[PW] Re: New Phrase?

[Bye, Dan J]

On reflection, the brain-salad.com usage below actually seems to come
from the sleevenotes to the 1973 ELP album "Brain Salad Surgery".. 

So is it a prog rock originated phrase?

Dan

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>  
> I have an earlier use of the phrase from Usenet, a posting in 
> comp.sys.mac.programmer by Murat N. Konar, dated 12 Sept 
> 1988.  Right at the end of the message, Konar says: "Many 
> thanks and a garland of Martian Fire Flowers in advance."
> 
> See: http://qurl.com/c6mv6
> 
> Dan
> 
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> > 
> > The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
> >    
> >   "It's alive!" protested the Martian, laughing more now. 
> > "Oh, you're quite wrong. See all the carnival lights? There are 
> > beautiful boats as slim as women, beautiful women as slim as boats, 
> > women the color of sand, women with fire flowers in their hands."
> >    
> >   The earliest I can find of the use of "garlands of Martian fire 
> > flowers" comes from a posting on brain-salad.com's ELP Digest 29 
> > September 1999 by Ed Macan
> >   
> > http://www.brain-salad.com/Digest/back-issuxes/1999/elp-digest-
> > 09-08.txt
> >  
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