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Now THAT'S what I'm talking about!!
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:35 pm
by GalvestonDuck
Okay, so I haven't actually been here the past couple of days to talk about it.
But everyone I've watched the WS with has had a problem with the singers of the National Anthem and "God Bless America."
Okay, Josh Grobin was good. But Liz Phair? I know her by name but that's it. Never heard her sing. And now, I don't care to ever again. Then again, there was a trumpeteer in Game 2 and it's hard to blow that.
However, I must say -- MICHAEL MCDONALD was
awesome tonight!! That was simply beautiful!
Of course, nothing was as bad as Roseanne Barr.
Okay...gotta go! Batter up! Play ball!
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:57 pm
by kevin
Anyone else think we need to change our national anthem?
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:57 pm
by Skywatch_NC
Yes, Michael McDonald really did TERRIFIC tonight delivering the anthem!!
I remember hearing about when Roseanne Barr exposed herself one time at a game in San Diego.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:58 pm
by Skywatch_NC
kevin wrote:Anyone else think we need to change our national anthem?
No...why?
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:03 pm
by kevin
No one talks like that, its difficult to sing and people butcher it, and its about us fighting a pretty useless war with Great Britain.
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
Wow.
My choice for a replacement is The President of the United States of America "Peaches" song.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:45 pm
by Josephine96
A useless war..? You do know that Frances Scott Key wrote that song as he was watching the war take place from nearby..
The song is rich in tradition and after 9/11.. I finally began to realize how much I appreciate the song.. It has become my favorite patriotic ballad
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:49 pm
by kevin
Yes it was absolutely a useless war.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:59 pm
by coriolis
Now thats provocative, all right, but I'm too tired to get into it tonight.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:01 pm
by Skywatch_NC
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:50 pm
by streetsoldier
Francis Scott Key's poem, written on a British warship observing the bombardment of Fort Mc Henry, was later sung to a period drinking ditty, To Anacreon in Heaven; it took fertile ground in American lexicons until it was made the National Anthem by Congress.
BTW, the British started it; we just finished it. The only "waste" of the War of 1812 was the Battle of New Orleans, which was fought (unbeknownst to the combatants) after the Treaty of Ghent was signed, ending hostilities.
With apologies to Andrew "By God!" Jackson.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:00 pm
by kevin
I was talking about how the issue of impressment ended up not being relevent during the war.
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:39 am
by GalvestonDuck
kevin wrote:My choice for a replacement is The President of the United States of America "Peaches" song.
Somebody's a peach or two shy of a bushel.
j/k!
But, seriously..."Peaches" as a national anthem? Maybe a state anthem (Georgia). Nothing very patriotic about putting peaches in a can.
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:59 pm
by kevin
Just my personal opinion.
