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 #831 ecto, Number 831 Thursday, 28 October 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* a buncha stuff, most of it annoying Re: The goal posts of life, and Rocky Horror Life Among the Virii Re: a buncha stuff, most of it annoying Separate TWW CDs Books 'n stuff cats laughing Re: Books 'n stuff Big Stripy Lie explained Re: present tense books The Red Shoes out in Germany! YAY!!! Re: The goal posts of life, and Rocky Horror Re: Life Among the Virii Re: Separate TWW CDs mono Re: mono ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 02:14:57 EDT From: mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) Subject: a buncha stuff, most of it annoying hi all, well, having run out of cuervo some time back, i'd been sipping from this bottle of crown royal which i got when my step uncle died (he'd gotten it back in 1975, so its aged a bit). today i decided to save the crown royal and broke out the canadian mist thats been sitting untouched for many a long month (perhaps a year). truly an inferior whiskey, at least when compared to crown royal. just thought y'all should know. what is it with bass players being in such demand? now that my arm is slightly healed, i've gotten 4 invites to play with people. bass is the greatest instrument in the world (with the possible exception of the bagpipes), so it is really strange to me that more people don't play it. i suppose too many people start playing guitar instead because they get to do more solos and strive for rock guitar god-dom. silly folk. -------------------- >|we met in jersey only a few months ago, > >Ah, it's amazing how quickly bonding occurs in the backseat >of a small car on the Garden State Parkway... > i don't want to know... well, actually, i do, but i won't ask. ;^> >|but alrready i feel like he's a good friend. and he has >|been fantastic, putting up with me for three probably long days. > >Boy, 3 of the longest days of *my* life. >Phew! Glad that's over. Anyone else wanna visit? :-) > depends on what happens in the back seat... >-mjm ----------------------- >I dislike pms being used as the reason for womyn's emotions >and to further push the 'irrational' concept to and about womyn. > on the other hand, i, and probably several others out there, have certainly experienced the secondary effects of pms as someone i love lashes out suddenly or, just as suddenly, break into tears. something that is rarely mentioned is that men undergo a similar cycle. it is not accompanied by any physical manifestations, and the effects are more subtle (i think that the cycle is longer, as well). that subtlety makes it more insidious, tho, as we are more likely to blame our days of extreme moodiness on outside forces. "and this is not a story my people tell; this is something i know myself." (hope i got that quote right). i wonder if that male cycle has a name, or, if it doesn't, what it should be called. oh, and hey! only slightly related: there is a company in exton pa called PMS (pipe maintenance services). leave it to the plumbers... >I like what laurie anderson said: "They say womyn shouldn't be >president because they go crazy sometimes." > >Anyway, language is a virus, and all of us should read 'snowcrash' >the book, because of the idea held within, with help from william >s. burroughs and laurie anderson. > are burroughs and anderson the authors? if not, could you please let me know? >-seanympfocrypt -------------------------- >sarah sed: well, at least she didn't awk or, heaven forbid, grep. :> >Again, for those Laurie-deprived, "Language is a Virus" is from her _Home >of the Brave_ piece. And she's got lots of ties to William S. Burroughs. > >Because this is Ecto, I will now take this opportunity to tie this into >two, count 'em, TWO other recent threads: > >a) _Strange Angels_ is one of the albums listed in the "covers by famous >artists" threads due to its *gorgeous* portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe on >the cover. > yeah yeah, i already covered that one... >b) Just today, brni mentioned Thomas Pynchon's _Gravity's Rainbow_, which >was the inspiration for Laurie's "Gravity's Angel" on _Mister Heartbreak. > c) i saw an album recently (that i didn't buy, since i'm broke, financially as well) called something like "men i want to share my money with" or something like that. it was filed under laurie anderson, but also had w.s. burroughs and some other guy. it was a compilation album, not a cooperative effort, as each artist had a seperate section of the disk. d) i also saw another album that i almost got, featuring william s. burroughs on voice and kurt cobain (sp?) of nirvana on guitar (no other musicians). i didn't get that one either, since i'm broke. >If I wanted to grasp for more threads, I would point out that _Mister >Heartbreak_ features studio work by Peter Gabriel (who's always a topic >around here, but who was scrutinized in the recent "Us" thread, and Anton >Fier, leader of the constantly evolving NYC band Golden Palominos, which >has received attention both here and in Gaffa of late). And yes, William >S. Burroughs performs Sharkey's Night on the album. > while we're at it, we might as well mention that the inimitable adrien belew played guitar (talking heads, zappa, bowie, king crimson, the bears, um...there's more, i think), and joy askew played keyboards on _home of the brave_ and maybe some others. tony levin (for whom peter gabriel sings) plays bass on a couple songs on _strange angels_. william s. burroughs also appears in the film _home of the brave_. i'm not sure how old he is, probably around 90 and looking a young 150, but it was wild watching as he wandered around the stage purposelessly, dressed in his traditional william s. burroughsesque garb... >I think that's quite enough for now. > perhaps you are right. :) >Jeff > but WAIT! there's more. adrian belew played w/ king crimson, which is to say, robert fripp, who, in the original incarnation of the league of gentleman, played with a bassist named sara lee. sara lee spent some time playing bass for gang of four, replacing david allen (not daevid allen of gong), who left to join shriekback, which was formed by barry andrews after he left xtc. way back when, the opening band for gang of four was a little known band called rem (in fact, when i saw rem live, they performed a little bit of Gof4). michael stipe produced the hugo largo album, thus bringing us back to ecto material. but WAIT! there's more. michael stipe is involved with natalie merchant of 10k maniacs, who played a show here in philadelphia a few years back. happy rhodes played the same concert. how's that for a "happy ending"? :) brni ps. the other line of inquiry that i neglected: peter gabriel also worked with fripp, levin, and peter hammill (of solo and van der graff generator fame) as well as with Our Kate--and at this point we could really tie in pink floyd, and thus roger waters, and through waters we can bring in thomas dolby (who appeared in the live version of the berlin wall performance), and dolby played with bruce wooley and the camera club (who included trevor horn and geoffrey downes, who later became the buggles and then joined yes, before splitting up and forming art of noise and asia, respectively--which brings in, of course, genesis, elp and yes and (musn't forget them) uk, who's original lineup included allan holdsworth (which ties us in to pat metheny and a whole slew of other jazz/fusion types)). dolby also did work with none other than the great joan armatrading. and speaking of joans, gabriel did some work with joni mitchell, who is, i believe, one of the greatest musicians in the genre. and we mustn't forget kate's connection to midge ure, either. and also... no, its best to stop now, before th ings get out of hand. ======================================================================== From: neilg@sfu.ca Subject: Re: The goal posts of life, and Rocky Horror Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 23:19:29 PDT > World television premiere? I think not! Network 7 here in Australia has shown > the film regularly for years, at least six years actually. They even found a > copy that had the songs digitally remastered in stereo... Well, okay, so I was lied at! :) A Toronto ectoophile (Tippi?) pointed out that CityTV showed it a few days ago also. But I'm pretty sure it was billed as a world premiere. It may simply have been the first time it was shown on US network TV which, the opinions of US network TV executives notwithstanding, does not constitute a world premiere I suppose. :) I thought the whole thing was quite daft. They did cutaway shots of the movie being shown to some audience in LA or somewhere. Ah, TV! The vicarious experience! If you don't want to go to a real live theatre and see it there and get showered with rice and toast and deal with the usual Rocky Horror nonsense then you go and watch a soulless reenactment on TV. There's something particularly meta-pointless about that, IMHO. :) - Neil K. -- 49N 16' 123W 7' / Vancouver, BC, Canada / neil_k_guy@sfu.ca ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 00:29:11 PDT From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) Subject: Life Among the Virii > If you've have mono or anything like it, you know this is quite an > accomplishment. > > woah. This list. Tell me about it... my fever was so high when I had mono I was hallucinating. Ended up in the hospital for a few days because my tonsils closed the back of my mouth shut. The strange thing about mono in the early stages is that during the day you feel basically fine.. but around six or so, PLOOM, you're immobilized on the couch.. It was in this state of mind that I first watched "Stop Making Sense". It also heard "Phaedra" by Tangerine Dream for the first time when my temp was about 104. Just to compound the bizarritude. D^2 ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 00:49:22 PDT From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) Subject: Re: a buncha stuff, most of it annoying > c) i saw an album recently (that i didn't buy, since i'm broke, financially > as well) called something like "men i want to share my money with" or > something like that. it was filed under laurie anderson, but also had > w.s. burroughs and some other guy. it was a compilation album, not a > cooperative effort, as each artist had a seperate section of the disk. It's "You're the Man I Want To Share My Money With", with WSB, LA, and ... darnit, now I've forgotten his name too. Most of Laurie's stuff on it is in "United States I-IV", albeit in an earlier form. Burroughs' material is hilarious, as usual. The LP version of this album (which came out in '81, I think) had a special fourth side with THREE grooves; depending on which groove you put the needle down in, you heard either Laurie, William, or TheOtherGuy. Too bad you can't do all those nifty tricks on CD's (multiple grooves, infinite loops (eg. end of Sgt. Pepper), etc.) > ps. the other line of inquiry that i neglected: peter gabriel also > worked with fripp, levin, and peter hammill (of solo and van der > graff generator fame) as well as with Our Kate--and at this point > we could really tie in pink floyd, and thus roger waters, and through > waters we can bring in thomas dolby (who appeared in the live version > of the berlin wall performance), and dolby played with bruce wooley > and the camera club (who included trevor horn and geoffrey downes, who This "Le Ronde"-esque cavalcade of stars reminds me of a game I learned when I was in Mensa called Carnelli, a word-association game using the titles of movies, books, songs, or other works of art. It's a great time-killer on long road trips, ticket lines, or other mondo-boring situations. You can link titles together in a number of ways: 1) by a word in the title (except for "the" or "an", etc.) 2) by same author, director 3) by same LEADING actor (bit roles don't count..) for example, a typical exchange might go: The King And I The Egg and I The Eye of the Tiger (I and "Eye"... puns are fair game) The Tyger (by Wm. Blake) Tyger (by Tangerine Dream) Optical Race Deathrace 2000 2000 Leagues Under the Sea Under the Sea Mean Green Mother From Outer Space etc. etc. if you repeat a title, use a bad link, or get stuck, you're out. Viel Spass! D^2 ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 09:13:50 CET From: Ilka Hebre Subject: Separate TWW CDs Hi everybody, someone posted that they found the extra CDs from Kate's boxed set separately in Canterbury. I'd really like to have them! I'm not sure whether I should spend the money on the box, as I have all the CDs anyway, and I'm not that big a fan. Anyway, I was wondering whether the person who posted about the CDs in Canter- bury (sorry, I don't remember your name!) by any change has a phone number or something of the record shop, where they saw them, so that I could check with them, whether there's any chance of getting only those two CDs? ...any help is welcome! = ) Thanks a lot, byeeeeeeeeeee, Ilka = ) ======================================================================== Date: 28 Oct 1993 06:17:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Cordelia's Mom Subject: Books 'n stuff I really did like Katharine Kurtz's books, which have been brought up by one or two people so far. She's very good with characters if you're into getting your mind around occasionally massively complicated political plots. Emma Bull, who has been mentioned largely in connection with Cats Laughing, is probably my favorite writer at the moment, though. Her book *Bone Dance* is at the very top of my must-read list. Good, good stuff. Minneapolitans should be especially interested-- two of her three books are set there. Thanks for another infusion of playlists. (More stuff I gotta track down. I'm starting to like this.) I think Laurie Anderson is fantastic. I didn't even realize how fantastic until I got to see her in performance (it was "Strange Angels") when I was 15 or so... one finds that persons of such talent and significance rarely find their ways to western Massachusetts. I had to take my mom (very uncool for a high school sophomore) who had always hated Laurie's stuff when I played it at home, but she came away from the show a diehard fan. Maura ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 06:24:31 EDT From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (dressed to ingest) Subject: cats laughing lakrahn@inst.augie.edu (Laurel Krahn) sez: > And there is* a musical connection. Steve plays drums for a band called > Cats Laughing (Emma Bull, another author, sings with them.... Adam Stemple > also sings and plays guitar with the group... he's now with Boiled in Lead, > also.) . The band plays kindof psychedelic folk-rock-blues kindof songs. interestingly enough, i finally picked up a copy of their first tape (the reissue, not the original). i ordered it from deselby productions (the folks who more or less run omnium records and are boiled in lead). it's pretty good, but really sparse-sounding...kinda like it was recorded through a megaphone or something. i'm not sure if i really like emma bull's voice or not, but it works in the context of the band, the most outstanding track i recall was a cover of "gloomy sunday" which is quite different when performed in a folk rock kinda vein. the third guy on _you're the man i want to share my money with_ is john s. giordono (probably mispelled his name, but i dunno if i can find the cd that easily to doublecheck). +woj ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Books 'n stuff Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 06:37:57 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Cordelia's Mom writes: (hey, does that make you Mrs. Lear?) >I really did like Katharine Kurtz's books, which have been brought up >by one or two people so far. She's very good with characters if you're >into getting your mind around occasionally massively complicated political >plots. You're the second person to mention Kurtz so I guess it's now my turn. I started reading the Deryni series back in high school sometime and they've remained one of my favorite / most oft-read series/set of series (the other two being Anne McCaffrey's Pern books and Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City sextet). Currently there are 11 books (3 trilogy's, the 1st book of the 4th trilogy, and a book of short stories). I vaguely remember seeing an associated book that wasn't a narrative, but I could be wrong. Yes, she's good with characters (though a bit cruel). I don't think the politics are ever "massively complicated." Kurtz is great with detail and consistency (though I've found annoying flaws in continuity--one of which is huge and attributable solely to the fact that she obviously didn't expect to be writing so many books...)--pretty impressive for a series currently in it's 4th trilogy and 3rd decade. (Anne McCaffrey has the same problem; past mistakes from the late 60's are catching up with her...). Kurtz has an advanced degree in history, and has a great store of knowledge to work from, as well as a researcher's eye for detail; perfect for this sort of book. My big complaint, though, is that Kurtz is really not a good writer at all. Her *stories*, her *characters* are what captivate you. The fact that they're always murmering things that they ought to be saying or whispering or mumbling or exhaling or *whatever* bugs me with every book she's written. Yes, she's gotten a hell of a lot better over the years. But someone needs to get her a thesauraus. I really have trouble reading her writing at times (admittedly, I've become more critical through the course of college and other life experience). So I guess that's all there is to say. Good books which I've read dunn-how-many-times (actually, I'm taking a break from re-reading 'em right now; I made it through 5.5 of the books back in September and am now re-reading Geoff Ryman's _Was_ and Randy Shilts' _Conduct Unbecoming_). Anybody know what ever happened to the sequel to Kurtz's _The Harrowing of Gwynnedd_? It's been 3 (or more?) years since it came out... >I think Laurie Anderson is fantastic. I didn't even realize how fantastic >until I got to see her in performance (it was "Strange Angels") when I was >15 I wasn't crazy about the Residents until I saw _Cube E: The History of American Music in 3 E-Z Pieces_ live at the Riv in Chicago. It was a religious experience and it changed my life. I'm still not *that* crazy about the Residents, but I adore my Cube E Live disc and I'm rather fond of _Freak Show_. Jeff ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 11:51:49 MET From: Albert Philipsen Subject: Big Stripy Lie explained I also posted this to rec.music.gaffa, but I thought some people here not reading that list might also be interested. This is a first attempt at giving an interpretation to Kate's new song "Big Stripy Lie". I'll first give a transcription of the lyrics. I hope this is mostly correct. BIG STRIPY LIE Oh big stripy lie moving like a wavy line Coming up behind-ind-ind All young gentle dreams drowning in life's grief Can you hang on to me Don't wanna hurt you baby Only wanna help you I could be good for you Your name is being called by sacred things That are not addressed nor listened to Sometimes they blow trumpets Only wanna help you Never wanna hurt you I know I could be good for you Oh my God it's a jungle in here You've got wild animals loose in here Wanna help you Never hurt you Good for you Hey all you little waves run away Hmm run away My theory is that this song is about spiritual emergency. To understand what this is, you'll need to read the book _The Stormy Search for the Self (Understanding and Living With Spiritual Emergency)_, by Christina Grof & Stanislav Grof, MD. Here is a little quote from the back cover of the book: Many people are undergoing a profound personal transformation associated with spiritual opening. Under favourable circumstances, this process results in emotional healing, a radical shift in values, and a profound awareness of the mystical dimension of existence. For some, these changes are gradual and relatively smooth, but for others, they can be so rapid and dramatic that they interfere with effective everyday functioning. Unfortunately, many health professionals do not recognize the positive potential of these crises, but see them as manifestations of mental disease and treat them with suppressive medication. I'll now go through the lyrics a few lines at a time, and try to explain the song in terms of spiritual emergency. There are three characters playing in this song, I think. The first is the person going through the spiritual emergency. He/she doesn't have any lyrics. The second person is a friend or relative of the first, and he/she sings the verses. The third person is the evil psychiatrist who sings the indented bits. Oh big stripy lie moving like a wavy line Coming up behind-ind-ind My first impression was that "big stripy lie" could be a reference to the American flag, and more specifically a reference to the American materialistic value system. All young gentle dreams drowning in life's grief Can you hang on to me A spiritual emergency is often triggered by a sudden loss, such as the death of a loved one or an unrequited love. Don't wanna hurt you baby Only wanna help you I could be good for you This is the psychiatrist talking, who thinks the first person is obviously going mad, and wants to "help" him/her using a standard treatment with suppressive medication. Your name is being called by sacred things That are not addressed nor listened to Such experiences are possible for someone going through spiritual emergency. Sometimes they blow trumpets Sometimes things get so intense that you crumble to dust, or completely break down. Only wanna help you Never wanna hurt you I know I could be good for you The psychiatrist is getting more desperate. Oh my God it's a jungle in here You've got wild animals loose in here People going through spiritual emergency sometimes have experiences of encounters with wild animals, and dying as a result of it. This could be experiences from a previous life surfacing. Wanna help you Never hurt you Good for you The psychiatrist just keeps repeating the same old stuff. Hey all you little waves run away Hmm run away This last bit is about the good results of the spiritual emergency. The old materialistic value system is rejected for something better. This is also reflected in the music at this point, which gets more gentle. Albert ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: present tense books Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 11:11:06 +0000 (GMT) On Wed, 27 Oct 93 at 17:43:41 EDT mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) wrote: > since philip mentioned present tense books, i'd like to > quickly (that is to say, before someone stops me :) recommend > 2 books, both written entirely in the present tense, one science > fiction, one not, one easy to read, one decidedly not. > > 1. roger zelazny _creatures of light and darkness_ I second this recommendation of a most excellent book. One of Zelazny's best. The Grant Naylor Red Dwarf books are very good too, but much darker than the TV series. Very downbeat. "Wuthering Heights" is worth a few hours of anybody's time. All IMO of course. I will remain diplomatically silent about most of the other authors mentioned here recently. :-) -- 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: Thu, 28 Oct 93 12:03:33 MEZ From: Dirk Kastens Subject: The Red Shoes out in Germany! YAY!!! Hi people, the subject says it all. I've just bought THE NEW KATE ALBUM!!!!! We've been the last who could buy the CD5, here in Germany, now we are the first who can buy the album, yeah! I can't await to go home where I will lock the door, unplug the telephone and listen to it the whole day :-) FYI: Prince only appears on one song - Why Should I Love You? The booklet is WONDERFUL: a big folded poster (12 x the size of a normal booklet) full of fruits and a BIG photo of KaTe with a dancer. That's all for now. Dirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ || \\\\\ || ///// | dkastens@dosuni1.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE || ))))) IRK || ((((( ASTENS | "Music's the way, the only way I know" || ///// || \\\\\ | Happy Rhodes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: The goal posts of life, and Rocky Horror Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 11:27:23 +0000 (GMT) On Wed, 27 Oct 1993 at 21:58:48 +1000 (AEST) anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) wrote: > Neil timewarps: > > > Well, I've got to wonder about this. American stations carrying the > > world television premiere of the Rocky Horror Picture Show on election > > night in Canada, as the Canadian stations carry the latest up-to-the- > > minute news of the federal election. > > World television premiere? I think not! Network 7 here in Australia has shown > the film regularly for years, at least six years actually. They even found a > copy that had the songs digitally remastered in stereo... Come on, Anthony! You've been around here long enough to be used to this by now. This is "world" as in "The USA, oh and maybe Canada too". You've got to love the ethnocentricity, or you'll end up pulling your hair out! :-) -- 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". *** ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: Life Among the Virii Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 11:33:39 +0000 (GMT) Could somebody with an Anglo-American medical dictionary translate "mono" for me??? -- 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". *** ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: Separate TWW CDs Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 11:38:35 +0000 (GMT) On Thu, 28 Oct 93 at 09:13:50 CET Ilka Hebre wrote: > Anyway, I was wondering whether the person who posted about the CDs in Canter- > bury (sorry, I don't remember your name!) by any change has a phone number > or something of the record shop, where they saw them, so that I could check > with them, whether there's any chance of getting only those two CDs? You should be aware that this was Canterbury, Kent, in the UK. The incident occured while Court (the mystery previous poster) was at University in Wales last year. -- 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: mono Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 08:04:11 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Steve Fagg asks what "mono" is. 'Tis an abbreviation of "mononucleosis." Dunno if I could tell you more than that if you still don't recognize the term. 'Tis a nasty thing involving sore throats with white spots, fevers, and an incredible drowsiness. When I had mono, I knew something was wrong when I would have dizzy spells in the midst of climbing up a single flight of stairs. :-( It can last weeks and drugs are used only in extreme cases due to side effects (or so it was explained to me by my doctor when he told me I was going to be riding it out on my own...;-) Fortunately, I had a fairly mild case. I know a couple of people who've had to basically throw away an entire semester of college due to the illness (not that it *lasted* that long...just long enough to ensure impossibility to catch up or warrant an incomplete...) Jeff (who now has some sort of chest infection and is taking his own sweet time about going to a doctor for an antibiotic...anything but penicilin. ;-) |Jeffrey C. Burka | "When I look in the mirror, I see a little clearer/ | |SAFH Lite [tm] | I am what I am and you are you too./ Do you like | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | what you see? Do you like yourself?" --N. Cherry | ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: mono Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 12:20:02 +0000 (GMT) On Thu, 28 Oct 93 at 08:04:11 -0400 jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu wrote: > Steve Fagg asks what "mono" is. 'Tis an abbreviation of "mononucleosis." > Dunno if I could tell you more than that if you still don't recognize the > term. Thanks. With this info, and a larger than usual dictionary, I was able to find out that "infectious mononucleosis" is what is more commonly known over here as "glandular fever". Nasty. I can now offer my commiserations to those suffering it in the knowledge of what it is you've actually got! I'd say "get well soon", but in my experience that is easier said than done where this disease is concerned. It seems to have a tendency to linger on for months and months :-( -- 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". *** ======================================================================== 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)