From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V3 #117 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 Thursday, June 18 1998 Volume 03 : Number 117 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Lisa Loeb's glasses [Jeff Hamilton ] Long messages and Toni's phone bill [Jeff Hamilton ] Play Nice [Larry Lipman ] Taking action... [Beverly Martin ] Flame wars, Lisa Loeb, getting off, and even some Basia content! [Jeff Ha] WAY OFF TOPIC FOR THE FUN LOVING - Re: Rachael, vids, and beta tests [tal] Re: Rachael, vids, and beta tests [Somegirl99@aol.com] Re: Becky's two cents [Somegirl99@aol.com] Still love you all [Meg Evans ] Re: Taking action... [rburns@execpc.com] Re: Still love you all [talukdar@morph.EBME.CWRU.Edu (Ashoke Talukdar)] A small reminder (Beverly's recent post) [Jeff Hamilton ] Re: A small reminder (Beverly's recent post) [Jeff Wasilko ] Lisa Loeb's glasses and some Basia content [Joe Baker Subject: Lisa Loeb's glasses At 12:27 AM 6/17/98 -0400, you wrote: >By the way Jeff, do you have the most recent prescription for Lisa Loeb's >lenses? Her opthamologist's website has been blocked by my ISP due to >content. Actually, no I don't... But you'll be the first to know once I find out. Jeff Hamilton - the capitalist http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffhamilton/ to join the 461 (network), send a message to four.six.one@mindspring.com and hope for the best ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 02:06:09 -0400 From: Jeff Hamilton Subject: Long messages and Toni's phone bill At 10:58 PM 6/16/98 -0500, Brian Cundieff wrote: >Also, when replying to someone else's post, it often isn't necessary to quote >the entire message. No kidding! In addition to being unnecessary long, the message looks outright sloppy. BTW maybe that's why Toni Braxton's telephone bill is $4800 a month (for those of you who followed the link Joe Baker posted). Jeff Hamilton - the capitalist http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffhamilton/ to join the 461 (network), send a message to four.six.one@mindspring.com and hope for the best ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:03:09 +0200 From: Martin Praum Subject: Re: Basia's mailing address Dirk: Go there, give her big kiss from us all, and tell her, that we all love her !!!! Martin Dirk Pilat wrote: > >> > >> Basia Trzetrzelewska > >> P.O. Box 9, Biggin Hill > >> Westerham > >> Kent TN16 3UR > >> THE UNITED KINGDOM > > > > Damn... She live 10 minutes away from me.... > > Dirk > > "It's fifteen hundred miles to Ankh Morpork, We've got three hundred and > sixtythree elephants, fifty carts of forage, the monsoon's about to break > and we're we're wearing....we're wearing... sort of things like glass, only > dark.... dark glass things on our eyes...." > Azrhual, Elephant Trader, Klatchian Empire > > Dr. Dirk Pilat, London, UK > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dpilat ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 08:04:15 -0500 From: Larry Lipman Subject: Play Nice Joe, If you want to engage in flame wars, I for one, would prefer you do so somewhere else. Most of us (I suspect) enjoy the give and take of a heated discussion about *topics*, and despise posts which flame *people.* Your last few posts have been obnoxious. Furthermore, the "get off" comment to Becky was crude and coarse for a list of this nature. Check out some of the adult lists if you need that sort of thrill. I don't intend to respond further to such posts and suggest others ignore them as well. And to Jeff - great suggestion! I'm as guilty as everyone else and will mend my ways. >There's no way I could "get off" as long as you are on my mind. >My tastes run a little higher on the evolutionary scale. >Your lowly subject, >Joe Baker >------------------------------ >From: Joe Baker >By the way Jeff, do you have the most recent prescription for >Lisa Loeb's lenses? Her opthamologist's website has been >blocked by my ISP due to content. >Joe Baker > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ See CMUS Employment Opportunities at: http://www.studiomenu.com/empclassifieds.html a service of StudioMenu.Com, http://www.studiomenu.com/index2.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Larry Lipman - --------------------------------------------------------------- Division Coordinator; Recording Studio Manager - --------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Memphis Commercial Music Program Campus Box 526546 - 232 CFA Building Memphis, TN 38152-6546 (901) 678-2559 [w/voice mail] FAX: (901) 678-5118 E-Mail: Llipman@memphis.edu ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 08:24:54 -0500 From: Beverly Martin Subject: Taking action... Folks, Would those of you who participated in attempting to purchase merchandise from Mr. J.S. Lohr (aka Roach) please contact me via private email??? I make this request due to Mr. Lohr's complete lack of communication with any of the other people whom I've emailed so far -- from going back through the Basia digests and locating those who also spoke publicly about attempting to communicate with Mr. Lohr. Yes, his last email to the *public* Basia Mailing List was May 11, 1998 - it said "...Any questions? Write me back directly or call me at 301-262-4972....". But what about how that worked... I've called - several times...no response. And emailed ...no response. I'm betting you've done it too... with no response. So we've all emailed, snailmailed and called and called and called... No response -- and knowing friends who use juno.com, I know it's fairly unreliable at times (willing to give benefit of the doubt here). But I did leave numerous messages on an answering machine at the above listed phone number -- no response. I've even called at varying daylight and early evening hours to attempt to contact him....either I got the answering machine or it was busy for long periods of time. I presume that the phone number is probably used for the computer. Please contact me so we can start a dialouge with each other and determine how many of us have been affected by this situation and how we may be able to work together to resolve. By compiling a list of his customers and us talking amongst ourselves, we can keep this off the Mailing List and keep it in private email. Mr. Lohr, if you are reading this -- please contact us. Privately and soon. -- Beverly Martin Intending for this to be the final public message about this matter if at all humanly possible. - -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "Now the internet has all these people who are sitting around typing one-handed, and they're illiterates! I mean: 'Fick me! Fick me!', 'Fondle my tots!'" --Bette Midler, "Diva Las Vegas" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:00:41 -0400 From: Jeff Hamilton Subject: Flame wars, Lisa Loeb, getting off, and even some Basia content! At 08:04 AM 6/17/98 -0500, Larry Lipman wrote: >Joe, >If you want to engage in flame wars, I for one, would >prefer you do so somewhere else. And then he quoted Joe Baker as saying: >>By the way Jeff, do you have the most recent prescription for >>Lisa Loeb's lenses? Her opthamologist's website has been >>blocked by my ISP due to content. And I just wanted to point out that: For the record, Lisa Loeb's glasses are a topic in which I would definitely like to indulge. So let's not thwart this one too early. On a related note (sort of), I really do like the song "Gett Off" by Prince, but the video bored me. On a non-related note, but on-topic, I was just curious as if there was anyone lurking on this list named Leslie Gingojan. If so, you might be interested to know that I have your "Time And Tide" book. Jeff Hamilton - the capitalist http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffhamilton/ to join the 461 (network), send a message to four.six.one@mindspring.com and hope for the best ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 14:08:17 -0500 From: talukdar@morph.EBME.CWRU.Edu (Ashoke Talukdar) Subject: WAY OFF TOPIC FOR THE FUN LOVING - Re: Rachael, vids, and beta tests Hi gang! So as I was walking back from the cafetaria with my ice-cream cone, musing about the Freudian implications of the server's warning : "It's a little soft, so try to lick fast", and I said to myself : Ya know, there's more color and vibrance in the Basia mailing list than I thought! Nothing quite like a bit of mocha with a touch of dominatrix dreams lulling you into the morning traffic (damn, I think I just backed over a skunk, or was that a squirrel). > > Joe Baker wrote: > > A live event for Basiaholics where Queen Becky strips away the rights of > one of her lowly subjects. Musical background could commence with > "Cruisin' for Bruisin'". Not sure exactly what act of attrition the > worthless serf could perform as penance, maybe it's too far gone for that. > Or how about "Run for Cover". Or better still "Baby, you're mine"... With the occasional cracks of whiplash in the background, of course! (Don't get the wrong impression here kids! You approach me with a whip and you will retreat with a substantially altered derrier, so avoid indulging in such dangerous acrobatics!) What can I say? I am an epicurean and a voyeur who loves to watch only. > > Public flogging, dunking, burning at the stake, or perhaps a frontal > lobotomy. A lobotomy would render me socially acceptable in the eyes of > the throne, I believe. > Noble thoughts. Unfortunately, these are some conceptual problems here. These are after all the 90s and the profundity of this queenly act (lobotomy) is somewhat dulled by brazenly presumptuous acts from the likes of Lorena Bobbit. After all who wants to join the ranks of those who have the most famous sex lives from the loss of a sex-organ? And since the last incident of public flogging I heard of was attributed to some punk in Singapore for defacing a VW Bug, that also gets disqualified from the ranks of royal punishment as being somewhat prolitarean in aspirations. Burning at the stake is ok, but I think sending them off to a South American forest fire would be simpler (US Airs E-savers has a $299.00 roundtrip to Rio De Janeiro right now). > > Becky, is it not the Monarchy's edict that one > should be seen but not heard regarding protocol? > ONLY if you frequently lift weights at Bally's. Otherwise please spare us all the agony! As if Al Bundi's mother-in-law was not enough! > > In an effort to foster the popularity of Basia and her music, I would be > willing to accept her appropriate punishment publically, on-line, with my > only request that Basia's musical stylings be the accompaniment. > Only if we all agree that the whip can join the ranks of the willow, the wild rose and the wattle in soothing our yearnings (or fetishes), perhaps. That still does not answer where "Third Time Lucky" would fit in. A swordsman with VERY poor aim doing a lobotomy, perhaps! Hmmm.... > > I imagine Basia coming from her self-imposed exile, riding a white horse, > and rescuing this lowly subject from the jaws of destruction at the hands > of the Mighty Beck. > Joe! I DEFINITELY WANT WHAT YOU'RE SMOKING DUDE!!! :-D > >"Basia.... SAVE ME........... I'm > being persecuted." > Hardly! I am having a blast!!! Peace, Ashoke. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 16:17:11 EDT From: Somegirl99@aol.com Subject: Re: Rachael, vids, and beta tests BobR said: > Well I was away for 3 weeks India, right? Where's our postcard? Jacki ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 16:21:59 EDT From: Somegirl99@aol.com Subject: Re: Becky's two cents Joe said: > Re: Becky's "two cents" Damn! Remind me never to get on Joe's bad side. Joe... don't leave. Meg didn't like us either when she first joined up... but she loves us now (right Meg?). Actually, I'm kinda hoping you and Meg get into it... I don't know who would be better at telling the other off (or putting them in their place, etc)... would made for interesting reading, that's for sure. ;-) Jacki ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 16:20:36 -0500 From: Meg Evans Subject: Still love you all Jacki, actually I didn't like PHIL when I first joined, because he was still on crack at the time and it was making him thing strange things like how in the WORLD Basia had the nerve to be able to afford to take off four years without making a new album AND without having to stand in a bread line in Warsaw. (Or was it Roach who was on crack?) No matter, Phil sent his humblest apologies (privately, because it was off-topic), I forgave him, and we're all dancing together again now (figuratively speaking, that is, unless there are dance rooms on AOL?). Anyway, I suspect Joe is the guy who advertises The Garden Weasel on T.V. so I'm NOT getting into it with him. I don't want him coming after me with that thing! Love and kisses to you all! Loveyouloveyouloveyou! xxoo Meg Rattle your bones at BoneMusic, a very hip literary site! http://www.midplains.net/~mevans/bonemusic.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 17:17:12 -0500 From: rburns@execpc.com Subject: Re: Taking action... Bev- Thank you for taking the lead on this - I've pretty much written Mr. Lohr off to the a-hole list. I'll tak him off if it turns out that he's been dead since May. - -Robert - -- "When the flames have their season; Will you still hold your reason? Loaded down with your talents; Can you still keep your balance?" -Emerson, Lake & Palmer ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:04:13 -0500 From: talukdar@morph.EBME.CWRU.Edu (Ashoke Talukdar) Subject: Re: Still love you all > > Jacki, actually I didn't like PHIL when I first joined, because he was > still on crack at the time and it was making him thing strange things like > > ...snip... > > (Or was it Roach who was on crack?) No matter, Phil sent > his humblest apologies (privately, because it was off-topic), I forgave > him, and we're all dancing together again now (figuratively speaking, that > is, unless there are dance rooms on AOL?). > I vaguely remember this. Here's a thought. Maybe roach absconded with everyone's money so he could by a trip to Europe to go stand in a food line in Warsaw looking for Basia. Or is it someone else that is the missing fiscal depository for Basia goods? This is like trying to watch a stray episode of "Guiding Light". > > Anyway, I suspect Joe is the guy who advertises The Garden Weasel on T.V. > so I'm NOT getting into it with him. I don't want him coming after me with > that thing! > Hmm. Might make for a good episode on South Park though! > > Love and kisses to you all! Loveyouloveyouloveyou! xxoo > (Ashoke patiently holds up an umbrella). ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 21:12:01 -0400 From: Jeff Hamilton Subject: A small reminder (Beverly's recent post) "Intending for this to be the final public message about this matter if at all humanly possible." This was the end of Beverly's "Taking action" post, not counting her Bette Midler signature lines. Send all mail regarding this topic to beej_martin@earthlink.net - that will help her to keep the whole thing better organized. Besides, we don't want Kenneth Starr getting involved - this has all already gone on way too long. Also - is this mailing list archived anywhere? Because I've got two years worth of posts (many of which are on topic) and I was just wondering if the world will come to an end if I throw them out. Jeff Hamilton - the capitalist http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffhamilton/ to join the 461 (network), send a message to four.six.one@mindspring.com and hope for the best ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 21:36:31 -0400 From: rrumsby Subject: Re: Rachael, vids, and beta tests Somegirl99@aol.com wrote: > BobR said: > > > Well I was away for 3 weeks > > India, right? Where's our postcard? > Well you didnt send me your address !!!! Anyway have pictures, though unfortunaely didnt get to see the Taj Mahal :( Weather to dam hot. When I was in Dehli it was 122 F (Second hotest day this century). Tried cooling off by jumping into the swimming pool only to find that the water temperature was 95F. Was also in Bangladesh (another garden spot of the world) when Pakistan decided to emulate India and test its own nuclear boomer. Well the joke going around in Bangladesh was that thir Goverment exploxed an Atomic Bomb in downtown Dhaka, and it caused US$25.37 worth of damage :) bfn BobR paterson nj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 21:40:19 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Re: A small reminder (Beverly's recent post) On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 09:12:01PM -0400, Jeff Hamilton wrote: > Also - is this mailing list archived anywhere? Because I've got two years > worth of posts (many of which are on topic) and I was just wondering if the > world will come to an end if I throw them out. The lists are archived here at smoe.org... Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 22:36:08 -0400 From: Joe Baker Subject: Re: Still love you all At 04:20 PM 6/17/98 -0500, you wrote: >Anyway, I suspect Joe is the guy who advertises The Garden Weasel on T.V. >so I'm NOT getting into it with him. I don't want him coming after me with >that thing! Meg, Actually the Garden Weasel is a device that I have no connection with. My experience is with the Pocket Fisherman, the Bamboo Steamer, and the Veg-O-Matic. If properly armed with the Veg-O-Matic I would gladly take on anyone with a Garden Weasel. > >Love and kisses to you all! Loveyouloveyouloveyou! xxoo > >Meg > But Meg, we've hardly met............ JB ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 22:55:23 -0400 From: Joe Baker Subject: Lisa Loeb's glasses and some Basia content At 11:00 AM 6/17/98 -0400, you wrote: >And I just wanted to point out that: >For the record, Lisa Loeb's glasses are a topic in which I would definitely >like to indulge. So let's not thwart this one too early. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In a posture not unlike Carnac, holding Lisa's most recent CD to my forehead, I prognosticate, predict, soothsay, and divine......... - -4.25 L - -4.50 R +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If the list here was a bit more lively, with emotions such as those elicited by my recent rantings, then perhaps the inspiration that our Dear One is seeking could be found here. As a matter of fact, I issue this challenge..... If one lacks inspiration, may I personally assist them in dropping the search and beginning to feel? JB ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:58:21 -0400 From: Joe Baker Subject: My response to Lipman re:Play nice (for those who are interested) At 08:04 AM 6/17/98 -0500, Larry Lipman wrote: >Joe, >If you want to engage in flame wars, I for one, would >prefer you do so somewhere else. Another vote for the departure of Mr. B. Can someone be expelled from one of these mailing lists? > Most of us (I suspect) >enjoy the give and take of a heated discussion about *topics*, >and despise posts which flame *people.* So why are you flaming me? Do I sense some hyprocisy here? >Your last few posts >have been obnoxious. Why thank you, I'm flattered. > Furthermore, the "get off" comment to >Becky was crude and coarse for a list of this nature. Granted. > Check out >some of the adult lists if you need that sort of thrill. Not interested in the "adult lists", thanks for the suggestion though. > I don't intend >to respond further to such posts and suggest others ignore them >as well. But what if the "others" that you are advising enjoy such musings? Mr. LeverLip, excuse me, Mr. Lipman, what if others in this group enjoy cynicism to the same degree you enjoy playing records at incorrect speeds? Could such a thing be possible? Heresy, huh? The thought of one obtaining pleasure from something other than spinning wax at different speeds. My Word! >And to Jeff - great suggestion! I'm as guilty as everyone else >and will mend my ways. You are the one who prompted me to agree w/ Sophia and try to dramatize the issue a bit. Glad it's gotten through to you. As AA teaches, the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. Once we get over this hurdle with you re: off-topic posts, maybe we can get you to realize that it's not normal to spin wax at the incorrect speed and then babble incessantly regarding same. Come on bud, as you said to me yesterday "LIGHTEN UP". JB ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:53:34 -0400 From: Jeff Hamilton Subject: Way off topic: Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? Ah. Remember how everyone on that show got along? Setting such a great example for the rest of us? Let's not have any expulsions from the list, please. From Joe Baker: >But what if the "others" that [Larry Lipman is] advising enjoy such musings? Such as myself. I don't know about everyone else, but I enjoy a good laugh. That doesn't change the fact that many of the things said lately are particularly rude (in fact, back to my "if we were all in the same physical room" analogy series: people would probably be punching each other by now, so maybe it's good that this is a mailing list instead). More from Joe Baker: >Mr. Lipman, what if others in this group enjoy >cynicism to the same degree you enjoy playing records at incorrect speeds? >Could such a thing be possible? Heresy, huh? The thought of one obtaining >pleasure from something other than spinning wax at different speeds. My Word! C'mon Joe - don't knock it until you've tried it (different turntable speeds)! Jeff Hamilton - the capitalist http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffhamilton/ no one will tell me Basia's birthday or age, so I'll just stick to dreaming about Lisa Loeb (not that I have anything against older women, of course) ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V3 #117 ***************************