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rbadac  (April 8, 1998)

Bill Allison wrote:
>
> Bill
> Private 1st Class, Aickman's Army
>

Don't stop that posting
I could post all night
Are we just sleepwalking
While we're putting the plot to right?
Call the newsgroup information
Have you got yourself an occupation?

    Aickman's Army is here to staaaaaay
    Aickman's Army is on their waaaaaay
    And I wouldn't rather be anywhere else thaaaaaaan   heeeere   toooooday!

(with apologies to Elvis Costello)

rbadac

oOo

 
 

Robert Suggs  (April 8, 1998)

> Aickman's Army is on their waaaaaay
> And I wouldn't rather be anywhere else thaaaaaaan   heeeere   toooooday!
>

He sings and plays gee-tar like Costello, too.  Pretty horrific stuff.

Rob

oOo

 
 

Dr. Nick  (April 9, 1998)

Brilliant! oOo

 
 

rbadac  (April 10, 1998)

Robert Suggs wrote:
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> He sings and plays gee-tar like Costello, too. Pretty horrific stuff.
>
> Rob

It gets worse.  Here's the complete text, with corrections.

Don't stop that posting/I could post all night
Could we be/co-hosting/while we're putting the plots to right?
Call the newsgroup information/Have you got yourself an observation?
(Chorus)

There was a check by your name/some little sideways smile
But it's no less a damn shame/when you can't find your archive file
All it takes is one 'CNTRL-ALT-DELETE'
One more byte, one less 'Shadowy Street'

(Chorus, then the bridge, which goes...)

Pricey reprints are up for grabs/that message was full of tabs
We could be reading Hemingway
Instead of bachelors who might be gay
Benson, James, Rolt and Aickman
Arthur Machen, Jean Ray...

But there's no danger/it's a protected URL
Though if your page expires/you might see all your typing go to hell
If you're out of bucks, log on at work
We could send you faxes of Thomas Burke...

(Everybody!!!)

Aickman's Army is here to stAAAAAY
Aickman's Army is on their wAAAAY
And I wouldn't rather be anywhere else
THAAAAN HEEEEEEERE TOOOOOOODAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY
(ohh, ohh, ohh, OOOOHHHH  OOOOHHH,  etc.)
 

Somebody please kill me.

rbadac

oOo

 
 

Bill Barnett  (April 11, 1998)

rbadac wrote:
> We could be reading Hemingway
> Instead of bachelors who might be gay
> Benson, James, Rolt and Aickman
> Arthur Machen, Jean Ray...

In Aickman's autobiography he indicates that he was neither a bachelor nor gay (in *any* sense of the word).  Not that there's anything wrong with that!  (to coin a phrase)  But since we have terms like "denial" can we take anyone's word for anything?

Can we get some patches made up based on the Kiss Army logo?  I'm trying to picture my colleagues when they first see the patch sewn onto the sleeve of my sportcoat... and my other sportcoat... and my other other one...

oOo

 
 

rbadac  (April 13, 1998)

Bill Barnett wrote:
>
> In Aickman's autobiography he indicates that he was neither a bachelor nor gay
> (in *any* sense of the word).  Not that there's anything wrong with that! (to
> coin a phrase)  But since we have terms like "denial" can we take anyone's
> word for anything?

Quite true.  I KNEW I'd get in trouble for that.  Rolt wasn't a bachelor, either, nor was Machen, nor probably was Ray, and actually none of them were likely to be gay.

I realized later that the catalog of names would be construed as naturally following the sentiment immediately above- trouble is, 'Ray' rhymed with 'Hemingway' and 'gay', and E.M. Forster didn't scan well...(oops, I'm in trouble again...)

> Can we get some patches made up based on the Kiss Army logo?  I'm trying to
> picture my colleagues when they first see the patch sewn onto the sleeve of my
> sportcoat... and my other sportcoat... and my other other one...

You won't be able to, Bill- we'll see you coming a mile away...  : )

rbadac

ooOoo