Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!cepu!ucla-cs!srt From: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: L-O-L-A Lola Message-ID: <5768@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Fri, 31-May-85 16:06:01 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.5768 Posted: Fri May 31 16:06:01 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 3-Jun-85 00:14:11 EDT References: <1634@cornell.UUCP> <413@wdl1.UUCP> <674@udenva.UUCP> <2208@sun.uucp> Reply-To: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (Scott Turner) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 23 In article <2208@sun.uucp> sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) 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? > >Her gender is "feminine" ... All right. Enough of this bullshit: Ray Davies has been interviewed on this point HUNDREDS of times. The song is purposely ambigious, and was intentionally written that way. Now, can we get on with net.movies style discussions and restrain this sort of thing to net.inane? Scott R. Turner ARPA: (now) srt@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA (soon) srt@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!srt SPUDNET: ...eye%srt@russet.spud