From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #467 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, December 16 1999 Volume 08 : Number 467 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Trivia Question...help! ["matt sewell" ] Fanboys are Go! ["JH3" ] Re: Trivia Question...help! [ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com] Re: "the new girl" (was: No Subject) [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Trivia Question...help! [Michael R Godwin ] Egg on my face ["JH3" ] Re: Trivia Question...help! [Eric Loehr ] Re: Egg on my face [Eric Loehr ] Re: Egg on my face [ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com] Trivia helped ["Ghost Surfer" ] Re: Egg on my face [Eric Loehr ] Re: Trivia helped [Glen Uber ] Re: ...of the 90's [mrrunion@palmnet.net] Trivia Question...help! [Michael Wolfe ] Re: fish, jelly [Joel Mullins ] Re: "the new girl" (was: No Subject) [Vivien Lyon ] Re: "the new girl" (was: No Subject) [ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com] Re: Trivia Question...help! ["James Hadfield" ] More Trivial Disinformation ["JH3" ] Re: Trivia Question...help! [Joel Mullins ] DVD [Glen Uber ] Re: Trivia Question...help! [Aaron Mandel ] Re: "the new girl" (was: No Subject) [Vivien Lyon ] Re: Paxil... [Eb ] Re: parasitism [Eb ] two nice Jewish girls on the air! [Natalie Jacobs ] Santa Claus [Joel Mullins ] Consumable Year End Issue [Tom Clark ] Re: Trivia Question...help! [Sebastian Hagedorn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:22:00 GMT From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Trivia Question...help! Hello Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle with you Do I win £5? Matt ;-p >From: mrrunion@palmnet.net >Reply-To: mrrunion@palmnet.net >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Trivia Question...help! >Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:09:11 -0800 > > >Anyone know the answer to this one? > >TRIVIA: Jerry Rafferty had a hit single in the mid seventies- >"Baker Street". What early seventies band did he sing for, & >what was the title of their hit song? > >Mike > >----- >Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) >The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:26:30 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Fanboys are Go! Don't you love it when people fail to attribute quoted material? >TRIVIA: Jerry Rafferty had a hit single in the mid seventies- >"Baker Street". What early seventies band did he sing for, & >what was the title of their hit song? Steeleye Span, right? I thought it was spelled "Gerry," btw. >The differences between my peripheral Longet enjoyment and your >overwhelming fixations are so obvious, I don't even need to detail them. >I will toss you this wee morsel to chew on, however: Consider how little >effort it takes to maintain a website about someone who has been retired >from public life for over 20 years. I'm not so sure - Hitler has been DEAD for *45* years, and people put all sorts of effort into websites about him. >Especially, when the person's moment in >the spotlight was utterly trivial to begin with. Well, maybe Hitler isn't such a good example. (Oops, did I just invoke Godwin's Law again? Sorry about that...) Actually, I did see that episode of "Hogan's Heroes" with Longet in it. What a great show that was! Nobody these days would ever *dream* of setting a sitcom in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp. Whatever happened to good ol' surreal ingenuity in Hollywood? Oops, that's right - David Lynch again. >>>You liked nonsuch that much better than eye? huh. >>Well, not really. >>OK, then you're free to go on living. I guess I'd better go kill myself now, then! >I've been on Paxil for more than 5 months and it has had >some extremely positive effects on my mood and social fears... I suspect the dilemma the dude was facing was whether it was worth the risk of "sexual side effects," not to mention nausea, bloating, headaches, etc. etc. >The only reason I keep seriously and earnestly mentioning >Skinny Puppy is because I thought all Fegs would like them. >Hell, you only have to listen to "God's Gift Maggot" or "Human >Disease (SKUMM)" to realize that Puppy are the ultimate Feg >band ... or so I thought. Was I wrong? ... Absolutely not, Chris! Skinny Puppy *is* the ultimate feg band, especially if you like Robyn's solo acoustic stuff like "Birdshead" and "Glass Hotel." >Boy George, the flamboyant frontman of pop band Culture >Club, was nearly killed when he was hit by a giant disco >ball that plunged from the ceiling of a British concert hall. Wow, that's EXACTLY like the beginning of "From Dusk Till Dawn 2"!!! John H. Hedges III "We Love Everybody Here" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:41:11 -0600 From: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com Subject: Re: Trivia Question...help! >Anyone know the answer to this one? > >TRIVIA: Jerry Rafferty had a hit single in the mid seventies- >"Baker Street". What early seventies band did he sing for, & >what was the title of their hit song? Stealers' Wheels, "Stuck in The Middle With You". What do I win? Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:37:20 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: "the new girl" (was: No Subject) I say we all give Jeannine a big howdy-do :-) A*nother* PdxFeg on the list now? Wow! We will soon be taking over the known Universe! - -----Michael K., who also refers to Viv as Adrian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:40:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Trivia Question...help! On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 mrrunion@palmnet.net wrote: > Anyone know the answer to this one? > > TRIVIA: Jerry Rafferty had a hit single in the mid seventies- > "Baker Street". What early seventies band did he sing for, & > what was the title of their hit song? My guess is Stealer's Wheel "Stuck in the middle with you". I think Gerry (sic) was also in the Humblebums with Billy Connolly, but they never had a hit. - - Mike Godwin PS to those still puzzling over yesterday's quiz, the answers are at: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~hssmrg/quiz.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:43:37 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Egg on my face Oops! I'm always getting those 70's-era "Steel/Steal" - type bands confused! (Apparently I was right about the "G", at least.) I hope all the Sandy Denny fans on the list can forgive me. JH3 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:57:13 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: Trivia Question...help! On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, matt sewell wrote: > Hello > > Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle with you > Do I win £5? > Matt ;-p > Sorry, Matt -- you would have won if you'd also pointed out that it's Gerry, not Jerry. ;-} Eric, annoyingly anally accurate (except when I'm not) since the 50's. > > >From: mrrunion@palmnet.net > >Reply-To: mrrunion@palmnet.net > >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org > >Subject: Trivia Question...help! > >Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:09:11 -0800 > > > > > >Anyone know the answer to this one? > > > >TRIVIA: Jerry Rafferty had a hit single in the mid seventies- > >"Baker Street". What early seventies band did he sing for, & > >what was the title of their hit song? > > > >Mike > > > >----- > >Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) > >The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:08:39 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: Egg on my face On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, JH3 wrote: > Oops! I'm always getting those 70's-era "Steel/Steal" - type bands > confused! (Apparently I was right about the "G", at least.) > > I hope all the Sandy Denny fans on the list can forgive me. > Not to mention Maddy Prior, Walter Becker, and Donald Fagen ;-} Eric, surrealistically accurate since the 50's ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:13:48 -0600 From: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com Subject: Re: Egg on my face >Oops! I'm always getting those 70's-era "Steel/Steal" - type bands >confused! (Apparently I was right about the "G", at least.) You were. I knew this because there was also a different Gerry Rafferty, the one who led Gerry and the Pacemakers, she says with a trace of embarassment. Love on ya, Susan Marsden? Rafferty? They sound so alike, anyone would confuse them! :) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:23:57 PST From: "Ghost Surfer" Subject: Trivia helped >Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:09:11 -0800 >From: mrrunion@palmnet.net >Subject: Trivia Question...help! > >Anyone know the answer to this one? > >TRIVIA: Jerry Rafferty had a hit single in the mid seventies- >"Baker Street". What early seventies band did he sing for, & >what was the title of their hit song? > >Mike Gerry Rafferty was in Stealers Wheel, they of "Stuck in the middle with you" in Reservoir Dogs fame. I think the other main man was Rusty Egan. - ----------------************************************************------------ "There are times when i can't think about the future, when all my days seem so dark and life seems cruel" - Mojave 3 & "Make a moment last forever, gaze across the ocean to the sun" - Unknown !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:32:30 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: Egg on my face On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com wrote: > >Oops! I'm always getting those 70's-era "Steel/Steal" - type bands > >confused! (Apparently I was right about the "G", at least.) > > You were. I knew this because there was also a different Gerry Rafferty, > the one who led Gerry and the Pacemakers, she says with a trace of > embarassment. > > Love on ya, > Susan > > Marsden? Rafferty? They sound so alike, anyone would confuse them! :) > And don't forget about their (the Pacemakers') big hit, "Gerry, Cross the Mercy" Or, for that matter, their contemporaries, Chad & Geremy or the Crazy World of Gerry Brown. ;-} Eric "what a silly bunt" Loehr ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:33:13 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Trivia helped on 16.12.99 10:23, Ghost Surfer at surferghost@hotmail.com wrote: > Gerry Rafferty was in Stealers Wheel, they of "Stuck in the middle with you" > in Reservoir Dogs fame. I think the other main man was Rusty Egan. Actually, it was Joe Egan. Not to be confused with Walter Egan of "Magnet and Steel" fame. Now you all have *that* song stuck in your heads. Sorry... Cheers! - -g- "If music makes people do things, how come we don't all love each other?" - --Frank Zappa, addressing Tipper Gore at the PMRC hearings, 1986 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~uberg ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:10:47 -0800 From: mrrunion@palmnet.net Subject: Re: ...of the 90's 25 from the pitchfork list. 30 from the Spin list. 16 duplicates. Mike (too mainstream for alt/indie, too alt/indie for mainstream) - ----- Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:04:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: Trivia Question...help! >Anyone know the answer to this one? > >TRIVIA: Jerry Rafferty had a hit single in the mid seventies- >"Baker Street". What early seventies band did he sing for, & >what was the title of their hit song? The band was Steeler's Wheel, and the hit was the Dylanesque pop bubble-gum favorite, Stuck in the Middle With You. - -Michael Wolfe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:11:32 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: fish, jelly dmw wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Eb wrote: > > > >15. JELLYFISH / BELLYBUTTON (1990) > > > > Have you heard Spilt Milk too? I've never heard of anyone favoring > > Bellybutton, before. > i > retroactively decided (after the grays and falkner's solo career) that > even if falkner didn't write, he nonetheless made the songs sound better > anyway. I'll agree with that. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:32:38 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Re: "the new girl" (was: No Subject) - --- MARKEEFE@aol.com wrote: > I say we all give Jeannine a big howdy-do :-) A*nother* PdxFeg on > the > list now? Wow! We will soon be taking over the known Universe! > > -----Michael K., who also refers to Viv as Adrian > I think she may have been referring to Adrian of 'Positive Vibrations.' Then again, I may have introduced myself as one of my other personalities....um.... Leslie __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:55:11 -0600 From: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com Subject: Re: "the new girl" (was: No Subject) >I think she may have been referring to Adrian of 'Positive Vibrations.' I usually refer to that person as Aidan, if I refer to him at all. Wow. Today is very confusing :). Love on ya, goo goo barabajagal, what's my name now? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 19:55:44 GMT From: "James Hadfield" Subject: Re: Trivia Question...help! Another sort of question: I've been pretty much assaulted with the hype surrounding Milos Forman's Man on the Moon, and while I greatly admire Forman's work, I'm not sure why anybody would bother to invest so much into an exploration of Andy Kaufman and "his" work. I've always found him to be irritating at best, and so would somebody please explain the fascination there. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:06:16 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: More Trivial Disinformation From www.fakebiographies.com/jerryegan: >Jerry "G-Man of Steel" Egan was one of the most underappreciated >songwriters of the 1970's. It's believed that Egan actually wrote >*all* of the Top 40 smash hits produced in the English Language >between 1971 and 1975, with the single exception of Helen Reddy's >"I Am Woman." Despite his phenomenal track record, Egan was >never recognized by the industry for his achievements, and in fact >was only paid approximately $34.50 in royalties throughout the >entire decade. ("We just forgot," said Music Industry spokesmodel >Johnny "Ballbuster" Stomponyoutoo.) Egan died, penniless, in his >suburban Pasadena home on Christmas Day, 1979, just as the >decade was finally coming to an end. According to family members, >his last words were, "Will you take that goddamn Emerson, Lake >and Palmer album off? That shit is fucking killing me!" Later efforts >by his few remaining fans to induct Egan into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall >of Fame untimately proved fruitless. > >He remains buried to this day. - -John "what possesses me to write things like this?" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:04:19 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Trivia Question...help! James Hadfield wrote: > > Another sort of question: > > I've been pretty much assaulted with the hype surrounding Milos Forman's Man > on the Moon, and while I greatly admire Forman's work, I'm not sure why > anybody would bother to invest so much into an exploration of Andy Kaufman > and "his" work. I've always found him to be irritating at best, and so would > somebody please explain the fascination there. I think Andy Kaufman's work is probably pretty unimportant here. It's the story they're after. An annoying comic who many people hate dies young. Sounds like an Oscar contender to me. And I'm not saying that winning an Oscar is all Forman wants from the movie. I'm just saying that it seems like the movie is about Andy's life, not his comedy. However, I haven't seen the movie, so what the hell do I know? - --Joel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:26:26 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: DVD fegs, I know many of you have DVD players, so I thought I'd "ask the experts". My fiancee and I have decided to jump on the DVD bandwagon and buy each other a DVD player for Christmas. Money is not really an object; we've decided to spend up to $400. So, based on that, do any of you have recommendations? Which brands do you have? Which brands should I avoid? What features should I look for. Just to let you know, I am sort of partial to Philips, Sony and Panasonic electronics devices. I have always had good luck in the past with those brands. Thanks in advance... Cheers! - -g- "If music makes people do things, how come we don't all love each other?" - --Frank Zappa, addressing Tipper Gore at the PMRC hearings, 1986 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~uberg ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:54:17 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Trivia Question...help! On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Joel Mullins wrote: > I think Andy Kaufman's work is probably pretty unimportant here. > It's the story they're after. An annoying comic who many people hate > dies young. the thing about confrontational art is that you aren't really in the audience until you've been annoyed, threatened or shocked by it. the usual criticism is "it's been done before", but it's not as though once someone has heard that other people were shocked by something in the past, that person becomes unshockable for the rest of their lives. the first time i heard the Sex Pistols, i was like, is that all? Andy Kaufman's reputation is that his style got past the vague, inclusive resistance that all of us build up to performers who are a little bit abrasive just to get attention. i saw a few of his bits that really did hit me -- no matter how many times you say "what the fuck is this?!?", there he is, still on TV. you have to change, ever so slightly, your idea of what's out there. but i've also seen Kaufman bits that were dull-annoying. the movie looks interesting if one doesn't take into account the people involved. hm. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:22:38 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Re: "the new girl" (was: No Subject) - --- ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com wrote: > > >I think she may have been referring to Adrian of 'Positive Vibrations.' > > I usually refer to that person as Aidan, if I refer to him at all. > > Wow. Today is very confusing :). > > Love on ya, > goo goo barabajagal, what's my name now? Hot damn, I'm overworked. Well, I guess it's time to let everyone on the big secret....I don't know shit from shinola. It's true. I literally cannot tell them apart. Vivien __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:55:18 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Paxil... Dominic bravely volunteered: >I don't know how this thread got started, but I thought I'd join in and >tell you that I've been on Paxil for more than 5 months and it has had >some extremely positive effects on my mood and social fears... > >Sorry for that extremely off-topic post.....:))) A triple smiley-face? Boy, Paxil HAS been good for your mood! Heh. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:55:18 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: parasitism /hal, still painfully aware that the only way he can get himself noticed is through attacking me, sniveled: >> The differences between my peripheral Longet enjoyment and your >> overwhelming fixations are so obvious, I don't even need to detail them. > >Judge for yourself: > >http://users.deltanet.com/~gondola/longet/index.html What a *pathetic* retort. As if everyone hasn't already seen this! But sure, maybe they should look. Maybe they could even look at the vast amount of information on my site which has nothing to do with Longet, too. And while they're doing this, perhaps you also should furnish some information. Like, for instance: 1. How much time do you think I've spent this year, actually *listening* to Claudine Longet's music? 2. How many Robyn/Grateful Dead concert recordings did you acquire this year, and how many non-Robyn/Grateful Dead CDs did you buy? What's the ratio? And what percentage of your active music listening is slavishly devoted to these two artists? 3. How many other filmmakers/films have you raved about on the list, apart from David Lynch and his oeuvre? 4. How often do you introduce a topic to the list, which doesn't focus on Lynch, the Dead or anal-retentive facts about Robyn's concert history? 5. How often do I introduce a topic, which doesn't focus on Claudine Longet? 6. Is there *anything* interesting about you, besides your infamous hometown? One parting word of advice, Hal: If you're attempting to prove your superior emotional maturity, screaming "You are a total asshole/GROW THE FUCK UP" at me isn't a particularly convincing way to do so. Eb, peashooting pipsqueaks again ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:23:58 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: two nice Jewish girls on the air! My friend Sara and I (a.k.a. the Women in Black) are going to take over the airwaves of WCBN, Radio Free Ann Arbor, from 8pm on Christmas Eve to 6am on Christmas morning. That's ten straight hours of radio! Yes, we are insane. We're going to be playing all sorts of holiday music that doesn't suck, as well as selections from our favorite records of 1999. And at some point, inevitably, we will play "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" in its entirety. (It's the only record that Sara and I agree on.) So if you're tired of hanging around with the folks, or if you're another "lonely Jew on Christmas," tune your browser to www.wcbn.org and listen to us! n. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 16:12:31 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Santa Claus This is pretty good. =========================== SANTA CLAUS: AN ENGINEER'S PERSPECTIVE There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second -- 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them -- Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch). 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance -- this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now. Merry Christmas. ========================== Who were Santa's helpers? Subordinate Clauses. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:38:44 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Consumable Year End Issue More year-end lists, one of which even includes JFS: http://www.westnet.com/consumable/1999/12.17/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:53:29 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Trivia Question...help! > Anyone know the answer to this one? > > TRIVIA: Jerry Rafferty had a hit single in the mid seventies- > "Baker Street". What early seventies band did he sing for, & > what was the title of their hit song? So you didn't see Reservoir Dogs, did you? It's Gerry Rafferty, the band is Steeler's Wheel, the song Stuck In The Middle With You. Cheers, Sebastian - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldgürtel 156, 50823 Köln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:12:06 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: Paxil... Eb ebbed ebbingly: >>Sorry for that extremely off-topic post.....:))) >A triple smiley-face? Boy, Paxil HAS been good for your mood! Heh. As the bulk of all printed word pales in relation, I was reading Paxil literature the other day which sited triple chin growth as one of its side effects. An aside: arguing with Eb may result in other side effects. I feel like I should do a nationally syndicated column on mental health- you know, an outsider's perspective.... Happies, - -Markg, who is not above making some stuff up to amuse himself ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:00:05 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: the angry world of eric broome LongetBoy wrote: > > /hal, still painfully aware that the only way he can get himself noticed is > through attacking me You shot first this time, Eric. I think everyone realizes that you thrive on feuds. Keep it coming! Your rage = my amusement. > What a *pathetic* retort. You don't like me or my posts. Who gives a damn? (Eric The Angry then takes time from his pop-culturally obsessed 'life' to politely ask me:) > > 1. How much time do you think I've spent this year, actually *listening* to > Claudine Longet's music? I really don't know or care. BTW, you're welcome for the 'headline news' that I sent you that you have bannered on your Longet page. When the world needs to know about some has-been French chanteuse, Our Boy Eric's leading the way! Not fanboy-ish at all, I say. Important stuff. I'm glad to have been able, in some small way, to contibute to your worthy effort. > 2. How many Robyn/Grateful Dead concert recordings did you acquire this > year, and how many non-Robyn/Grateful Dead CDs did you buy? What's the > ratio? And what percentage of your active music listening is slavishly > devoted to these two artists? Dead: I think I bought three Dicks Picks. No tapes. Robyn: A helluva lot. He was on tour just recently. Great stuff. Non-RH/Dead: I didn't count. A few. The ratio? I don't have any idea. What's your point again? Is this answer going to earn me a "Hrm"? Or, an "oof!"? > > 3. How many other filmmakers/films have you raved about on the list, apart > from David Lynch and his oeuvre? I think Kubrick was the only other one. I could rave about plenty, though. I like film as much as music. However, spewing my psyche on internet mailing lists is not compulsory, as it seems to be for you, "Eb". > > 4. How often do you introduce a topic to the list, which doesn't focus on > Lynch, the Dead or anal-retentive facts about Robyn's concert history? See #3. As far as providing RH facts when I have something to offer or when asked, what's so bad about that? This is an RH mailing list. > > 5. How often do I introduce a topic, which doesn't focus on Claudine Longet? Constantly. Not to mention cutting and pasting crap from newsgroups that you think no one else is 'hip' enough to find. That's our kooky "Eb"! Work that net persona, gondola-boy! Just don't be surprised when the vapid pop culture that you embrace lets you down and starts to bore you. Maybe then you can start writing something besides CD reviews of E6 bands. *snore* > > 6. Is there *anything* interesting about you, besides your infamous hometown? Just ask your mommy! yer pal, /hal ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #467 *******************************