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From: kbays@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ken Bays)
Subject: TMBG taped show
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:15:08 GMT


A few weeks ago someone made a post about whether anyone had TMBG shows
on tape.  I couldn't respond then, since I was leaving for Christmas
vacation, but now that I'm back, here's the deal.  Several months ago,
on the Apollo 18 tour, TMBG played a show for West Virginia's
"Mountain Stage," which is a program for public radio.  I got their
performance on tape.  It's not the best recording quality, but it's 
not bad either.  Therer
were some other groups performing there too, but I didn't tape them,
so there are a couple of bad spots on the tape where I paused it
between groups.  I'd say there's about a half an hour or more of TMBG
stuff on it, mostly songs from Apollo 18 but some of the older
stuff as well.  There's a good but lyric-less version of "The 
Famous Polka," and a medley of (if I remember correctly) "Where
Your Eyes Don't Go" and "Lucky Ball & Chain," among other good
live performances.  How many of you would be interested in a copy
of this performance?  I don't have access to a great stereo,
but I could still make decent sounding copies.  If enough people
want it, I'll post my address to send blank tapes to so that I can
stick this concert on them.

Let me know.

Ken

Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
From: st923459@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Re: Totally Pointless Cascade #4
Reply-To: st923459@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:41:05 GMT

In "<1993Jan21.013345.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>", bcimmet@eagle.wesleyan.edu 
writes:

>Try this cascade on for size:
>
>        "Minimum Wage!"...

Hyaah!!

Sorry, I know this was pointless, but I couldn't resist...

Happy Trails,

Todd @ Brandeis
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From: blckjck@leland.Stanford.EDU (Brett Alexander Cruden)
Subject: Re: Once and for all, Triangle Man
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 03:30:26 GMT

In article <93025.174629MJO109@psuvm.psu.edu> <MJO109@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Hello Friends, Being new to the netnews thing here, I happened across this
>lovely alt.music.tmbg section where I noticed there was a bit of controversy
>as to _exactly_ what the meaning of "Particle Man" is (no, it's not about
>religion or the bomb, although admirable guesses).  Several years ago, among

Gee, you seem mighty sure of yourself.  Did you check it with John and John 
before you told us that your THEORY is not a theory at all, but a fact?
From: sstover@sumax.seattleu.edu (   Wilde Dame)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: singalong cascade II
Date: 22 Jan 1993 14:07:27 -0800
Organization: Seattle University
NNTP-Posting-Host: sumax.seattleu.edu

In article <1993Jan18.232738.9966@iscsvax.uni.edu> hunter2344@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>I'm glad they are a snowman with protective rubber skins

augh! all right, i'm sick of these already...

and every little thing's a domino that falls on different dots
and crashes into every thing that tries to make it stop...
-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
       Sheryl Stover    |    "The good ended happily, and the
  & Hemingway & Clio    |    bad unhappily.  That is what fiction means."
sstover@seattleu.edu    |    -Oscar Wilde, _The Importance of Being Earnest_
From: adams@euclid.uoregon.edu (Jeffrey P. Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Recommended Groups
Date: 28 Jan 1993 02:47:32 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: euclid.uoregon.edu
Keywords: Eggplant


This has to be one of the most fantastic days of my life!  Here I
was, just stumbling around the net, when I run into alt.music.tmbg !
Life just doesn't get any better than this.

So, along the lines of related groups, may I recommend Eggplant.
I particularly like their album "Sad Astrology".  They certainly
have the same sort of fresh & humorous approach as the Johns, but
as has been mentioned, everyone is unique.

Also, I went and bought a Young Fresh Fellows CD purely on the
basis of TMBG mentioning them in "Twisting", and found another
similar sound to TMBG, but a lot more raw.

Since I just joined the conversation, I apologize if I'm repeating
anyone.

Oh, yeah.  Is there a FAQ or anything I ought to know about?  Maybe
someone could email me with some info like a TMBG lyrics repository,
summaries of various peoples' interpretations of various TMBG lyrics,
and/or a summary of TMBG-recommended groups, if that info is
available.

_________________________________________________________________________
Jeff Adams, Grad Student                             
adams@euclid.uoregon.edu
Department of Mathematics
University of Oregon (Eugene)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
From: kenm@maccs.mcmaster.ca (...Jose)
Subject: Re: Dial-a-song update
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:12:36 GMT

In article <1751600008@igc.apc.org> bo@igc.apc.org (Bo Orloff) writes:
>
>-Bo Orloff
> TMBG Imformation
> (bo@igc.apc.org)


 	Out of trivial interest: Why just "Bo Orloff", instead of
"Smokin' Bo Orloff", as was on one of the earlier liner notes?  Were
you demoted?  Chastised for frivolity?  Quit cold turkey?


				....Jose


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From: andrew@rle-vlsi.mit.edu (Andrew Eli Grumet)
Subject: Did someone say cascade?....
Organization: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of
	Technology
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:01:44 GMT


Gippity-gip gip de awwww......
--
-----------------                       
                                     ___   "It's log, it's log,
Andrew Eli Grumet                    | |    It's big, it's heavy, it's wood.
andrew@rle-vlsi.mit.edu              | |    It's log, it's log,
                                     ^^^    It's better than bad, it's good!"
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From: hellmann@cs.scarolina.edu (Doug Hellmann)
Subject: 64 Worlds Fair
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Distribution: alt.music.tmbg
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:58:50 GMT

Hello fellow TMBG fans.

I heard something interesting the other day, and I thought I would share
it with you guys....

I'm not old enough to know this for certain, but apparently at the 64
Worlds Fair, held in NY, Disney had an exhibit called "An evening with
Mr. Lincoln."  TMBG mention the 64 Worlds Fair in Ana Ng-Does anyone
think there's any connection to the album title "Lincoln"?

-Samantha
From: tfish@world.std.com (Tex Fish)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: "It's Not My Birthday"=="MacArthur Park"?
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:24:05 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

In article <mcirvin.728076135@husc.harvard.edu> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
>of quotes of this variety; besides the maniacal instrumental version
>of "The Lady Is A Tramp,"  there's the brief Gloria Gaynor homage in
>"The Biggest One" ("No no not I, I will survive, right down here on my
>knees") and the mutated Mr. Ed theme lyrics at the beginning of 
>-- 
>Matt McIrvin

	At a concert I went to on the first Apollo 18 tour, they played
stump the bad and did a rousing rendition of that very song by Gloria Gaynor.

-- 
---->Tweety Fish		"I bought that chair, young lady,
---->tfish@world.std.com	 and you're gonna use it!"-MST 3K
---->These opinions are those of GO-FORCE and nobody else. Screw..
From: mclemens@blueberry.ucs.indiana.edu (Mike Clemens)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: Tom Lehrer (was Re: Recommended Groups)
Date: 27 Jan 93 12:52:28 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington

In article <LIGHTNIN.93Jan26233753@parker.WPI.EDU> lightnin@parker.WPI.EDU (Reality's Comic Relief) writes:

>1) What are these album titles?

"Tom Lehrer Revisited", Reprise 2-26303
"An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer", Reprise 2-6199
"That Was the Year That Was", Reprise 2-6179

>2) Who has released them?

I think the original LP's were released by a now-defunct indie label.
Reprise is a Warner label.

>3) Where can we find them?

Found mine in Camelot music, of all places.  For those unaware, it's a
typical US mainstream record franchise.  Look under "Comedy".  I found
all three at once, but have seen one or the others here and there.

>When these have been answered, then, AND ONLY THEN, will you have
>wasted enough bandwidth.  Right?

There now, *that* wasn't so bad, was it?  ;-)

- Mike

ObThey: DinnerBell DinnerBell Ding!
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
From: catbutt@nmt.edu (Matthew Goolsby)
Subject: Re: lyrics to non-album songs?
Keywords: "Catbutt!?!  What a stupid form of hero worship!"
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 16:28:56 GMT

In article <4fL1QqC00WDKE9QHg5@andrew.cmu.edu> Vernon H Harmon <vh00+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Excerpts from netnews.alt.music.tmbg: 18-Jan-93 lyrics to non-album
>songs? RICHARD LEBED@csa1.lbl.g (335)
>
>
>> 	Would you kindly folks in the know please post some lyrics to the songs
>> that have not yet been released on the standard five albums?  I am aware that
>> the archives already contain lyrics to "Stormy Pinkness."
>> 	Many thanks in advance.
>
>> 	Rich "oh, you're a layman, aren't you?  Well, I'll try to explain it in
>> 		technical terms" Lebed	
>
>
>Well, at the time of the release of the Guitar single, I posted (to the
>mailing list) the lyrics for:
>
>Stormy Pinkness
>Ant
>Siftin' (oooh, tough one! :D)
>Cabbagetown
>Movin' to the Sun
>I Blame You
>Welcome to the Jungle
>James K. Polk
>
>I think that's all of them, but it was all the b-sides from the I(nC),
>Guitar, IPI singles.
>
>I think I still have them, but I assumed that someone had put them out
>at the lyric site....

There is also:

I'm Def
The Edison Museum

					Catbutt


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From: cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows)
Subject: Re: Dial a Song number
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Keywords: "We have our own song, and we wanna record it."  
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 05:58:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.163756.5556@nmt.edu> catbutt@nmt.edu (Matthew Gools
y) writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.022227.21444@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> peb2g@fulto
.seas.Virginia.EDU (Penny E. Breyer) writes:
>>Being that I only own the Flood and Apollo 18 CD's, and
>>have taped copies of TMBG and Lincoln, could some kind soul
>>send me the *real* Dial-A-Song phone number?  It isn't in the
>>FAQ (I looked) and the one on Apollo 18's sleeve is rumored
>>to be wrong.  I feel like I am one of the great unwashed, 
>>having never actually dialed Dial-A-Song.  But rumor has it,
>>it's free if you call from work!  A definite bonus!
>Imagine this being said by James Earl Jones with plenty of reverb:
>
>"The they MIGHT BE giants Dial-A-Song is area code(718)387-6962.
>
>					Catbutt
>
>


What I wanna know is how can they TELL if you're calling from work
or not?!  How can it be free based on where you're calling from if
they have no way to tell?  (I would LOVE to call "from work" but
all they have where I work is a pay phone).

--
Chris Meadows  | Robotech/RIFTS/Palladium fanfic author/editor                  
CHM173S@SMSVMA | They Might Be Giants about Star Trek aliens:                   
CHM173S@VMA.SMSU.EDU   | "Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads                  
CMEADOWS@NYX.CS.DU.EDU | on their real heads!"                                  
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From: tufnel@camelot.bradley.edu (Timothy Bartley)
Subject: Re: Recommended groups
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:59:14 GMT

I would recommend King Missile.  Their newest album with "Detachable Penis" (I
think everyone has heard about this song) has some very humorous moments as
well as some very playful use of language.  The vocalist mainly talks over the
music, but for some reason it works incredibly well.  By the way, the new
album is called "Happy Hour."

tim
From: kenm@maccs.mcmaster.ca (...Jose)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: "It's Not My Birthday"=="MacArthur Park"?
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:05:15 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University

In article <mcirvin.728076135@husc.harvard.edu> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
>
>The lines "when this gray world crumbles like a cake / I'll be hanging
>from the hope / That I'll never see that recipe again" are a clear 
>reference to "MacArthur Park."  The stuff on Misc. T contains a number
>of quotes of this variety; besides the maniacal instrumental version


	Another example: I heard an old sixties song the other day (while
visiting an office that had one of the ubiquitous, obsequious, obnoxious
"light FM, the best of the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's; all your
favorite rock, with no rap or heavy metal or imagination or intelligence
or anything else smacking of originality or wit" radio stations on) and
heard a girl-group song with the line "(he stood whistling?) 'Here comes
the bride' as he walked through the door".


				.....Ken


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Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
From: icklinck@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Ian "Rhys" Klinck)
Subject: Crossover!
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:20:23 GMT

This from alt.fan.pratchett, where we discuss books by Terry Pratchett, who
writes some of the best fantasy/humour around... posted by the most venerated
Terry Pratchett himself!

>May I add that I'm pleased to see so many Weird Al and They Might Be Giants
>sigs around, and add totally gratis that the TMBG number 'Where your Eyes
>don't Go' was the scariest song I ever heard...
>
>Oh, and sig stuff from 'Into the Woods', too -- wish I'd seen it before I
>wrote Witches Abroad...
>
>Terry

...thought it might be of trivial interest.

Ian
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
From: icklinck@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Ian "Rhys" Klinck)
Subject: Re: Tiny toons
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:55:46 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.054122.21648@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> wisdom@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Robert Wisdom) writes:
>I would have guessed not too much, since they didn't seem to fit the song
>lyrics too well and had only one level of meaning (who ever heard of
>ANYTHING the Johns did that only had one level of meaning?).

Contrast this with good ol' Spinal Tap: to quote Nigel Tufnel, in an interview
on Q107 (Toronto)'s "6-o'clock Rock Report":

"Double entendre? Heck, we're lucky to have _single_ entendre!"

(Thought you'd appreciate that one...)

Ian.
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
From: st923459@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: More by Tom Lehrer]
Reply-To: st923459@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:18:52 GMT

New Math is just fine, but I much prefer the following:

Spring is here/a-suh-puh-ring is here/life is skittles and life is beer/
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring/I do/don't you?/
'Course you do!

But the one thing that makes spring complete for me
And makes every Sunday a treat for me...

All...the...world seems in tune on a spring afternoon
When you're poisoning pigeons in the park
Each Sunday you'll see my sweetheart and me 
As we poison the pigeons in the park
When they see us coming the birdies all try 'n hide
But they still go for peanuts when loaded with cyanide
The sun's shining bright
Everything seems all right
When you're poisoning pigeons in the park

We've [something something something]
And caused some anxiety
in the Audobon Society 
With our games
They call it impiety
And a lack of propriety 
And quite a variety
of Unpleasant names...

But it's not against any religion...
To want to dispose of a pigeon...

So...if Sunday you're free
Why don't you come with me
and we'll poison the pigeons in the park
And maybe we'll do in a squirrel or two
While we poison the pigeons in the park
My pulse will be quickenin'
with each drop of strychnine
we feed to a pigeon
(It just takes a smidgin!)
To poison a pigeon in the park.


Coming soon:  The Masochism Tango

Happy Trails,

Todd @ Brandeis
From: praxis@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Laura L Perkinson)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: Recommended groups
Date: 24 Jan 1993 16:25:07 -0500
Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu

	This thread makes me realise how... unique TMBG is. There's just no
one who quite makes a similar sound. Sure there are other groups that churn
out some weird stuff, and some of them are pretty good. But they don't
match up to TMBG, IMNSHO, and don't really sound much like them. The only
other entertainers who are like the Johns in this respect (that I can think
of) are Penn & Teller. No one even tries imitating them.
	I mean, I love TMBG, but my taste is music otherwise bears no
similarities to their style. (Top artists: Concrete Blonde, Talking Heads,
Midnight Oil, Paul Simon...)
	Go figure,
	Praxis

	"Throw another cat on the mat."
From: ak999@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Susan Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: Recommended groups
Date: 25 Jan 1993 21:34:30 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ak999@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Susan Davis)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


>Also, listen to the Dr. Demento show.  It's on Sunday nights, 11 pm to 1 am.
>Check your local radio stations for which station carries it, but it's
>on the Westwood One Radio Network.  I only know the stations for those 
>living in Albany, NY (WPYX 106.5 FM) and Boston, MA (WZLX 100.7 FM).

It's also on WNCX 98.5 FM in Cleveland....
-- 
Susan Davis <ak999@cleveland.freenet.edu> mirror, mirror, where's the 
crystal palace but I can only see myself SKATING around the truth who I am
but I know dad the ice is getting thin when you gonna make up your mind...
From: wisdom@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Robert Wisdom)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: Tom Lehrer (was Re: Recommended Groups)
Date: 24 Jan 93 05:11:50 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

bcimmet@eagle.wesleyan.edu wrote:
: In article <1993Jan23.054127.26420@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>, wisdom@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Robert Wisdom) writes:
: > 	TOM LEHRER!!!! - If you don't know this guy, go find him NOW!!  He
: > was writing songs about boy scouts smoking "reefer" in 1957.  Some of the
: > jokes are dated, but anyone who can put the periodic table to a Gilbert &
: > Sullivan tune and write a march for "Smut" can't be all bad.  Lines from
: > "New Math": You can't take 3 from 2/ 2 is less than 3/ so you look at the
: > 4 in the 8's place [didn't I warn you this was in base 8? ...  Sorry] /Now
: > that is really 4 8's/So you make it 3 8's/ regroup/ change an 8 to 8 1's
: > /and you add it to the 2 and you get 1 2 base 8 which is 10 base 10 and
: > you take away 3 that's 7/ Got that? ...

: 	Now instead of 4 in the 8's place, you've got 3 'cause you added 1,
: that is to say 8 to the 2 but you can't take 7 from 3 so you look in the 64's.

	64's ... 'How did 64 get into this?' I hear you cry.  Well 64 is 8
squared don't you see.  Ask a silly question ...

: From the 3, you then use 1 to make 8 1's, you add those 1's to the 3 and you
: get 1 3 base 8 or in other words in base 10 you have 11 and you take away 7 
: and seven from 11 is 4! Now go back to the 64's, you're left with 2 and
: you take away 1 from 2 and that leaves... Everybody get 1?

	Everybody who got 1 can stay after the show and clean the
erasers (I said some of it was dated).


Why am I not stunned that there were others here who knew who I was
talking about.  

----
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"Abortion Kills America's Future Soldiers" | wisdom@picasso.ocis.temple.edu
You figure it out (Because I can't!).      | My opinions are !yours.
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From: an849@anon.penet.fi (smarties)
Subject: Re: Recommended Groups
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: alt.music.tmbg
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:26:11 GMT

>
> Also a group TMBG fans would like is the Barenaked Ladies.
>
> They are from Toronto, I think, and their sound is just slightly more
> mainstream than TMBG.  They just put out an album called "Gordon".
> Excellent.

 They've released a couple of singles in Britain too.. sound excellent
 (One of those groups that Mark Goodier plays a lot of on 1FM)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 19:18:56 GMT

 The videos are something else too! (More frantic than frantic.. and
 fatter than fat too ;o)

 Just my 3p's worth

        love from       The *smarties*

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From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: 64 Worlds Fair
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:19:30 GMT
Distribution: alt.music.tmbg

hellmann@cs.scarolina.edu (Doug Hellmann) writes:

>I'm not old enough to know this for certain, but apparently at the 64
>Worlds Fair, held in NY, Disney had an exhibit called "An evening with
>Mr. Lincoln."  TMBG mention the 64 Worlds Fair in Ana Ng-Does anyone
>think there's any connection to the album title "Lincoln"?

Perhaps-- though I think the primary motivation behind the name is
the town of Lincoln, Mass., John and John's boyhood home.
-- 
Matt McIrvin
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
From: st923459@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Re: Singalong cascade II
Reply-To: st923459@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:33:13 GMT

>>I heard the people are so happy now, their heads are caving in!
>I'm just glad they're snowmen with protective rubber skin!
But every little thing's a domino that falls on different dots...
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
From: jirwin@emunix.emich.edu (Jane Irwin)
Subject: Re: Did someone say cascade?....
Summary:  Best Phonetic Rendering!
Organization: Eastern Michigan Lunatic Asylum
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:42:53 GMT


Here's a possibility for a new cascade:  let's see who can come up with
the best phonetic rendering of the 'grunt-thing' on Spider.


stop snickering.


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From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: Particle Man
Organization: Elitist Usenet Administrators, Stuff and Nonsense Division
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:58:24 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.012457.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> bcimmet@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:

>Has anyone ever thought that Triangle Man might be representing a gay
>community? Pink triangles are a symbol of gay pride, and perhaps, in some way,
>this is a parallel of that?

Triangles tend to represent lots of things: the Trinity, two
interlocked equilaterals make a Star of David, a Hazardous Waste or
Yield sign.  It seems to me that Religion nicely rounds out the
symbolism of Mankind, Nature, and Science that are usually attributed
to the other three ... though I have yet to determine why Triangle Man
always wins. :-)  Maybe it's that he always wins over human nature.

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / 
\  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /               Rocks say goodbye.
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /