From: owner-basia-digest To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V1 #53 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Thursday, 7 March 1996 Volume 01 : Number 053 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: top ten Re: top ten Re: top ten Re: top ten Re: top ten Re: top ten Subject: Re: top ten Re: top ten ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dennis J. Majewicz" Date: Wed, 06 Mar 96 07:59:28 -0500 Subject: Re: top ten - -- [ From: Dennis J. Majewicz * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- - -------- REPLY, Original message follows -------- > Date: Tuesday, 05-Mar-96 11:51 PM > > From: J.S. Lohr \ Internet: (jlohr1@zeus.towson.edu) > To: basia \ Internet: (basia@smoe.org) > > Subject: Re: top ten > > On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, juan paxety wrote: > > >> 8. Copper Knickers > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> Secondly, what the HELL is this song? > >> > >> JSL. > > > > > > think roach, think. it's there. > > juan con el psycho typewriter > > Am I missing something obvious? Are you tweaking my mellon trying to see > how much it takes to turn me into a babbling fish? > It's there? WHERE is THERE? > > Uhhh.... > > - -------- REPLY, End of original message -------- Jeff, Maybe I shouldn't spoil it, but I can't see you pulling your hair out for too long. Sounds to me like a play on words, you know, like: "Oliver Clothesov" or "I. P. Daily". (Cop her knickers...) Or am *I* wrong??? Dennis ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 14:19:04 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: top ten On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Dennis J. Majewicz wrote: > Jeff, > > Maybe I shouldn't spoil it, but I can't see you pulling your hair out for > too long. Sounds to me like a play on words, you know, like: "Oliver > Clothesov" or "I. P. Daily". (Cop her knickers...) Or am *I* wrong??? > > Dennis What on EARTH are you guys talking about?!!?!?!? This is a conspiracy, isn't it...you guys are trying to make me go bonkers so you can set me up as the patsy in your attempts to kill Barry Manilow. "Copper Knickers?" There IS no song called "Copper Knickers," at least not in the selection of songs that was released in the states...so what are you talking about!?!? JSL. This is... ============================================================================= Like ohmigod! Roach has a homepage! Find him at the Internet Roach Motel!!!!! ============================================================================= "http://zeus.towson.edu/~jlohr1" Dig up all the dirt on Agitprop's Finest Son, the Net's most famous Roach, and Wal-Mart's Biggest Pain-in-the-ass. ============================================================================= note: the page is unfinished - please excuse some of the cruddy links! -Roach ============================================================================= ...the end. ------------------------------ From: Mark Lipawen Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:46:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: top ten I had to get the CD booklet to do this... On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, J.S. Lohr wrote: > What on EARTH are you guys talking about?!!?!?!? This is a conspiracy, > isn't it...you guys are trying to make me go bonkers so you can set me up > as the patsy in your attempts to kill Barry Manilow. > > "Copper Knickers?" There IS no song called "Copper Knickers," at least > not in the selection of songs that was released in the states...so what > are you talking about!?!? And if I say, that on this island today, we all have the same shorts - I don't claim they're chinos or copper knickers - now do you get it? :) (Okay, kinda lame. Maybe someone else has a good, non-obvious hint?) Mark Lipawen, Yahoo uh-huh Snail mail: `------>adbivium@yahoo.com 635 Vaqueros Ave (formerly tspinlob@leland.stanford.edu) Sunnyvale, CA 94086 ------------------------------ From: juan paxety Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 15:20:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: top ten >R >On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Dennis J. Majewicz wrote: > >> Jeff, >> >> Maybe I shouldn't spoil it, but I can't see you pulling your hair out for >> too long. Sounds to me like a play on words, you know, like: "Oliver >> Clothesov" or "I. P. Daily". (Cop her knickers...) Or am *I* wrong??? >> >> Dennis > >What on EARTH are you guys talking about?!!?!?!? This is a conspiracy, >isn't it...you guys are trying to make me go bonkers so you can set me up >as the patsy in your attempts to kill Barry Manilow. > >"Copper Knickers?" There IS no song called "Copper Knickers," at least >not in the selection of songs that was released in the states...so what >are you talking about!?!? > > > >JSL. say it aloud, kind of fast. it's common, you know the song. un abrazo, juan con el psycho typewriter ------------------------------ From: combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:41:56 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: top ten > > What on EARTH are you guys talking about?!!?!?!? This is a conspiracy, > > isn't it...you guys are trying to make me go bonkers so you can set me up > > as the patsy in your attempts to kill Barry Manilow. > > > > "Copper Knickers?" There IS no song called "Copper Knickers," at least > > not in the selection of songs that was released in the states...so what > > are you talking about!?!? > > And if I say, that on this island today, we all have the same shorts - > I don't claim they're chinos or copper knickers - now do you get it? :) > > (Okay, kinda lame. Maybe someone else has a good, non-obvious hint?) You make one bad pun about the name of a Basia song, and you think the whole world revolves around you. Not so! :) (I didn't figure this out until just now, don't feel bad Jeff!) - -- Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) that public-access-TV-making, video-game-collecting, cryptography-pushing, World-Wide-Web-explaining, fem-music-loving, bad-pun-creating guy in Austin ------------------------------ From: Mark Lipawen Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 14:30:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: top ten On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Ben Combee wrote: > > And if I say, that on this island today, we all have the same shorts - > > I don't claim they're chinos or copper knickers - now do you get it? :) > > > > (Okay, kinda lame. Maybe someone else has a good, non-obvious hint?) > > You make one bad pun about the name of a Basia song, and you > think the whole world revolves around you. Not so! :) Hmm. I'm not quite sure what the tone of this remark is, but let's remember that I wasn't the one who listed it on a top ten list in the first place. Just trying to play along with those that didn't get it right away. "And if I say, that on this island today, we all have the same shorts - I don't claim they're chinos or copper knickers" This in its entirety was based on a lyric from the song; I only added the last phrase. If this came off wrong, then I apologize for posting it at all. Mark Lipawen, Yahoo uh-huh Snail mail: `------>adbivium@yahoo.com 635 Vaqueros Ave (formerly tspinlob@leland.stanford.edu) Sunnyvale, CA 94086 ------------------------------ From: steven@telerate.com.au (Steven Malikoff) Date: Thu, 07 Mar 96 10:50:01 +1000 Subject: Subject: Re: top ten To: basia%smoe.org@munnari.oz.au Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:50:00 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: from "J.S. Lohr" at Mar 6, 96 02:19:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 588 Dear Roach, Sorry to cause you so much anguish. I guess that's why I prefer British comedy and humour to American - it's subtle; not "in-your-face-gee-that-pun- was-funny-because.." style. It's just that whenever I hear this song, I always think of the title in this fashion. I promise not to throw you such brain-teasers in future. I should say, also, that yes I consider my top ten submission to be ordered. Anyway, Roach, thanks for the good work in keeping this list (mostly) filled with interesting snippets. When are you going to tally the results? Steven. steven@telerate.com.au (Postmaster: delivery acknowledged.) ------------------------------ From: Philip B Hall Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 21:06:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: top ten On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Ben Combee wrote: > > You make one bad pun about the name of a Basia song, and you > think the whole world revolves around you. Not so! :) > > (I didn't figure this out until just now, don't feel bad Jeff!) This is off-topic, but not really: When I was very young I read of the accomplishments of George Washington Carver (the famous African American scientist) and his work with the peanut, and all of the products he extracted from it. One of them was intriguing: a "butter" made from peanuts. Well, I wondered about this special item for years. Why did I never see this butter in the dairy case next to cow's butter, if it was so wonderful? I mean, I din't dwell on the matter, but it was one of life's mysteries until I was well into my twenties (or was it thirties?) when one day I simply put the word 'peanut' in front of 'butter'. Oh, I said to myself, 'PEANUT butter'! And I went on to the next mystery..... I am confident that Jeff will solve this mystery much sooner than it took me to solve mine. Phil ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V1 #53 **************************