Fourscore

The four notes were snipped out of a much longer composition called Fourscore, which was the first piece of music played on the channel at it's launch in 1982.

TINY MUSIC MAKERS: Pt 5: The Channel 4 Jingle 2005

Let me make one thing perfectly clear sounds too much like Nixon and Watergate, need to channel Lincoln instead, try to work "Fourscore" into this somewhere.

Scott White: Obama's Speech on Libya (I WIsh) Scott White 2011

Let me make one thing perfectly clear sounds too much like Nixon and Watergate, need to channel Lincoln instead, try to work "Fourscore" into this somewhere.

Scott White: Obama's Speech on Libya (I WIsh) Scott White 2011

“Fourscore and seven years ago,” the crab said, in a reedy, nasal voice, “our four fathers …”

DESERT ISLAND SOLITAIRE, OR, A GOOD CIGAR IS A SMOKE • by Nick Logan 2008

“Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth” We had a nation people would die for in less than 90 years.

Matthew Yglesias » Stay Calm 2007

Fourscore less seven or so years ago, when the government first recognized the power and potential of the airwaves, it held every broadcaster to a strict contract: serve the "public interest, convenience, and necessity" or risk losing your license.

Charlie Reina: Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine -- for Cable, Too 2008

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

Presidential Candidate Bob Barr on Failure of Conservative Values 2008

Abraham LincolnGettysburg Address 1863; 2 minutes "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty ..."

Better Than Counting Sheep 2008

I remember learning in school the words: “Fourscore and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Sometimes It Causes Me to Tremble: America's Anti-Americanism 2008

Sacred phrases that roll down the ages, "We hold these truths to be self-evident" and "When in the course of human events" and "Fourscore and seven years ago ..."

An unfinished holiday list of things I'm grateful for 2007