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Thread #128552 Message #2879945
Posted By: Jack Campin
05-Apr-10 - 09:10 AM
Thread Name: The song Jazzer sang on the Archers?
Subject: RE: The song Jazzer sang on the Archers?
BPC serves a useful function as a romantic loser figure we can all sing about without there being any chance at all that anything he stood for will ever crawl back out of the swamps of history to bite us. (Burns said something to that effect as early as the 1790s). He's the obverse of Guy Fawkes in England - when did his status as a folk demon last get any bystanders hurt? not for a very long time.
Come to think of it "Osama Bin Laden" scans just about the same as "Bonnie Prince Charlie" and he has a pretty similar historical position, it's just a bit soon for the songwriters to have got into action.