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Newt wrote:
And another thing:
" Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortality.
That's the last verse to "The Yellow Rose of Texas" not a TV themesong. Don't you people know anything?
To which Jack Lyons <revjack at Radix.Net> replied:
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I think your teacher was trolling you, that verse came from
Dorothy Parker.
Nope, it's actually a little-known verse of the Coca-Cola theme song, the one you hear on TV around Christmastime. The words are by Marilyn Moore, I think. Anyhow, it has the same cheery rythm as "I heard a fly buzz when I died."
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