league; just the one phrase, "Owa tana, Siam ," repeated 20 (I think) times, at increasing tempo. It has an amazing effect. Try it, out loud, and see what you think. (the "a" is pronounced "ah", BTW)
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Ah, WW:
I think the WW might stand for Wayward Word this time. Yep, there are more people in DC than there are in Wyoming. And yep, they don't have a voting voice in the House and Senate (though they do get to vote for President now, which was at one time not the case.)
BUT!
Not ONE of those people was disenfranchised unwillingly. Not one of them was alive when the District was formed without representation in the Congress. They choose to live there. Each and every person in the District is free to pick up stakes and move across the state line into Virginia or Maryland if that vote is more important to them than the "prestige" of living in the nation's capital.
I'm reminded of the people who move into the flight pattern of an airport because the housing's cheaper there and then complain about the noise of planes flying over.
TEd [/rant]
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