Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/12/89)
Really-From: DSL023%1325@WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU X-VMS-News: muvms3 rec.music.gaffa:1719 From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Subject:Just Who is Kate Bush Date: 11 Sep 89 13:02:00 GMT Message-ID:<8909081940.AA12662@uunet.uu.net> I've been reading the bulletin here for some time and discovered that this particular group talks mainly about Kate Bush of whose music I greatly enjoy. Even though I like listening to her music I know very little about her. Could any one of you please enlighten me about her? Could any of you also give me a listing of all her music? And could someone tell me what gaffa means? (I know it's included in the song Suspended in Gaffa but i don't know the exact definition...) Many thanks. Jim Atkinson "So it goes", Kurt Vonnegut.
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/12/89)
Really-From: tim@toad.com (Tim Maroney) In article <8909111736.AA16137@uunet.uu.net> Jim Atkinson wrote: >I've been reading the bulletin here for some time and discovered that >this particular group talks mainly about Kate Bush of whose music I greatly >enjoy. Even though I like listening to her music I know very little about her. >Could any one of you please enlighten me about her? I'm certainly not the most fanatical Kate Bush worshipper here, so I hope you'll excuse any small factual errors that creep in. Kate Bush was born a German male, Paul Liederhosen, on the eve of Hitler's invasion of Poland. Fleeing the country at the age of 5, she went first to New Zealand where she learned the fundamentals of crochet (a lesson that was to serve her in good stead for her entire life, which tragically ended on April 15 of this year), then to Lisbon to study for a semester with the ghost of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Soon she surpassed her master and embarked (by aeroplane, her preferred method of transportation by this time) to the United States, where she was known for a time under the stage names "Little Richard" and "Chuck Berry". But the stress of life as a man soon began to tell on the plucky youngster, and he availed himself of the new surgical techniques to become, first, a large aardvark with the name "Ermentricious", and then finally a woman when that didn't work out as planned. The rest is history. >Could any of you also give me a listing of all her music? Certainly. There are only three legitimate Kate Bush releases, called "Live at Hammersmith Odeon", "ObsKuriTies I", and "ObsKuriTies II". Most of what you will find at your record store are bootlegs produced under false auspices, complete with counterfeit copyright notices. The only known unaltered photograph of Kate Bush is found on the "Live" album; the fangs are a natural result of her transsexualism. The videos which you can find are inauthentic and are actually animated renderings of Debbie Gibson possessed by the spirit of Marcel Marceau. >And could someone tell me what gaffa means? (I know it's included in the song >Suspended in Gaffa but i don't know the exact definition...) Gaffa is an Australian sandwich spread which is refined under the name "Vegemite". It is the essential ingredient in all initiations of Scottish Rite Masonry, in which Kate took the 33 degree before the operation. >Many thanks. You had only to ask. -- Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com "Every year, thousands of new Randoids join the ranks. Most tend to be either too-rich self-made tycoons or picked-on computer nerds (the romantic, heroic individualism of Rand's novels flatters the former and fuels the latter's revenge fantasies)." -- Bob Mack, SPY, July 1989
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/13/89)
Really-From: DSL023%1325@WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU X-VMS-News: muvms3 rec.music.gaffa:1741 > I'm certainly not the most fanatical Kate Bush worshipper here, so I > hope you'll excuse any small factual errors that creep in. > I do believe that your contribution to the better understanding of just who it is behind the voice is quite grand in its acheivement. Although I was under the slight misconception that she was an English female in her thirties (possibly late twenties) who could sing quite well. But considering that she was once a German male and an aardvark she has done exceptionally well. > Debbie Gibson possessed by the spirit of Marcel Marceau. That may be true Tim, but please give Kate more respect than to mention Debbie Gibson and Marcel Marceau in the same sentence much less the same paragraph. > Gaffa is an Australian sandwich spread which is refined under the name > "Vegemite". It is the essential ingredient in all initiations of > Scottish Rite Masonry, in which Kate took the 33 degree before the > operation. And I suppose they came up with Gaffa by the sound most people tend to make as they eat the stuff, in no matter how many degrees you take it to. > >>Many thanks. > > You had only to ask. I indeed did ask. Had I known the reply I was be given I wonder if I would've asked in the first place, or the second, or the third, ... Jim 'Why me' Atkinson Student of Learning and Wondering. 'Billy Pilgrim is lost in time.', Kurt Vonnegut.