h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

They were singing the songs (Women are people as well). It is just that the songs were composed by angry men. Probably they thought it better to blame the angry men for those songs. "No officer, we didn't think up those lyrics, we were just singing along..."

Great image - I especially like the use of the h2g2 Smiley

I really enjoyed this one. The only reason I objected to it on the Guide Entry is that we would be besieged by confused Americans wanting to know if we really thought US Civil War uniforms looked like that. .

Civil War uniforms, of course, looked like frock coats with too many buttons...

Well, you liked my bit so it wasn't a complete loss, and the entry's loss is 's gain.

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"People" is used more often then "men."

First, "do you hear the *people* sing?"

Then,

"It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again."

Lyricists have a tough time sometimes making "men and women" fit into a one-syllable word. Heck, they have to worry, not just about critics and audience responses, but also about what posterity will have to say.

For example: Stephen Sondheim wrote a book in which he evaluated many of the songwriters who wrote for the American musicl stage. He took Alan J lerner to task for the latter part of this lyric:

"People stop and stare, they don't bother me,
For there's nowhere else on Earth that I would rather be."

Give it a rest, Steve! The world accepted the lyric when it was new, and second-guessing it 50 years later was not helpful. He also took Ira Gershwin to task for trying too hard to make everything rhyme. And, Lorenz Hart got knocked for being lazy with his lyrics.*

Anyway, angry men are usually the ones who take firearms and try to overturn the government. Can we agree on that? Thank you.



*And, I have gotten too worked up over Sondheim....

Sorry

Yeah, you really have. Sometimes, an observation like that is just a good excuse for a clever riff.

I appreciated the clever riff. Also the reference to tricoteuses. (We need a knitting smiley.)

Losing my composure in a thread about composure would be poetic justice, perhaps.

I like the song that was mentioned, though.