From: owner-alloy-digest To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V1 #85 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, 11 November 1996 Volume 01 : Number 085 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: The Flat Earth Society- old news to some, new to me Alloy: Astroturfs and Heliports Alloy: Announcing... Re: Alloy: The Flat Earth Society- old news to some, new to me Re: Alloy: The new rarities CD - whachafink? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bill Hargreaves Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 14:11:59 GMT Subject: Re: Alloy: The Flat Earth Society- old news to some, new to me At 16:31 09/11/96 -0500, Mary Ellen Spiegel wrote: >Dear Fellow Members, > >Forgive if this has been posted before, but I just ran into this in Fortean >Times and had to pass it on... > >>ASSOCIATED PRESS LANCASTER, Los Angeles County -- Fire destroyed the home international organization of contrarians. This was the first ( and only) item ever posted to me from the Flat Earth Society mailing list. I wonder whatever happened to it .... the mailing list, I mean > >Now a couple of questions arise.... > >Why did he use the phone first before getting his wife, a moored potential >Malatov Cocktail, out of the house? (and does he believe in this >new-fangled oxygen thingy, anyhow?)? > >Why does the Flat Earth Society (which led me to THIS FES site) have a web >page either? (Wouldn't computers also be a psuedo-science in their >postulations?) > >Where exactly are the demarcations of the ends of the earth? > >Nquiring minds need to know... > >Mary Ellen Spiegel > From this point on I'm afraid you lost me completely. >ME > >Emmy (phonetic [ever notice that word isn't? ;) > >Femme (again ;) > >pick one ;> > > >"Vedi, Vici, Veni" ME Spiegel copyright 1994 >(and I MEAN that... even if it's the ONLY thing I EVER get into Bartlett's >Familiar Quotations ;) > >"Pretty Mary bought some skates >Upon the ice to frisk >Wasn't she a silly girl >Her little * ?" > >-M. Gartner > >ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT!!! NO-ONE gets the JOKE..... > >What is this: * ???? > >It's an asterisk. > >Now go read that poem again; and if you have any more problems, turn in your >Mensa card... ;> > > My Dog!! The scales have finally fallen from my eyes. The last few times you posted this poem I just didn't get it, and by the sound of it, neither did anyone else. Maybe it's because we folk who are at least partially I.T. literate always think of "*" as a wild-card meaning a string of up to eight characters. Had we been ordinary mortals we might have got it right away. And incidentally, I never actually went ahead and applied for Mensa membership. I HATE tests like that and anyway, I'm happy to remain a neanderthal. Bill Hargreaves I.T. Administrator Government Office for the North West (UK) mail to bhargreaves.gonw.wh@gtnet.gov.uk ------------------------------ From: Philip Gordon <106046.770@compuserve.com> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 17:08:40 -0500 Subject: Alloy: Astroturfs and Heliports Yo Fellow Dobly Dudes, Paul’s last has finally jolted me into taking the flower for a minute or two (should that be a byte or two?). I apologise in advance for any spooling mistakes but my spawl-checker has bad attitude at the moment! I am (last time I looked) Phil, and I have been reading the mail a while and waiting for divine inspiration to occur! I've been Dobly Dude since early 'TGAOW' days when it became a favourite album to listen to, back in the early 80's, whilst 'Flying North' on the Motor ways of England, at night, in an old Audi, to a secret Lake District Hideaway where a friend and I put in many a long weekend of fixing up and renovation to an old cottage on a lake. Although some (most!) of the production quality was wasted, listening in a noisy car, driving far to fast, you had to go a very long way to find a more inspiring album of the day to drive at night to. It turned each otherwise boring journey, into a kinda surreal voyage of 'interconnectiveness' (whooh!!). Well that was then and this is now, not much has changed, TGAOW is still one of the best albums of all time in my humble opinion, and one of the things that I most admire about TMDR's work is that he doesn’t rush out the goods and spoil the quality! Frustrating though the wait always is, there is not a duff'un amongst the lot of em! Having said all that, come on Tom, you cant keep us waiting too much longer, I crave INPUT!!! This has already turned into much more of a 'bit' than intended, sorry! for those who have not yet fallen to sleep, here are my Tit bits!! ( You can still say that in Britain without getting arrested!) I will not offer answers to most of Paul’s' questions, as I agree with a combination of other peoples suggestions for Gig lists and CD's....however:- 2) A title would have to be suitably unusual, perhaps i) Adventures in early radio, and Late TV ii) The 'D' Files (too topical?) iii) Noise reduction, who needs it? (too political?) iv) Thomas Dolby...Sound surrounds (litigation probable?) v) The Golden Dolbys from Atlantis 5). A casual contact in a Cafe..... ' Hello, aren't you related to Eddison, or Gravity or something?' followed by... ' No, stop, don’t go.....come back.....damn! forgot to mention alloy!' Like another, I would find it difficult not to be a tech head, but hope to rap a while, about music given the chance. I would happily offer to get him an Earl Grey OR a Doublehalfcaffdecaff on rye (is that right?). And now a little ditty (sorry Paul you've see this already) Since the tender age of Two, When dad shut me in the Loo just to stop my mum from making lunch! Must of took me for a mule when they chucked me off a stool and then told me to become a monk! That’s it for now, thanks for listening, I ache all over, lend me sheep! Regards, Phil Gordon Trainee Space Cadet and Songsmith " No really I'm fine......Its just this planet sized boulder pressing down on my arm" ------------------------------ From: Paul Baily Date: Mon, 11 Nov 96 10:04:31 +1000 Subject: Alloy: Announcing... Hi y'all, Well the time has come. If you have the inclination, point your web browser to: http://www.powerup.com.au/~paulb/ Not all the pages are finished, heck not all of them are even started, but the Alloy pages are there as well as one or two others. See what you think, but please, be gentle, they're my first web pages, okay? :-) stay well, Paul. __________________________________________________________________________ Paul Baily paulb@powerup.com.au Consulting SE/IT Gun for hire http://www.powerup.com.au/~paulb/ Brisbane, Australia There is a spirit here that won't be broken. ------------------------------ From: Monya De Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 19:16:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Alloy: The Flat Earth Society- old news to some, new to me Hmm...that looks a bit familiar :) That article was actually on the FES website for a while--it's not still there is it guys?? Monya ------------------------------ From: Monya De Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 19:33:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Alloy: The new rarities CD - whachafink? > Okay, okay, I admit, the subject was a > blatant attempt at getting attention. So sue me. :-) Shame, Paul. I am so disappointed. > 1. If you had to live on a dessert island (or a crisp mountain hideaway) > for six months which ten (10) Thomas Dolby tracks would you want to take I Love You Goodbye, The Flat Earth, My Brain is Like a Sieve ( a live version--'88 tour I think??) Dissidents (just a cool song) Valley of the Mind's Eye, Screen Kiss, TMDR's Don't Turn Away, Screen Kiss, Hyperactive, One of our Submarines > > 2. If TMDR were to produce a rarities CD, what do you think would be a > good name for it? How about just "Rarities"? > 3. Let's say our intrepid Hero was going to do a tour (to promote the > rarities CD? ;-) - one catch: he wants *YOU* to pick the playlist! Go Ummm...whatever I said back when I asked everybody about their ideal TMDR concert. > > 4. You probably know what your all-time favourite Dolby track is. Which > one do you think Thomas' is? ...and if possible, why? Didn't he say I Love You Goodbye for the Tommy awards? Why? Because it's been -my- favorite song for I don't know how long now...no just kidding, maybe because it involved the collaboration of some great talent and the song just has a really good "meshing" quality to it. > 5. You wander into your favourite cafe for a quiet latte (or if in > California, a doublecafdecafcapwithhalfskimmilkandatwistoflemon) Stereotype California, will you... I'd ask him to come to Stanford to give one of his lectures! > > My only idea about an influence is Dan Hicks. Monya ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V1 #85 **************************