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An interview!

BBP - 5-5-2006 at 17:19

Hey guys!
Finally we managed to get an interview on-line, so we have one less error message on the site. Check it out!

aquagoat - 6-5-2006 at 08:26

Interesting stuff, I thought it would talk more about music, but cool anyway.

scallopino - 6-5-2006 at 13:30

Thanks BBP. An interesting one.

BBP - 6-5-2006 at 14:43

I loved this bit:

MICHAEL:

Have you ever thought of creating a digital library available on computer discs? It would be nice to have the entire lyrics of your songs and the background material that comes with them as a data base. That could be very useful for German listeners, in case they don't know the meaning of certain words or phrases that you use, or create, i.e. neologisms.

FRANK:

That would be a huge database. You know how hard it would be to take all the songs in my catalogue and provide the information that a non-American would need to have in order to understand the words. That would be an enormous data base. For example, the first time we played in England, and I had to do an interview with somebody when the album "Absolutely Free" was out . There's a song on it called "I'm losing status in the high school", and a line in the song says, " a bunch of pompom girls look down their nose at me". Well, nobody in England knew what a 'pompon girl' was; they don't have cheerleaders there, see, and so I was confronted with the fact that it never occured to me that outside the US they don’t even have cheerleaders. So how do you explain what a cheerleader is to a person who is so sophisticated that their society is evolved to the point where they don't need them. - So there's a lot of stuff in the songs about the way things are here , and unless somebody has come here and looked at it like you guys have, it doesn't make any sense at all.

vivien_o_blivion - 10-5-2006 at 22:57

i find it hard to believe that no one in england knew what a cheer leader was..even way back then !!!-we are a small island in the atlantic not from mars or some where_!!! i think may have been a slight exageration by zappa (i.m.o)

BBP - 10-5-2006 at 23:29

Maybe... It' a thing I only know from movies, and I don't watch too many of those, but it's hard to believe it's a big thing. It seems like girls join the cheerleaders just to get popular. We didn't really have an institute like that at school. Except maybe the bee-club which had produced its 2000th jar of honey when I was a fifth-grader.

aquagoat - 11-5-2006 at 07:49

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Originally posted by vivien_o_blivion
i find it hard to believe that no one in england knew what a cheer leader was..even way back then !!!-we are a small island in the atlantic not from mars or some where_!!! i think may have been a slight exageration by zappa (i.m.o)

I thought it England was located in La Manche ?

scallopino - 12-5-2006 at 05:53

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Originally posted by BBP
Maybe... It' a thing I only know from movies, and I don't watch too many of those, but it's hard to believe it's a big thing. It seems like girls join the cheerleaders just to get popular. We didn't really have an institute like that at school. Except maybe the bee-club which had produced its 2000th jar of honey when I was a fifth-grader.

The cheerleaders went out with the quarterbacks. Who did the bee-clubbers go out with?

DED - 12-5-2006 at 07:50

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Wel since stupid quizzy programs on TV proof that there are people that not know where the eiffeltower or BigBen is located I'm not surprised about anything.

Pappawas1975 - 12-5-2006 at 17:01

What the fuck is a cheerleader?

BBP - 12-5-2006 at 21:23

Bee clubbers? I think they dated the regional-historyclubbers.
Other interesting clubs at my school were the Magic Club (the card game), and the spider club (where people played with tarantulas).

scallopino - 14-5-2006 at 13:13

:biggrin:

Dinner with the couples belonging collectively to the regional bee history club must have been a riot!

We only had unofficial clubs at my school. One was all the coindexters who played with Pokemon cards every single lunchtime for about 5 years. They made me think the Pokemon craze would never end!

scallopino - 14-5-2006 at 13:46

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Originally posted by Gojira1975
What the fuck is a cheerleader?

vivien_o_blivion - 14-5-2006 at 20:58

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Originally posted by Gojira1975
What the fuck is a cheerleader?

lol

punknaynowned - 4-9-2006 at 11:35

modern day basketball cheerleaders. I included this one as some Americans would say they are desecrating the US flag . . .

on topic, many famous americans have played sports in college. What did George W Bush do? He was a cheerleader at Yale.

scallopino - 6-9-2006 at 09:41

yeah?

a hidden talent!

vivien_o_blivion - 6-9-2006 at 23:11

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Originally posted by punknaynowned

on topic, many famous americans have played sports in college. What did George W Bush do? He was a cheerleader at Yale.

here he is at practice

lol

oh by the way george .w. would just like to say

HAVE A NICE DAY YAWLL!!!