Re: Fwd: stew

On Sat, 3 May 2025 14:21:04 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-05-03 10:04 a.m., Mike Duffy wrote:

On 2025-05-03, BryanGSimmons wrote:
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Everybody fucks up the US anthem.  The only times I've heard it sung
well in this century was several times on opening weekend of the StL
Symphony, when the audience joins the orchestra.

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I forget her name, but the best I heard was an opera singer. (USA)
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The Canadian one I cannot sing anymore because they changed
the words *3* fucking times in my memory and always fall
back to what we sang as youngsters and get out of sync &c.
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I avoid the confusion by singing it in French. IMO anthems are no long
anthems when thy change them. The last change was especially annoying. I
thought if it was really important to have new words they could have
altered one of the other verses instead of the one everyone seems to
think is the only one.

In our club, we say the American pledge of allegiance at the start of
meetings. I thought it was peculiar that the old guy next to me left out
the words "under God" which threw me off beat. I asked him about it and
he said that's the way he learned it and he gets mixed up sometimes. It
seems that those words were added to the pledge in 1954, when the
Americans were gripped with fear of the commies. It was added because a
commie can't say those words without stopping to spit. It was a way to
ferret out the true commies in our midst.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67wKhddWu4