[757] in Humor
HUMOR: Poem of the Day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Wed Mar 8 14:18:55 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 14:12:03 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 22:34:45 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
From: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: Must have used a Pentium
Forwarded-by: Wendell Craig Baker <wbaker@splat.baker.com>
Forwarded-By: "Paul T. Gutwin" <pgutwin@VNET.IBM.COM>
Sailors are quite reverend and reserved about ships sinking... for
about 15 minutes. Then the fun starts.
P.
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THEY BUILT THE ONE-AUSTRALIA
(to the tune of "THEY BUILT THE SHIP TITANIC")
by an anonymous contributor to the
AMERICA'S CUP (tm) FREE PRESS
Oh, they built the One-Australia
To sail the ocean blue.
And they thought that they had built a yacht
The water couldn't go through.
Well, the calc's were by some bum
(Must have used a Pentium)
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
It was sad (it was sad),
It was sad (John was mad),
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
Nobody drowned
(Now the designer can't be found).
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
Well, the skipper said: "Me buckos,
We cannot be afraid.
The wind is over fifteen knots,
But the sandwiches are made."
Then they hit that two-foot chop
And the keel just would not stop.
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
It was sad (it was sad),
It was sad (John was mad),
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
Three million bucks
(Now it's gone, but what the f*ck),
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
They spent twenty million dollars,
To bring the Cup to Oz.
And whenever people asked them why
They could only say "because."
Now the crew must taste defeat,
Their boat's down twelve hundred feet.
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
It was sad (it was sad),
It was sad (John was mad),
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
Filled up, and sank
(Along with three Australian banks).
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
You can't blame the Race Committee,
They only did what's right.
A wind that only blows force five
Should not be such a fright.
If your hull is paper thin,
No-one says you have to win.
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
It was sad (it was sad),
It was sad (John was mad),
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
Broke clean in two
(All they salvaged was the crew)
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
Now, they tell this tragic story
In yacht clubs 'round the world.
'Bout how the fearless Aussie crew
Could not sail like the girls.
While the Sheilas beat DC,
They were sinking on TV.
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
It was sad (it was sad),
It was sad (John was mad),
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
Total disgrace
(Aukland's ready for this race).
It was sad, when the frail yacht went down.
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