A rose, by any other name, would still have thorns.

At our live shows (every other monday at the Retro Cafe, 1117 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz. Start counting from April 25) we take five words (sometimes six) from the audience and write songs using them. Here are most of the words we have gotten so far:

11/22/1993

hoecake

xeroderma

rutabega

orgiastic

nympheaceous

cacophony

mahogany

xyster

ecchymosis

nycloptia

12/6/1993

bougive

perspicacious

hachure

inertia

dross

peripheral

varix

size

fibrosis

12/3/1993

wampus

zooid

anthroformorphisus

quididity

enervate

1/10/1993

arugula

trenchant

arf

bine

hesitate

shadows

chainsaw

gosh

concrete

aluetian

haulage

1/24/194

xylophagous

burblespit

saccerometer

ontomatopoea

golgotha

smock

spatula

zona

colosity

botulism

2/17/1994

smilecaceous

caprice

marsupial

somnambulate

tractor

Rhododendron

gelatenous

powerbook

multilateral

Antidisestablishmentarianism