On Tuesday, 9 May 2006 at 15:57:00 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >>> Now all we need is a Groff Anthem to be sung at the next International >>> Groff Confernece ;) >> >> So long as it's an improvement on the "Free Software Song" -- see: >> >> http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html >> >> whence you can download it in .au or .ogg format. But Werner's >> background encourages me to anticipate a higher level of >> inspiration! > > Actually, I'm not very interesting in hearing Richard Stallman > singing, so I will refrain from trying to download...
FWIW, rms used to carry a (plastic descant) recorder with him. Maybe he still does. On one occasion--I must have been drunk--I grabbed it and tried to play it. The fipple was blocked. At that point I decided it wasn't worth pursuing the matter. On Tuesday, 9 May 2006 at 15:35:36 +0100, Keith MARSHALL wrote: >> Have you ever seen such a song in 7/4 rhythm? With other words, >> the melody is fine, but the text is `pants' (this is the British >> word I get for the German `grottenschlecht' :-) > > Sounds about right! You must have a fairly good dictionary of > modern British slang, for my Consise Oxford Dictionary doesn't list > this meaning for `pants', but I do know that it means `grossly bad'. > > We also have the slang word `grotty', with similar meaning, and > presumably from the same Germanic root; in a `groff' context, the > connotation is somewhat unfortunate :-) You think you have a problem. I must be one of the few people named after a groff program. grog -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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