Errors-To: ecto-owner@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #613 ecto, Number 613 Wednesday, 16 June 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* duh. Re: numan thread, torn, happy Little lines in the ice... HaPpY Birthday ten cubic centimeters Re: Jurassic Park (spoiler?) 10cc Today's your birthday friends.... Peter Gabriel Ecto Jurassic Park and stuff ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 07:34:24 EDT From: goya! Subject: duh. did i really say 1974 for numan's _dance_ album? what kind of drugs am i on? 1982 was what i meant to guess (since i couldn't find my copy of _dance_ last night as i typed it). still haven't found it either. must be in the stack by the shelf rather than on it. 1974...sheesh! +woj ======================================================================== Subject: Re: numan thread, torn, happy Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 08:28:16 -0400 From: "Dr. Dan" Gary Nichols writes: >David Torn is one of my favorite guitarists. He makes wonderfully creative >noises. Definitely. Though some days I think his primary instrument is really PCM-70 (a very powerful digital effects box from Lexicon)--using the guitar as a sound source/controller for the PCM-70. >NEVER buy one of his solo albums, at least not _Door X_ or _Best Laid >Plans_. I'd have to agree about "Door X"; haven't heard "Best Laid Plans". >He has one that IS reccomended but which I haven't been able to find >called "Clouds Around Mercury". "Clouds About Mercury" is pretty nice, but not spectacularly so--so don't feel too deprived if you can't find it. -- Dan Riley Internet: dsr@lns598.tn.cornell.edu Wilson Lab, Cornell University HEPNET/SPAN: lns598::dsr (44630::dsr) "Maybe, leastways is the best way of all" -Caterwaul ======================================================================== Subject: Little lines in the ice... Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 05:39:44 -0700 From: johnz@eaglet.rain.com Just went to see the "1993 Tour of World Figure Skating Champions" tonight, my first time at a live skating event. Wow. Three hours never flew by so fast. It was great to see that Torvill & Dean and Babilonia & Gardner could still heat up the ice. But the real reason I wanted to see this was Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko (I guess that's two reasons :); they're the only skaters I've seen that can regularly give me goosebumps. Between Marina's striking looks, and their obvious passion for each other and what they do out on the ice (not to mention consummate skill and stunning choreography), there's just no ice dance pair that comes close to them. Yeah, I'm a fan. :) I only have two regrets: they only did one routine (many of the others performed two), and I DIDN'T HAVE A CAMERA! Needless to say, if you enjoy figure skating at all, and get a chance to see them, do it! ObHappy: How do we get our hands on this CD5? Hmmm? JohnZ, who wonders how these female skaters in their skimpy little outfits keep from getting the mother of all wedgies... ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 13:46:22 +0100 From: Terry Partis Subject: HaPpY Birthday Here's wishing a Very HAPPY Birthday to Albert Philipsen on June 17th Have a great day Albert Peace Terry === Only in your eyes lies your soul ========================= Happy Rhodes === _ __ Jolly Hockeysticks _ __ / `-' ( ,,, / `-' ( ,,, | I I ||||||[:::] Terry (Tel Boy) Partis | I I ||||||[:::] \_.-._( ''' (tgp@ukc.ac.uk) \_.-._( ''' With a smile and a song - I'm HaPpy Let me sleep awhile and dream of Avalon and the Beltane fires.................. ............................................our souls entwined for all eternity ======================================================================== Date: 16 Jun 93 10:17:28 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: ten cubic centimeters This is from "Rubber Bullets" by 10cc. Is the (possibly apocryphal) story behind the name of this group well known on this list? I haven't heard it, so *please* *share*! -mjm ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: ten cubic centimeters Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 16:12:44 BST On 16 Jun 93 at 10:17:28 EDT Mike Mendelson wrote: > This is from "Rubber Bullets" by 10cc. > Is the (possibly apocryphal) story behind the name of this group well > known on this list? > > I haven't heard it, so *please* *share*! Well, as Bob Lovejoy has already mentioned, the story goes that it is related to the supposed average volume of emission during a human male ejaculation. The way I heard it, the norm is supposedly 5cc. Hence the name could be taken to be a boast. Either that the group is twice as potent as the average, or that they'll make you come twice! -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown". *** ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 12:22:03 EDT From: Laura Frank Clifford Subject: Re: Jurassic Park (spoiler?) This week's Entertainment Weekly (with T Rex on cover) has a good article about why some of these changes were made (less species - budget, etc.) Laura ======================================================================== Date: 16 Jun 1993 11:32:29 -0600 From: "Julianne Dunphy" Subject: 10cc 10cc is definitely an ambitious volume. According to my February edition of "Discover" mag, the "average ejaculate volume has dropped from 3.4 milliliters in the 1940's to 2.75 milliliters today--a decline of nearly 20 percent". They go on to say that in that time the average sperm count has fallen more that 40%! Hmmmm.... Julianne *blush* Dunphy "Come on guys, show yer stuff!" --some long lost Monty Python character ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: 10cc Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 18:18:38 BST On 16 Jun 1993 at 11:32:29 -0600 Julianne Dunphy wrote: > 10cc > is definitely an ambitious volume. According to my > February edition of "Discover" mag, the "average > ejaculate volume has dropped from 3.4 milliliters > in the 1940's to 2.75 milliliters today--a decline > of nearly 20 percent". So 10cc is by now nearly *FOUR* times the average. Not bad going lads! -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown". *** ======================================================================== Subject: Today's your birthday friends.... From: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 07:39:24 GMT i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *************** ***HAPPY******* ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* ******************* ***** Ronald Hogan **** **** Mike Matthews **** *********************** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ronald Hogan Tue June 16 1970 Bloomsday Mike Matthews Mon June 16 1969 SAFH Albert Philipsen Mon June 17 1968 Gemini Ecto-The Mailing ListTue June 18 1991 Fuzzy blue Tracy Barber Mon June 18 1956 Gemini David Lubkin Fri June 20 1958 OurLady Ken Kindler Mon June 23 1969 Cancer John M. Wheeler Sun June 23 1968 Cancer Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer Dave Torok Mon June 24 1968 Cancer Kevin July 5 Cancer Jim Gurley Mon July 6 1959 Cancer Courtney Dallas Fri July 9 1971 Cat Michael Peskura Sat July 9 1949 HallOfFamer Finney T. Tsai Sat July 9 1966 Cancer Shelly Sun July 10 1966 Cancer Mitch Pravatiner Mon July 14 1952 Cancer John Zimmer Sun July 16 1961 Cancer -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _____ Klaus Kluge * klaus@inphobos.w.open.de * I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto! ======================================================================== Subject: Today's your birthday friend.... From: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 93 07:49:19 GMT i*i*i*i*i*i *************** ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* *** Mark R. Susskind ** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Mark R. Susskind Wed June 15 1966 Gemini Ronald Hogan Tue June 16 1970 Bloomsday Mike Matthews Mon June 16 1969 SAFH Albert Philipsen Mon June 17 1968 Gemini Ecto-The Mailing ListTue June 18 1991 Fuzzy blue Tracy Barber Mon June 18 1956 Gemini David Lubkin Fri June 20 1958 OurLady Ken Kindler Mon June 23 1969 Cancer John M. Wheeler Sun June 23 1968 Cancer Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer Dave Torok Mon June 24 1968 Cancer Kevin July 5 Cancer Jim Gurley Mon July 6 1959 Cancer Courtney Dallas Fri July 9 1971 Cat Michael Peskura Sat July 9 1949 HallOfFamer Finney T. Tsai Sat July 9 1966 Cancer Shelly Sun July 10 1966 Cancer Mitch Pravatiner Mon July 14 1952 Cancer -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _____ Klaus Kluge * klaus@inphobos.w.open.de * I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto! ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 10:51:56 PDT From: Neal R. Copperman Subject: Peter Gabriel I am torn torn torn at the prospect of Peter Gabriel coming to town. While I love his stuff, how much is it actually worth to see him live, and from how far away is it worth it? Has anyone seen him on this tour yet, or even past tours to give me a hint. I had all but decided that it probably wasn't worth the $40 or so it will cost a ticket (with the obligatory pound of flesh to TicketMaster, that Master in their name sounds more and more evil to me. Who is this Master really, and what is it's agenda? I don't trust them at all.) Anyway, decided not to go but listened to the video of Stop Making Sense last night and realized that you couldn't even put a price on a great show. I'd have paid a lot more than $40 to have seen that, or at least I would now that I don't have the option. Saw his Saturday Night Live songs, which were entertaining but not riveting. neal ======================================================================== Date: 16 Jun 1993 14:48:43 -0400 From: pas@math.ams.org (Paula Shanks) Subject: Ecto Hello...I am a newly Happy Person and have just learned of your USENET discussion group. Can I get on the list if I don't have access to USENET? Paula Shanks (pas@math.ams.org) ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 02:50:21 +0800 From: m.dougiamas@info.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas) Subject: Jurassic Park and stuff mjm writes: >I would highly recommend reading the book before seeing the movie... Really? I've been deliberately putting off reading the book until I see the movie (it doesn't get here until mid-September for some unfathomable reason ... probably so the Australian promoters can get some figures on overseas audiences so they can decide exactly how much hype they can overload it with. 8-( ) so I don't get pissed off with all the missing good bits from the movie. Do you really recommend I read the book first? ObHappy: I have some more Happy samples to upload soon... they'll be even better quality than the last lot. Apple's new Quicktime 1.6 (Excuse me while I get nerdy for a minute) now lets you read Audio CD sound DIRECTLY FROM THE CDs! 44 kHz stereo. The lawyers are gonna love it. And I need Happy's current address, too, for both the Ecto File and myself so I can send off for new CD. And I'd like to say that Ecto (the album) from "If So" onwards is a guaranteed Religious Experience (tm), no matter how many times you listen to it. Martin "lucky I can type in my sleep" -- .---- _ . ---------------------------------+-------------------------------. | _r| Ll\ Martin Dougiamas, Ectophile | You ask so many questions, | | | |_|__\ m.dougiamas@info.curtin.edu.au | What answers should I choose? | |->\ |_|_ / Curtin University | Is it schizoid paranoia | | ~~ `_' Perth, Western Australia | or just existential blues? | |_______ v __________________________________|___________ T-Bone Stankus __| ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is an INDEX file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)