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Spectator Competition: Contrarian song

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EXPLORE THE ISSUE 15 March 2025
issue 15 March 2025

For Competition 3390 you were invited to come up with your own version of the Groucho Marx song ‘I’m Against It’, from the film Horse Feathers:

Your proposition may be good

But let’s have one thing understood:

Whatever it is, I’m against it.

Hats off to David Silverman, who got into specifics: (‘Conniving, skiving; Mo Salah diving;/ Texting while driving/ VAR’).

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