From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #448 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, December 1 1999 Volume 08 : Number 448 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks [Paul Christian Glenn ] Re: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks ["Jason R. Thornton" ] RE: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: headrests and urkel [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: headrests and urkel [John Barrington Jones ] Re: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks [Katherine Rossner ] Re: Gainesburger with cheese [Joel Mullins ] Re: People "flogged" like cattle ["Anal Oil Leakage" ] Re: Apology. . . . I guess. [Joel Mullins ] Re: headrests and urkel [Joel Mullins ] RE: the likelihood of Eddie not being incarcerated [Vivien Lyon ] Re: People "flogged" like cattle [Vivien Lyon ] Re: headrests and urkel [dmw ] Oh, go to hell. [Vivien Lyon ] quail flambe [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:6:58 -0600 From: Paul Christian Glenn Subject: Re: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks At 12/1/99 3:44:00 PM, you wrote: > NO! Apology not accepted, because you "sort of " don't > mean it. [snip] There's no such thing as a joke > in the bible. What does the Bible say about forgiveness? Paul Christian Glenn trance@radiks.net http://eonchamber.virtualave.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:13:49 -0500 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: RE: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks "cunt issues," feg breasts (and not once piece of mail in my box asking for pix of my prettys, by the by), swank photos I can pretty much handle (and yes, I was suckered into looking at that danged thing at work--thanks, Q). However, and I get a little disturbed with the thought of, and I quote Ms. Carissa, a "circlejerk without any friction." Now that weirds me out. If there's one thing a good biscuit chase needs, it's to be friction-free. - -ferris "you do what with the biscuit?" thomas. (remotely Robyn: np: the Maxwell's show...hmmmmmmmmmm...soundboard...) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:18:02 -0800 (PST) From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 Fpaux@aol.com wrote: >Jeez! Think about it, would this current circlejerk be as much fun >without any friction? Some people WANT to be offended. Lots of political groups, religious sects, ethnic watchdog groups, parents, and other thin-skinned pussies (oops! was that offensive?) actually exert effort to find offensive material so they can bitch and moan and whine. Somehow their days aren't complete without being offended about something. A nickel's worth of free advice: Grow a spine and look into getting a sense of humour! Hey, Zeus! There was a fucking (oops again...sorry!) warning in black and white! If any of the offended parties had bothered to read it this might not have happened. If there's a disclaimer briefly describing potentially offensive content and telling me I might be offended if I click to that link, it's my own goddamned (fuck! I mean, shit! Oh fuck it!) fault if I am offended. I certainly am not going to complain to the person who warned me to begin with. I'm smart enough to know what to expect beforehand and grown-up enough to accept the responsibility clicking the link in the first place. Unfortunately, I am in the minority when it comes to not placing blame elsewhere for my own dumb actions. Flame away! - -g- "When you encourage people to think freely, you are inciting a revolution." --Glen Uber +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~uberg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 13:19:59 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks At 03:54 PM 12/1/99 +0000, mrrunion@palmnet.net wrote: > > NO! Apology not accepted, because you "sort of " don't mean it. Your > >apology is really limp. At the risk of getting gang banged, I'm gonna say >it > >anyways; I'm really sick of people using controversial/ loaded terms (Viv >and > >her cunt issues), or subjects (feg breasts), or pictures (Quail), and >then > >being surprised that they've offended anyone. > >If I may, I'm personally offended by the use of the term "gang-banged". And, see, I had a lot of problems with the whole limpness analogy. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 13:23:00 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks At 03:06 PM 12/1/99 -0600, Paul Christian Glenn wrote: >At 12/1/99 3:44:00 PM, you wrote: > > > NO! Apology not accepted, because you "sort of " don't > > mean it. [snip] There's no such thing as a joke > > in the bible. > >What does the Bible say about forgiveness? Doesn't it say something about God sending lots of people to Hell for all eternity? - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:26:57 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: The Philosophers' Stone, ch 1. In the days when Cornwall still had its own princes, a young king by the name of Mark ruled over this small peninsula of Great Britain. He was the grandson of that same King Mark who had become famous through his wife, the beautiful Isolde, also called Iseult the blonde, and her love affair with the noble and unfortunate Tristan of Leonnoys. The young king Mark was very much like his grandfather. He was arrogant without ambition, sensuous without taste, and greedy without knowing how to be economical. As soon as he inherited the throne, which was at a very young age, he began to give in to his passions and moods and to live in a style that would have ruined a country much larger and richer than his own. When his income was no longer sufficient for his expenses, he burdened his subjects with new taxes. And when they no longer had anything to give, he made money off them by selling them to his neighbors. While all this was happening, King Mark continued to maintain a splendid court and managed everything as though he had found an inexhaustible supply of gold. To be sure, he had not found such a supply, but he was at least making a great effort to look for one. And as soon as it became known that he was looking for gold, all kinds of strange people appeared at his court who were anxious to help him locate the gold. Treasure seekers, necromancers, alchemists, and swindlers who called themselves disciples of the great Hermes came from all over the world and were welcomed with open arms at the court. Indeed, aside from all the vices that poor Mark had, he was also the most gullible man in the world, so that the first tramp who came along and boasted that he had secret powers could get anything out of him that he wanted. Therefore, his court was swarming with such rabble. One man pretended that he had a natural gift that enabled him to smell where treasures had been buried. Another knew how to discover them with the help of a divining rod. There was yet a third man, who assured the king that everything was futile unless one possessed the secret of hypnotizing ghosts who came in the form of wise men or as figures who wore terrible masks, or of turning themselves into servants. And he let it known in a modest way that he possessed this secret. There were others who regarded magic with disdain. Everything they did was natural. They rejected talismans, magic spells, circles, figures, and whatever else belonged to this domain as plain deception and delusion. What ever the others pretended to achieve through supernatural powers, these achieved, if one believed them, through mere natural forces. Whoever had penetrated the innermost holy essence of nature, so they said; whoever had become familiar with the true elements of things, their affinities, sympathies, and antipathies in nature's secret workshop; whoever knew how to unite the spirit of nature that assumed all different forms with the salt of nature that dissolved everything and could keep this protean force under control with the help of the astral fire that penetrated everything and could compel it to appear in its own original form-this man was the true sage. He alone deserved to be called an adept. There was nothing he could not do, for he commanded nature, which could bring about anything. He could transform inferior minerals into superior ones. He possessed the means to cure any kind of sickness. He could recall the dead to life, if he and the gods wanted to do this, and it was in his power to live as long as he desired, until he felt it more convenient to move to another world. All of this appealed very much to King Mark's taste, but since he could not decide which of his miracle workers he should keep and could not bear to send the others away, he kept them all and tried them out one after the other. The day was spent with empirics, the night with exorcising and digging for treasures. And when the swindlers realized that he did not like to have one person monopolize everything, they soon learned, to his great joy, to tolerate one another as if everything could fit together into one huge bag. Several years went by like this without King Mark moving any closer to the object of his desires. He had allowed half of his small kingdom to be dug up, but no treasure was found. And his hope to transform the copper and tin of his mines into gold went up the chimney, along with the gold his ancestors had long since taken from the mines. If such disasters had happened to anyone else but Mark, they would have caused that person to open his eyes. But the king's eyes gradually became more blurred. He now became obsessed with finding the philosophers' stone, the more so as it seemed to conceal itself from him. The hope that he might finally obtain this protean power, which assumed all kinds of forms, increased in exact proportion to the number of losses he suffered. He believed that he had still not found the right man yet. But, in the same moment that he would banish ten swindlers from his presence, he would open his arms to the very next one who arrived at his court. Finally, an Egyptian adept from the secret school of the great Hermes announced his presence at King Mark's court. He called himself Misfragmutosiris and had a beard that hung down to his belt. In addition, he wore a cap in the form of a pyramid that had a golden sphinx attached to its top, a long cloak stitched with hieroglyphs, and a belt made of guilded tin in which the twelve signs of the zodiac were engraved. King Mark considered himself to be the luckiest man on earth to have such a wise man with so promising an appearance at his court. And even though the Egyptian was quite reserved, they soon became good friends. Everything about him-his stature, clothes, language, manners, and the way he conducted himself-indicated that he was an extraordinary man. He always dined alone and never ate what other people did, He had some large snakes and a stuffed crocodile in his room. He treated them with great respect, and it seemed that he held secret conversations with them from time to time. He talked about the most marvelous and enigmatic things with openness and indifference, as if these things were the most common and familiar in the world. However he rarely answered questions, and if he did, then he did so in a way that left one with the feeling that there was nothing more to ask, even though the questioner now knew just as little as he knew before. He talked about people who had lived many centuries ago as if he had known them very well. At the very least. one had to conclude from his talk that he had been a contemporary of King Amasis, even though he never clearly declared this to be true. What made him most credible in Mark's eyes was the fact that he had a great deal of gold and a bunch of rare items with him, and he talked about huge sums of money as if they were trifles. All these circumstances intensified the curiosity of the gullible King Mark to such a degree that he could not stand it any longer. And no matter how much the king's guest had resisted everything, enough was enough, and the wise Misfragutosoirs finally let himself be moved y the king's entreaties. Either that, or his heart no longer allowed him to be ungrateful in view of the honors and the gifts that the king heaped upon him. Therefore he finally revealed the entire secret of his identity to King Mark-but of course, he did not do this until he had led the king through various kinds of graduated initiations demanded by the order of Hermes. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:28:11 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks I am not sure what the Bible says exactly about forgivness, but I do know that Robyn says "Their Are No Jokes in the Bible, Keith". Michael - -----Original Message----- From: Paul Christian Glenn [mailto:trance@radiks.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 2:01 AM To: Fegmaniax! Subject: Re: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks At 12/1/99 3:44:00 PM, you wrote: > NO! Apology not accepted, because you "sort of " don't > mean it. [snip] There's no such thing as a joke > in the bible. What does the Bible say about forgiveness? Paul Christian Glenn trance@radiks.net http://eonchamber.virtualave.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:25:43 -0600 From: Paul Christian Glenn Subject: Re: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks Brave, brave, brave, Brave Sir Jason wrote: >> > NO! Apology not accepted, because you "sort of " don't >> > mean it. [snip] There's no such thing as a joke >> > in the bible. >> >>What does the Bible say about forgiveness? > >Doesn't it say something about God sending lots of people to Hell for all >eternity? Hrm. Not that I'm aware of. I just find it ironic that someone would invoke the Bible during a tirade about how they're not going to forgive someone. :P Paul Christian Glenn trance@radiks.net http://eonchamber.virtualave.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:39:33 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Re: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks - --- Fpaux@aol.com wrote: > NO! Apology not accepted, because you "sort of " don't mean it. Your > apology is really limp. At the risk of getting gang banged, I'm gonna > say it > anyways; I'm really sick of people using controversial/ loaded terms > (Viv and > her cunt issues), or subjects (feg breasts), or pictures (Quail), and > then > being surprised that they've offended anyone. There's no such thing as a > joke > in the bible. Personally, I believe that jokes of this nature are > nothing > more than socially acceptable hostility. Bodies are just bodies- dirty, funny, sexy, but not 'obscene,' nor shameful. Now, on to my role in the current festival of naughtiness: Some people on the list started referring to my breasts, not endorsed or encouraged by me (except by my remaining silent for too long). At about the same time, I explained my joke-theory of cunt-rock. It was seemingly hypocritical of me to take umbrage with people talking specifically about my 'private' parts, and then use such a 'loaded' word as cunt, so I refrained from making a fuss about it. But I would argue that using a general word to jokingly refer to a general type of music is not the same thing as making repeated innuendos and references to another person's tit's in a public forum. Ah well. I'm over it. This feg breast thread is a trifle silly and juvenile, I agree. But it certainly isn't what I'd call offensive. It's approximately as boring to me as the occassional extreme computer-geekery that goes on around here, but I'm not in high dudgeon about it. On the other hand, I have to take issue with the Quail for daring to post a link to a picture of some anonymous woman's naked boobies. I'd never seen any before, and was hoping to remain ignorant until the day I died, but then I stupidly ignored his warning that clearly informed me I was about to see the dreadful things, and DEAR GOD! I'll never be clean again. Vivien ps- bitchin' tattoo, Mark. pps- I do in fact have some 'cunt issues.' You can email me privately about them, Carissa. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 16:42:03 -0500 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: RE: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks I thought this line came from Robyn's main criticism of Christianity (that it lacked a sense of humor). No offense of Christians intended btw. It seems this trait is more and more common among the populace at large anyway, whether secular or religious... S.B. *************************************************************** "...isn't it good to be lost in the wood..."--Syd Barrett *************************************************************** At 04:28 PM 12/1/99 -0500, you wrote: >I am not sure what the Bible says exactly about forgivness, >but I do know that Robyn says "Their Are No Jokes in the Bible, >Keith". > >Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:49:13 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: headrests and urkel >If I may, I'm personally offended by the use of the term "gang-banged". 1. And I'm personally offended (on alternate Wednesdays, at least) by the use of the term "bible." 2. Regarding the Feg-breasts competition, there is only one possible winner: Carla Gugino. Case closed! 3. Here's a URL for you, Quail: http://www.fufme.com. Oh my...the wonders of modern technology. 4. Got some email from Randi last night...she's hanging tough.... 5. Somebody's auctioning off all four Dome albums on Ebay, and boy, am I tempted (but gritting my teeth at the price). 6. Big Daddy had a few novelty albums on Rhino...all doo-wop arrangements of other groups' past hits (groooan). 7. Snort of the day: "...not encouraged by me." 14. REM/New Adventures in Hi-Fi Non-linear Eb, who heard personal testimony from Ms. Gugino about Mr. Hitchcock, if you recall np: Enrique Iglesias ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:10:02 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: headrests and urkel In a message dated 12/1/99 1:51:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, gondola@deltanet.com writes: << 14. REM/New Adventures in Hi-Fi >> I'm being totally serious when I say that this is the most personally offensive thing I've read on Fegmaniax in days. C'mon! *Every* other 90's REM album was better than "Hi-Fi"!! - ------Michael "am I the only one who's got my priorities straight around here?!?" K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 14:16:45 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: headrests and urkel Michael-- You beat me in posting the same thing. I can't stand New Adventures! It is worse than even GREEN! I cashed it in at the cd shop after 4 or 5 listens. =jbj= On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 MARKEEFE@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/1/99 1:51:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, > gondola@deltanet.com writes: > > << 14. REM/New Adventures in Hi-Fi >> > > I'm being totally serious when I say that this is the most personally > offensive thing I've read on Fegmaniax in days. C'mon! *Every* other 90's > REM album was better than "Hi-Fi"!! > > ------Michael "am I the only one who's got my priorities straight around > here?!?" K. > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 16:24:22 -0500 From: Katherine Rossner Subject: Re: ABC; apologies,breasts,and circlejerks Oh, please... (before I get into this: Quail, for whatever it's worth, I don't particularly enjoy looking at breasts, but neither was I offended. And certainly I thought your warning sufficient--well, almost sufficient; I assumed that the warning was *some* sort of a joke, but just figured it would be something subtler: male breasts, clothed, whatever.) At 03:44 PM 12/1/99 EST, Fpaux@aol.com wrote: > NO! Apology not accepted, because you "sort of " don't mean it. Uh, how can you tell whether or not he means it? >There's no such thing as a joke >in the bible. Even if this were true (and that's an argument I *won't* get into, at least on the list), how on earth is it relevant? >Think about it, would this current circlejerk be as much fun >without any friction? I rather doubt that *any* circle-jerk would be fun without friction. Katherine, ducking (or should that be quailing?) (and don't tell me it's owling, that doesn't work, alas) - -- Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so. - Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 14:27:42 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: headrests and urkel >You beat me in posting the same thing. I can't stand New Adventures! It is >worse than even GREEN! I cashed it in at the cd shop after 4 or 5 listens. Yes, yes...I'm well-aware this is a dark-horse choice. I make no apologies. Then again, it's *far* less of a dark-horse than RH's "Eye," eh? And FYI, "Green" is my least favorite REM album. 8. Will Smith's new album stinks, but Jada Pinckett Smith's motherhood PSA is da bomb. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 16:04:00 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Gainesburger with cheese Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Joel Mullins wrote: > > And I'd also like to point out that everyone is made up of > > contradictions and double standards and the fact that David > > Bowie and XTC rock gives them the right to do shit that Garth > > Brooks cannot pull off because he sucks. > > > > But what do I know. > > But what about the travelling wiburys? They rocked too. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 14:35:58 PST From: "Anal Oil Leakage" Subject: Re: People "flogged" like cattle tear-gassed three or four times (NOT fun, by the way), shot in the ass with a rubber bullet (kind of fun if you've a bit of a masochist streak), forced to walk several miles to catch a bus (not too horrible, really); but not arrested. Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:04 +0000 From: mrrunion@palmnet.net Subject: People "flogged" like cattle So, who taking bets on whether our own Eddie "resident WTO protestor-on-the-scene" Tews has been arrested? Haven't heard a peep out of him for days... Hang in there Eddie! The Surreal Posse is reforming as we speak and will soon be en route. We also have concrete proof that a certain breast-loving fowl might be behind this whole Free Trade scam...! Mike ("Machine gun jubblies? How'd I miss those, Baby?!?") ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 16:16:33 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Apology. . . . I guess. The Great Quail wrote: > > Well, a few Fegs have sent me angry email because I posted a URL of a > nude woman. Where was I? I missed it! Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 16:28:08 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: headrests and urkel Eb wrote: > > >You beat me in posting the same thing. I can't stand New Adventures! It is > >worse than even GREEN! I cashed it in at the cd shop after 4 or 5 listens. > > Yes, yes...I'm well-aware this is a dark-horse choice. I make no apologies. > Then again, it's *far* less of a dark-horse than RH's "Eye," eh? But didn't you put Eye at #18? That's 4 slots behind New Adventures in Hi-Fi, which is crazy. Personally, I don't think REM has released a really good album this decade. The last kick ass thing they did was Life's Rich Pageant. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 14:05:37 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: RE: the likelihood of Eddie not being incarcerated Apparently I was using yesterday's news concerning the number of arrested protesters. The number is now 220 and climbing. Anyone who isn't paying attention to the 'flogging' in Seattle should start doing so, with all speed. Vivien __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:01:13 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: headrests and urkel >But didn't you put Eye at #18? That's 4 slots behind New Adventures in >Hi-Fi, which is crazy. Yes, yes, Joel. And I'm crazy for not ranking Olivia Tremor Control, and crazy for not ranking Pavement, and crazy for not ranking Of Montreal, and crazy for.... Eb, still not crazy enough to smoke ;) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:50:21 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Re: People "flogged" like cattle - --- mrrunion@palmnet.net wrote: > So, who taking bets on whether our own Eddie "resident WTO > protestor-on-the-scene" Tews has been arrested? Haven't heard a peep > out > of him for days... Since only 22 people have been arrested (so far), and there've been estimates that 10,000-50,000 people are protesting, odds are that our dear comrade Eddie is out of the clutches of the blue boys...BUT FOR HOW LONG???!!!! Vivien __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:08:13 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: headrests and urkel On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Eb wrote: > Yes, yes, Joel. And I'm crazy for not ranking Olivia Tremor Control, and > crazy for not ranking Pavement, and crazy for not ranking Of Montreal, and > crazy for.... loving you? - -- d., wondering why we haven't heard about robyn covering patsy before this n.p. v/a "teenster" - - 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, 1 Dec 1999 13:54:33 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Oh, go to hell. - --- Paul Christian Glenn wrote: > >Doesn't it say something about God sending lots of people to Hell for > all > >eternity? > > Hrm. Not that I'm aware of. I think you're right about that, but now I'm curious about where the idea of Hell *did* come from. From the Puritans? Jonathan Edwards' _Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?_ Medieval illuminations of text? Where? Vivien Answer me, damn you! Where?! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:20:40 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: quail flambe Ummm. Coupla things- not just 2 yabbos al fresca... 1. Quails shouldn't be fire roasted. They should be baked slowly. When their beards fall off, they are ready to put in the ground and watered regularly until the spring, when the great Great Quail tree will rise and bear strange smelling fruit. When the fruit begin to dry and fall off the tree in the fall, then drive a steamroller over them and make quailfruit wine. After the wine has aged for several years, then decant the wine out of doors for a few hours. Then sniff the wine. It will probably smell very bad. Toss out the wine, and laugh demonically. 2. I appreciated the warning and looked at the pic from home. I don't really look like that guy, oh, and Viv, TGQ used photoshop. That tatoo was lifted from my ass. 3. I have a tough time getting really mad at fellow fegs about anything. It seems that any time I have had any negative feelings about a feg online, it turned out that the real person was really nice and fun and smart and never meant any harm to begin with. Okay, maybe a little crabby sometimes. I can say that, he's one of my best friends now. 4. It is hard for me to think that persons on this list post with intent to piss off others. I'm sure that some of the demeanor and manner of some of us could be a bit shocking, but I don't think there is meanness behind it. I fear that when Robyn isn't touring this list turns inward and we kind of eat ourselves, and I don't think that's necessary. I am a foe of correctness to the extent that I believe that discourse has its highest quality when it is without specific hostility toward others- especially on this list- and isn't otherwise burdened by excessive boundaries. I appreciate it when y'all let the water run off the backs of your collective ducks when yer knuckle draggin', banjo pickin', hog wrestlin', Cletus J. Sharkboy says something dumb, inappropriate, or just completely without any grasp of reality. I also think it is okay to let things other people here do and say that some don't like to pass without anger or critical comment. 5. I think The Great Quail, Eb, Susan, Terrence, and who else am I leaving out, aren't provided very much slack for speaking their minds, being funny, or just being themselves. We need to increase the amount of 'slack' in the universe. 6. That said, if I do piss y'all off, please let me know. I'll try to deal with it as elegantly as I can. These are blatant sharkboy opinions. Yours are likely to vary. Happies, - -Sharkboy trying to keep my yabbos from requiring a manzier, firming them up for the calendar ps. Glad to hear Eddie is okay. Tear gas is very bad, though- hope he deals with it better than I did. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #448 *******************************