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From: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: The worst lyrics you've ever heard
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Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 18:10:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 22 18:10:23 1984
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Reply-To: bllklly@maccunix.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Summary: 

My own miscellaneous responses:

Re Tom Lehrer:
Computer buffs (I'll not temppt the flamers by saying hackers) ought to
like Tom Lehrer's esoteric sense of humor -- he has one song that teaches
base 12 mathematics!

Another worthy tune from Demento is My Dead Dog Rover
	I'm looking over my dead dog Rover
	Who I overlooked before
	I ran him over with the power mower...

And on the topic of poems written to fit a multisyllabic word on a single
line, there's always Asimov's pick for limerick of the year a few years
ago.  He said the fourth line made up for what he considers a fatal flaw in
the limerick, the fact that it's not dirty:

	The bustard's an exquisite fowl
	With minimal reason to growl
	He's spared what would be
	Illegitimacy
	By the grace of a fortunate vowel

And thanks to whoever mentioned my personal (least) favorite, L.A. Woman!
-- 

Bill Kelly
{allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!bllklly
1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706

"Life's like a jigsaw...you get the straight bits, but there's plenty
 missing in the middle." -- Xtc