From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #333 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, December 16 2006 Volume 12 : Number 333 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] vibrato [adamk@zoom.co.uk] Mangled lyrics ["Paul Blair" ] Re: Mangled lyrics ["Kat Crowder" ] Re: Mangled lyrics [Bernie Mojzes ] Re: Mangled lyrics ["Jeffrey Hanson" ] Re: Mangled lyrics ["Jeffrey Burka" ] Re: Mangled lyrics ["robert bristow-johnson" ] Re: Mangled lyrics [Bernie Mojzes ] Re: vibrato ["Paul Blair" ] Re: Mangled lyrics [meredith ] Anyone know anything about Wpoison? ["Paul Blair" ] Re: Mangled lyrics [andrew fries ] Re: Mangled lyrics ["Paul Blair" ] Ha, Happy subtitled ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: Anyone know anything about Wpoison? ["Ken Blake" ] Re: Mangled lyrics [Andrew Thompson ] Re: Anyone know anything about Wpoison? [andrew fries ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:00:02 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ***************** Julie C. Kammerzell (kammerzj@peak.org) ***************** *************** Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti (no Email address) *************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julie C. Kammerzell Sun December 15 1968 Sagittarius/Scorpio combo Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti Sat December 15 1956 queen_nefertiti@prodigy.net Laura Clifford Tue December 17 1957 Sagittarius Dirk Kastens Tue December 17 1963 Sagittarius Milla Wed December 17 1975 Sagittarius Chris Schernwetter Tue December 17 1974 Sagittarius Sherry Haddock Sat December 17 1960 Sagittarius Tracy Benbrook Tue December 18 1973 Sagittarius Mark Lowry Mon December 22 1969 Capricarius Kay Cleaves Wed December 22 1976 Prancing Pony Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Joseph Wasicek Sat December 25 1976 Brown Eagle Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here Marvin Camras Sat January 01 1916 Tapehead Jeanne Schreiter Tue January 03 1967 Capricorn John Sandoval Wed January 04 1967 Capricorn Paul Cohen Tue January 05 1954 Capricorn Tony Garrity Mon January 08 1962 Pool of Life Greg Bossert Tue January 09 1962 OfTheTimes Troy J. Shadbolt Thu January 14 1971 Capricorn Chris Sampson Wed January 15 1964 Void where prohibited - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:29:28 +0000 From: adamk@zoom.co.uk Subject: vibrato "A very tall singer named Antony with too much vibrato was interesting." I'm guessing -- can't be sure, but it's a pretty confident guess, that this was Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. His "I Am a Bird Now" was one of the best albums of last year. I can see his voice might be an acquired taste, but the album took me by surprise. Worth checking out. adam k. - ----------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:19:11 -0500 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Mangled lyrics A few years ago we had a hilarious thread on mondegreens/misheard lyrics. But there's something else that happens to me, where I know perfectly well what the right lyric is, but my mind still wants to take it someplace else. For example, in "O Holy Night," Fall on your knees/O hear the angel vo-o-oices... becomes Fall on your knees/O hear the angels ho-o-owling... which has a very different effect. Coworkers' names sometimes do this to me. I used to work with someone named Leonard Lane, and every time I think of his name I imagine The Who singing it to the tune of "Can't Explain." Or, for Roland Grybauskas (pronounced Grib - aus - kas), I hear "Waltzing Matilda": Roland Grybauskas, Roland Grybauskas, Won't you come a rollin', Grybauskas, with me... which is even weirder because it goes completely against my sexual preferences. What are your favorite mangled lyrics? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:39:10 -0600 (CST) From: "Kat Crowder" Subject: Re: Mangled lyrics On Fri, December 15, 2006 8:19 am, Paul Blair wrote: > What are your favorite mangled lyrics? > I like the Star Spangled Banner, "Jose, Can you see?", as well as Kiss's "I Wanna Rock and Roll all night, and part of every day!" Those are the two that immediately jump to mind, anyway. :) - -Kat - -- (/_/) (O.o) (> <) <-- Bunny!!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:47:54 -0500 (EST) From: Bernie Mojzes Subject: Re: Mangled lyrics mm.... mustn't forget blue oyster cult's "don't fear the reefer." brni > On Fri, December 15, 2006 8:19 am, Paul Blair wrote: > >> What are your favorite mangled lyrics? >> > I like the Star Spangled Banner, "Jose, Can you see?", > > as well as Kiss's "I Wanna Rock and Roll all night, and part of every day!" > > Those are the two that immediately jump to mind, anyway. :) > > -Kat > > - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:04:04 -0700 From: "Jeffrey Hanson" Subject: Re: Mangled lyrics One of the most off-base I've heard of was one of my sister's friends, back in the 70's singing along to the Bee Gee's "You Should Be Dancing, yeah". It took us a while to figure it out at first because she just kept singing "Taxi Cab, yeah" Jeff - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernie Mojzes" To: Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 7:47 AM Subject: Re: Mangled lyrics mm.... mustn't forget blue oyster cult's "don't fear the reefer." brni > On Fri, December 15, 2006 8:19 am, Paul Blair wrote: > >> What are your favorite mangled lyrics? >> > I like the Star Spangled Banner, "Jose, Can you see?", > > as well as Kiss's "I Wanna Rock and Roll all night, and part of every day!" > > Those are the two that immediately jump to mind, anyway. :) > > -Kat > > - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:26:21 -0500 From: "Jeffrey Burka" Subject: Re: Mangled lyrics For reasons I can't begin to imagine, my partner thought The Who's "Who Are You" featured the repeated lyric, "Bluuue awning. Awning! Awning!" jeff n.p. _The Sun Is Burning_, Casey Stratton ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:56:31 -0500 From: "robert bristow-johnson" Subject: Re: Mangled lyrics i mentioned this before. when i first heard "Save our Souls" (The Keep version), i mangled it to hear We are the number one offender Of species and yet Here we are reaching out for radiance Looking for our salvation i didn't realize it was about aliens until after getting the disc. - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:21:54 -0500 (EST) From: Bernie Mojzes Subject: Re: Mangled lyrics the BOC lyric manglement came from my gf in high school. she also submitted an english paper in which she asserted that every dylan thomas poem was actually about sex. my old friend tory once sang some cocteau twins to me: "ohhhh dear heart, mop in my face, mop in my face." she and some of her friends would drink heavily and then try to figure out what ms frazier was singing (and then write down the most interesting renditions) my personal favorite is still a happy rhodes song: "my dreams have parasites" brni while extremely confused, you said: > mm.... mustn't forget blue oyster cult's "don't fear the reefer." > > brni > >> On Fri, December 15, 2006 8:19 am, Paul Blair wrote: >> >>> What are your favorite mangled lyrics? >>> >> I like the Star Spangled Banner, "Jose, Can you see?", >> >> as well as Kiss's "I Wanna Rock and Roll all night, and part of every day!" >> >> Those are the two that immediately jump to mind, anyway. :) >> >> -Kat >> >> > > - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:46:06 -0500 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Re: vibrato > I'm guessing -- can't be sure, but it's a pretty confident guess, that this was > Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. That's him--I finally had to verify it by listening to a clip because, though everything I read pointed to him, none of the photos I saw looked much like the guy I saw on stage. That was partly because the pictures don't show how tall he is, and partly because he has a new haircut. From the distance I was sitting, he looked vaguely Asian. His hair is black and straight, and was in a style that looked something like this: http://www.1001-hairstyles.com/catagories/titles/snp.jpg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:47:21 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Mangled lyrics Hi, Paul Blair wrote: > What are your favorite mangled lyrics? By far my all-time favorite comes from the person, name long since forgotten, who posted on the RDT list waaay back in the day that their friend thought the line in Tori's "The Waitress" was "I believe in cheese steak". 12 years on now, and that *still* cracks me up. :) - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:56:56 -0500 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Anyone know anything about Wpoison? I just found Wpoison, a free tool that can be added to a website or linked to from web pages. It is supposed to combat spam by acting against the web crawlers that scan web pages looking for e-mail addresses to target. The idea is to trap the web crawlers and make them add enormous quantities of bogus e-mail addresses to the spammers' e-mail databases, thus polluting their address lists. So it doesn't really keep you from getting spam; it just gets back at the spammers. Every time I hear a good anti-spam idea somebody raises a pretty good argument against it. This one looks pretty good to me. Thoughts? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:02:42 +1100 From: andrew fries Subject: Re: Mangled lyrics Paul Blair wrote: > A few years ago we had a hilarious thread on mondegreens/misheard > lyrics. But there's something else that happens to me, where I know > perfectly well what the right lyric is, but my mind still wants to > take it someplace else. Yeah, I do that a fair bit... for example, Smashing Pumpkins: Despite all my rage I am still just a brat in a cage... (entirely accurate I think, considering Billy Corgan's persona) or Enya: Sail a whale Sail a whale Sail a whale .... ..and imagining her standing proudly on the top of a whale, long dress flowing in the wind :) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:31:23 -0500 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Re: Mangled lyrics On 12/15/06, andrew fries wrote: > or Enya: > > Sail a whale > Sail a whale > Sail a whale .... > > ..and imagining her standing proudly on the top of a whale, long dress flowing in the wind :) I'm never going to hear that song the same way again. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:04:04 -0800 (PST) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Ha, Happy subtitled Google Video now allows you to add subtitles to videos, so as an experiment to see if it worked, I subtitled "Into The West" using DivXLand Media Subtitler, and it worked! The timings I used in the program didn't quite translate over to Google. The ones there are much more abrupt than the, if I say so myself, elegant and perfectly timed job I did while in the program, but what can you do? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5536610044814864116&q=Happy+Rhodes&hl=en If for some reason that link doesn't work, just go to http://video.google.com/ and search for Happy Rhodes. I haven't yet put too many videos up there. The "CC" at the bottom on the player controls turns the subtitles on and off. I might try to do other songs, but does anyone think they're really necessary for music? It's not like deaf people would be listening to Happy, right? And those without Flash wouldn't be seeing the video OR the subtitles. Any thoughts? Vickie - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music's the way, the only way I know... Suspended In Gaffa: http://suspended-in-gaffa.com Streaming audio: http://www.myspace.com/gaffashow Happy Rhodes MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy Rhodes song samples: http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples Happy Rhodes on YouTube: http://wretchawry.com/happy/rarities/video.html - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:24:48 -0600 From: "Ken Blake" Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about Wpoison? Paul, On 12/15/06, Paul Blair wrote: > Every time I hear a good anti-spam idea somebody raises a pretty good > argument against it. This one looks pretty good to me. Thoughts? If you incur the wrath of a spammer they have been known to retaliate by launching DoS attacks. If you use a hosting service, they will likely terminate your contract. If the spammers figure out your email address, or worse your name, they can launch other attacks. Think you have a spam problem now? At a place I used to work, we had two IT guys, both complete a**holes. I was glad they moved on. I learned they both went to work for some spam company. I doubt that nice people work at such places. These are not the kind of people you want to annoy. Ken ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:23:03 +0000 From: Andrew Thompson Subject: Re: Mangled lyrics When I was a teenager, I couldn't understand why Jimi Hendrix, who was straight as far as I knew, sang "'scuse me while I kiss this guy" in Purple Haze. (Of course, it should be "kiss the sky") This is such a common mishearing that the website http://www.kissthisguy.com/ is dedicated to misheard lyrics. Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:53:12 +1100 From: andrew fries Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about Wpoison? Paul Blair wrote: > I just found Wpoison, a free tool that can be added to a website or > linked to from web pages. Wpoison has been around since 1997 yet spam is still with us! Seriously though, I suspect most crawlers would be aware of it by now, and they'd somehow manage to avoid getting snared. Then again, it can't hurt. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:05:42 -0800 (PST) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: Ha, Happy subtitled Replying to myself... - --- Xenu's Sister wrote: > I might try to do other songs, but does anyone > think they're really necessary for music? Of course, I just realized that it might be a help to those who don't (yet) know Happy's lyrics. I know them so well I barely think about it, so does anyone else think it might be a help for that reason? Vickie - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music's the way, the only way I know... Suspended In Gaffa: http://suspended-in-gaffa.com Streaming audio: http://www.myspace.com/gaffashow Happy Rhodes MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy Rhodes song samples: http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples Happy Rhodes on YouTube: http://wretchawry.com/happy/rarities/video.html - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #333 ***************************