>From: jim@wildpepper.com >I was raised on Alan Sherman Then you probably remember this: HAIL TO THEE, FAT PERSON! by Allan Sherman [Recitation with the tune of "America The Beautiful" in the background] I would like to explain how it came to pass that I got fat. Ladies and gentlemen, I got fat as a public service. When I was a child, my mother said to me, "Clean the plate, because children are starving in Europe." And I might point out that that was years before the Marshall Plan was ever heard of. So I would clean the plate, four, five, six times a day, because somehow I felt that that would keep the children from starving in Europe. But I was wrong. They kept starving. And I got fat. So I would like to say to every one of you who is either skinny or in some other way normal - when you walk out on the street, and you see a fat person, do not scoff at that fat person. Oh no! Take off your hat. Hold it over your heart. Lift your chin up high. And in a proud, happy voice say to him: "Hail to thee, fat person! You kept us out of war!" ____________________________ Copyright ca. 1963 by Curtain Call Productions, Inc. Recorded by Allan Sherman on the LP "My Son the Nut" _________________________________________________________________ Get faster connections -- switch to MSN Internet Access! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp