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   Pepicek to All   
   Re: GILBERT & SULLIVAN'S ADVICE TO THE H   
   22 Jun 08 15:04:58   
   
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   XPost: uk.politics.misc, soc.culture.german, soc.culture.czecho-slovak   
   XPost: soc.culture.polish   
   From: pepicek@ohnicek.cz   
      
   Where did you dig out this one,  Ashole#1?  Stop jerking around and tell us   
   what are you actually trying to tell Czechs?  Maybe Viagra will help in your   
   sexual behavior?   
   Pepa   
      
      
   "Whileyouslept"  wrote in message   
   news:98c2195e-1e59-4468-8b0f-5002d949ce3b@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...   
   > "When Britain really ruled the waves,   
   > In good Queen Bess's time,   
   > The House of Peers made no pretense   
   > To intellectual eminence Or scholarship sublime   
   > Yet Britain won her proudest bays   
   > In good Queen Bess's glorious days ...   
   >   
   > When Wellington licked Bonaparte,   
   > As every child can tell,   
   > The House of Peers throughout the war   
   > Did nothing in particular   
   > And did it very well.   
   > Yet Britain set the world ablaze   
   > In good King George's glorious days.   
   >   
   > And while the House of Peers withholds   
   > Its legislative hand,   
   > And noble statesmen do not itch   
   > To interfere in matters which   
   > They do not understand,   
   > As bright will shine Great Britain's rays   
   > As in King George's glorious days."   
   > - 'Iolanthe', Gilbert & Sullivan   
   >   
   > Sage advice, ignored, Instead, we got...   
   >   
   > "Loudly let the trumpet bray,   
   > Tantantara, tantantara!   
   > Proudly bang the sounding brasses,   
   > Tzing, boom!   
   > As upon its lordly way   
   > This unique procession passes.   
   > Tantantara, tantantara!   
   > Tantara, tantara,   
   > Tzing, boom!   
   >   
   > Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!   
   > Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses,   
   > Blow the trumpets, bang the brasses,   
   > Tantantara, Tzing boom!   
   > Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!   
   > Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses,   
   > Blow the trumpets, bang the brasses,   
   >   
   > We are peers of highest station,   
   > Paragons of legislation,   
   > Pillars of the British nation,   
   > We are peers of highest station,   
   > Paragons of legislation,   
   > Tantantara, tantara,   
   > Tzing, boom, tzing, boom!   
   > Tantara, tantara, tzing boom! "   
   > - 'Iolanthe', Gilbert & Sullivan   
   >   
   > ...and the good ship SS Great  Britain, and her cargo of sovereignty   
   > and independence were lekislatively steered for shipwreck!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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