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From: beth@uvacs.UUCP (Beth Stubbs)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.jokes
Subject: Re: Another Mangled Hymn
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Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 04:24:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 04:24:20 1985
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Organization: U.Va. CS dept.  Charlottesville, VA
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Summary: 


  Anybody remember a couple years ago a song by Men at Work called "Helpless
Automaton"  (they pronounce automaton with a long 'a' and the accent on the 
third syllable)?
  The singer's Aussie accent often makes song lyrics hard to understand, 
but I remember having particular problems with one of the lines in this song.
I still swear I hear, "I'm a helpless automaton; make an ultimatum to you" as
"I'm an alka seltzer maiden kicking a tomato to you."   In the same song my
roommate thought the line "That's why I feel so disgusted" was "That's my
Ivory soap; don't touch it."
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Did you ever ask yourself, "who holds the key that winds up Big Ben?"

Beth Stubbs       University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science
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