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28 Sep 2024 04:26:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Scots wha hae!  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 22 Mar 2017 14:01:39
Message: <58d2bc03@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:10:18 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 3/20/2017 3:45 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:18:07 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> Did you see the news article, where a BBC correspondent in South
>>> Korea,
>>> was talking on air and his young children burst into the room?
>>>
>>> https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/10/south-korea-expert-
>> interrupted-baby-toddler-live-tv-viral
>>
>> Yeah, that one made the rounds, including one version that has our
>> esteemed POTUS as one of the kids.
>>
>>
> When did POTUS enter the language?

1895, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. ;)

>>>>>> I got my introduction to Classical music from someone who gave me a
>>>>>> running commentary of Beethoven's Emperor concerto. Not as a sports
>>>>>> announcer, though.:)
>>>> That could've been fun.:)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I could go into it in more depth but I take the 5th. ;)
>>
>> "And they're off on a four-note theme...."
>>
>>
>>
> I was going to say:
> I'll talk! I'll talk!
> 
> But I liked that. Thanks.

Which actually is a line from the start of the Beethoven/Schickele 
track. :D

Jim
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw


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