David Scott wrote:
Indeed, they also had a song about an R-madillo:On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Patrick Connolly wrote:
On Thu, 02-Dec-2004 at 02:08PM -0600, Erin Hodgess wrote:
|> How about an R-madillo?
I'm for R-gnu which already has a song (as pointed out by Murray Jorgensen some time back). I'm sure an arrangement could be worked out with the Emacs people.
The Flanders and Swann song, the exact title of which I don't recall, was a response to someone voicing the opinion that the said animal was an Helk. Rather witty in my view and has a spirit in keeping with this list.
Knowledge of and a liking for Flanders and Swan does rather date one, but I must confess my partiality for their humour. For the words of the Gnu Song:
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/pennywyatt/Interests/FlandersSwann/DropOfaHat/At%20the%20Drop%20of%20a%20Hat04.html
<http://www.nyanko.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fas/bestiary_armadillo.html>
And no, this doesn't date you - they had split up before I was even born. I think it just shows that you have the good taste to be partial to humour of timeless quality.
Whilst I'm wasting bandwidth, I found the original platypus and kangaroo (Kangaroo? Another F & S composition!) reference:
<http://members.aol.com/jeff570/k.html> (see the bottom)
The paper should be available on JSTOR, for those of you with access to it.
Bob
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