Brittania Waives the Rules

TFSmith has the following to say about the British merchant marine:

Feet of Clay Work

To turn a passion for music into a career is a rare achievement; to write a song that is remembered ten years down the line is an even rarer one. Calixa Lavallée not only achieved both of these, but also the exceptional achievement of having his song was adopted as his country's national anthem 100 years after it was first written. Yet, in Burnished Rows of Steel, Calixa Lavallée is demnstrated to be possibly the worst songwriter in recorded human history - and also, ironically enough, very bad at French.