From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #228 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, October 23 1997 Volume 02 : Number 228 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Names to faces. [dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander)] Re: Alloy: see moose - do what? [dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander] Re: Alloy: Let's have a party! [dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander)] Re: Alloy: Let's have a party! [dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander)] Re: Alloy:UFO's [dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander)] Re: Alloy: Poor electrix [dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander)] Re: Alloy: Suggestions! [Melissa Jordan ] Re: Re: Alloy: Names to faces. [Melissa Jordan ] Re: Alloy: Who was that aging hippy with the vulgar slang! [Melissa Jorda] Alloy: Keith Stansell, calling Keith Stansell. [dalexander@juno.com (Denn] Re: Alloy: Poor electrix [dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander)] Re: Re: Alloy:UFO's [tls246@psu.edu] Re: Alloy: Suggestions! [dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:49:47 -0600 From: dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander) Subject: Re: Alloy: Names to faces. >Wouldn't it be a good idea if we could all send in a scanned image of >ourselves - maybe to Paul (if he had the time/space to do it) for >display - >sort of like a scrap book of Alloyites (gee I hope that doesn't sound >like >a disease). > Count me in. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:59:35 -0600 From: dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander) Subject: Re: Alloy: see moose - do what? LOL! >. . . But of course, if a bear >got you in your tent, you were dinner anyway, so you could stop >worrying once you went to sleep.... That's why I always have a knife next to me in the tent. Quietly and quickly slash the tent and THEN run like heck! JAMac ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:22:36 -0600 From: dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander) Subject: Re: Alloy: Let's have a party! > >Weird Al Slarvibargowitz > Why thank you Slarv. The only line that really bothers me is "from his dreams of Alexander". I don't know, but it sounds like you're implying something. er, you know. How about . . . "Keith WAS the sole inhabitant Keith WAS the sole inhabitant Keith woke beside the brewery from his dreams of Boddies Far from the rip-off of those minibars that keep chucking up Boddies* It turned into the kind of session that plays hell with your tummeeeeee. On Wynkoop On Wynkoop "Keith drank a pint of Boddington's Keith drank a pint of Boddington's Keith built a pile of beer cans Shape of his friend, that Dennis man Where he could hide from young Oasis fans who would trample his trainers A thin white Spice Girl spilled his drink as he crawled into the Wynkoop Wynkoop Wynkoop "So - are you plastered With this brew that you created Should have know you'd never rest Till we're all inebriated and you fail that ol' breath test." I can't think of any way to change that Spice Girl line though, either. JAMac ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:21:55 -0600 From: dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander) Subject: Re: Alloy: Let's have a party! On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:42:41 -0600 "Keith Stansell" writes: >Hey Dennis, > >I work directly across the street from the Wynkoop "Tap Room" >(microbrewery). We'll have to meet up there some time. > Well, it looks like I'm moving there in a week or two, anyway. I just might have to stop by! JAMac ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:31:44 -0600 From: dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander) Subject: Re: Alloy:UFO's >I've seen satellites many times before, growing up in upstate NY - and this >wasn't one. I cannot normally make them out here in Boston with all the light >pollution. At 10pm on the night we saw the weird lights, the almost full moon >was visible through a pretty veil of high altitude ice crystals, so the rest >of the natural sky was mostly sort of a blur. The light we saw was very >bright & quick-moving, and turned from one light to two lights and then three >lights, then disappeared, then reappeared & shot off into nowhere (to give a >brief summary) > >Robin > Ice crystals. You don't say. My next guess would be that the water in the air was bending light, perhapse from a passing airplane or something. I saw a show on tv that showed all kinds of atmospheric phenomenon, including 3 suns on the horizon, etc. Each bizzare occurance was explained as the result of various shapes of ice crystals in the air. Just a thought. JAMac ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:35:39 -0600 From: dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander) Subject: Re: Alloy: Poor electrix >Passion is excellent, but a refusal to accept other people's opinions as >being equally valid is as infuriating as HELL. > >I'LL SHUT UP & NEVER UTTER ANOTHER WORD ABOUT IT NOW, I SWEAR, please don't start fighting again everybody!!!!! > >Robin :) Geeze! Relax! It's ok. Take a deep breath. Let it out nice and slow. That's good. Now, think of pleasant thoughts. You're smiling! That's good. Feel better? Alright. JAMac The soft-hearted bear ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:24:06 -0400 From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Re: Alloy: Suggestions! At 07:02 PM 10/22/97 -0400, Robin wrote: >Ahem....... why does the next present have to be recorded music? > >Some of us are not really inclined to strut our best stuff in this realm, >which is probably why more people didn't (or couldn't) participate. Next time >we should consider doing something that the rest of us can feel competent at, >too. Yes, truly! I've been told by People Who Know that I really don't have a voice suited to pop music, hence my reluctance to participate (plus having zippo time/equipment to do such a thing) >Some ideas: illustrations of how we feel about Thomas' songs, works of >photography, portraits of Thomas himself, or some other work of physical art >- and perhaps short stories or poems relating to Thomas' work. These can be >collected, photographed if necessary, and made into a very nice hand-bound >volume. That would be so wonderful! I'll sign up right now!!! - - Melissa Melissa R. Jordan Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries Interational, Inc. (301) 881-6858, ext. 4567 (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:24:10 -0400 From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Re: Re: Alloy: Names to faces. At 05:56 PM 10/22/97 -0400, Robin wrote: >I saw footage of some of the events honoring Women in the Armed Forces, and I >wondered whether I would see you or your mom, without even knowing! I don't think we made it on tv once - but there were about 40,000 folks there at the memorial dedication - including a 101-year-old Navy yeoman who still had her funky uniform hat! Too amazing. I managed to snap a stellar photo of my mom with a circle of 10 or 12 young women Air Force officers - all in their dress blues - at the memorial. Very, very cool. It was wild to have dozens of strangers coming up to Mom, wanting to shake her hand or have their picture taken with her, like she was some funky relic. And my mother is very shy, so this was a real wild ride for her. I felt so proud of her. When my web site is up someday, I would love to have a picture from this event out there. Cheers, Melissa Melissa R. Jordan Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries Interational, Inc. (301) 881-6858, ext. 4567 (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:24:08 -0400 From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Re: Alloy: Who was that aging hippy with the vulgar slang! At 07:49 PM 10/21/97 -0700, Frank wrote: >In my youth the height of vulgarity was in saying "Tess Tickles", to which >the reply was "Her does". And everybody snickered. But then I am 73. Hope >you all reach it. Ha! Frank, I read this to my mom this morning (she's 76) and she laughed and said she'd never heard it. (And she was no shrinking violet as a youngin - hanging around with cowpunchers and pilots all the time.) Maybe that was a regional thang. Still trying to figure out why my mother pronouces Washington "Woishington." Yeeeech. Cheers, Melissa Melissa R. Jordan Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries Interational, Inc. (301) 881-6858, ext. 4567 (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 22:50:24 -0600 From: dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander) Subject: Alloy: Keith Stansell, calling Keith Stansell. I'm up for a Boddington's Bitter at the Wynkoop! Hey, I'm heading down to Denver tomorrow (10/23/97) for a job interview. They're going to treat me to an early dinner. I'm guessing you get off at 5:00 so I will try to be there about then. If you show up (I doubt I'll get a response from you in time), I'm the redhead (somewhat afro-ish, curly and a bit fuzzy), male, big nose, blue eyes, 200 pounds in a suit and tie (maybe), with a constant smile. (I think I look better than I just described myself. This sounds awful! At least you're not a woman or I woudn't have described myself!) Just ask around for JAMac, James MacAlister or Dennis Alexander (my given name). I answer to any of those. Hope to see you there bud! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 22:35:02 -0600 From: dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander) Subject: Re: Alloy: Poor electrix > >Whoops, I should have kept my mouth shut and not endorsed JAMac's message. > Oh, sure, Slarve! Leave me alone in the cold! But really, I probably have to agree with Mr. Slarvibarglhee. I did not see what it was electrix said, either. Can you forgive me? Oh please! What are they going to do to me sarge!? WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO!?!? JAMac The soft-hearted bear ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 21:54:36 -0400 From: tls246@psu.edu Subject: Re: Re: Alloy:UFO's > >In a message dated 10/21/97 1:55:53 AM, dalexander wrote: > ><drifting through the sky. >>> > >I've seen satellites many times before, growing up in upstate NY - and this >wasn't one. I cannot normally make them out here in Boston with all the light >pollution. At 10pm on the night we saw the weird lights, the almost full moon >was visible through a pretty veil of high altitude ice crystals, so the rest >of the natural sky was mostly sort of a blur. The light we saw was very >bright & quick-moving, and turned from one light to two lights and then three >lights, then disappeared, then reappeared & shot off into nowhere (to give a >brief summary) > >Robin > > Howdy- Since I joined this group a while back, I've relegated myself to the status of simple voyeur, but I had to get in on this conversation, if y'all don't mind. I'm curious, what kind of angular separation did these lights have? (Compared to the full moon, say.) Sounds to me like helicopters are a pretty good bet- is there a military base anywhere in the vicinity? Uh, oh. Now that I've poked my head out from under my rock, I guess I can't hide there anymore... Trent tls246@psu.edu www.personal.psu.edu/users/tls246 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Yeah, they're dead... They're all messed up." -Sheriff to newsman in "Night of the Living Dead," referring to the Ghouls - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 22:57:00 -0600 From: dalexander@juno.com (Dennis S. Alexander) Subject: Re: Alloy: Suggestions! I like Robin's suggestion. I'm a musician more than anything else so I'll probably be submitting a song, most likely. JAMac ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #228 ***************************