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New quotes for Sat Nov 28
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sat Nov 28 16:42:26 1992
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 92 16:42:13 -0500
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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jefft (Jeff Tang):
Ooh, he gave him a snuggie!
--- Tom
In space, no one can hear a wedgie!
--- Crow, "Moon Zero Two"
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sethf (Seth Finkelstein):
<continued from yesterday, due to the CA 10000 character limit>
And they all moved away from me on the bench there, with the hairy eyeball and
all kinds of mean, nasty things, till I said, "And creatin' a nuisance."
And they all came back, shook my hand and we had a great time on the bench
talkin' about crime, mother-stabbin', father-rapin', --all kinds of groovy
things that we was talkin' about on the bench, and everything was fine.
We was smokin' cigarettes and all kinds of things, until the sergeant came
over, had some paper in his hand, held it up and said:
"KIDTHISPIECEOFPAPERSGOTFORTYSEVENWORDSTHIRTYSEVENSENTENCESFIFTYEIGHT
WORDSWEWANTTOKNOWTHEDETAILSOFTHECRIMETHETIMEOFTHECRIMEANDANYOTHER
KINDOFTHINGYOUGOTOSAYPERTAININGTOANDABOUTTHECRIMEWEWANTTOKNOWTHE
ARRESTINGOFFICERSNAMEANDANYOTHERTHINGYOUGOTTOSAY--"
And he talked for forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said.
But we had fun fillin' out the forms and playin' with the pencils on the
bench there. I filled out the Massacre with the four-part harmony.
Wrote it down there just like it was and everything was fine. And I put down
my pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there--on the other side
--in the middle of the other side--
Away from everything else on the other side--in parentheses-capital letters--
quoted-read the following words: "Kid, have you rehabilitated yourself?"
I went over to the sergeant. I said, "Sergeant, you got a lot of God-dammed
gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself! I mean--I mean-- that you send--
I'm sittin' here on the bench--
I mean I'm sittin' here on the Group W bench, 'cause you want to know if I'm
moral enought to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after
bein' a litterbug."
He looked at me and said, "Kid, we don't like your kind! We're gonna send your
fingerprints off to Washington." And, friends, somewhere in Washington,
enshrined in some folder, is a study in black and white of my fingerprints.
And the only reason I'm singin' you the song now is 'cause you may know
somebody in a similar situation. Or YOU may be in a similar situation, and
if you're in a situation like that, there's only one thing you can do:
Walk into the shrink whenever you are, just walk in, say, "Shrink--
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant."
--and walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it, they may
think he's really sick and they won't take him.
And if two people do it--in harmony--they may thing they're both FAGGOTS and
they won't take either of them. And if THREE people do it! Can you imagine
three people walkin' in, singin' a bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and walkin'
out? They might think it's an ORGANIZATION!
And can you imagine FIFTY people a day? I said FIFTY people a day--walkin' in
singin' a bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and walkin' out? Friends, they may think
it's a MOVEMENT, and that's what it is:
THE ALICE'S RESTAURANT ANTI-MASSACRE MOVEMENT!--
and all you gotta do to join is to sing it the next time it comes around on the
guitar. With feelin':
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant, exceptin' Alice,
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant;
Walk right in, it's around the back, just a half a mile from the railroad
track;
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.
typed by
Steven Sietz 2/23/85
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tytso (Theodore Y. Ts'o):
When fall comes to New England, the sun slants in so fine.
The air's so clear, you can almost hear the grapes grow on the vine.
The nights are sharp with starlight; the days are cold and clean.
And in the blue sky overhead, the northern geese fly South instead.
And leaves are Irish Setter red. When fall comes to New England.
When fall comes to New England, and the wind blows off the sea.
Swallows fly in a perfect sky, and the world was meant to be.
When the acorns line the walkways, then winter can't be far.
From yellow leaves, a blue jay calls; Grandmothers walk out in their shawls;
And chipmunks rock the old stone walls. When fall comes to New England.
Frost is on the pumnpkin; the squash is off the vine.
And winter warnings race across the sky.
Squirrels are on to something, and they're working overtime.
Foxes blink and stare, and so do I.
Cause when fall comes to New England, oh I can't turn away
From fading light, on flying wings; and late goodbyes: a robin sings;
And then another thousand things. When fall comes to New England.
``When Fall Comes to New England''
by Cheryl Wheeler
When October Goes: Autumn Love Songs
produced by Christine Lavin
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