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- From: narxtc@navier.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: harpy gnu ears
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 19:44:18 GMT
- Organization: UH Dept of Math
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- In article <C06py2.F1n@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
- >kitten, who has taken a break from delivering pizza and drinks of
- >choice to the crowd at callahans, is ready to toast the new year here...
-
- [many tales have been removed]
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- >there has been lots of joy here....and some sadness...and lots and
- >lots of fun...and love.
- >
- >and that brings me to my toast...'to US....to the spirit...to shared
- >pain and shared joy...to 1993!'"
- >
- >
- >
- ><CRASH!!!!!!>
- >
- >--
- >***************************************************************************
- >conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten /\ /\ barbara ann
- >"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?" {=.=}
- > ~ trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
- >"love is the wild card of existance"
- > rita mae brown
- >
-
- The Noah Constrictor staggers in, looking very ragged, just in time to hear
- this message. He immediately 'sobers' up, and gives kitten a hug, and a bill.
- "Next one's on me, 'kay?" Next, he goes to a corner, and drops his backpack and
- jacket. Digging somewhere in the backpack, he pulls out a shoebox-sized box,
- and lays it in the corner. After pressing some buttons on it, it unfolds into
- a slightly odd musical group (guitar, bass, drums, and chapman stick) and
- starts tuning up. The Constrictor turns then, and says, "Well, I'm back! I had
- to depart suddenly to be with some other family who I'm not related to either.
- I also spent the evening dancing away, and would like to continue that
- tradition here. So, I want to introduce the band : Emmett on stick, Flansburgh
- on guitar, Jaco on bass, and Keith York on drums. They do take requests, but I
- am going to take first dibs. Maestro, 'Peace, Love, and Understanding' if you
- will?"
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- Keith starts hitting out a rhythm that sounds very familiar to those with the
- album 'Armed Forces' - track twelve's beginning to be precise. Noah starts
- moving in time with the music, and as the vocals start in, he leaps three feet straight up, stating in a calm voice "I LOVE this place!"
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- He dances in an odd manner, and you can see kind of why Sue-Bob calls him the
- Noah Constrictor now. He moves kind of like a cross between Tigger and a snake
- with muscular control problems, slithering and jumping at the same time. And he
- ALWAYS sings on the second verse :
- "And as I walk
- Through troubled times,
- My spirit gets so
- Downhearted, sometimes.
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- And where are the strong,
- And who are the trusted,
- And where is that harmony,
- Sweet Harmony!
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- 'Cause each time I feel it slipping away,
- It just makes me want to cry.
- What's so funny 'bout
- Peace, love, and understanding?
- What's so funny 'bout
- Peace, love, and understanding?
- (Nick Lowe)
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- As the song ends, he grabs another root beer that is flung at him through the
- air, drinks it, toasts "To family and friends - may there be no difference!",
- leaps to the chalkline, and pegs it right into the center of the fireplace as
- the band hammers the last chords down.
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- "I now declare the dance floor open! Use it in good health, and keep flying!
- Thank you, one and all!"
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