Walter Meyer wrote:

>David Stewart wrote:
>
>>Why are the tunes from the 1812 overture so irrefutably bad ;-)
>
>Assuming you're right ("irrefutably"?), could it be because they're lifted
>from national hymns?

I take back irrefutably - it was meant as a joke to those who have been
following the VW thread.  Hence the ;-).

Anyway, you maybe right.  Can you think of any WORSE tune than the English
national anthem - 'God Save the Queen'.   Someone needs to write some
suitably sardonic lyrics to that.

David Stewart