# Bouncy jingle *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Feb 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Charles Dye *21 Feb 1999, 16:09* > 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 replied: > 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." raster at highfiber.com ---