To all the people I offended in 2003
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To all the people I offended in 2003
You had it coming, expect more in '04.
jb
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I must confess, I saw a post like this on another message board and thought it was a cute antidote to all the trite year end/new year's drivel we're subjected to.
jb
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I must confess, I saw a post like this on another message board and thought it was a cute antidote to all the trite year end/new year's drivel we're subjected to.
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Re: To all the people I offended in 2003
Wish I had seen it firstbrownja wrote:You had it coming, expect more in '04.
I must confess, I saw a post like this on another message board and thought it was a cute antidote to all the trite year end/new year's drivel we're subjected to.
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Not to hijack this thread, but Walden's sig has me rolling my eyes at myself... how embarassing to admit this, but for all my 32 years I have thought that it was "Four calling birds", only to find out I was supposed to have been singing colly birds all these years.
~Andrea
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'Collies' are the dog. Here is a link for an explanation of the colly birds of the song:
http://menura.cse.unsw.edu.au:64800/199 ... 00321.html
Best,
Andrea
http://menura.cse.unsw.edu.au:64800/199 ... 00321.html
Best,
Andrea
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Don't worry about it -- most people sing calling birds, and that's what I've seen in print more times than I can count. In fact, this is the first time I've seen "colly" birds. It may be an older, perhaps even original version that got changed to "calling" by people who didn't understand it right, but that's what's become the common version now. "Colly" is certainly interesting, though....aderyn_du wrote:Not to hijack this thread, but Walden's sig has me rolling my eyes at myself... how embarassing to admit this, but for all my 32 years I have thought that it was "Four calling birds", only to find out I was supposed to have been singing colly birds all these years.
~Andrea
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"Colly" birds is a more original lyric, but since no Yanks really know what the heck a colly bird is...even many songbooks will use the words "calling birds."aderyn_du wrote:Not to hijack this thread, but Walden's sig has me rolling my eyes at myself... how embarassing to admit this, but for all my 32 years I have thought that it was "Four calling birds", only to find out I was supposed to have been singing colly birds all these years.
~Andrea
edited to say...oops, yeah...you guys already covered that one.
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