[kj] "In Excelsis" CD:

[sade1]

> Metal specific diacritics. Who'd have...  


   Ha, who'duve thunk it?  That was a very interesting read. 
 
   The next progression should be to take the german umlauts, and theturkish and
 serbian-latin alphabets together and make one helluva Heavy Metal font. That, 
or a website with an equivalent translating function.
 




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From: Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 9:05:16 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] "In Excelsis" CD:


And here's the full story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_umlaut

Metal specific diacritics. Who'd have thought it.

Jim.

--- On Wed, 21/7/10, sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com> wrote:



>From: sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com>

>Subject: Re: [kj] "In Excelsis" CD:

>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>

>Date: Wednesday, 21 July, 2010, 16:38

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>

>Remember Husker Du?

>KJ was named after a 'spirit'ually-charged, clock-smashing ritual. 

>Husker Du, well.. not so 

>much:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCsker_D%C3%BC#Formation_and_early_years

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> 

> 

>Yeah ! That was my thought too !!

> 

>Copying Mötley Crüe and Motörhead ! :>

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>From: Arvid Mork <kj_mork at hotmail.com>

>To: mailinglist Killing Joke <gathering at misera.net>

>Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 5:13:31 AM

>Subject: Re: [kj] "In Excelsis" CD:

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>Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:47:10 -0700

>From: saulomar1 at yahoo.com

>To: gathering at misera.net

>Subject: Re: [kj] "In Excelsis" CD:

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>

>> ..why they are useing the norwegian letter ø 

>> in killing jøke on the cover of In Excelsis ??

>

>No doubt they were influenced by Motley Crue's use of an umlaut. 

>One tour with Motley Crue and it seems the 'rubbing off' went the wrong 

>direction.

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>To: mailinglist Killing Joke <gathering at misera.net>

>Sent: Tue, July 20, 2010 5:28:23 AM

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>Ha ha OK ! :>

> 

>By the way !!

> 

>Anyone know why they are useing the norwegian letter ø 

>in killing jøke on the cover of In Excelsis ??

> 

>In scandinavia the alfabet have 29 letters !

> 

>in the end its x y z æ ø å ! :>

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>One one of the cans, its written in capital letters KILLING JØKE !

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>Arvid (Norway)

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