From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #212 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, June 4 1998 Volume 07 : Number 212 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Tree? ["BENJAMIN.BRETTENNY" ] a tree for Marcy... [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Ram's Head ["Jenee A. Jordan" ] Re: ich bin ein Quailinger, and Ram's Head regret [Christopher Gross ] Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... [Dede Davis ] Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... [Capuchin ] Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... [Gregory Stuart Shell ] Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... [Eb ] Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... [Bayard ] Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... [Tom Clark ] NMH (so I'm late, gimme a break, I'm in an irrelevant colonial backwater) [Danielle ] Re: wretching pumpkins [nicastr@idt.net (Anne Nicastro)] Re: wretching pumpkins [nicastr@idt.net (Ben)] Re: The answer [JudeHayden@aol.com] Re: wretching pumpkins [Eb ] Re: wretching pumpkins [KarmaFuzzz@aol.com] Robyn/Religion/Spirituality reply ["J.M. Brown H9602040" Subject: Re: Tree? On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, tanter wrote: > At 11:44 PM 6/2/1998 -0400, you wrote: > > >>Was a tree ever established for the gig after the San Francisco premiere > >>of "Storefront Hitchcock"? > > > >What type of tree? Maybe an Elm or Oak would be nice,,, > > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 04:49:33 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: a tree for Marcy... Hi. I thought I would take this moment to plant a tree in my tape deck for Marcy. I think maybe planting a shrubbery in the other well would give it a nice two-level effect. Maybe a path down the middle? I'm hoping that it bears many MD's Dat's and C90's when it grows to fruition. I wonder if I should be fertilizing it with chromium dioxide. As you know, the stress of this modern era has been a great burden on Marcy lately. I suggest a forty-five minute moratorium on Sesquepedalien Quailspew, Liliputian Garlicky Gaelic, or Obtusian Sprechensy Markensysharkvomittkkenbabbleburble. As your friendly, overworked sharkboy, I think today should be "Be Nice to Marcy" Day. You should all be nice to Bayard, Woj, Susan, and Nick on successive days. We might have a "Be Nice to Eb" Day, too, just to play with his head... Maple makes a great wood for guitars if you're planting. - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 09:47:55 -0400 From: "Jenee A. Jordan" Subject: Ram's Head All right guys, just got my tickets for the Ram's Head on the 13th. Will be sitting in the first row, at a table just left of the stage. (as Homer would say, woo hoo!) Thanks for the offer (i.e., getting me a ticket) but I'm meeting a group of people beforehand in DC (I'm actually travelling from Richmond the day before)--AND I've persuaded them to come to the concert with me. I've heard this is a nice place, with the ONLY beer selection. I'll be the gorgeous female near the front drinking the biggest darkest pint of stout you ever laid your eyes on ;) see you there fegs.... Jenee - -- "What is heaven?........Heaven is relief from tired tootsies." - --from Diane Keaton's documentary, "Heaven" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 10:55:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: ich bin ein Quailinger, and Ram's Head regret On Sat, 30 May 1998, Bayard wrote: > We rounded up Pathetic Doug and Chris Gross (what is it with you guys and > adjectives?) Hey! Just remember, in German my name means "Chris the Great." (Or perhaps "Mr. Big" would be a better translation.) My only regret -- aside from not having time to write up my take on the Feg Party -- is that I won't be at the Annapolis show, due to a previous commitment to attend the Tibetan Freedom Concert. (Rather poor timing on the part of the Milarepa Fund, no?) I just hope my enjoyment of Beck, Radiohead et al. won't be spoiled by the bitter thought that I could have been seeing Robyn instead.... - --Chrislemagne ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 10:15:00 -0500 From: Jim Moore Subject: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... I go out of town for a few days, and what happens? I come back to find my mailbox full of messages about... PLACENTAS!!!! HHHHUUUUUUGUUGUUGUUGSHHHHHSHHSHHHSUUGUG!!!!!! (the sound of me gagging, hurling and spewing continuously for about 12 minutes) Oh, and for the record, Placenta is NOT "vegetarian"--it's part of a HUMAN BEING. Therefore, to eat one, whether roasted, grilled, baked, boiled in soup, or deep-fried, is nothing less than... C A N N I B A L I S M ! ! ! Sincerely yours, Guambat PS: Robyn Hitchcock's music is awesome. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 08:24:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Dede Davis Subject: Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... - ---Jim Moore wrote: > Oh, and for the record, Placenta is NOT "vegetarian"--it's part of > a HUMAN BEING. Therefore, to eat one, whether roasted, grilled, baked, > boiled in soup, or deep-fried, is nothing less than... > > C A N N I B A L I S M ! ! ! Actually, *all* mammals have them. So, while not exclusively cannibalism, it's *definitely* not vegetarian. == Dede "Out of boredom/ I decided/ I'd get with it"--MCC _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 08:36:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jim Moore wrote: > Oh, and for the record, Placenta is NOT "vegetarian"--it's part of > a HUMAN BEING. I'm pretty sure it depends on your definition of vegetarian, kiddo. Some folks say it's ok to eat things that don't rightly pain the creature unduly in the offering of the chow. That makes politely farmed eggs, milk, and legs chewed off of animals accidentally caught in briars (as well as the aforementioned gecko tails) fair game and vegetarian. > Therefore, to eat one, whether roasted, grilled, baked, > boiled in soup, or deep-fried, is nothing less than... > C A N N I B A L I S M ! ! ! I remember in college we had to do these persuasive speeches in fulfilling a communications requirement (darn them liberal arts educations. As I've always said, you come out so well-rounded, you're completely pointless.) I didn't need (ask anyone if I'm timid in speaking to groups). My persuasive speech was pro-cannibalism. I still wish I could have seen the telephone reference librarian's face when I gave her the interrogative one-two punch of "How much would all the people who die in the US each year weigh?" and "Approximately what percentage of the human body, by weight, is edible?" I'm still an advocate of eating the dead. I'd also love to see a Donner Pass Thanksgiving Special. Resource-wise, cannibalism makes big sense. Make mine man, Jeme. PS: > PS: Robyn Hitchcock's music is awesome. You know it, brother. PPS: Being employed is cool. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 14:40:06 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... In a message dated 98-06-03 11:19:39 EDT, you write: << Oh, and for the record, Placenta is NOT "vegetarian"--it's part of a HUMAN BEING. Therefore, to eat one, whether roasted, grilled, baked, boiled in soup, or deep-fried, is nothing less than... C A N N I B A L I S M ! ! ! >> Harmlessly cannibalistic (and only if, as someone else pointed out, it happens to be a human placenta); possibly vegetarian (as Jeme pointed out, this would depend upon one's own definition); definitely *not* vegan, though! I will, however, give ya the "ick" factor. Yeah, Jeme, you'd make one heck of a cannibal. . . ya don't even eat chicken! ;-) - -----Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 14:56:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Gregory Stuart Shell Subject: Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... A placenta makes one heck of a breakfast sandwich, but what if you had a device to capture all the juices when the water breaks. You could call it "baby stock ". You could use it in a soup or stew. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 14:08:43 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... >I go out of town for a few days, and what happens? I come back to >find my mailbox full of messages about... PLACENTAS!!!! > >HHHHUUUUUUGUUGUUGUUGSHHHHHSHHSHHHSUUGUG!!!!!! > >(the sound of me gagging, hurling and spewing continuously for about 12 >minutes) Hey now! I consider starting a placenta thread one of my greatest accomplishments on this list. ;) Eb np: Smashing Pumpkins/Adore (ehhh) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 17:15:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, flat cake, from Greek plakoenta, accusative of plakoeis, from plak-, plax flat surface -- more at FLUKE Date: 1691 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 98 16:21:19 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... On 6/3/98 2:15 PM, Bayard wrote: >Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, flat cake, from Greek plakoenta, >accusative of plakoeis, from plak-, plax flat surface -- more at FLUKE >Date: 1691 Reminds me of the George Carlin routine about cleaning the unidentified things from the 'fridge: "Is it meat? Is it cake? It's meat-cake!" - -tc ******************************************************** Tom Clark Apple Computer, Inc. tclark@apple.com http://u2.netgate.net/~tclark "I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people looked deep into my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." -Homer Simpson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 00:05:23 -0700 From: Danielle Subject: NMH (so I'm late, gimme a break, I'm in an irrelevant colonial backwater) Announcement: today I found what is quite possibly the only copy of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea *in the southern hemisphere* (god bless Crawlspace Records, even if they charged me an arm and a leg and didn't have that Brunettes 7-inch I wanted), so Eb can go ahead and add me to his tally of 'maxin' and relaxin' proles' who have bought the album. I just couldn't bear to be left off *that* list. And yes, dammit, our Ebby is right. It's making me smile with delight as I type. Lovely stuff. Sure beats the Headless Chickens' latest effort. ;) Danielle, attempting, without much success, to intelligently criticise a friend's work on advertising to America's youth in the 1960s. He gave me the chapter on record players, which seems appropriate... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 98 20:27:21 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: rrrrrrretchhhhhh.... [Squishy stuff snipped] > > Eb > > np: Smashing Pumpkins/Adore (ehhh) > What this? You say "ehhh" to the Sgt. Pepper of the '90s? (Isn't that what the press releases were saying?) Or was that a Billy Corgan imitation? - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 22:28:33 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Anne Nicastro) Subject: Re: wretching pumpkins >[Squishy stuff snipped] >> >> Eb >> >> np: Smashing Pumpkins/Adore (ehhh) >> > >What this? You say "ehhh" to the Sgt. Pepper of the '90s? >(Isn't that what the press releases were saying?) Or was that >a Billy Corgan imitation? > > >-- >Ross Overbury >Montreal, Quebec, Canada >email: rosso@cn.ca I think it was an "ehhh" as in "ehhh... this sucks". Poor Smashings Pumpkins, they must be one of the uncoolest bands in all of the alternaverse. I thought their last album (the double one with the long name) was actually pretty good, and I'm no pumpkin-head. But until Billy Corgan stops writing songs with one word titles, can you blame the critics? Say any one-word titled SP song and follow it with "...the new fragrance from Calvin Klein", and you will be amazed. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 22:43:33 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: wretching pumpkins >>[Squishy stuff snipped] >>> >>> Eb >>> >>> np: Smashing Pumpkins/Adore (ehhh) >>> >> >>What this? You say "ehhh" to the Sgt. Pepper of the '90s? >>(Isn't that what the press releases were saying?) Or was that >>a Billy Corgan imitation? >> >> >>-- >>Ross Overbury >>Montreal, Quebec, Canada >>email: rosso@cn.ca > >I think it was an "ehhh" as in "ehhh... this sucks". > >Poor Smashings Pumpkins, they must be one of the uncoolest bands in all of >the alternaverse. I thought their last album (the double one with the long >name) was actually pretty good, and I'm no pumpkin-head. > >But until Billy Corgan stops writing songs with one word titles, can you >blame the critics? Say any one-word titled SP song and follow it with >"...the new fragrance from Calvin Klein", and you will be amazed. Grrr... my name changed again. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 23:11:46 EDT From: JudeHayden@aol.com Subject: Re: The answer >> Sgt. Peppers Gee, I was kinda hoping it had something to do with Alanis being born. Just one more reason for Robyn to chalk up 1974 as a really bad year. Jude n.p. Pizzicato Five- Antique 96 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 23:08:06 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: wretching pumpkins >>[Squishy stuff snipped] >>> >>> Eb >>> >>> np: Smashing Pumpkins/Adore (ehhh) > >I think it was an "ehhh" as in "ehhh... this sucks". No, not "ehhh" as in "ehhh...this sucks." But "ehhh" as in "Hmm, I like the Smashing Pumpkins quite a bit, but this is probably my least favorite of their albums and it's not even as good as five or six other discs already released this year." All the guitar-riff "churn" is gone...it's more like a moody New Wave album. Doesn't have the same visceral punch as Siamese Collie & The Technicolor Dreamcoat. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 05:48:10 EDT From: KarmaFuzzz@aol.com Subject: Re: wretching pumpkins In a message dated 98-06-03 22:28:14 EDT, nicastr@idt.net writes: > Poor Smashings Pumpkins, they must be one of the uncoolest bands in all of > the alternaverse. I thought their last album (the double one with the long > name) was actually pretty good, and I'm no pumpkin-head. > > But until Billy Corgan stops writing songs with one word titles, can you > blame the critics? Say any one-word titled SP song and follow it with > "...the new fragrance from Calvin Klein", and you will be amazed. "mayonaise, the new fragrance from Calvin Klein"? of course, there are plenty of bands that were at one point "cool" that end up in the dumpster. and the soft boys were never cool with critics. of course, they never had a non-tuple platinum albums either. [actually though, the new album should be listed as by Nitzer Pumpkins......] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jun 98 16:08:00 bst From: "J.M. Brown H9602040" Subject: Robyn/Religion/Spirituality reply Robyn sure to hell ain't no scientologist. Julian ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #212 *******************************