Klarinet Archive - Posting 001305.txt from 1998/07

From: "Mary Sotnik" <marys@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Swearing
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 17:14:06 -0400

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From: Kevin Fay (LCA) <kevinfay@-----.com>
Date: 29 July 1998 21:53
Subject: RE: [kl] Swearing

>I spent a couple of summers in a Marine Corp ROTC program, where swearing
>was discouraged . . . by us, of course.
>
>My brother spent 3 years as a drill instructor at Fort Knox. When he
>visited us, it was truly amazing how many inanimate objects were
copulating,
>all the time. It became truly comical to picture in your mind what it
would
>look like if in fact such activity was taking place (for example, at
dinner,
>his request to "please pass the f***ing salt").
>
>I suppose that's where those little individual packets you get at
McDonald's
>come from.
>
>Racy lyrics are nothing new. In opera, it's not such a big deal because
(a)
>for most singers, who can tell what the words are anyway and (b) even if
you
>could, they are likely in a different language.

Who needs words? Have you ever heard Strauss's 'The Transformation of
Daphne' (I *think*)? The bit with the 2 flutes. I heard it on the radio a
while back. The announcer sounded unusually bright afterwards :-)

Mary

>Someone posted to the list
>a while back the origins of the works "jazz," "boogie-woogie," "jelly-roll"
>etc.; rap is truly nothing new.
>
>kjf

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