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To: AmishDude
Pfft: Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. `Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!' he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. It'd take 2 minutes to turn that into a rap song. Sure, it's missing the 4-letter-words, but I guess Tennyson just wasn't as talented.

I didn't say that Tennyson couldn't write a good rap song. After all, wasn't he a poet -- duh --? I said that it would be difficult for "any sh*thead" to do it. How about something original? What's next? Are you going to plagarize Shakespeare and call it "2 minute" rap??

264 posted on 05/26/2002 10:28:23 AM PDT by BRK
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To: BRK
Hello, Mr. Van Winkle. You will discover that a great many things have changed since you first fell asleep.

First, I plagarized nothing. I made it clear that the passage was Tennyson and it should have been obvious that it was from the famous Charge of the Light Brigade. It is rappers that plagarize. They call it "sampling".

Second, "sh!the@d" is in the eye of the beholder. One man's sh!the@d is another man's rap artist. And to yet a third man, the terms may be interchangable.

265 posted on 05/26/2002 3:07:47 PM PDT by AmishDude
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