Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!edward From: edward@ukma.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: L-O-L-A Lola Message-ID: <1803@ukma.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-May-85 10:19:13 EDT Article-I.D.: ukma.1803 Posted: Thu May 23 10:19:13 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 25-May-85 00:24:39 EDT References: <1634@cornell.UUCP> <413@wdl1.UUCP> <674@udenva.UUCP> Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY Lines: 39 In article <674@udenva.UUCP>, showard@udenva.UUCP (showard) writes: > > > From: nax (Nax-Paul) > > are you *sure* Lola was not a woman? The song ends: > > > "I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola." > > > So they're *both* glad the singer is a man -- but what's Lola's gender? > > > nax@cornell > > he walked like a woman and talked like a man ............ > > Lola was NOT a woman, at least not at birth. > > Sam > Lola was a woman. The song opens: > "I met her in a club down in old Soho . . ." > later: "I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola" > and so on, using female pronouns throughout. The line that Sam > quotes should be "Now I'm not dumb but I can't understand > How she walked like a woman and talked like a man." > I think. > --Mr. Blore, the DJ who would not die, aka Steve Howard > . . . udenva!showard Lola was a transvestite folks. -- edward {ucbvax,unmvax,boulder,research}!anlams! -| {mcvax!qtlon,vax135,mddc}!qusavx! -|--> ukma!edward | {decvax,ihnp4,mhuxt,seismo}! -+-> cbosgd! -| {clyde,osu-eddie,ulysses}! ---| "Well, what's on the television then?" "Looks like a penguin." () | |-- Support barrier free design /|--- | \ _ \___/ \=