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[1] indicates that no one really knows. It might be poetic license, like when Tom Lehrer wrote a song about Lobachevsky allegedly being a plagiarist, not because he really was a plagiarist, just that his name worked in the song. ←
Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→
03:09, 28 November 2018 (UTC)reply
Similarly, it seems unlikely that "
Edward the Confessor slept under the dresser", but it is incontrovertible that
Clive ... is no longer alive". 11:13, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
And maybe William Lyon Mackenzie King didn't sit in the middle and play with string, but it's possible that he loved his mother like anything.
Adam Bishop (
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11:46, 29 November 2018 (UTC)reply
Yes, the tune is much better than the lyrics. A worse rhyme is in the third verse which tries make "laws" and "cause" go with "voice", But it's the thought that counts, I suppose (BTW, it's "God save our gracious Queen / Long live our noble Queen").
Alansplodge (
talk)
19:31, 29 November 2018 (UTC)reply
Tamfang, our
God Save the Queen article relates a "doubtful" tale that the anthem had originally been written for Louis XIV but adds "The entire story might have been intended as a joke". As far as anyone can tell, it was never written in French and it seems likely to be just an
eye rhyme, which was a common device at that time. Note that
New Zealand's anthem, written 130 years later, tries to rhyme "star", "war" and "afar".
Alansplodge (
talk)
21:30, 2 December 2018 (UTC)reply
I've been searching and I haven't found anything... I have to write a paper for school. I want to write about legality of stealing virtual stuff, like stealing somebody's weapons in an online game. Are there examples of lawsuits like that? If I can't find reliable online resources, I have to change topics.
Of course there have been some over bitcoins and also over domain names. Those should be easy to find. For in-game assets, maybe this
[4] counts, though it wasn't user-v.-user.
173.228.123.166 (
talk)
03:48, 29 November 2018 (UTC)reply
If domain names count, then you could look up the whole sorry "
sex.com" scandal (at the center of it was the sleazy company Network Solutions Inc.[ptui!] which set many bad precedents for the early Internet).
AnonMoos (
talk)
03:37, 5 December 2018 (UTC)reply
Welcome to the Wikipedia Humanities Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the
current reference desk pages.
This writeup
[1] indicates that no one really knows. It might be poetic license, like when Tom Lehrer wrote a song about Lobachevsky allegedly being a plagiarist, not because he really was a plagiarist, just that his name worked in the song. ←
Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→
03:09, 28 November 2018 (UTC)reply
Similarly, it seems unlikely that "
Edward the Confessor slept under the dresser", but it is incontrovertible that
Clive ... is no longer alive". 11:13, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
And maybe William Lyon Mackenzie King didn't sit in the middle and play with string, but it's possible that he loved his mother like anything.
Adam Bishop (
talk)
11:46, 29 November 2018 (UTC)reply
Yes, the tune is much better than the lyrics. A worse rhyme is in the third verse which tries make "laws" and "cause" go with "voice", But it's the thought that counts, I suppose (BTW, it's "God save our gracious Queen / Long live our noble Queen").
Alansplodge (
talk)
19:31, 29 November 2018 (UTC)reply
Tamfang, our
God Save the Queen article relates a "doubtful" tale that the anthem had originally been written for Louis XIV but adds "The entire story might have been intended as a joke". As far as anyone can tell, it was never written in French and it seems likely to be just an
eye rhyme, which was a common device at that time. Note that
New Zealand's anthem, written 130 years later, tries to rhyme "star", "war" and "afar".
Alansplodge (
talk)
21:30, 2 December 2018 (UTC)reply
I've been searching and I haven't found anything... I have to write a paper for school. I want to write about legality of stealing virtual stuff, like stealing somebody's weapons in an online game. Are there examples of lawsuits like that? If I can't find reliable online resources, I have to change topics.
Of course there have been some over bitcoins and also over domain names. Those should be easy to find. For in-game assets, maybe this
[4] counts, though it wasn't user-v.-user.
173.228.123.166 (
talk)
03:48, 29 November 2018 (UTC)reply
If domain names count, then you could look up the whole sorry "
sex.com" scandal (at the center of it was the sleazy company Network Solutions Inc.[ptui!] which set many bad precedents for the early Internet).
AnonMoos (
talk)
03:37, 5 December 2018 (UTC)reply