Re: Ice tea and Robin Hood
From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, August 31, 2004, 10:05 |
Staving Steg Belsky:
>What about the possibility of _Robin_ being semi-reanalyzed as
>_robbin'_, since that's what Robin Hood does - he "robs from the rich
>and gives to the poor".
To save my steeple
I visited people,
For this I'd gone
When I met Little John.
His name came, I understood
When the judge said, "You are a robbing hood."
Genesis, The Battle of Epping Forest, from Selling England By The Pound, 1973
(Banks, Collins, Gabriel, Hackett, Rutherford)
Pete