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Re: Byzantine Brokering by Byzantium
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:19:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > Oh, and "Byzantine" is just a cool word. Byzantine. Byzantine
> > Byzantine. Byzantine.
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> > best
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> > LFB
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> So take me back to Constantinople
> No you can't go back to Constantinople
> Been a long time gone, Constantinople
> Why did Constantinople get the works?
> That's nobody's business but the Turks.
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> I seem to recall my mother singing that silly song in some play many years ago.
Neat. I wonder what play it was to use They Might Be Giants songs...
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul.
(I'll confess just about my favorite rendition of this song was a silly
music video by Tiny Toons)
James
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| (...) So take me back to Constantinople No you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks. I seem to recall my mother singing that silly song in (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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