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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Apr 5, 2016
In Germany, they don't talk about the Last Trump; it's the Last Trombone!
Imagines Harpo Marx playing the last trombone.
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Otus Nycteus Posted Apr 5, 2016
"Nellie the elephant packed her trunk
and said goodbye to the circus
off she rode with a trumpity trump, trump, trump, trump"
Catchier than any of Nostradamus' quatrains, and probably more accurate too... 
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Recumbentman Posted Apr 5, 2016
I had the fun of singing about the Letzte Posaune last month in Brahms's Requiem. That was a real blast.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Apr 5, 2016
Trump has a negative rating from 3/4's of the women voters.
When Hubert Humphrey ran for president, a lot of people had "Dump the Hump" stickers on their cars. I'd like to have a "Dump the Trump sticker on mine. 
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You can call me TC Posted Apr 6, 2016
Only very recently did it occur to me that the often used word "bona" in the Polari of Julian and Sandy was a pun. Then I looked it up and I don't think it was intended as such. Better go and wash my mouth out with soap and water. 
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Recumbentman Posted Apr 6, 2016
The Scottish version, bonny, is said to have come from the French influence of Mary Queen of Scots.
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Bluebottle Posted Apr 6, 2016
Did Fanny Crosby write that one?
I can't remember if I've shared this Daily Mail newspaper article here before…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3481409/Donald-Trump-s-100-days-power-imagined-Craig-Brown.html
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You can call me TC Posted Apr 6, 2016
I was attracted by another article linked to on that page:
http://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/awful-german-language-mark-twain?bsc=engmag-a93-awfulgerman-tb&btp=1_eng_tab_cd&utm_campaign=cd_engall_gen_cde_awfulgerman&utm_content=The+Awful+German+Language%2C+Revisited&utm_medium=CON&utm_source=taboola&utm_term=dailymail-row
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Apr 6, 2016
Thanks for the links - Drumpf had better NOT threaten the IoW, but I love the Mark Twain essay. It sounds like one of my North Carolina college students. 'Ah cain't WAIT till some German asks me wut tahme it is,' he growled once I'd explained it all...
@Bluebottle: The 'trump' song I heard wasn't by Fanny, but by a Mr Spofford.
http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/i/t/i/itiswell.htm
Strange that a song about peace of mind was written by two men with such tragedy-driven lives...
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Apr 6, 2016
I read "accusative" as "accursed." 
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