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Thursday, Jan 30 - 10:42 a.m. DUK Does Homework Big thanks go out to the superior web searching abilities of our “good friend”, the net savvy Duk who has managed to find the lyrics to the song Painters Paint by The High Llamas. It turns out that those unintelligible words were in fact intelligible but don’t make much sense, and the lobby bears question remains tantalisingly unanswered. It might just be that “lobby bears” means that a lobby bears the mark of something, like footprints for example. And yet… evidence keeps cropping up that there may be a lot more to it. Dali’s Lobby Bear Dr. Bob, the internet skeptic (that is, he has a web site dedicated to mysteries of the universe and his skeptical response, not skeptical about the internet) quotes this passage from the “The Persistence of Memory: A Biography of Dali”: “A guest visiting Salvador Dali's house by the sea wanted to change into his bathing togs, and Dali told him "You can go anywhere in the house to change, but don't go behind the big stuffed bear in the hall because the King of Italy is hiding there half-naked." “What was really behind that big stuffed bear?” asks Dr Bob. Answer: “King Victor Emanuel III of Italy, hiding, half-naked.” Germans Provide Clue ”Rizzis conversion of the "statue OF Liberty" should be something, which never there was: a "Libby Bear" in briefly cut Mohair mohair-Pluesch, exactly like all first teddybaeren with the "button in the ear". We like people who like us but… Guavagrrrl linked to our page so we returned the favour and linked back. That’s Teddy's policy. If people like us, we like them. But it was with some regret that we discovered that Ms. Grrrl had dropped us from her favourites and we are no longer part of the “girls who like girls” thread on Diaryland. “Oh well,” replied Nesbitt. “But have you seen the photos?” We hadn’t looked at the links and we were impressed to discover that the Grrrl hangs out with Steve Buscemi. We felt left out and uncool until we discovered that the photos of said film star guy also feature pictures of Ms. Grrrl. We’re sure she’s very nice and everything (and who knows, she might know Kate from Luscious Jackson), but that Grrrl has a jaw that can cut bread. Teddy hypothesised that she might be a serpent of some kind that can swallow eggs whole, strangle a fully grown eagle and stare down a mongoose. We advise visitors to her page to use caution and their own best judgement. Speaking of Best Judgement TEZNEZCO! foolishly went to see the Japanese reggae band Dry & Heavy expecting… what we were expecting, we’re not sure and the words “Japanese” and “reggae” in the same sentence should cause alarm. But our boy David speculated it might have been like the dubby bits from DJ Krush. Mr. Oaf was hoping that it would be like Cibo Matto or perhaps Frank Chickens… but it turned out to be far too close to the Tokyo Ska Orchestra which, from any objective view, is a load of arse. The main problem was that the band, while excellent musicians, had two vocalists, a guy and a girl. When they did some instrumental bits, it was good. When they sang, it was bad. The man singer looked like a Japanese surfer guy on holiday but his Japanese accent made the lyrics sound vaguely Jamaican and he had a good voice. Unfortunately choosing to cover Riders on The Storm wasted his potential. Far more disturbing was the girl singer who, with a voice that could shatter glass, made absurd Japlish statements like “We going to rock house in a Dry & Heavy styleeeee!” that, with her high pitched accent, came out as “Bleeeee bleeeee bleeeee”. As Mr. Oaf realised, if he had been drunk in a bar in Singapore and and caught the band by accident, it would have been brilliant. But he wasn’t in Singapore, he had gone deliberately to see them and he was only half drunk. bears in history - future bears 
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