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Thread #38909   Message #549520
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
13-Sep-01 - 09:38 PM
Thread Name: God save the Queen
Subject: RE: God save the Queen
Pardonable misunderstanding there - the term "cloth-eared twit" referred to the fella on the radio whom kendall mentioned. I take it that kendall can tell the difference between his National Anthem and the Stars and Stripes Forever, or he would be a cloth-eared twit too.

My implication was that, if you have a radio announcer on an American station who can't tell the difference, he or she is a funny sort of American. (Or possibly tone deaf as King George V was, I believe - I think I read somewhere that the only way he could tell they were playing God Save the King was because everyone stood up for it.)