From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #160 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, April 29 1999 Volume 08 : Number 160 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: tom waits quoted in 4/21 ava [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: ' + ' [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: recantation/nuck/beer/colorado/firearms [Terrence M Marks ] Re: recantationnuckbeercoloradofirearms ["JH3" ] Re: ' + ' [Danielle ] Re: ' + ' [Joel Mullins ] Re: recantationnuckbeercoloradofirearms [Eb ] Re: uncorrected personality threads [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #159 [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #157 [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] The QPSAT (fwd) [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Happy Birthday! ...Other things... [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] All hail the long and winding post [Ethyl Ketone ] Re: Happy Birthday! ...Other things... [amadain ] re :quails feet [dlang ] Re: recantation/nuck/beer/colorado/firearms [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Happy Birthday! ...Other things... [hal brandt ] Re: Happy Birthday! ...Other things... [Marcy Tanter ] TV, I guess. [Capuchin ] 'postrophes. [Capuchin ] In the criminal justice systerm.... [Dede Davis ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:22:40 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: tom waits quoted in 4/21 ava Cap blew: >"Do you know how many teardrops it takes to fill up a teaspoon? A >hundred and twenty, actually. I tested it. I was very sad and I >thought, I'm going to make some use of it, so I held a spoon at my >cheek and I cried. This is my science project for the year." This sounds like something a couple of people on this list might do and publicly report it. While there is no way I can imagine ever attempting this (I haven't cried 120 tears in toto over at least the past 10 years), I submit that the size of the tear and the surface tension vary with the viscosity of the fluid in question. Therefore, a person like myself would make larger tears that would have greater surface tension than somebody whose ducts produced thinner fluids. I'm just guessing that the figure would not be a constant. Happies, - -Markg This information may be enough extra credit to end those crappy "omigawd, I don't have enough credits to finish high school" dreams that it bugs me to say that I still get sometimes. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:26:21 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: ' + ' When I type 'n' as in Rock 'n' Roll, I use the dublpostrofee. There have to be more. ,seippaH gkraM- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:12:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: recantation/nuck/beer/colorado/firearms On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Joel Mullins wrote: > Capuchin wrote: > > > I'd've had a sort of sidehatch lobotomy. > > I don't think I've ever seen someone use two apostrophes in the same > word before. I use it occasionally, so it couldn't've been the first time. Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://grove.ufl.edu/~normal normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 22:22:51 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: ' + ' Mark_Gloster@3com.com wrote: > > When I type 'n' as in Rock 'n' Roll, I use the dublpostrofee. There have to be > more. That's a little bit different. You're replacing two letters in one word with apostrophes. But in "wouldn't've," you'd be combining three words to form a contraction. But I'm not sure you can use more than one apostrophe in a contraction. And the only contraction I can think of that combines three words is "o'clock," which means "of the clock." There are probably more, but I just can't think of them right now. Anyway, I was talking about contractions, not abbreviations. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 22:36:42 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: recantationnuckbeercoloradofirearms Who needs those pesky slashes anyway? >> isn't it just because the concerns of American reactionaries (or >> libertarians, or whatever) are different from those of British >> reactionaries? >What the FUCK?!? AAAAAAAARRRRGGHHH!!! >Oh... wait. I just realized I could be misconstruing this. Either that, or I'm even less coherent than I think I am. For the record, I don't equate reactionaries and libertarians, except to the extent that they're all people who are unfortunate enough to have largely-meaningless labels applied to them because of their beliefs on various issues. The point I was trying to make is that the definition of "right" and "left" and all the other political labels often differ based on what country you're in, what religion you are, and all sorts of other things, such as whether or not you like seafood. It guess it just bothers me when someone appears to suggest that Person A can't aesthetically appreciate Person B's artistic work and achievements just because Person A doesn't seem to agree with the Person B's political beliefs. (And as for me, well, I do like seafood. Especially blackened fish. Yum!) Now, having said that... >But let me make something superabundantly clear: >Libertarians are the least reactionary bunch imaginable. I suppose if I cared about the sanctity of political labels I might disagree, but I don't, and I'd rather not argue about it. But just so you won't think I'm giving up too easily, don't a lot of people think Howard Stern is a reactionary? And *what* was his party affiliation when he ran for Governor of New York? >Embracing freedom in all of its ugly possibility is the most >liberal point of view one can take. That depends on how you define "freedom," doesn't it? IIRC, Timothy McVeigh thought he was striking a blow for "freedom" when he blew up the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, just to cite one example. Everybody called him a "reactionary", didn't they? Giving him "freedom" now would be a pretty ugly possibility indeed, so would that be "liberal"? If you think I'm just trying to confuse the issue, you're absolutely right. I'll be the first to admit that I often get my jollies by confusing issues... >There are millions of easy ways to kill people. People who >want to destroy will always have the means and opportunity. Perhaps, but I'd rather defend myself against a guy with a pointed stick than a guy with a machine gun any day of the week. Joel M writes: >Personally, I think Frosted Wheaties and other sugared cereals are far >too accessible to kids. They really shouldn't be eating that much >sugar. In fact, I've heard that kids can get sugared cereals easier >than they can get guns. Not where I live, they can't! ...And from jmbc, who started this particular aspect of the discussion: >Do I come across as so ignorant that I need lectures about >the fact that people can like artists they don't agree with >politically/personally? Not "ignorant" - a less connotative term like "incorrect" would suffice. And hey, one good knee-jerk reaction deserves another, eh what? After all, you might just be back-tracking to save face. The sad thing is that there *are* people who refuse to credit others with having talent or good songs or whatever based entirely on their politics, sexual preferences, etc. But we just don't like to think that any of them are actually among us. (Are you all with me on this one, brothers and sisters?) >Perhaps my favourite singer ever is Elvis Presley. I don't think >I would have lasted five minutes with him as a bloke. I remember several people claiming to have lasted *hours* with Elvis, *after* the sex-change operation... >Isn't anyone interested in the whys and wherefores of >this, regardless of the fact that I may have been clumsy in the way >I asked the question. Elvis Presley is a bad example. He was never overtly political, and besides, he's probably dead now. That isn't to say I'm not interested, though. Try another singer maybe? I do go on! John H. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:55:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Danielle Subject: Re: ' + ' > But I'm not sure you can use more > than one > apostrophe in a contraction. Sha'n't. Shall not. The fact that modern English has dropped the first apostrophe is more of an oversight than anything else. Danielle, bored and bordering on depressed _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:02:58 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: ' + ' Danielle wrote: > > > But I'm not sure you can use more > > than one > > apostrophe in a contraction. > > Sha'n't. Shall not. The fact that modern English has > dropped the first apostrophe is more of an oversight than > anything else. I'd like to start using an apostrophe in the word "apostrophe." Maybe something like this: 'strophe. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:07:27 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: recantationnuckbeercoloradofirearms JH3: >But just so you won't think I'm >giving up too easily, don't a lot of people think Howard Stern is a >reactionary? >And *what* was his party affiliation when he ran for Governor of New York? Well, come on...Stern just needed a party to back him. Any party. He didn't really care which one, as long as it had a bit of clout. And the Libertarians used Stern in a similar way, just to get themselves some publicity. It was a hollow alliance. >Perhaps, but I'd rather defend myself against a guy with a pointed stick >than a >guy with a machine gun any day of the week. Sure, but what about a guy with some raspberries? Eb, coughing from too much ugly Internet air ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:26:34 +1200 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: uncorrected personality threads >It's entirely possible to like someone's music without liking what they >do. How many of you think that crazy people shouldn't have guns, yet >listen to Love? agreed Terry. I am anti-gun, but it doesn't stop me listening to Dave Crosby. I don't mind what religion a person is, but I don't mind listening to Wagner. Same with movies. I can appreciate a John Wayne or Charlton Heston western without being enamoured with their personalities or personal views. James ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:52:05 +1200 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #159 >My American father sleeps with a loaded handgun beside his >bed. The government hasn't come for him yet. However, he >nearly shot my then boyfriend my mistake. Needless to say, >said boyfriend was not an agent of the US government (or >New Zealand's government, or any government, for that >matter). If he'd was a member of New Zealand's government, then it's a shame he missed. > no one I know has >ever been shot by a government agent for saying that Jenny >Shipley sucks big ones. no, they get arrested for broadcasting official secrets. >I don't think I've ever seen someone use two apostrophes in the same >word before. if you'd paid more attention, I'm sure you'd've noticed it here before! James (aka Grumpy) PS - Thanks Mark for your long and winding post. Made me much less grumpy and more happy! (although I'm still sneezy, bashful, and dopey) James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:52:17 +1200 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #157 >And the Congo. Whenever people talk about genocide, it's always Hitler >this and Hitler that and nary a word about King Leopold II. >It bugs me how some genocides get all the attention. then there's Idi Amin, Pol Pot, and a whole host of others. Sure, Pol Pot gets mentioned occasionally, but it usually seems to be Hitler that gets the mention in the news media every time the spectre of genocide appears, for some reason. I could be cynical and say that it's because he mainly killed 'white people like us in a civilised western country' rather than 'a bunch of dark skinned people in a country we know very little about'[1]. This is not the way I would tend to think, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the way sopme sections of the news media think... As to the difference between genocide and driving one ethnic group out of a country, they tend to get confused due to that lovely euphemistic grab-bag 'ethnic cleansing'. They are different from each other. And they are both tragic acts of inhumanity. James James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:52:27 +1200 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: The QPSAT (fwd) In the interests of calming the political waters here, I attach the QPSAT. Donning asbestos suit right now! James >Quick Political Scholastic Aptitude Test (QPSAT) > >This test consists of one (1) multiple-choice question (so you better get >it right!) Here's a list of the countries that the U.S. has bombed since >the end of World War II, compiled by historian William Blum: > > China 1945-46 > Korea 1950-53 > China 1950-53 > Guatemala 1954 > Indonesia 1958 > Cuba 1959-60 > Guatemala 1960 > Congo 1964 > Peru 1965 > Laos 1964-73 > Vietnam 1961-73 > Cambodia 1969-70 > Guatemala 1967-69 > Grenada 1983 > Libya 1986 > El Salvador 1980s > Nicaragua 1980s > Panama 1989 > Iraq 1991-99 > Sudan 1998 > Afghanistan 1998 > Yugoslavia 1999 > >In how many of these instances did a democratic government, respectful of >human rights, occur as a direct result? Choose one of the following: > > (a) 0 > (b) zero > (c) none > (d) not a one > (e) zip > (f) a whole number between -1 and +1 > (g) zilch James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:03:48 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Happy Birthday! ...Other things... All of this beating the crap out of each other has made me long for happy things. Well, on the other coast it is already celebration time for one of the best fegs in all the world: Bayard Catron. In fact, it's been Bayard's bidet for many hours in New Zealand. Send him internal organs, he surely won't be expecting them, though flesh, bones, fish, and insects are nice too. - - BTW: James, do you get triple scale for playing three dwarves? Is this for a future episode of Xena? Would the story have worked if their names were: Stinky Farty Boil Horse Face Runny Pinchy Squirty? - - Teevee: The Simpsons is still the funniest thing on. Nothing comes close. I still think King of the Hill is a riot some of the time (Dale's lawn mower episode had me gasping for air.) I think Futurama has a great deal of potential: Bender is great, it has a great look and great voices, but the writing needs some work. Family Guy has the ugliest cartooning coupled with the most irritating voices (except the tyke), but seems to have fairly good writing. PJ's seems completely unwatchable to me. Voyager blows chunky. DS9 is hit and miss. I still like X-Files. I still kinda like Bill Nye the Science Guy and, even though they dumbed it down, Squiggle Vision/Science Court. Drew Carey is kinda funny sometimes. Some of the Xena's are pretty cool, but I miss Callisto. I'm slowly starting to fathom watching baseball, but not bowling or golf. If I started tuning in to such things it would seem like I was making the admission: "I give up, there is nothing else I could imagine doing that is as exciting or fulfilling as watching this fat guy pick up a 2-10 split." I could get lost for a year watching football, but try not to. Skiing's fun to watch, but it's much more fun to do. TV dramas make me vomit with great volume and velocity. I watch less TV in a week than most people watch in a night, but I watch more than I would like to. The only thing I watch faithfully is Simpson's, King of the Hill, X-Files, but Futurama is a maybe. It is a good thing that I don't have cable- I really overdo it when I'm on a business trip in some weird place, or skiing (mmmmm, weather channel.) That's more than you wanted to know, but I haven't started talking about my feet yet. So be thankful. Oh. And wish Bayard a happy bidet. Warmest wishes, - -Markg (currently rated the 26th fastest of 487 California skiers in my age bracket at Nastar.com, but slipping.) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:21:36 -0700 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: All hail the long and winding post Thanks Mr. Happies. I laughed so hard I almost cried, but then I realized I was too tired to get out a teaspoon. And I promise not to get rolling on guns or video games again. (definately not games - we have the biggest industry trade show in just 3 weeks and I'm already exhausted). Anyone heard from Randi??? Be Seeing You, - - Carrie "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 01:41:12 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: Happy Birthday! ...Other things... >TV dramas make me vomit with great volume and velocity. Which? Lifetime movie of the week, yes. ER, yes. But I have to say, I'm ADDICTED to "Law and Order". This is the only show I watch with any regularity. The writing is very good, the acting is top notch (mostly- Sam Waterston as the not-entirely-by-procedure attorney and Jerry Orbach as the veteran cop are fabulous). Sometimes I get bugged by the "ripped from current headlines" feel of it, but for the most part it's great entertainment. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:35:32 -0700 (PDT) From: S Dwarf Subject: John Elway is kinda overrated [0% marilyn manson content] sorry if everyone else saw this already. i blame yoko. At a recent COMDEX (computer show), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated that "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: "If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics: 1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on. 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But then you would have to buy more seats. 6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only work on five percent of the roads. 7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light. 8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt. 9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off. 10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. 11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department. 12. Every time GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 02:51:20 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Happy Birthday! ...Other things... amadain wrote: > But I have to say, I'm ADDICTED to "Law and Order". This is the only show I > watch with any regularity. > > The writing is very good, the acting is top notch (mostly- Sam Waterston as > the not-entirely-by-procedure attorney and Jerry Orbach as the veteran cop > are fabulous). Sometimes I get bugged by the "ripped from current > headlines" feel of it, but for the most part it's great entertainment. I agree. Law and Order is great. I don't think I'd ever seen an episode until this season, but now I'm ADDICTED, too. I've even found myself watching the reruns on A&E quite a bit. - --Joel (who is so fucking tired that he must get some sleep even though he has a goddamn research paper due in 8 hours and then another research paper due the very next day and he better hit the library and get cracking or start doing speed or learn to stop time or something because he's running out of time, the deadlines are quickly approaching, but it wouldn't be a semester without some hard-core procrastination). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:55:57 +0930 From: dlang Subject: re :quails feet lj meeped >Is this all you're concerned about, Dave? Don't you think >there are more pressing things to think about? (like sex with deer, for >example?) is the quail having sex with deer? Mein gott , the bastard has no morals at all. Nothing is beyond him.Cross species bonking indeed , the mind boggles, no wonder you don't sleep with him........ feg sex (whoops, a Freudian slip if ever there was one ) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:11:01 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: recantation/nuck/beer/colorado/firearms > Capuchin wrote: > > I'd've had a sort of sidehatch lobotomy. On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Joel Mullins wrote: > I don't think I've ever seen someone use two apostrophes in the same > word before. If you hadn't've mentioned that, I wouldn't've replied. I'm glad it wasn't in a sentence that someone had put a preposition at the end of. - - MRG "One night we watched the elks come down to the waterhole. And you should've seen their faces when they realised it _was_ a waterhole! What they were looking for was an elk-o-hole" (George Kaufman & Morrie Ryskind) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:12:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: colorado/firearms/jeme/danielle/NZ/US - --- Danielle wrote: > I don't believe anyone was advocating 'uninventing' > anything. However, one of the more fundamental ways > one can > 'integrate' semi-automatic weapons into a healthy > society > is to *regulate ownership*. Similarly, I don't believe Jeme was advocating giving free guns to everyone. If you had read his post, he actually began by saying that people should have to take competency tests before purchasing a gun (okay, he didn't actually say this, per se, but that's what I took him to mean by 'putting everything up for eaxmination'). Furthermore, I don't think he's in favor of repealing the gun control legislation we already have. You took issue with some issues that weren't really there, I think. Judging by the rest of your post, you aren't of the opinion that private gun ownership should be outlawed. You seem to think that it is possible to responsibly own a gun (apparently, all of New Zealand is totally responsible in every way with their weapons). So what's the fuss, sister? Did you actually think Jeme wants NO gun-control legislation? He was arguing against a perceived sentiment that holds that guns are inherently evil, can never be used for anything but mayhem, and therefore should be virtually inaccessible to anyone not in the police or armed forces. Vivien _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:04:06 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: Happy Birthday! ...Other things... > > But I have to say, I'm ADDICTED to "Law and Order". This is the only show I > > watch with any regularity. > I agree. Law and Order is great. I don't think I'd ever seen an > episode until this season, but now I'm ADDICTED, too. I've even found > myself watching the reruns on A&E quite a bit. You guys need HBO. Two words: The Sopranos. Oh, and Happy B-day to =b. /hal, who knows no-one really gives a damn what mood I'm in or what I'm n.p which happens to be "Mule Variations" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:30:49 -0600 From: Marcy Tanter Subject: Re: Happy Birthday! ...Other things... At 09:04 AM 4/29/99 -0600, you wrote: >> > But I have to say, I'm ADDICTED to "Law and Order". This is the only show I >> > watch with any regularity. > >> I agree. Law and Order is great. I don't think I'd ever seen an >> episode until this season, but now I'm ADDICTED, too. I've even found >> myself watching the reruns on A&E quite a bit. L&O and Homicide are the best shows on tv right now. Friday nite tv sucks when H. isn't on and if NBC cancels it, there will be nothing to watch on Fri nites. marcy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 08:52:26 +0000 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: Happy Birthday! ...Other things... I third this. Law and Order INHO is the best show ever made. it is a formula that works, with characters that are believable, but the scrip never comcentrates on the characters personal lives, just work. Love the show! eleanore Marcy Tanter wrote: > At 09:04 AM 4/29/99 -0600, you wrote: > >> > But I have to say, I'm ADDICTED to "Law and Order". This is the only show I > >> > watch with any regularity. > > > >> I agree. Law and Order is great. I don't think I'd ever seen an > >> episode until this season, but now I'm ADDICTED, too. I've even found > >> myself watching the reruns on A&E quite a bit. > > L&O and Homicide are the best shows on tv right now. Friday nite tv sucks > when H. isn't on and if NBC cancels it, there will be nothing to watch on > Fri nites. > > marcy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 08:54:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: TV, I guess. On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, hal brandt wrote: > > > But I have to say, I'm ADDICTED to "Law and Order". This is the only show I > > > watch with any regularity. > You guys need HBO. Two words: The Sopranos. I pay a hundred million dollars an hour for digital cable almost entirely because of HBO. The movies are almost all shit (but I do get IFC and so many other movie channels that there's almost always ONE good movie on when I choose to watch), but the series are fantastic. I actively seek and try VERY hard not to miss Mr. Show and Tenacious D. I watch The Sopranos when I happen to realize that it's on. I watch Dennis Miller Live when I can stand it. The Simpsons is on twice a day and I still watch it less than once a week. And that's more or less it. HBO provides the only series I really think about seeing when I'm not actually in front of my TV. J. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 08:58:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: 'postrophes. On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Joel Mullins wrote: > Capuchin wrote: > > I'd've had a sort of sidehatch lobotomy. > I don't think I've ever seen someone use two apostrophes in the same > word before. That's odd. Why, just yesterday, I said, "You'dn't've done it, either." I once used four... but I can't recall the construction. Je. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:08:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Dede Davis Subject: In the criminal justice systerm.... > > >> I agree. Law and Order is great. I don't think I'd ever seen > an > > >> episode until this season, but now I'm ADDICTED, too. I've even > found > > >> myself watching the reruns on A&E quite a bit. AND, if like myself you don't have a life, you can watch Law & Order *11* times a week: 7pm and 11pm on A&E, and the regular Wed. night network broadcast. YUM! === Dede "Takin' a ride! Takin' a ride in my pickup; Rollin' around downtown..."--G. Huntley _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #160 *******************************