Post edited 12:56PM – Sep-07-10 by Eliezer Pennywhistler

Ron Draney said:

Peter Schickele, creator of PDQ Bach and erstwhile host of "Schickele Mix", could sing Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" to the tune of the tango classic "Hernando's Hideaway".

You can do the exact same thing with the Hebrew hymn "Adon Olam".

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There is a feature on the BBC radio program "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" called "One Song To The Tune Of Another". They have been doing it nearly every week for more than 20 years. "Clue" isn't on BBC Radio 7 at the moment, but it keeps coming back. Check it out! bbc.co.uk

Bring v/s take.

I use "bring" and "come" together and I use "take" and "go" together. If a participant in the conversation is located at my destination,when speaking to them I am "coming" to where they are and anything that accompanies me, I would "bring".

If no one in the conversation is located at my destination,then I'm not "coming", I am going and anything that I drag along I "take".

Glenn said:

I have a nominee for the "Let's eat Grandma" award for copy editing.

What about ? I wanted to post it last week when I saw it, but there was no extant thread where it would fit. Now there is!

Glenn said:

So the joke cover is a hoax.

Well, shoot. I thought it was hilarious. Now it's just moderately clever.

Filk — glad to hear the shout-out, but it is more common to science-fiction fandom than SCAdians. SCA event music runs more to Irish/folk/traditional…

I do remember one memorable filksing (a song circle primarily intended for filk) long, long ago, where a wide variety of metrical matches between widely disparate songs was explored. A memorable example was a song by Gordon R. Dickson, about the spacegoing mercenaries featured in his novels, the "Dorsai", with lyrics of:

They little knew of brotherhood,
The faith of fighting men,
Who once to prove their lie was good,
Hanged Colonel Jacques Chrétien.

being put to the tune of "Yankee Doodle"….and it was considered an article of faith that ANYTHING could be put to the tune of "Greensleeves".

"Eat Grandma" — One can also subvert the whole paradigm. I have fond memories of a high-school freshman (advanced placement) English course who wrote three unpunctuated sentences on the blackboard for us to punctuate, that was a dialog between two children regarding how they should cook and eat their grandmother…

I know style guides occupy a whole other thread. I want to bring up Strunk & White's "Elements of Style", specifically for this show. I recall one rule (that I agreed with and adopted myself) that stated "Always form the possessive with 's", finessing the whole elsewhere-standard "if the word ends with s…" battle of exceptions and counter-exceptions. So Hendrix's anything would always be written as such, to my mind.