[Rq-rules] Re Introduction: What do you do with a newbie group

[Andy Leighton]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:22:49AM -0700, Sven Lugar wrote:
> Stephen Posey wrote:
> >---- Discussion of RuneQuest rules. <rq-rules at crashbox.com> wrote:
> >
> >I had visions of a young John Travolta in a loin cloth singing 
> >"Ba-Ba-Ba--Ba-Barbarina".
> >
> >(it's an old "Welcome Back Kotter" reference for you young'uns out there).

> Which is an even older reference to a Beach Boys song Barbara Ann --- 
> Ba-Ba-Bah---Bar-barian. Who is obviously makes you a young'un, LOL

There is also Bob Calvert's The Lay Of The Surfers which is on the Lucky
Leif And The Longships album.  It was a concept album about an alternate 
USA founded by Norse explorers.  The song is a Beach Boys surf music parody
and is sung by fictional viking raiders -  "I guess you could call us 
Barbarians, Bar-bar-barbarians, Bar-bar-barbarians.

-- 
Andy Leighton => andyl at azaal.plus.com
"The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials" 
   - Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_