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fegmaniax-digest      Wednesday, January 28 1998      Volume 07 : Number 034



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Who's got all the points?                     [Hedblade <Hedblade@aol.com>]
  Re: a diversion into linguistics (WHY???)  (Absolutely no RH)  [Dave Libri]
  feg archives                                           [woj <woj@smoe.org>]
  Re:  Neutral Milk Hotel                       [MARKEEFE <MARKEEFE@aol.com>]

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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:49:58 EST
From: Hedblade <Hedblade@aol.com>
Subject: Who's got all the points?

Fegs,

This is what Carl Jung (not Sting, thank you) would call Synchronicity.  JUST
LAST WEEK, after a couple of years of not sending in points, I called Maxell
to get the info others have posted-  Not valid anymore.  Unlike some others,
though, I managed to fill in some nice gaps in my CD collection via Max Points
(mainly Beatles stuff already owned on vinyl that I couldn't justify buying
again even though I wanted them on CD like most folks because, after all, The
Beatles were great as all Fegs agree and no collection is complete without
every single one of their releases filed in chronological order in your
collection).  Did it take a lot of points to get them?  Well, perhaps, but I
buy A LOT of tapes (ask a certain Bay Area Feg about volume), so I was going
to have them anyway and, hey, why not get something for free via something you
were going to buy anyway?  So I did.  Must say, I'm most sad the promotion is
over and I'm considering buying Realistic brand tapes as a result of this
creeping feeling of betrayal.  ;) 

Blinking On And Off...

Jay H.

<< I just finished labeling a Maxell cassette tape and have saved the "10 MAX
 PTS" sticker from the label sheet in a drawer with 37 others that I have
 saved from other Maxell tapes I've labeled over the last couple of years. I
 keep thinking that someday I'll be able to use these for something, but
 I've never seen any sort of catalog of "free stuff you get with your Max
 Pts." Has anyone on this list ever seen any promotions from Maxell
 utilizing these proofs of purchase? Why am I collecting these?  Are you too
 just saving them for some unknown reason?? If I can only figure this out,
 then life will make sense...
 
 ms >>

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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:10:44 -0600
From: Dave Librik <librik@jaka.ece.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: a diversion into linguistics (WHY???)  (Absolutely no RH)

[Warning: probably of no interest to anyone except me, Katherine, and Matthew]

Matthew "Ye Sleeping" Knights wrote:

>James enlightened:
><tangata whenua = native peoples >
>
>I'm no linguist. Even so I'm about to make the assertion that the following
>three words have equivalent meanings in three different languages.
>
>'British' is a derivation of 'pretani', a Roman word for 'native peoples'
>used to describe the ancient britons.  Welsh is a derivation of 'Welisc',
>an Anglo Saxon word for 'native peoples' used by the Saxons to describe the
>Celts they were at war with.  Cymraeg is the Welsh word for 'native
>peoples', used to describe themselves.
>
>Am I close?

Not really.

'pretani' isn't a Roman word for "natives" -- it seems to be what the
natives were calling themselves, or at least their country.  Nobody
really knows why it was called that, but everybody will be willing to
make something up if you ask them.

The "wealh" word that "Wales" is the plural of -- this is Anglo-Saxon
for "foreigner."  It seems to mean mostly Celtic or Roman foreigners.
The cheekiness of calling the native peoples of the country you're grabbing
"foreigners" is only matched by ... well, calling the natives of the
country you're grabbing "folks from India" ... :)

Cymry (the Welsh word for themselves) actually came from a word "com-brogos,"
where "com" is the usual "together" prefix (as in "comrade", "community,"
etc.), and "brogos" are the people from a neighborhood, an area, a "bro."  So
it's something like "compatriots," "fellow-countrymen," or "homies."

I know I'm just totally playing into Capuchin's idea that everybody but
him speaks Welsh (ssh!  don't let on about the secret Welsh-language-only
Feglist!) but it's really just that Robyn's style attracts people who love
big interesting words.  I mean, I *like* all that Lovecraftian verbosity
Robyn throws around -- it's a big part of why I listen to him.  So I think
this may be why so many language-lovers love Hitchcock lyrics.  (This may
apply better to his 80s stuff than to his 90s turn towards short, stark,
simple repetition -- but we can always rely on his offhand flights of fancy
during concerts to give us our dose of descriptive adjectives!)

- - David "Dafydd" Librik
librik@jaka.ece.uiuc.edu

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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:28:40 -0500
From: woj <woj@smoe.org>
Subject: feg archives

also sprach Bayard:

>ps. did someone say something about a feg-keg party at susan's?  i am *so*
>there dude....  (;

when i have that apartment-warming party, it's going to be called "kegmania!".

so, all of the fegmaniax archves that i could find are now available on
smoe. go to <http://www.smoe.org/lists/fegmaniax/>. i haven't linked them
from the archive section of the web page yet, but that is coming, as is,
more importantly, a search thingie.

note that i only have stuff from 1993 onwards (And 1993 isn't quite
complete either). if any of you have fegmail from way back when, please let
me know! i'd love to recover some of those c.1990 posts if they still exist
anywhere.

also, i will have the balance of the old archives (articles, image files,
some lyrics, etc.) up there by week's end too.

woj

n.p. semisonic -- great divide

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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:45:12 EST
From: MARKEEFE <MARKEEFE@aol.com>
Subject: Re:  Neutral Milk Hotel

      No, the new album's not yet out.  Eb must have an advanced promo copy,
which leads me to the question, "Why the hell don't *I* have an advanced promo
copy yet?!"  For those not in the know, NMH's 1996 album "On Avery Island"
(Merge records) is great singer-songwriter, Javanese-inflected, fuzz-toned,
catchy, droney, trombone-infused indie rock. . . plus I used to work (at Wax
Trax, in Denver) with all the guest musicians on the album!  Not that that
would mean anything to anyone else, but I thought it was cool when I found out
(which was, BTW, after I had purchased and grown to love the album).  The new
album is due to be released sometime next month, I believe.  Pretty sure I saw
the release date at icemagazine.com.

- -----Michael K.

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