From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #222 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Sunday, October 19 1997 Volume 02 : Number 222 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Re: deer identification (failed) [crackers@hwcn.org] Re: Alloy: Laurie Anderson [Jeff Wasilko ] Re: Alloy: Laurie Anderson [Frank ] Re: Alloy: Laurie Anderson [Keith Stansell ] Re: Alloy: Laurie Anderson [Jeff Wasilko ] Re: Alloy: Laurie Anderson [Jeff Wasilko ] Re: Alloy: They work in secret. They have no name. [Tim Dunn <113203.262] Re: Alloy: They work in secret. They have no name. [IT Admin - Govt Offi] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 03:16:58 -0400 (EDT) From: crackers@hwcn.org Subject: Re: Alloy: Re: deer identification (failed) In article <3.0.1.32.19971017103727.00708058@computerwire.co.uk>, you wrote: >I've no idea, I just thought that was the type of deer you found in the >South of England. It might have been a red deer. Whatever, he was a lot >smaller than a moose, but still big enough to scare the living daylights >out of me :) ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ When I was serving Queen and Country in the RCA I was once stationed at luxurious CFB Petawawa. One night some buddies and I were off base getting right pissed at a little bar called "Danny's". We missed the deuce 1/2 back to the base because we were sharing the company of some very attractive and flirtatious young women. We were walking back to the base with the girls when the MPs stopped us. They seperated us from the girls and said to us, "Since you're new to the base we're going to do you a big favour. Those three girls you've got there are the teenage daughters of very high ranking officers on base and they get a really big kick out of getting low ranking soldiers into very big trouble with their daddies. So if you're smart you'll say good evening to them and head back to where you belong." We bid the fair ladies good evening and made out way back to "the tent city", deep in the lush forests of Pet. It was very dark and we couldn't see much at all as we were walking along the road through the forset. And to top things off, we were all drunk as hell. Suddenly we heard a loud rustle of something very large coming through the bush towards the road. Gunner Jackson yelled out "BEAR!!!" and we all ran yelling down the road. It emerged from the bush right infront of us and we all nearly soiled our civies. Of course as it turns out, it wasn't a bear. It was a very large female moose. She snorted at us and then made off across the road and back into the bush. The ladds and I fell to the ground in an uncontrolable fit of laughter. I did once, however, have a very close encounter with a black bear while on sentry duty at Pet. I let it be and it did likewise. Still pretty scary though. CRACKERS (Royal Canadian Moose Squadron from hell!!!!) - -- Accordionist - Wethifl Musician - Atari 2600 Collector | /\/\ *NEW CrAB URL* http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html ***| \^^/ Bira Bira Devotee - FES Member - Samurai Pizza Cats Fan| =\/= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 13:00:38 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Re: Alloy: Laurie Anderson On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 09:17:37PM -0400, RThurF@aol.com wrote: > I just got great seats to the Laurie Anderson show next month at Harvard > University!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is the show open to the public? I live in Boston and would love to see her! It's been a couple of years since I've seen her perform... - -jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 12:34:31 -0700 From: Frank Subject: Re: Alloy: Laurie Anderson At 01:00 PM 10/18/97 -0400, you wrote: >On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 09:17:37PM -0400, RThurF@aol.com wrote: >> I just got great seats to the Laurie Anderson show next month at Harvard >> University!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > >Is the show open to the public? I live in Boston and would love >to see her! It's been a couple of years since I've seen her >perform... > >-jeff > Old and decrepit Frank asks, who is Laurie Anderson? Is she one of the Spice Girls? Frank of San Diego My Web Sites http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/6745/index.html http://members.tripod.com/~WheelerF/index.html Home (Page) Improvement!! Remember, I'm just a kid in the candy store. Little by little I'm getting there. Join me on the ride. Frank ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 14:28:38 -0700 From: Keith Stansell Subject: Re: Alloy: Laurie Anderson Frank wrote: > Old and decrepit Frank asks, who is Laurie Anderson? Is she one of the > > Spice Girls? > Little by little I'm getting there. Join me on the ride. Frank He he he, not quite - Laurie Anderson's fingernail has more intelligence than the Spice Girls combined. As always, an answer can be found on the internet: http://www.iuma.com/Warner/html/Anderson,_Laurie.html I saw her speak at the 1992 Utah Arts Festival, she is a woman who has something to say. But she has humor too, always important. I think this question was asked before, but..is she married to Lou Reed? - -- Keith Stansell Denver, CO __________________________________________________ http://www.concentric.net/~kasman ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 16:35:14 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Re: Alloy: Laurie Anderson On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 12:34:31PM -0700, Frank wrote: > >Is the show open to the public? I live in Boston and would love > >to see her! It's been a couple of years since I've seen her > >perform... > > > >-jeff > > > Old and decrepit Frank asks, who is Laurie Anderson? Is she one of the > Spice Girls? Yikes! Someone who doesn't know of Laurie? In short, she's an amazing performance artist. I'm terrible at describing music, so I'll point you to a few web sites: http://www.voyagerco.com/LA/ http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~jimmyd/faq1.html 1.Who is Laurie Anderson? Laurie Anderson is perhaps one of the most significant artists of this century; a poet, writer, visual artist, sculptor and social commentator, she is perhaps best known as a recording artist, one whose technical wizardry and live shows have earned her a reputation as one of the most eccentric performers in the business. She's a lot of things. In general she's known as a "performance artist." A performance artist is an artist who works in the medium of live performance. Laurie's performances use a bewildering variety of media, including film, electronic and acoustic music, slides, costumes, and other weird effects that don't even have names. Laurie is also a recording artist with Warner Bros. Records. She has made several albums, and all of them are more or less "avant-garde." She began to actually sing recently, starting with the Album "Strange Angels." Otherwise the vocals were primarily spoken. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 16:44:11 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Re: Alloy: Laurie Anderson On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 02:28:38PM -0700, Keith Stansell wrote: > > Spice Girls? > > Little by little I'm getting there. Join me on the ride. Frank > > He he he, not quite - Laurie Anderson's fingernail has more intelligence > than the Spice Girls combined. As always, an answer can be found on the > internet: Actually, the hangnail on her fingernail has more intelligence than all of the Spice Girls... (-: > this question was asked before, but..is she married to Lou Reed? I don't know about married, but they have been a couple for quite a while. - -Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 19:30:51 -0400 From: Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: Alloy: They work in secret. They have no name. AHAH!!!!!! So someone's finally spoken the lyric that dare not speak its name. You'v= e no idea how much trouble I had before recording my version! Of course I eventually decided to go for the lyric supplied by someone from the sleev= e on this list, but both myself and my brother were convinced that it is wh= at you say it is. If we are right, I do find it extremely distasteful - and = I am not the sort normally to jump on PC bandwagons. I would be most interested to know what mitigating reasons there are for the use of this word. I personally cannot think of any, and as a white gu= y married to a 'coloured' girl in the bigoted north of England, I have on occasion personally had to visit violence on certain individuals for language less offensive than that. It's the only thing they understand. I am eagerly awaiting a response, and will presume if I don't receive one= that there is no excuse, and will thereafter think the worst. the_copse ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 01:22:16 +0100 (BST) From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: They work in secret. They have no name. At 19:30 18/10/97 -0400, you wrote: >AHAH!!!!!! > >So someone's finally spoken the lyric that dare not speak its name. > >I am eagerly awaiting a response, and will presume if I don't receive one >that there is no excuse, and will thereafter think the worst. > >the_copse > No, sorry, it's just me being naughty. I don't have the published lyrics anywhere, and I can't speak for Thomas, but I'm sure it really is LINCOLN, as he seems to like them, another reference being 'That Sally- she stole my Lincoln town car' in Nuvogue on 'The Gate ....' Actually, if we have to have an alternative lyric, I prefer 'knickers' as the idea of them steaming in the chilly air of the morning makes me chuckle. I've often wondered what song writers think about the words that people THINK they wrote. Perhaps Thomas can enlighten us on this one. These 'Mondegreens,' i.e. mis-heard lyrics, were discussed in some detail a long time ago in the Tap Room, when Crackers had a thing about them and FES members came up with quite a few of their own. In fact he can probably point us all back to the relevant web-site and remind us of the origin of the term 'Mondegreen' because I can't remember it. I have heard loads of them, but can never think of them when asked. I should write them down when I hear them. Oooh, one's just popped into my cranium. The 'hot banana' backing vocal in Elvis Presley's 'Teddy Bear.' 'Oh let me be (hot banana, hot banana) Your teddy bear (hot banana, hot banana) etc. Then again, I think The Spice Girls 'Wannabe' is a bit risque with it's 'I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want. Well tell me what you want, what you really, really want. I wanna (uh) I wanna (uh) I wanna (uh) I wanna (uh) I really, really, really, really wanna JIG-A-JIG, Ahhhhhhhhhhh.' (Hope that scans right) Need I say more? Slarv P.S. Incidentally, a few months ago on 'TFI Friday' a program that I generally avoid like the plague, I saw Peter O'Toole, that fine and very well spoken actor, reading these very same lyrics in his best Shakespearian accent and phrasing. It was a 'feature' they had on for a few weeks, when actors would read contemporary lyrics. It just showed what absolute crap a lot of them are (the lyrics, not tha actors), as well as giving us a good laugh. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #222 ***************************