X-NEWS: spcvxb alt.motd: 87 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-3 14/03/90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!rutgers!bellcore!walter!qualcom.qualcomm.com!network.ucsd.edu!usc!wupost!bcm!rice!mcmahon Newsgroups: alt.motd Subject: Re: hotel california Message-ID: <1992Feb24.022229.23672@rice.edu> From: mcmahon@owlnet.rice.edu (Michael G. McMahon) Date: 24 Feb 92 02:22:29 GMT Sender: mcmahon@rice.edu (Michael McMahon) References: Organization: Rice University Summary: Original source Lines: 64 In article kandall@nsg.sgi.com (Michael Kandall) writes: >Somewhere in Princeton Univ. 1985. >"You can logout any time you like, but you can never leave." >Most depressing. I like this one better: (...to be sung to the tune of "Hotel California") In a dark Boston airport, hot wind in my hair Foul smell of pollution rising up through the air Up ahead 'cross the river, I saw a great shining dome My heart grew heavy and my guts felt sick, this was to be my new home There they stood in the Great Court, I heard the students yell And I was thinking to myself, this can't be heaven, this has to be hell Then they held up their frat signs and they rushed me away There were voices down the corridor, I thought I heard them say: Welcome to the Hotel Massachusetts Such a nerdy place, such a nerdy face Not enough room at the Hotel Massachusetts* Any time of year, you can pay us here Their minds are hopelessly twisted, they got the Institute Screw They got a lot of heavy problem sets that they must do How they tool on the fifth floor**, 18.01 Some tool 'cause they have to, some tool to have fun So I held up my meal card, "Please, what is this for?" He said we've had forced commons since the class of 1984 And still those voices are calling from far away Wake you up in the middle of a class, just to hear them say: Welcome to the Hotel Massachusetts Such a nerdy place, such a nerdy face They're tooling away at the Hotel Massachusetts What a boring day, 'cause they must have 'A' Pipes on the ceiling, the greasy food on rice And they said, "We are all just prisoners here, of Paul Gray's device" And in the Student Center, the students come to eat They stab it with their plastic knives but they just can't cut the meat Last thing I remember, I was at the Registrar I had to get my transcript sent to a place where I'll go far "Pay up," said the Chanc'llor, "we will fine you if you're late. You can flunk out any time you like, but you can't graduate" * Historical context 1: This song was written in the Fall of 1980, when 7 frosh were stuck in the basement of Ashdown because there wasn't enough housing. ** Historical content 2: The 24-hour library used to be in the fifth floor of the student center. Hotel Massachusetts was originally published in The Baker Letter, v. 34, no. 2, 4/9/81. -- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. -ayn rand \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\