Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!gtaylor From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: The worst lyrics you've ever heard Message-ID: <76@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 10:36:26 EDT Article-I.D.: lasspvax.76 Posted: Fri Oct 12 10:36:26 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 05:01:51 EDT References: <208@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <705@ihuxj.UUCP> <842@aecom.UUCP> <4387@fortune.UUCP> <215@hopd3.UUCP> <> Reply-To: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor) Organization: Theory Center (Cornell University) Lines: 18 Summary: 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.....