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[shevek]

Nobody in the USA has heard of Flanders and Swann. If the country had an editor, I would write to him to express my unmitigated disgust.

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[oilrig]

Heathens. Hope you're managing to put that right at least ;)

[fjm]

Gary K. Wolfe of Locus is a fan.

Also: they did a tour of the USA in the 1960s where they sang The Honeysuckle and the Bindweed, and got away with it. No one seems to have noticed it was all about miscegenation.

[shermarama]

'Whose need, let's face it, is greater even than yours..."

[x_mass]

rubbish

I know plenty of ex-pat brits ensconced in the land of the "free markets"

[rhialto]

It seems they inspired some foreign translations too... here is a dutch song that is very much inspired by "have some madeira m'dear": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1wX1twS8II ('een glaasje madeira m'dear; a glass of madeira m'dear).

[shermarama]

Woah!

[lovelybug]

*has to google* sorry!

love the idea of countries having editors tho!