# Re: The Ruby Soundtrack **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 16, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-ruby-soundtrack/82023 "2007-01-16T22:25:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a9adbd/32.png) [@Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Frank_Davis)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-ruby-soundtrack/82023/1 "2007-01-16T22:25:47Z")
For us here in the U.S., our national anthem starts out with the words “Oh say, can you C”. There’s not a lot that can top that. Frank ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a9adbd/32.png) [@Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Frank_Davis)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-ruby-soundtrack/82023/2 "2007-01-17T00:00:12Z")
Frank Davis wrote: > For us here in the U.S., our national anthem starts out with the words > “Oh say, can you C”. There’s not a lot that can top that. Ha! In the translation of the Brazilian anthem on wikipedia: > Brazil, let the star-spangled banner thou showest forth > ^^^^^ > In the Belarus anthem (in one translation): > Gently sowing forth dreams, gold-adornéd; > … > Awaken and forth into great spaces, bring > … > Send messengers forth, send unto the world’s bound, > … > O young Bielarus, come thou forth, take thy place In the Tibetan anthem: > The Play Oceans enlivened benevolent activities Of the > widely-nurturing Protector who retains the Teaching and > the migrators’ gem, Expand forth. (I like the gem part!) Forth is the choice of nations! ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a9adbd/32.png) [@Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Frank_Davis)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-ruby-soundtrack/82023/3 "2007-01-17T00:04:12Z")
Joel VanderWerf wrote: > forth into great spaces, bring Actually, that’s not such bad forth syntax. Maybe they speak forth in Belarus. ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a9adbd/32.png) [@Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Frank_Davis)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-ruby-soundtrack/82023/4 "2007-01-17T03:46:38Z")
Joel VanderWerf wrote: > In the Belarus anthem (in one translation): > > > The Play Oceans enlivened benevolent activities Of the > > widely-nurturing Protector who retains the Teaching and > > the migrators’ gem, Expand forth. > > (I like the gem part!) > > Forth is the choice of nations! Sheesh … my paternal grandparents came from what is now Belarus, though I have no idea who owned it when they left. So now I know why I like Forth so much – it’s in my blood! 🙂 Curiously enough, though, my father’s nickname was “Ruby” among some of those relatives. I have no explanation for why I like Lisp, however. 🙂 – M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P) [http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/](http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/) If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire. ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a9adbd/32.png) [@Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Frank_Davis)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-ruby-soundtrack/82023/5 "2007-01-17T21:49:07Z")
Chris Lloyd wrote: > I vote we find some weird nerd/musician hybrid and we make our own > Ruby theme song! Someone ask Why and the Thirsty Cups to do it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a9adbd/32.png) [@Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Frank_Davis)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-ruby-soundtrack/82023/6 "2007-01-18T00:46:02Z")
Frank Davis wrote: > For us here in the U.S., our national anthem starts out with the words > “Oh say, can you C”. There’s not a lot that can top that. Australia: “our land is girt by C” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a9adbd/32.png) [@Frank\_Davis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Frank_Davis)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-ruby-soundtrack/82023/7 "2007-01-17T21:34:29Z")
If you go by the whole lyrics thing you’ve gotta remember Monty _Python_. And Perl [sic] Jam. + all the old Jazz songs with Java in them. I vote we find some weird nerd/musician hybrid and we make our own Ruby theme song! Either that or get enough money together to make the Kaiser Cheifs change their song before it gets released in March. We couldn’t have a Ruby theme tune without praisin blocks. Other languages will just sit around “learning” at their confrences, while at RubyConf we can start each presentation with the anthem, schoolboy style. Ok, am I getting a little too excited about this?