Transcript of Bill's contribution at the MVC meeting. http://www.makevotescount.org.uk/lowturn.shtml He's second up after polly toynbee (who's obviously off...
jon drane
joinedup@...
Jul 2, 2001 1:22 pm
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... You don't but you do, right? Golly, and I was so looking forward to a game of 'My Childhood was Crappier than Yours.' But since you say you don't want ...
Christi Daugherty
nolatexan@...
Jul 2, 2001 1:55 pm
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Christie: I said I buy too much fo rmy children and grand children! I think it is hard not to. I am as guilty as everyone else. I wonder though, if it is ...
Carol Tarlen
ctarlen@...
Jul 2, 2001 2:12 pm
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what the hell is a strimmer??? for a poet he's a used a silly wee metaphor...
sam.fisher@...
Jul 2, 2001 8:39 pm
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it would have been better if he had said "scythe" but maybe he was trying to avoid slasher images :) strimmer = weed trimmer, a clever concatenation of string...
Richard Chambers
richard.chambers4@...
Jul 2, 2001 8:46 pm
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Sam, It's what we in the civilized hemisphere refer to as a "whipper snipper". Mark ... insufficient ... http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/...
Mark Warner
mark.warner@...
Jul 2, 2001 9:21 pm
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Hello, hello: I am just joining this list tonight after reading about half of the postings over the past month. This, of course, is a dangerous practice...
Michelle Sidler
masidler@...
Jul 3, 2001 6:31 am
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... How did REM inspire your politics ? How did Bill affect your teaching practices ? Mark...
mark.warner@...
Jul 3, 2001 6:47 am
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In response to Michelle, I have my own problems getting class participation. At the college level, at least in the lecture halls, it's easy enough to become...
Bob Fenster
bfenster@...
Jul 3, 2001 1:19 pm
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Welcome Michelle. You are forgiven. And agreed with! Barbara Ingalls...
Barbara & Bob Ingalls
bigrafx@...
Jul 3, 2001 5:06 pm
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Michelle Welcome! From a student's perspective (ok, so I'm a few years out of uni but I can remember), I always found myself being one of the few people in...
Gladman, Helen (DPRS)
helen.gladman@...
Jul 3, 2001 11:25 pm
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Hi, all: Thanks so much for the quick responses and kind welcomes. Another long, but thoughtful message, follows here (can you tell that I am a writing ...
Michelle Sidler
masidler@...
Jul 4, 2001 5:42 am
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Just a question - what are your students there for? learning more about all that wonderful literature or just trying to sit tight and get a piece of paper...
Jon Drane
joinedup@...
Jul 4, 2001 12:49 pm
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Happy Fourth to you all. Huzzah for George Washington! Down with the Crown and their lobsterbacks! Lou...
Louis Farrell
l.j.farrell@...
Jul 4, 2001 1:03 pm
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Ah, but we let you win of course. @ndy...
andyw
andyw@...
Jul 4, 2001 3:26 pm
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... Most of REM's political work is in Life's Rich Pageant (1986), Document (1987), and somewhat on Green (1988), so it was in the later years of those you...
Michelle Sidler
masidler@...
Jul 4, 2001 4:37 pm
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... I think students are there for a variety of reasons. Certainly, most students' primary goal is to receive a diploma and get a job, but college is also the...
Michelle Sidler
masidler@...
Jul 4, 2001 5:04 pm
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... Well, I have a couple of responses to that. First, all lyrics are open to interpretation and might have different meanings for different people, so I think...
Michelle Sidler
masidler@...
Jul 4, 2001 5:32 pm
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Excellent outline of REM's political back catalogue Michelle! I heard Michael Stipe say a while ago that they haven't done anything overtly political since the...
Gladman, Helen (DPRS)
helen.gladman@...
Jul 4, 2001 11:21 pm
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Hi buddies! Just to anounce my old e-mail "moraisc@..." is going down (it said "free lifetime e-mail" when I subscribed but now netaddress wants 30...
pentadragao@...
Jul 5, 2001 9:42 am
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... Hello Michelle! How nice to have another southerner on the list. How rare and wonderful is the liberal in the South nowadays. This fascinated me when I was...
Christi Daugherty
nolatexan@...
Jul 5, 2001 11:00 am
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... I think the thing about REM is those songs are distinctly American in nature. You can just say the word 'Cuyahoga' to an American over, say, 28 years old,...
Christi Daugherty
nolatexan@...
Jul 5, 2001 11:13 am
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... nature. Hey it's cultural misunderstanding time - REM first caught my attention around the time of Orange Crush, I liked it and I still do but the agent...
Jon Drane
joinedup@...
Jul 5, 2001 12:59 pm
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Thanks, Michelle, for a very interesting analysis of REM's music from a political perspective. I have to say I've never thought of them as a particularly...
Pete Crook
LondonCalling@...
Jul 5, 2001 1:06 pm
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Ten percent of my grade is supposedly derived from class partipation. If I genuinely did that, my grades would be awful. In some classes I have to ...
Bob Fenster
bfenster@...
Jul 5, 2001 2:00 pm
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Minor correction, Christi: The excerpt in "Exhuming McCarthy" ("At long last, have you left no sense of decency?") features Joseph Welch, an attorney for the...
Bob Fenster
bfenster@...
Jul 5, 2001 2:09 pm
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... None of their albums prior to Up came with printed lyrics, except that Green included the lyrics of World Leader Pretend. A lot of the earlier songs...
Rob Brewer
rob@...
Jul 5, 2001 2:46 pm
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..and wasn't it on the Guthrie inspired You Woke Up My Neighborhood that REM and Bill first joined for a proper recording? REM have been one of my fav bands...
Jon Tout
jontout@...
Jul 5, 2001 8:03 pm
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OK then, who else is on for Blackheath ? If anyone wants my mobile number just drop me a line. Incidentally, there are some photos of Bill `n' the crew in a ...
Pete Crook
LondonCalling@...
Jul 5, 2001 9:51 pm
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****** Forwarded Message Follows ******* Michelle's comments on REM were excellent. I too am an REM fan and a fan particualrly of their early poliical music....
