[lit-ideas] FW: Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 19:19:22 -0400
Society is deep. Real deep. The irony is that I'll bet that people who
read this link agree with it and think I'm the one who's strange.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2119164
> [Original Message]
> From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/29/2005 7:05:19 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
>
> I remember when this song was out. At the time my non-philosophical self
> didn't think much of it, rather liked it in fact. Today, decades later, I
> think that if I were standing on a bridge ready to jump, this song would
> push me over the edge. It could not be more reflective of a world that is
> both superficial and hate filled.
>
> Still searching for meaning and finding ever less of it,
> Andy Amago
>
>
>
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 5/28/2005 11:14:33 PM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
> >
> >
> > Judy Evans:
> > > MG> Mike Geary
> > > MG> with no reason to live
> > >
> > > you mean with no right to live? we don't got no right to.
> >
> >
> > No, I mean as in Randy Newman's song: "Short People."
> >
> > Short People
> > Randy Newman
> >
> >
> > Short People got no reason
> > Short People got no reason
> > Short People got no reason
> > To live
> >
> > They got little hands
> > And little eyes
> > And they walk around
> > Tellin' great big lies
> > They got little noses
> > And tiny little teeth
> > They wear platform shoes
> > On their nasty little feet
> >
> > Well, I don't want no Short People
> > Don't want no Short People
> > Don't want no Short People
> > Round here
> >
> > Short People are just the same
> > As you and I
> > (A Fool Such As I)
> > All men are brothers
> > Until the day they die
> > (It's A Wonderful World)
> >
> > Short People got nobody
> > Short People got nobody
> > Short People got nobody
> > To love
> >
> > They got little baby legs
> > And they stand so low
> > You got to pick 'em up
> > Just to say hello
> > They got little cars
> > That got beep, beep, beep
> > They got little voices
> > Goin' peep, peep, peep
> > They got grubby little fingers
> > And dirty little minds
> > They're gonna get you every time
> > Well, I don't want no Short People
> > Don't want no Short People
> > Don't want no Short People
> > 'Round here
> >
> > Mike Geary
> > tall in the Seatte
> > but stuck in the Memphis
> > for the moment.
> >
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