From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #169 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, February 17 1999 Volume 03 : Number 169 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Toronto weather forecast [bmcnamee@NOSPAM.yahoo.com (Brent McNamee)] Re: Looking for Fruvous Transcriptions [bmcnamee@NOSPAM.yahoo.com (Brent ] Re: FruCon2 Shirts in the Mail [chad schrock ] Re: The 21st **TICKET PICKUP INFO** [bmcnamee@NOSPAM.yahoo.com (Brent McN] Re: dares [chad schrock ] Re: Conversions ["^kat^" ] Re: MF on Late Night ["Bridget" ] Re: Conversions ["Bridget" ] Re: you learn something new every day... ["Bridget" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 04:01:15 GMT From: bmcnamee@NOSPAM.yahoo.com (Brent McNamee) Subject: Toronto weather forecast Hi all! For all you Americans coming up here for FrüCon, you can get the latest weather forecast (in degrees F, no less!) at: http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/Toronto_CN_f.html It's raining right now. Rain! In February! Sheesh! -----------[ Brent McNamee - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA ]----------- bmcnamee@NOSPAM.yahoo.com | Eagles may fly above it all, (remove the NOSPAM. to mail me) | but weasels are never sucked http://www.interlog.com/~brentm/ | into jet engines. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 04:10:14 GMT From: bmcnamee@NOSPAM.yahoo.com (Brent McNamee) Subject: Re: Looking for Fruvous Transcriptions On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:40:13 -0600, Keith Rose wrote: >Greetings All! > I'm looking for anyone who would have any transcriptions of any Fruvous >tunes, mainly for "Gulf War Song." The lyrics, if that's what you mean, can be found at http://www.fruvous.com Please, please, PLEASE kill your signature, or at least shorten it a LOT. .sig's should normally be no more than four lines. Thanks! -----------[ Brent McNamee - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA ]----------- bmcnamee@NOSPAM.yahoo.com | Eagles may fly above it all, (remove the NOSPAM. to mail me) | but weasels are never sucked http://www.interlog.com/~brentm/ | into jet engines. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:17:17 -0500 From: chad schrock Subject: Re: FruCon2 Shirts in the Mail Nate DeRose wrote: > > I'd like to second that! Third! > Very professional job... on the shirts AND packaging! > I love the care instruction sheet... heheheheh that was cute. :) even the mailing label and the top 10.... > Thanks guys! Thanks again! > nate (who is very happy that he got his shirts before leaving...) > :) > > valerie jones wrote: > > > > got my shirt today and it looks GREAT! thanks, marianne & brent -- > > excellent work! even the packaging was special. :) > > ~valerie - -- chad at radix dot net The office of this and that in .sigs, not to be confused with the office of redundancy in .sigs office has informed us that the previous .sig about the clapper was in poor taste. we at .sig, Inc. told them to off. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 03:57:44 GMT From: bmcnamee@NOSPAM.yahoo.com (Brent McNamee) Subject: Re: The 21st **TICKET PICKUP INFO** On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:02:27 -0500, Nate DeRose wrote: >This is not what I was told. > >I emailed the manager at Lee's, and he told me that he would have a list >at the door of people with tickets, and you just need your ID to get in. > >I assume this is the case, and if it isn't, at least I know I'll get in, >since they said I could. You didn't order your tickets through Ticketmaster, then. If it was TicketWeb, I have no idea how they work. Your info is probably correct... -----------[ Brent McNamee - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA ]----------- bmcnamee@NOSPAM.yahoo.com | Eagles may fly above it all, (remove the NOSPAM. to mail me) | but weasels are never sucked http://www.interlog.com/~brentm/ | into jet engines. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:10:17 -0500 From: chad schrock Subject: Re: dares petit_chou@juno.com wrote: > Ross asked: > (just what are peeps?) > > Well, Ross, Peeps are an Easter time confection. They are small, > puffed marshmallow concoctions formed in the shape of a chick, > covered in coloured sugar. They are traditionally yellow (right > guys?), and they have a close related companion, the Bunny. They look like something out of the Jerry Springer show. > The problem with Peeps (among many) is that due to packaging > flaws, they often become stale after sitting on the shelf for > a week. This results in a chewy texture, as opposed to the > intended fluff-a-licious texture. Leave them for a month and you can use them as a hammer. > Some people, however, consider this to be one of Peeps greatest > characteristics, much in the way that some people like their > Lifesavers to get really old and slightly soft. I always thought that they got fuzzy when they got old. Maybe that was just the lint from my pocket though. - -- chad at radix dot net clap on clap off beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:08:08 -0500 From: "^kat^" Subject: Re: Conversions Adam Tyner wrote ... >Slowly, but surely, I've been converting people. *grin* yup, same here... i spent almost all of '98 enjoying their music: '99 will be the year that i give back. :) i've packed a 90-min maxell xl-II w/ what i consider to be the best sampling of all 5 albums [plus GE&H & "i will hold on" from NKU ;) ], so whenever i meet a potential fan i quickly spin a copy, cut up an overexposed photo of fruvous for the cover, write down the setlist (color-coded by album to facilitate purchase of one's favorite tunes... yay OCD ;p), & give/mail it post haste. here's a response from my latest attempt at conversion: <> *grin* so far, i've yet to find anyone who hasn't enjoyed their music... ...then again, maybe i'm just picking the most likely of candidates. [read: no handing out frutapes at an n'sync concert. *tbbth*] ^kat^ "someone somewhere has unglued our epoxy..." http://fly.to/the.midway.after.dark ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:33:46 -0700 From: "Bridget" Subject: Re: MF on Late Night Matt James wrote in message <7acib6$218$1@kitt.charm.net>... :Anyway, I wanted to write to Late Night with Conan O'Brien :again since the campaign to get them on a talk show (and thus :receive national recognition) has died down. excellent idea** let's BOMBARD conan... over 'n' out xoxoxo bridget (o: please visit my (perpetually under construction) home page... ... and sign my guest book... http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/pavilion/3576/ 'I'm open... There's just nothing in there...' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:36:21 -0700 From: "Bridget" Subject: Re: Conversions petit_chou@juno.com wrote in message <19990216.160527.-356723.1.petit_chou@juno.com>... :>terms like what it is to squirgle a dog : :Uhhh...what song is this from? The Kids' Song? Isn't it "squirtgunning :my dog"? Am I just a big dork? yeah, it's squirtgunning my dog... although it's not really MY position to say whether or not you're a big dork... *g* over 'n' out xoxoxo bridget (o: please visit my (perpetually under construction) home page... ... and sign my guest book... http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/pavilion/3576/ 'I'm open... There's just nothing in there...' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:32:23 -0700 From: "Bridget" Subject: Re: you learn something new every day... Bridget wrote in message ... :well, i went to my parents' place tonight to get my birth certificate (in :preparation to cross the border...YEE-HAA) and realized that i've never :really seen it before. i discovered that there's an accent over the second :e in my middle name (renee)... and i was born at 10:59 in the morning... : :as there is no POINT to this post, at the very least i feel there should be :frucontent. so here goes... : :my plane leaves in :2 days :8 hours :16 minutes umm... that SHOULD read 9 hours... says the girl with the math degree. :over 'n' out :xoxoxo :bridget (o: : :please visit my (perpetually under construction) home page... :... and sign my guest book... :http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/pavilion/3576/ : :'I'm open... There's just nothing in there...' : : ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:32:23 -0700 From: "Bridget" Subject: Re: you learn something new every day... Bridget wrote in message ... :well, i went to my parents' place tonight to get my birth certificate (in :preparation to cross the border...YEE-HAA) and realized that i've never :really seen it before. i discovered that there's an accent over the second :e in my middle name (renee)... and i was born at 10:59 in the morning... : :as there is no POINT to this post, at the very least i feel there should be :frucontent. so here goes... : :my plane leaves in :2 days :8 hours :16 minutes umm... that SHOULD read 9 hours... says the girl with the math degree. :over 'n' out :xoxoxo :bridget (o: : :please visit my (perpetually under construction) home page... :... and sign my guest book... :http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/pavilion/3576/ : :'I'm open... There's just nothing in there...' : : ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:40:38 -0600 From: Carol Krupka Subject: Re: A message from Jian regarding Philadelphia (fwd) Ya know? All I have to say is, forget tractor pulls. Monster truck rallies are where it's at:) On 17 Feb 1999, Matt James wrote: > : > http://www.pulltown.com for all your National Tractor Pull Championship > : > needs. PTDC has heat information from 1998 plus lots of other great > : > news from the world of tractor pulling. Check it totally out! > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Matt James Voice: (301) 231-9898 x. 121 > TYC Associates email: mjames@tyc.com > Rockville, MD alternate: mattj@charm.net > http://www.tyc.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:34:57 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Toronto Pub Crawl drunken heckling from friends of the band at a pro-choice benefit . . . now that would make for some interesting publicity. *gears turning in katie's little red (as in the hair color, not the communist association) revolutionary head* perhaps a little uprising is what the band really needs. while we're not gutsy enough to throw ourselves over railings in martyrdom, we're sure as hell ready for a good inebriated display. maybe if we roughed up some bouncers, sort of a reverse troc thing, the ensuing press would catapult früvous to supergroup status! "in a phenomenon sweeping the nation, hundreds of moxy früvous fans staged a drunken revolt at the band's sunday pro-choice benefit held at lee's palace in toronto. onlookers sarah slean and susan werner had this to say: sarah: i don't get it . . . they didn't tell me their fans were so violent by nature . . . susan: yeah . . . what happened to all the peace-loving people with cookies, chocolates, and geeky dances? sarah: this is the last time we come near this band. susan: yeah . . . damn shame too. their drummer smells really good." hmm. maybe not. the minute i become UN high commissioner for refugees this would be the first thing plastered across TV screens . . . after my senior prom video, of course--but that's another story entirely :). ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #169 ********************************************