Any GRYPHON fans here...
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Topic: Any GRYPHON fans here...
Posted By: ElwoodHerring
Subject: Any GRYPHON fans here...
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 17:38
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Who could explain the meaning of the lyrics to "Fontinental Version" - possibly the daftest lyrics of all time?
Here they are: http://www.herring.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/poetry/fontinental.h tm What the f%$%^*!£% is that all about??? 
(apart from that - excellent band! *****) ------------- [IMG]http://www.herring.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/DRMkillb.JPG"> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4816930.stm - Right the Copyright Wrongs (Bill Thompson's BBC blog - essential reading!) |
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Posted By: ElwoodHerring
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 17:46
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In case that link doesn't work (damn spaces keep appearing in links when I post them) here are the lyrics in full:
"Tidy the turdion - watch for the fontanel Follow the fortinbras - search out the sentinel Sing of the sandpaper - roots for the matchmaker Taste out the after mint - Eastwood the motor - Clint. Loose me up for drinking slicker Candle light be doomed fond flicker All's that doubt be down for dinner Lily loves and downs be skinner. Watch over Rover keeps fouling the bed Leave him to be - so much drowning his head Send him to sleep with a sandwich or two Few would they ever-think rhymes with a grass snake. Never no leather - could horse mouth the saddle Sing badder be worse - you keep addle be daddle Sing out and keep sighing - you never know luck Could you by pigeons - no - out for a duck. Singing - later boy later - I'll read that thing later You dirty great hurdley screwed ably bod sale Too far to be scavenging - load of old barbecue Hit parade - pound of sprouts - boundly boy fail. Tidy the turdion - watch for the fontanel Follow the fortinbras - search out the sentinel Sing of the sandpaper - roots for the matchmaker Taste out the after mint - Eastwood the motor Clint." OK guys, the nice men in white coats are on their way...  ------------- [IMG]http://www.herring.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/DRMkillb.JPG"> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4816930.stm - Right the Copyright Wrongs (Bill Thompson's BBC blog - essential reading!) |
Posted By: Tony Fisher
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 17:49
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NO! Nor "Le Camembert est dans le Mouchoir" (or similar, can't be bothered to go downstairs to get the album; forgive the dodgy French). Gryphon have a healthy sense of humour. Their lyrics can be barking mad. Been a huge fan since I saw them blow Yes completely off stage in c1975 - we were calling for Gryphon to do the encore, not Yes. In the end, Yes realised they had to bring them back so they did a JOINT encore! Has that ever happened before? |
Posted By: ElwoodHerring
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 17:54
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"Le Cambrioleur est dans le mouchoir" = "The burglar is in the handkerchief" - or so I've been told. So does "burglar" equate to "bogey" in French? In which case it would make a kind of sense.
------------- [IMG]http://www.herring.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/DRMkillb.JPG"> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4816930.stm - Right the Copyright Wrongs (Bill Thompson's BBC blog - essential reading!) |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 18:38
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In what way is this a poll? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: ElwoodHerring
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 19:05
Sorry - posted in wrong forum by mistake  ------------- [IMG]http://www.herring.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/DRMkillb.JPG"> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4816930.stm - Right the Copyright Wrongs (Bill Thompson's BBC blog - essential reading!) |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 04:24
and Le Cambrioleur Electrique from GonG ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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