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"I agree that HI's post should be framed and - er - immortalised" [TC]

I agree. With any luck, it will be quote of the day eventually.

There are probably other threads which have a song title as their subject, but I've had this song going round in my head for days now.

Do I blame 2legs or Brian May?

The ozymandias poem was the result of a competition with shelley's friend Smith. Here is Smith's version:

IN Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:—
"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,
"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
"The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,—
Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.

We wonder,—and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.

– Horace Smith

I didn't know that

"There are probably other threads which have a song title as their subject, but I've had this song going round in my head for days now." [TC]

"I'm going to live forever.
I'm going to learn how to fly."

That's from the original version of "Fame." I don't think they kept it in the remake. What a pity. "I sing the body electric" wasn't kept either.

Most of my threads have song titles as their subjects. Not entirely sure why, it's just something I do.

See, folkies can't get away with naming threads in that way. If we tried there would just be a lot of threads with names like "The badger and Sergeant Jones".