Walking to the stadium there had been three middle-aged men in Portsmouth shirts singing familiar songs with new words.
It followed three days in Darwin's supreme court, where Gooda and co-commissioner Margaret White heard evidence on the long-broken systems from a parade of familiar experts singing familiar refrains.
Singing familiar songs, most of them upbeat, she leaves no note unadorned: little quavers, big sobs, strident vibratos, touches of raspiness, breathy whispers, as if she's trying to be both Mariah Carey and Faith Hill.
Don't you want to try it, too?" The ancient art of karaoke, in which your average schmo in a bar stands up to sing familiar songs to prerecorded instrumental tracks, dates back many millennia -- well, at least a few decades, when it caught on big in Japan.
As the match ended, the people in Torcida held their white-and-blue scarves above their heads and sang a familiar tune.
Queen Latifah sang a familiar ballad, "I'll Be Seeing You," from the Broadway musical "Right This Way," during the memorial segment.
On his most recent visit to the dam site, in October, Mr Li sang his familiar song of praise for the Three Gorges: the dam had sound science and public support behind it.
She sang two familiar songs by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht: "Surabaya Johnny" from "Happy End" and "Mack the Knife" from "The Threepenny Opera" (which she also can be seen performing in a dramatic video on YouTube).
The choir sang the familiar hymn: Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep: Oh hear us when we cry to thee For those in peril on the sea.
When I spoke to SugarCRM CTO Clint Oram last week, he sang a familiar refrain: The software sales process was changing profoundly from one which had been completely IT-focused to one centered on end users and business units — and this was due in large part to the ease of deployment brought on by the cloud.
