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From: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
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Subject: Re: Another Mangled Hymn
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Date: Sat, 7-Dec-85 20:13:11 EST
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In article <3715@ut-sally.UUCP> ark@sally.UUCP (Arthur M. Keller) writes:
>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 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."

And another version, from Matt Groening's "Life in Hell":

"I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow,
and to the Republicans for which they scam, one nacho, underpants, with
licorice and jugs of wine for owls."

Well, it's a free country :-).
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					Scott Anderson
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