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What Cheese Are You?
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Oh yeah — it's stopped snowing
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What Cheese Are You?
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Oh yeah — it's stopped snowing
Auld lang syne means simply "days long past" or "the good old days" or words to that effect. So asking if one should forget one's old friends for the sake of the good old days is nonsensical. Obviously the malefactors (who seem to be in the majority) are confusing the last line of the first verse with the last line of the chorus. That is an explanation: not an excuse [wags finger].
To find out more about the songs, and to see more versions and more verses, go to Cantaria, A Critical Analysis of Auld Lang Syne, or The Singing Christmas Tree.
And a Happy 2003 to one and all!
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my Dear,
For auld lang syne.
We'll tak a cup o kindness yet
For auld lang syne
Useless fact number 999: Mozambique is a member of the Commonwealth and is as far as I know the only member state not to have been part of the old British Empire. But do they play cricket? Still, not playing cricket is no bar to memberhsip — after all, we don't play it in England these days!!!! Come on, lads, I know Australia is invincible, but a team of visiting aliens from Alpha Centauri who hadn't been told the rules could put up a better showing.
One thing I do remember from the dream is a friend referring to a poem she had once read. I realized she was talking about October Dawn by Ted Hughes, and also remember my feeling of surprise that she didn't know that. The poem is at once so right and so unexpected (as all good poetry should be), that I'm posting it here for others to enjoy.
October Dawn
by Ted HughesOctober is marigold, and yet
A glass half full of wine left outTo the dark heaven all night, by dawn
Has dreamed a premonitionOf ice across its eye as if
The ice-age had begun its heave.The lawn overtrodden and strewn
From the night before, and the whistling greenShrubbery are doomed, Ice
Has got its spearhead into place.First a skin, delicately here
Restraining a ripple from the air;Soon plate and rivet on pond and brook;
Then tons of chain and massive lockTo hold rivers. Then, sound by sight
Will Mammoth and Sabre-tooth celebrateReunion while a fist of cold
Squeezes the fire at the core of the world,Squeezes the fire at the core of the heart,
And now it is about to start.
Interesting piece in today's Grauniad about the Centropa project: "Combining oral history with family snapshots and old Jewish community photo albums, the Centropa project is also unearthing valuable records of once- vibrant but now vanished Jewish communities in central Europe."
BTW, that's not a typo in my first sentence. Back in the good old days BC (Before Computers), when papers were churned out on great big printing presses, The Guardian was notorious for its typos, earning it the affectionate nickname above.
Listening ad infinitum to Noa singing Nocturno (see Archive 12/01/01-12/07/01, entry for 7 December - sorry, too tired to do a proper link). It sends shivers up my spine.
In the words of another famous diarist*, "And so to bed."
Had a little tech difficulty. Couldn't work out why my first message today was dated 10 December!! Then I realized it was because I selected text from an unpublished post from that date, pressed Ctrl +X and pasted my new message in its place. I should have deleted the whole lot. Annoyed because it means my times are wrong (yes, I know, get a life). The advantage of Live Journal is that one can alter the time manually. The disadvantage is that one can't post pics (unless linking to them from another site).
Ooops. It's been a while. Still now that the festering season is over, perhaps I shall make more regular entries. Although if Tony Blair is right, we should all, in the words of Noel Coward, "unpack our troubles from our old kitbags and wait until we drop down dead."
I've just found this site. It's a journal resources page. No idea if it's any good because I haven't looked at it properly yet.