Plagiarists Corner

[Sweder]

Enjoyed this from this afternoon's Fiver letters.
The Fiver is running a 'stupid lyrics' theme; stuff like Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak - you know,
'Tonight there's going to be a jailbreak
Somewhere in the town'
Somewhere near the jail, one would imagine chaps.

Anyway, some smart alec (Simon Doherty) had a pop at Elton John's lyrics to Rocket Man.

"I have to take issue with Simon Doherty taking issue with the lyrics of Elton John's Rocket Man (yesterday's worst lyrics), because I am a rocket scientist (actually Professor of Space Science at the Open University) and: 'Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids' - dead right, you couldn't argue with that. 'In fact it's cold as hell' - factually correct, surface temperature typically between -40 and -100 deg. C. 'And there's no one there to raise them if you did' - we haven't found any life on Mars so again correct (but we are still looking).

So full marks to Elton John and zero to Simon Doherty!" -
Professor John Zarnecki.