Alligator Pie: now in French!

But it's not alligator pie any longer, because apparently finding good rhymes for "alligator" in French is surprisingly challenging.

Awesome. Here's the original:

Alligator pie, alligator pie,
If I don't get some I think I'm gonna die.
Give away the green grass, give away the sky,
But don't give away my alligator pie.

Alligator stew, alligator stew,
If I don't get some I don't know what I'll do.
Give away my furry hat, give away my shoe,
But don't give away my alligator stew.

Alligator soup, alligator soup,
If I don't get some I think I'm gonna droop.
Give away my hockey stick, give away my hoop,
But don't give away my alligator soup.

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In other language news, we started learning a Mozart round last night at choir. I don't understand German, but a choir member who does assures me the words are absolutely filthy. Am intrigued yet slightly scared. May have to post the text for mrs_cake.

and finally...

Happy Birthday claris! And happy birthday slightly in advance, briasoleil!

Gah.

I was getting all close to the end there. 23 pages to go. Then they sent me an updated version of the next chapter I have to edit. Now I have 33 pages to go.

But I see it's full of inappropriate italics and bolding, so I'll be able to have some fun with that.

Sigh. Onward.

Commandments

1. Thou shalt not randomly capitalize words.
2. Thou shalt not use italics or bolding for emphasis, unless thou canst give thy copy editor a really good reason why.
3. Thou shalt not use clip art. Nay, not even though thy text useth an orchestra metaphor and thy clip art library hath an orchestra image.
4. Thou shalt not pile sub-sub-heading upon sub-heading unto the sixth heading level and beyond.
5. Thou shalt pay close attention to the rules of parallelism and balance.
6. Thou shalt not use the phrase "as well as" as a synonym for "and."
7. Thou shalt use the serial comma.
8. Thou shalt not introduce obscure vocabulary into the text without a proper explanation.
9. Thou shalt pick a font and a colour and stick to it, not because thy copy editor cannot deal easily with this, but because it pisseth her off.

And this shall be the word of the copy editor.

Anyone got any more?

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It's DARK!

*sob*