Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: The worst lyrics you've ever heard Message-ID: <187@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 10:05:38 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.187 Posted: Tue Oct 16 10:05:38 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 06:10:58 EDT References: <208@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <705@ihuxj.UUCP> <842@aecom.UUCP> <4387@fortune.UUCP> <215@hopd3.UUCP> <> <76@lasspvax.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 22 > In article <> folta@yale.ARPA (Stephen Folta) writes: > > Mephistopheles is not your name > > I know what you're up to just the same > > > >A good example of just how far some people will go in forcing a rhyme > >just to show off how well-read they are. At least he avoided trying > >to rhyme something with "Mephistopheles". (Did I spell that right?) > > Yeah, Steve, but at least they're *trying* to write about something > besides bodily function. There's a type of poem whose sole purpose > is to use a multisyllabic word for a line, like > > Sesquipedalian > > or something. Now that's what we *really* need..... "You're so pusillanimous, oh yeah, Nature's calling an' I must go there..." ---"Another Day" from The Rutles (a sendup of "Martha My Dear") -- AT THE TONE PLEASE LEAVE YOUR NAME AND NET ADDRESS. THANK YOU. Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr