From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #91 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, March 4 1998 Volume 07 : Number 091 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Spicy girls'n'guys [Aaron Mandel ] Re: brainy spice [lj lindhurst ] can't make it - sorry [firstcat@lsli.com] Living mathematical resemblences ["Runion-1, Michael" ] Re: Spicy girls'n'guys [Ed.Doxtator@ssa.co.uk] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #89 (ZIP, null, no RH Content) [Terrence M Marks ] comfort food ["J. Katherine Rossner" ] Re[2]: Spicy girls'n'guys ["Terry Linnig"] well and truly dead ["Capitalism Blows" ] Dan Bern's "Fifty Eggs" [John Barrington Jones ] Re: well and truly dead [John Barrington Jones ] A quaint old fashion way [The Great Quail ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:32:23 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Spicy girls'n'guys Ed sed: > But there's no No Brainy Spice. No Smart Spice. No Intelligent Spice. i think ginger is supposed to be "the smart one". not too convincing -- in the movie it was more like "the occasionally pretentious one". which IS strange, because i know tons of people who are disgusted with themselves for sort of liking the spice girls and would latch on to Clever Spice like you wouldn't believe. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:34:57 -0500 (EST) From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: brainy spice > But there's no No Brainy Spice. No Smart Spice. No Intelligent Spice. > So, it's NOT cool for girls to have an IQ higher than that of her > boyfriend. Remember, girls, you'll never land a footballer or get > interviewed on "The O-Zone" or have your picture on the cover of "Rolling > Stone" if you show any signs of intelligence... > That's because if there WAS a Brainy Spice, it would suggest that the OTHER spice girls are NOT brainy. And we all know that couldn't be true. lj, a.k.a., Stop-Crying-Or-I'll-Give-You-Something-to-REALLY-Cry-About Spice ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 98 10:22:37 From: firstcat@lsli.com Subject: can't make it - sorry I just wanted everyone to know that due to conflicting schedules and previous comitments, I will not be playing the Princess Di concert. I know this will leave to benefit without its only scheduled Elvis impersonator, but after talking over options with the Earl Spencer we concluded it would be better if I just stayed away or he'd ring the police. Cheers Jay - ------------------------------------- Jay Lyall Channel Sales Director Livermore Software Laboratories, Intl. 2825 Wilcrest, Suite 160 Houston, Texas 77042-3358 1-713-974-3274 jay@lsli.com Date: 3/4/98 - ------------------------------------- Two-Hour Luxury Goods Commercial Also A Spy Film ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:19:09 -0500 From: "Runion-1, Michael" Subject: Living mathematical resemblences > Of course, as we approach (or have we already > passed?) the 6 billion marker, it's pretty clear that there are simply too > many heterosxuals around mucking up the planet with their offspring. Hey, I resemble that remark! (I think we're well pass 6 billion and rapidly approaching 8. I remember being told in like 4th grade circa 1976 that we'd hit 8 billion by the year 2000, but I think we managed to somehow slow down just a tad.) > James (national vice-president of COCOA, the Council to Outlaw Contrived > and Outrageous Acronyms) Hey, I *live* in that remark! (Cocoa, Florida, home of just about nothing but damn well centrally located.) > so that's all very funny. but here's what i don't get about this whole > translating into one language and then back into the original. it seems > like it should be...ok, like when you square a number and then take the > square root, you end up back with the same number again. why shouldn't > it be the same for languages? Well, technically speaking, taking the square root of a number yields two roots, a and -a. So, even in math, you can't quite tell what the original statement actually said. With plaintive offerings on a Wednesday morn, Mike Mike Runion EG&G S&MA Data & Analyses; ADoCS Office 867-3619 BOC-251 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:06:04 -0000 From: Gary Sedgwick Subject: Ock aye, fancy a shag darlin'? (NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY!) >>Westie isn't a location -or- a state of mind, it's a very charming breed of >>terrier. > >this is just too hilarious! For those who haven't a clue what Danielle and >I are talking about, West Auckland has something of, um, a reputation. For >the Brits out there, imagine if central Glasgow was crossed with Essex, and >you're probably getting pretty close. > So all the blokes are drunk, kilt-wearing, ginger bearded louts, and all the girls are blonde and stupid? (WAIT before you hit that 'reply' button - I'm not Glasgowist or Essexist, and we certainly don't want a thread about it!!). Gary, who refers everyone to the Monty Python sci-fi epsiode for real Scotlandism. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:08:32 -0500 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: It's almost lunch time James ruminates, >BUT if comfort >food means what I think it means, then pancakes (that's flapjacks to you), Not in Michigan. We say "pancakes." Often for no reason at all. Pancakes! But American pancakes are thicker than British ones, which are more like crepes. I don't know about New Zealand pancakes. >Then of course there are the traditional bags of munchies: like crisps (= >chips), in flavours very alien to Americans: salt & vinegar; Salt & vinegar potato chips are common here now, though they didn't used to be. We still lack the wonders of shrimp flavor, chicken flavor, etc. Comfort food: Sour cream and onion potato chips, Cadbury cream eggs, root beer or Dr. Brown's Black Cherry soda. Whilst eating these foods, it is necessary to read an Ursula LeGuin novel, preferably one of the books in the Earthsea Trilogy. n., off to lunch ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:04:22 +0000 From: Ed.Doxtator@ssa.co.uk Subject: Re: Spicy girls'n'guys I did say: >>But there's no No Brainy Spice. No Smart Spice. No Intelligent Spice. >>So, it's NOT cool for girls to have an IQ higher than that of her >>boyfriend. Remember, girls, you'll never land a footballer or get >>interviewed on "The O-Zone" or have your picture on the cover of "Rolling >>Stone" if you show any signs of intelligence... And Ross Did Say: >So who's the brainy Backstreet Boy? The point I'm making here is that when the SG's are pushed on the public, they're seen as what women SHOULD be. It's "girl power", right? Behave this way, and you will set yourself free. But looking at the packaging, it's the same stereotype that's been pushed for Gawd knows how long, and that is: women only want money for nice things, they should be forever young and beautiful, they should compete and behave like young men, they should be as aggressive as young men. God forbid that a woman show up her boyfriend or husband with her intellect. If one of the Backstreet Boys suddenly came out with a great novel or made a film or exhibited paintings or launched some other cultural/intellectual achievement that didn't have anything to do with pop music, he'd be lauded as "multi-talented". It'd be easy to accept. You'd never see it with one of the Spice Girls. Why? It don't fit in with the marketing concept. >It's not so much reflection of sexism as a reflection of the lack of value >placed on intellect in general by pop culture. What do scientists look like in cartoons? >How about librarians? Yes, there are all sorts of stereotypes of matronly teachers, slide-rule brandishing mathmeticians, doctors in lab coats, hygenically-challenged computer geeks, and so forth. Hell, even "Scooby Doo" had Velma-- the chunky smart girl with fat glasses and no boyfriend (I'm making an assumption here-- we never saw Velma's boyfriend, did we?) But it _is_ sexism, as a marketing tool. Marketing, among other things, gives consumers tools to identify and pidgeonhole a product. And, in my opinion, The Spice Girls main marketing image is sexist. It creates the image that you can be a "wild thang" and still be a guy pleaser. (Sorta the "Cosmo Woman" image, but a bit younger.) >And why would the girls rather "land a footballer" than a chess champ? I'm not sayin' that they would-- but what I am saying is that the marketing is sending the message: join us or else your chances of landing that glamorous football player, famous actor, powerful politician, or influential businessman are severely limited. Fortunately, there are enough discerning consumers out there who can shake up the image a bit-- or our man Robyn would be selling pencils on a street corner. There must be a few of us what think he's worthwhile. (As an aside, it must be incredibly difficult to be a thirteen year old girl these days, what with your future being decided for you by other people, just so they have an income. But then again, people still trade their daughters for farm animals. It's the same game, in a different stadium...) Something tells me I'm taking this way too seriously. Sorry about that, kids. Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta go muck out Germaine Greer's garage... ;) Look after yerselves... n.p. Pavement, "Brightening The Corners" - -Ed, Doc, dig the new Warm Jets disc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:17:26 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #89 (ZIP, null, no RH Content) > But there's no No Brainy Spice. No Smart Spice. No Intelligent Spice. > So, it's NOT cool for girls to have an IQ higher than that of her > boyfriend. Remember, girls, you'll never land a footballer or get > interviewed on "The O-Zone" or have your picture on the cover of "Rolling > Stone" if you show any signs of intelligence... > Of course. They don't really NEED a brain. n.p.-(well, I'm in a lab, so nothing's playing, but if I were at home, I'd be listening to Tennessee Ernie Ford) Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 13:01:16 -0500 From: "J. Katherine Rossner" Subject: comfort food Sorry, I've lost the original post and the poster's address...but since other people are posting to the list... PIZZA! --but, alas, no more; can't eat wheat, shouldn't eat tomatoes. Sushi. Most often: cheese (any kind: I've never met a cheese I disliked) and corn chips. Papaya juice, or coconut-pineapple, from Papaya King. Anything with whipped cream. Katherine, forcing herself to refrain from joining the "sexism" debate n.p. Vance Gilbert, "Shaking Off Gravity" - -- Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem, and yet they spake hem so. - Chaucer ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Mar 98 10:51:34 -0600 From: "Terry Linnig" Subject: Re[2]: Spicy girls'n'guys I may not be hip to the whole Spice Girl sensation. Is there an 'OLD SPICE'? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 11:13:33 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: well and truly dead let me just mention that gandalf and capuchie are doing an ENORMOUS amount of work on the lyrics project. while the rest of us have flitted in and out of activity as our schedules permit, bayard and jeme have been rock solid throughout. the lyric archive is going to be a fucking INCREDIBLE resource. these two deserve not only massive thanks, but also probably some sort of ceremony at the feggathering in north platte. nah, i got PANCAKE DAY, which, as i say, is quite good. i didn't know there was another one, but i'd be happy to take it off your hands. it couldn't be *that* bad. i like your idea, though. "um, excuse me. this disc is so shitty that you really ought to pay me to take it out of the store." <2) I'm looking to get a new computer. Can any of you recommend a website that cuts through all the pointless obfuscation/hyping?> try tom's home page. of course, it can't be viewed using microsatan's internet explorer, which is just fucking cooler than cool. kindasorta. that's the problem, actually. not speaking both languages fluently. this all makes perfect sense. (except, doesn't chomsky argue that rules of grammar are universal? which is why a japanese kid raised in france would speak french.) so, again, if you speak two languages fluently, it would be easy to see how a given phrase would be "different" translated from *one* language to the *other*. now, this is the part that still *doesn't* make sense to me. if you've got some sort of black box --in this case, alta vista's babel fish-- that performs the opposite operation translating back into the original language, then, i can't see why you wouldn't end up with your original phrase. and unless you spoke both languages fluently, you wouldn't be any the wiser. well, i didn't really have the time, but i couldn't resist attending the flaming lips boombox experiment #6 last night. it was quite an experience, to say the least. "cacophony" is the first word that comes to mind. but, parts of it were quite beautiful, believe it or not. the band was funnier than shit. coyne was wearing a yellow rainjacket throughout. i thought it maybe could've used a little more variety. but, certainly unlike anything you've ever witnessed before. and certainly worth eight bucks. unfortunately, now i really *really* don't have the time to go see the damned tonight. driving in seattle, one encounters roughly 666 wazzocks per mile. i've driven in most every region of the country, and the only place that gives seattle a run for its money is upstate new york. i mean, you don't believe how shittily people drive here. but, what's the term i oughta use for assholes that don't use their indicators? yesterday i passed a guy on the street playing a banjo. i requested Brenda's Iron Sledge (and lordy how i'd have shelled out if he'd up and broken into it!) he didn't know it, lamentably. but hey, i had to try. in regards to all this billy bragg gushing, i can only say: lookit all the fuckin' commies! let's get 'em, quail! the other night, my Eat The State! folding compatriots decided that it was, "noteworthy" that i was not wearing a robyn hitchcock t-shirt. now, i've just got three more words, and i'll shut the fuck up for a while: THE BIG LEBOWSKI. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:38:16 -0800 From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Dan Bern's "Fifty Eggs" I know that Dan Bern has been mentioned on here on and off. Well, if any of you have been waiting to hear what the track listing is, here it is. I'm bummed that "Krautmeyer" won't be on there, but I'm told that it is an only-recently - -penned song (when compared to the others). >Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:24:46 -0500 (EST) >From: spi@cloud9.net (Sasha Issenberg) >To: dan-bern-list@eskimo.com >Subject: "Fifty Eggs" > >Here's the track listing for "Fifty Eggs." > >1. Tiger Woods (3:31) >2. One Thing Real (5:01) >3. Missing Link (4:11) >4. Oh Sister (3:46) >5. Cure for Aids [sic] (2:54) >6. Chick Singers (2:37) >7. Different Worlds (4:24) >8. Everybody's Baby (5:04) >9. One Dance (4:58) >10. Jesus Freak (4:26) >11. Monica (4:21) >12. Rolling Away (5:07) >13. Suzanne (3:48) > >-Sasha > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:41:55 -0800 From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: well and truly dead >now, i've just got three more words, and i'll shut the fuck up for a >while: > >THE BIG LEBOWSKI. oh yes, it will be mine..... oh yes.....all mine. Johnny B. Coen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 98 14:34:38 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: A quaint old fashion way Just to let you know, I will be in San Fransisco for a week, so this quail will be off the List, and missing out on the countless new threads which will undobtedly pop up. So, until I return, if anyone misses my postings, feel free to cut and paste from the below and insert them where need: The Quail's Automatic Posting Clips: * Eb, stop being so cranky. I respect your viewpoints, but * Blah blah Neutral Milk Hotel yadda yadda Neutral Milk Hotel, blah blah Aeroplane over the Sea, yadda yadda Jeff Mangum, blah blah etc. . . . * Hey, guys! Stop picking on * The purple legions of the wombat patrol rained down around the valley of Gong. Their flying saucers and tumbling teacups clattered together in the sky, creating a noise that would make even Woj consider a tentative reach toward the volume control. The leader stepped forward and produced a small Quailiform creature. It gleamed in his hand, softly, its featherless, pale skin almost luminescent, a pulsing tube where a top-feather should have been and a beak like a small cone of damp cartelidge. Izzy looked at it askance, fully aware of the recent LJ Accord, signed this week in East Grimpshire. This was, in every way imaginable, highly illegal . . . and yet vaguely erotic, in a horrifying fashion that was not without a certain disturbing charm. Izzy blinked twice, and in a voice timeless and slow as calcium, said: "I'll take three." Yesss . . . was Liam ever going to be sorry he posted to *this* fucking List. . . . * Capuchin, you are wrong, wrong, so very wrong. Why can't you see the obvious path to correctness lies in thinking Well, I hope that prevents any of you for missing me -- a dubious proposition if I ever made one. And if all else fails, you can always ask others to fill in for me. Eddie can take my political views, Terrence my musical taste, LJ my image control, Eb my surrealistic ramblings, and Capuchin pretty much covers all my other values. You'll hardly know I was gone! - --Quail - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | Literature Site - The Libyrinth: TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth www.rpg.net/quail | Vampire Site - New York by Night: riverrun Discordian Society | www.rpg.net/quail/NYBN 73 De Chirico Street | Arkham, Orbis Tertius 2112-42 | ** What is FEGMANIA? ** "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 20:08:38 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: the 80's On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:13:32 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > >And Susan, need I remind you that the back covers of You Really Got Me, >Kinks-Size AND Kinda Kinks all present variations on this teenybopper >meet-the-band theme? ;) > >>(witness David Hasselhoff) But what about the car? :-) C-mon, all us that were preadolescent boys in the 80's remember KITT.! but seriously, the New Kids were not marketed as real musicians. (though Mark Wahlberg is a good actor! :-) ) Plus, "so you think your in love" was the 'big hit'. I remember it being played on the local "home of rock and roll" station, in between warrant and winger!!! -luther > >I'd rather not, if you don't mind. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 20:17:15 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: intelligence? On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:13:32 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >But there's no No Brainy Spice. No Smart Spice. No Intelligent Spice. >So, it's NOT cool for girls to have an IQ higher than that of her >boyfriend. Remember, girls, you'll never land a footballer or get >interviewed on "The O-Zone" or have your picture on the cover of "Rolling >Stone" if you show any signs of intelligence... ...of course, you will never make a difference once you are older, and your looks fade. I fu#king HATE this attitude! Intelligent Women RULE!!! -luther w dudich (who is going to take this occasion to shamelessly plug his bands' gig friday again.) :-) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 14:50:18 -0600 From: "Maxey L. Mullins" Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: Fwd: FW: (Fwd) Politics (fwd)]] Return-Path: Received: from pop1.rcsntx.swbell.net (pop1.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.24.12]) by mail1.rcsntx.swbell.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA27782 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:23:16 -0600 (CST) Received: from tegan.swt.edu (tegan.swt.edu [147.26.10.12]) by pop1.rcsntx.swbell.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA07067 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:23:04 -0600 (CST) Received: from swt.edu (port1.modem4.cc.swt.edu) by swt.edu (PMDF V5.1-9 #20823) with ESMTP id <01IU8SQ8SBYA8X8I0P@swt.edu> for Skmull@swbell.net; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:22:43 CST Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 21:37:32 -0600 From: Andy Zenker Subject: [Fwd: Fwd: FW: (Fwd) Politics (fwd)] To: Jason Davidson , Joel Mullins H , Greg Lowe , Belinda Perez , Otto Zenker , Patricia Zenker , Ryan Klepetko , Ryan Palmer Message-id: <34FCCC7C.1988E10@swt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------F32FFF8AF411D9EBA168C7A2" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------F32FFF8AF411D9EBA168C7A2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - --------------F32FFF8AF411D9EBA168C7A2 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: Received: from mohican.mwsu.edu by swt.edu (PMDF V5.1-9 #20823) with ESMTP id <01IU8SF3QPP891Y7K2@swt.edu> for az21710@swt.edu; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:13:40 CST Received: from moffetlab5.mwsu.edu ([198.215.11.148]) by mohican.mwsu.edu (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO203a ID# 0-41061U2500L2500S0) with SMTP id AAA6770 for ; Tue, 03 Mar 1998 21:16:35 -0600 Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 21:16:22 -0600 From: nha.ton@mohican.mwsu.edu (Nha Ton) Subject: Fwd: FW: (Fwd) Politics (fwd) X-Sender: nha.ton@mohican.mwsu.edu To: az21710@swt.edu Message-id: <3.0.1.32.19980303211622.0068b314@mohican.mwsu.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?" Dad >>says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I'm the >>breadwinner of the family, so let's call me Capitalism. Your Mom, >>she's the administrator of the money, >> so we'll call her the Government. >> We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the People. >> The nanny, we'll consider her the Working Class. And your baby >>brother, we'll call him the Future. Now, think about that and see >>if that makes sense. >> So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said. Later >> that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on >> him. >> He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. >> >> So the little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother sound >> asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the >> door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the >> nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed. >> >> The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, I think I >> understand the concept of politics now." The father says, "Good, son, tell >> me in your own words what you think politics is all about". >> >> The little boy replies, "Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working >> Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the >> Future is in deep shit." >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- >>- >> >> >> >> > - --------------F32FFF8AF411D9EBA168C7A2-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:54:10 -0500 From: Aidan Cully Subject: Quailomatic [0% content] Speaking of quaint, old-fashioned things, here's my new Quailomatic setup. It will take input of the format given by the Quail below (included for reference), and output a message that looks as though it comes from the quail! Be sure to include the appropriate message- headers and append his signature. This is easily done through another shell script. If you have access to a Unix box, you can put this in your crontab and generate a Quailomatic message as often and as regularly as you like. The Quail's message should be edited to take out everything that's not a snippet, and placed in $HOME/msgs/quail. Then the genindex.sh program should be run. Now, printquail will print a random Quail message. This is completely untested, but I can't imagine it being _that_ buggy. It just might not work at all. :-) (and it'll certainly crash if the input isn't in exactly the right format.) Enjoy anyway. - --aidan not getting anywhere with my current work project. - ---genindex.sh #!/bin/sh echo `grep '^\*' ~/msgs/quail | wc -l` > ~/msgs/index - ---printquail.c #include #include #include /* output an entry in a ':' begun and '/' delimited list of possible * output. return end of choice string. */ char *handle_insert(char *head, char *buf, size_t len, FILE *f) { char *close; char *store, *iter, *end; int numslash, realout; store = 0; do { close = strchr(head, '>'); if (close) *close++ = 0; if (!store) { store = (char*)malloc(strlen(head)+1); strcpy(store, head); } else { store = (char*)realloc((void*)store, strlen(store)+strlen(head)+1); strcat(store, head); } if (!close) { head = buf; fgets(buf, len, f); } } while (!close); iter = strchr(head, ':'); numslash = 0; while (iter) { iter = strchr(iter+1, '/'); numslash++; } realout = random() % numslash; iter = strchr(head, ':'); while (realout) { realout--; iter = strchr(iter+1, '/'); } iter++; if (end = strchr(iter, '/')) *end = 0; printf("%s", iter); free((void*)store); return (close); } int main() { char msgfile[256]; char buf[256]; FILE *file; int nummsgs, realmsg; int done; char *insert; sprintf(msgfile, "%s/msgs/index", getenv("HOME")); file = fopen(msgfile, "r"); fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), file); fclose(file); /* strip off \n */ buf[strlen(buf)-1] = 0; nummsgs = atoi(buf); srandom(time(0)); realmsg = random() % nummsgs; sprintf(msgfile, "%s/msgs/quail", getenv("HOME")); file = fopen(msgfile, "r"); while (realmsg) { fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), file); if (*buf == '*') realmsg--; } do { if (insert = strchr(buf, '<')) *insert = 0; if (*buf == '*') /* skip leading '* ' */ printf("%s", buf+2); else printf("%s", buf); if (insert) { /* handle statements */ printf("%s", handle_insert(insert+1, buf, sizeof(buf), file); } done = (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), file) == 0); } while(!done && (*buf != '*')); fclose(file); } - --- On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 02:34:38PM, The Great Quail let loose: > Just to let you know, I will be in San Fransisco for a week, so this > quail will be off the List, and missing out on the countless new threads > which will undobtedly pop up. So, until I return, if anyone misses my > postings, feel free to cut and paste from the below and insert them where > need: > > The Quail's Automatic Posting Clips: > > * Eb, stop being so cranky. I respect your viewpoints, but natured teasing about: shirts / sig file / anti-Dead bias> > > * Blah blah Neutral Milk Hotel yadda yadda Neutral Milk Hotel, blah blah > Aeroplane over the Sea, yadda yadda Jeff Mangum, blah blah etc. . . . > > * Hey, guys! Stop picking on > > * The purple legions of the wombat patrol rained down around the valley > of Gong. Their flying saucers and tumbling teacups clattered together in > the sky, creating a noise that would make even Woj consider a tentative > reach toward the volume control. The leader stepped forward and produced > a small Quailiform creature. It gleamed in his hand, softly, its > featherless, pale skin almost luminescent, a pulsing tube where a > top-feather should have been and a beak like a small cone of damp > cartelidge. Izzy looked at it askance, fully aware of the recent LJ > Accord, signed this week in East Grimpshire. This was, in every way > imaginable, highly illegal . . . and yet vaguely erotic, in a horrifying > fashion that was not without a certain disturbing charm. > > Izzy blinked twice, and in a voice timeless and slow as calcium, said: > "I'll take three." > > Yesss . . . was Liam ever going to be sorry he posted to *this* fucking > List. . . . > > * Capuchin, you are wrong, wrong, so very wrong. Why can't you see the > obvious path to correctness lies in thinking Quail/ even more like me> > > Well, I hope that prevents any of you for missing me -- a dubious > proposition if I ever made one. And if all else fails, you can always ask > others to fill in for me. Eddie can take my political views, Terrence my > musical taste, LJ my image control, Eb my surrealistic ramblings, and > Capuchin pretty much covers all my other values. You'll hardly know I was > gone! > > --Quail > > > ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- > The Great Quail, K.S.C. | Literature Site - The Libyrinth: > TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth > www.rpg.net/quail | Vampire Site - New York by Night: > riverrun Discordian Society | www.rpg.net/quail/NYBN > 73 De Chirico Street | > Arkham, Orbis Tertius 2112-42 | ** What is FEGMANIA? ** > > "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the > human mind to correlate all its contents." > -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #91 ******************************