From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #400 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, October 27 1999 Volume 08 : Number 400 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: The Brian ["James Hadfield" ] Re: RIP [Bayard ] Re: 1974 lyrics question [candl@journey.com] One Last Mononoke reminder (NR) [steve ] 1974 ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Re: 1974 lyrics question ["matt sewell" ] Re: 1974 [Michael R Godwin ] the cult of walken [dmw ] Re: 1974 [Aaron Mandel ] Re: 1974 lyrics question [Capuchin ] Re: the cult of walken [Christopher Gross ] Re: 1974 [Michael R Godwin ] Re: the cult of walken [Paul Christian Glenn ] Walken welcomes nudity! [The Great Quail ] Re: Walken welcomes nudity! [Bayard ] Quail welcomes nudity! [Eric Loehr ] Re: 1974 [Tom Clark ] feg knowledge (no RH) [Griffith Davies ] Re: 1974 [Michael R Godwin ] Scales & Quails [The Great Quail ] Re: 1974 ["matt sewell" ] RE: Scales & Quails ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Scales & Quails [Tom Clark ] Re: Scales & Quails [The Great Quail ] Re: Scales & Quails [Joel Mullins ] Re: Scales & Quails ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: 1974 [Terrence M Marks ] Re: Scales & Quails [Terrence M Marks ] Another Review of JfS [rich plumb ] Pie Are Squared [Eric Loehr ] Re: Pie Are Squared ["Jason R. Thornton" ] The top 10 thread subjects in alt.fan.cecil-adams right now [Eb ] Re: Pie Are Squared [The Great Quail ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 01:19:39 GMT From: "James Hadfield" Subject: Re: The Brian Wanna say that I first approached that review of Brian's concert somewhat hesitantly, if only because I have to confess to having lost what limited interest I have remaining in his material. Never was too hot on the Beach Boys (2 Men) to begin with (and that's a fairly coherent use of a sentence containing all three uses of too/to/two). But it was excellent. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 23:33:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: RIP On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Eb wrote: > "Harsh Realm"? Already?? was it any good? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 01:06:53 -0400 From: candl@journey.com Subject: Re: 1974 lyrics question >>"half 22" being britlish for 21 and a half years old. >Being fairly fluent in er, British for sometime now, I can say that this is >- - to use an old British word - bollocks! >Half 22, as far as I'm aware, in this country has always meant 11. >Sorry (how British!) to be a pain >Matt :p In Britain, "half" is used in expressions of time, e.g. _half twelve_ means "half past twelve", _half eleven_ means "half past eleven", etc. (1) Thus _half twenty-two_ , in the context of "1974", would most likely mean "22 & 1/2 years old". :-) Chas now in Mount Pleasant, MI - see y'all at the Magic Bag! (1) _British English, A to Zed_, © 1987, Norman Schur ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 02:20:10 -0500 From: steve Subject: One Last Mononoke reminder (NR) Ok, this is the last one. Salon has a review at the below URL - there are what might be considered spoilers. http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/10/27/mononoke/ And here's the theater list: http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/mh/release.html - - Steve _______________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 03:51:19 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: 1974 Another option is that Half 22 was a club/restaurant/shop, where so-and-so worked. I've asked a couple of older, hippyish types and they've not been able to confirm this. One came up with the interesting titbit that Ronnie Scott's jazz club was originally called Club 11...That was ages before 1974, but I wonder if someone revived it with a punning change of name?!? jmbc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:02:34 BST From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: 1974 lyrics question > >>"half 22" being britlish for 21 and a half years old. > > >Being fairly fluent in er, British for sometime now, I can say that this >is > >- - to use an old British word - bollocks! > >Half 22, as far as I'm aware, in this country has always meant 11. > >Sorry (how British!) to be a pain > >Matt :p > >In Britain, "half" is used in expressions of time, e.g. _half >twelve_ means "half past twelve", _half eleven_ means >"half past eleven", etc. (1) Thus _half twenty-two_ , in the >context of "1974", would most likely mean "22 & 1/2 years >old". :-) Sorry, can't agree. Obviously half twelve I have heard, but in all the 28 years I have lived and died on this lonely isle I have never heard that expression used with regard to age. Perhaps it's a regional variation, but here in Oxford, we get most of those on account of being so central! Tipping my bowler hat at you from my castle through the fog, Matt ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:06:39 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: 1974 On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, jbranscombe@compuserve.com wrote: > Another option is that Half 22 was a club/restaurant/shop, where so-and-so > worked. I've asked a couple of older, hippyish types and they've not been > able to confirm this. One came up with the interesting titbit that Ronnie > Scott's jazz club was originally called Club 11...That was ages before > 1974, but I wonder if someone revived it with a punning change of name?!? Speaking as an older hippyish type, that doesn't ring any bells. And Ronnie Scott's was going strong in 1974, so why would anyone want to revert to an earlier name (unless it was some kind of offshoot)? Having said that, jmbc's theory is a lot more plausible that all that "age 22 and a half" stuff. AFAIK, no-one counts age in half years in the UK except small children, up to say 6 and a half. - - Mike Godwin n.p. Older hippyish type music (Blue Ridge Rangers) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 08:51:20 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: the cult of walken On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Christopher Gross wrote: > sad to see the end of the "Anything Christopher Walken is in, is good" > rule did you see that movie where he tortures a couple of tourists to death? or something like that. it was so boring i fell asleep. - - oh no, you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net - get yr pathos - - www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. = reviews - - www.fecklessbeast.com -- angst, guilt, fear, betrayal! = guitar pop ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:54:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: 1974 On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Michael R Godwin wrote: > Having said that, jmbc's theory is a lot more plausible that all that > "age 22 and a half" stuff. AFAIK, no-one counts age in half years in > the UK except small children, up to say 6 and a half. in that case, there's no particular reason someone would name a club that either, is there? or do people say "half 22" referring to the time of evening also known as 10:30 pm? also, if he'd said "you were a quarter past 22" we would have said oh, he's being sort of clever, pointing out how in retrospect those years passed more like hours than years, and that would have been the end of it. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 08:07:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: 1974 lyrics question On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, matt sewell wrote: > > >>"half 22" being britlish for 21 and a half years old. > > > > >Being fairly fluent in er, British for sometime now, I can say that this > >is > > >- - to use an old British word - bollocks! > > >Half 22, as far as I'm aware, in this country has always meant 11. > > >Sorry (how British!) to be a pain > > >Matt :p > > > >In Britain, "half" is used in expressions of time, e.g. _half > >twelve_ means "half past twelve", _half eleven_ means > >"half past eleven", etc. (1) Thus _half twenty-two_ , in the > >context of "1974", would most likely mean "22 & 1/2 years > >old". :-) > > Sorry, can't agree. Obviously half twelve I have heard, but in all the 28 > years I have lived and died on this lonely isle I have never heard that > expression used with regard to age. Perhaps it's a regional variation, but > here in Oxford, we get most of those on account of being so central! > Tipping my bowler hat at you from my castle through the fog, Of course it's the same here with regard to only small children counting age in half-years. But is it possible that Robyn's sort of making fun of how old 22 year olds are versus how old they think they are? How about twenty-four hour time? Half twenty-two could mean 10:30pm, no? I know it's a stretch. But what the fuck? J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:26:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: the cult of walken On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, dmw wrote: > > sad to see the end of the "Anything Christopher Walken is in, is good" > > rule > > did you see that movie where he tortures a couple of tourists to death? > or something like that. it was so boring i fell asleep. I'm not familiar with that one. If you want to get strictly realistic about things, the Walken rule is probably based more on my ignorance than the high quality of Walken's oeuvre. But where's the fun in that? - --Chris ps: Robyn tonight! ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:25:47 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: 1974 On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Aaron Mandel wrote: > in that case, there's no particular reason someone would name a club that > either, is there? or do people say "half 22" referring to the time of > evening also known as 10:30 pm? No. On the few occasions when the 24 hour clock is used (e.g. by train enquiries) the whole number is read out, so it would be "twenty-two thirty". I admit myself baffled. Has anyone posted the full lyric? Maybe if I see it entire, light might dawn. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:37:6 -0600 From: Paul Christian Glenn Subject: Re: the cult of walken At 10/27/99 11:26:00 AM, you wrote: >I'm not familiar with that one. If you want to get strictly realistic >about things, the Walken rule is probably based more on my ignorance than >the high quality of Walken's oeuvre. But where's the fun in that? Have you seen _The Funeral_? Great, great movie. Also, anyone seen _Suicide Kings_? I always eye that one at the video store, but I've never met anyone who's seen it. Paul Christian Glenn trance@radiks.net http://x-real.firinn.org ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:42:56 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Walken welcomes nudity! Paul writes, >Also, anyone seen _Suicide Kings_? I always eye that one at the video >store, but I've never met anyone who's seen it. Yes, I've seen it -- it sucks, except for Walken's performance. He doesn't exactly break any new ground, but he is nice and menacing, The rest of the movie is poorly acted, ill-directed, and has too many predictable plot holes. I got the impression a few students watched some Tarantino and said, "Hey, we can do that!" By the way, hello to Matt and Rachael! Welcome to the List. Sometimes, I swear, we actually talk about Robyn what's-his-name, you know, the singer. - --Quail PS: No, 4.5/5 Bowies does not mean I wish to see 90% of Elvis Costello nude. That would be 4.5 Toris. Silly rabbits. +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "I'm not a critic, though I play on on the Internet." -- Doug Mayo-Wells ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 12:04:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Walken welcomes nudity! > >Also, anyone seen _Suicide Kings_? I always eye that one at the video > >store, but I've never met anyone who's seen it. > > Yes, I've seen it -- it sucks I liked, or at least enjoyed, it... despite, or perhaps because of its flaws. Especially the ending. =b, seein' big R tonight ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 12:16:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Quail welcomes nudity! On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, The Great Quail wrote: > By the way, hello to Matt and Rachael! Welcome to the List. > Sometimes, I swear, we actually talk about Robyn what's-his-name, you > know, the singer. > Who? > PS: No, 4.5/5 Bowies does not mean I wish to see 90% of Elvis > Costello nude. That would be 4.5 Toris. The question is, which 10% of Tori (or Elvis) you'd like to remain unseen? Eric "4.5 Silly Rabbits" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:43:01 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: 1974 On 10/27/99 8:25 AM, Michael R Godwin wrote: > >On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Aaron Mandel wrote: >> in that case, there's no particular reason someone would name a club that >> either, is there? or do people say "half 22" referring to the time of >> evening also known as 10:30 pm? > >No. On the few occasions when the 24 hour clock is used (e.g. by train >enquiries) the whole number is read out, so it would be "twenty-two thirty". > >I admit myself baffled. Has anyone posted the full lyric? Maybe if I see >it entire, light might dawn. > > Perhaps we're being a tad too literal? Dare I say "poetic license"? - -tc, wondering where Robyn lies on Quail's Bowie scale... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:02:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Griffith Davies Subject: feg knowledge (no RH) Fegs, I keep seeing references to an Elephant 6 mailing list. Could someone please forward the info to me? Thanks! Also, any recommended E6 websites? griffith __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:08:18 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: 1974 On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Tom Clark wrote: > Perhaps we're being a tad too literal? Dare I say "poetic license"? OK, let's be literal. Maybe the person referred to was now 22 (in 1974), but had known the writer since she was 11 (in, er, 1963?) - - Mike Godwin (poetic licence endorsed for rhyming "Kouhoutek" with "therapeutic") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:04:05 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Scales & Quails >-tc, wondering where Robyn lies on Quail's Bowie scale... Robyn and Dylan both rate 4.9. In fact, I probably like Robyn more these days -- his lyrics have always spoken to me more -- but still, Bowie is Bowie, and only Bowie can rate a full 5.0. Van Morrison and Tom Waits rank at 4.8. Lou Reed and Ute Lemper at 4.7, and Tori Amos, Bjork, & Nick Cave come in at about 4.4. Billy Bragg ranks at 4.0. Billy Joel is still hanging on at 2.8. Elvis was about 4.2, now he's at 4.5. Mmm. I like numbers. This scale is not to be used for bands. That gets the hybrid King Crimson/U2/Velvet Underground scale, which ranks for brain/heart/coolness respectively. For instance, The Bevis Frond scores 3/2/4.4 KC-U2-VUs, whereas Hawkwind scores 2.5/2/4.9 KC-U2-VUs. This is the difference between the Grateful Dead (4/4.5/4.5 KC-U2-VUs) and Phish (4.5/4/4.5 KC-U2-VUs). See? See the subtle differences? Oh, it all makes sense to me. This scale is not accurate for anyone else, so please don't yell at me. Yell at Drew and Eb, they seem to like that sort of thing. I may be making all this up as I go along. - --Quail PS: Bowie's "Hours. . . . " I love this album. Will be in my top five. I can't see why Eb does not like this, but likes instead Stereolab, which I picked up on Fegrecommendations only to listen to it, appalled. Perhaps if I expanded my Band Scale to include a "Hipness" vector I would like Stereolab better. But . . . ugh. One review called it "space-age bachelor pad music." Why, oh why, did I not take that as a *warning*? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth: http://www.libyrinth.com The places I took him! I tried hard to tell Young Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell A few brand-new wonderful words he might spell. I led him around and I tried hard to show There are things beyond Z that most people don't know. I took him past Zebra. As far as I could. And I think, perhaps, maybe I did him some good... Because finally he said: "This is really great stuff! And I guess the old alphabet ISN'T enough!" --Dr. Seuss, "On Beyond Zebra" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:09:20 BST From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: 1974 > > > >I admit myself baffled. Has anyone posted the full lyric? Maybe if I see > >it entire, light might dawn. > > > > > >Perhaps we're being a tad too literal? Dare I say "poetic license"? > Best theory, I reckon. Sometimes when one stares at something long enough... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:30:33 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Scales & Quails Where does Kate Bush and Aimee Mann rate on Quail's Bowie scale? Michael - -----Original Message----- From: The Great Quail [mailto:quail@libyrinth.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 1:04 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Scales & Quails >-tc, wondering where Robyn lies on Quail's Bowie scale... Robyn and Dylan both rate 4.9. In fact, I probably like Robyn more these days -- his lyrics have always spoken to me more -- but still, Bowie is Bowie, and only Bowie can rate a full 5.0. Van Morrison and Tom Waits rank at 4.8. Lou Reed and Ute Lemper at 4.7, and Tori Amos, Bjork, & Nick Cave come in at about 4.4. Billy Bragg ranks at 4.0. Billy Joel is still hanging on at 2.8. Elvis was about 4.2, now he's at 4.5. Mmm. I like numbers. This scale is not to be used for bands. That gets the hybrid King Crimson/U2/Velvet Underground scale, which ranks for brain/heart/coolness respectively. For instance, The Bevis Frond scores 3/2/4.4 KC-U2-VUs, whereas Hawkwind scores 2.5/2/4.9 KC-U2-VUs. This is the difference between the Grateful Dead (4/4.5/4.5 KC-U2-VUs) and Phish (4.5/4/4.5 KC-U2-VUs). See? See the subtle differences? Oh, it all makes sense to me. This scale is not accurate for anyone else, so please don't yell at me. Yell at Drew and Eb, they seem to like that sort of thing. I may be making all this up as I go along. - --Quail PS: Bowie's "Hours. . . . " I love this album. Will be in my top five. I can't see why Eb does not like this, but likes instead Stereolab, which I picked up on Fegrecommendations only to listen to it, appalled. Perhaps if I expanded my Band Scale to include a "Hipness" vector I would like Stereolab better. But . . . ugh. One review called it "space-age bachelor pad music." Why, oh why, did I not take that as a *warning*? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth: http://www.libyrinth.com The places I took him! I tried hard to tell Young Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell A few brand-new wonderful words he might spell. I led him around and I tried hard to show There are things beyond Z that most people don't know. I took him past Zebra. As far as I could. And I think, perhaps, maybe I did him some good... Because finally he said: "This is really great stuff! And I guess the old alphabet ISN'T enough!" --Dr. Seuss, "On Beyond Zebra" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:34:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Scales & Quails On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, The Great Quail wrote: > One review called it "space-age bachelor pad music." Why, oh why, did > I not take that as a *warning*? i don't like Stereolab either, but i wouldn't trust a review that uses part of a band's old album title to describe them. seems kind of lazy. is there a place to get album sales figures online? that thing Eb reposted about Dylan sales was intriguing. did his 'comeback' albums sell even slower, or did they outstrip the classics that everyone was excited about him finally making worthy successors to? a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:00:20 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Scales & Quails On 10/27/99 10:04 AM, The Great Quail wrote: >Van Morrison and Tom Waits rank at 4.8. Lou Reed and Ute Lemper at >4.7, and Tori Amos, Bjork, & Nick Cave come in at about 4.4. Billy >Bragg ranks at 4.0. Billy Joel is still hanging on at 2.8. Elvis was >about 4.2, now he's at 4.5. Just wondering here, but everyone listed above is a songwriter except - and I could be wrong - Ute Lemper. Now, for my money, she kicks ass when it comes to your German torch singers, but does she write also? And if so, does she really write as well as Loooou? Oh, and if we could get a copy of your Bowie scale spreadsheet that would be helpful. Oh Oh, and where does Robyn rank on the "I'd like to see him naked" scale? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:18:05 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Scales & Quails Tom clarks, >Just wondering here, but everyone listed above is a songwriter except - >and I could be wrong - Ute Lemper. Now, for my money, she kicks ass when >it comes to your German torch singers, but does she write also? And if >so, does she really write as well as Loooou? Um . . . writing songs . . . yeah, that could be a problem . . . ah, fuck that. Ute still stands, whether she's written her songs or not. Ah, Tom, it'd have to be you that'd throw the spanner in the works, eh? >Oh, and if we could get a copy of your Bowie scale spreadsheet that would >be helpful. Um . . . you are all taking this way too seriously. Only Eb sits around and writes this stuff down. A-and he gets paid for it! (Or at least has a Web site for it.) >Oh Oh, and where does Robyn rank on the "I'd like to see him naked" scale? Ah, the desire to see Robyn naked is actually measured in "Vivien" units, 5.0 being equated with *Viv's* desire to see Robyn in the nude. I stand at about 1.0 Vivs for Robyn, which is about where I am in Toris with anyone, really, being just a curious sort of fellow. Except Meatloaf, who may be measured in AntiToris, the inverse of negative Vivs, but multiplied by a conversion factor that I haven't quite worked out yet. Jeme will probably find fault in my math. Which is why I won't tell him that I personally rank Vivien at about 4.0 Toris. - --Quail PS: KaTe Bush = 3.9 Bowies & 4.0 Toris, and Aimee Mann = 1.5 Bowies & 3.8 Toris. Sorry! PPS: This is the stupidest thread in the world. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth: http://www.libyrinth.com "His fervour for the written word was an interweaving of solemn respect and gossipy irreverence. . . " --Gabriel García Márquez ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:24:32 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Scales & Quails The Great Quail wrote: > PS: KaTe Bush = 3.9 Bowies & 4.0 Toris, and Aimee Mann = 1.5 Bowies & > 3.8 Toris. Sorry! > > PPS: This is the stupidest thread in the world. Actually, I find it quite amusing. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:34:42 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Scales & Quails At 02:18 PM 10/27/99 -0400, The Great Quail wrote: >PPS: This is the stupidest thread in the world. Yup. I'd give it 4.7 How Many Official Albums Has Robyn Hitchcock Released?'s. - --Jason, who kinda liked Quail's Crim-U2-VU scale, but liked the Bowie scale more when he had it confused with the Tori scale np: Stereolab (4.2 / 2 / 4.5) "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:41:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: 1974 On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Michael R Godwin wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Tom Clark wrote: > > Perhaps we're being a tad too literal? Dare I say "poetic license"? > > OK, let's be literal. Maybe the person referred to was now 22 (in 1974), > but had known the writer since she was 11 (in, er, 1963?) Isn't that a bit young to be working in an earth exchange, though? Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://www.unlikeminerva.com normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:45:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: Scales & Quails On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Aaron Mandel wrote: > is there a place to get album sales figures online? that thing Eb reposted http://www.riaa.com/goldplat/gpsearch/gpsearch.cfm has gold-record info. Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://www.unlikeminerva.com normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 12:09:49 -0700 (PDT) From: rich plumb Subject: Another Review of JfS Stumbled across another review in Stereo Review's online magazine Sound and Vision: http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/SoundAndVision/FrameSet/0,1670,_sl_SoundAndVision_sl_Article_sl_0_cm_1653_cm_92_2290_1_cm_00,00.html Both Richard Thompson's Mock Tudor and JfS are reviewed in the same article. Mock Tudor is trashed using almost the exact words I would and JfS is deservedly praised. I would be seeing Richard Thompson tonight except the show was postponed for a month. Instead I get to see Robyn at Fletcher's (Yay!!). rich __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:19:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Pie Are Squared Is anyone else besides me receiving fegmail out of chronological order? I keep getting Quail's replies to Jason's (or other fegs') comments on Quail's messages, and then about an hour later I get Quail's original message, more or less clearing up the original confusion. Sort of... Consequently, I'm having trouble telling my Bowies from my Toris, my Toris from my Vivs, my Vivs from my Bowies, my Bowies from my Eltons, and my Eltons from my Lolas, to name just a few without even taking the math into consideration (and we all know how painful THAT can be). And just how do LJ and Susan fit into all this? (Hey, wait a minute, where *is* Ms. Dodge these days? Could this be another Quailspiracy?) And how many units of which measure, converted and ultimately expressed in Bowies, would they qualify for? Would it be possible for Lou Reed (for example), as one fourth of the Velvets, to be expressed fractionally in KC-U2-VU's? If Lou Reed = 1/4 VU's, and Robert Fripp=.0000000000Toris, and LJ multiplies with Liam Gallagher, then how many KC-U2-VU's = 5 Elvises (not Elvis imitators, who =1.2 Bowies, but the real Elvis, who =4.5 Bowies) if the sum of the remaining members of Oasis=0? Eric, whose mathematical skills are a mere fraction of a shadow of their former 1/2-assed selves. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:33:46 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Pie Are Squared At 04:19 PM 10/27/99 -0400, Eric Loehr wrote: >Is anyone else besides me receiving fegmail out of chronological order? I >keep getting Quail's replies to Jason's (or other fegs') comments on >Quail's messages, and then about an hour later I get Quail's original >message, more or less clearing up the original confusion. Sort of... The problem is not with the Fegmaniax mail system, it's with the fact that Quail and I really do post our messages out of chronological order. - --Jason R. Tachyon (currently quite upset with The "Great" Quail, who called me a "goofball" about 47 minutes into your future) "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:40:28 -0800 From: Eb Subject: The top 10 thread subjects in alt.fan.cecil-adams right now 10. % of women who give head (Was: Monica's dad demands apology) 9. Tap Water Passed Through the Body Eight Times? 8. guide for the preplexed, or perplexed-at-heart, was: Dusty fan blades 7. Freud's goyish vocabulary meets Piano Rolls 6. Kathy Put Cheese On (was: boats, bugs, and buffaloes) 5. Six Degrees of Kevin Cronin? (WAS:Bands with songs named after them) 4. Nosebleeds (Was: Female hygiene testers) 3. Hindenburg (was: Lint trap) 2. 3000 yr old sperm->no flu resistance? 1. Cheap Halloween costumes (WAS: Re: How do you build a tampon?) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:44:08 -0800 From: Eb Subject: weenie alert > From: muzziklvr@aol.com (MuzzikLvr) > Newsgroups: rec.music.marketplace.vinyl > Subject: Robyn Hitchcock COLORED VINYL promo 12" Singles > Date: 27 Oct 1999 05:37:40 GMT > > "Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)" / "Legalized Murder" (A&M SP-17549) >promo - > blue vinyl ~ $15 > > "Balloon Man" / "A Globe of Frogs (Electric)" / "The Ghost Ship" (A&M >SP-17530) > promo - green vinyl ~ $15 > > E-mail me direct if interested. Thanks! > -Shari > MuzzikLvr@aol.com > > check out my Music & Memorabilia web-page > and see what treasures are for sale > http://members.aol.com/MuzzikLvr/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:45:38 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Pie Are Squared You know, I was just thinking that Jason Thornton can really be a goofball! Why, I'm willing to bet that he'll even confuse the Tori and Bowie scale. That's what you get from too much David Sylvian and Stereolab. Oh, yes, and he exaggerates, too. Always making things out to be three time worse than they are, three times longer, shorter, whatever suits his depraved goofball needs. . . . - --The GREAT Quail, wondering why no Feg ever remarks on this particular sig. . . . +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "I'm not a critic, though I play on on the Internet." -- Doug Mayo-Wells ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #400 *******************************