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Robert Peters <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:41:33 +0100
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Deryk Barker wrote:

>>Very humorous, Deryk, but also too easy and not true.  The latter two are
>>certainly easy to remember, but after a chance, random encounter, you don't
>>find yourself unwittingly humming them for the rest of the day,
>
>Really? I may not have found myself humming those, but there are other
>equally simple (simplistic?) tunes which can catch me unawares like that.
>"Ooops!  I did it again!" is, thankfully, not one of them.

I sometimes hum tunes from pop songs and sometimes from Haydn which are
very very simple, maybe simplistic.  To catch a phrase is not a deliberate
choice and not an opportunity to feel more sophisticated.

Robert

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