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The orignal name of the group was "Amos Canis Woofis", and was written on dried leaves and spread from town to town by passing merchants.
Occasionally, some of the written passages were so controversial that readers would burn the leaves in anger, leading to the modern term "flaming".
Many found that inhaling the smoke of the burning leaves caused a hallucanatory effect, and thus smoking leaves became more popular than reading them in some areas. Traffic on the group was light, but started to pick up in the 60's when some of the free love fringe mistook the title (by then "Hound-Lovers") to imply more intimate relationships between man and his best friend. The name wa s then changed to "Love-Hounds" to avoid any further confusion.
By 1986, the group was an entirely electronic media, and the release of Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love" album brought so much traffic to discuss this album and the artist that the original h ard core group of hunting dog fans split off to form another group, the well known and highly read rec.pooches.kill.bad.deer.yeah.
Since that time the Kate Bush crowd has dominated the group, although lately it seems that a religious cult based aroun d holy relics created, used, or discarded by the recording artist is gaining favor.
"Gaffa" (as has been explained ad nauseum in this forum) is another Sri Lankan word referring to the mental state achieved by those smoking too many of the leaves this group was originally printed on.
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