--- Wally Kairuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i'll be using ''banquet'' for language analysis with
> my friday classes. what
> are ''yankee yachts'' as mentioned in the song?
> by the way, ranger rick's comments on ''javex
> bottles on the tide'' will be
> so very useful!
> so what are these yankee yachts? yachts with lots of
> people from boston?
> wallyK, vicariously in dear british columbia
This is very Canadian of Joni. We tend to lump all
Americans (even southerners) together under the
generic term "Yankees." Kind of like Americans
calling us Canucks. I rarely hear a Canadian use that
term unless they're talking about that hockey team out
west somewhere.
Joni has a story about that that she tells on the
Painting with words and music video - the "vivid" one
where she's knitting naked in bed and this funny old
lady bursts into her room. I did transcribe it and I
think Les was going to post it on the articles
database. I don't think it got there because there
were a couple of words I couldn't make out because
Joni either mumbled a bit or because I could hear what
she was saying, but wasn't sure how to spell whatever
it was. I did get some clarification on this (it was
the town of MiNOOT, or Minute, or Maynooth, or
whatever that this weird old lady was yakkin' to Joni
about.) I still have a copy of this, so I'll send it
to you privately. I'll go over it to see what's
missing and make a best-guess on what Joni's saying,
and then forward it to Les again, in case he may want
to put this on the database. It's a long rambling Joni-story!
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