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echo: startrek
to: RON BRYANT
from: BRIAN DAVIS
date: 1998-03-19 12:01:00
subject: When the Borg Lady Sings

 -=> Quoting Ron Bryant to All Echosians <=-
*snippage*
 RB> But instead, she's singing another highly popular tune from the Hit
 RB> Parade of summer, 1942, "It Can't Be Wrong." Of course, 1942 was a
 RB> But, no -- our collective leg is being subtly pulled ... and I'm not
 RB> going to spoil this wonderful groaner of a pun for anyone by being too
 RB> obvious. Heck, I'll even make it a sporting proposition by positing
 RB> that its worth a meter-high stack of Bunos Points to answer the trivia
 RB> question involved if you can recover from the mirth-attack that will
 RB> undoubtedly ensue. Granted, of course, your mileage may vary.
 RB> Some small hints: it has to do with the title of that *other* 1942
 RB> Steiner-scored movie alluded to above. The "love theme" from that film
 RB> is the melody for "It Can't Be Wrong," and it's also notable for
 RB> having won the Oscar for Best Score that year. It starred Bette Davis,
 RB> Paul Henried and Claude Rains ...
This would be a movie titled  _Now, Voyager_....(dontcha just love
searchable Internet movie databases?)
I still don't get it, at least not the part about it being a pun.
From where I sit, it's just a cleverly-ironic-but-obscure name
reference, but I might be a measure or two behind.... }}:->
(I *heard* that, Bill....) }}:->
... I know a good tagline when I steal one.
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