Re: Subject: Re: [Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck - where is Santosh when we need him

2005-06-16 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mario, I heard Zubin Mehta also wants to be a Goan. What qualifications are reqd to be a Goan? Carlos Maybe a nanny who was a Goan? At least a school-teacher? What about having had a holiday in Goa three decades ago? After all, ZM is not just about any poverty-strike

Re: [Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck - where is Santosh when we need him

2005-06-15 Thread carlos6143
Mario, I heard Zubin Mehta also wants to be a Goan. What qualifications are reqd to be a Goan? Carlos -Original Message- From: Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: goanet@goanet.org Sent: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck - wh

Re: [Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck...

2005-06-15 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 15/06/05, eric pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Alfred, Englebert - now 63, born Cecil Darcy i > think, aunt a nun who survives in Goa; the Wall > Street Journal placed him at 600 million dollars, all > i hear is shud up when i sing in the shower ! > eric. RESPONSE: How about Gerry Dor

[Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck

2005-06-15 Thread Mario Goveia
Folks, after asking Santosh to intervene in the Engelbert Humperdinck urban legend hoax on Goanet, I decided to save him the trouble and to "do a Santosh" myself and found the following on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Humperdinck_(singer) Some key excerpts: Engelbert Humperd

Re: [Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck - where is Santosh when we need him

2005-06-15 Thread Mario Goveia
> then. > > > > Alfred > > > > > > >From: Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: goanet@goanet.org > > >To: goanet@goanet.org > > >Subject: Re: [Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck... > > >Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:37:43 +

Re: [Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck...

2005-06-15 Thread eric pinto
ld be ascertained. > > I wanted to ask him personally, during his tour of > Sweden, > last year, but had to be out of the country just > then. > > Alfred > > > >From: Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: goanet@goanet.org > >To: goanet@g

Re: [Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck...

2005-06-15 Thread Alfred de Tavares
wanted to ask him personally, during his tour of Sweden, last year, but had to be out of the country just then. Alfred From: Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: goanet@goanet.org To: goanet@goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck... Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:37:43 +0100

RE: [Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck... and Chennai

2005-06-15 Thread Nasci Caldeira
These facts have been known for a long time, in Bombay and Delhi circles. There is also Sir Clifford Richard, who was born of British parents, at the foot of the Himalayas. Nasci Caldeira From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet]Engelbert Hu

Re: [Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck...

2005-06-14 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 14/06/05, Mervyn Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And the other Indian-born star to make it big in > > the West was the late Freddy Mercury (who was > > originally a Parsi named Balsara). > > FN, > Freddy Mercury was born in Zanzibar. > M

Re: [Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck...

2005-06-14 Thread Mervyn Lobo
"Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And the other Indian-born star to make it big in > the West was the late Freddy Mercury (who was > originally a Parsi named Balsara). FN, Freddy Mercury was born in Zanzibar. Mervyn3.0 __ Do Y

[Goanet]Engelbert Humperdinck... and Chennai

2005-06-14 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
Did you know that singer Engelbert Humperdinct was born in Chennai? This factoid resurfaced during his recent three-city tour to India. Apparently, his father was working in the British Army. Incidentally, Alfred and Rita Rose's sons are named Engelbert and Schubert. And the other Indian-born