HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Major.Matt.Mason@p11.f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Funny 25?
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 18 Dec 92  06:43:51

On 12/14/92, Kay Shapero said to Kelly Lopes concerning (1/4) DR. DEMENTO: 

  KS> Last night was the Funny 25 - including "Christmas at Ground Zero" and
  KS> "The 35 Point Buck".  Number two was a song about Ren & Stimpy... and
  KS> number one was "Happy Happy Joy Joy"!  And the Doctor says we can
  KS> blame it all on Weird Al who introduced him to the R&S phenomenon. 
  KS> Next week is the big Christmas special with...  God and the Doctor
  KS> only know!

Hum.  He used to do the Funny 25 the week AFTER the Christmas Special...of
course, I remember listening to the "Funny 50" back in '82 (when he was doing 
four hours live on KMET each week)...

Major Matt "Good Gawd, it's been 10 years.  Where HAS the time gone?!" Mason

--- MacWoof Eval:25Oct92
From: be726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph A. Ellis Jr.)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Filking...I'm new to the
Date: 17 Dec 1992 01:15:04 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: be726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph A. Ellis Jr.)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, figmo@netcom.com (Lynn Gold) says:

>Guys, GUYS!  You need a few people who play classical string
>instruments so you can have "saxes and violins!"
>
>--Lynn
>
Sorry, Lynn, I'm sure you're a nice lady and all, but I'm a very strong believer
in non-violins. I won't string you along. I don't fiddle around.

(...and thanks for the straight line!) <<grin>>

BTW, are you going to post that number you did at OVFF, "He's not on the Net?"
-- 
 Joe Ellis  o/~ The Synthetic Filker o/~    |     TesserAct Studios
     Internet:   usr6184a@cbos.uc.edu       |       P.O. Box 18577
        GEnie:   J.ELLIS22                  |     Fairfield, OH 45018
    All filked up and no place to sing!     |   New Dimensions In Filk!
From: Jeff.McClinton@f148.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Filking...I'm new to the
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  10:44:51

On <12 Dec 92  11:08:55> Joseph A. Ellis Jr. lost it all and babbled the
following...

 JAEJ> Yeah, when keyboards first came out they were looked on with some
 JAEJ> derision by a lot of  filkers... I know this from experience. However,
 JAEJ> way no more, and there are a few of us around at the cons. I
 JAEJ> personally use an Ensoniq VFXsd, and have an Apex Column stand w/ a mic
 JAEJ> boom. unless you play VERY softly, I'd suggest using a mic when filking

 JAEJ> I'm glad to see another keyboard filker in here... now I don't feel
 JAEJ> QUITE so outnumbered!

I bet there are more around than will admit it.  I'm working on learning
guitar, but my preferred instrument is my Yamaha DX-27 synth. <g>

Jeff

... Photographers do it up to 36 times without reloading.
--- Blue Wave/Max v2.10
From: Bruce.Feist@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Temporary Absence
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 12 Dec 92  21:31:26

 KB> (And I may slip in an occasional comment 'tween now and 
 KB> then for the hallibut!)

I'd say that this sounds fishy, but the joke would flounder...  Sorry, I
didn't mean to be piscine you off -- don't gill me!  Why, no, moderator, I
thought scales would be on topic.  I'd certainly roe running out of these
lines (I'm reelly hooked); as they say in Latin, Caviar Empty.

That's all; finny.

--- Maximus 2.01wb
From: UUCP@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Philcon
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 18 Dec 92  14:39:46

From: phydeaux@cumc.cornell.edu 
From  ucivax!pathmac.med.cornell.edu!cumc.cornell.edu!phydeaux

In message <3715.2B312500@ofa123.fidonet.org> "filk.ml-error" writes:
> Oh, I wish I had known you were there.  I was the bearded man with the 
> six-month-old dancing in the back of the room on Friday night.

In that case, I was the one with the mustache who popped back to admire
said child when I went for tea (having the 18 mo old upstairs), and
spent most of the rest of the time on the opposite corner from you
with the electric guitar.

Just to be filkish (and change the subject entirely)

Frag in progress...working on it since I-Con (the Long Island one) last
spring, only have this much so far...


Working Title:  Daddy's Little Snack


Daddy's little girl threw up one night last fall
From munching too much junk food at a con
And now she's crying anguish and the doctor she might call
'Cause indigestion just goes on and on
'Twas Friday at the filksing
That she consumed (and hurled)
10 pounds of that one snack food
That she loves most in the world

     Chocolate chocolate chocolate
     That was passed around the filk
     Chocolate chocolate chocolate
     Some was dark and some was milk
     And if she ever goes back
     She'll do it all again
     Daddy's girl cares nothing for the past     
     For chocolate she will scarf down much too fast

(suggestions, anyone?)



--
Dave Weingart   KB2CWF      In the event I am captured or killed, the Cornell
phydeaux@cumc.cornell.edu   University Medical College and the Office of 
phydeaux@src4src.linet.org  Academic Computing will disavow any knowledge of
                            my opinions.



--- Squish v1.01
From: Harry.Smothers@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: sacrelegious filk
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  18:51:00

 On 12-15-92 Frank Reid wrote to All... 
 
 FR> Organization: Indiana University 
 FR> From: reid@ucs.indiana.edu (Frank Reid) 
 FR> Message-ID: <reid.13.724458228@ucs.indiana.edu> 
 FR> Newsgroups: alt.music.filk 
 FR> 
 FR> Ok, so the title is redundant and repetitious.  +<:-) 
 FR> 
 FR> I'm looking for the rest of the lyrics to a parody of "Charlie Brown" 
 FR> by the Coasters (late '50s).  It supposedly originated at MIT. 
 FR> 
 FR> 
 FR> Fe Fe, Fi Fi, Fo Fo Fum 
 FR> Who's that riding in Jerusa-lum?

 FR> Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, 
 FR> He's so nice, that Jesus Christ. 
 FR> He's gonna get nailed, just you wait and see. 
 FR> "Why's everbody wanna crucify me?" 
 FR> 
 FR> -- 
I like it.  Write the rest of the song. 
 
... OFFLINE 1.41 * But soft, what light through yonder tagline breaks? 

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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: charles@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Charles Jacob Cohen)
Subject: Re: The Twelve Bugs of Christmas
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:55:08 GMT

In article <n11c9t@ofa123.fidonet.org> Scott.Malcomson@f110.n114.z1.fidonet.org writes:
> Charles Jacob Cohen denied allegations of involvement with All over The
>Twelve Bugs of Christmas:
>
> CJC> Had this sent to me by a friend. - Chuck
>
> CJC> Twelve Bugs of Christmas 
>
>Tell your friend he has a definite future in filking. Then, when he's done
>having his nervous breakdown, give him a nice bowl of chicken soup and have
>him lie down for a while. :)
>
>
I'll tell *her* that you liked it :)

- Chuck


-- 
"I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect, had intended for us to forgo their use." - Galileo
"I'm an engineer, not a dictionary!" - Me
From: Mary.Creasey@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Xenofilkia . . . HARD INFORMATION!
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 12 Dec 92 09:37:22

All that is true, except for one minor item...Lee Gold is a SHE,
not a HE; her husband is Barry Gold, who has a lovely, listenable
baritone voice and is pretty good with a guitar, too (she calls him
"my voice", owing to the fact that while she WRITES reams of good
songs, her singing voice is...somewhat far below filker-average!
_I_ call them "one Bard in two bodies".)
And _Xenofilkia_ and _Filker Up_ are, together, one of the best 
songbook bargains in town. Our set is part of our MFRs (minimum
Filk Requirements--the books we take if we can't carry all 60+
lbs. of our full collection; the rest is our alphabetical book,
the _Rise Up Singing_ (easily the best all-purpose FOLK book 
around), and (for me) the Kipling volume of poetry. If we have a LITTLE 
more room, we add the Kanefsky set (Songworms 1-3).
And all the _X_ and _FU_ fit into one 3-ring binder...


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From: be726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph A. Ellis Jr.)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Filking...I'm new to the
Date: 16 Dec 1992 01:56:30 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: be726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph A. Ellis Jr.)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, Uucp@ofa123.fidonet.org () says:

>From  ucivax!outside.cnd.hp.com!cnd.hp.com!jason
>From: jason@cnd.hp.com (Jason Zions)
>To:   filk <filk@ofa123.fidonet.org>
>Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:25:27 -0700
>
>
>You rang? Alto, soprano, or baritone, take your pick.
>
>I don't get around much to cons, but if something turns up near the wilds of
>northern Colorado...
>
>Jazz

Actually, I was kinda thinking about trying to get a sax quartet together for
OVFF next year... <<grin>>

ANOTHER Baritone player???   Amazing! Mebbe a Bari Duet! 
-- 
 Joe Ellis  o/~ The Synthetic Filker o/~    |     TesserAct Studios
     Internet:   usr6184a@cbos.uc.edu       |       P.O. Box 18577
        GEnie:   J.ELLIS22                  |     Fairfield, OH 45018
    All filked up and no place to sing!     |   New Dimensions In Filk!
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: roper@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Roper)
Subject: Re: My last two songs...
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
 
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 05:58:21 GMT

In article <n1277t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
Harry.Smothers@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org writes:
> 
>On the recording I have of "Temperature of Revenge" Tom makes a couple 
>of comments on Julia's feelings about his song - that might be the 
>in-joke ... Don't buy "Who Let Him In Here" unless you can't get a copy 
>of "Songs By Tom Smith" -- the latter tape has all the songs on the 
>former and more (actually, Songs By was sort of a demo tape recorded by 
>Tim Ryan). 
 
I hate (!) to sound like a money-grubbing filk producer here, but since
Tom isn't on the net, I'm gonna have to do it.
 
1)  Tom (who no longer has his job at the bank -- he quit -- and is
    busy trying to make ends meet with Christmas retail work) gets
    no royalties (that is, zip, nada, zilch) from Tim's "Songs by
    Tom Smith" tape.
 
2)  Tom has told me (but you are welcome to ask him yourself) that
    he would prefer that "Songs by Tom Smith" not be circulated.
 
3)  Dodeka (that is, me and Gretchen) DO pay royalties to Tom which
    in fact significantly increased the probability that he could
    pay the bloody rent.
 
4)  Most of the stuff that is on Tim's bootleg tape will eventually
    make its way onto Tom's next Dodeka tape which we are working
    on now.  It's not that we don't want to publish it; I've gotten
    divorced in the last year, and it's kept me a little busy.
 
    Also, there was the period where Tom was singing a lot of Capitol
    Steps material at the filks, and we really didn't want to put out
    a tape called "Tom Smith Sings the Capitol Steps".
 
5)  By the way, Tom told me that he never gave permission to Tim to
    circulate "Songs by Tom Smith" -- at least, if I recall the
    conversation correctly.
 
Ah well.  Excuse me while I go turn down the flames...
-- 
Bill Roper, roper@chinet.chi.il.us
From: Richard.Sarner@f236.n271.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: BFA - THANKS!
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 12 Dec 92  09:53:00

SM->  Richard Sarner denied allegations of involvement with Scott
SM-> Malcomson over Re: BFA - THANKS!:
SM->  RS> My apologies to Bernstein, the spinning decomposer. <g>

And still does!! <g> Yet it begins again...

  We're gonna have a filk tonight!
Oh yes, we're gonna have a filk to-ni-i-ght!
  The mundanes grumble "no fair!"
But we're gonna filk them right!


  ----NEWSFLASH---  BErnstein, the spinning composer has struck oil!  
 
--- FMail 0.90
From: Uucp@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Filking...I'm new to the
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 16 Dec 92  17:15:00

From  ucivax!pathmac.med.cornell.edu!cumc.cornell.edu!phydeaux
From: phydeaux@cumc.cornell.edu ("The person your mother warned you about" )
To:   filk@ofa123.fidonet.org
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 10:51:23 EST

In message <3626.2B2F1A52@ofa123.fidonet.org> "filk.ml-error" writes:
> >You rang? Alto, soprano, or baritone, take your pick.
> >
> >I don't get around much to cons, but if something turns up near the wilds
of
> >northern Colorado...
> >
> >Jazz
> 
> Actually, I was kinda thinking about trying to get a sax quartet together
for
> OVFF next year... <<grin>>
> 
> ANOTHER Baritone player???   Amazing! Mebbe a Bari Duet! 

Oooh...I'm gonna hafta drag out my old alto from under the bed and pick it
up again!  (Haven't played it seriously in years, so you may not want to 
be in the immediate vicinity.)



--
Dave Weingart   KB2CWF      In the event I am captured or killed, the Cornell
phydeaux@cumc.cornell.edu   University Medical College and the Office of 
phydeaux@src4src.linet.org  Academic Computing will disavow any knowledge of
                            my opinions.


--- Squish v1.01
From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: non-holiday song
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 16 Dec 92  21:33:00

 -=> Brown, Derek S said to All on 12-14-92  09:03 <=-

 BDS> Organization: University of Houston
 BDS> From: st1xe@rosie.uh.edu (Brown, Derek S)

 BDS> Loot and Plunder, Rape and Kill
 BDS> (tune of Supercalifrag...from Mary Poppins)

Hm! Lemme go look in the Black Book...<pause for much electronic juggling>

All I have is this:

           PLUNDERER'S THEME
                 (Tune: "Supercalifragilistic...etc.")

   Pillage, rape and loot and burn, but all in moderation
   If you do the things we say, then you'll soon rule the nation!
   Kill your foes and enemies, and then kill their relations!
   Pillage, rape and loot and burn, but all in moderation!


... The SCA: We built a better snake-cult!


--- WM v2.04/92-0475
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
Subject: Re: Cthulu mythos filk 
Distribution: world
Organization: Keristor Systems
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:14:35 +0000

In article <n101ct@ofa123.fidonet.org>
           Julie.Rhodes@f120.n226.z1.fidonet.org writes:

>I'm looking for Lovecraftian-related filk.  If you have it, please--post it!
>Especially good if it is sung to a song the tune of which I might already
>know.

I finally got the words to this from Zander.  I've put chords to it,
although if you don't know the tune then they're probably not much use,
and if you do you probably don't need the chords...

Posted with permission.


                      THE OLD ONES
                  Words: Zander Nyrond
        Music: "The Young Ones" - Cliff Richard

    G
The Old Ones,
                  Em
Darling we're the Old Ones,
    G
And Old Ones
            Em
Have to be obeyed.
   G     D
So wait, hope,
G                 C
Till the time has come,
       G
For we may not
       D             G
Be the Old Ones very long.

Cthulhu
Don't wait for Cthulhu,
For Cthulhu
Always turns up late.
Just call us
When the stars are right
And then you will
See the Old Ones
Reunite.

 Once in each millennium
 Comes a night like this.
 Where we ruled, man rules now,
 Who's this man guy anyhow ?

Old stars
Are moving in the heavens
And old laws
Have to be obeyed.
And someday
You will see us smile,
And then you can
Be the Old Ones
For a while.

***********************************************************************
*  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: "BREAK THE LAW"
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 14 Dec 92 10:43:59

I recorded the bardics at Consonance '91; one of them has Leslie
doing the song "Break the Law". She credits it to Garnet Rogers,
and it's on one of his tapes, but he's not the guy who wrote it;
I can't remember offhand who did. (Anyone out there with a better
memory, or a copy of the tape?) 
That's what.


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From: Dave.Aronson@p11.f120.n109.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: (1/4) DR. DEMENTO
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 16 Dec 92  18:17:50

 KS>  And the Doctor says we can blame it all on Weird Al 
 KS> who introduced him to the R&S phenomenon.

R&S?

--- Maximus 2.01wb
From: Pete.Granzeau@f236.n271.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Mathoms, Gracey?
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 16 Dec 92  17:18:00

DA> AB>         Pardon, please; what is a "mathom"?

DA>Two meters.  B-)

Bzzzt!  Wrong-- 1.8288 meters.

--- FMail 0.90
From: William.Hughes@f255.n387.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Filking the Taglines
Date: 9 Dec 92 04:59:06 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992

SF>KK> Hey.....when is someone going to do a Filk on taglines?
  >KK> <ducking! :>
SF>       I had thought of doing one to Waltzing Matilda along the lines of:
SF>Stealing the taglines.
  >Stealing the taglines.
  >Stealing and laughing uproariously.
  >...

And he sat and he read and he ROFLed fit to scare the cat
Who'll come a'stealing the taglines with me

:-)

SF>    However while I know the melody to the refrain I don't know the melody 
t
  >the verses.  It's one of those songs that's so common that no one ever
  >records it.  Another is example is Cockels and Mussels.  I
  >have hundreds of albums of Irish, Scottish, and English
  >folk music and I've never come across a recording of
  >Cockels and Mussels.  I've only come across one recording
  >of Auld Lange Syne.  Has anyone else noticed this, a song
  >becoming so popular that no one ever records it?

Both "Waltzing Matilda" and "Cockles and Mussels" have been recorded
hundreds of times.


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

--- Maximus/2 2.01wb
From: Scott.Malcomson@f110.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Cthulu mythos filk
Date: 10 Dec 92 03:16:00 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992


 Kay Shapero denied allegations of involvement with Julie Rhodes over Cthulu
mythos filk:

 KS> SUNG FROM UNDER THE BED
 KS> Words: Kay Shapero
 KS> Tune: Cecilia (by Paul Simon)*

ROFLMAOASTHOOTHITC!

Just tried singing it out loud (off-key, of COURSE) and nearly got throttled
by one of my roommates. I'd say this is DEFINITELY a CLASSIC! :)


---LCD


... Tribble: *    Surprised tribble: !
--- Blue Wave/QBBS v2.10
From: Major.Matt.Mason@p11.f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: The Twelve Bugs of Christmas
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 14 Dec 92  07:35:57

OOOK!  ROFLMAO!

-MMM-

--- MacWoof Eval:25Oct92
From: Kettlingurr@f708.n362.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Cthulu mythos filk
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  09:48:04

I *like* this one...... and it's to a tune I *can* sing!  NEAT!

Got any more?



... If You Wanna Leave Me, Can I Come Too???
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.11

--- Maximus 2.01wb
From: Kihe.Blackeagle@p4003.f6224.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Back in Business, I think...
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 14 Dec 92  07:50:25

At least temporarily, I think I have things working for a limited version of
the Den (rats, not enough space for TECH, PERFECT, and PERFECT_MACRO. Foo.)

Pax ... Kihe

--- EZPoint V2.0
From: Joel.Polowin@p4.f107.n249.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Looking for a tape
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 10 Dec 92  21:11:20

In a message of <06 Dec 92>, Deborah Weiss writes to Joel Polowin:

 DW> Excuse me, but that's Technical Difficulties, rather than
 DW> *Professional* Difficulties, assuming we have the same group in mind.
 DW> Just a minor technicality <grin>.

Gah.  Yes.  I know what caused THIS slip, at least: Some ten years ago,
Canadian singer/songwriter/political satirist Nancy White was performing with 
a backup group called "Professional Help".  I occasionally confuse their name 
with "Technical Difficulties".

--- GoldED 2.31
From: Mary.Creasey@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: lyric request: Murderous Little Toy
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 10 Dec 92 08:48:19

That song is by a Bay area person named "Megaton" Mike Roberts;
so far as I know, it was only published in the _Bayfilk 1 Not-So-
Instant Songbook_ (page 29). He's the one you'd have to ask for
permission for the lyrics.
 
Hope this was helpful--Mary


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From: Sherman.Dorn@p6.f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Xenofilkia
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 13 Dec 92  10:54:14

On <10 Dec 92  17:17>, Lynn Gold scribbled the following to All:

 LG> Of course, if you send her material for Xenofilkia, you get a free
 LG> issue every time something of yours appears in it.

Can she use sheet music if I send it in (neatly, done by my printer), or just 
lyrics and chords?
--- via XCS 1.00
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: figmo@netcom.com (Lynn Gold)
Subject: Re: Mathoms, Gracey?
Organization: The Burn the Candle at Both Ends Club
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:21:58 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.103913.15665@athena.mit.edu> jsl@athena.mit.edu (J. Spencer Love) writes:
>I may have started the latest outbreak of this word because I used it at
>ConChord in reference to an item I bought at the Interfilk auction for
>Bob Laurent (which item was subsequently adopted by Jordi Sears, Lindy's
>3-year-old daughter).
>
>This word was used (and probably invented by) J. R. R. Tolkein in the
>Lord of The Rings (probably Volume 1, The Fellowship of the Ring) in a
>description of Hobbit culture.  I don't have a copy handy (there is a
>copy of The Hobbit in the SIPB office and I just reread it to make sure
>it wasn't mentioned there), so my description is from memory.  I believe
>it come from the description of a farewell party hosted by Frodo.
>
>Hobbits love parties, and they love to give presents, and they seize
>upon the slightest excuse for either.  Because giving the gifts is more
>important than getting them, and selecting appropriate gifts can be
>quite difficult, many gifts stay in circulation, being given away again
>at the next party by their recipent.  The Hobbits call such a gift a
>mathom.

I hate to tell you this, but it was Lee Gold who started it with her
mathoms at her 50th birthday filk, held at the con.  I now have a red
plastic puzzle in the shape of an apple.  If I can keep it away from
Fuzzball (who is currently batting a chain at the back of my desk with
her tail and wondering where the funny noise is coming from -- dogs
can be so stupid and yet such fun), y'all may be able to talk me into
auctioning it off (oh, twist my arm harder! :-) ).

--Lynn

Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: roper@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Roper)
Subject: Re: Julia Ecklar (was: Re: Hu
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
 
 
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:14:23 GMT

Ok, the canonical list of Julia Ecklar tapes:
 
Traveller (self-published; I've never seen it myself)
Genesis, The Horse Tamer's Daughter, Space Heroes and Other Fools
  (all from OCP, all out of print; the last one with Anne Prather)
Divine Intervention (was from Aircraft, will be from Wail Songs)
Walkabout (Dodeka)
 
Tapes that were not "Julia's", but she did quite a bit of singing
and / or writing for:
 
A Wolfrider's Reflections, Minus Ten and Counting, Brandywine
 
Julia can also be found on a number of out-of-print OCP live tapes, as
well as several live tapes from Wail Songs.  (Auditory Confusion
for one.)
 
About 20-30 minutes of studio material was recorded by Thor for DAG.
Unfortunately, that's not enough to make a full tape, and it may be
difficult to get another session.  Also, there's Julia's live material
from that ConChord, which (I presume) will eventually show up on a
ConChord tape from DAG.
-- 
Bill Roper, roper@chinet.chi.il.us