Comments | angevin2: OH GLORY AND TRUMPETS I HAVE FOUND IT.

angevin2

OH GLORY AND TRUMPETS I HAVE FOUND IT.

Jul 09, 2005 23:14

A long-lost parody of mine, which I found in the archives of a bbs I used to visit. I wrote this the night before I had a term paper due, and yet still got the paper done on time. I did research for this thing ( Read more... )

monarchy, filk

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sienamystic July 9 2005, 21:29:45 UTC

*wild applause*

That may actually help me keep them straight.

angevin2 July 10 2005, 17:07:11 UTC

Glad you liked it! And yeah, I run into trouble somewhere in the midst of the Georges. (The medieval ones are no problem. ;) )

theservant July 9 2005, 21:53:08 UTC

Wow, that is absolutely brilliant! Blessings on your head.

By the way, the group that did 88 lines about 44 women was called 'The Nails.'

angevin2 July 10 2005, 17:07:52 UTC

Thank you! I could do with some blessings. ;)

The Nails, that's right. I knew that...

whatifoundthere July 9 2005, 22:42:17 UTC

I love the idea (and I myself have done a significantly less erudite parody of the same song), but there's a lot of lines that I can't get to scan.

angevin2 July 10 2005, 17:12:25 UTC

There are kind of a lot of extra unstressed syllables in there. Doesn't the original play kind of fast and loose with scansion?

whatifoundthere July 10 2005, 20:46:50 UTC

Really? I think it scans pretty well, though obviously he's got to finagle a couple lines. :)

kd5mdk July 10 2005, 01:49:33 UTC

This is so going to my substitute teacher.

angevin2 July 10 2005, 17:13:07 UTC

Hooray! I hope he or she likes it. :)

kd5mdk July 10 2005, 18:27:18 UTC

This is the guy who taught me (in my Norman and Angevin England class):
"Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and he eats for life.
Teach a man to create an artifical shortage of fish, and he eats steak."

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angevin2 July 10 2005, 17:14:08 UTC

I did! Largely because you told me. Glad you like it. ;)