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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I’ve just encountered star sprankled – clearly a doubled past tense of ‘sprinkle’ and interesting enough in its own right. This obviously led me to the ‘star sprinkled banner’ – spangle seems an uncommon word and perhaps ripe for eggcoronation:
As surely as the Star Sprinkled Banner at the beginning of the World Series.
There will also be a lot of parodies and references to American culture like Mom’s apple pie and the star-sprinkled banner.
But actually the star sprinkled banner on the moon is not meant for the aliens, for the space exploration, for the triumph of human technology and overall …
She told me she learned the Star Sprinkled Banner for her school show. I told her I was so proud of her!! Of course her mom told her the real name, ...
And the ‘Star Sprankled Banner’ is just a very remarkable song of woodstock.
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There’s a few “Star-spanked” banners out there too:
I t started with a talk from the ranger, then a stirring movie about the carving and the history it represents. At the end they played the Star Spanked Banner and the mountain slowly lit up.
And in answer to “What’s a great theme song for the Republicans”
we have a theme song it is called the star spanked banner.
Last edited by fpberger (2010-12-20 18:11:26)
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