Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 41 Send posts to fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu Send subscribe/unsubscribe commands to majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu Send comments, etc. to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu FegMANIAX! Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/ Archives are available at http://archive.uwp.edu/pub/music/lists/fegmaniax/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- Chins, bearded and otherwise... Robyn & Andy picture secrets of the forbidden tongue (i.e., forbidden words defined) My band (ha ha no RH content) ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 22:57:27 -0500 Subject: Chins, bearded and otherwise... Although it seems like a lot of effort has gone into the "Autumn Sea" transcriptions, I wonder... am I alone in having always heard "ever-swelling SHINS" instead of "chins"? I thought this referred back to the earlier statement about the brandy seeping its way beneath his waistline, hence on into his legs... or is this even the same character? Even Robyn seems a little confused. On "Vibrating"-- I think it's pretty clear what it's about, but I've always wondered about that China pug. It that a dog, or some kind of obscure, um, marital aid? (Or a very common one-- my expertise on such things is admittedly minimal at best.) I dunno... something about the oh-so-naughty way he says "You could just see its hhhhead.." And then a few tracks later we get "Sleeping with Your Devil Mask" and "I've got to have a nasty thought / Because of all the stuff I bought." Lots of sex with inanimate objects here... and I haven't even gotten to that loaf of bread! (Wait a second... that doesn't reflect well on me, does it? I meant "I haven't gotten to DISCUSSING that loaf of bread... didn't I?) Also, hear! Hear! to the diversity and individuality of the Feg List. I'm relatively new to the online game and, just for the hell of it, I checked out a few music bulletin boards... one on REM consisted solely of post after post proclaiming "REM is Awesome!" or "Saw REM last night. They ROCK!" Ugh. Also-- I wholeheartedly approve of the banning of the word "w*llies" from the list... for personal reasons. Seriously, though, I'm of the opinion that words are just words, and they only carry as much power as you're willing to give them (usually by being afraid of them). Since we openly dicuss the ideas that these words refer to-- see above-- I don't see much point in discriminating as to the nomenclature. Terry's point is well taken, though, that profanity was being used just to make a political point. I agree, actually, with the point that's being made, and at one time I would've assumed that anyone into challenging "cult" music like Robyn would be a dyed-in-the-wool liberal freak like me, but I know that ain't the case, and political arguments, flame-wars and whatnot take us farther and farther afield from our mutual interest and into areas that we'll probably never agree on. Would it suffice to say that anyone who uses profanity does so at the risk of pissing certain parties off (oops)? And yes, I'm being part of the problem by continuing to prattle on about it. Sorry. Rex ------------------------------ From: DougMash@aol.com Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 23:27:48 -0500 Subject: Robyn & Andy picture Here's a shot I took of Robyn & Andy at a record signing (Tower Records, NYC 1986). Feel free to do whatever you like with it! Doug [i removed the encoded graphic file for the sake of those with mailers of little brains. if you want a copy, either contact doug or wait a bit for me to get it up on the archive site. +woj] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 02:49:53 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeffrey with 2 f's Jeffrey" Subject: secrets of the forbidden tongue (i.e., forbidden words defined) I've received sufficient requests on this one to post this to the whole list. Robyn-relevance: (a) it's silly (b) many of these words might well be used to describe his material (c) properly arranged (with some duplication), these words' initial letters spell out Robyn Hitchcock's name! (ooh!) > >argillaceous (adj.) clayey; containing clay > >boanthropy (n.) a type of insanity in which a man thinks he's an ox > >catopromancy (n.) fortune-telling with mirrors > >dzo (n.) a hybrid between the yak and the domestic cow > >exsufflate (v.t.) to blow out or away > >formication (n.) the feeling that bugs are crawling on you (watch that spelling!) > >gomphiasis (n.) toothache; loosening of the teeth > >helminthophobia (n.) fear of being, or becoming, infested with worms > >inspissate (v.t.&i.) to thicken > >jactitation (n.) 1. loud or public bragging 2. a false claim (law) 3. excessive twitching and restlessness > >kombinationsfahigkeit (n.) the way a medium picks up clues: by noting people's involuntary reactions > >layboy (n.) papermaking-machine attachment that delivers sheets in piles > >madefy (v.t.) to wet > >neanilagnia (n.) a yen for nymphets > >olisbos (n.) a dildo > >periclitation (n.) exposing to danger > >quab (n.) 1. the eelpout or gudgeon; any similar small fish. 2. something immature or unfinished > >randle (n.) a nonsensical poem recited by Irish schoolboys as an apology for farting at a friend. > >sialagogic (adj.) promoting the flow of saliva > >tyg (n.) a large ceramic 17c drinking mug w/ 12 handles > >uvid (adj.) moist or wet > >verbigeration (n.) senseless reiteration of cliches > >whistersnefet (n.) a hard blow > >xeronisus (n.) inability to reach orgasm > >zenzizenzizenzic (n.) the eighth power of a number (my ps: and the highest scoring word in scrabble, if you've swiped z's from other peoples' games...) Oh. I lied: you can't spell Robyn's name because I spaced on the letter "y"--so here: yhte (n.) possession Also, it seems appropriate that "jeff" is a "printers' dice game using pieces of type metal" or gambling with this game--the list o' words probably did look a random scramble of letters.... Oh--all definitions are from _Mrs Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words_, by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (who'd score not a mean tally w/her own name in scrabble....) --Jeff Jeffrey Norman "Crumple zones, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee harmful or fatal if swallowed, Dept. of English & Comp. Lit. small-craft warning." e-mail: jenor@csd.uwm.edu --no one in particular In my CD changer: Elvis Costello _Kojak Variety_ Kitchens of Distinction _Love Is Hell_ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:28:54 +0000 From: Jim Bower Subject: My band (ha ha no RH content) Folks Phew, been away from my email for a while and you people have been so busy I was flooded with over 100 posts....so much for feginactivity! This is just to tell anyone I know, and of course anyone I don't know, that the Freud Squad web site is now up & running (as from this morning) and can be found at: http://www.demon.co.uk/cline/freuds A friend of mine did it for us...only *some* of it makes me cringe. Aythengyew Jim Bower ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.