Reply to: Anyone in Paris?

[Mordac]

Just ordered tickets on Ticketmaster. Paris here we come

[expat]

Echelon is so old tech, it was replaced by Carnivore, which itself was replaced by Omnivore, which in turn was replaced by ... Anyways the latest system is so clever it even surprises me sometimes.

bollocks. Echelon sniffs communications, Carnivore opens your machine to snoopers. One doesn't replace the other.

[Mordac]

Thanks. Having seen the poxy ticket allocation some of my group are not likely to get tickets (not ST holders).
Now does anyone living in Paris (or elsewhere in France) fancy applying for a few tickets in return for a handsome premium? The French FA will only sell to someone with a French address.
PM or email me if you can. Thanks in advance.

[The Lone Gunman]

Bombadier.

[Churchill]

Echelon is so old tech, it was replaced by Carnivore, which itself was replaced by Omnivore, which in turn was replaced by ... Anyways the latest system is so clever it even surprises me sometimes.

Ah, thus spake the king of bollocks.

Is it time for your medication?

[threaded]

Oh dear(tm), bet that's woken up e c h e l o n...

Echelon is so old tech, it was replaced by Carnivore, which itself was replaced by Omnivore, which in turn was replaced by ... Anyways the latest system is so clever it even surprises me sometimes.

[GrizzledVet]

The song in full...

I'm an urban guerrilla
I make bombs in my cellar
I'm a derelict dweller
I'm a potential killer
I'm a street-fighting dancer
I'm a revolutionary romancer
My rising sign is Cancer
I'm a two-tone panther

So let's not talk of love and flowers
And things that don't explode
We've used up all our magic powers
Trying to do it in the road

I'm a political bandit
And you don't understand it
You took my dream and canned it
It is not the way I planned it
I'm society's destructor
I'm a petrol-bomb constructor
I'm a cosmic light conductor
I'm the people's debt collector

So watch out, Mr. Business Man
Your empire's about to blow
I think you'd better listen, man
In case you did not know

I'm an urban ... urban guerrilla
I'm an urban ... urban guerrilla
I'm an urban ... urban guerrilla
I'm an urban ... urban guerrilla

[DaveB]

Urban Gorrilla, The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon and Stacia's "dancing".

[GrizzledVet]

Cracking !

Nice bit of stuff there Al. I can see you and Fleetword are of highly cultured musical tastes. I expect like me, you weep when the kids of today treat Pop Idol and their ilk with such reverence.

Either of you in the 81'ers ?

[DaveB]

One of my favorites that one. They've gone downhill in recent years

Saw them at the Hammersmith Odeon a few years back though, damn good show.

[AlfredJPruffock]

GV,
Stick around ! You'll get on just great with myself and AJP, this board's resident seventies time-warp victims and prog-rock fiends.
Hawkwind? 1974? Hall of the Mountain Grill, wasn't it? The Psychedelic Warlords... Disappear In Smoke? And you know it ain't no joke? Marvellous.

Aye

Well soon Ray Davies is playing in Brussels, got a ticket for the Stones in Brussels 1st of June and Zappa is playing soon ...

Well its his son in fact given Frank is no longer with us ... hmm maybe Im drinking me ale too light these days and as for those trouser cuffs ...



The old Rocker wore his hair too long,
wore his trouser cuffs too tight.


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Unfashionable to the end --- drank his ale too light.
Death's head belt buckle --- yesterday's dreams ---
the transport caf' prophet of doom.

Ringing no change in his double-sewn seams
in his post-mainframe COBOL assembler gloom.

Now he's too old to Rock'n'Roll but he's too young to die.

He once owned a Harley Davidson and a Triumph Bonneville.
Counted his friends in burned-out spark plugs
and prays that he always will.

But he's the last of the blue blood greaser boys
all of his mates are doing time:
married with three kids up by the ring road
sold their souls straight down the line.

And some of them own little sports cars
and meet at the tennis club do's.
For drinks on a Sunday --- work on Monday.
They've thrown away their blue suede shoes.

Now they're too old to Rock'n'Roll and they're too young to die.

So the old Rocker gets out his bike
to make a ton before he takes his leave.
Up on the A1 by Scotch Corner
just like it used to be.

And as he flies --- tears in his eyes ---
his wind-whipped words echo the final take
and he hits the trunk road doing around 120
with no room left to brake.

And he was too old to Rock'n'Roll but he was too young to die.
No, you're never too old to Rock'n'Roll if you're too young to die.

[Fleetwood]

GV,
Stick around ! You'll get on just great with myself and AJP, this board's resident seventies time-warp victims and prog-rock fiends.
Hawkwind? 1974? Hall of the Mountain Grill, wasn't it? The Psychedelic Warlords... Disappear In Smoke? And you know it ain't no joke? Marvellous.

[GrizzledVet]

Paris ? Pah !

Pah, the last time I went to Paris in '74, it was a 5hithole, and from all accounts, not much has changed.

Still...at least in '74 there was a reason to go....Pink Floyd, Hawkwind and New York Dolls...separate gigs of course, but working there at the time was a dream come true. Better than all this boom-boom music nowadays.

[Joe Black]

No.
"Avalant" is the present participle.
"Avalent" is the third person plural.

Conjugate the verb "avaler"

Speaking of conjugations, my rec is http://www.verbix.com.

My other recommendation is of course Rue St Denis.

[Viktor]

Hi Mordac,

you should try "Le Chat Noir", near Moulin Rouge, great place. I was there last month...huge 2 pint beers, cool music...