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 Packard Goose

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Joe:
May be you thought I was the Packard Goose
From: eraserhead@iglou.com (Gloria Wallgren SLIP/PPP)
  Ben Watson, who amazingly enough is right in this particular instance, takes this as a reference to Vance Packard, author of the book _The Hidden Persuaders_, about media manipulation of the populace in the 1950s.
From: spb0377@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu (Pat Buzby)
  One of my special friends spoke once with Ike about the phrase "Packard Goose." I can't remember all of the details from the explanation, but it had something to do with a hood ornament on a 50's car. So Ben Watson was probably wrong, but in this case he gets points for imagination.
From: Vladimir Sovetov <sova@kpbank.ru>
  Once again, I believe it's a bird from the same Zoo that is a home for Studebaker Hoch.
From: Josh <csdsoldier@home.com>
  the "Packard Goose" is a definitely a hood ornament of a 1950's car, which is the Packard. The goose was a nouveau piece of art and was popular for being so elaborate.
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Or the Ronald MacDonald
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of the nouveau-abstruse
From: Gary Rush <grush@crl.com>
  ronald macdonald is the mascot of macdonalds hamburgers, another marketing plan. nouveau-abstruse is made up term i'm sure, but at that time there was a lot of talk about the nouveau-cousine which was very chic, or that was the reputation, never tasted it myself. another use of nouveau would be nouveau-rich, as in the newly rich.
From: ulrich@sfu.ca <Charles Ulrich>
  Ronald McDonald is a clown who is the mascot of McDonald's, the fast-food hamburger place. Nouveau-abstruse is a made-up term that sounds like the name of a movement in art. "Nouveau" is "new" in French (which makes it sound more sophisticated), while "abstruse" means "difficult to understand".
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Selling punk like some new kind of English disease.
From: Gary Rush <grush@crl.com>
  i think reference to punk music rather, depends on time period, don't have joe's garage with me to see when it was made exactly but punk in uk started earlier than most realize.
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
  Second Wave of British Invasion. Sex Pistols, Clash, Buzzcocks, GBH, UK Subs. This came out in the late 70's.
  Frank thought punk was a step backwards. He fits more with progressive and art rock which is more compositional and advances the form and incorporates classical and jazz. Punk was a rebellion against this and a return to minimalist forms. Some say that the divergence between The Mothers and the Velvet Underground are the roots of these two musical directions.
From: mbp8@cornell.edu (Mike Puterbaugh)
  Here, I assumed this was in response to the musical journalism community's heavy promotion of punk rock music in the late 70's, in the same way Green Day and Rancid have been overpromoted the past couple of years.
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Beauty is not love
Love is not music
Music is THE BEST
Wisdom is the domain
of the Wis (which is extint)
From: eraserhead@iglou.com (Gloria Wallgren SLIP/PPP)
  The speech is just disintegrating into babble here. Could make for an interesting metaphor with the album (see: A LIttle Green Rosetta).
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Beauty is a French phonetic corruption
Of a short cloth neck ornament
From: GWORSHAM@ix.netcom.com (Gary Worsham)
  Well, in French, beauty is 'beaute' (accent on that last e) which phonetically is BOW-TAY, which is kinda like BOW-TIE, i.e. a short cloth neck ornament currently in resurgence. Hope that helps!
From: John Henley <jhenley@mail.utexas.edu>
  It's "a French phonetic corruption of a....neck ornament." I forget what's missing there. At first I thought Frank had uncovered some little-known fact about # the origin of the word. Now, I suppose it's a joke...."beauty" equals "beau ty" which equals...."bow tie." Ouch.
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Joe:
I think...
What tone!
Sounds like an Elegant Gypsy!
From: lantz@primenet.com (Bill Lantz)
  Al Dimeola released an album around that time called Elegant Gypsy.
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
  Al DiMeola, ladies and gentlemen. Elegant Gypsy is one of his album titles. The lick that follows is a spoof on his characteristic style.
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What's that? Musk?
It's hip!
  CC
From: mbp8@cornell.edu (Mike Puterbaugh)
  Another bit of CC I noticed-- the "What is that, musk? It's hip!" bit from Packard Goose also appears in 200 Motels, in the animated sequence where Donovan appears before Jeff Simmons on the wall-mounted TV screen.
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