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And why? Well, Yanc3y pointed out this:

http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/03/r_entertainment_segal031203.htm

And I'm still scratching my head over it all. Make sure you read everything!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

What are you proposing, Ned? Are we storming the barricades (copyright Sterling Clover), or just taking him to task?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Not too sure WHAT I'm proposing...but he seems like a bemusing person.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Bemusing indeed.

Where's my dam rebop??

― Jess Hill (jesshill), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I love this section of his diatribe:

"And let’s revisit a topic: Inane lyrics. I was listening the other day to Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind” and it suddenly struck me that the words don’t make a lick of sense.

“And it seems to me you lived your life, like a candle in the wind/Never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in.”

Well, how the hell does a candle cling to anything? And if it CAN cling to something, how would it cling to a person? Anyway, what the hell is this candle doing in the wind and rain?"

YEAH!!! WHAT RIGHT DOES ELTON JOHN HAVE TO WRITE LYRICS THAT AREN'T LITERAL?!?!?!?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I just wrote him a very uninteresting question.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Segal = smartaleck who isn't smart

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Thursday, 13 March 2003 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Segal is a former business reporter. There's a rumor concerning how he came to be the Post's primary music writer, but I'd rather not run the risk of libel.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)

You could tell a 'fictional story' about a Davo Schemgal.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

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