Something to make you smile or laugh

[Uncle Al]

In school,





And for the computer

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Too Cute



Uncle Al

[crfriend]

That's as bad as me getting sent to the Principal's (aka "Headmaster") office after belting out the words to "God Save the Queen" instead of "My Country 'Tis of Thee" in primary school. Some folks just do not have a sense of humour, and control-freaks rank right at the top of that list.

The "authorities" were not amused, and my father got dragged in (yet again) to answer for his son's "attitude". My take on it: "The tune was lifted from its original source, and, besides, the original words are so much better!" Library privileges were not suspended, either at home or (for what it was worth) at school. (We had a good one at home.)

[Tor]

Not amused? Seems a great joke to me.

Reminds me of the time when a choir director used that song to do voice placement with a small group. Between a few like me who hadn't learned it, though growing up in a place where it might be expected, and others who moved here from elsewhere, it seemed like nigh on half of us didn't know the song. In that case, though, it garnered chuckles. To this day, I know only the beginning.

[skirtyscot]

Yanks - bah! Go around thinking up new words for things when there is a perfectly good one already, can't spell, nick our national anthem and give it new words. Then you try to make out that your version has been the right one all along! I reckon you should all be exiled to a far off land. Oh, hang on ...

Mind you, it is the dullest national anthem in the whole world. You can have the tune to yourselves if you promise to take the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Battenberg-"Windsor" family as well!

[straightfairy]

I've swiped the computer one for my facebook, love it!

[Uncle Al]

S.F.

Facebook is where it came from

Uncle Al