From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #247 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 Tuesday, November 11 1997 Volume 02 : Number 247 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Alloy: T-SHIRT: Final City List [Louise.Ulfstedt@nmp.nokia.com (Ulfst] Alloy: Toiletries & gnomes, birthday tape, crackers and t-shirt [nleacy@i] Alloy: crackers' photo [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Toiletries & gnomes, birthday tape, crackers and t-shirt [RTh] Alloy: T-shirtcetera [Lem Bingley ] Alloy: UK Chocolate [Melissa Jordan ] Alloy: I itch all over let me sleep... [Paul Baily ] Re: Alloy: T-SHIRT: Final City List ["Keith Stansell" ] Alloy: Insults to Faces [Lem Bingley ] Alloy: cities [bcohen@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Barbara A Cohen via apocalypse )] Alloy:cdnow.com [Elaine Linstruth ] Alloy: Insults to Faces ["Mary A. Brown" ] Re: Alloy:cdnow.com [Sean Cier ] Alloy: Laserdiscs and Digipics ["Charles E. Kemp" ] Alloy: UK Chocolate [Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.com>] Alloy: OOh, kind words....... [Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.com>] Alloy: OOh, kind words....... [Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.com>] Alloy: I itch all over let me sleep... [Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.] Re: Alloy:cdnow.com [Elaine Linstruth ] Re: Alloy: cities [IT Admin - Govt Office North West ==================================================================== >For further information on the genitalia of our IT staff at >Britax-Excelsior visit our web pages at > > http://www.britax.co.uk/Neil's_Willy.html > >==================================================================== Now this is getting silly, even I'm laughing at my willy now! (It's tempting to make this real, but I'll resist... for the moment !) My original message was definitely a Freudian slip-and-a-half but I'm glad Slarv's follow-up brough a smile to your face, Beth. I had started my own version of "My Brain is Like a Sieve" but got writers block... (Apologies to Tom for ruining a damn fine song ). I want to have a pee, But I know that it just won't be, Cos' I'm laughing at that dole queue scene From the 'Full Monty' I want to have a pee But the man standing next to me Don't think that we're so funny My willy and me... RE: Birthday Tape Congratulations to all involved for a great birthday present. All the tracks have their merits (there's one that's so feint I can't hear it properly on my car stereo though, who is it?) However, I'm in love with Lissu's version of Pulp Culture. Somebody have this released on cd, pleeease! PC is one of my favourite TMDR tracks but this is even better. The barebones backing is great and your harmonies are wonderful, gives me goosebumps everytime I hear it. BTW - do any non-UK Alloyers get the word play references to Milky Way, Mars and Galaxy in Pulp Culture; they're all brands of chocolate snack bars. RE: Image Grabbing Crackers, Send me your snail mail address and I'll get it to you straight away. RE: T-shirt Salisbury, UK is definitely me and I'm up for 2 extra large. Don't forget I'm up for organising the conversion of UK monies, etc, for any UK alloyers ordering a t-shirt. Regards, Neil Leacy IT Support (nleacy@it-excelsior.britax.co.uk) ==================================================================== For further information on child car seats designed and produced by Britax-Excelsior visit our web pages at http://www.britax.co.uk/ ==================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 08:05:31 -0500 (EST) From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: crackers' photo I just went back & could finally view crackers picture in the scrapbook - it wouldn't let me see it the first couple of times. crackers, you kick ass! (pardon my colloquialism) Robin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 08:34:24 -0500 (EST) From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Toiletries & gnomes, birthday tape, crackers and t-shirt In a message dated 11/10/97 6:44:08 AM, Neil wrote: <> Yes, we have Mars and Milky Way here (not Galaxy though) and I'll send you the American versions of these if you will send me some Sherbet Fountain the lonely deprived addict Robin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 14:48:48 +0000 From: Lem Bingley Subject: Alloy: T-shirtcetera Shirtwise, Croydon, UK, is me, and I'd like a large one. BTW, I'll let Beth buy Slarv a shirt - I'm not going to fight for the privelege :-) At 03:26 p.m. 8/11/97 -0500, Robin wrote: >Mr. Gates has a reputed dislike >of bathing. It's not reputed, it's true! I sat six feet from the man at the time of the launch of Internet Explorer 3.0 and could smell him from there (surprisingly, he didn't smell like dollar bills). He looked like he'd been wearing his clothes (and maybe sleeping in them) for a week. Worse, two days later he was compelled to deliver a press conference to a bunch of analysts from the hangar deck of the USS Enterprise, after a bomb scare at the quay-side conference center. You may remember this occurence - it was picked up by CNN. I saw coverage on the TV in my hotel room and yes - he was STILL wearing the same stuff. Yuck. Almost as bad as our dear friend The_Corpse (sic) and his interview shorts. Incidentally, after listening to the sterling efforts of the Alloy crew on RealAudio I dug out 'Zal', The_Copse's debut album, this weekend. I'd forgotten how wonderful it was (and indeed is). Side B - Washing Up, Hawaii and the nameless Space Babe song are simply fantastic. Is there some way to get this online so everyone can hear it? And finally, the B-Day album - put me down for a page. Lem ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 10:07:44 -0500 From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Alloy: UK Chocolate At 08:34 AM 11/10/97 -0500, you wrote: > >In a message dated 11/10/97 6:44:08 AM, Neil wrote: ><Mars and Galaxy in Pulp Culture; they're all brands of chocolate snack >bars. >> > >Yes, we have Mars and Milky Way here (not Galaxy though) and I'll send you >the American versions of these if you will send me some Sherbet Fountain Okay, on behalf of another Alloy-ite, I ask the UK contingent: is there really a chocolate-orange Twix bar available on your side of the pond? And, if so, can you ship us a crate? A few years ago, I had a friend who was suffering from Wispa withdrawl - I managed to procure a case of them for him... strangely... in Moscow, from a street kiosk. Dirt cheap, I must say, and factory fresh (well... before their "eat by" date had passed, at least...) Hey, whatever works, right? Will offer up nice things in exchange for the rumored choco-orange Twix bars - really. Cheers, Melissa Melissa R. Jordan Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (301) 881-6858, ext. 4567 (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 97 01:12:56 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Alloy: I itch all over let me sleep... ...Well I don't itch all over, just where the mozzies have bitten me once or twice, but I really can't remember the last night I had over four hours' sleep (and before you smirk, would that it were half as exciting as you're thinking. :-) I was going to have a big catch-up sleep tonight but I've got a couple of very special images to put in the scrapbook and some rearranging to work on, so let me go make a real strong coffee and then I'll rip into to the pages. Anyways, enough about me. Sheesh Lissu, don't make it easy for me, I had to go back to a message you'd sent me in April '96 before I found a URL to your page. :-) Okay, I'd like to introduce a few valuable new additions to the scrapbook: Lissu, Europa, and Santa (resists urge to word comment along the lines of 'Slarv's plastic toy boy') - you're right though, it does work a whole lot better unzipped. ;-) Slarv, I've 'brushed your photo a bit so it looks a little less grainy too, let me know if you don't like it and I'll put the original pic up again. Thankyasir! cheers all, Paul. [Now sleep. Good. Better tomorrow. Not fall asleep in traffic. Also good. One question. Why can't I blink?] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 09:17:23 -0700 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: T-SHIRT: Final City List > Lissu Wrote: > > e)yep,..it's fine to use our track for the real audio > thingy,...hell,...where was the link page? > http://www.concentric.net/~kasman/aambc.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 18:54:38 +0000 From: Lem Bingley Subject: Alloy: Insults to Faces Okay, okay, who decided I look like Morrisey?! I've put up with being compared to Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode for years. But I'm not going to put up with this. Bring back GirlThursday from the Tap Room, who once described me as a 'cutie'. Now there was a woman with eyes in her head.... Lem ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 12:44:28 -0700 From: bcohen@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Barbara A Cohen via apocalypse ) Subject: Alloy: cities Hi all, I'd like to see my own current city-of-residence, Tucson AZ, added to the list....and thanks for putting up my scrapbook picture, Paul. Robin had a mohawk!?! how cool. Actually, I'm letting my hair grow out now in preparation for trying to find a "real" job in a few years. A long and arduous process. The hair, that is. And, as a random note, I spent this weekend in San Antonio TX to see my other favorite musicians, The Fixx. Anyone else like them? *B* Barbara Cohen Cosmochemical Cocktail Mixer, PhD to be ****************************************** I haven't come far enough and don't call me baby. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:15:10 -0800 (PST) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Alloy:cdnow.com Did you guys know that Blinded was on the Romy & Michele's High School Reunion movie soundtrack? I didn't. There are a few Dolby discs/laserdiscs for sale at cdnow.com, and a pretty cool system of links (all these late-night Hot-80's-Hits albums that include Blinded are linked, for example). Each album has a track list, which is nice.. it's a decent site. Included for sale is a UK AAMB.. and a remastered-for-surround edition of The Gate on laser. I didn't even know such an animal existed. - -- Elaine Linstruth Palmdale, CA (USA) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 16:14:53 -0500 From: "Mary A. Brown" Subject: Alloy: Insults to Faces Ah, Lem, Would it make you feel any better to know /my/ first reaction to seeing y= our = photo on your webpage was, "Whoa, he is really handsome!"? Jeez, brains = and = beauty too. Who could ask for more? Europa, who has finally returned from Illinois and illness (I haven't bee= n = purposely slighting you folks, honest!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 16:50:45 -0500 From: Sean Cier Subject: Re: Alloy:cdnow.com Elaine Linstruth wrote: > Included for sale is a UK AAMB.. and a remastered-for-surround edition of > The Gate on laser. I didn't even know such an animal existed. Incidentally, as of a couple days ago, The Gate is available on DVD (though I haven't gotten my hands on my copy yet, and I'm not sure which regional codings are available). So, y'all need to go get DVD players ;-) - -spc - -- /- Sean Cier -\ ( If I had'n'a shot poor Delia, I'd'a had her for my wife; Delia's gone ) \- http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~scier -/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 14:49:33 -0800 (PST) From: "Charles E. Kemp" Subject: Alloy: Laserdiscs and Digipics My copy of Gate that I got in january is just the straight stereo version. And it is still in the original shrinkwrap for all you collectors... ADDITIONALLY, although Paul may have missed it when I sent a note to him privately, my pic is available via anon ftp at ftp.netcom.com in the directory /pub/ce/cekemp ****** Charles E. Kemp ****** cekemp@netcom.com ****** (812) 597-5950 ****** Just for the sake of it make sure you're always frowning, it shows the world that you've got substance and depth. - Neil Tennant ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 17:54:49 -0500 From: Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.com> Subject: Alloy: UK Chocolate Hi Melissa, There was such a thing as an Orange Twix bar, but I think it was a limite= d editionthing, a bit like the Mint KitKat, which also didn't last long. Th= ey used to have them in the vending machines at Uni, and I think that Nadia owes most of her degree to the calories therein. Of course, as soon as my= degree finished I cooked all the way through her exams and revision. Anyway I digress. The only remaining orange chocolate bars remaining on t= he UK market, are Orange Aero, which is full of this revolting gooey stuff recovered from cooling nuclear reactors at Sizewell, and the exquisitely rich Terry's chocolate Orange Bar, a bastardisation, although rather a go= od one, of the original chocolate orange idea. And made, of course, in YORK,= the UK's Chocolate capital. While in America a few years ago, I was 'lucky' enough to visit York PA which is also home to Hershey, the chocolate maker. Unfortunately the product they make is so revolting I have no idea how anyone can eat it. British chocolate is without doubt the finest in the world, and I din't care what those stupid Belgians and their European Union say about it! the_copse ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 17:54:54 -0500 From: Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.com> Subject: Alloy: OOh, kind words....... Oh wow, someone listened to my album again!!!!!!! It's so weird being a closet artist!! = My new producer wants me to re-record the whole thing with him at his place, but you'd have to be Richard Branson to finance it, and anyway, I'= ve got so much new material to waste money on. If anyone who 'missed out' on the last tape run would like a gratis copy = of the last album, I'd be delighted to post one out to you: worldwide distribution is no problem. Mail me your postal address, and I'll do it tomorrow! Of course Lem coyly omits to mention his own sterling contribution to ZAL, the wicked verse 3 lyric to the coolest rap song eve= r, which we wrote together on the FES site almost a year ago. I wish I knew how to set things up on the web, and I'd have it there in no time - I'd b= e kind of like Prince, only not so famous, and with, of course, a better class of woman. By the way, the secret track is called 'Little Kitten Purr,' and was a bizarre encore song after all the really really heavy stuff. Please anyone who's even remotely interested, do send me your addresses! the_copse ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 17:56:20 -0500 From: Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.com> Subject: Alloy: OOh, kind words....... Oh wow, someone listened to my album again!!!!!!! It's so weird being a closet artist!! = My new producer wants me to re-record the whole thing with him at his place, but you'd have to be Richard Branson to finance it, and anyway, I'= ve got so much new material to waste money on. If anyone who 'missed out' on the last tape run would like a gratis copy = of the last album, I'd be delighted to post one out to you: worldwide distribution is no problem. Mail me your postal address, and I'll do it tomorrow! Of course Lem coyly omits to mention his own sterling contribution to ZAL, the wicked verse 3 lyric to the coolest rap song eve= r, which we wrote together on the FES site almost a year ago. I wish I knew how to set things up on the web, and I'd have it there in no time - I'd b= e kind of like Prince, only not so famous, and with, of course, a better class of woman. By the way, the secret track is called 'Little Kitten Purr,' and was a bizarre encore song after all the really really heavy stuff. Please anyone who's even remotely interested, do send me your addresses! the_copse PS - Lem, Morrissey is sexy, so whoever said it probably didn't mean any harm! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 17:54:51 -0500 From: Tim Dunn <113203.2623@compuserve.com> Subject: Alloy: I itch all over let me sleep... Hey Paul I have a really crappy computer, can I send stuff in the post? What kind = of stuff do you want? You're lucky in a way that you can't sleep. Sometimes up here it gets so boring that there remains nothing else to do but sleep in the afternoon a= nd hope you don't awake until the nuclear holocaust. Stay cool the_copse ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:11:48 -0800 (PST) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Re: Alloy:cdnow.com I am reserving judgement on DVD.. haven't heard much to convince me that it beats laser yet. ;) But y'all let me know what you think. - -- Elaine Linstruth Palmdale, CA (USA) On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Sean Cier wrote: > Incidentally, as of a couple days ago, The Gate is available on DVD > (though I haven't gotten my hands on my copy yet, and I'm not sure which > regional codings are available). So, y'all need to go get DVD players > ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 00:58:12 GMT From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: cities At 12:44 10/11/97 -0700, Barbara wrote: >Hi all, Actually, >I'm letting my hair grow out now in preparation for trying to >find a "real" job in a few years. A long and arduous process. >The hair, that is. Oh yes, I was a hippy when I left school in '72, and had shoulder length hair. I must scan my passport photo from that time so you can see what a transformation there's been. When I started work at the Unemployment Benefit Office some of our 'clients' couldn't decide what gender I was. I stuck with it until I got married in '75 when I had it cut to a more 'respectable' length, but my career didn't take off as a result. > And, as a random note, I spent this >weekend in San Antonio TX to see my other favorite musicians, >The Fixx. Anyone else like them? Sorry, don't know them. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 00:58:05 GMT From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: UK Chocolate At 10:07 10/11/97 -0500, Melissa wrote: > >Okay, on behalf of another Alloy-ite, I ask the UK contingent: is there >really a chocolate-orange Twix bar available on your side of the pond? >And, if so, can you ship us a crate? > I'm sure I've seen these, in fact I think my wife bought a pack a while ago to try them for the novelty value. Don't know if they were a trial idea that didn't really get off the ground because I haven't seen them in the shops recently. As I remember we weren't all that impressed with them. I'll keep an eye open just in case. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 00:59:28 GMT From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: Insults to Faces At 16:14 10/11/97 -0500, Europa wrote: > >Europa, who has finally returned from Illinois and illness (I haven't been >purposely slighting you folks, honest!) > > Sorry to hear you've been under the weather and hope you're fully recovered. Could it have been too much excitement caused by meeting Thomas? And is it a requirement to go to Illinois for illnesses? Slarvibarglhee ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 00:57:52 GMT From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: T-SHIRT: Final City List At 20:58 09/11/97 -0500, Beth wrote: >Hi, folks; > >By the way, speaking of Yanks who use and possibly misuse British >expressions (we weren't but I just did), I saw something the other >day that I just had to share with our British readers. As you may >know, in America, the word "shag" only refers to a particular dance >step or a kind of carpet. So I recently got behind a car at a >red light that featured a single bumper sticker, saying this in >very large letters: > >"I TO SHAG" > >Inside the heart shape was a little silhouette of a couple, clearly >doing the shag dance step. I got quite a laugh out of imagining the >looks that this person would get if they moved to the U.K. and >shipped their car over. Not to mention the occasional comment ("Who >doesn't?"). > >Cheers, >Beth > Another one which can cause confusion is one that Jasper Carrot (English comedian from Birmingham) used to talk about. A brand of Australian sticky tape known as Durex. In the UK Durex is the most popular make of condom which got Aussies visiting England strange looks when they asked for a 'roll of Durex' in their local hardware shop. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 00:59:21 GMT From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: I itch all over let me sleep... At 01:12 11/11/97 +1000, Paul wrote: >Slarv, I've 'brushed your photo a bit so it looks a little less grainy >too, let me know if you don't like it and I'll put the original pic up >again. Thankyasir! > I'll check it out tomorrow. >cheers all, > >Paul. >[Now sleep. Good. Better tomorrow. Not fall asleep in traffic. Also good. >One question. Why can't I blink?] > Hint. Try removing the matchsticks. S ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #247 ***************************