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Hey Chris.... I posted your little parody of Modern Major General to another
mail list that Ys and I are on (as I said in the post, it was only fitting
that the song be cross posted). This was the response:
> In a message dated 3/3/99 Ysobelle at aol_com wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 3/3/99 4:17:34 PM, DncngFerrt at aol_com wrote:
>>
>>>In a message dated 3/3/99 10:32:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>>>yavin at mindspring_com writes:
>>>
>>> I got this from another mail list. I thought people here would like it.
>>> Besides, if I didn't cross post it, the whole thing would go to hell,
>>> wouldn't it?
>>>
>>Wow!
>>
>>Unlike most internet parodies, it actually scans and rhymes...and it's kinda
>>funny. AND it correctly uses five dollar words, too.
>>
>>Weird Al would be proud.
>>
>>Living in an Amish Paradise,
>
>
>
> The really frightening thing to me is that despite not having heard the song
> in years-- except for my Dad singing it when I bought a "Gilbert & Sullivan
> complete librettos" book for him for my parents' anniversary last summer
> (Dad's cool like that)-- I can actually sing this whole thing.
>
> Brian, we should tell Chris. It'd bring a tear to his eye.
>
--
"It's too much.
There are too many dismembered, butterfly-winged words
with not enough display cases to hold
my theoritical heart."
- Brian Gardner "Remembering Mother"
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