Julian.West@MAC.DARTMOUTH.EDU (01/25/90)
Michael Mendelson <mendel@cs.uiuc.edu> writes: > I finally succumbed to the peer ravings and obtained > Beautiful Pea Green Boat. > I do like the name of the band... reminds me of the Split Enz > song Six Men in a Leaky Boat. Huh? Why would it remind you of anything other than Edward Lear? Anyway, isn't it "Six _Months_ in a Leaky Boat"? the sometime absent ----------------------------------------- Julian --------------
Julian.West@MAC.DARTMOUTH.EDU (01/25/90)
Doug took the following stab at recalling Edward Lear's nonsense masterpiece, "The Owl and the Pussy Cat": > The Owl and the Pussy Cat went to sea > in a beautiful pea green boat. > They brought some honey, and plenty of money > wrapped in a ten pound note. > [etc] > The Owl said to the Pussy, "My love, > what a beautiful Pussy you are, you are. > What a beautiful Pussy you are." > [etc] >or something like that. Good start, let's see how well I can do. --------------------------------------------------------- The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat They took some money, and plenty of honey wrapped up in a five pound note. The owl looked up to the stars above and sang to a small guitar: "My beautiful pussy, my pussy my love, what a beautiful pussy you are, you are, what a beautiful pussy you are" Pussy said to the owl, "You elegant fowl, How charmingly sweet you sing. O, let us get married -- too long we have tarried -- But what shall we do for a ring? They sailed away for a year and a day to the land where the bong tree grows. And there in a wood, a piggywig stood, with a ring on the end of his nose, his nose. With a ring on the end of his nose. "Dear pig, are you willing to sell, for one shilling, your ring?" Said the piggy, "I will" They took it away and were married next day by the turkey who lived on the hill. They dined on mince, and slices of quince which they ate with a runcible spoon, And they (ate it with?) ... and danced by the light of the moon, the moon and danced by the light of the moon. --------------------------------------------------------- Well, I'm pretty sure about most of it, but the missing penultimate line proves that I was too lazy to go look it up. If anyone can fill it in for me, I'll thank them after I finish kicking myself. By the way, Lear invented the nonsense word "runcible" without any particular meaning in mind, much as Carroll did with "vorpal blade". It's application to those funny spoons which are really forks and knives at the same time came _later_. This is a fine example of a word with a nonsense etymology. ---------------------------------------- Julian --------- P.S. Who are these "Boat" people anyway?
jsd@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (when you're dreaming, you're alive...) (01/25/90)
Julian West asks: > P.S.: Who are these "Boat" people anyway? I assume you mean, what is this Beautiful Pea Green Boat band thing all about? Well, from what I can tell, it's a British duo comprised of Ian Williams and Heather Wright. Ms. Wright has a wonderful voice, and the songs are great. Very early-80's techno stuff, but with some more up to date influence. Maybe like Eurythmics a little. It reminds me a lot of a heavier sounding Propaganda mostly, because the arrangements are so thick. All clear? +---------------------- Is there any ESCAPE from NOISE? ----------------------+ | | |\ | jsd@gaffa.mit.edu | "I can say with confidence I know a | | \|on |/rukman | jsd@umass.bitnet | fair bit about LSD." -- Dan Rather | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+