From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #238 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, September 8 1998 Volume 03 : Number 238 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: salon fun [TBlagg@aol.com] Re: Alloy: salon fun [TBlagg@aol.com] Alloy: grey/gray hair [Lem Bingley ] Re: Alloy: salon fun [RThurF@aol.com] Alloy: incredible looking trees [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: salon fun [IT Admin - Govt Office North West ] Re: Alloy: salon fun [TBlagg@aol.com] Re: Alloy: The Wedding Singer [TBlagg@aol.com] Alloy: Side Buttoned Shirts [John Schofield ] Re: Alloy: Scotland! - er - not. [IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Alloy: grey/gray hair I guess being fans of 80s music will tend to put a few of us at that 'certain' age. At my last trip to the barber's I was asked: "Been a stressful month then sir?" I said, "No. Why?" "Well, you've got an awful lot more grey than last month..." "Oh. Really? Thanks a bunch..." BTW: I just recently saw the movie The Wedding Singer. It's frightening how much better the music has aged than the fashions. Did we really dress like that? Oh my god, we did. Lem Robin spaketh thusly: > I went to the hairdressers this afternoon & the little 18 year old shampoo girl asked if I was getting my hair colored or cut... I said "cut". When I sat down & she saw all the grey in my hair, she said, "Are you sure you're not having it colored?" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 11:50:49 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: salon fun In a message dated 9/6/98 9:36:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, john@police.tas.gov.au writes: << Hey Robin, I've been totally grey since I was 24. It runs in the family. But, as I constantly point out to folks, at least I've got a good head of hair. Anyway it's a sign of wisdom and maturity! >> Yes, I really like it myself. It runs in my family also. I got my first few strands of grey hair when I was still in my teens, and now there are just streaks of it everywhere. I love it, personally... though it likes to be more stubborn than my other hair, and requires more styling gel! Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:00:53 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: incredible looking trees In a message dated 9/7/98 1:25:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mark writes: << I looked out and saw the moon as it lit the trees.. I pointed out to her how incredible it looked.. she just looked at me as if I was out of my mind.. >> Wow, then... she would think Dave and I, and everyone we know, were completely insane at all times. What would there be to talk about when travelling in the Mediterranian, besides how incredible everything is? Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:12:45 +0100 (BST) From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: salon fun At 11:37 07/09/98 +-1000, JOhn the Copper wrote: > > >Hey Robin, I've been totally grey since I was 24. It runs in the family. But, as I constantly point out to folks, at least I've got a good head of hair. Anyway it's a sign of wisdom and maturity!. > That must make me semi-wise and semi-mature....... or wise and mature in patches. That could explain my occasionally eratic behaviour. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:12:43 +0100 (BST) From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: salon fun At 02:33 07/09/98 EDT, TRev wrote: > >Hi Robin, > >Trying desparately to cover his embarrasement in front of everyone, my friend >quakily mumbled "err sorry, I mean cut and blow dry" The girl simply put her >hands on her hips, and coolly replied "Well please make your mind up sir, I >need to adjust the chair!" > >Now that's cool... > LOL, LOL, LOL. Excellent!! So, did her demeanor soften enough for you to pluck up courage to ask her for a date? Sorry, I meant 'did her demeanor soften enough forYOUR FRIEND to pluck up courage to ask her for a date?' Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:12:41 +0100 (BST) From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: grey/gray hair At 09:55 07/09/98 +0100, Lem wrote: > >BTW: I just recently saw the movie The Wedding Singer. It's frightening how >much better the music has aged than the fashions. Did we really dress like >that? Oh my god, we did. > >Lem > Hey, speak for yourself, sunbeam, I've never been a dedicated follower of fashion (which is a pity, as my wife only threw out my last pair of flared jeans a few months ago, just before they came back in fashion, not that they damn well fitted me any more anyway). Then again it was SHE who insisted I wear platform shoes at our wedding, along with the pinstripe suit with flared trousers. When platforms and flares went out of fashion (and not a moment too soon for me) I took the suit trousers in to a local tailor to have them taken in. The cheeky bugger asked me if I'd like him to make a jacket out of the bits he removed. Dog dammit, they weren't THAT wide. A waistcoat, maybe, but not a full jacket. At least as you get a little older you're not expected to be so up-to-date with fashion, not that that stops my daughter looking disapprovingly at some of the clothes I wear. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:26:43 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: The Wedding Singer In a message dated 9/7/98 12:15:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, help.gonw.st@gtnet.gov.uk writes: << At 09:55 07/09/98 +0100, Lem wrote: > >BTW: I just recently saw the movie The Wedding Singer. It's frightening how >much better the music has aged than the fashions. Did we really dress like >that? Oh my god, we did. > >Lem >> We just saw that too, just two days ago! They did a great job with recreating those fashions... it was really scary to think of some costuming department with stacks of this stuff. Except, they didn't seem to show the Duran Duran factor too much, and I recall a lot of girls in my high school styling their hair to look like John Taylor or Simon LeBon, wearing fedoras & men's suitjackets. Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 13:25:10 -0700 From: "Michael and Denise Luckey" Subject: Re: Alloy: The Wedding Singer Ahem, I still have my Flock Of Seagulls side-buttoned shirt that looked like a straight jacket when it was buttoned all the way up. The astonishing thing is... I still think it's a good looking shirt! M.L. - -----Original Message----- From: RThurF@aol.com To: alloy@smoe.org Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 9:32 AM Subject: Re: Alloy: The Wedding Singer > >In a message dated 9/7/98 12:15:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >help.gonw.st@gtnet.gov.uk writes: > ><< At 09:55 07/09/98 +0100, Lem wrote: > > > > >BTW: I just recently saw the movie The Wedding Singer. It's frightening how > >much better the music has aged than the fashions. Did we really dress like > >that? Oh my god, we did. > > > >Lem >> > >We just saw that too, just two days ago! They did a great job with recreating >those fashions... it was really scary to think of some costuming department >with stacks of this stuff. Except, they didn't seem to show the Duran Duran >factor too much, and I recall a lot of girls in my high school styling their >hair to look like John Taylor or Simon LeBon, wearing fedoras & men's >suitjackets. > >Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 14:13:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Re: Alloy: Scotland! In article <71fd362a.35f1b415@aol.com>, you wrote: >You can get all that by visiting sunny Coventry by the sea! Except of course >for men in skirts and that fum loving hippy the Loch Ness Monster.^^^^^ ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ Mmmmmmm... fum.... who doesn't love it. It's great on bun-fu. CRACKERS (With a Dr. Pepper Slurpee from hell!!) - -- Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan *** http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base *** *** http://www.angelfire.com/ma/hozervideo | Hozer Video Games *** Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 19:10:52 EDT From: TBlagg@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: salon fun Slarv, No chance! He never dared go there again! Trev... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 19:10:53 EDT From: TBlagg@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: The Wedding Singer Believe it or not, I've actually seen a pink Simon Le Bon suit up for sale for £200 in the "Record Collector". If I had 200 quid to spare I may have considered it............One of life's regrets... Trev... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:26:33 +-1000 From: John Schofield Subject: Alloy: Side Buttoned Shirts >Ahem, I still have my Flock Of Seagulls side-buttoned shirt that looked like >a straight jacket when it was buttoned all the way up. >The astonishing thing is... >I still think it's a good looking shirt! >M.L. I absolutely love those shirts !!!!! John ('Speedy' Halstead - I really must drop my professional name) (john@police.tas.gov.au) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 01:07:28 +0100 (BST) From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: Scotland! - er - not. At 17:58 05/09/98 EDT, Trev wrote: > >Anyway, Slarv, have a great time and be careful with the old Highland brew, >I've heard it's like lighter fluid... > >Trev..... > > Hang on, crossed wire somewhere .... I said I'd BEEN to Scotland, but was GOING to Wales, and now I've been. I think I must be charmed, as it stopped raining whenever we got off the coach, same as last time. As with our last trip, most of our fellow travellers were retired, or near to it, with only one young (UNMARRIED hrumph, hrumphh, damn disgraceful!!!!) couple. Both were waiting for exam results. He for his degree in Drama, she for her nursing resits. Unfortuantely, Lyn and I were sat in front of two 'see it and say it' little old ladies. They insisted on telling each other what they could see whenever they weren't talking about their families. So it'd be .. 'Look, a brick lorry.' 'Hm, Safeways.' 'A lot of black clouds.' 'All that traffic.' '25 miles to Newport.' 'Look at the trees.' 'There's the sea.' 'It's raining again.' etc. etc. Bless 'em. We stopped at Monmouth for lunch, on the way. A quaint little town, but it looked like it could do with cleaning up. There was no litter in the streets, but everywhere looked grubby, like it could do with a lick of paint. As with a lot of these places, many small shops are closed and boarded up. Arrived at the motel, two miles outside Tenby, in the pouring rain. They were very welcoming, but were new to the hotel business, and it showed. Run by two brothers, their wives and teenage children, it's in need of some renovation, but it was clean and dry and the food was simple but quite acceptable. There was a colour TV in the roomn, but only an indoor aerial, so we had to twiddle it about to get any picture at all. There was 'entertainment' laid on for Friday and Saturday night which I jokingly said would be Bingo ... and it WAS!!! We didn't stay in for that, but went for a stroll. On Saturday we had a short trip into Tenby, a smallish coastal village, built on cliffs, with beautiful beaches frequented by the surfing fraternity, though they were not much in evidence as it was a flat calm. After wandering around there for a couple of hours we were taken to Pembroke, another small town, but this time built on a hairpin bend in the of a river, with a castle at its apex. After a walk up and down the high street and a tour of the castle, it was back to the motel for dinner. This was to be followed by more entertainment, this time a singer and guitarist called Ron. We didn't stay in to see him either. On Sunday wer set off back, stopping at Chepstow which is best known for its racecourse and castle. After lunch there we set off along the Wye valley, folloiwng the route of Offa's Dyke and were amused to see a charity raft race taking place in the river. Arricved home at about 6:30 Sunday night to find the house had NOT been burnet down, or destroyed by the kids, in fact it was reasonably clean and tidy. So it was a nice break, cheap and cheerful and now I can get on with decorating the living room in the last of my two week breaks, safe in the knowledge that all will be chaos when I return to work. TTFN Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 23:16:45 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Scotland! - er - not. In a message dated 9/7/98 8:09:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, help.gonw.st@gtnet.gov.uk writes: << Unfortuantely, Lyn and I were sat in front of two 'see it and say it' little old ladies. They insisted on telling each other what they could see whenever they weren't talking about their families. So it'd be .. 'Look, a brick lorry.' 'Hm, Safeways.' 'A lot of black clouds.' 'All that traffic.' '25 miles to Newport.' 'Look at the trees.' 'There's the sea.' 'It's raining again.' etc. etc. >> Slarv, you've brought back painful memories of our bus ride from London to Edinburgh. It was the height of summer 1989... the bus was not air conditioned, nor could the windows be opened, and to top it all off, the grouchy punk girl sitting in front of us had her headphones on & was singing along with it, VERY off-key and very loudly. My friend asked her to stop singing because it was annoying, but the girl didn't. She eventually drifted off to sleep though, thank the lord. Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 23:41:39 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: incredible looking trees Robin.. My point exactly.. Mark ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #238 ***************************