Happy 4th of July! 2015 — Page 2

Author: Warbler
Time: 5-Jul-2015 6:23 PM
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Possessed said:

Warbler said:

Mrebo said:

Hope everyone had a good 4th of July. The Muppets reaffirm my conviction that we should change our national anthem to America the Beautiful.

No, negative, not, can't, won't, don't.

Our national anthem has, is and will always be The Star Spangled Banner and that's that.

BUT IT WASN'T WRITTEN UNTIL 1814.

I have edited my original post to make it more accurate.

Author: Warbler
Time: 5-Jul-2015 6:25 PM
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ATMachine said:

Warbler said:

Mrebo said:

Hope everyone had a good 4th of July. The Muppets reaffirm my conviction that we should change our national anthem to America the Beautiful.

No, negative, not, can't, won't, don't.

Our national anthem has, is and will always be The Star Spangled Banner and that's that.

I think you mean The Defence of Fort M'Henry, good sir. ;)

NB: In case it isn't obvious, M'Henry is an old-fashioned alternate spelling for McHenry, so don't go getting any funny ideas about the pronunciation.

Feel free, however, to joke about the fact that the American national anthem's original title was spelled using British English.

I believe by the time it was officially adopted as our national anthem, the name had changed to the Star Spangled Banner.

Author: Mrebo
Time: 5-Jul-2015 11:18 PM
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Warbler said:

Mrebo said:

Hope everyone had a good 4th of July. The Muppets reaffirm my conviction that we should change our national anthem to America the Beautiful.

No, negative, not, can't, won't, don't.

Our national anthem has(since whenever it was officially adopted as such), is and will always be The Star Spangled Banner and that's that.

It's not too late to fix that mistake. The focus on a battle from the War of 1812 that happened to inspire an amateur poet, put to a rather obnoxious melody, and not even adopted as the National Anthem until 1931(!) does not merit such deference.

The blue elephant in the room.

Author: darth_ender
Time: 6-Jul-2015 4:09 AM (Edited)
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Why don't we just adopt "Dixie" as our national anthem? Most people secretly want it anyway!

Author: Mrebo
Time: 6-Jul-2015 8:04 AM
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darth_ender said:

Why don't we just adopt "Dixie" as our national anthem? Most people secretly want it anyway!

I'm already whistling it.

The blue elephant in the room.

Author: Warbler
Time: 6-Jul-2015 12:00 PM
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darth_ender said:

Why don't we just adopt "Dixie" as our national anthem? Most people secretly want it anyway!

hell no.

Author: Warbler
Time: 6-Jul-2015 12:02 PM
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Mrebo said:

Warbler said:

Mrebo said:

Hope everyone had a good 4th of July. The Muppets reaffirm my conviction that we should change our national anthem to America the Beautiful.

No, negative, not, can't, won't, don't.

Our national anthem has(since whenever it was officially adopted as such), is and will always be The Star Spangled Banner and that's that.

It's not too late to fix that mistake. The focus on a battle from the War of 1812 that happened to inspire an amateur poet, put to a rather obnoxious melody, and not even adopted as the National Anthem until 1931(!) does not merit such deference.

it is not a mistake, it is not an obnoxious tune, and it does not need fixing.

Author: Warbler
Time: 6-Jul-2015 12:08 PM
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WAY TO GO US WOMEN'S SOCCER TEAM!!!! WORLD CUP CHAMPS!!!! THEY KICKED JAPAN'S A**!!!!!

TRIPLE WAY TO GO FOR SOUTH JERSEY LOCAL CARLI LLOYD!!!!!! SCORED A HATRICK IN RECORD TIME!!!!! AMAZING!!!

now if only the men's team could do that . . .

Author: Warbler
Time: 6-Jul-2015 12:10 PM
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Author: imperialscum
Time: 6-Jul-2015 12:23 PM
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Congrats.

真実

Author: TV's Frink
Time: 6-Jul-2015 1:00 PM
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Warbler said:

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http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Happy-4th-of-July-2015/post/779343/#TopicPost779343

Author: Possessed
Time: 6-Jul-2015 2:42 PM
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*sigh*

Author: darth_ender
Time: 6-Jul-2015 2:46 PM
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But "Dixie" once represented the national anthem for half the states? How can you just shrug it off like it has no history?

Author: Possessed
Time: 6-Jul-2015 3:06 PM
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Because it mostly represented the states that seceded to keep slavery? And I don't mean represents those states NOW as that would be a different story, it represented those states at the time. Pretty simple to see why that's a bad idea, but what do I know.

Author: Warbler
Time: 6-Jul-2015 4:50 PM
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darth_ender said:

But "Dixie" once represented the national anthem for half the states?

but not the other half.

How can you just shrug it off like it has no history?

big difference between shrugging it off, and saying "hell no." to it being our national anthem.

Author: Mrebo
Time: 6-Jul-2015 6:55 PM
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Lyrically and melodically, America the Beautiful > The Star-Spangled Banner

The blue elephant in the room.

Author: darth_ender
Time: 6-Jul-2015 7:11 PM (Edited)
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If you guys haven't caught that I'm kidding and making reference to the overzealous banning of the Confederate flag, then I'm afraid you are utterly hopeless ;)

Author: TV's Frink
Time: 6-Jul-2015 8:52 PM
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darth_ender said:

I'm afraid you at utterly hopeless ;)

Yes, they at indeed.

Author: Neglify
Time: 6-Jul-2015 9:00 PM
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This should be the new national anthem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxLS-cpgbe0

Don’t do drugs, unless you’re with me.

Author: darth_ender
Time: 6-Jul-2015 9:12 PM
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TV's Frink said:

darth_ender said:

I'm afraid you at utterly hopeless ;)

Yes, they at indeed.

All I can blame it on is the Kindle Fire's autocorrect. It should have known that "ar" is "are", not "at", except when I mean "at", and then it's okay. Gosh, lousy autocorrect.

Author: Warbler
Time: 6-Jul-2015 10:21 PM
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Neglify said:

This should be the new national anthem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxLS-cpgbe0

If that becomes America's national athem, I'll kill myself.

Author: Warbler
Time: 6-Jul-2015 10:22 PM
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Mrebo said:

Lyrically and melodically, America the Beautiful > The Star-Spangled Banner

The Star Spangled Banner is the national anthem, period end of sentence.

Author: RicOlie_2
Time: 6-Jul-2015 11:00 PM
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Most people don't end their sentences after the period.

Author: Mrebo
Time: 6-Jul-2015 11:24 PM
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Warbler said:

Mrebo said:

Lyrically and melodically, America the Beautiful > The Star-Spangled Banner

The Star Spangled Banner is the national anthem, period end of sentence.

Don't want to get your spangle in a twist but I'm afraid we will just have to disagree, #semicolon elipsis...

;)

The blue elephant in the room.

Author: Warbler
Time: 6-Jul-2015 11:25 PM (Edited)
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RicOlie_2 said:

Most people don't end their sentences after the period.

wise guy huh?

*pokes RicOlie_2 in the eyes*