See, Ken? I am getting meaner
So I have a new campaign plank if I ever decide to resurrect my Presidential ambitions. I will ask Congress to pass a law outlawing busking before noon and using amplifiers in enclosed spaces such as bus depots, and train or subway stations. Additionally, busking songs to which one doesn't know the words will be a civil crime carrying a $100 fine.
All this is inspired by my cranky, tired self having to listen to a busker with only a vague idea of the lyrics playing "Whiter Shade of Pale" on an out-of-tune electic mandolin thingie this morning. It's "and her face at first just ghostly/turned a whiter shade of pale," not, "and her face for something to see/something whiter shade of pale."