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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Bill Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com>
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu, tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 17:30:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_SMxvys4hFXiTcM48YDcTE-FCGno5CR=Lc-0u8KGrnY6g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BF2F9E5D-7501-480D-B76F-78A4462DBCE2@cheswick.com>

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On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 5:13 PM Bill Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com> wrote:

> “The trouble with folk songs is thst they are written by the people.” -Tom
> Lehrer.


Lehrer's songs, especially "The Periodic Table", have now become subject to
the folk process themselves.  "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" was
originally written by the Romantic poet Robert Southey, although in his
version the bears' antagonist was a "wicked old woman".

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-10 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-09 17:42 Noel Chiappa
2022-08-09 18:49 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-09 18:54   ` Tom Teixeira
2022-08-09 19:00     ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-09 19:21       ` Marshall Conover
2022-08-09 20:19         ` Warner Losh
2022-08-09 20:43           ` [TUHS] mainframe $ budgets [was " Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-08-09 20:58             ` [TUHS] " Marc Donner
2022-08-09 22:49               ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-08-10 21:13 ` [TUHS] " Bill Cheswick
2022-08-10 21:30   ` John Cowan [this message]
2022-08-11 16:08     ` Marc Donner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-08-09 22:18 Douglas McIlroy
2022-08-09 22:25 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 15:05 ` arnold
2022-08-10 17:14   ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 17:37     ` arnold
2022-08-10 18:24       ` joe mcguckin
2022-07-23  2:57 [TUHS] Line Numbers Before SysIII nl? BSD num? segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-23  5:56 ` [TUHS] " markus schnalke
2022-07-23  7:55   ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-23 11:01     ` Dan Cross
2022-07-23 11:20       ` John Cowan
2022-07-23 12:00         ` Dan Cross
2022-07-24 19:02           ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-28  0:30             ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-28  1:03               ` Phil Budne
2022-07-28  4:13                 ` [TUHS] SNOBOL and RATSNO William H. Mitchell
2022-07-29  4:28                   ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2022-07-29  5:07                   ` Tomasz Rola
2022-08-09  5:12                     ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
2022-08-09  6:11                       ` Rob Pike
2022-08-09 13:34                         ` Clem Cole
2022-08-09 15:15                           ` Andrew Hume
2022-08-09 18:26                             ` Clem Cole
2022-08-09 18:52                             ` Tom Teixeira
2022-08-09 21:25                             ` Rob Pike
2022-08-09 15:39                           ` Richard Salz
2022-08-09 13:56                         ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-09 16:45                         ` William H. Mitchell

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