From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V2 #49 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Tuesday, March 25 1997 Volume 02 : Number 049 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Hello everyone... ["Bob blesius" ] Re:That look [BobRumsby ] Re: Phil goes to London [BobRumsby ] Re: london [jacki@magicnet.net (Jacki)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 02:08:31 -0600 From: "Bob blesius" Subject: Re: Hello everyone... how do I get off of this mailing ????????? Please helpmeee!!!!!!!!1 - ---------- > From: J.S. Lohr > To: basia@smoe.org > Subject: Hello everyone... > Date: Sunday, March 23, 1997 5:13 PM > > Howdy, folks. > > Now, before I depart for my trip, I want to get you guys up to date on > some stuff: > > 1) As many of you have probably already noticed, the homepage is down. > And it will stay down until we find a new server, which should be any day > now. We've had it with AOL... and since the new Basia page is now almost > 10 megs big and comprised of nearly 400 files, we didn't want to have to > start things over from scratch by having to upload each file one at a > time (see, AOL doesn't support FTPing, so it would be like a 6 hour > process to get it up and running). I will be gone by the time the new > server is chosen, but one of my confidants here at home will be putting > the page up the minute we get access and will inform the list, probably > via my account, of where to go and what to expect. Note: THE AOL SITE IS > NO LONGER VALID, AND I'M AWARE OF THIS. PLEASE STOP WRITING ME TELLING ME > ITS DOWN!!! The http://users.aol.com/basiapage/basia.htm site is no > longer working and will never work again at that location. So, if you > have a link to the page, you might want to freeze it or delete it until > the new site is chosen. > BTW, for those of you who are curious about the Agitprop page, it is also > moving to our new server but it will remain active until we move. > > 2) I have finally found a copy of the ESK-1276 promo CD. Therefore, I am > ready to reveal MOST if not ALL of my sources for Basia stuff (12", rare > CDs, etc.), both Internet and s-mail based. BUT I won't be posting these > locations to the list... if you want to know where you can find a certain > CD or other item (like the "Angels Blush" Japanese CD with "Waters of > March" on it, for example), email me DIRECTLY and I will tell you where > you can find it. DO IT QUICKLY, though, since I am leaving in a few days. > Once gone, I will only be checking my mail every so often and probably > won't be getting back to anyone until I get back in June. Plus, most of > these places have a limited stock of items so I'm sure you won't want > someone to beat you to the punch. Remember, try to be specific with what > you're looking for. > > 3) Nothing personal, Ben, but WHERE'S THE F**KING VIDEO TAPE!?!!??!?!?! I > could've FILMED the damn videos in less time than this. Its been almost a > year, I think, since the idea was originally introduced. We really need > to get on the ball with this. People have waited long enough, don't you > think? > > I think that's it. Toodles for now. > > JSL. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:13:05 -0500 From: BobRumsby Subject: Re:That look Phil wrote:- > >Every one of those and The War Rooms, Picadilly and Leicester Sq., St. >Paul's Cathedral (surprisingly magnificently enjoyable and I don't go to >church), Hyde Park Speaker's Corner, Whitehall, Blackfriar's, Royal >Shakespeare Co. at Barbican Centre ('As You Like It'), also 'The >Mousetrap', (perf 18,442), plus outings to Kew Gardens and Brighton. >Saturday morning we >did Portobello Road (George Orwell's stomping ground - awfully cool!). I >won't get over it for a while, Bob. You should have gone to Highgate, where Mr Danny resides. Also you could have gone to visit Karl Marx Tomb. Not many people know that thats where he is laid to rest. Most people think that Karl Marx tomb is a communist plot. Also Phil, you mean to say that you did not through a TEA PARTY whilst you were there!!! Bob R ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:13:04 -0500 From: BobRumsby Subject: Re: Phil goes to London At 12:10 AM 3/24/97 -0500, you wrote: > >I bought the edition of the SUN that blared out it's changed stance (from >Tory to Labour) and Lo! found the page three naked chick. And I'd been >reading the Telegraph up to that point only because it was given out at >breakfast by my hotel. I had been missing the essence of London because I >was so cheap. Never again! Ah the Sun, Yes page three the sports page and then its only good for wrapping your fish and chips in. > > > >Forget the lyrics: Definite page three candidates, I think. > My Sister just sent me some cuttings from the TV Times, covering my favourite British Soap, EastEnders, and lo and behold on the back of one of the pages is a picture of the said Spice Girls (loverly poses) together with and article. Now they really can zigzag Ahhhhhhhhhhh. >> As for pubs on every corner. Thats what makes London so Great :) >> >All day on Monday (St. Patricks's Day) Guiness was going for 1 >pound 50. And I had been told Brits cared little for Ireland! We can pick our moments. BTW do you know why the Irish have potatos and the Arabs have the Oil. Because the Irish had first pick :) :) Bob R ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:23:43 -0500 From: jacki@magicnet.net (Jacki) Subject: Re: london Larry and Jeff said: >> Phil: >> My son just came back from London! >> Wish I'd known you were going to be there... >> It was his first time overseas and he had a blast... >> went to a lot of Theatre and stage shows...pubs... >> rode the Tubes to death...went to Paris and tried >> out his four years of college french...Parisians were >> staging a demonstration and he couldn't get into >> the Mona Lisa room at the Louvre.... > >Hmm. How strange. A year ago this week I was in London for a >vacation....I had a blast as well! Can one go to either place without having a blast? :-) I've been to both of them twice, and would take London over Paris any day... I absolutely loved that place. And as for Mona... she's much smaller than I thought she would be. Jacki ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V2 #49 **************************