Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday,  9 May 2006 at 15:57:00 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
>>> Now all we need is a Groff Anthem to be sung at the next International
>>> Groff Confernece ;)
>>
>> So long as it's an improvement on the "Free Software Song" -- see:
>>
>>   http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html
>>
>> whence you can download it in .au or .ogg format. But Werner's
>> background encourages me to anticipate a higher level of
>> inspiration!
>
> Actually, I'm not very interesting in hearing Richard Stallman
> singing, so I will refrain from trying to download...

FWIW, rms used to carry a (plastic descant) recorder with him.  Maybe
he still does.  On one occasion--I must have been drunk--I grabbed it
and tried to play it.  The fipple was blocked.  At that point I
decided it wasn't worth pursuing the matter.

On Tuesday,  9 May 2006 at 15:35:36 +0100, Keith MARSHALL wrote:
>> Have you ever seen such a song in 7/4 rhythm?  With other words,
>> the melody is fine, but the text is `pants' (this is the British
>> word I get for the German `grottenschlecht' :-)
>
> Sounds about right!  You must have a fairly good dictionary of
> modern British slang, for my Consise Oxford Dictionary doesn't list
> this meaning for `pants', but I do know that it means `grossly bad'.
>
> We also have the slang word `grotty', with similar meaning, and
> presumably from the same Germanic root;  in a `groff' context, the
> connotation is somewhat unfortunate :-)

You think you have a problem.  I must be one of the few people named
after a groff program.

grog
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