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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.nlang.celts
Subject: Re: Burning Rome (Nero's Fiddle?)
Message-ID: <441@persci.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 14:40:33 EST
Article-I.D.: persci.441
Posted: Tue Nov  5 14:40:33 1985
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Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (William Swan)
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Keywords: fiddle and bagpipe
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Summary: Appropriate for net.bizarre

In article <1797@gatech.CSNET> zorro@gatech.UUCP (Melinda M. Fox) writes:
>	Be it ever som crumbly, there's no place like Rome..
>	Nero, he was the emperor, and the palace was his home..
>
>	But he liked to play with matches, and for a fire yearned,
>	So he burned Rome to ashes, and fiddled while it burned.
>					^^^^^^^

Unfortunately, the fiddle hadn't been invented yet. It is a matter of 
historical record (I'm told) that Nero *was* an accomplished bagpiper 
(along with other notables such as Henry VIII). 

Bizarre image: Nero piping while Rome burns! 
	(Playing "A Flame of Wrath...", perhaps?)

-- 
William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill
"Ask not what you can do for your country,
   ask what your country is going to do to you!"