Re: slowness...

Am 04/07 19:09  Cian Ross yscrifef:
> On 04/04/2001 at 1:09 PM Dan Seriff wrote:
> >
> >Something I've actually heard come out of someone's mouth:
> >
> >"If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!"
> >
> >The guy simply didn't grasp the concept that Jesus spoke Aramaic, and
> >that an English that he'd recognize didn't show up until 1500 years
> >later. People think that TV rots the mind, but I think that being
> >American does a better job.
>
> I believe it was a national politician of some sort who said that...which
> shows not that being an American rots the mind, but rather that being
> a politician rots the mind. :)
>
I think I may have posted these lyrics before, but somebody might find
them amusing.

> "The Queen's English". Lyrics and music (c) Don McGlashan, 1994.
>
> On a West Coast station, there was a
> U.S. Congressman, he was a
> Guest on a talk show on the
> Subject of language
> And he said
> And he said
>
> "I'm a great one
> For giving people their due,
> But you have to draw the line sometimes
> And when I look up ahead
> I can only see one world
> And it's a world without interpreters and phrasebooks because...
>
> The Queen's English was
> Good enough for Jesus Christ
> And it's good enough for me." (x2)
>
> Julius Caesar when he
> Stepped onto the shore he
> Didn't do some rain dance he just
> Said it plain, he said:
> "I came, I saw, and I conquered"
>
> So don't try to make me
> Feel like a fool
> I know what I stand for
> And I know what they want
> They just want to feel special
> But they're wrong, they're wrong, they're wrong, they're so wrong
> because
>
> The Queen's English was
> Good enough for Jesus Christ
> And it's good enough for me." (x2)
>
> Some people want to
> Go back to living in caves they
> Bend over backwards and the
> Thin end of the wedge goes in
>
> All you little countries
> All you towers of Babel
> Well you better wake up, and shape up, and earn your place on the team
> And if you don't know
> Please and Thank you
> Well you better learn, you better learn, you better learn, you better
learn,
> because
>
> The Queen's English was
> Good enough for Jesus Christ
> And it's good enough for me." (x2)
>
> +++

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