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From: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
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Subject: Re: Re: Games Without Frontiers
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Date: Thu, 1-Dec-83 20:04:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  1 20:04:28 1983
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Seeing as how people seem interested in Peter Gabriel's song "Games Without
Frontiers", I thought I'd post the origin of it, hinted at by the accompanying
video.  In that video, you may remember seeing people engaged in athletic
competition.  It turns out that there is a television program on European TV
called "Jeux Sans Frontieres" which pits teams from various countries against
each other in silly contests, reminiscent of the American show "Almost Anything
Goes", thankfully cancelled quite a few years ago.  Gabriel appears to view
the games as a metaphor for international relations, hence the various
references to historic figures in the lyrics.  See how *interesting* PG can be?

Now, who knows which famous psychology experiment inspired "Shock The Monkey"?

p. rowley, U. Toronto