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From: kishore2@watdcsu.UUCP (K.Singhal - Systems Design)
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.music
Subject: Re: more mangled lyrics - WAKE UP, IT'S 1986, PEOPLE
Message-ID: <2015@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 10:56:22 EST
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.2015
Posted: Mon Jan 13 10:56:22 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jan-86 04:44:19 EST
References: <156@pyrnj.UUCP> <29500049@ISM780.UUCP> <543@smeagol.UUCP>
Reply-To: kishore2@watdcsu.UUCP (S.Lang - Systems Design)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <543@smeagol.UUCP> earle@smeagol.UUCP (Greg Earle) writes:
>>> 'Member Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" where she sings "One eye in ...
>> P.S. Just to make you feel better: For the longest time I thought
>etc. etc. etc. Elton John "Bennie and the Jets" blah blah Pakistan blah blah 
>
>Jezuz, it's fucking 1 9 8 6 ("Can't ya afford a fuckin' haircut?" - Lee Ving)
>and all you BOF's out there are throwing out all these
>"Gosh-gee-remember-197[012...], I thought this lyric by (Insert name of BOF
>or nauseating Singer/songwriter here) was really THIS tee hee" messages.
>Have you all DIED and crawled into a hole musically or what?  I haven't seen
>ONE article where the song mentioned was released in the 1980's!!  And don't
>tell me that suddenly there are no more lyrics to garble, either.
>
>I can beat all of you - the hell with garbled LYRICS, how about garbled
>
>	Greg Earle	(Avowed member-till-I-die of the Class of '76)
>	JPL Spacecraft Data Systems group
>	sdcrdcf!smeagol!earle	(UUCP)
>	ia-sun2!smeagol!earle@cit-vax.arpa	(ARPA)

Its probably that the lyrics to so many of the songs of present day artists
are so mangled already that we don't need to mangle them ourselves. Or 
perhaps we don't know that we've mangled them yet :-) !!

Ah nostalga! too bad you can't enjoy it too! You must be either too old
or not old enough! How I miss leisure suits! :--)

S.Lang
Systems Design Engineering    (may you have a long and interesting life)
University of Waterloo