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From: ark@ut-sally.UUCP (Arthur M. Keller)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.jokes
Subject: Re: Another Mangled Hymn
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 03:07:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 03:07:54 1985
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William Safire's "On Language" column (appears in the New York Times
Sunday magazine section and elsewhere) occasionally contains mangled
hymns.  A few that I recall from his articles are:

From the Star Spangled Banner: "Jose', can you see?"  (There's even an
old joke based on that pun, about a boy named Jose' who was watching
a baseball game from the top of a flagpole because he was too poor to
pay admission.)

From the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S.:  "I led the pigeons to the
flag of the untied states of anemia, and to the republic for Richard
Stans, one nation, in a dirigible, in delirium and justice for all."

From the Lord's Prayer: "Our Father who art in heaven, hello, what's
your name?..."

Now for the obligatory joke:
(This is a meta-lightbulb joke.)
A group of generic ethnics were standing around telling lightbulb jokes.
One of them asked, "How many Americans does it take to change a lightbulb?"
When the answer was "One!" they all laughed.



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