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An interview!
Hey guys!
Finally we managed to get an interview on-line, so we have one less error message on the site. Check it out!
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aquagoat
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Interesting stuff, I thought it would talk more about music, but cool anyway.
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Thanks BBP. An interesting one.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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| Quote: | 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 ?
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| Quote: | 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?
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| Quote: | 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) |
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.
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What the fuck is a cheerleader?
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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).
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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!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gojira1975
What the fuck is a cheerleader? |
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vivien_o_blivion
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gojira1975
What the fuck is a cheerleader? |
 lol
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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.
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yeah?  a hidden talent!
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| Quote: | 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!!!
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