The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #8533   Message #53271
Posted By: Joe Offer
10-Jan-99 - 08:53 PM
Thread Name: Origin:All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir
Subject: RE: All Gods creatures got a place in the choir
It is important for us "regulars" to remember that what we think of as our prime courtesies aren't quite as self-evident to outsiders as we might think we are. Our search engines are pretty good, but there are tricks of the trade you pick up after a while. If you're one of those blasted blatteraps who spells plurals with apostrophes, you're not going to find songs with plurals in them - unless the song happened to have been posted by a similar blatterap.
I got a little grouchy yesterday when I saw the 30th lyrics desparately needed thread of the day (and they always spell "desperately" wrong). Maybe I should have been more patient.
This particular song is difficult to find, because there are many variations on the title. I think I even saw a CD that called it "The Porcupine Talks to Himself." And the thread had an appropriate title, so that's cool. Bad thread titles are the worst offense. There have been times when I've researched and found a song, only to find I couldn't remember which "lyrics requested" thread had asked for that particular song. Sometimes I wish the magic edit button Max gave me would allow me to change generic thread names and thread names with quotation marks. Actually, I have figured out a way, but it's a tedious process, so I don't do it often.
-Joe Offer-