George wrote:
> On 2/25/2010 7:35 AM, Omelet wrote:
>> In >,
>> "Steve > wrote:
>>
>>> > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> Your spouse or SO is in the other room practicing their singing lesson
>>>> which they recorded.
>>>>
>>>> You run in and offer to take the ailing cat to the vet.
>>>>
>>>> This action can be especially dangerous if you do not have a cat.
>>>
>>> I have to admit that I have a great urge to run up to one of those black
>>> female singers who sing the National Anthem, and sound like they're
>>> either
>>> looking endlessly for the right note, or someone is twisting her
>>> nipple with
>>> a pair of Klein pliers.
>>>
>>> Just sing the damn thing the way it was written.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>> I have to agree with that one. Why they feel the need to wander all over
>> the scale is beyond me. It sounds horrible.
>
> I think it is because they are so clueless they think they are just
> singing a song and don't realize what it means. Maybe because popular
> culture that performers favor says the US is rotten and all of that....

It's not just performers that think that, a large number of politicians
feel the same way and that THEY have got to save the rest of us from
ourselves. A pox on all their houses.