Re: Amused... to death

"Billy Verreynne" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message news:1a75df45.0310080241.1394b5e5_at_posting.google.com...
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> "We watched the tragedy unfold
> We did as we were told
> We bought and sold
> It was the greatest show on earth
> But then it was over
> We ohhed and aahed
> We drove our racing cars
> We ate our last few jars of caviar
> And somewhere out there in the stars
> A keen-eyed look-out
> Spied a flickering light
> Our last hurrah
> Our last hurrah
>
> And when they found our shadows
> Grouped 'round the TV sets
> They ran down every lead
> They repeated every test
> They checked out all the data on their lists
> And then, the alien anthropologists
> Admitted they were still perplexed
> But on eliminating every other reason
> For our sad demise
> They logged the only explanation left
> This species has amused itself to death
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> No tears to cry, no feelings left
> This species has amused itself to death"
> [Roger Waters: Amused to Death]
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Hi Billy

If I can just add:

Miraculous you call it babe
You ain't seen nothing yet
They've got Pepsi in the Andes
McDonalds in Tibet
Yosemite's been turned into a course
For the Japs
The Dead Sea is alive with rap
Between the Tigris and Euphrates
There's a leisure centre now
They've got all kinds of sports
They've got Bermuda shorts
They had sex in Pennsylvania
A Brazilian grew a tree
And a doctor in Manhattan
Saved a dying man for free

It's a miracle
Another miracle
By the grace of God Almighty
And the pressures of the marketplace
The human race has civilized itself
It's a miracle

Now ain't that the truth ... ;)

BTW, you're not the same Billy as in Radio KAOS by any chance ...

Richard Received on Wed Oct 08 2003 - 08:33:26 CDT