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From: Deborah.Weiss@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Interfilk Auction at Con-Chord 8
Date: 8 Oct 92 07:12:31 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

The auction at CC8 brought in $291.00 for Interfilk.  Many thanks to all the
donors (Tom Smith, Joe Bethancourt, DAG, Raiments, Unlikely Publications, Dr.
Jane, Carolly Hauksdottir, Random Factors, Mike Browne, Lee Gold, & me) for
all the wonderful auction items.  Highest bidding item went to Mike Liebmann
for the autographed, heretofore unpublished songbook manuscript from Joe
Bethancourt at $51.00.  Next highest bid was Joey Shoji going for the 
 
chocolate in Mike Browne's Filker's Emergency Kit at $40.00 (recipes 
 
included).  Tom Smith was the most entertaining auctioneer seen in a while,
but almost lost it against Madeline Brener.  Bidding was spirited on most
items and the most fun was had in bidding to give the tacky music box to
someone.  Potential recipients included Bob Kanefsky and Joey Shoji 
(I think);
however, Spencer won the bid & Bob Laurent was the "joyful" recipient. 
 
Luckily, Lindy's lovely daughter took one listen & proclaimed it hers, thus
giving a new home to someone's mathom.
 
We look forward to next year's Auction -- check out your closets & cupboards!


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From: William.Hughes@f255.n387.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Hey, Two in one day!
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 07 Oct 92  14:37:00

BD>MY COMPUTER AND I
BD>(May be used at will provided credit is given to the author.)

Printed out, posted in my office, and cross-posted into DRDEBUG. :-)


 * SLMR 2.1a * St. Dismas' Infirmary for the Incurably Informed

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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: electro@access.digex.com (Gary Ehrlich)
Subject: Electro Premieres!
Summary: hot off the presses
Keywords: yuppies, trilogies, new filk
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:23:47 GMT


After lurking in the background for a few months, I figgered it was time 
to enter the race...


                          Dead Yuppies
                    (c) 1992  Gary J. Ehrlich
                      Tune: "Dead Puppies"
 
Dead yuppies
Dead yuppies
Dead yuppies make my day
 
They are pompous, cold, and crass
Don't give a <insert favorite expletive> 'bout the lower class
Dead yuppies make my day
 
When yuppies fail I give a cheer
And when they die I raise a beer
Dead yuppies make my day
 
Hit a yuppie with my van
Tomorrow I'll aim for him again
Dead yuppies make my day
 
 
 
                             Trilogy
                    (c) 1992  Gary J. Ehrlich
           Tune: "Number Three", They Might Be Giants
 
There's only two books in me and I just wrote the third
Don't know where I got the plot from or how I wrote the words
Spent my whole life just digging up a grave for my career
For the two books in me and the third I've got right here
 
An agent just told me he couldn't make a deal
An editor just told me that he couldn't buy my book
Now I can't find a publisher who wants to take a look
 
'Cause there's just two books in me and I just wrote the third
Don't know where I got the plot from or how I wrote the words
Spent my whole life just digging up a grave for my career
For the two books in me and the third I've got right here
 
So I went to New York City and I asked a famous pro
Has he ever gotten writer's block and found the words won't flow
He just started talking like he was at a con
"If there's just two books in you boy, you better just run along."
 
So I got myself a 'puter and a feline or three
And I still asked the ladies if they would sleep with me
But I've got to keep my day job for I'll never make it big
'Cause there's just two books in me and this makes a trilogy

-- 
     ELECTRO   | Gary J. Ehrlich           | "Real filkers don't document;
    E_____     |                           |  if it was hard to write it   
   E           | electro@access.digex.com  |  should be hard to scan" 
  ELECTRO      | G. EHRLICH on GEnie       |
From: Sean.Price@f41.n210.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Anti-Argo
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 13 Oct 92  08:18:46

In a message of 09 Oct 92  15:27:57, Joseph A. Ellis Jr. wrote:

JA> Heh heh heh... This is what I tagged onto the end of "BFA - The Next
JA> Generation"
JA> by Bob & Brenda Daverin. 'Twas in a filk file on in one of the GEnie SFRT 

JA> libraries...
JA> 
JA> "We're singing "Banned From Argo" for all time!
JA> "Banned From Argo"... And we're runnin' out of rhymes.
JA>  I hope this is the last 'Star Trek' to make it on TV,
JA>  And we can ban this song from filks eternally!

I'm afraid with the advent of Deep Space Nine we'll see plenty more.  Later,

Sean

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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
Subject: Eli's Magicon mini-report 
Distribution: world
Organization: Keristor Systems
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:35:39 +0000

Just to follow up on Spencer's article, everyone I've spoken to from the
Brittish Filk side thought he and the rest of the crew did a good job.
Yes, the number of microphones on the stage *was* a bit daunting - 4
WailSongs, plus a couple (sometimes up to 4) PA mics, plus gods know
whatever the others were!  Someone else's recording, I think...  Anyway,
everyone who used the stage seemed to cope OK, not too much tripping
over things...

Public thanks to Spencer and Crystal for prompting the EuroFilk concert
(which was in fact BritFilk, as I never even saw any other European
filkers at MagiCon - I assume there must have been some, but where?).

Hopefully at least some of the recorded material will be good enough for
a tape or three - when they've had time to sit down and unwind
(themselves, *not* the tape!) and listen to it all...

Chris

***********************************************************************
*  chris@keris.demon.co.uk      *                                     *
*  chriscr@cix.compulink.co.uk  *  FIAWOL (Filking Is A Way Of Life)  *
*  100014.3217@compuserve.com   *                                     *
***********************************************************************
From: Mary.Creasey@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Run, Cthulhu, Run
Date: 13 Oct 92 08:14:00 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

The version I posted was from an after-ConChord songbook; it might have
been expurgated a bit.
Then again, Fish is known for doing a song differently at different times.


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From: Kihe.Blackeagle@p4003.f6224.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Anti-Argo
Date: 13 Oct 92 10:13:56 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992


 KB>    And it's "See the _Argo_, reaching wide!"
 KB>    "See the _Argo_, as she dances upon the tide."
 KB>    No other ship has ever been so true and widely known
 KB>    As a vessel called the _Argo_, that put Jason upon his throne!
 J> .             
 J> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 J> 'Twas the _Argo_ and the Argonauts put Jason on the throne.

Update noted, and appreciated!

Pax ... Kihe

--- EZPoint V2.1
From: Charlotte.Jerscheid@f1044.n261.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Songs With 6^6^6 Verses (
Date: 7 Oct 92 20:06:01 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

JMK>      What do you do with a drunken Klingon?
JMK>      What do you do with a drunken Klingon?
JMK>      What do you do with a drunken Klingon early in the morning?

JMK>      Let him sleep or he'll rip your lungs out ...   :-)

Lock him in Ten-Forward with a thousand tribbles...

Sharpen all his weapons with a rusty razor...
                      (OK, so it doesn't make sense...it's funny)

Make him share his prune juice with the Captain's daughter...

Jeez, now I'll have to go home and play Taylor Vrooman to remind me of the
rest of the verses.
                                             csj
 * SLMR 2.0 * Klingon Thanksgiving Grace:  "Let us prey..."
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From: Joe.Bethancourt@f17.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Bardic Newsletter
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:08:17 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

Please send me a sample copy if possible....PO Box 35190, Phoenix, AZ
85069.....will send ya some articles &c. in return.


--- Opus-CBCS 1.99.13
From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Musicon
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 15 Oct 92  08:50:23

From a netmessage from Brian Porter at 1:116/3000

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                         January 1-3, 1993


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Directions to the Musicon Hotel:

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   Take the Briley Parkway exit (215) and turn right.  Take 
exit 12-B (Convention Center) off Briley Parkway and turn 
right at the light past the Ramada Inn (Music Valley Drive).  
Shoney's Inn is around the curve, on the left.

From I-65 South:
   Take the Briley Parkway/Dickerson Road exit (89) and follow 
the curve to the right, onto Briley Parkway.  Take exit 12-B 
(Convention Center) and follow the above directions.

From Everywhere Else:
   Take your best route to I-40 East (toward Knoxville) and 
get off at the Briley Parkway/Opryland exit (215-B).  Then 
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--- msged 2.06
From: Joe.Bethancourt@f110.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Shadow Stalker & lutes...
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 07 Oct 92  09:09:00

 -=> Dave Aronson said to Joe Bethancourt on 09-22-92  00:02 <=- 

 JB> not under my own name) the Other Version of "We Are the SCA."
 JB> (If you are at ConChord, pull me over to a quiet 
 JB> corner & I'll sing it for 
 JB> you...it's the only song I have that offends even ME.)
 
 DA> Ooooooh!  This I *GOTTA* hear (or at least see)!  If ya don't wanna
 DA> post it maybe netmail? 
 
 JB> Dummy! It should be in one of the files I sent ya a while back.....

 DA> Er, yeah, there's one by that title in BARDIC2.TXT, but it's not all
 DA> THAT offensive, so I figgered you musta mean Another Other Version.... 

Might be listed in BAWDY.ZIP under the title "The SCA Be Damned."

     CHORUS: We are, we are, we are, we are, the goddam SCA
             And when we find a willing f*** then we go out to play
             If you don't like the song I sing then you can go get crammed
             And sing out with the rest of us 'the SCA be dammed!'


... The Borg are coming! Quick, try and look useless!
--- Blue Wave/QBBS v2.10 [NR]
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: jil@linus.mitre.org (Jon Leivent)
Subject: Worf the Mellow Klingon
Organization: Research Computer Facility, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:02:43 GMT


This has got to be one of the most obvious filks to do.  But here
goes anyway:

(chorus:)
Worf the mellow Klingon
in (-) Security
He'd never drink Ferengi blood
'Cause he knows he's on TV
(repeat)

Worf's a Star Fleet spacer
Worf's a gentle guy
But Romulans can get his ire
He'd phase them 'till they fry

The captain says, "Calm down."
Worf says "What the heck." (he'd never curse!)
Then he'll vent his Klingon spleen(s?)
Out on the holo-deck

Worf, he looks so vicious
with fangs and boney brow
But prune juice keeps him regular
And the Prime Directive is his vow

(chorus)

Klingons live for battle
But not so Worf the Meek
He grew up raised by humans
Now its life forms he doth seek

Without some Klingon guidance
Worf cannot be brave
Not with chums like Kunta Kinte'
and that positronic nave

(chorus)


It could use some more verses.  Anybody?

-- Jon Leivent

P.S. my e-mail address will be changing next week, so post any
responses.
From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Who we are
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 08 Oct 92  09:29:50

On <Oct 01 22:08>, Mark Perew (1:103/208.201) wrote to Kay Shapero:

 >I left you off because I wasn't sure if you made the echo available to 
 >callers, or simply read it and passed it on yourself. Do you?
 > 

 MP>How do you think I found it!

Looks like you've got a point (I know - Boo Hiss!) there!  Anyway, I've added 
Rick to the list I'm compiling, and no, I'm not going to list points;
ultimately I want to have something I can give folks who ask where they can
find the FILK echo, so I only want boards they can call and find the echo on. 
 So every once in awhile, I'll run ORIGX, and insert any new node numbers I
find into the list.  Meanwhile, all you folks who wrote and announced you were 
left out - first off thanks for giving me more node numbers for the list, and 
second; so WRITE already! :-> 

--- msged 2.06
From: Gerald.Bliss@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: "Waltzing Matilda" filks
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 05 Oct 92  19:09:00

 On 10-03-92 Joel Polowin wrote to Mary Creasey... 
 
 JP> In a message of <01 Oct 92>, Mary Creasey writes to Glendon Todd: 
 JP> 
 JP>  MC> How about Rennie Levine's SICK "Robbing The Graveyard"? 
 JP> 
 JP> Sounds like someone-or-other's parody of Kathy Mar's "Velveteen". 
 
You mean Bob Kanefsky's "Dear Departed". 
 
... OFFLINE 1.40 * In your heart, you know it's flat. 

--- DCQwk/T.A.G.  1.4a
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: mba@controls.ccd.harris.com (Belinda Asbell)
Subject: Oops...correction.....
Originator: mba@sp1
Organization: Harris Controls
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 12:32:35 GMT


In article <1992Oct16.122933.19593@ccd.harris.com>, mba@controls.ccd.harris.com (Belinda Asbell) writes:
|> 
|> In article <Bw6sx9.8F9@access.digex.com>, steve-b@access.digex.com (Steve Brinich) writes:
|> |>   A fight song is a song sung at sporting events by fans.  Normally, such
|> |> songs refer to the crushing defeats the fan's team will inflict on the
|> |> opposition (for a somewhat more civilized version, try and find Tom Lehrer's
|> |> "Fight Fiercely, Harvard" <g> ).
|> 
|> "Fight Fiercely Harvard" is on "Tom Lehrer Revisited" (which is now, actually,
|> available on CD.  I know 'cuz I've got it.....)
|> 

OOPS.... Make that "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer".....(which is also
available on CD...)

Belinda
-- 
=============================================================================
Belinda Asbell        +  System Administrator, Harris Controls Division
mba@ccd.harris.com    +      Any opinions presented are mine alone.
  Good judgment comes from experience.  Experience comes from bad judgment.
From: Kihe.Blackeagle@p4003.f6224.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Blanket permission
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 13 Oct 92  00:22:20

Ulp. Kay, I thought I had taken care of this previously. Please add me to the 
blanket permission list.

 KS> The following folks have given blanket permission to post, so long as
 KS>      proper credit and copyright information are kept with the song, and
 KS>      it is not published or recorded for sale without specific permission
 KS>      from the writer:      
 KS>      Name                Net address if any

          Kihe Blackeagle     1:124/6224.4003

Pax ... Kihe

--- EZPoint V2.1
From: Mary.Creasey@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Tom Smith
Date: 14 Oct 92 15:26:49 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

Try getting the Wail songs catalog, and peruse the convention
tape listings; Tom has a song or two on several con tapes. Call
1-800-TON-WAIL for the catalog.


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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: rnakkula@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robin J Nakkula)
Subject: Re: Volga Boatman/birthday
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 23:23:04 GMT

In article <n0bbct@ofa123.fidonet.org> Uucp@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
>
>OK... maybe this will iron things out here. 
>
>This is the original "Volga Boatman" tune...
>
>4/4  Cm
>! Eb3Q C3Q F3H   ! C3DH    D3Q ! Eb3Q C3Q F3H   ! C3DH     D3Q !
>! Eb3H    Ab3H   ! G3Q  Ab3E G3E F3H    ! Eb3Q C3Q F3H   ! C3DH    RQ !
>
>and this is how I understand the Volga Birthday tune, from preceding
>conversations...
>
>! Eb3Q C3Q F3H   ! C3DH    D3Q ! Eb3Q C3Q F3H   ! C3DH     D3Q !
>! Eb3Q Eb3Q Ab3Q Ab3Q ! G3Q G3Q F3H    ! Eb3Q Eb3Q Ab3Q Ab3Q ! G3Q G3Q F3H 
>:!!
>
>Do we understand each other now? <<grin>>
>
>
>Joe Ellis  o/' The Synthetic Filker o/'      |     TesserAct Studios

Uh, Joe, uh, us'n po' grad studints don't get the time to translate
such stuff .......  Can i take a rain check on that verification (until
we do live aural e.g., see each other at OVFF)?

@@@---Robin Nakkula

Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 1992 19:59:56 -0400 
From: Eli Brian Goldberg <eg1n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Hello

Harold,

   While you're on the topic of posting songs, would you mind posting your
version of the Scotsman (or, actually, I assume just the additional verses
since I'd think the others are copyright) so I can use it at the SCA
circle next week and blow off transcribing it? ;-)
From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Test message
Date: 11 Oct 92 07:09:00 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

Since getting on to Kitty's Sandbox is problematical these days, this is a
test message from this board.......

        I dial and dial for hours and hours
        I try to get connected
        But all I get is a "busy" tone
        I sit at keys, rejected....

        Or else the line just rings and rings
        And nothing picks it up.......
        Kitty, change your litter box!
        You've lost the FIDO pup!


... Fanaticism is the 11th deadly sin.


--- WM v2.04/92-0475
From: Bob.Hirschfeld@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Test message
Date: 11 Oct 92 12:03:00 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

JB>Since getting on to Kitty's Sandbox is problematical these days, this is a
JB>test message from this board.......

JB>        I dial and dial for hours and hours
JB>        I try to get connected
JB>        But all I get is a "busy" tone
JB>        I sit at keys, rejected....

JB>        Or else the line just rings and rings
JB>        And nothing picks it up.......
JB>        Kitty, change your litter box!
JB>        You've lost the FIDO pup!


JB>... Fanaticism is the 11th deadly sin.
JB>--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10

And so to MENSA did he hie
Quoth he, "Now know I where I am at"
Whose Sysop saw Kitty run by
When he'd installed the Tomcat.


(QWK mail door now available for FILK on GPM BBS)


 * OLX 2.1 TD * ACLU Parody Filkers - 1993 show writing begins 1/93


--- WM v2.04/92-0475
From: mba@controls.ccd.harris.com (Belinda Asbell)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re:  Tongue-twisters
Date: 14 Oct 92 12:35:41 GMT
Organization: Harris Controls
Originator: mba@sp1


So many foreign tongue twisters....just had to add one to the pile :)


(now lets see if I can remember it right....it's one I learned in
German class many years ago...)

Fischer Fritz frisst frische Fische (or something like that)

(Fisher Fritz wolfs down fresh fish)


Anyone know the correct version of this?  I don't trust my memory all too well
right now....

-- 
=============================================================================
Belinda Asbell        +  System Administrator, Harris Controls Division
mba@ccd.harris.com    +      Any opinions presented are mine alone.
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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: niall@kavishar.umd.edu (SERVAL)
Subject: Re:  Tongue-twisters
Reply-To: niall@kavishar.umd.edu
Organization: A Safe Haven For Wolves
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 23:14:26 GMT

>From: Kettlingurr@f708.n362.z1.fidonet.org
 
>DA> Here's one I bet most of you haven't tried - FOREIGN tonguetwisters!
 
Not a bad idea...  Bue let me make a few minor corrections and a few
additions...   *grin*
 
>DA> Ton the' t'a-t'il ote' ton toux?
>DA> (Did your tea cure your cough?)
 
That should read "Ton the' t'a-t-il ote' ta toux?"  "Toux" is a
                                         ^^
feminine noun in French, hence the Ta instead of the masculine Ton.
 
 
>DA> Un chasseur sachant chasser chasse sans son chien.
>DA> (A hunter who knows how to hunt hunts without his dog)
 
Another version reads:
 Un chasseur sachant chasser sait chasser sans son chien.
 (A hunter who knows how to hunt, knows how to hunt without his dog.)
 
>DA> Dinon dina, dit on, du dos dodu d'un dodu dindon.
>DA> (Dinon dined, said he, on the fat back of a fat turkey.)
 
Hmm, didn't know that one.  :)
 
>DA> Si six scies scient six saucissions,
>DA> six cent six scies scieront six cent six saucissions.
>DA> (If 6 saws saw 6 sausages, 606 saws will saw 606 sausages.)
 
>FORGET IT!  I'm sitting here laughing 'til I cried trying to get *this*
>one out!  LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
 
Well, it _is_ a hard one..  :)  But it should be "saucissons", not
"saucissions".  Minor typo.
 
>DA> It's even harder to say when you don't understand the words....
 
>C'est vrai......
>(that's true....)  ...and I'm glad I studied French!  At least, I know *how*
>to say it!  :>
 
Indeed..  And as a Quebecois Francophone, I have no problems with these.
*grin*  So let me add a couple for your enjoyment...
 
Truite cuite, truite crue.
(Raw trout, cooked trout.)
 
Quatre coquets coqs croquent quatre croquantes coquilles.
(Four primmed roosters bite into four crunchy shells.)
 
Monsieur de Saussure nous assure que le sulfure le plus pur que nous
  procure la nature est le sulfure de mercure.
(Mister de Saussure assures us that the purest sulfur that nature
  provides us is mercury sulfur.)
 
I think I'll spare you the really weird ones.  :)
 
 
>Now..... can anyone make a FILK out of this mess?  :>
 
Heh...
 
 
When faced with a tough foreign language
Deciding to tackle it with courage
Mom took just one look
At the homework it took
And her brain followed tongue in the sewage
 
Ay-yi-yi-yi
Your mother loops after tongue twists...
 
(This is my first real filk, so be forgiving..  *grin*)
 
--Serval
  niall@kavishar.umd.edu