absolutely trivial: linguistic songs

jester at PANIX.COM jester at PANIX.COM
Mon Aug 14 18:35:44 UTC 2000


> > > Great!  Now if we could find a song about Wittgenstein....
> >
> > Ah, the gauntlet has been thrown, I must now compose a song about
> > Wittgenstein.  Or at least a lyric about him.  That'll be a fun one to
> > rhyme...
>
> Isn't he referenced in Monty Python's "The Philosophers Song"?

Yes, but it doesn't rhyme:

"And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as sloshed as Schlegel."

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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