Mr. Fowles,
uhm... John... I dare ask you are trying to either
A. Discredit my old alt.music.lightfoot posts as you are jealous of the enjoyment expressed by many at the time of them, without explaining I did not "start" the great "sound" thread, in fact it was another famous GL afficianado. I simply posted another thread as an initial tack for fun.....you pooper
or:
B Once again make me look bad, alternating between complimentary posts of me, especially in alt.music, then poking fun at some awfully weird times for me i do notemember well from the head injury. Problem for you is in either case:
I am tough enough. and second - our forum comrades are wiser than that when you bask/praise/bash/praise. You are caught, ID'd, thumprinted, in the hoosegow, and awaiting bail ! So the name is wrong ! don't confuse with facts !......
very funny John, I must warn you though you take a little too much wicked glee in pointing out the slightest errors in those YOU FEEL THREATENED BY, unt how long have you been aben zees feelinks ? for those who do not back up to the start of MY post ( cetainly not the famous GL expert Der...K... (I can't do it, no...) post that started it all as my damaged memory recalls.
The hyperlink only goes to "REPLY" to my thread. depite the mention of it and the name calling of me "buffoon" ? is only unbecoming of you as a gentleman and a scholar being out of context in "cover art",
I shall make matters worse by perpetuating it and posting what the hyperlink does not show. Maybe SOMEBODY will see some humour in it that is not based on belittling one's earnest fellow man: to wit:
note: edited for spacing and "little paragraphs"
......hehe j/k
my old alt.music.lightfoot post, certainly not the first on "the sound" . hmmph LOL
From: steven m dunbar - view profile
Date: Thurs, Jul 31 1997 12:00 am
Email: gis...@ix.netcom.com(steven m dunbar)
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To all those whose quest is to discern the sound in "Nous Vivons
Ensemble":
Most common theories are:
A. Beer Can opening
B. Match lighting
I offer the following for your amusement only
Well.... I think it is a beverage can having the pull-tab torn off, followed by a quescient quaffing down of the drink with a *gulp* and a
"uenh" sound by Gord coming up for air after the long draw on the beverage.
The question is: what is the beverage ? We should not assume it is a beer. It could be diet pepsi, my favorite. Or, maybe a high-end
soda pop of the day such as Green River lime soda (which has a little bit of "Lightfoot" sound to it, er.. maybe that is Creedence Clearwater revival...).
After all, Gord was makin the big bucks by this point, what with IYCRMM's success and all. The can sounds like older metal pop-cans, with the magnesium alloy in the top for greater rigidity
than the can body ( Roger, are you taking note of the metal strength thing here, I threw it in for your enjoyment..hehe.. ).
It could be a higher-end spirit than beer, too. It could be one of those fancy cocktails-in-a-can, the Club (TM) brand or something. Actually, given the tonal character, resonance, timbre, and pitch, I am led to believe it is:
A sparkling champagne-in-a-can, perhaps an Austi-Spumante (TM,sp?), with the giggling sparkle of Swiss Maidens, blushed yet
pleased by the attention of the rural swains. (Credit to author "Trevanian", of the Eiger Sanction, and his erudite and intrepid agent,
Jonathan Hemlock, whom I believe spoke the above ort in reference to a wine of fine character).
Other noteworth celebrity theories:
1. Sean Connery, in James Bond character: "I think it is an extra-dry vodka martini, shaken, not shhtirred..."
2. Ernest Hemingway: "For Christ's sake, it's a match, burning his finger, while he shivers, cold, in the rain"
3. Carlos Castenada "It is his existential self, actualized from a former life"
4. Sigmund Freud "unt it iz hiz inner-child , seeking hiz mother, in a futile attempt to overcome faulty toilet-training, undt vee see zat he iz makink noises in hopes of gathering attention"
5. Spock: "Captain, sensor scans indicate it is a previously unknown form of energy in this sector of the galaxy. However, without further
empirical data, it would be highly illogical to postulate the origin of the -pfftt- noise. The noise in fact lasts for 0.094567 terran
arc-seconds"
6. John Wayne "Well Pilgrim, I listened, and I listened REAL good, and its one of those damn sasparillas from one of them new-fangled glass
bottles like those dandies have back east..."
7. Dan Quayle "It's potaytoh soda"
8. Rush Limbaugh "the real question here, folks, is not WHAT the noise is, but why the liberals want to spend money once again in a
tax-and-spend frenzy to find out, and then compensate the lazy money-sucking -leaches who claimed disability because they could not
figure it out...."
9. Carl Sagan "It's billions and billions of tiny encapsulated carbon-dioxide bubbles escaping in nature's grand attempt at seeking
the equilibrium that Boyle's Law demands.... nature abhors a vacuum, or in this case a relative vacuum by virtue of pressure
differential....it compels us to ponder the mystery of the universe. Perhaps each bubble is in and of itself a miniature cosmos, with entire
worlds within..."
10. Captain James T. Kirk, of the U.S.S. Enterprise "Bones...what..IS.... this.... sound. We NEED... to KNOW...... the source of the sound. I want ANSWERS, and.. I NEED... them NOW, Mr. "
11. Dr. McCoy: "Damnit Jim , I'm a DOCTOR, not a hospitality and beverage service expert, and I did NOT sign on board this vessel to diagnose what some damn sounds are while my atoms are being scattered around the universe..."
11. President Bill Clinton: "Well I can say this...... I have opened a can similar to this was I was a young college student, in pursuit of
post-graduate fellowship work as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, but I can assure you, I DID NOT DRINK from it."
12. NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission team specialists, in press conference "Well, the reports in the media that make it sound like the
pull-tab failed are not at all true;
in fact, we considered it a great success given that there was almost a 5-second lag between the time we instructed Mr. Lightfoot how to most effectively re-orient, or do a vernier adjustment if you will of his hands, to most efficiently open the can without spilling or purging the can's contents into a -100
degreee Kelvin Martian atmosphere, only to have it sublimate subsequent to instantaneous freezing of the rapid depressurization of
the containment cylinder's and consequential hull integrity breach..
... and the boys at JPL that actually BUILT this defective, or we like to think "successful failure" container, can agree that all things considered, the breach and ensuing reorientation to the rock mode was ultimately a success"
Thought you guys might get a little laugh out of this.. Purely in fun, and all made up of course. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely unintentional blah blah.....
- Steve Dunbar
(all 1997 foolishness of mine) - geo Steve
p.s. thanks John gotta admit I even laughed at my John Waybe, NASA, and Carlo Castenada versions. Course I am biased. Your just jealous and pounced cause you found ONE mistake. All in good fun John... thanks for bringing back this foolishness of mine today. its been a bad day. a birthday gone bad. medical reasons. i was really down til i read your response. thanks
