nude at the piano?

[Molly/CA]

Mad, I don't say. Queer, I grant you: many's the time I've seen her nude at the piano.

A friend dropped this into our correspondence and now it's driving us nuts: neither of us can remember the source.

Help, someone! We think it may be from an introduction to something.

A Google search on various fragments turned up only one quote, by a, and perhaps even our, Jim Hart, in the worldwidewords.org archives, "Mad, she's not... (etc.)"

[annc]

A Google search on various fragments turned up only one quote, by a, and perhaps even our, Jim Hart, in the worldwidewords.org archives, "Mad, she's not... (etc.)"How frustrating. I found it in Yahoo, but the site is no longer available. Here's the URL:

http://home.comcast.net/~jal2.04/p2t/quote-unquote.pdf

Maybe one of the archive sites (can't recall the name of one that was mentioned in INETPUB a few months ago) will turn it up. I can't recall if those sites include PDFs associated with the web pages.

MSN Search didn't like the idea of searching on the phrase "nude at the piano" and popped up a parental guide warning.

[Molly/CA]

MSN Search didn't like the idea of searching on the phrase "nude at the piano" and popped up a parental guide warning.

For once I don't blame them, you should see what I pulled up!

Try searching on "azoturia" sometime.

[annc]

For once I don't blame them, you should see what I pulled up!

Try searching on "azoturia" sometime.What am I missing here? I just got the tying up (as in 'Monday Morning sickness' in horses) references, which is what I expected.

Did you search on 'tying up'? I could imagine that you would get some interesting stuff searching on that! <g>

FWIW, my searches on 'nude at the piano' mostly pulled up art references - in the first couple of screens, at least. My patience doesn't go much beyond those when looking at search results.

[Molly/CA]

Nope, I searched on 'azoturia' for my friend and pulled up the most amazing lot of bondage sites. I complained to my son and he explained that a lot of sites have codes that are passed around --keeps the Naughty Police off their backs.

This was a couple years ago --before the Googlebar or Google had the "moderate safe search" default maybe?

[annc]

Nope, I searched on 'azoturia' for my friend and pulled up the most amazing lot of bondage sites. I complained to my son and he explained that a lot of sites have codes that are passed around --keeps the Naughty Police off their backs.

This was a couple years ago --before the Googlebar or Google had the "moderate safe search" default maybe?That could be the case. I find that I rarely end up in pornographic sites these days, whereas it was very common at one time. In fact, i seem to recall that way back in 1997 or so, when I was teaching people how to use the internet, some innocuous word, such as 'rose', would bring up porno sites on the first screen of whatever we were using then - Yahoo, perhaps? I think it predated Alta Vista.

[donmcc]

You know of course, that whitehouse.com was, for a long time, a porn site. (Not being a regular visitor, I have no idea if it still is.) Quite the surprise for the person searching for whitehouse.gov

[ElyseC]

A bit like the surprise I got the other day trying to call Apple's tech support line, 800-SOS-APPL. I had a brain burp when dialing and dialed the 'SOS' part with a zero instead of the '6' with 'mno' on it.

Quite a surprise.

[annc]

You know of course, that whitehouse.com was, for a long time, a porn site. (Not being a regular visitor, I have no idea if it still is.) Quite the surprise for the person searching for whitehouse.govNo, I wasn't aware of that. Not having any need to contact the White House...

[Anne Wright]

Ann, In the USA, most government sites have .gov for their domain names. So the real White House web site is at whitehouse.gov

Not that I would have any need to contact the current resident of the White House...
Anne

[annc]

Ann, In the USA, most government sites have .gov for their domain names. So the real White House web site is at whitehouse.gov

Not that I would have any need to contact the current resident of the White House...
AnneHere they're .gov.au, so .gov is obvious. It was whitehouse.com being a porn site that I wasn't aware of. ;-)

[donmcc]

I'm not sure, but I seem to recall that when I visited (just to check if it was true, of course). It was, I tried to leave, and was unable to. Some moron had programmed a Javacript onUnLoad event that reopened the page if you tried to leave it. Eventually I had about 20 copies of the thing running, when I finally unplugged the computer (after finding that quitting Netscape, my browser at the time, and turning off Window both couldn't bypass the event).

I can't imagine that they kept this up for more than a few weeks. Some bright kid probably had promised to increase page hits 100 fold, and had inserted the code (it is only a simple, single line that any web student should be able to figure out).

But what is the benefit of extra hits if they are created by the same people trying to leave the site. I suspect that regular customers who were paying for the wares provided might also have gotten caught, which would have caused some complaints.

Don McCahill

[marlene]

I searched for "I've seen her nude at the piano" in Yahoo's search, which turned up a cached page

http://tinyurl.com/75od9

(the actual url is way too long to be reasonable). There was a link to

http://www1c.btwebworld.com/quote-unquote/contents.htm

(web site for Quote ... Unquote radio show, on which they apparently quoted the quote) which I guess is where the actual page now resides, but it's got no search feature, so I couldn't find the quote there (probably could if I looked for the show date). Anyway, the cached page includes the following (although I don't see a reference to what the quote is actually from, and there are a bunch of other unrelated quotes, so this whole exercise is not particularly helpful):

The Pleasance, Edinburgh: "Mad I don't say, queer I grant you, many's the time I've seen her nude at the piano."

First Words: All in the golden afternoon?, here is Edward Bear..., The night Max wore his wolf suit..., If you get to like some motor cars... -- Titles of Christopher Brookmire's books -- Movie quotations -- Quotes about Countries: a huge rest home, so square that even the female impersonators are women, I've been to it but it was closed, it is a suburb pretending to be a country -- Long and short of it: Aldous Huxley, Alan Ladd, Michael Caine, Virginia Woolf -- Comedy

[Molly/CA]

How did I miss your message for a whole week? Sorry.

Ain't it amazing that something you're sure you've read is so elusive? I'll let you know when my friend gets back to his bookshelf. We're considering Miss Mapp but that doesn't get it much forrader.