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Because Christina Aguilera butchered the national Anthem on Sunday, people are starting to suggest that we should change the anthem to be America the Beautiful because the Star Spangled Banner is "too hard to sing", the lyrics are "biligerent", and the tune itself is based on an English drinking song. Hard to sing, meaning the words are too complicated, or are difficult to remember? The lyrics are "biligerent"? Damn skippy the lyrics are biligerent.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Because Christina Aguilera butchered the national Anthem on Sunday, people are starting to suggest that we should change the anthem to be America the Beautiful because the Star Spangled Banner is "too hard to sing", the lyrics are "biligerent", and the tune itself is based on an English drinking song. Hard to sing, meaning the words are too complicated, or are difficult to remember? The lyrics are "biligerent"? Damn skippy the lyrics are biligerent.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997You have already changed it once, the new one reflects the Spanish population... "Jose, can use ebay, the dance Earl he eyed". Perhaps you should go one step further and adopt the Spanish National Anthem. You cannot get the words wrong with that one. What, though is really odd, is the Dutch national anthem which pledges it's allegiance to the King of Spain!
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Because Christina Aguilera butchered the national Anthem on Sunday, people are starting to suggest that we should change the anthem to be America the Beautiful because the Star Spangled Banner is "too hard to sing", the lyrics are "biligerent", and the tune itself is based on an English drinking song. Hard to sing, meaning the words are too complicated, or are difficult to remember? The lyrics are "biligerent"? Damn skippy the lyrics are biligerent.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Because Christina Aguilera butchered the national Anthem on Sunday
Or alternatively get someone with talent to sing it?
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut occasionally. http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] [My Site]
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Because Christina Aguilera butchered the national Anthem on Sunday, people are starting to suggest that we should change the anthem to be America the Beautiful because the Star Spangled Banner is "too hard to sing", the lyrics are "biligerent", and the tune itself is based on an English drinking song. Hard to sing, meaning the words are too complicated, or are difficult to remember? The lyrics are "biligerent"? Damn skippy the lyrics are biligerent.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997She's not the first to butcher it and probably won't be the last. It just means that the people who decide who is going to sing it, should take greater care in choosing whom they select. The woman who sings the anthem before each Philadelphia Flyer's hockey game would have been a much better choice. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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"and the tune itself is based on an English drinking song." Sorry, I'm not seeing the problem here.
I don't either - it's not like they had a Christina Aguilera song they could use for the music...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Because Christina Aguilera butchered the national Anthem on Sunday
Or alternatively get someone with talent to sing it?
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut occasionally. http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] [My Site]
I don't undertsand why people can't sing the song without stylizing it. THAT is why they screw it up. They're concentrating so hard on gargling while they're singing that they "lose their place".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
I don't either - it's not like they had a Christina Aguilera song they could use for the music...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997But if she doesn't put her own mark on the song then it just sounds like any other talentless, fatuous bint at a drunken karaoke bar in Benidorm.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]
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Because Christina Aguilera butchered the national Anthem on Sunday, people are starting to suggest that we should change the anthem to be America the Beautiful because the Star Spangled Banner is "too hard to sing", the lyrics are "biligerent", and the tune itself is based on an English drinking song. Hard to sing, meaning the words are too complicated, or are difficult to remember? The lyrics are "biligerent"? Damn skippy the lyrics are biligerent.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997Coming from a country where the national anthem wasn't sung at all into a country where it's *cough* customary to sing only the 3rd verse, I unfortunately qualify for sympathy only, not ridicule. But here's peterchen's handy rules for anthems: 1. If it can't be sung while drunk, it's not an anthem 2. in a country where people find drinking songs "to hard to sing", evolution might indeed just be fiction
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She's not the first to butcher it and probably won't be the last. It just means that the people who decide who is going to sing it, should take greater care in choosing whom they select. The woman who sings the anthem before each Philadelphia Flyer's hockey game would have been a much better choice. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
I think the organizers are trying to over-sensationalize the event. I mean, it's the freakin Super Bowl - you don't need to spend a million dolars to get someone famous to sing the National Anthem. What they should start doing is holding local auditions and using local talent for the job. THAT would be more interesting to me. Screw the big name "artists". I don't want artisitic - I want it done right.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
I don't undertsand why people can't sing the song without stylizing it. THAT is why they screw it up. They're concentrating so hard on gargling while they're singing that they "lose their place".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I don't undertsand why people can't sing the song without stylizing it. THAT is why they screw it up. They're concentrating so hard on gargling while they're singing that they "lose their place".
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I think the organizers are trying to over-sensationalize the event. I mean, it's the freakin Super Bowl - you don't need to spend a million dolars to get someone famous to sing the National Anthem. What they should start doing is holding local auditions and using local talent for the job. THAT would be more interesting to me. Screw the big name "artists". I don't want artisitic - I want it done right.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Because Christina Aguilera butchered the national Anthem on Sunday, people are starting to suggest that we should change the anthem to be America the Beautiful because the Star Spangled Banner is "too hard to sing", the lyrics are "biligerent", and the tune itself is based on an English drinking song. Hard to sing, meaning the words are too complicated, or are difficult to remember? The lyrics are "biligerent"? Damn skippy the lyrics are biligerent.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997It's playing big in Canada because every Canadian is deeply familiar with the words to the Star Spangled Banner having heard them sung about a zillion times by the age of 20 from watching a zillion hockey games. I'll wager more Canadians know the lyrics to the Star Spangled banner on average than Americans.
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Because Christina Aguilera butchered the national Anthem on Sunday, people are starting to suggest that we should change the anthem to be America the Beautiful because the Star Spangled Banner is "too hard to sing", the lyrics are "biligerent", and the tune itself is based on an English drinking song. Hard to sing, meaning the words are too complicated, or are difficult to remember? The lyrics are "biligerent"? Damn skippy the lyrics are biligerent.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997I remember a couple of cases of people complaining about the "texting", how and what words are mapped to a song's melody back when I was at the conservatory. The complaint was that the words were not very well chosen or laid out, and they made the song difficult to sing because of that. Something about the how the number of syllables in some of the words made the flow or rhythm of the piece more difficult and made for easy mistakes.
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I don't undertsand why people can't sing the song without stylizing it. THAT is why they screw it up. They're concentrating so hard on gargling while they're singing that they "lose their place".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997Stylizing is not an entirely bad thing...Jose Feliciano [^] (not sure about sp.), Jimmy Hendrix (Ok I like Jimmy) but she just plain blew it out her a&&.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut occasionally. http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] [My Site]
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She's not the first to butcher it and probably won't be the last. It just means that the people who decide who is going to sing it, should take greater care in choosing whom they select. The woman who sings the anthem before each Philadelphia Flyer's hockey game would have been a much better choice. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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I think the organizers are trying to over-sensationalize the event. I mean, it's the freakin Super Bowl - you don't need to spend a million dolars to get someone famous to sing the National Anthem. What they should start doing is holding local auditions and using local talent for the job. THAT would be more interesting to me. Screw the big name "artists". I don't want artisitic - I want it done right.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997Or you could go down the Chinese root and have someone attractive miming it for the cameras whilst someone who can actually sing belts it out from inside the stands somewhere.
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I remember a couple of cases of people complaining about the "texting", how and what words are mapped to a song's melody back when I was at the conservatory. The complaint was that the words were not very well chosen or laid out, and they made the song difficult to sing because of that. Something about the how the number of syllables in some of the words made the flow or rhythm of the piece more difficult and made for easy mistakes.
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Or you could go down the Chinese root and have someone attractive miming it for the cameras whilst someone who can actually sing belts it out from inside the stands somewhere.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Ahhh, the "Milli Vanilli" gambit...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Nevertheless dozens of times a day it's sung perfectly by fat sweaty guys and hot chicks in hockey arenas around the continent.
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True enough - I'm not at all agreeing that we should change it.
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Because Christina Aguilera butchered the national Anthem on Sunday, people are starting to suggest that we should change the anthem to be America the Beautiful because the Star Spangled Banner is "too hard to sing", the lyrics are "biligerent", and the tune itself is based on an English drinking song. Hard to sing, meaning the words are too complicated, or are difficult to remember? The lyrics are "biligerent"? Damn skippy the lyrics are biligerent.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
