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From: be726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph A. Ellis Jr.)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Who _IS_ going to OVFF?
Date: 16 Oct 1992 15:32:10 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



Lynn mentioned in her previous post that she would be there, and of course
Kathy will be there. I've got a concert slot on Saturday, so I'd BETTER be
there... Anyone else?

-- 
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    All filked up and no place to sing!     |   New Dimensions In Filk!
From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Bardic Wish List
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 10 Oct 92  10:27:21

On <Oct 08 17:22>, Mary Kay Kare (1:143/219) wrote to Dick Eney:

 MK>you provide.  I was at a con recently where the filk person had 
 MK>gone to a great deal of trouble and expense to provide drinks and 
 MK>munchies.  But having someone digging around in the ice and 
 MK>crunching carrot sticks and Doritos duing a quiet ballad can be 
 MK>REAL distracting. 

AAAAA-MEN!

 MK>I hate to think it's time again for one of my 
 MK>occasional lectures on filk etiquette.

This reminds me.  In searching my computer for some comments to reprint on the 
subject, it has come to my attention that I don't have nearly the resources on 
it I thought I did.  Anybody who wants to send me files containing information 
on running filk conventions, filk etiquette (Mary, I'd definitely like to see 
yours!) and so forth please feel free, serialized in here, as file attaches,
or via e-mail as you may happen to have available.

Ye Moderator/Designated Topic Cop, Kay Shapero
 

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From: jwright@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Ceridwyn)
Subject: Musicon 92
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 07:59:59 GMT

Sorry, I meant Musicon '93.  If anyone knows the hotel that it is in, tell
me, please...I'm registered, but I threw away the address.  Oops.  If 
anyone knows who is going to be there, I'd be really happy if you told me.

If you don't know what Musicon is: it is in Nashville so don't feel bad.
my address is: jwright@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu  

-- 
       jCeridwyn                         "I feel like a furrball in
jwright@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu                    the throat of life."
filker/pagan/lesbian/Misty fan                -Mork from Ork-
From: Mary.Kay.Kare@f219.n143.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Limericks and Mothers (was: Re: Poetry slams)
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 06 Oct 92  18:32:00

Well, gee, I've _been_ to Lubbock, and I'm not so sure any slams would be
unjustified.  I actually had to live (if you could call it that) in the
panhandle of Texas for a year.  And remind me to tell you about my horror
stories in re Amarillo.  And this is filk connected--Bob Asprin was there for
the horror stories and we definitely filked...

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From: Uucp@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Jewish Music
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 13 Oct 92  12:54:47

From  ucivax!outside.cnd.hp.com!cnd.hp.com!jason
From: jason@cnd.hp.com (Jason Zions)
To:   filk@ofa123.fidonet.org
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 13:45:45 -0600

Mike.Liebmann@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org said:

>So tell me, do you vant some more klezmer teps, Deborah?
> 
>ay-di-de-day-di-de-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai-dai 

Careful there, Mike - that last line looks more like a niggun than like
onomatopoetic klezmer; don't want to mix our genre's or confuse the
on-lookers...

(Klezmer doesn't make me want to take my clothes off, but it does make me
want to dance wildly and put the groom and bride in chairs and dance them
around the room overhead... not to mention have a good cry with my
grandfather while he reminisces about the shtetl he left (in a hurry!) to
come to America. What a country!)

Jazz

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From: lola@lucid.com (Lola McCrary)
Subject: Re: McQuillin/Robinson
Organization: Lucid, Inc.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 00:42:28 GMT

In article <n0be6t@ofa123.fidonet.org> Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org writes:

Speaking of Cindy and Jane:

                              MID-LIFE CRISIS
  
                              at Mama Bear's bookstore, 
                              6536 Telegraph Ave (between Ashby and Alcatraz)
                              Oakland, CA  
                              510-428-9684

	 		      Sunday, October 18, 1992, 8:00pm

This location is usually women only, but for this concert only is open to both
men and women (don't blame me--I don't make their rules!!!).

                               Cost:  $6.00
                               Reservations required due to limited space.
                               Drinks and snacks available for purchase

The new tape by Unlikely Publications, "Bedlam Cats" as well as their other
tapes and songbooks will be available.  

Hope to see you there.

Lola
From: Joe.Bethancourt@f110.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: OK, so how did ConChord go??
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 07 Oct 92  12:49:00

 -=> Joseph A. Ellis Jr. said to All on 10-05-92  06:01 <=- 

 JAEJ> Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
 JAEJ> From: be726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph A. Ellis Jr.)

 JAEJ> Well, let's hear it... how did it go? Good stuff? Fun times? Hmmm?

Whale of a good time....I got a standing ovation even tho the soundcritter
was a bit messed up....got to meet Kay Shapero and was ABSOLUTELY knocked
over...that lady is 6 feet of GORGEOUS blonde, and the leather merry-widow
and thigh boots looked really good on her...Tom Smith and I hit it off right
nicely, as one might expect, and I was -very- impressed by the level of
talent displayed...gonna be back next year by hook or by crook!

The first draft of my songbook sold at the auction for 51 bucks, which 
floored me....and my kazoo is very nice!

The Bawdy Songs seminar was a great deal of fun indeed, and I even heard some
I hadn't heard before.

I reccommend the Con to everyone!

... Never trust a grapefruit
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From: Sherman.Dorn@p3.f10.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: A filk!
Date: 6 Oct 92 21:16:33 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

On <30 Sep 92  09:22>, Dave Weingart scribbled the following to All:

 DW> instafilk from the other night,
 DW> (Obvious tune)

 DW> The very small arachnid climbed up the drainage system
 DW> Precipitation fell and removed from the pipe
 DW> The clouds went away and the water evaporated
 DW> And the very small arachnid re-climbed the drainage system

 DW> (talk about FORCED scansion!)  B{)

Hmmn, let's see if we can include some awful horrible no good very bad usage:

The condensed-print spider escalated up the output flow mechanism.
The rain impacted upon the spider, and created a spider-spout schism.
Out came the sun and effectuated an evaporation,
and the printer-resolution spider escalated up the output flow mechanism.
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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
Subject: Camp Khitomer pun thread 
Distribution: world
Organization: Keristor Systems
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:32:04 +0000


In article <n08b7t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
           Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org writes:

>              \ ! /
>               _ _
>         O %==(_^_)
>        \!/     O
>         !     \!/
>        / \     !
>               / \
>
>       KABONGGGG!!

So *that's* what a KABONG looks like...

Once a jolly filker, waiting 'til his thread KABONGGed...

(Perhaps not...)

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From: Mary.Creasey@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: BCOA
Date: 13 Oct 92 08:17:24 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

Oh, yes, it will include the "quickies"; in fact it is planned to
END with a quickie not to the original tune!


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From: Kihe.Blackeagle@p4003.f6224.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Anti-Argo
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 10 Oct 92  15:24:44

 BM> Mine was:
 BM> And we're Banning Argo from this filk
 BM> Banning Argo and all others of its ilk
 BM> We'll sing of 'bots and unicorns, we'll sing of love and war
 BM> But we won't sing of Argo any more.

 I've wondered often (many times!) why _Argo_ is such a rip
 What do every one of you have against a sailing-ship?
 And if Jason the heros can't put back upon his father's throne
 Well, then throw _Argo_ to the Titans, like a dog might get a bone!

 There walked the mighty Heracles, muscled shoulders spanning wide
 And many another hero true went along then for all the ride
 A discus hurled as no other was put a shrimp among their midst
 Until the spring-pool called to him, and he's still locked in that tryst!

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

   (permission granted in advance for inclusion in the BCA collection if
    desired; apologies as appropriate if I have stolen a parallel-developed
    idea; further apologies for stretching the scansion even more than usual
    for the BFA tune; and filk-process additions eagerly encouraged!)

Pax ... Kihe

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From: mba@controls.ccd.harris.com (Belinda Asbell)
Subject: Re: rah rah songs 
Originator: mba@sp1
Organization: Harris Controls
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 12:29:33 GMT


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.....)

speaking of tom lehrer, does anyone know what happened to him?

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: hjfeld@acs.bu.edu (harold feld)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: 3 filks
Date: 11 Oct 92 02:31:08 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Submitted for your approval, three filks of mine.

Title: Like lambs to the Daughter (thanx for the title Claire!)
Tune: Talking Blues

Spoken: Horse-Tammer's Daughter is a wonderful filk song with catchy 
words and a nifty tune.  The only problem is, it's long!  In fact, requesting
it may get you garrotted with a g-string.  Fortunately, I've discovered that
with a little editing, it can be brought down to manageable levels, say--
talking Blues? (Begin TB here)

Once a long long time ago on the edge of the Hali Plain
A poor horsetamer lived and worked, though he got little gain
He got a wife, they had a kid, who helped them as she oughta
So proud and strong and free she grew, the old horsetamer's daughter

(so I'm from Boston, sue me.:-))

In the interests of brevity, I will omit some of the more disposable
parts of the song, like the part about her extremely Disney-like
happy childhood.  The animal friends, the magic mirror, etc., etc.,
ALL 47 VERSES OF IT!

The Comyn came to steal some kids, from every 10 took one
The townsfolk said 'Go back, go back' so she began to run

(Switch to other tune)
She ran through the briars and she ran through the brambles
and she ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go
Ran so fast the hounds couldn't catch her, down the Mississippi
to the....well, you get the idea.
(switch back)

Anyway, she got back to her magic tower, took one look in her
magic mirror, saw this red-haired guy look right at her,
and said "Oh...sh**."

Spoken: Since the Comyn are of Scots ancestry, the next few lines
are likely to be a bit, um, juicey.(continue in phoney Scots brogue.)

Rise up rise up my sisters all, 'tis an ill-trained mind but strong
We've searched the land, from end to end, but gods we've searched all wrong
We'll have to move real quick if we're to seize and run this power
Make haste make haste lest we come too late, maike haste for the Hali tower

Spoken: Greedy Comyn twits! You'll be sorry....

Again, in the interests of brevity, I'll omit the part where for
perfectly obvious reasons the horsetamer's daughter puts every ounce
of power she's got into calling her animal friends for help, ALL 47 
VERSES OF IT.

With 7 mares and a stallion bold she fought a mighty battle
The wizards cried out from the ground all scared confused and rattled
Enough enough we'll go away, how strong you folk must be
She said there ain't no folk up here, just 8 wild horses and me

Spoken: And they said:'You're that powerful, OH SH**!

Well if she hadn't had the horses' help she'd have never held out so long
But if she hadn't spied on the red-haired guy you'd have never have heard
this song
So now she sits at home at nights, the Keeper of Hali Tower
Which goes to show discretion is the better part of power

Moral, every good filk song ought to have a moral, right?
If the Comyn come looking for you, hide.
If you can't hide, be real strong.
And even if you are strong, try to keep it down to 5 or6
verses, huh?

Other filks to follow

Harold
From: Deborah.Weiss@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: McQuillin/Robinson
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 10 Oct 92  16:42:00

Call me via landline at 714/530-3546 evenings before 10:00 PM PST & either
Rick or I will be happy to assist you with contact information. 
 
 
P.S. Please send me a con flyer with info, etc. on Arisia for the Filkcon
Calendar.  Thanks!   Snailmail:  Deborah Weiss, 13261 Donegal Drive, Garden
Grove, CA  92644-2304.  Better yet, has the con info been posted to Fidonet?  
If not, it's a darn good idea!


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From: phydeaux@src4src.linet.org (Dave Weingart)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Is there still?
Date: 12 Oct 92 19:32:23 GMT
Organization: The Source for Source Pub Access Unix

Is this group still available via a mailing list over the Usenet?  If so,
what's the contact eddress?

-- 
73 de Dave Weingart   KB2CWF   phydeaux@src4src.linet.org

PLEASE NOTE THE NEW EDDRESS, VALID 10/07/92!!!!!
From: Mike.Liebmann@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Tired of Argh-o
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 10 Oct 92  21:42:34

You and your doppleganger better behave yourself, or I'll let Leslie know
where you live and she'll getcha! 

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From: Gerald.Bliss@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Robert Coleman
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 09 Oct 92  06:53:00

 On 10-07-92 Mike Liebmann wrote to All... 
 
 ML> For those who have read about Robert not coming to ConChord because of 
 ML> an operation, it saddens me to report that he died on the operating 
 ML> table sometime between 7 and 7:30 PM (PT) Friday night.  The doctors 
 ML> evidently could get to the first aneurism, but not the second. 
 ML> 
 ML> We'll miss you, Robert. 
 
Strings break, filkers contract laryngitis, and a mournful wail crosses 
the land...  (sounds like a filksing to me)  Even we who never knew you 
will miss the prospect of meeting you, Robert. 
 
... OFFLINE 1.40 * Do not disturb. Already disturbed. 

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From: drenze@icaen.uiowa.edu (Douglas J Renze)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Worf the Mellow Klingon
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:22:24 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

jil@linus.mitre.org (Jon Leivent) writes:



>(sorry if this is a duplicate post - my server has been having fits)


>This has got to be one of the most obvious filks to do, so it has
>probably already been done.  But here goes anyway:

>Worf the Mellow Klingon (tune is obvious)

>(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"
>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 he eats non-moving chow

>(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 friends
>Worf cannot be brave
>Not with chums like Kunta Kinte'
>and that positronic nave

>(chorus)

To Klin'zhai Worf did travel
To save his father's name
But took discommendation
So now all will know his shame!

-- 
| Douglas J Renze            | "Jerry [Brown] is the equivalent of a          |
| drenze@icaen.uiowa.edu     |  drive-by shooting."                           |
| drenze@chop.isca.uiowa.edu |                                                |
| drenze@aol.com             |         * NPR's Morning Edition, 13 July 1992  |
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
Subject: Lutes 
Distribution: world
Organization: Keristor Systems
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:43:08 +0000


In article <n08eet@ofa123.fidonet.org>
           Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org writes:

>                                  ...the arch-lute, also called
>theorbo, is essentially the same, but with a mess of extra bass pairs
>tuned from an extra pegbox usually set above the regular peg box
>(peghead)...

Who are *you* calling 'peghead'?

No need for insults here - we'll insult ourselves <g>.

This thread had me completely in hysterics for an age of computer time -
it was at least 2^35 nS before I stopped ROFLing...

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From: Scott.Malcomson@f110.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Robert Coleman
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:13:00 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992


 Mike Liebmann denied allegations of involvement with All over Robert Coleman:
 ML> We'll miss you, Robert. 

<bows head quietly>


---LCD


... HOWE'S LAW: Everyone has a scheme that won't work.
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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
Subject: writer? 
Distribution: world
Organization: Keristor Systems
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:28:46 +0000


In article <n08aft@ofa123.fidonet.org> Rick.Ellis@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:

>On <Aug 19 16:20> Lynn Gold writes:
>
> LG> M965P97-T(&)O=VQS(&]F(&UE+"!))VT@82!"040@4DE'2%1%4B$@($)U="!S
> etc.
>
>cute

Well, yes, she is...  <g,d&rvf>

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From: hjfeld@acs.bu.edu (harold feld)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Hello
Date: 14 Oct 92 12:00:43 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Grump. I've messed this up. Can someone send me
a copy of the orginal post to which this was a reply?

Anyway-- This is the songbook from Conchord 7, 1991.
On page 14, there is a song called: You Blew It
credited (corrrectly) to Harold feld and Cahrlie Asbornsen.
Neither Charlie nor I knew this was being used until
Mike Brown showed us a copy at Arisia '92.

I appologize if I miscomunicated the year/con in my 
initial posting.

Harold Feld
From: J-Mag@p16.f100.n106.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Anti-Argo
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 12 Oct 92  09:58:20

Saturday October 10 1992, Kihe Blackeagle writes to Beth Moursund:

 BM>> Mine was:
 BM>> And we're Banning Argo from this filk
 BM>> Banning Argo and all others of its ilk
 BM>> We'll sing of 'bots and unicorns, we'll sing of love and war
 BM>> But we won't sing of Argo any more.

 KB>  I've wondered often (many times!) why _Argo_ is such a rip
 KB>  What do every one of you have against a sailing-ship?
 KB>  And if Jason the heros can't put back upon his father's throne
 KB>  Well, then throw _Argo_ to the Titans, like a dog might get a bone!

 KB>  There walked the mighty Heracles, muscled shoulders spanning wide
 KB>  And many another hero true went along then for all the ride
 KB>  A discus hurled as no other was put a shrimp among their midst
 KB>  Until the spring-pool called to him, and he's still locked in that
 KB> tryst!

 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!

.             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

'Twas the _Argo_ and the Argonauts put Jason on the throne.

More verses coming when I'm less busy.

- J-Mag

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From: hjfeld@acs.bu.edu (harold feld)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Filk #3
Date: 11 Oct 92 02:55:39 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA


At worldcon, there is a group called Minniapolis in '73 which
holds 'bid parties' for their now defunct bid.  There, they serve 
a drink called blog.  A lovely pink, punch-like concoction whose
exact components remain something of a mystery.  However, it is
quite strong. (And yummy!) I had one and was inspired to the following
filk. (I should mention I had been to a Ren and Stimpy party just
before going to Miniapolis in 73.)

(Scene shift to a fan in propeller beany on a blank background)
Voice: Hey fan, want a drink?
Fan: Sure
Voice: How about some romulan ale
Fan: Uh uh
Voice: A pan-galactic gargle blaster!
Fan: NO!
Voice: Then what?
Fan: (pause) Blog!

You'll roll down stairs, fall off your chair, and hump your neighbors dog
It goes with a snack, you'll lie on your back, it's blog, blog, BLOG!

It's blog, it's blog
It's pink, it's yummy, it's punch
It's blog, it's blog
It'll make you lose your lunch

You're gonna love your blog
Come on and get your blog
Everyone loves their blog

Blog--get blammoed!
  
Enjoy!
Harold