Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!daemon From: de0t+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Daniel S. Efran") Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Nice To Swallow Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 89 21:41:36 GMT References: <8910071117.6541@munnari.oz.au> Sender: daemon@eddie.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: MIT Lines: 15 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu If you say "Night of the Swallow" quickly (if, for example, you've already said it before in the same interview) it could easily come out "Nite o' th' Swallow" or even "Nite o' Swallow." Which sounds quite a bit like "Ny to Swallow" which sounds (if you try to fit it back into english) like "Nice to Swallow." If you don't believe me, try saying it yourself. It's not hard to imagine someone mishearing something Kate says--read anyone's attempts to figure out her lyrics--and perhaps thinking that she was making a joke. If you really care, that's a pretty reasonable hypothesis. Feel free to *not* discuss it further. ---Dan "The Sphere" Efran --or-- ---"Damn this fear" Efran