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Thursday, June 16, 2005

RACKER SPEAKS

UD is pleased to say that her initial post on the Racker Song (scroll down) now appears in the latest Carnival of Education as an Editor's Choice.

You can play the Racker Song by clicking on the link I provide in the earlier post.

Just to remind you, a group of Belgian math students recorded one of their math instructor’s obscene rants in class and then put his words to music. The song (whose title alludes to the instructor’s name, Yves De Racker) is now a hit in Belgium.

And for those of you who’ve been waiting, here, courtesy of a Belgian correspondent of UD’s who goes by the name of Woezel, is a translation. A very loose translation.



Let us begin with the Flemish original:

als er nu nog godverdomme ene klootzak zijnen bakkes opendoet dan
heeft hij em zitten e
potverdomme
potverdomme
ik heb veilig tussenin zo
xml eerst de dtd
punt dtd
punt dtd
punt dtd

me wa zedde gulder nu weer bezig
da vinne kik altij zo plezant
klote-klote-klote-klote
potverdomme
potverdomme
potverdomme

ik heb daar echt mijn binnenpretje van
klote-klote-klote
geloof me, dat staat dus nergens in de cursus e
astemblief é

traditioneel begin ik steeds mé
ik zou da gewoon ni kunnen rateren, da weet ik van mezelf
ik ken mezelf voldoende da'k da zeker ni zou rateren

da vind ik altij zo plezant als ik iemand zo ambetant zie worden e
en die ziet die fout dan maar ni
ik heb daar echt een binnenpretje van




Here, with some bits omitted because UD didn’t quite understand them, is the English text:

goddamn if one more asshole opens his mouth
he'll know about it
damn
damn

what are you fucking doing?
i always like that
shit-shit-shit-shit
damn
damn
damn

that makes me laugh
shit-shit-shit
believe me, you can't find this in the syllabus


I always like it when a student gets annoyed
when he doesn't see the mistake he’s made
it makes me laugh