From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #272 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, October 13 1998 Volume 03 : Number 272 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Totally Off Topic... [MacSuirtain ] Alloy: Curiosity/Mail lists [John Schofield ] Re[2]: Alloy: 80s bands & music camp [John_Hanson_at_FRMA01@ccmailgw.mcga] Re: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #268 [Tim_Dunn.JBA_HEATHROW.SPL_EXTERNAL@j] Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #271 [Applebabe2@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Thomas vs Cyndi [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #271 [John_Hanson_at_FRMA01@ccmailgw.mcgaw] Re: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #268 [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: speaking of encounters... [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Thomas vs Cyndi [Chris Cracknell ] Re: Alloy: Thomas vs Cyndi [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Melissa's encounters [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Curiosity/Mail lists [IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Alloy: Totally Off Topic... ...but when am I ever on-topic these days??? More "friendly actor overload": So, I'm back in Baltimore today, crossing a street, when a couple in a Jeep Cherokee wave me down -- it's the lovely Michelle Forbes and (the equally lovely) Reed Diamond, asking me how my weekend's going, and making sure that I'll be around for my tour of the Homicide set on Tuesday. I can't imagine in L.A. two actors actually flagging down fans to ask them how their weekend is going!! They even remembered my name. Coolness in the extreme. I tell you, if these guys end up getting married, I'm sending them one hell of a present. Now, if only they could get me a job... :-) Already looking forward to getting my pictures developed on Tuesday evening. Cheers, Melissa ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:46:42 +-1100 From: John Schofield Subject: Alloy: Curiosity/Mail lists Robyn M wrote: > Let's see....Currently, I belong to: > > 7 different lists involving the MUD I'm an imm on. > Alloy, of course. > The Jeff McBride news list. > An informal humour list. > The list for the local anime club. > This Is True (a weird-news kind of list). > The Dominion info list (SciFi Channel) > > I also casually read a few online message boards - > > the MAME list on Dave's Videogame classics > the discussion list at Animation Nerd's Paradise > the discussion list at Animation Blast > MagicTalk (a forum for stage magicians) etc... Where the heck do you find the time. I subscribed to the Fairport list (thanks Slarv) for a couple of weeks but have had to cancel due to the huge list that met me every morning at work - not to mention the pages and pages on a monday morning. Alloy has just about the right amount of mail that I can actually read and enjoy all of the postings and because of the size of the readership I don't feel too shy about jumping in occasionally with a comment or two (de-lurk mode). On a TMDR related incident - I was channel flipping last night when I happened across a documentary on stage productions or the like - right in the middle of the Cyndi Lauper/Thomas Dolby stage battle from Pink Floyd's live 'The Wall'. I'd forgotten how bloody good it was to see our patron up there in the flesh (in a celuloid fashion). Must get a copy of that video... Hey Robyn, isn't some of that MAME stuff brilliant. It brings back so many memories. Cheers y'all, John (john@police.tas.gov.au) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:53:47 -0500 From: John_Hanson_at_FRMA01@ccmailgw.mcgawpark.baxter.com Subject: Re[2]: Alloy: 80s bands & music camp - --IMA.Boundary.585971809 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: cc:Mail note part = Slarv did write.. >No you're not, I've never seen it either, on any day of the week. As a = >general rule I dislike all hospital dramas, unless their comedy dramas, = >e.g. MASH. = >Slarv = I've never seen it either, and I don't particularly want to.. it's = called "Urgences" over here & it's dubbed. Renamed into French in li= ne = with their policy of giving French names to programmes where the new= = neam virtually tells you the whole story of the film... eg "Baywatch= " = becomes "Alerte =E0 Malibu Beach" (no translation needed !) and "Age= nts = Toutes Risques" is in fact "A-Team". = QLCSAV = John = PS Massive Attack are brilliant. "There's a man that lives next door= , = in my neighbourhood" etc etc. = PPS Slarv... how's yer bike ? (Who needs "Friends" or "ER" when you'= ve = got the story of Slarv's bike... much more relevent and interesting = !) = www.mygale.org/04/jwh - --IMA.Boundary.585971809 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="RFC822 message headers" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: cc:Mail note part Content-Disposition: inline; filename="RFC822 message headers" Received: from ns1.baxter.com (159.198.180.56) by ccmailgw.mcgawpark.baxter.com with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 2.1 Enterprise) id 00623DD4; Sun, 11 Oct 98 08:22:16 - -0500 Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.128.1.71]) by ns1.baxter.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA10355 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:21:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: from smoe.org (080020908e73.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.147.247]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA14752; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 09:18:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by smoe.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/listq-jane) with SMTP id JAA22090; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 09:18:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by smoe.org (bulk_mailer v1.10); Sun, 11 Oct 1998 09:18:36 -0400 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/listq-jane) id JAA22021 for alloy-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 09:17:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ginas.gtnet.gov.uk (ginas.gtnet.gov.uk [195.44.96.1]) by smoe.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/daemon-mode-relay2) with ESMTP id JAA22013 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 09:17:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d48.gtnet.gov.uk (d48 [195.44.98.48]) by ginas.gtnet.gov.uk with SMTP id OAA03754 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 14:17:38 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 14:17:38 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19981011142955.1b17f88a@mail> X-Sender: az36@mail X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: alloy@smoe.org From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: 80s bands & music camp Sender: owner-alloy@smoe.org Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. Precedence: bulk - --IMA.Boundary.585971809-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:47:17 +0100 From: Tim_Dunn.JBA_HEATHROW.SPL_EXTERNAL@jba.co.uk Subject: Re: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #268 Hi Stacey, and welcome to Alloy, although you seem to have already go tthe hang of it! << I am a mother of two children, Lindsey is 11 and James is 9. I have been married to my husband George for...... EVER!!! Actually, 12 years this coming March. We live on an apple and assorted fruit farm in the Hudson Valley of N.Y. State. His fathers owns and runs it, George helps out making the cider this time of year.>> This sounds rather like my idea of heaven - I had no idea that you had cider over there! As a confirmed non-beer drinker cider, especially the REAL stuff, has always been my tipple. I bet you've got some merry evenings coming up! And I'm assuming that's Upstate NY? I was there a few years ago, and it was like the Lake District without the rain, which is as high praise as you can get. see you later the_copse ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:11:24 EDT From: Applebabe2@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #271 In a message dated 10/12/98 3:40:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, owner-alloy- digest@smoe.org writes: << No, I've never seen it! I think I'm the only one on the face of the earth who hasn't. Robin T >> You and I both Robin. I am lucky if I get to watch my favorite show, The X- files, when I want to! Stacey W. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:00:15 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Thomas vs Cyndi In a message dated 10/12/98 1:49:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, john@police.tas.gov.au writes: << On a TMDR related incident - I was channel flipping last night when I happened across a documentary on stage productions or the like - right in the middle of the Cyndi Lauper/Thomas Dolby stage battle from Pink Floyd's live 'The Wall'. I'd forgotten how bloody good it was to see our patron up there in the flesh (in a celuloid fashion). Must get a copy of that video... >> I never knew he once battled Cyndi Lauper on Pink Floyd's stage! I saw parts of that same Pink Floyd's "The Wall" live, televised in England when I was there, and playing at a friend's house during a party... but I didn't catch the Dolby/Lauper battle sequence. I'll bet Thomas won! Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:32:06 -0500 From: John_Hanson_at_FRMA01@ccmailgw.mcgawpark.baxter.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #271 - --IMA.Boundary.787302809 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: cc:Mail note part X-Files: "A la Fronti=E8re du R=E9el" = Depressing, ain't it... = John ______________________________ Reply Separator __________________________= _______ Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #271 Author: Applebabe2@aol.com at Internet Date: 12/10/1998 10:11 = In a message dated 10/12/98 3:40:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, owner-alloy= - - = digest@smoe.org writes: = << = No, I've never seen it! I think I'm the only one on the face of the eart= h who = hasn't. = = Robin T >> You and I both Robin. I am lucky if I get to watch my favorite show, The = X- = files, when I want to! Stacey W. - --IMA.Boundary.787302809 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="RFC822 message headers" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: cc:Mail note part Content-Disposition: inline; filename="RFC822 message headers" Received: from ns2.baxter.com (159.198.1.38) by ccmailgw.mcgawpark.baxter.com with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 2.1 Enterprise) id 0062638C; Mon, 12 Oct 98 09:18:10 - -0500 Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.128.1.71]) by ns2.baxter.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA03931 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:17:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from smoe.org (080020908e73.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.147.247]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA14544; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:13:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by smoe.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/listq-jane) with SMTP id KAA19214; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:12:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: by smoe.org (bulk_mailer v1.10); Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:12:53 -0400 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/listq-jane) id KAA19195 for alloy-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:12:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from imo24.mx.aol.com (imo24.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.68]) by smoe.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/daemon-mode-relay2) with ESMTP id KAA19191 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:11:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Applebabe2@aol.com Received: from Applebabe2@aol.com by imo24.mx.aol.com (IMOv16.10) id SVCDa02341 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:11:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:11:24 EDT To: alloy@smoe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #271 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 224 Sender: owner-alloy@smoe.org Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. Precedence: bulk - --IMA.Boundary.787302809-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:06:24 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #268 In a message dated 10/12/98 6:57:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Tim_Dunn.JBA_HEATHROW.SPL_EXTERNAL@jba.co.uk writes: << And I'm assuming that's Upstate NY? I was there a few years ago, and it was like the Lake District without the rain, which is as high praise as you can get. >> mmm, you're making me homesick, copse! I'm from the same general area of the state as Stacey... and yes, it is INCREDIBLY beautiful there. You're right, so much of England's countryside reminded me of it when we passed through. But depending on where you are in upstate NY, and what time of year it is, the weather can be challenging! Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:28:15 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: speaking of encounters... My beloved band Royal Crown Revue arranged to play a daytime gig in Boston yesterday, in between one in NJ the night before and one in Philly that same night... they were absolutely amazing! The thing Robert Fripp said about a live concert being like a hot date really applied here as far as I was concerned! Their show is a blast, and if they come through your town I highly recommend everyone going to see them. They're incredible musicians, you will have a great time I promise. They're just at the beginning of their tour right now, so look for them! And my lovely long-distance encounter... at the end of their set, from my place toward the front of the massive crowd I waved at Eddie and... he smiled & waved back! He's very nice! If only he had known how wild he'd been driving me through the whole show in that all-black zoot suit of his.. ay caramba! Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:39:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Re: Alloy: Thomas vs Cyndi In article <5b4433b0.3622197f@aol.com>, you wrote: >I never knew he once battled Cyndi Lauper on Pink Floyd's stage! I ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ Oooh!!! I just got a mental picture of the two of them wrestling in a pool full of vasceline (or Spam) infront of a cheering crowd. Excuse me while I go off to my fortress of solitude. CRACKERS (Girls just wanna have Tom 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/index.html | Hozer Video Games * Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 19:08:39 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Thomas vs Cyndi In a message dated 10/12/98 4:44:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, crackers@hwcn.org writes: << Oooh!!! I just got a mental picture of the two of them wrestling in a pool full of vasceline (or Spam) infront of a cheering crowd. >> "well, that explains our little backstage porkfest!" - - Ralph, in the closing battlescene of "Rockula" sorry, it just sprung to mind (stop looking at me that way!) Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 19:29:39 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Melissa's encounters In a message dated 10/12/98 5:25:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, wearart@erols.com writes: << More "friendly actor overload": So, I'm back in Baltimore today, crossing a street, when a couple in a Jeep Cherokee wave me down -- it's the lovely Michelle Forbes and (the equally lovely) Reed Diamond, asking me how my weekend's going, and making sure that I'll be around for my tour of the Homicide set on Tuesday. I can't imagine in L.A. two actors actually flagging down fans to ask them how their weekend is going!! They even remembered my name. >> Melissa, you're the only person I know who is stalked by celebrities! Be sure to tell this to Lars when he calls! Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:51:13 +0100 (BST) From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: Curiosity/Mail lists At 16:46 12/10/98 +-1100, John wrote: > > >Where the heck do you find the time. I subscribed to the Fairport list (thanks Slarv) for a couple of weeks but have had to cancel due to the huge list that met me every morning at work - not to mention the pages and pages on a monday morning. > Hmmm, strange. I tried to resubscribe recently and my mail disappeared into the ether and I got no reply whatsoever, not even a bounce from an unknown address. Maybe I've been blackballed (oooh, er, missus). Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:51:11 +0100 (BST) From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: TV Dramas (was 80s bands & music camp) At 10:03 11/10/98 -0400, Melissa wrote: > >I love >gritty UK cop shows -- Prime Suspect, Cracker - and now, Touching Evil. >Damn good stuff. My favorite show, though, is Homicide: Life on the >Street. Then you have seen Chorlton-cum-Hardy, and other areas of Manchester, but you probably didn't know it. Lots of Cracker and some of Prime Suspect was recorded in Chorlton, in fact the supermarket car park where the detective (whose name I can't remember) in Cracker was lured away and the murdered by Robert Carlyle (who played the serial killer who'd gone bonkers following the Hillsborough football stadium disaster) was my local Safeways. Sometimes we forget to follow the plot because we're too busy playing 'spot the location.' Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:51:15 +0100 (BST) From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Re[2]: Alloy: 80s bands & music camp At 09:53 12/10/98 -0500, the other John (from France) wrote: > > > I've never seen it either, and I don't particularly want to.. it's > called "Urgences" over here & it's dubbed. Renamed into French in line > with their policy of giving French names to programmes where the new > neam virtually tells you the whole story of the film... eg "Baywatch" > becomes "Alerte à Malibu Beach" (no translation needed !) and "Agents > Toutes Risques" is in fact "A-Team". and also > X-Files: "A la Frontière du Réel" > > Depressing, ain't it.. > > QLCSAV > > John > Very strange. I wonder why they don't just do a straight translation of the titles. Must be the Gallic mentality or something I suppose. > PS Massive Attack are brilliant. "There's a man that lives next door, > in my neighbourhood" etc etc. I haven't heard anything of theirs except the last single, and Unfinished Sympathy which is one of the very, very few singles I've ever bought. Did I tell you I know their manager? At least, the last thing I heard he was their manager. It was a friend of mine who used to work for Island Records years ago. I tried to contact him there a couple of years ago, but he wasn't with them any more, but the chap who replied told me he was managing Massive Attack. They're playing Manchester in November or December; I must try to contact him again. > > PPS Slarv... how's yer bike ? (Who needs "Friends" or "ER" when you've > got the story of Slarv's bike... much more relevent and interesting !) > Not yet delivered, I'm afraid. It was an estimated four week delivery, and I'm still waiting. It must be nearly four weeks now. Gosh, I'm jolly excited about it. I'm going to keep it clean, and well lubricated, and beautifully maintained, honest. I do hope it's soon, as my left crank works loose every couple of weeks and one of these days it's going to fall off half way between home and the office. I keep tightening it up, but I'm frightened of stripping the thread completely....... hey, you're RIGHT, it IS more interesting than 'Friends' and/or 'ER.' Slarv Slarv ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #272 ***************************