ON THIS DAY in 1814, famous St. John’s College alumnus Francis Scott Key attempted to sing the popular drinking song “To Anacreon in Heav’n” to an audience of British admirals who had plied him with dinner and wine; but he was so far gone already that the words came out all wrong.
September 13th, 2012 | 9:43 pm | #1
“Oh, say can you see. tumpy, tumpy tee tum..”
September 13th, 2012 | 10:33 pm | #2
A dawnzer casts a lee light.
September 14th, 2012 | 7:11 pm | #3
“And the Twilight fans screaming”
September 17th, 2012 | 2:49 am | #4
Key was actually asking the cabin steward, who had come aboard in Cozumel what was going on outside, and what was all the ruckus that was shaking his already fragile hangover to bits.
“Jose, can you see?”
September 19th, 2012 | 5:03 pm | #5
I think he made reference to the “Donzerley Light”, which was a piece of artillery. Or a brigade.
Your photo depresses me, because it shows the flag in the Museum of History and Technology before all the fun was sucked out of it. The Foucault pendulum used to be right there, for example, knocking over those little red markers that looked like firecrackers.
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