I didn't know "sat a gee" was a real phrase and thought he just made it up for the rhyme and everyone was playing along. I thought THAT was the joke, but the joke was on me.
Nice high quality video of this song. Still like to listen to every once in a while since being introduced to it by a certain Salarian. This one makes me less sad 😂
PSA that listening to this while writing an essay makes you feel like you know everything and can write at the speed of light. I speak from experience.
1:07 - *I am the very model of a modern major general, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral* *I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical from Marathon to Waterloo in order categorical* *I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations both the simple and quadratical, about binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news*
@@martythetickler*I'm very good at integral and different calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animaculous, in short in matters vegetable animal and mineral I am the very model of a modern major general.*
@@thephysicistcuber175 *I know our mythic history: King Arthur and Sir Caradoc’s, I answer hard acrostics I’ve a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, in comics I can floor peculiarities parabolis.*
@@JahJah-CleverHandle*I can tell undoubted raphaels from gerard dows and zoffanies i know the croaking chorus from the frogs of aristophanes then i can hum a fugue of which ive heard the musics din afore*
If they were to make this movie today, they'd have problems finding actors who can speak that fast whilst remaining intelligible... Watch another jewel from this flick "It doesn't really matter" with Kevin Kline and Angela Lansbury.
Very nice quality, but not a patch on the performance by Andrew Shore as Major General-Stanley, with Joshua Bloom as Pirate King and Claudia Boyle as Mabel in the ENO production by film director Mike Leigh. (Is on YT.)
