[Chat] lehrer/anglo Saxon
Christine Gray
langwidge at erols.com
Sat Mar 24 19:32:53 EDT 2007
Coincidentally, below was just posted on the Anglo-Saxon listserv.
Christine
-----Original Message-----
From: ANSAXNET Discussion Forum [mailto:ANSAX-L at LISTSERV.WVU.EDU] On Behalf
Of James M. Pfundstein
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:04 AM
To: ANSAX-L at LISTSERV.WVU.EDU
Subject: Re: [ANSAX-L] wyrd and weird
On Mar 22, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Terrill Heaps wrote:
> "These are all the ones of which the news has come to Hahhvard,
> and there may be many others, but they haven't been discohhvered."
>
> (And if you recognize the above, you are dating yourself. :)
>
> Terrill Heaps (off to go poison pigeons, in the park)
Dating oneself: not too much fun. Think of all those one-sided
conversations!
One of Tom Lehrer's early songs was "Clementine," redone by Mozart, a
dreadfully hip beatnik, and Gilbert and Sullivan. I wonder what it
would sound/read if the _Beowulf_-poet had done a stanza?
JM("Morrie's--wherever that may be")P
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