[lbo-talk] Modanna (Esther) coming to visit for Rosh Ha'shanah...plans to do pilgrimage to Rachel's Tomb in Israeli occupiedportion of Bethlehem

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Tue Sep 14 14:25:02 PDT 2004


Ah, one of the classics! Do they have "Lobatchevsky"? Since there were some posts on plagiarism....

Tom Lehrer, the inventor of the Jello shot. What more can I say?

Joanna

Carl Remick wrote:


>> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>
>> Michael Dawson wrote:
>>
>>> Good luck with this. Kaballah is an IQ test. If you believe it,
>>> you fail.
>>
>>
>> Compared to what? The doctrine that god had a sone who came down to
>> earth, born of a virgin, was crucified only to rise from the dead and
>> be taken bodily into heaven, while commanding his followers to eat
>> his symbolic flesh and drink his symbolic blood?
>
>
> [I prefer Tom Lehrer's version:]
>
> The Vatican Rag
>
> First you get down on your knees
> Fiddle with your rosaries
> Bow your head with great respect
> And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect
>
> Do whatever steps you want if
> You have cleared them with the Pontiff
> Everybody say his own kyrie eleison
> Doin' the Vatican Rag
>
> Get in line in that processional
> Step into that small confessional
> There, the guy who's got religion'll
> Tell you if your sin's original
>
> If it is, try playin' it safer
> Drink the wine and chew the wafer
> Two, four, six, eight
> Time to transubstantiate
>
> So get down upon your knees
> Fiddle with your rosaries
> Bow your head with great respect
> And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect
>
> Make a cross on your abdomen
> When in Rome do like a Roman
> Ave Maria, gee it's good to see ya
> Gettin' ecstatic an' sorta dramatic an'
> Doin' the Vatican Rag
>
> [The incomparable TL sings it here:
> <http://www.turoks.net/Cabana/VaticanRag.htm>]
>
> Carl
>
>
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