From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #169 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, April 29 1998 Volume 07 : Number 169 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: more comic stripping [Aaron Mandel ] Fegpolitics [Jim Moore ] Re: i knows a proggie when i smells one [nicastr@idt.net (Ben)] Re: Fegpolitics [Jason Thornton ] Re: HST [Mike Runion ] Re: HST [Aaron Mandel ] Re: i knows a proggie when i smells one [nicastr@idt.net (Ben)] Re: what woj sed [sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain)] Re: Woody Allen [MARKEEFE ] Re: i knows a proggie when i smells one [sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amad] More comic strip things. [Terrence M Marks ] Re: i knows a proggie when i smells one [Eb ] Re: building a comic strip [Eb ] Re: i knows a proggie when i smells one [Eb ] Re: Woody Allen [spine@iastate.edu (spine)] Re: i knows a proggie when i smells one [Terrence M Marks ] re: another brain teaser [Jason Thornton ] re: another brain teaser [Tom Clark ] Re: building a comic strip [Tom Clark ] Re: another brain teaser [KarmaFuzzz ] Gallinaceous? Drugs? Sly Intimations? [The Great Quail Subject: Re: more comic stripping On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Christopher Gross wrote: > BTW, does anyone besides me think that "B.C." has slid over the line into > right-wing propaganda, and should be relegated to the editorial page the > way "Doonesbury" was during the Reagan era? worse is Mallard Fillmore -- i have to admit, i find bile just unbearable when accompanied by an "aw shucks isn't it obvious" withering glare, from either side. Garry Trudeau's wordiness is the best part of Doonesbury's political strips. speaking of politics, i have a very stupid question about Hunter S Thompson's book Better Than Sex: does he just make this stuff up, or what? a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:07:00 -0500 From: Jim Moore Subject: Fegpolitics >All Fegs who argue politics: If I may presume to boss you around, KEEP IT >CALM, okay? >- --Chris What was it Johnny Storm used to say on the Fantastic Four... F L A M E O N !!!!!!!!!!!! Flesh Cartoon Guambat BTW, what does f*ck mean? That's a weird word if you ask me. But I hear it a lot. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:25:16 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: i knows a proggie when i smells one >yeah, but who made the negative comment in the first place, and then >chose to reply at length . No one is forcing you to respond any more >than anyone else is forcing me to.. C'mon Eb, you enjoy this !, or if >you don't you certainly don't learn from your mistakes. You know full >well that if you diss the dead some of us will come back at you. >However, I for one am just going to ignore your negative comments from >now on >I hope other deadheads do so too as the discussion is futile. >dave Thank you. It is obvious Eb gets some kind of joy out of provoking these arguments, the fact that he seems to favor such an easy target as the touchy Deadheads on the list is just evidence of his lack of creativity in these sad attempts to portray himself as some sort of enlightened being when it comes to music. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:34:47 -0700 From: Jason Thornton Subject: Re: Fegpolitics At 01:07 PM 4/29/98 -0500, Jim Moore wrote: >What was it Johnny Storm used to say on the Fantastic Four... > >F L A M E O N !!!!!!!!!!!! And, of course, who could forget the immortal words of The Thing: IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!!! >BTW, what does f*ck mean? That's a weird word if you ask me. But I >hear it a lot. I usually hear it on the radio, in certain songs. Sounds like they turn down the vocals right in the middle of a word, during the vowel sound, so you, and the rest of the audience, haven't a clue what that word it is... As in the Sarah McLachlan song, "Building A Mystery": "...a beautiful, f...cked-up man." I'm still trying my best to f*gure that one out. - --Jason (who accidentally subscribed to the Fugmania! list yesterday...) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:42:58 -0700 From: Mike Runion Subject: Re: HST Aaron Mandel wrote: > speaking of politics, i have a very stupid question about Hunter S > Thompson's book Better Than Sex: does he just make this stuff up, or what? Simple answer: yes. I'm an avid HST fan and he's at his best when he just goes with it and spews. Better Than Sex disappointed me though...it really wasn't. I've been about 3/4 of the way finished with his latest, The Proud Highway, for months now (time constraints...you know), but it's one of the most enlightening peeks into how he works. If you haven't picked it up, please do...it's a collection of personal letters from the early to late 60's I believe, and you can witness the development of his gonzo style. Of course, it works better if you've already read the rest of his canon. My faves: Hell's Angels, Fear & Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72, Songs of the Doomed (winner of best cover-photo), and of course F&L in Las Vegas. - -- Mike Runion Cocoa, FL, USA /******************************************************************\ | VCM: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/cones.htm | | Fegmaps: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/fegmaps | | Spoken Word Tape: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/wordtape.htm | \******************************************************************/ "Wait a minute. Time for a Planetary Sit-In!" - Julian Cope ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:05:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: HST On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Mike Runion wrote: > Simple answer: yes. I'm an avid HST fan and he's at his best when he just > goes with it and spews. Better Than Sex disappointed me though...it really > wasn't. either i'm misunderstanding your answer or i'm disappointed -- i was hoping all his faxes to/from famous people had some basis in reality. as for the stories about clinton screaming at him... the dean of our college supposedly has a habit of doing that sort of bizarre thing in meetings, the kind of thing that makes you think "how the hell would i respond if this person weren't more important than me? i guess i have to pretend he's not actually crumpling up my proposal and chewing on it." a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:54:51 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: i knows a proggie when i smells one >You said that I can't appreciate the Dead because (allegedly) I don't have >enough musical knowledge. You also said that the band's critics are too >shortsighted to view the Dead as something beyond a "jam" band (that is, >before you turned around and defended the Dead for being a great jam band). The Dead were great improvisers, among other things. An understanding of the theoretical side of music, and what is involved in playing with other musicians, will help anyone to understand why I believe this is so. You may be quite knowledgeable in these areas, but nothing you have said leads me to believe you are, so I naturally must assume the opposite. >In other words, Dead-dislikers just aren't as smart and perceptive as you, >the textbook-reading music major. I never read my textbooks. >>As for the bizarre Dave Marsh content, once again I never said anything >>about him, I said the Rolling Stone Album Guide has a nauseating air of >>self importance about it. > >Well, you're being horribly inconsistent, of course. You screech at me at >length for posting casual anti-Dead comments to a MAILING LIST, and then >you shrug off one of the country's top music critics writing even NASTIER >comments in a nationally published book. So how come I'm childish and >supermarket-tabloidy and obnoxious etc., but Marsh isn't? > Because I haven't been discussing this with Dave Marsh, I've been discussing this with you. Unless you ARE Dave Marsh, I don't care what he has to say. >>You can hate whatever and whoever you want, but personally, I don't waste >>my time getting upset about music I don't like. What is the point in >>rambling on about how much so-and-so sucks? There's nothing to be gained >>out of something so childish. > >Well, son, Don't call me son, grandpa. >if you'll go back to my original comment, you'll see that it was >mostly saying how cool a Paul Butterfield Blues Band track was. Some folks >(Godwin, sorta Brandt) responded to my comment by saying, "Yeah, that IS a >good song!" Others chose to fixate on the negative subtext...like you. And >my initial one- or two-sentence comment really didn't waste much of my >time, you know. It was fending off your lengthily composed, indignant, >getting-upset-about-something-you-don't-like rebuttals which ate up a few >more minutes. As I said in another post, you obvoiusly get a kick out of these heated discussions, which must be why you made the remark in the first place. You know that even a casual put down of the Dead (or any other popular artist) will stir something up. I'm sure you could have made a positive reccomendation of the Butterfield track without making a negative comment about something else, but it seems that the temptation was too great. Try to not give in to such childish behavior, it is unbecoming of someone with such a high regard for their opinions. >RE: i knows a proggie when i smells one Because I display an appreciation and understanding of music theory, that means I am a "proggie". Ok, Eb. These kind of remarks are just plain sad. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:51:18 -0500 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: what woj sed >This reminds me of Woody Allens " Everything you wanted to know about >sex" where Gene Wilder has an affair with a sheep. theres a classic >scene where the press burst into a sleazy hotel room where Wilder is in >his knickers and the sheep is on the bed in stockings and suspenders. >Wider gives up everything for her, family , career..... James will you >go this far? It's so odd that you would mention this because the SO and I were just talking about this a couple days ago. IMHO the best part of that is "at least I'm not gay" but I admit the Woolite bottle is good too. >However,I really only seem to like early Woody films, who disagrees, >agrees, or is bothered to talk about the bespectacled one ?. I like the early films best, except for "Play It Again Sam" which I find almost more painful than funny- it's a little -too- self-excoriating for my taste. I like "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan" a lot too, though- in fact, to some extent I like everything Woody Allen has done except when he starts to get into his wannabe-Bergman thang. I dunno, I don't think real highly of the Soon-Yi affair. Not because of the age difference per se but because the way they met is really disturbing- I mean, he was married to her adoptive mother, so there are some adultery questions to consider as well as the fact that basically he was for all intents and purposes a father figure in that setup- and because she was -so- young at the time (IMHO, age difference becomes a good deal less objectionable when the younger party is well past adolescence). But I don't take that into the theater with me, it's kind of a separate thing. It is just a fact of life that I'm not going to agree with everyone and won't necessarily share the values and moral perspective of a given artist, but that doesn't mean I can't learn from/appreciate what they do, or that they haven't got anything interesting to say. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:04:09 EDT From: MARKEEFE Subject: Re: Woody Allen In a message dated 98-04-29 13:19:52 EDT, you write: << I lost interest after "Crimes and Misdemeanors." >> Really?! Wow, that's one my favorites of his. But I'm as much into his really early stuff. . . I mostly like "Annie Hall" and later. For those who didn't see "Deconstructing Harry" when it came out (and who were half-way thinking they might), I'd recommend it, if, for no other reason, Woody Allen plays a slightly different character than he always does! Not completely different, but less baffled and more bitter. Not a great movie, but there's enough good stuff to make it worthwhile. - ------MIchael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:09:45 -0500 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: i knows a proggie when i smells one >The Dead were great improvisers, among other things. An understanding of >the theoretical side of music, and what is involved in playing with other >musicians, will help anyone to understand why I believe this is so. You may >be quite knowledgeable in these areas, but nothing you have said leads me >to believe you are, so I naturally must assume the opposite. OH, I didn't want to step in here. I -really- didn't. But I just have to say this- that I've got not a little musical training, I play guitar (sort of) and piano (ten years of lessons) and used to sing, I've been a jazz DJ for five years and listening to it avidly for longer than that, and I do not like the Dead, Sam I Am. I don't believe that they were great improvisers. I can't be sold on this point. Believe me, people have tried. This is not to say that Dead fans are -not- knowledgeable about music (many are) or that I believe I have superior knowledge to your own. It's just to counterbalance the assumption that disliking the Dead automatically equals a lack of knowledge/education, which I think is a false premise. >Because I haven't been discussing this with Dave Marsh, I've been >discussing this with you. Unless you ARE Dave Marsh, I don't care what he >has to say. That's too bad, because he's a very good writer and a rather learned and perceptive fellow. I agree that it was a bit much for Eb to drag him in, since the argument was between you guys and not Dave Marsh, but you know, it's also a bit much to outright dismiss him. >know that even a casual put down of the Dead (or any other popular artist) >will stir something up. I'm sure you could have made a positive >reccomendation of the Butterfield track without making a negative comment >about something else, This is unarguably true. But you know, you didn't need to take the bait, either :). When I get involved in these type things I always try to remember and keep the perspective that I didn't -have- to, I made a conscious decision to. Eb knew he was gonna be pressing some buttons when he made that remark, and you too should be aware that maybe you -let- those buttons get pressed rather than shrug off the bait of a known button-pusher who probably wouldn't do it so often if it didn't get so much response :). Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:44:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: More comic strip things. 1) Why haven't They shut down Dysfunctional Family Circus? Well, probably because it's a parody and falls under fair use, it's small and they'll look evil if they try to shut DFC down (and when you're in the business of selling comic strips, evil is very bad), and any legal attempt would make DFC newsworthy and prompt dozens of copycat sites. One of my ideas, the Comic Strip Turing Site probably would be shut down instantly, though. (Idea: Var. people submit imitation scripts/strips of var. series. The visitor tries to tell which version of "The Lockhorns" is real and which one is fake. I believe that a plurality of comic strips out there could be easily imitated well. [and that some, like Calvin and Hobbes, Krazy Kat or Pogo, just can't be imitated well.]) 2) Is my strip on the web? It will be as soon as it's drawn. (Presently, everything is in the 'script' stage.) When it comes out, you won't be able to shut me up about it for a few weeks. Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:49:05 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: i knows a proggie when i smells one Ben wrote: >Thank you. It is obvious Eb gets some kind of joy out of provoking these >arguments, the fact that he seems to favor such an easy target as the >touchy Deadheads on the list is just evidence of his lack of creativity in >these sad attempts to portray himself as some sort of enlightened being >when it comes to music. I didn't even KNOW you were a Deadhead, kiddo. And once again, you sneer about how I'm stoopid stoopid stoopid about music compared with you. Whee. Now please astound us all with a list of Dead songs which have unconventional time signatures -- you know you want to. Eb, writing this post in 12/8 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:49:05 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: building a comic strip Jason wrote: >As in the Sarah McLachlan song, "Building A Mystery": > >"...a beautiful, f...cked-up man." > >I'm still trying my best to f*gure that one out. Oh dear, oh dear. Perhaps you'd better look up Denise "D#" Sharpe. She knows EVERYTHING about that song. Including that particular line. ;) Someone (Tom Clark?) wrote: >Absolutely. I stopped reading [B.C.] years ago when that peg-legged baseball >coach started waxing prophetic about the evils of legalized abortion. Wow. Could you give more details about that? Eb, who's not particularly hip to the underground-comics thing but stopped reading the funny pages when Outland and Calvin & Hobbes died...who thinks Doonesbury has been a self-reflexive void ever since it returned from hiatus...but yeah, Tom Tomorrow and Great Pop Things are brilliant, and I always liked The Angriest Dog in the World...oh, and what about A Story Minute? (I think that's what it is called.) Boy, that is DEEP.... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:49:05 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: i knows a proggie when i smells one Ben bristled: >>>[paraphrased] I never said you were stoopid. >>You said that I can't appreciate the Dead because (allegedly) I don't have >>enough musical knowledge. >The Dead were great improvisers, among other things. An understanding of >the theoretical side of music, and what is involved in playing with other >musicians, will help anyone to understand why I believe this is so. You may >be quite knowledgeable in these areas, but nothing you have said leads me >to believe you are, so I naturally must assume the opposite. In other words, you ARE calling me stoopid. And you DO praise the Dead mostly as a jamming band, though you resent any Dead-hater who views them in a jamming-band context. You're contradicting yourself right and left. >>In other words, Dead-dislikers just aren't as smart and perceptive as you, >>the textbook-reading music major. > >I never read my textbooks. Oh, so you can congratulate yourself both for being a music major, and for being a music major who retains his instinctual "street knowledge" side too. Kewl! >>Well, you're being horribly inconsistent, of course. You screech at me at >>length for posting casual anti-Dead comments to a MAILING LIST, and then >>you shrug off one of the country's top music critics writing even NASTIER >>comments in a nationally published book. So how come I'm childish and >>supermarket-tabloidy and obnoxious etc., but Marsh isn't? > >Because I haven't been discussing this with Dave Marsh, I've been >discussing this with you. Unless you ARE Dave Marsh, I don't care what he >has to say. Why do you care so much what I have to say, then? >As I said in another post, you obvoiusly get a kick out of these heated >discussions, which must be why you made the remark in the first place. You >know that even a casual put down of the Dead (or any other popular artist) >will stir something up. Not really. I figured that we had already been through this. I find this discussion fairly tedious, actually. >>RE: i knows a proggie when i smells one > >Because I display an appreciation and understanding of music theory, that >means I am a "proggie". Ok, Eb. These kind of remarks are just plain sad. You didn't deny it, did you? You chord-count with gusto, place high emphasis on a band's jamming capabilities AND you display in abundance a proggie's most striking trait: self-righteous indignance toward critics, because they aren't on your side and thus weaken your feelings of esoteric superiority. Incidentally, I don't think you've "displayed" any more understanding of music theory than me as yet, unless you're really going to attach so much weight to naming the key(s) of a song. Which is fairly elementary. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 98 16:24:10 From: spine@iastate.edu (spine) Subject: Re: Woody Allen For those who > didn't see "Deconstructing Harry" when it came out (and who were half-way > thinking they might), I'd recommend it, if, for no other reason, Woody Allen > plays a slightly different character than he always does! Not completely > different, but less baffled and more bitter. Not a great movie, but there's > enough good stuff to make it worthwhile. I'd say it IS a great movie--really overlooked and oversimplified by a lot of critics. And those who criticize his personal life should see how he deals with it in the movie--he's quite brutal with himself. And everyone else. I love Woody. --spine ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:24:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: i knows a proggie when i smells one > > Now please astound us all with a list of Dead songs which have > unconventional time signatures -- you know you want to. > I was reading through a mod'ly recent article in the Wall St. Journal about Dark Side of the Moon (and how it's still on the charts.) THey described "Money" as a nice, jaunty 4/4 tune. Unfort'ly, it's in 7/8. I was really tempted to write them a letter about this. (But only because it's the Wall Street Journal and they ought to be accurate about things.) Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:31:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Glen Uber Subject: re: another brain teaser On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Russ Reynolds wrote: > There must be dozens more. Glen will probably be along with a list shortly. Hermann Mueller had an album called _O:_ (that's an o with an umlaut) Chicago had a string of albums with Roman Numerals as the titles Also, I seem to remember a band that had two consecutive albums called _Dig_ and _Dug_. King Crimson had _Red_ and _Beat_ Van Halen had _5150_ and _OU812_ Squirrel Nut Zippers _Hot_ Godley and Creme _L_ Violent Femmes _3_ Smithereens _11_ I'm having trouble thinking of other album titles, but I know that Man or Astroman had a song called "_______". As for long song titles, how about: "Several Species of Small, Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict" by Pink Floyd "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" by Simon and Garfunkel "The Promentalshitbackwashpsychosisenemasquad (The Doo-Doo Chasers)" by Funkadelic "Papa Loved Mama, Mama Loved Men (Now Mama's In The Graveyard And Papa's In The Pen)" artist unknown (Hey, Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" by BJ Thomas "Da Da Da, I Don't Love You, You Don't Love Me, Da Da Da" by Trio is quite possibly the longest songtitle/shortest band name combination. What about that Stars On 45 medley from the early 80s with all of the song titles lumped together? One of my own songs was called "Who's Billy And Why Is He Saying All Of This Groovy Shit About Me?" On my way to San Francisco for tonight's show, - -g- - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." --Frank Zappa - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:47:29 -0700 From: Jason Thornton Subject: re: another brain teaser At 02:31 PM 4/29/98 -0700, Glen Uber wrote: >As for long song titles, how about... Projekct Two (Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, and Adrian Belew) have a song titled "In Space There is No North, In Space There is No South, In Space There is No East, In Space There is No West" on their 1998 release "Space Groove." Jason R. Thornton // San Diego, CA jthornton@ucsd.edu // Chapman Stick, Silver #2125 // "Only the few know the // sweetness of the twisted apples." // Capitalism and democracy - Sherwood Anderson // are not synonymous. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 98 15:09:24 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: re: another brain teaser On 4/29/98 2:31 PM, Glen Uber wrote: >Also, I seem to remember a band that had two consecutive albums called >_Dig_ and _Dug_. The Coolies - "Dig" and "Doug". Doug was subtitled - to bring together two threads - "A Rock Opera and Comic Book" - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 98 15:06:05 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: building a comic strip On 4/29/98 1:49 PM, Eb wrote: >Someone (Tom Clark?) wrote: >>Absolutely. I stopped reading [B.C.] years ago when that peg-legged baseball >>coach started waxing prophetic about the evils of legalized abortion. > >Wow. Could you give more details about that? Actually, no. It was about ten years ago so I don't remember it specifically. It was one of those where he's sitting under a tree and writing a poem - probably a Sunday strip. That's just one example, though. At least there's no question where Mallard Fillmore is coming from - but B.C. comes across so condescendingly that one day I just said "Fuck You" to the strip. - -t "just hours away from the RH gig in SF" c ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 18:20:52 EDT From: KarmaFuzzz Subject: Re: another brain teaser In a message dated 98-04-29 17:40:54 EDT, uberg@sonic.net writes: > "Da Da Da, I Don't Love You, You Don't Love Me, Da Da Da" by Trio is quite > possibly the longest songtitle/shortest band name combination. isn't it "Da Da Da I Don' love you you don't love me AHA AHA AHA?" and there is always The Boo Radleys "I will always aske you where you have been even though i know the answer." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 98 17:23:54 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Gallinaceous? Drugs? Sly Intimations? Bayard wrote: > so what say you? i hear small gallinaceous birds usually have a good > trove stashed away... Mike wrote: >I've been batting that assumption around myself...more on this topic when >I'm not emailing from work. The Quail now pecks: Hmmmmm. . . . according to my dictionary, "Gallinaceous" refers to a any class of small birds that dwell and nest on the ground, such as the grouse or quail. It mentions nothing about troves, stashes, or bleach. However, we quails are also very sensitive about things that get posted to a public archive, particularly when the straw used to gallinate our nests comes from the field of public education. . . . However, given the fact that I am a card-carrying Deadhead, that I listen to Gong at least once a week, and that "Gallinaceous" -- in one of those unbelievable coincidences that pop up every once in a while -- also means "dope fiend" in Classical Nahuatl, I feel confident that Mr. Runion and Mr. Catron may rest assured that any alternative partying needs will be well taken care of. Except for that LJ -- she gets to freebase the Clorox. - --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, 29 Apr 1998 17:35:27 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: i knows a proggie when i smells one >Ben wrote: >>Thank you. It is obvious Eb gets some kind of joy out of provoking these >>arguments, the fact that he seems to favor such an easy target as the >>touchy Deadheads on the list is just evidence of his lack of creativity in >>these sad attempts to portray himself as some sort of enlightened being >>when it comes to music. > >I didn't even KNOW you were a Deadhead, kiddo. And once again, you sneer >about how I'm stoopid stoopid stoopid about music compared with you. Whee. > Once again I never said you were stupid. Just because you don't know something doesn't make you stupid, in this particular discussion it just makes you ignorant. The only thing I have said is that you are regularly pompus and irritating in your comments. I submit the entire "Fegmaniax!" list archives as proof. You may have not known I was a Deadhead, but you certainly did know there were some on the list, as similar arguments have come up before. Therefore you knew that your negative comment would get a response out of at least a few of us, which it did. >Now please astound us all with a list of Dead songs which have >unconventional time signatures -- you know you want to. > >Eb, writing this post in 12/8 It's the half-assed comments like these that betray the fact that you can't help but sink to making remarks you consider clever put downs, and everyone else files next to the rest of the egotistical jabs you turn out on a regular basis. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #169 *******************************