There is a controversy boiling over regarding the imaginary nation of Tangeria and its national anthem. A recent commenter asserts that the anthem of Tangeria should be something more tangential than Led Zeppelin's "Tangerine", even with my proposed new lyrics.
However, if you go to Wikipedia's list of national anthems you'll see that most countries do have non-tangential anthems. In fact, some are downright eponymous. For example, Djibouti ("Djibouti"), American Samoa ("Amerika Samoa"), and most notably Eritrea ("Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritrea").
I'll award a near miss to Canada ("O Canada"). Maybe that's a typo.
It's reassuring to know that with their new anthem, people in Tangeria will be shakin' djibouti on the dance floor well into the future.
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1 comment:
Digression 1:
Tanergia? TANGERIA? Any anthem for a country called Tangeria is inevidably going to be about drinking too much Sangria and succumbing to Diarreah. Now that might be fine for a quick trip to the Greek Isles, but it's hardly a basis for a national anthem.
How can you stand proud and sing loud, when you're wondering what's trickling down your legs?
Digression 2:
What about the flag? Looking at the list of wiki-anthems, many of them seem to describe the flag of their nation. How do you see the flag of Tangeria?
The obvious is an orange flag, but that might make the Dutch really cross. My suggestion is a world's first - a powdered flag. Rather than a boring old fabric square, Tangerine has a flag made of Tang (TM). Rather than running it up a flagpole, you just throw graceful arcs of synthetically flavoured orange powers into the sky. On special occasions, chanting monks could create huge complex mancalas of Tang.
Now THAT sounds more like my sort of imaginary country!
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