http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20003 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 08:52:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20003#post-78921 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:56:57 +0000 Golgo13 78921@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Countries should have little four or five note "ident" brand jingles like Intel or Danone. Or Channel 4 when it started. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20003#post-53939 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:01:13 +0000 Ostsee 53939@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And those unspeakable types in Liechtenstein should stop using our tune. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20003#post-53923 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:07:48 +0000 rikkor 53923@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Doylem got it right. I love rhyming "arise" and "enemies". In the US, at least our national anthem is based on an obscure battle of an obscure war that no one knows anything about. </p> <p>God Save the Queen </p> <p>God save our gracious Queen,<br /> Long live our noble Queen,<br /> God save the Queen!<br /> Send her victorious,<br /> Happy and glorious,<br /> Long to reign over us,<br /> God save the Queen! </p> <p>O lord God arise,<br /> Scatter our enemies,<br /> And make them fall!<br /> Confound their knavish tricks,<br /> Confuse their politics,<br /> On you our hopes we fix,<br /> God save the Queen! </p> <p>Not in this land alone,<br /> But be God's mercies known,<br /> From shore to shore!<br /> Lord make the nations see,<br /> That men should brothers be,<br /> And form one family,<br /> The wide world ov'er </p> <p>From every latent foe,<br /> From the assasins blow,<br /> God save the Queen!<br /> O'er her thine arm extend,<br /> For Britain's sake defend,<br /> Our mother, prince, and friend,<br /> God save the Queen! </p> <p>Thy choicest gifts in store,<br /> On her be pleased to pour,<br /> Long may she reign!<br /> May she defend our laws,<br /> And ever give us cause,<br /> To sing with heart and voice,<br /> God save the Queen! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20003#post-53922 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:44:26 +0000 Textbook 53922@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks Malgor, any more "tag only" stories I write, I'll put "more soon" in the body. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20003#post-53918 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:28:03 +0000 Doylem 53918@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Verse two of our very own anthem (one of the many verses you never hear)...</p> <p>O lord God arise,<br /> Scatter our enemies,<br /> And make them fall!<br /> Confound their knavish tricks,<br /> Confuse their politics,<br /> On you our hopes we fix,<br /> God save the Queen! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20003#post-53917 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:24:23 +0000 malgor 53917@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A 'More Soon' as they're known (meaning 'no article coming, just a tagline'). There, I tagged it for you. And I quite agree. Some of those anthems just drag on and on with all their verses of peasant struggle and military might. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20003#post-53916 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:05:41 +0000 Textbook 53916@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>No article coming, just a tagline :) </p>