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]

>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?" 

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!"

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.

	 And where are the strong,
	 And who are the trusted, 
	 And where is that harmony,
	 Sweet Harmony!

	 '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)

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.

"I now declare the dance floor open! Use it in good health, and keep flying! 
Thank you, one and all!"



























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