[lit-ideas] Re: Political Schadenfreude
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 22:04:42 +0000 (GMT)
> ---- Of course part of the schadenfreude derives from the
> anti-Polish
> current campaign.
That strengthens it a bit...
The BNP tend to keep away from my neighbourhood (technically in Penylan, but
more like its neighbour, Roath)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roath
thank goodness.
> "The campaign has already seen the threat of
> legal action from Dame Vera Lynn
Yes, I'd forgotten about that till I saw the piece today. -- I didn't know the
song was American. (Bluebirds, yes.)
Cardiff's football team's called The Bluebirds. When they made the Wembley
Finals, some nitwit at the BBC decided to play White Cliffs of Dover (the Vera
Lynn version) in announcements about the match. Luckily that was soon stopped.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
--- On Wed, 4/3/09, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Political Schadenfreude
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, 4 March, 2009, 8:28 PM
> In a message dated 3/4/2009 2:44:19 P.M. Eastern Standard
> Time,
> judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> _http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1158970/BNP-shot-uses-POLISH-Spitfire
> -anti-immigration-campaign.html_
> (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1158970/BNP-shot-uses-POLISH-Spitfire-anti-immigration-campaign.html)
>
>
> Thank you, Judy. Very good article.
>
> I enjoyed:
>
> "The 2009 election campaign poster features a
> spitfire
> plane and represents the Battle of Britain. ‘It
> doesn’t
> matter if it’s a Polish squadron plane at all
> [...]'"
>
> ---- Of course part of the schadenfreude derives from the
> anti-Polish
> current campaign.
>
> I also found it of interest:
>
> "The campaign has already seen the threat of
> legal action from Dame Vera Lynn over
> their use of her [recording of the American] song
>
> 'White Cliffs of Dover' on a BNP album of
>
> Second World War songs."
>
> ----- I hope S. Ward does birds, because everyone knows
> that bluebird is
> _not_ an English channel species!
>
> As an effect, I cannot sing that song seriously anymore.
> But then I'm not
> meant to. My favourite rendition must be from "Hope
> and Glory", when they are
> having picnic at the beach, and Sarah Miles and all that,
> and they play it in
> the background."
>
> Eb Eb Gm
>
> "There'll be blue birds ovaa
> Ab Bb/Ab Gm C7 ....
>
> The whiiite cliffs ov Dowuuuva!
>
> bluebird: Sialia mexicana
>
> As a tribute to the Polish spitters I've translated the
> stanza to Polish. I
> took the poetic liberty to make bidrogami rhyme with the
> toponym, though:
>
> Tam będzie granatowymi bidrogami
>
> nad białymi urwiskami Dover
>
> ----
>
> I'm unamused that the only thing Brits know the River
> Plate for ("The Battle
> of Britain") does not feature the Argentines at all...
>
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