From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #532 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Thursday, July 10 2003 Volume 02 : Number 532 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:56:23 +0100 From: "Matt H" Subject: Re: seven-seas(Brotherhood): New Zealand Make out >Wot is 'beating around the bush' ?? er....something Saddam wishes he could do? ;-) Echo and the Bunnymen | the official website: http://www.bunnymen.com ___________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:59:27 +0100 From: "Barry Whiting" Subject: Re: Re: seven-seas(Brotherhood): New Zealand Make out - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt H" > quite appropriate, considering that i reckon brotherhood is a load > of wank! ;-) C'mon Matt. It's the 2nd best New Order record. Anyone who mentions 'Low Life'......outside the classroom. > I heard Alice Cooper interviewed on the radio the other day, and he was > saying that, having seen McCartney live, he's decided to follow his lead > and start doing shows in which he does stuff to sound exactly like the records. Well I caught McCartney knock a couple of tunes out over the Mersey last month, and I suggest Mr. Cooper syringes his ears. Exactly like the records ? Not particularly. A guilty pleasure ? Definitely. - -- Barry Whiting barry@urquell.freeserve.co.uk ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:31:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: seven-seas New Zealand Herald > Is Cohen Canadian? I have no idea. I merely picked The Star Spangled > banner because of the Americans involved in the debate at the time, > i.e Red, Chris & Amy. (rolls eyes and cannot believe Matt did not know this) YES, originally from Montreal. And I'm not even a big Cohen fan. OTOH, I *am* a big Canada fan, so.... The very thought of LC taking on "O Canada" cracks me up, though it's *far* easier than SSB, which requires incredible range and vocal strength, especially if you do the optional last "free," which covers two fucking octaves. I have a video of Geddy Lee doing "O Canada" before an All-Star baseball game that I can torture anyone with ;-) ;-) a capella and all that....and he was nervous! despite doing numbers of gigs, because he loves baseball the way Mac loves footie. Now y'all'll really deride Mr Lee for liking a crap game! Okay, LC doing "The Maple Leaf Forever," which is basically kissing the UK's ass at the expense of the French, also cracks me up.... "the thistle, shamrock, rose entwiiiined..." http://www.canadafirst.net/maple_leaf_forever/ ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:37:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: Re: seven-seas New Zealand Herald > I guess most Canadians would....... :-) No, you'd be surprised. They know it well. They know most things American better than Americans do. On the other hand I am going to allow myself to be smug and say I am the *only* American I know who can sing "O Canada." I sing it at Major League Baseball games and get the weirdest looks from my fellow Texans. And before you think to say it's my crap voice, that's *after* the SSB has been sung, and no one looks twice at me during that one. Since ChrisA has bared his soul, I'll share a deep dark secret: (whispers) but I don't know the words to "God Save The Queen." Well, I mean, the National Anthem. Hmmm, looking at the words, the average American wouldn't even KNOW some of the words in the UK national anthem! Hmmmm, and the original version slags the Scots! Screw it all, if we lived in Bunnyland (Candleland?) what should the anthem be? ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:48:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: seven-seas(Brotherhood): New Zealand Make out > >Wot is 'beating around the bush' ?? > > er....something Saddam wishes he could do? ;-) LOL! It's actually fairly risque if you read this explanation: BEAT AROUND THE BUSH: It was once the custom to hire beaters to beat bushes and arouse game birds for the hunter to shoot at. So the beater stirred up the action, but the hunter got to the point. From the Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988) So, are you a hunter or a beater? And is your bird game? http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/bulletin_board/6/messages/291.html ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:11:42 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stu=20Bird?= Subject: Re: Re: seven-seas New Zealand Herald I don't know anyone here who knows all the words to the national anthem, although funnily enough, I do know all of La Marseillaise as I was taught it when I did French at school, and I still remember it now. I think more people know and would prefer Jerusalem for a natoinal song here, but I think that's just the right-wing nature of the world today unfortunately. Not sure about SSB, but I take it that the "land of the free" and other such bits doesn't apply to Guantanamo Bay... Stu Amy Moseley Rupp wrote: > I guess most Canadians would....... :-) No, you'd be surprised. They know it well. They know most things American better than Americans do. On the other hand I am going to allow myself to be smug and say I am the *only* American I know who can sing "O Canada." I sing it at Major League Baseball games and get the weirdest looks from my fellow Texans. And before you think to say it's my crap voice, that's *after* the SSB has been sung, and no one looks twice at me during that one. Since ChrisA has bared his soul, I'll share a deep dark secret: (whispers) but I don't know the words to "God Save The Queen." Well, I mean, the National Anthem. Hmmm, looking at the words, the average American wouldn't even KNOW some of the words in the UK national anthem! Hmmmm, and the original version slags the Scots! Screw it all, if we lived in Bunnyland (Candleland?) what should the anthem be? ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== - --------------------------------- Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #532 ********************************