From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <ddanehyo@us.oracle.com>
Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.adom
Subject: Re: Adom Newbie (minor spoily maybe?)
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 13:00:18 -0800

Spolers prettymuch deleted.

pixel@shore.net.death.to.spam wrote:
> >Jim where John had had had had had had had.
> 
> What *is* the correct sentence here?

Jim, where John had "had," had had "had had." It's 
self-referential. And I accidentally put one too
many "had"s into the original.


> >(Hey, is there anyone out there
> >who can identify the source of
> >this:
> 
> >Cobweb Kid,
> >Cobweb Kid,
> >Does whatever a spider did...
> 
> >Somehow, I doubt it...)
> 
> Sounds like a song by They Might Be Giants, that Triangle Man one or whatever
> it's called.

You're thinking of "Particle Man." No, but thank you for
playing. (Actually, "Particle Man" is a musical reference
to the same thing that *this* was a musical reference to
-- but I'm not looking for the reference, I'm looking for
the rather obscure place where the parodic version I 
quoted came from. 

So I'll give away the reference; it's from the '60s Saturday 
morning SPIDER-MAN show, whose theme song went: "Spider-Man / 
Spider-Man / does whatever a spider can. / Can he swing / 
from a thread? / Take a look / overhead. / Look out / here 
comes a Spider-Man." 

Subsequent verses asked "Is he strong? / Listen, bud, / he's 
got radioactive blood" -- which seemed like a non-answer to 
me -- and reminded you that he was your "friendly neighborhood 
Spider-Man," leaving me grateful that I didn't live in *that* 
neighborhood.

"Particle Man" makes its reference to the above fairly obvious
by beginning: "Particle Man / Particle Man / Doin' the things
a particle can." The song appears on their album FLOOD, is
performed live on SEVERE TIRE DAMAGE, and was also covered by
the a capella group "The Bobs."

How's *that* for exhaustive, off-the-topic information that
doesn't even answer the original question, hey kids?


> >Angilion wrote:
> >Small Mountain Cave. (Some have said "Menacing," though.)
> 
> If you die in it, you'll see it's the Small Cave.

Oh? And if you follow that logic, "D" stands for "Caverns of
Chaos."

--dan'l