# Enjoy dAdA often
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-dada-often/514003
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 16, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-dada-often/514003 "2009-10-16T06:13:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-dada-often/514003/1 "2009-10-16T06:13:03Z")
KARAWANE
jolifanto bambla ô falli bambla
_grossiga m’pfa habla horem_
égiga goramen
higo bloiko russula huju
hollaka hollala
_anlogo bung_
**blago bung**
blago bung
**bosso fataka
ü üü ü**
schampa wulla wussa ólobo
_hej tatta gôrem_
eschige zunbada
**wulubu ssubudu uluw ssubudu**
**tumba ba- umf**
_kusagauma_
ba - umf
_-Hugo Ball (1886-1927)_
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-dada-often/514003/2 "2009-10-16T07:25:08Z")
[http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/BFda\_HugoBallLG%20.jpg](http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/BFda_HugoBallLG%20.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-dada-often/514003/3 "2009-10-16T07:33:54Z")
I’ve actually heard a recording of this - IIRC it’s one part of three read simultaneously. Pretty nifty stuff.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-dada-often/514003/4 "2009-10-16T08:18:10Z")
I found [this performance of Karawane](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVpjIJ8a9cA), purportedly by Marie Osmond(!).
And then I found this performance of [Gadli Beri Bimba](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8i13r0HzlE), which also eventually became **Talking Heads** ’ [I Zimbra](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OffJ9aDYst4)!
I love Dada almost as much as I love surrealism. Back in college, I was the only person in my art history class to laugh out loud at [Magritte’s painting](http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Rene_Magritte/pipe.jpeg) as soon as it flashed up on the screen. My instructor asked if anyone knew why I was laughing. No one answered, so he said to me “tell us why you’re laughing.”
I said “Because it’s _not_ a pipe. It’s a painting of a pipe.”
Then he and I were the only people laughing. Looking back, I wonder if everyone else thought that somehow they had been insulted! :p:dubious::rolleyes:😃
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### Author:  [@Mike\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Fun)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-dada-often/514003/5 "2009-10-16T20:57:43Z")
I’m in a Dada-influenced rock band. Our singer does dadaist poetry through a vocoder in some of our pieces.
[Our Myspace](http://www.myspace.com/birdorgan)
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### Author:  [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2009, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-dada-often/514003/6 "2009-10-16T23:44:46Z")
Uhm. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
Cthulhu fhtagn!
Am I doing it right?
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-dada-often/514003/7 "2009-10-17T00:41:29Z")
Talking Heads? _Marie Osmond?_ Is Dada perhaps a wee bit overexposed? The Kerouac of oddball art movements?
BTW, the original 1917 printing of [Karawane](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ball) contained an array of presumably extinct European-looking letterpress fonts. I made only a rough attempt to approximate them here.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2009, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-dada-often/514003/8 "2009-10-17T09:04:50Z")
Dada is not dead
Watch your overcoat
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### Author:  [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-dada-often/514003/9 "2009-10-18T05:21:52Z")
[Primiti too taa.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcrTzPAUqic)
(A very poor, low-res transfer of a film that was originally shot on IMAX, believe it or not.)