Date:    Mon, 4 May 1998 08:19:15 -0400
<br>From:    Robert Ness <ness[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DICKINSON.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: regional distribution?
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<br>the first-PA On Sun, 3 May 1998, Kim & Rima McKinzey wrote:
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<br>> There was a Bizarro cartoon in the paper on Saturday (5/2) showing a family
<br>> happily singing in a car.  The caption was "The lexicon family singers on a
<br>> road trip."  They were singing:
<br>>
<br>> "...One less than 100 glass, narrow-necked containers of alcoholic
<br>> beverages brewed from barley & hops on the room-dividing structure - one
<br>> less than 100 glass, narrow-necked containers of alcohholic beverages
<br>> brewed from barley & hops.  Take one down, pass it around...."
<br>>
<br>> My question, though, is how many of you sang (sing?) that with "take one
<br>> down, pass it around..." and how many with "If one of those bottles should
<br>> happen to fall, (number) bottles of beer on the wall"?
<br>>
<br>> I learned the second choice - in NYC.
<br>>
<br>> Rima
<br>>
<br>> (Of course, then there was the explanation of recursive music someone gave
<br>> me.  The example was "100 bottles of beer on the wall, 100 bottles of beer.
<br>> Take one down, put it back up, 100 bottles of beer on the wall."
<br>>
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