This past weekend, the SciFi channel ran the campy Flash Gordon movie (the one Queen did the music for). During Ming the Merciless's wedding ceremony on Mongo, they had wedding tunes remarkably similar to the ones we have here on Earth.
>How amusing it was, all things considered, to hear an Arabic version of
>"Happy Birthday To You" - yes, that one - emanating from loudspeakers in
>Baghdad in honor of Saddam's 65th B-Day this weekend.
>
>One can safely assume that AOL/Time-Warner, notwithstanding their having
>reported the largest quarterly operating loss in corporate history this
>week, will refrain from endeavoring to collect their public performance
>royalties on the song from the Baath Party (the rights to which were
>purchased by Warner Communications in 1988, for $25 million). But
>undoubtedly it crossed some executive's mind, before being dismissed
>with a pang of regret...
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>/ dave /
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