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- From: rich@netcom.com (Richard Poppen)
- Subject: Re: Clinton is President, Bush is not even history
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.073650.4442@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan20.204139.29513@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:36:50 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.204139.29513@netcom.com> solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) writes:
- >In article <1jk2ceINNl9h@transfer.stratus.com> lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com writes:
- >>The inaugural speech was fine and short. The poem by Maya Angelu was quite
- >>moving. But, my favorite part (after Al Gore's displacement
- >>of Dan Quayle as VP) was the music played immediately before Bill Clinton
- >>took the oath. It was a traditional English march. However, many baby
- >>boomers instantly recognized the music as being the theme from
- >>Monty Python's Flying Circus!!!
- >
- >Not an English march at all. The Monty Python theme song is John
- >Philip Sousa's "Liberty Bell March", which is about as American as
- >apple pie.
- >
- >Now, how many millions of Americans expected a giant foot to squash
- >George Bush?
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- Or to hear Bill Clinton announce, in a John Cleese-esque voice,
- "And now for something completely different"?
-
- --Rich the Pythonophile
-