Parody: Modern SCO Executive
Parody: Modern SCO Executive
Posted Jun 4, 2003 14:52 UTC (Wed) by danny (guest, #1540)Parent article: Parody: Modern SCO Executive
Does someone can explain this for a non US person?
I think this must be about a music, but what music?
Posted Jun 4, 2003 15:01 UTC (Wed)
by shahms (subscriber, #8877)
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Posted Jun 4, 2003 15:05 UTC (Wed)
by fergal (guest, #602)
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http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/pirates/html/p13.html
Posted Jun 4, 2003 18:15 UTC (Wed)
by james (subscriber, #1325)
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It might be worth noting that William Gilbert was an attorney by profession. Many of his works include digs at stupid laws, stupid lawyers, and stupid lawyerese. This is right up his street.
It might be relevant to note that the "pirates" in Pirates of Penzance was aimed at American pirates in the modern, software sense, who, in the days before strong trans-Atlantic copyright protection, made and performed innumerable copies of Gilbert and Sullivan's previous work. The author and composer were not amused.
Posted Jun 4, 2003 20:56 UTC (Wed)
by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943)
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It might be worth noting that William Gilbert was an attorney by profession. Many of his works include digs at stupid laws, stupid lawyers, and stupid lawyerese.
Most memorably in "Trial by Jury", but also in "The Mikado", "Iolanthe", and (as you say) many others.
Rick Moen
Posted Jun 5, 2003 10:28 UTC (Thu)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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One of the last British places an emigrant might see as they steamed from Southampton to New York. PS. I knew about the Americans ignoring copyright, but I didn't realise the "Pirates" bit was a direct dig at them ... Cheers,
This is a parody of the Gilbert and Sullivan song (well, show tune) that begins "I am the very model of a modern Major General . . . " from the Pirates of Penzance
Parody: Modern SCO Executive
It's a parody of "I am the very model of a modern major-general" from the The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan. You can find the original and a midi hereParody: Modern SCO Executive
Actually, Gilbert was an attourney
James wrote:
Actually, Gilbert was an attourney
rick@linuxmafia.com
And why should the US know anything about it? Bear in mind it's the Pirates of PENZANCE - a small town near Land's End in Cornwall (I won't say "England" because the Cornish might moan at me).Parody: Modern SCO Executive
Wol