*Amazing*, really it is: I always think of that song as > Short People got no right > To live ! perhaps because I once read an academic row about it (between a man called Wayne Booth and Stanley Fish) perhaps because of all the trouble Randy Newman got into thanks for the lyrics Judy Sunday, May 29, 2005, 4:14:32 AM, Mike Geary wrote: MG> 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. MG> No, I mean as in Randy Newman's song: "Short People." MG> Short People MG> Randy Newman MG> Short People got no reason MG> Short People got no reason MG> Short People got no reason MG> To live MG> They got little hands MG> And little eyes MG> And they walk around MG> Tellin' great big lies MG> They got little noses MG> And tiny little teeth MG> They wear platform shoes MG> On their nasty little feet MG> Well, I don't want no Short People MG> Don't want no Short People MG> Don't want no Short People MG> Round here MG> Short People are just the same MG> As you and I MG> (A Fool Such As I) MG> All men are brothers MG> Until the day they die MG> (It's A Wonderful World) MG> Short People got nobody MG> Short People got nobody MG> Short People got nobody MG> To love MG> They got little baby legs MG> And they stand so low MG> You got to pick 'em up MG> Just to say hello MG> They got little cars MG> That got beep, beep, beep MG> They got little voices MG> Goin' peep, peep, peep MG> They got grubby little fingers MG> And dirty little minds MG> They're gonna get you every time MG> Well, I don't want no Short People MG> Don't want no Short People MG> Don't want no Short People MG> 'Round here MG> Mike Geary MG> tall in the Seatte MG> but stuck in the Memphis MG> for the moment. -- mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html