From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #84 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 Wednesday, May 14 1997 Volume 02 : Number 084 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Urgent Burgers [Brian Clayton ] Alloy: history books [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: history books [Bill Hargreaves ] Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers ["Mary A. Brown" ] Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers [bcohen@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Barbara A Cohen via ap] Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers [Brian Clayton ] Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers [Sam Bailey,msuspc01.sbaile01@eds.com] Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers ["Mary A. Brown" ] Alloy: Yikes! [Paul Baily ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 23:23:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Clayton Subject: Alloy: Urgent Burgers As the current Burger King TV ad campaign continues to plunder rock hits of the past, it is perhaps not too surprising that they have managed to stumble across Our Founder, albeit it in one of his supporting roles as keyboard player on Foreigner's "Urgent." We can only hope that McDonald's doesn't escalate by licensing "Urges" for their own promotions...although a Mac Attack would be one urge I wouldn't be prepared to talk about... BC - --- Brian Clayton "So Zathrus talk to dirt...and to walls...and stemish@kumr.lns.com to ceiling--but dirt is closer." -- Zathrus ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 08:16:32 -0400 (EDT) From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: history books I heard on a public radio news show about a series of history books published recently by Cambridge University Press, which are "scratch 'n' sniff" and cover such topics in European history as the Roman baths, Old London, the plague, etc. The series is called Smelly Old History, and I'm wondering: has anyone at Alloy gotten to sample these? or know what I'm talking about?? Apparently kids love these books (one child in this woman's class got to sniff the book's version of King Henry VIII's socks) I'm SERIOUS Robin :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 14:33:05 +0100 (BST) From: Bill Hargreaves Subject: Re: Alloy: history books At 08:16 13/05/97 -0400, you wrote: >I heard on a public radio news show about a series of history books published >recently by Cambridge University Press, which are "scratch 'n' sniff" and >cover such topics in European history as the Roman baths, Old London, the >plague, etc. The series is called Smelly Old History, and I'm wondering: has >anyone at Alloy gotten to sample these? or know what I'm talking about?? > >Apparently kids love these books (one child in this woman's class got to >sniff the book's version of King Henry VIII's socks) I'm SERIOUS > >Robin :) > > I haven't seen the books, but I DID get a scratch and sniff post card at Jorvic (the Viking museum at York) a couple of years ago. It had two s-n-s pictures on it; the first was a Viking latrine and I can't remember what the other one was, even though I only threw it away last week. The whole museum is a sniffing experience as you go on a tour back through time to the Viking era, travel ling backwards (literally) on a small electric golf truck type of thing, through various time periods until you get to the life sized model of the Viking settlement, which is full of interesting smells. My wife and I wanted to take the kids, but they didn't want to go, as they'd already been with their school, so we went on our own which was probably a more rewarding experience for us. BH ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 09:48:27 -0400 From: "Melissa R. Jordan" Subject: Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers At 11:23 PM 5/12/97 -0700, you wrote: > >As the current Burger King TV ad campaign continues to plunder >rock hits of the past, it is perhaps not too surprising that >they have managed to stumble across Our Founder, albeit it in >one of his supporting roles as keyboard player on Foreigner's >"Urgent." Brian - how funny! I saw this commercial for the 8 zillionth time last night, and I thought about plugging in the company laptop and zapping something out about it. Beat me to it. Every time I see it, I think how strange... TMDR is playing keyboards in a Burger King commercial. (Doesn't make me want to run out for a Whopper, though.) Don't you all feel very musically targeted by a lot of commercials right now? (BK, Volkswagen [Da Da Da], etc.) And Brian, having urges for anything from Mickey D's is a scary thought. Cheers, Melissa (although my mom still swears their fries are the best...) - ------------------- Melissa R. Jordan - ------------------- Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (301) 881-6858 (phone) (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:10:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mary A. Brown" Subject: Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers > Brian - how funny! I saw this commercial for the 8 zillionth time last > night, and I thought about plugging in the company laptop and zapping > something out about it. Beat me to it. Every time I see it, I think how > strange... TMDR is playing keyboards in a Burger King commercial. Guess great minds think alike because I've been meaning to do this too! I also hope Difford and Tilbrook are making a mint for letting them use Tempted. > And Brian, having urges for anything from Mickey D's is a scary thought. Well, a Big Mac Attack is mentioned in Magic's Wand which mutated into Puppet Theater. I guess Hyperactive could be used for Long John Silver's - "it /is/ a Wrap Attack..." Mary (who's damn tired of being mistaken for a Spice Girl!) ________________________________________________________________________________ Mary A. Brown, Genetic Ingenue | Department of Biochemistry Phone: (606) 257-7039,-7349 | University of Kentucky Fax: (606) 323-1037 | 800 Rose St. E-mail: mabrown@pop.uky.edu | Lexington, KY 40536-0084 "What I used to think was me is just a fading memory/I looked them right in the eye and said goodbye " Trent Reznor ________________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 08:38:24 -0700 From: bcohen@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Barbara A Cohen via apocalypse ) Subject: Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers > > Well, a Big Mac Attack is mentioned in Magic's Wand which > mutated into Puppet Theater. I guess Hyperactive could > be used for Long John Silver's - "it /is/ a Wrap Attack..." > Actually, one I've always wanted to see is Devo's "Too Much Paranoias" where they actually use the lines Think I got a Big Mac attack-- hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don't upset us; all we ask is that we do it your way (there's too much paranoias!) to some funky Devo beat. Now THAT I'd go to McD's for. On an unrelelated but definitely Dolby note, I finally last month got around to ordering "Gothic" from CDNow on the web, butthey canceled my order (while still cashing the check, mind you) and then said that they no longer carry that item!! Any ideas on where to get this now??!!?? Thanks! *B* Barbara Cohen Cosmochemical Cocktail Mixer, PhD to be ****************************************** For a real sweet time, call C6 H12 O6. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 11:18:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Clayton Subject: Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers On Tue, 13 May 1997, Mary A. Brown wrote: > I guess Hyperactive could > be used for Long John Silver's - "it /is/ a Wrap Attack..." Oh no, here we go... At least the Navy isn't likely to replace "It's not just a job, it's an adventure" with "The Winter Boys are freezing in their Spam tin" anytime soon. > Mary (who's damn tired of being mistaken for a Spice Girl!) Oh? Which one? BC - --- Brian Clayton "So Zathrus talk to dirt...and to walls...and stemish@kumr.lns.com to ceiling--but dirt is closer." -- Zathrus ------------------------------ Date: 14/05/97 6:22 am From: Sam Bailey,msuspc01.sbaile01@eds.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers It will now be just a matter of time until Taco Bell follows the trend by purchasing the rights to "Hot Sauce" for their line of "wild" tacos and burritos. ---------- |From: owner-alloy |To: SBAILE01 |Subject: Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers |Date: Tuesday, May 13, 1997 11:42AM | |> Brian - how funny! I saw this commercial for the 8 zillionth time last |> night, and I thought about plugging in the company laptop and zapping |> something out about it. Beat me to it. Every time I see it, I think how |> strange... TMDR is playing keyboards in a Burger King commercial. | |Guess great minds think alike because I've been meaning to |do this too! I also hope Difford and Tilbrook are making |a mint for letting them use Tempted. | |> And Brian, having urges for anything from Mickey D's is a scary thought. | |Well, a Big Mac Attack is mentioned in Magic's Wand which |mutated into Puppet Theater. I guess Hyperactive could |be used for Long John Silver's - "it /is/ a Wrap Attack..." | |Mary (who's damn tired of being mistaken for a Spice Girl!) | | |__________________________________________________________________________ _ ____ |__ | Mary A. Brown, Genetic Ingenue | Department of Biochemistry | Phone: (606) 257-7039,-7349 | University of Kentucky | Fax: (606) 323-1037 | 800 Rose St. | E-mail: mabrown@pop.uky.edu | Lexington, KY 40536-0084 | | "What I used to think was me is just a fading memory/I looked them right |in the eye and said goodbye " Trent Reznor |__________________________________________________________________________ _ ____ |__ | | | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 18:39:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mary A. Brown" Subject: Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers > It will now be just a matter of time until Taco Bell follows the trend by > purchasing the rights to "Hot Sauce" for their line of "wild" tacos and > burritos. Considering it's a George Clinton tune, I wouldn't feel so bad. And we ought not to forget that TMDR did write the music for the Honda Scooter commercial with Grace Jones (some of which ended up on Aliens). If this trend makes you cry you, does that make it a "Commercial Breakup"? Oh, and Barbara, I have no idea if they are reputable or not but Siren Disc on the Web supposedly sells Gothic (gotta get my copy one of these days). Speaking of which, I would have really like to have heard how the scene for Stigmata... was described to TMDR so he could write the proper mood music! The grande dame of Dolby ________________________________________________________________________________ Mary A. Brown, Genetic Ingenue | Department of Biochemistry Phone: (606) 257-7039,-7349 | University of Kentucky Fax: (606) 323-1037 | 800 Rose St. E-mail: mabrown@pop.uky.edu | Lexington, KY 40536-0084 "And I wriggle like a fish caught on dry land/Struggle to avoid any helping hand " Sting ________________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 97 09:12:08 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Alloy: Yikes! Hi y'all, I seriously screwed up the addressing on that last message I forwarded to the list on Sam's behalf - not enough coffee. Funny thing about computers, they do exactly what you tell them to. How bad? I nearly had the listserver forward the message to all 500 people in my organisation - I know I wanted the list to grow but that was a bit over the top! 8-| Well if you're going to do something you may as well do it well, eh? If you reply to the "Alloy: Urgent Burger" thread, please, *please* check who it's addressed to before you send it. It should only be going to alloy@smoe.org Apologies for the botch-up, I'll be fine as soon as my nerves calm down...should be any day now... Paul. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #84 **************************