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cfsmtb said:

Fred Nieman said:

Federal Election on the ACT October long weekend.
My (reps, senate) votes are for the candidates on bicycles.
[censored]
p

Tony Abbott rides a bike.

http://tinyurl.com/3ws8p

Only if the press photographers are nearby

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Jack Russell

: Federal Election on the ACT October long weekend.
: My (reps, senate) votes are for the candidates on bicycles.

Hey, draw us up a 'how to vote card' based on cycle-pollies!!

depeche mode?
just a guess.
Jock

flyingdutch said:

Quoted message said:

cfsmtb said:

BTW I'm bored, you still up Fred?

OK, we haven't had a 80's music battle on aus.bicycle since last
year.

Who sang "Never Again", circa UK 1981. Possibly New Romantic to
boot.

Bets are off, the doctor is out, gauntlet is thrown down

No Google allowed.

Spandau Ballet?

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cfsmtb <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

Who sang "Never Again", circa UK 1981. Possibly New Romantic to boot.

The Human League had a song called "Never Again" in the early 80s. Don't
know if it was ever a single though, but I do remember hearing it quite a
lot as I think one of my sisters had the album on tape.

Graeme

cfsmtb said:

BTW I'm bored, you still up Fred?

Nope. Hockey match Sunday 11 am, and busy burning Vaughan Williams,
Bach/Telemann, and (Kun Woo PAIK plays) Gabriel Fauré CDs borrowed from
the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moreland (Brunswick sub-soviet) library.

Quoted message said:

OK, we haven't had a 80's music battle on aus.bicycle since last year.

Quoted message said:

Who sang "Never Again", circa UK 1981. Possibly New Romantic to boot.

New Romantic,in 1981? Imagine my suprise.

Quoted message said:

Bets are off, the doctor is out, gauntlet is thrown down

No Google allowed.

Aaaaaargh! OK, round one to you.

Quoted message said:

*** 80s Videos ***
1. Where were the outside shots of the vid for "Let's Dance" done? (10
points)

2. Was the video for "I hear Motion" in black and white or colour? (5
points)

3. What was the dancing animal in the "I hear Motion" vid? (15 points)

4. What was the instrument first heard used by an Australian band in "I
hear Motion" (15 points)

5. What band were James Freud and Sean Kelly in together before The
Models? (15 points)

*** Getting a little bit 90s 80s questions ***
6. In the inside back page of the May 1993 edition of The Face (the
paragon of 80s magazines) , there was an interview with Frank Black. He
said, "We stole the whole flannellette shirt thing from Big Country".
True or false, roughly?

7. Just below the interview was written, "An 80s revival - you heard it
here first." True or false, roughly?
(20 points each. Warning: trick questions)

8. Black Francis and Kim Deal wrote Pixies songs about, respectively,
female and male ... ummm... [blushes deeply] erm... genitalia. Name
them (the songs, not the [ears go bright pink], ahem, girl- and
boy-bits). (20 points each)

*** Annoying 80s things questions ***
9. Clue: welder, pink leg warmers. Name the titles (5 points each) and
artistes (5 points each) of the two singles.

10. Hall and Oates covered what extremely annoying Mike Oldfield (the
song, not Mike Oldfield) song? (15 points)

11. What band was Limahl in? (5 points); explain his name. (20 points)

12. Explain David Sylvian's name. (20 points)

*** Japan was big in the 80s questions ***
OK, OK, David Sylvian wasn't annoying, except for his vocals on
"Forbidden Colours".
13. Name
- the movie it was used in (15 points)
- who guy wrote the music for movie (15 points)
- the band the guy who wrote the music for movie was in (in the opinion
of many Rawk Journalists, the people who, along with Yello and
Kraftwerk, invented Techno, btw) (15 points)
- the author of the novel "Forbidden Colours" (OK, so he offed himself
in 1970 at the Ichigaya, Tokyo HQ of the Japanese Self-Defense Force ie
Army, which I used to cycle past most weekends. But it's still very
80s.) (20 points)
Bonus points if you can say what "forbidden colours" is in Japanese (20
points), and what the double meaning "forbidden colours" in Japanese is
(30 points).

Easy, but still essential 80s one-hit wonder questions
14. Which band, in which song, "asked the doctor to take your picture,
so I can look at you from inside as well"? (5 points)
15. "Big in Japan". That's the song - which band? (5 points)

*** 80s short people questions ***
16. Nick Kershaw proved that pleated, high-waisted narrow-cuffed pants
definitely need to come back into fashion immediately. True or False?
(for short males: 0 points; for anyone else: 10 points)

17. Multiple choice: Jon Moss briefly played drums for which punk band?
a) Buzzcocks
b) The Slits
c) The Clash
d) The Damned
(20 points)

18. Jon and George tangent: what was written on the mugs the Clubbers
sipped their cocoa at the end of the video for "Time (Clock of the
Heart)"? (5 points for each mug)

*** Extreme 80s U2 Trivia question ***
19. At the end of the vinyl version (not the CD, unfortunately) of
"Boy", The Edge plays the guitar riff of which song that would later
appear on "October"? (1 point for people whose 17 year old (since you
got your "P"s at 17 in Tasmania) brother subjected them to all the then
4 U2 albums every morning for months on end as he drove them to school;
50 points for everyone else)

*** Special Tasmanian Section: ***

20. "Outside Coles on a Saturday night/"
- Song Title (5 points)
- Artiste (5 points)
- Suburb (10 points)
- 10 bonus points for any more lyrics; 10 x points for any non-Tasmanian
answers.

Oh yes. As well as the elction date rumour, I heard that Iva Davies
rides a $ 650 Trek MTB with pavement tyres he bought at Clarendon St
Cycles, Martin Plaza rides a single he bought on a whim at Cheeky
Monkey, and Ignatius Jones, when he gets the opportunity, does some laps
of Centennial Park on a custom Hillman (that was ordered from Melbourne
by James Freud, but never picked up) from Woolie Wheels.

Mollie Meldrum rides a second-hand postie-bike (bought by accident at
Abbotsford Cycles in, umm, Richmond, while he waited for the train to go
and watch the Saintas at the Telstra non-Dome) to buy milk and
newspapers at the "boutique" Coles on Swan Street...

But John Howard hasn't ridden a bike since 1954...

cfsmtb said:

BTW I'm bored, you still up Fred?

Nope. Hockey match Sunday 11 am, and busy burning Vaughan Williams,
Bach/Telemann, and (Kun Woo PAIK plays) Gabriel Fauré CDs borrowed from
the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moreland (Brunswick sub-soviet) library.

Quoted message said:

OK, we haven't had a 80's music battle on aus.bicycle since last year.

Quoted message said:

Who sang "Never Again", circa UK 1981. Possibly New Romantic to boot.

New Romantic,in 1981? Imagine my suprise.

Quoted message said:

Bets are off, the doctor is out, gauntlet is thrown down

No Google allowed.

Aaaaaargh! OK, round one to you.

Quoted message said:

*** 80s Videos ***
1. Where were the outside shots of the vid for "Let's Dance" done? (10
points)

2. Was the video for "I hear Motion" in black and white or colour? (5
points)

3. What was the dancing animal in the "I hear Motion" vid? (15 points)

4. What was the instrument first heard used by an Australian band in "I
hear Motion" (15 points)

5. What band were James Freud and Sean Kelly in together before The
Models? (15 points)

*** Getting a little bit 90s 80s questions ***
6. In the inside back page of the May 1993 edition of The Face (the
paragon of 80s magazines) , there was an interview with Frank Black. He
said, "We stole the whole flannellette shirt thing from Big Country".
True or false, roughly?

7. Just below the interview was written, "An 80s revival - you heard it
here first." True or false, roughly?
(20 points each. Warning: trick questions)

8. Black Francis and Kim Deal wrote Pixies songs about, respectively,
female and male ... ummm... [blushes deeply] erm... genitalia. Name
them (the songs, not the [ears go bright pink], ahem, girl- and
boy-bits). (20 points each)

*** Annoying 80s things questions ***
9. Clue: welder, pink leg warmers. Name the titles (5 points each) and
artistes (5 points each) of the two singles.

10. Hall and Oates covered what extremely annoying Mike Oldfield (the
song, not Mike Oldfield) song? (15 points)

11. What band was Limahl in? (5 points); explain his name. (20 points)

12. Explain David Sylvian's name. (20 points)

*** Japan was big in the 80s questions ***
OK, OK, David Sylvian wasn't annoying, except for his vocals on
"Forbidden Colours".
13. Name
- the movie it was used in (15 points)
- who guy wrote the music for movie (15 points)
- the band the guy who wrote the music for movie was in (in the opinion
of many Rawk Journalists, the people who, along with Yello and
Kraftwerk, invented Techno, btw) (15 points)
- the author of the novel "Forbidden Colours" (OK, so he offed himself
in 1970 at the Ichigaya, Tokyo HQ of the Japanese Self-Defense Force ie
Army, which I used to cycle past most weekends. But it's still very
80s.) (20 points)
Bonus points if you can say what "forbidden colours" is in Japanese (20
points), and what the double meaning "forbidden colours" in Japanese is
(30 points).

Easy, but still essential 80s one-hit wonder questions
14. Which band, in which song, "asked the doctor to take your picture,
so I can look at you from inside as well"? (5 points)
15. "Big in Japan". That's the song - which band? (5 points)

*** 80s short people questions ***
16. Nick Kershaw proved that pleated, high-waisted narrow-cuffed pants
definitely need to come back into fashion immediately. True or False?
(for short males: 0 points; for anyone else: 10 points)

17. Multiple choice: Jon Moss briefly played drums for which punk band?
a) Buzzcocks
b) The Slits
c) The Clash
d) The Damned
(20 points)

18. Jon and George tangent: what was written on the mugs the Clubbers
sipped their cocoa at the end of the video for "Time (Clock of the
Heart)"? (5 points for each mug)

*** Extreme 80s U2 Trivia question ***
19. At the end of the vinyl version (not the CD, unfortunately) of
"Boy", The Edge plays the guitar riff of which song that would later
appear on "October"? (1 point for people whose 17 year old (since you
got your "P"s at 17 in Tasmania) brother subjected them to all the then
4 U2 albums every morning for months on end as he drove them to school;
50 points for everyone else)

*** Special Tasmanian Section: ***

20. "Outside Coles on a Saturday night/"
- Song Title (5 points)
- Artiste (5 points)
- Suburb (10 points)
- 10 bonus points for any more lyrics; 10 x points for any non-Tasmanian
answers.

Iva Davies rides a $ 650 Trek MTB with pavement tyres he bought at
Clarendon St Cycles, Martin Plaza rides a single he bought on a whim at
Cheeky Monkey, and Ignatius Jones, when he gets the opportunity, does
some laps of Centennial Park on a custom Hillman that was ordered from
Melbourne by James Freud, but never picked up, from Woolie Wheels.
Mollie Meldrum rides a second-hand postie-bike (bought at Abbotsford
Cycles in, umm, Richmond, while he waited for the train to go and watch
the Saintas at the Telstra non-Dome) to buy milk and newspapers at the
"boutique" Coles on Swan Street.

cfsmtb said:

BTW I'm bored, you still up Fred?

Nope. Hockey match Sunday 11 am, and busy burning Vaughan Williams,
Bach/Telemann, and (Kun Woo PAIK plays) Gabriel Fauré CDs borrowed from
the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moreland (Brunswick sub-soviet) library.

Quoted message said:

OK, we haven't had a 80's music battle on aus.bicycle since last year.

Quoted message said:

Who sang "Never Again", circa UK 1981. Possibly New Romantic to boot.

New Romantic,in 1981? Imagine my suprise.

Quoted message said:

Bets are off, the doctor is out, gauntlet is thrown down

No Google allowed.

Aaaaaargh! OK, round one to you.

Quoted message said:

*** 80s Videos ***
1. Where were the outside shots of the vid for "Let's Dance" done? (10
points)

2. Was the video for "I hear Motion" in black and white or colour? (5
points)

3. What was the dancing animal in the "I hear Motion" vid? (15 points)

4. What was the instrument first heard used by an Australian band in "I
hear Motion" (15 points)

5. What band were James Freud and Sean Kelly in together before The
Models? (15 points)

*** Getting a little bit 90s 80s questions ***
6. In the inside back page of the May 1993 edition of The Face (the
paragon of 80s magazines) , there was an interview with Frank Black. He
said, "We stole the whole flannellette shirt thing from Big Country".
True or false, roughly?

7. Just below the interview was written, "An 80s revival - you heard it
here first." True or false, roughly?
(20 points each. Warning: trick questions)

8. Black Francis and Kim Deal wrote Pixies songs about, respectively,
female and male ... ummm... [blushes deeply] erm... genitalia. Name
them (the songs, not the [ears go bright pink], ahem, girl- and
boy-bits). (20 points each)

*** Annoying 80s things questions ***
9. Clue: welder, pink leg warmers. Name the titles (5 points each) and
artistes (5 points each) of the two singles.

10. Hall and Oates covered what extremely annoying Mike Oldfield (the
song, not Mike Oldfield) song? (15 points)

11. What band was Limahl in? (5 points); explain his name. (20 points)

12. Explain David Sylvian's name. (20 points)

*** Japan was big in the 80s questions ***
OK, OK, David Sylvian wasn't annoying, except for his vocals on
"Forbidden Colours".
13. Name
- the movie it was used in (15 points)
- who guy wrote the music for movie (15 points)
- the band the guy who wrote the music for movie was in (in the opinion
of many Rawk Journalists, the people who, along with Yello and
Kraftwerk, invented Techno, btw) (15 points)
- the author of the novel "Forbidden Colours" (OK, so he offed himself
in 1970 at the Ichigaya, Tokyo HQ of the Japanese Self-Defense Force ie
Army, which I used to cycle past most weekends. But it's still very
80s.) (20 points)
Bonus points if you can say what "forbidden colours" is in Japanese (20
points), and what the double meaning "forbidden colours" in Japanese is
(30 points).

Easy, but still essential 80s one-hit wonder questions
14. Which band, in which song, "asked the doctor to take your picture,
so I can look at you from inside as well"? (5 points)
15. "Big in Japan". That's the song - which band? (5 points)

*** 80s short people questions ***
16. Nick Kershaw proved that pleated, high-waisted narrow-cuffed pants
definitely need to come back into fashion immediately. True or False?
(for short males: 0 points; for anyone else: 10 points)

17. Multiple choice: Jon Moss briefly played drums for which punk band?
a) Buzzcocks
b) The Slits
c) The Clash
d) The Damned
(20 points)

18. Jon and George tangent: what was written on the mugs the Clubbers
sipped their cocoa at the end of the video for "Time (Clock of the
Heart)"? (5 points for each mug)

*** Extreme 80s U2 Trivia question ***
19. At the end of the vinyl version (not the CD, unfortunately) of
"Boy", The Edge plays the guitar riff of which song that would later
appear on "October"? (1 point for people whose 17 year old (since you
got your "P"s at 17 in Tasmania) brother subjected them to all the then
4 U2 albums every morning for months on end as he drove them to school;
50 points for everyone else)

*** Special Tasmanian Section: ***

20. "Outside Coles on a Saturday night/"
- Song Title (5 points)
- Artiste (5 points)
- Suburb (10 points)
- 10 bonus points for any more lyrics; 10 x points for any non-Tasmanian
answers.

Iva Davies rides a $ 650 Trek MTB with pavement tyres he bought at
Clarendon St Cycles, Martin Plaza rides a single he bought on a whim at
Cheeky Monkey, and Ignatius Jones, when he gets the opportunity, does
some laps of Centennial Park on a custom Hillman that was ordered from
Melbourne by James Freud, but never picked up, from Woolie Wheels.
Mollie Meldrum rides a second-hand postie-bike (bought at Abbotsford
Cycles in, umm, Richmond, while he waited for the train to go and watch
the Saintas at the Telstra non-Dome) to buy milk and newspapers at the
"boutique" Coles on Swan Street.

cfsmtb said:

BTW I'm bored, you still up Fred?

Nope. Hockey match Sunday 11 am, and busy burning Vaughan Williams,
Bach/Telemann, and (Kun Woo PAIK plays) Gabriel Fauré CDs borrowed from
the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moreland (Brunswick sub-soviet) library.

Quoted message said:

OK, we haven't had a 80's music battle on aus.bicycle since last year.

Quoted message said:

Who sang "Never Again", circa UK 1981. Possibly New Romantic to boot.

New Romantic,in 1981? Imagine my suprise.

Quoted message said:

Bets are off, the doctor is out, gauntlet is thrown down

No Google allowed.

Aaaaaargh! OK, round one to you.

Quoted message said:

*** 80s Videos ***
1. Where were the outside shots of the vid for "Let's Dance" done? (10
points)

2. Was the video for "I hear Motion" in black and white or colour? (5
points)

3. What was the dancing animal in the "I hear Motion" vid? (15 points)

4. What was the instrument first heard used by an Australian band in "I
hear Motion" (15 points)

5. What band were James Freud and Sean Kelly in together before The
Models? (15 points)

*** Getting a little bit 90s 80s questions ***
6. In the inside back page of the May 1993 edition of The Face (the
paragon of 80s magazines) , there was an interview with Frank Black. He
said, "We stole the whole flannellette shirt thing from Big Country".
True or false, roughly?

7. Just below the interview was written, "An 80s revival - you heard it
here first." True or false, roughly?
(20 points each. Warning: trick questions)

8. Black Francis and Kim Deal wrote Pixies songs about, respectively,
female and male ... ummm... [blushes deeply] erm... genitalia. Name
them (the songs, not the [ears go bright pink], ahem, girl- and
boy-bits). (20 points each)

*** Annoying 80s things questions ***
9. Clue: welder, pink leg warmers. Name the titles (5 points each) and
artistes (5 points each) of the two singles.

10. Hall and Oates covered what extremely annoying Mike Oldfield (the
song, not Mike Oldfield) song? (15 points)

11. What band was Limahl in? (5 points); explain his name. (20 points)

12. Explain David Sylvian's name. (20 points)

*** Japan was big in the 80s questions ***
OK, OK, David Sylvian wasn't annoying, except for his vocals on
"Forbidden Colours".
13. Name
- the movie it was used in (15 points)
- who guy wrote the music for movie (15 points)
- the band the guy who wrote the music for movie was in (in the opinion
of many Rawk Journalists, the people who, along with Yello and
Kraftwerk, invented Techno, btw) (15 points)
- the author of the novel "Forbidden Colours" (OK, so he offed himself
in 1970 at the Ichigaya, Tokyo HQ of the Japanese Self-Defense Force ie
Army, which I used to cycle past most weekends. But it's still very
80s.) (20 points)
Bonus points if you can say what "forbidden colours" is in Japanese (20
points), and what the double meaning "forbidden colours" in Japanese is
(30 points).

Easy, but still essential 80s one-hit wonder questions
14. Which band, in which song, "asked the doctor to take your picture,
so I can look at you from inside as well"? (5 points)
15. "Big in Japan". That's the song - which band? (5 points)

*** 80s short people questions ***
16. Nick Kershaw proved that pleated, high-waisted narrow-cuffed pants
definitely need to come back into fashion immediately. True or False?
(for short males: 0 points; for anyone else: 10 points)

17. Multiple choice: Jon Moss briefly played drums for which punk band?
a) Buzzcocks
b) The Slits
c) The Clash
d) The Damned
(20 points)

18. Jon and George tangent: what was written on the mugs the Clubbers
sipped their cocoa at the end of the video for "Time (Clock of the
Heart)"? (5 points for each mug)

*** Extreme 80s U2 Trivia question ***
19. At the end of the vinyl version (not the CD, unfortunately) of
"Boy", The Edge plays the guitar riff of which song that would later
appear on "October"? (1 point for people whose 17 year old (since you
got your "P"s at 17 in Tasmania) brother subjected them to all the then
4 U2 albums every morning for months on end as he drove them to school;
50 points for everyone else)

*** Special Tasmanian Section: ***

20. "Outside Coles on a Saturday night/"
- Song Title (5 points)
- Artiste (5 points)
- Suburb (10 points)
- 10 bonus points for any more lyrics; 10 x points for any non-Tasmanian
answers.

Iva Davies rides a $ 650 Trek MTB with pavement tyres he bought at
Clarendon St Cycles, Martin Plaza rides a single he bought on a whim at
Cheeky Monkey, and Ignatius Jones, when he gets the opportunity, does
some laps of Centennial Park on a custom Hillman that was ordered from
Melbourne by James Freud, but never picked up, from Woolie Wheels.
Mollie Meldrum rides a second-hand postie-bike (bought at Abbotsford
Cycles in, umm, Richmond, while he waited for the train to go and watch
the Saintas at the Telstra non-Dome) to buy milk and newspapers at the
"boutique" Coles on Swan Street.

Fred Nieman <[email hidden]> wrote in news:BxNMc.534$PO.23206
@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au:

q1-8 no idea

Quoted message said:

*** Annoying 80s things questions ***
9. Clue: welder, pink leg warmers. Name the titles (5 points each) and
artistes (5 points each) of the two singles.

Flash Dance, was it not Irene Cara or something similar

Quoted message said:

10. Hall and Oates covered what extremely annoying Mike Oldfield (the
song, not Mike Oldfield) song? (15 points)

Family Man

Quoted message said:

11. What band was Limahl in? (5 points); explain his name. (20 points)

Kajagoogoo, it's an anagram of his real surname - Hamill

Quoted message said:

12. Explain David Sylvian's name. (20 points)

It's his mum and dad's surname and they liked the name David?

Quoted message said:

- the author of the novel "Forbidden Colours" (OK, so he offed himself
in 1970 at the Ichigaya, Tokyo HQ of the Japanese Self-Defense Force ie
Army, which I used to cycle past most weekends. But it's still very
80s.) (20 points)

Big clue there - Mishima (don't know his other name, Yukio or something).
There was a film about the story with a soundtrack by Philip Glass.

Quoted message said:

Easy, but still essential 80s one-hit wonder questions
14. Which band, in which song, "asked the doctor to take your picture,
so I can look at you from inside as well"? (5 points)

The Vapors

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15. "Big in Japan". That's the song - which band? (5 points)

Alphaville

That's all I can get...

Graeme

Fred Nieman said:

cfsmtb said:

BTW I'm bored, you still up Fred?

Weeping Wizards. 'Ken oath, as they say in Tasmania - don't try to
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