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Friday, 15 November 2002
Mr. Sulu! Ahead... full... SAIL!

For years, there's been a tantalizing fragment of a broadside ballad, its title known only from a scrap of paper used to bind a book in the seventeenth century.

A couple of years ago, a complete copy of the ballad was found; the only known surviving copy. Its title is amusing, at least to a Star Trek geek such as myself:

Englands Honour Revived by the Valiant Exploytes of Captaine Kirke

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Canada has it's own cultural heritage?

Only joking. I like Canadians, eh? Except for some of those Peppers.
Posted by Karen on 15 Nov 2002 09:16
So are the French Klingons or Romulans?
Posted by Darren on 15 Nov 2002 09:32
<worf> They have no honor. Therefore they are obviously Romulans. </worf>

I only said that to make Severin laugh.

Karen, you're falling down on the job! I expected you to make a comment about "Thus our valient Captaine Kirk, Did the French men soundly jerk"...

Posted by Godfrey on 15 Nov 2002 09:40
Sorry, I didn't have time to check out the lyrics. Too bad, that one cracked me up! But then, I'm easilly amused.
Posted by Karen on 15 Nov 2002 10:33
Hey Godfrey, you tell me that the rhymes that sound forced in English poetry/song are because the pronounciation is different, but what of this?

"One the coast of Canaday"

Could that be a contraction of "Canada, eh?"
Posted by Lunchbox on 18 Nov 2002 08:18
Could be, eh? Now go and steal me some fresh Timbits.
Posted by Godfrey on 18 Nov 2002 08:29