----- Original Message -----
From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: I need a reality check on aisle 2


> Dan Minette wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:14 PM
> > Subject: Re: I need a reality check on aisle 2
> >
> > > How about CORRECTING your quote?
> > >
> > > It should be "The man ain't got no culture," not "If a man ain't got
no
> > > culture."
> >
> > Well, give me a break.  I'm relying on a middle aged memory...Lord, from
> > about 30 years ago.
> >
> > > And I have a lyrics sheet that came with the album to prove it.  And
I'd
> > > go to the book that has the sheet music for it, as well, to prove it
> > > from *there* if I hadn't packed *that* early last month, so there!  :P
> > >
> > > Julia
> > >
> > > who will allow a few hours to let someone *else* have the fun of
> > > actually identifying it, because she believes the fun should be shared
> > > :)
>
> Seeing as no one rose to the challenge, I'll identify it now for anyone
> dying to know.
>
> The song is "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert
> McNamara'd Into Submission)", it's by Paul Simon, it's on the Simon &
> Garfunkel album "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme".
>
Very Good Julia, My wife just rolls her eyes when I quote that song.  Hey
Gautem, I bet you didn't know that MacNamara was a verb....which proves the
limits of a Harvard education. :-)

Dan M.

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