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- From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
- Subject: Re: Nonsensical songs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.140449.24719@netcom.com>
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- Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia
- References: <1993Jan20.230954.25860@igor.tamri.com> <1993Jan21.065412.29998@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:04:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.065412.29998@netcom.com> Geoff Miller writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan20.230954.25860@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com
- >(Don Baldwin) writes:
- >
- >>Recently, Gillian was going through some of her old records(*) and happened
- >>across the Don McLain (?) album containing "American Pie".
- >
- >It's "Maclean," pronounced "McCleen."
-
- No, it's pronounced "McLayne". That's why Don buggered up the spelling.
-
- >>She put on Vincent, the song about the late, looney Vincent van Gogh.
- >
- >Is that who that song's about? I could never figure that out. But then,
- >I don't know much about art, although I know what I like. Unable to
- >think of a real-life person the lyrics seemed to fit, I finally decided
- >it was about some fictitious character known only to Maclean. Of course,
- >I'd never even heard of Buddy Holly until I read somewhere that American Pie
- >was supposed to be about his death.
-
- Buddy Holly's DEAD? Bummer. Whose vomit did he drown in?
-
- >I always liked that NatLamp cover with a parody of Van Gogh's self portrait,
- >in which the artist is depicted with a bandage around his head and his
- >ear in his hand with a banana in it.
- >
- >Peeve: Callous irreverence.
-
- "Peeve"? PEEVE? This is a typo, right?
-
- >Geoff Miller + + + + + + + + Mountain View
-
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