From:  MegaMole
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: [I] National Anthems texts
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:40:13 +0100


The ones that haven't been posted so far, and are mine to put up; Joy 
Green did a great job with Copperhead and Sto Lat.  It's not my place to 
post those - I'll leave it up to her to do it if she wants to.

Anyway, here are the all-new ones, first performed at the Con, covering 
Uberwald, Ephebe, Djelibeybi and Pseudopolis.  I'm proudest of Uberwald, 
I think, but Ephebe got the best reception: 


Ephebe
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TTTO (You should work this one out, too.)


In Ephebe there's a Tyrancy
And their mocracy is stable;
And philosophers are fighting
With the axioms they're writing
Till they think you under the table;
Didactylos is a cussed old toss
With a mangy old demeanour
And his sage advice (if you're really nice)
Is to buy him more retsina.

There's nowt Ephebians can't teach you
'Bout the clouding of the mind;
Didactylos himself is permanently blind...

Legibus' screw with his points of view
Confuses himself and his listeners, too;
Ibid, they say, can stick it away,
Two quarts of olives every day;
And a paradox of Xeno's
Is that everything that he knows
He dismisses as a sham,
But the whole beardy lot are just drunken sots,
"We drink, therefore we am".

Yes, Didactylos himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!


And that's all.
MegaMole