Just outta curiosity, why?
Rilchiam said : Just out of curiousity, why?
Read Terry Pratchett’s “The Last Continent.”
I quote:
“Say’s here it’s girt by the sea,” says the Senior Wrangler.
He looked up to their stares.
"This continent EcksEcksEcks. Says here “Little is known about it save it is girt by the sea.”
(They end up in discworld equivalent of Australia)
“Well, there IS sea,” said the Senior Wrangler. "But would you say it looks as if it is actually girting?"
“It’s just, you know… sloshing.”
“One would somehow imagine a sea that was actually girting something would look more, well… definant,” said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. “You know? Thundering waves and so on. Definitely sending a message to outsiders that it was girting this coast and they’d better be jolly respectful.”
How anyone could sing the anthem with a straight face after reading Terry Pratchett is beyond me!
I see. Well, I myself often think of the recently deceased Rockets Redglare when I hear SSB.