To: Sig who wrote (86416 ) 12/21/1998 9:42:00 PM From: Don Martini Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 176387
WAAAY OT: Sig, it's the Auburn WAR EAGLES. I married a couple in the chapel there 12 years ago. He was an opera singer Betty hired to sing at our anniversary party a song from a poem I had written, as a surprise to me. We became friends, studied the Bible together. She was daughter of an Auburn professor. I told Betty no one could set Who Flings the Stars to music; too complicated. She found a composer to do so then David Stevenson voiced it magnificently! The long poem was about our pseudo ancestors, from pleopithecus and procounsel to australopithecus:Museum of natural history Its halls of marble beckon me To learn of mankind's ancient ages And life on earth's progressive stages Thru tall bronze doors I entered there To see a man with silvered hair A noted archaeologist And paleoanthropologist With twenty students by his side O happy day, he'll be our guide! It continues for minutes, including:Australopithecus is our next ape Observe his almost human shape But Leaky and Montague each agree He doesn't belong in our family tree Still he looks so handsome there Gazing off with a manlike air And we've gone to such heavy expense To present this scene in his defense That we could never throw him out Tho we're not sure what he's all about. WAR EAGLES, Sig, WAR EAGLES! Not to be confused with: Zinzanthropus, what an ugly cuss We're sure that he was one of us Bought his clothes from Mister Bear 'Cause no Macy's store was there Ate dinosaurs and alligators Didn't know about refrigerators Lived in a cave, without any rent Notice how his back is bent Drew strange designs on the hard rock ceiling Humanity's first artistic feeling ... And when the ice age came at last And all the reptiles took off fast He ate his relatives one by one Till finally his race was done So now we bid him fond adieu Old Zinny there, with eyes of blue Who didn't want to be a man Till evolution wrecked his plan Today's market got me high, Sig, but I'll take something for it, I promise. Good Evening, Sig! Don