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Lanskee Shuru

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Nov 18, 2012, 10:31:53 PM11/18/12
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POTUS is going to Myanmar
It used to be called Burma

Yangoon, Rangoon
What the hell.....

What once was great is in its grave
So, now they call it:

Myanmar Shave
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R H Draney

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Nov 20, 2012, 4:05:44 PM11/20/12
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Lanskee Shuru filted:
Far-away places with strange-sounding names
Change to suit the regimes that are into ya:
Ilium, Leningrad, Siam and Thrace,
Cathay and old Abyssinia.

....r


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BobF

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Nov 20, 2012, 4:47:25 PM11/20/12
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On 20 Nov 2012 13:05:44 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net>
shouted from the highest rooftop:

>Lanskee Shuru filted:
>>
>>POTUS is going to Myanmar
>>It used to be called Burma
>>
>>Yangoon, Rangoon
>>What the hell.....
>>
>>What once was great is in its grave
>>So, now they call it:
>>
>>Myanmar Shave
>
>Far-away places with strange-sounding names
>Change to suit the regimes that are into ya:
>Ilium, Leningrad, Siam and Thrace,
>Cathay and old Abyssinia.

Even old New York
Was once New Amsterdam.
Why they changed it I can't say.
Maybe they like it better that way.


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