jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (jeffreys) (04/16/85)
> From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) > Newsgroups: net.music > Subject: Stupidity > Date: 12 Apr 85 02:08:36 GMT > Date-Received: 12 Apr 85 04:55:07 GMT > Distribution: net.music > Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA > What kind of STUPID JERK compiles such useless, boring trivia as the > playing times of 7" singles! Or song titles that do not appear in the > song! I like trivia of all sorts, but music trivia happens to be my favourite. On the subject of titles that do not appear in the lyrics, I did post an article for a poll on this subject, on the request of a colleague of mine who can no longer access the net, but is able to receive mail from the people who can. > Geez, you'd have to have had a lobotomy to be interested in such dreck! I don't see why Doug Alan thinks that one would need to have a lobotomy to be interested in trivia. If this is the case, there must be an awful amount of people queuing up for their lobotomy, before they go to the store to purchase "Trivial Pursuit". > Song tiles that don't appear in the song aren't even unusual! I > can think of dozens of songs like this off the top of my head without > even looking at my albums. If I looked at my albums I'm sure I'd find > hundreds. There are probably thousands and thousands of songs that fit > your description. Here are some that I can think of off the top of my > head: > Kate Bush ("The Dreaming"): "The Dreaming", "Night of the Swallow" > ("The Kick Inside"): "Saxaphone Song" > Roy Harper ("What Ever Happened to Jugula?"): "Bad Speech", > "Frozen Moment", > "Advertisement (Another Intentional Irrelevant Suicide)", > Peter Gabriel: "Family Snapshot", "Wallflower" > Pink Floyd ("Animals"): "Dogs", "Sheep", "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" > ("The Wall"): "In the Flesh?", "In the Flesh", > "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", "Young Lust", > "The Trial" > ("Dark Side of the Moon"): "Brain Damage" > > I could go on for pages and pages (but I won't)! What planet are you > guys from? > The original posting for the poll requested twice that the replies should be sent to a path other than the path that posted the article. In a brief followup article, people were asked NOT to send replies to the net. After pointing out how stupid doing a particular poll is, Doug Alan then contributes to it! It makes me wonder... a) When did Doug Alan have his lobotomy ? and b) Does he know which planet he is on ? > Here's a survey I want to do. :-) Not many song titles begin with the > word "The". Does anyone on the net know of any songs titles that > begin with this word? Please do NOT post your responses -- send them > to ihlpg!jcjeff. Since he seems to be interested in such drivel, I'm > sure he will compile a summary and post it. > > "Welcome to my nightmare > It's the one in which I walk when I'm not sleeping" > > Doug Alan Few points here: 1. The subject header from Doug Alans' article was "Stupidity" 2. He suggests that he would like to conduct a poll himself, but he then asks people not to post the replies to the net, but for the replies to be sent to me, because he seems SURE that I would be interested enough to compile a list of them. I am not. 3. I seem to think that Doug Alan's actions are a prime case of stupidity, and more typical of the actions of a jerk, than the actions of many people who post articles genuinely looking for information and/or trivia. -- [ I'm bitten by the Rock and Roll disease; Oh, won't you help me make a record ? Please ? - Fanny ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || From the keys of Richard Jeffreys ( British Citizen Overseas ) || || employed by North American Philips Corporation || || @ AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || General disclaimer about anything and everything that I may have typed || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------