Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Radium yoyo Message-ID: <2216@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> Date: 10 Aug 89 08:50:54 GMT References: <8908072354.AA04418@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 35 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: "Nick@The End of Time,,,"From article <8908072354.AA04418@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>, by Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU: > Really-From: "Andy Gough, x4-2906, pager 513, CH2-59" > . my comments cut . >> Yeah, well you sure haven't been listening very carefully. >>There _is_ no daughter in _Cloudbusting_. In fact, there's no female >>character at all in the song. Also there is no SON character, either until the final line. Could this be a deliberate attempt to portray two stories? Just because a song is BASED on events... does it have to be 101% accurate, and stay strictly to the ``truth''? :) > > Don't be so hard on them, IED. Net news groups tend to go in circles, with > the same topics returning every so often. New, unenlightened, people join > all the time and need to be educated to come up to speed with everyone else. > Perhaps you could come up with a directory of canned answers to these > questions. Then, when one of these questions come up, you can select > the appropriate file with the answer and fire it off to questioner. > Too right!! I was astounded by the conversations (sic) about Ravens and Gaffa, when those two concepts were easily understood :) Jeux Sans Frontiers! - Nick Kings - nkings@axion.bt.co.uk - < Nick @ The End of Time > - Error messages we'd like to see number one: "Insufficient User I.Q."