The L-Space Web: Filks

The Poster that's Short of a Clue


From: Martin Julian DeMello
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: [I] advanced english thesis
Date: 9 May 2000 08:33:41 GMT

Bryony Wilson wrote:

> Kate Sarah Folsom wrote in message
> news:shc98cjiqil184@corp.supernews.com...

>> I'll let someone else tell you to RTFFAQ.
>>
> Did I just read that? Kate Sarah Folsom, she of the "what are these
> FAQs for and why are you all so obsessive about them" flamewar, just
> told someone to RTFFAQ? *shakes head violently* No.. it's still
> there.... hmmm dried frog pills anyone?

No, she said she'd let someone else tell him :)

Instafilk ttto The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring (G&S, the Mikado)

The poster that's short of a clue (tra la)
Must suffer a lot from the lack
It may look obsessive, it's true (tra la)
But think of the favour we do (tra la)
When we send him in search of a FAQ
When we send him in search of a FAQ

And that is the reason we act as we do
When[1] we chance upon someone who's short of a clue
Tra la la la la,
Tra la la la la,
On someone who's short of a clue
Tra la la la la,
Tra la la la la,
Tra la la la la la la!

[1] Gilbert himself has set ample precedent for inserting an extra unstress when needed :)


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