Comment Re:better than FDIC (Score 1) 50
Comparing $5000 confiscated by police, and suggesting that it is the motivation for the 100's of millions of dollars kept offshore by Forbes 400 billionaires is illogical.
...Razgui, who was not present when his bag was opened. 'I fly with them in and out all the time and this is the first time there has been a problem. This is my life.' When his baggage arrived in Boston, the instruments were gone.
If his instruments were his life and he is a virtuoso musician, he would have kept his flutes with him on the airplane.
And if you want bad lyrics, listen to opera.
OK, I'll bite. Treat yourself to a little "Gilbert and Sullivan"...
I really like Eminem and Kid Rock. They are sarcastic and very funny. Will they still have the same appeal after 100 years? I doubt it. Gilbert and Sullivan has endured.
I don't especially like G&S (I prefer what someone else called "traditional arias" e.g. full chorus "Ode to Joy"), yet I can completely relate to, understand why you are fond of G&S. A live G&S performance is music and art.
...It takes a skilled linguist to write good rap as it does to write good poetry and there are good and bad examples of both.
Linguist! The professors of linguistics that write University of Pennsylvania's Language Log are skilled linguists. I don't think that has anything to do with their ability to write poetry. Or rap, although it would be fun to ask!
Rap is words, music and visuals with attitude, and usually post-production effects. Poetry is written words on a page. They aren't comparable.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?