Bill Bailey demonstrates major and minor keys with Star Spangled Banner

[Horselover_Fat]

Pretty sure this is false. This song is based on a poem by Aleksandr Ammosov from 1858.

The infallible Wikipedia aggregates evidence that the melody from the Star Spangled Banner comes from an English drinking song of the The Anacreontic Society. The song was called ‘To Anacreon in Heaven’ and the melody was written by John Stafford Smith, with the earliest instance listed as 1773.

Supposedly, if you couldn’t get through the song, it meant you were too drunk for another round…

[Immutable_Mike]

I posted this a few weeks ago.

Melizmatic's Meme-versation (Part Deux)

In the early naughties, my ex came back from the supermarket laughing, but horrified, that our daughter (about 5 yo at the time) had called her from the other end of an aisle, holding a lunchbox up to her chest yelling “look mum, mum, mum… I’m a prostitute robot from the future”. We lived in a small town at the time and she was terrified someone we knew had seen this exchange. Ms Now Adult wasn’t interested in going, but last week I took her brothers to see Bill Bailey’s live show. BB was tell…

[knoxblox]

We can assume this is Russian trolling, da?

[Boundegar]

Nice rhetorical move. Myself, I’m a fan of Igudesman and Joo:

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[Entity447B]

@strangefriendbb

So, who is this guy again?

Is it Bill Bailey?

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[strangefriendbb]

[strangefriendbb]

I don’t watch UK TV, except for the stuff that my PBS station puts up (Midsomer Murders, Victoria, Keeping up Appearances, the Father Brown Mysteries, Murder In Paradise etc.)

[Jorpho]

This is what I remember him for, primarily.

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