From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #217 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 Tuesday, March 2 1999 Volume 03 : Number 217 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: riddle for all you clever types [jamn ] Re: A question for yah [fgardine@uoguelph.ca (F. Gardiner)] Re: A question for yah [joshw@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Josh Woodward)] Re: European Prices [jamn ] Re: A question for yah [Thomas Fazzio ] Hheathers [Srm9988n@aol.com] Re: i'm new ["KatieWow" ] Re: Jersey ["KatieWow" ] Re: A question for yah [jianbabe@aol.com (JianBabe)] Re: Honorary Candians ["KatieWow" ] Strange Flyers Trivia ["KatieWow" ] Re: riddle for all you clever types [petit_chou@juno.com] Re: Price of Gas [cookie ] Re: riddle for all you clever types [Thomas Fazzio ] Re: Honorary Canadians (was Ohioans, was Smarties) [ross_hendry@bigfoot.c] Re: riddle for all you clever types [Mindy J Munson ] Re: A question for yah [kpfruhead@aol.com (KPFruhead)] Re: FruCon 2 IRC [Richard B ] Re: Strange Flyers Trivia [connacht80@aol.com (Connacht80)] Mindy reads the quotes [Mindy J Munson ] Re: A question for yah [Chad Maloney ] Re: Hheathers [jkpolk@ntplx.net (Andrea Krause)] Banjo. [Donna ] Re: Jackopierce (was: Way to go Jeffy) [Donna ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:18:03 GMT From: jamn Subject: Re: riddle for all you clever types dirt Josh Drury wrote: > Not Fruvous-related at all, but it's causing me to lose sleep: > > What is greater than God, > More evil than the devil, > The poor have it, > The rich need it, > And if you eat it, you'll die? > > Evidently 80% of kindergarteners got this correct, while only 17% of > Stanford students did. > > Josh Drury > Winnipeg ------------------------------ Date: 2 Mar 1999 20:02:24 GMT From: fgardine@uoguelph.ca (F. Gardiner) Subject: Re: A question for yah JianBabe (jianbabe@aol.com) wrote: : question for him. After Jian says "You're beginning to remind me of Doris Day" : Mike shouts *something* Any ideas on what he says? Que sera! As in "Que sera sera, whatever will be will be, the future's not ours to see, que sera sera." Probably the most famous thing sung by Doris Day. My parents used to annoy me with it when I was younger and would ask about some upcoming event. And my dad is nowhere near as good a singer as either Doris or Mike :P Fiona ------------------------------ Date: 2 Mar 1999 19:54:23 GMT From: joshw@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Josh Woodward) Subject: Re: A question for yah JianBabe (jianbabe@aol.com) wrote: : My brother and his best friend are trying to learn Green Eggs and Ham (and : doing a darn good job, if you ask me) and Johnny (newsgroupers, meet Joni's : brother...our names sound the same, isn't that cute?) wanted me to post a : question for him. After Jian says "You're beginning to remind me of Doris Day" : Mike shouts *something* Any ideas on what he says? "Que sera!" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Josh Woodward, CheEsy Fru. joshw@mail.bgsu.edu Web Site and Tape List: http://www.dc-adnet.com/joshw/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:11:46 GMT From: jamn Subject: Re: European Prices pretty normal price a lot of it is tax though j. Thomas Fazzio wrote: > jamn wrote: > > > ® > > but then again I work in europe > > london high st price for gas is > > 66 pence a litre £ which ussing the below formula gives us > > 2 pounds 50 pence a gallon ,which in us dollars is $4.15 a gallon > > YEEEE-OUCH! > > > so you sure have it good > > I would say so myself. But just to bring a point of discussion, am I > mistaken in believing that mass transportation is much better (or at least > much more used) than in the US. Perhaps due to high prices as quoted here? > > And I thought USD$1.25 was a normal price for gas, now it's down under a > buck. Is that 66 pence a 'normal' price or is that also reaching a low? > > later, > tom. > > Thomas Fazzio > Operations & Personnel Manager > WCKN TV-30 > > fazziote@clarkson.edu > http://www.clarkson.edu/~fazziote ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 15:15:34 -0500 From: Thomas Fazzio Subject: Re: A question for yah well, at least according to FDC: [Mike, in the back, sings "Que Sera!" during the "Doris Day" line] which sounds pretty good to me compared to the indie - I'm assuming that is the copy of the song they are memorizing... later, tom. Thomas Fazzio Computer Science '01 Clarkson University Postdam, NY fazziote@clarkson.edu http://www.clarkson.edu/~fazziote JianBabe wrote: > My brother and his best friend are trying to learn Green Eggs and Ham (and > doing a darn good job, if you ask me) and Johnny (newsgroupers, meet Joni's > brother...our names sound the same, isn't that cute?) wanted me to post a > question for him. After Jian says "You're beginning to remind me of Doris Day" > Mike shouts *something* Any ideas on what he says? > > ~JoniMitch > > ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ > "We wanna go to Paradise, everyone there says it's so nice, everyone there has > their own TV with their own episode of Biography, everyone there has 25 lovers > and each of them dreams only of me......." > the nields ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:42:58 GMT From: Srm9988n@aol.com Subject: Hheathers While pondering our latest identity crisis, the thought occured to me -- can we find one more Heather, so then we can have our very own really really cool movie? - -- Lori, mind way off on a tangent as usual. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:37:11 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: i'm new yeah, but it rhymes with kate and that's sure to cause problems. ~~kate ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:32:48 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Jersey i maryland, a gas station owner promised to see gas for 68 cents a gallon if mark mcgwire won the home run derby. it lasted a day--but he did do it. ~~kate ------------------------------ Date: 2 Mar 1999 20:54:44 GMT From: jianbabe@aol.com (JianBabe) Subject: Re: A question for yah Wow, thanks everybody. I am not familiar with any Doris Day songs, so I had no clue. Oddly, my friend Susan said I looked like Doris Day once. I don't see any resemblance. One, I don't have blond hair, two, she is one of the LAST people I would compare myself to. Anybody else (who knows me) think so? ~Joni ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "We wanna go to Paradise, everyone there says it's so nice, everyone there has their own TV with their own episode of Biography, everyone there has 25 lovers and each of them dreams only of me......." the nields ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:31:17 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Honorary Candians the restaurant in the canada part of epcot is *the best* place to eat in all of disney world. my friends and i only ended up eating there because we couldn't agree on anything else (i wanted morrocan, anthony wanted japanese, colin wanted italian--it was terrible), and we said that if we didn't find something that everyone wanted, we would eat in canada. it was awesome--but not very canadian, i don't think. we had caesar salads and pasta with pesto. good, though :). ~~kate ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:36:35 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Strange Flyers Trivia this has got to be the strangest thing i've ever heard-- i have the flu right now, so i'm spending my days watching way too much VH1, and "where are they now" featured 80s metal sensation cinderella. turns out that since their breakup (and they are staging a comeback :), the guitar player has moved to my part of the world (southern new jersey) and frequently skates with the flyers at practice at the coliseum in voorhees. they had video of the poor sap falling down repeatedly on the ice--it was kind of sad. so does this mean i have to become part of a really bad band and have it break up to get to skate with the flyers? too much trouble, i think :). ~~kate ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:59:02 GMT From: petit_chou@juno.com Subject: Re: riddle for all you clever types This is so weird, Josh. Exactly three messages before this one in my inbox was a message from a friend of mine in SCOTLAND (totally unrelated to this ng or Moxy Fruvous -- in fact, I've never met this person, he's a friend of a friend) with the EXACT SAME RIDDLE (the only difference is that it said "Primary children" and "University students"). How totally freaky is that? Heather Moore, unnerved On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 09:22:34 -0600 Josh Drury writes: >What is greater than God, >More evil than the devil, >The poor have it, >The rich need it, >And if you eat it, you'll die? > >Evidently 80% of kindergarteners got this correct, while only 17% of >Stanford students did. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 09:51:47 -0800 From: cookie Subject: Re: Price of Gas Nate DeRose wrote: > > Brent McNamee wrote: > > = 121 US cents per US gal. (at the current exchange rate of > > 0.656168, according to Yahoo!) > > > > Yep! That's $1.21 US a gallon! **YUCK** > > that's not too bad. > > About two months ago, I was paying $1.12 a gallon........... > > nate I didn't realize how expensive LA is compared to practically everywhere else. The cheapest gas you can find here is around $1.05 gal. at Arco stations. All the others (Chevron, Shell, Union 76, etc.) vary between $1.12 - $1.30 gal. I haven't seen prices below a dollar in over a year, which is dumb when you think about how low the prices for a barrel of crude oil are these days. Ah well, it's not like I have a heating bill in the winter. :-) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 15:45:41 -0500 From: Thomas Fazzio Subject: Re: riddle for all you clever types What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die? JSmooth69 wrote: > Chad Maloney wrote: > > But anyways, the Tureen was full of it as well... *grin* > > > > - Chad > > Oh GREAT chad... just give it away! > hehhehe > > :) > nate>> > > Hey, I probably wouldn't have figured it out if not for that little hint. Does > this mean I have to go back and repeat Kindergarden? > > Jason > "If I die today I'll be the happy phantom." okay - time to admit that I *must* be stupid! I just got it, and I would have to believe that the kindergardeners *would* do better than us learned peoples. later, tom. Thomas Fazzio ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:54:33 GMT From: jkpolk@ntplx.net (Andrea Krause) Subject: Re: Price of Gas On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 03:14:40 GMT, bmcnamee@NOSPAM.yahoo.com (Brent McNamee) wrote: >On 1 Mar 1999 19:09:22 GMT, wbsmiles@aol.com (Wbsmiles) wrote: > >>>And I thought VERMONT was low..... we're paying 95 cents a gallon! >>>(And that's the lowest I've seen since highschool!) > >OK, folks, just to add a little Canadiana here... > >Price of gas at the corner station in Toronto: > > 48.7 cents per litre (Canadian $) > > = 184.34 CDN cents per US gal. (at 3.78531 L to 1 US gal.) > > = 121 US cents per US gal. (at the current exchange rate of > 0.656168, according to Yahoo!) > >Yep! That's $1.21 US a gallon! **YUCK** > >The current theory is that it's mostly tax, and I believe it. We live >comfortably up here, but boy, do we get dinged through the nose for it! > Meanwhile, I noticed this weekend that gas in Massachusetts was as low as $0.80 US per gallon. I don't remember every seeing it that low since I started caring at all about prices of anything. (Here in my neck of the woods, it's $1.05 though.) Andrea K. (Could I be more pointless? I doubt it. :) ) "...too many people think they're misunderstood every time somebody disagrees with them." - Jess Klein ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 21:27:05 GMT From: Mindy J Munson Subject: Re: if Dave were the Sman always glad to help my dear. fruchild, " I AM the band" Murray 2/6/99 On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 14:08:31 GMT Srm9988n@aol.com writes: >Rotflmao! My God, FruChild, I couldn't catch my breath over this >one! > >Thanks for a great laugh on a rather lousy day ... :) > >-- Lori > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 21:29:49 GMT From: ross_hendry@bigfoot.com (Ross Hendry) Subject: Re: Honorary Canadians (was Ohioans, was Smarties) On 16 Feb 1999 23:29:40 GMT, elrond@fellspt.charm.net (Matt James) wrote: >That reminds me of the scene in Canadian Bacon when John >Candy (I think it was him) was running through the crowd, pushing >people over and the Canadian crowd kept saying "Sorry", "My fault", >and "Excuse me". >hehehe 'twas funny indeed, >Matt Oh I do that as well! It's quite funny when someone runs straight into you and you both go 'oh sorry' when it's quite obviously their fault! I am not alone in this character trait! Ross It's the Galaxies Greatest Comic, Now check out it's web site! http://freespace.virgin.net/g.hendry/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 21:14:51 GMT From: Mindy J Munson Subject: Re: riddle for all you clever types ermmmmmmm.....if just fishing here...but is the answer nothing????? fruchild, " I AM the band" Murray 2/6/99 On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 10:52:29 -0500 VJohnson writes: >It's truly disturbing--a local bartender brought this up in >conversation >also...no one at the bar could figure it out...does anyone know? >Victorria > > >Josh Drury wrote: > >> Not Fruvous-related at all, but it's causing me to lose sleep: >> >> What is greater than God, >> More evil than the devil, >> The poor have it, >> The rich need it, >> And if you eat it, you'll die? >> >> Evidently 80% of kindergarteners got this correct, while only 17% >of >> Stanford students did. >> >> Josh Drury >> Winnipeg > > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 21:27:11 GMT From: Mindy J Munson Subject: Re: A question for yah i thought it was dave that said something...and yay, i was wondering that as well fruchild, " I AM the band" Murray 2/6/99 On 2 Mar 1999 19:43:31 GMT jianbabe@aol.com (JianBabe) writes: >My brother and his best friend are trying to learn Green Eggs and Ham >(and >doing a darn good job, if you ask me) and Johnny (newsgroupers, meet >Joni's >brother...our names sound the same, isn't that cute?) wanted me to >post a >question for him. After Jian says "You're beginning to remind me of >Doris Day" >Mike shouts *something* Any ideas on what he says? > >~JoniMitch > > >~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ >"We wanna go to Paradise, everyone there says it's so nice, everyone >there has >their own TV with their own episode of Biography, everyone there has >25 lovers >and each of them dreams only of me......." >the nields > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: 2 Mar 1999 21:33:00 GMT From: kpfruhead@aol.com (KPFruhead) Subject: Re: A question for yah >[Mike, in the back, sings "Que Sera!" during the "Doris Day" line] > Isin't it Dave that does that bit? I know that's how they do it live, at least... Ken "You know the rules are bent, when you have to pay rent, just to live on Earth..." - -Victor Wooten ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:45:29 +0000 From: Richard B Subject: Re: FruCon 2 IRC Ross Hendry wrote: > Whilst sipping Earl Grey tea on the back lawn and admiring the croquet > > game happening in front of him, Cheers old fruit. > Btw, to continue the Titanic comment of Richard's, if you enjoyed > Braveheart...shame on you! Did you notice the lack of bridge at the > Battle of Stirling Bridge? Well I can tell you that there is a bridge > > there! AND while we're on the subject of Hollywood spewing out unutterably patronising bollocks, I heard on the radio this morning that they're doing a film about breaking the Enigma codes in the second world war. And my oh my, what a surprise, they've just retweaked history a smidgen so that in the film it was the Americans who captured the Nazi code sheets, not the Royal Navy at all. They'll probably have a happy ending where Alan Turing finishes up getting the girl too. ** Snort ** Tinkerty tonk Richard ------------------------------ Date: 2 Mar 1999 22:22:14 GMT From: connacht80@aol.com (Connacht80) Subject: Re: Strange Flyers Trivia >this has got to be the strangest thing i've ever heard-- >i have the flu right now, so i'm spending my days watching way too much VH1, >and "where are they now" featured 80s metal sensation cinderella. turns out >that since their breakup (and they are staging a comeback :), the guitar >player has moved to my part of the world (southern new jersey) and >frequently skates with the flyers at practice at the coliseum in voorhees. >they had video of the poor sap falling down repeatedly on the ice--it That is the most frightening thing I have read in this newsgroup. Phyllis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 22:17:09 GMT From: Mindy J Munson Subject: Mindy reads the quotes They were good this month. and Ji is in there too! But i want to address one point..... Heather this is the first I have read of your M&M displeasure... Yes yes yes a million times yes, i agree. the lackage of tan m&ms has distressed me to a point of utter sadness. When I open my happy bag of candy i peer inside to see that it is devoid of my favorite colour and only radio active blue ones penetrate my retina. The blue are pretty mind you, but they just ain't tan fruchild, who likes all things brown; living and non living " I AM the band" Murray 2/6/99 ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 16:53:42 -0500 From: Chad Maloney Subject: Re: A question for yah KPFruhead wrote: > > >[Mike, in the back, sings "Que Sera!" during the "Doris Day" line] > > > > Isin't it Dave that does that bit? I know that's how they do it live, at > least... Mike is the one doing the singing, but Dave is in the front and mouths "Que Sera!" with a very strange look on his face... - Chad ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 23:18:01 GMT From: jkpolk@ntplx.net (Andrea Krause) Subject: Re: Hheathers On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:42:58 GMT, Srm9988n@aol.com wrote: >While pondering our latest identity crisis, the thought occured to >me -- can we find one more Heather, so then we can have our >very own really really cool movie? > >-- Lori, mind way off on a tangent as usual. I'll name myself Heather. I always liked it better than Andrea. :) Andr--er, Heather "...too many people think they're misunderstood every time somebody disagrees with them." - Jess Klein ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 23:26:26 GMT From: Donna Subject: Banjo. I have to share with those who are Banjo fans... or at least fans of one specific banjo player... :) I teach elementary school music, and right now my fifth graders are doing instrument projects... and one girl picked the banjo. Not only did she pick the banjo and do one of the best presentations in the class, and pick out great banjo music (giving me the perfect opportunity to play Fruvous for the kids) SHE MADE A BANJO! I Mean, it's not real... but she made it with rubberbands, and papertowel roll, and cardboard... and it looked darn authentic! Isn't that cool as heck? thats all. donna %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% "ahthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell." "It sounds evil." "It is," I answered, and we parted. --Gail Levine "Ella Enchanted" %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 23:26:26 GMT From: Donna Subject: Re: Jackopierce (was: Way to go Jeffy) But HEATHER! I do! I do!! :) "That girl over there, she's got mahogany hair--and her eyes of sweet amythyst..." :) Of course, they're not Jackopierce anymore. They're "American Horse" (who didn't name any of the tracks on their new CD) and whatever Cary is calling himself and his new group. :) >I swear to God, the more and more you post, the more I think "do I know >you?" Jackopierce fer chrissake! NO BODY knows of Jackopierce! I'm >floored. > >Heather Moore (who loved the Matthew Sweet concert in Seattle three years >ago that everybody else hated) yay! donna %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% "ahthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell." "It sounds evil." "It is," I answered, and we parted. --Gail Levine "Ella Enchanted" %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #217 ********************************************