[Dixielandjazz] The whole world sucks

[Richard Broadie]

Bill, Did you really compose, "I don't want to suck the world on fire."
Dick B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
To: <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:15 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] The whole world sucks


> Hi all,
>
> Barrett Deems is credited with the saying:  "The whole world sucks".
> >
> >No doubt derived from his scholarly treatise on the falsity of Newton's
> >claim that
> >gravity exists. The complete Deems theory to why we all don't fly off
into
> >outer
> >space is:
> >
> >"There is no gravity, the world sucks."
>
> This is, of course, an oxymoron. Gravity IS the sucking of the world on
> every object in its vicinity. Hence it makes no sense to say "the whole
> world doesn't suck, it sucks."
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill "I don't care if the world sucks, I still dig it" Gunter
> jazzboard at hotmail.com
>
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