Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Independence Day Date: 5 Jul 2024 12:31:33 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="27712"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1305 Paul Dormer wrote: >In article , kfl@KeithLynch.net (Keith F. >Lynch) wrote: > >> >> An attempted assassination of a king seems an odd thing to celebrate. > >It was much to do with celebrating the failure of a Catholic plot against >a Protestant monarch. >> >> I'll be in Buffalo for the NASFiC. I wonder if there's any memorial >> or museum to the presidential assassination that happened there. > >Stephen Sondheim wrote a good song about it. It's okay. It's not HALF as good as "From Buffalo To Washington" though. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."