From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #480 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, December 31 1999 Volume 08 : Number 480 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: RH and AP snubbed [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Ebay victory! 0 RH 100 Beatles [normal@grove.ufl.edu] a man isn't safe anymore ["Ghost Surfer" ] Re: Ebay victory! 0 RH 100 Beatles [overbury@cn.ca] Re: a man isn't safe anymore [hal brandt ] hi - anyone there? ["randi..aka..twofangs" ] Re: Ebay victory! 0 RH 100 Beatles [ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com] Re: Ebay victory! 0 RH 100 Beatles [ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com] Help! Shapes! ["Paul Christian Glenn" ] I need a natural 20! [The Great Quail ] Re: Help! Shapes! [Katherine Rossner ] Recent RH tour song-playage stats ["JH3" ] Re: Help! Shapes! [Capuchin ] Re: I need a natural 20! [Capuchin ] Re: Help! Shapes! [Aaron Mandel ] Re: Help! Shapes! [Katherine Rossner ] Re: Help! Shapes! [dmw ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:57:02 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: RH and AP snubbed Eb wrote: > Meanwhile, the Rolling Stone Readers Poll is in: > Artist of the Year: Backstreet Boys > Band of the Year: Backstreet Boys > Album of the Year: Backstreet Boys, Millennium > Single of the Year: Backstreet Boys, "I Want it That Way" > Best Tour: Backstreet Boys > Best Video: Backstreet Boys, "Larger Than Life" > Best Dressed: Backstreet Boys > Best Album Cover: Backstreet Boys, Millennium > Best Fan Site: Backstreet Boys > Best Hype: Backstreet Boys > > Thank heavens the critics are so out of touch with the masses. > ;) that like, totall-leeeee sucks, cuz y'neaux, n'sync are so much better and finer and all that and they have that guy with the tied up braids on his head so he lewx leik he's being dragged around by it. > Eb > > 2) Nirvana/Nevermind what was #3? did i miss it? ===== "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 01:40:08 -0500 (EST) From: normal@grove.ufl.edu Subject: Re: Ebay victory! 0 RH 100 Beatles You think that's something? Wanna blow off a little Xmas loot? Buy the rights to Kenny Rogers' "Rollin on the River" TV series http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=224878788 Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://www.unlikeminerva.com normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 01:46:27 PST From: "Ghost Surfer" Subject: a man isn't safe anymore George Harrison stabbed in his home this morning. Stable in hospital. What's the world as James once said. - ----------------************************************************------------ "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, 30 Dec 1999 09:54:19 -0500 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: Re: Ebay victory! 0 RH 100 Beatles From: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com Date sent: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:15:26 -0600 To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Ebay victory! 0 RH 100 Beatles Send reply to: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com > Just wanted to share this with peoples and collector weenies who might > actually care. > > I got two (count 'em) "introducing....The Beatles", one mono VG, one stereo > VG+, That's the VeeJay LP, right? If so, I've got one myself. Does anyfeg know how to tell the pirates (very common) from the real thing (rare as "merde du pape" as we say around here)? - -- reformed collector (I've realised I'm actually just a pack rat) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:05:18 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: a man isn't safe anymore Ghost Surfer wrote: > > George Harrison stabbed in his home this morning. Stable in hospital. At least George and Olivia bashed the sick fuck (who was from Liverpool) in the skull a few times and both Harrison's are alive and well. George had plans to release a new CD soon. He'll be more reclusive than ever after this, and probably rightly so. George just wanted to garden, fer chrissakes. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:17:34 -0500 From: "randi..aka..twofangs" Subject: hi - anyone there? Hi, It's me. Quick update - bad. Scared & bad & pain. Moving hospitals ... May *not* be able to forward my home number there. Someone will hopefully pass my new number on if necessary. Feg support needed ... {please} love randi ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:25:39 -0600 From: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com Subject: Re: Ebay victory! 0 RH 100 Beatles >That's the VeeJay LP, right? > >If so, I've got one myself. Does anyfeg know how to tell the pirates (very >common) from the real thing (rare as "merde du pape" as we say around here)? Have a look at http://www.friktech.com/btls/bc2.htm I don't think the lady I bought them from knew what they were, or she wouldn't have sold two copies in the same lot. It was pretty obviously someone who found them in an attic or got them at an estate sale or summat. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:30:44 -0600 From: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com Subject: Re: Ebay victory! 0 RH 100 Beatles >You think that's something? > >Wanna blow off a little Xmas loot? >Buy the rights to Kenny Rogers' "Rollin on the River" TV series >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=224878788 Well, aside from the fact that I don't collect Kenny Rogers....... What's stunning is that four people have actually bid on this. Who the hell ARE these people? Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:05:45 -0600 From: "Paul Christian Glenn" Subject: Help! Shapes! Okay, fegs, I need a quick answer, so I'm just throwing this out to see if anyone knows off the top of their head. What is a twenty-sided shape called? For example: 3-sided = triangle 4-sided = square 5-sided = pentagon 8-sided = octagon 10-sided = hexagon 20-sided = ??? Does anyone know? (Or does anyone know of a good place to go look it up on the web?) Thanks in advance... Paul Christian Glenn pcg@mailandnews.com Eon Chamber http://eonchamber.virtualave.net Christian Realists http://x-real.firinn.org Currently reading: "The God We Never Knew" by Marcus J. Borg ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:19:22 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: I need a natural 20! >Okay, fegs, I need a quick answer, so I'm just >throwing this out to see if anyone knows off the >top of their head. What is a twenty-sided shape >called? > >For example: > >3-sided = triangle >4-sided = square >5-sided = pentagon >8-sided = octagon >10-sided = hexagon >20-sided = ??? If you mean a 20-sided 3-D shape, that's a, Icosohedron. Every D&D gamer knows this one! (And a 12-sided shape is a dodecahedron.) - --Quail +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ 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 "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:34:13 -0500 From: Katherine Rossner Subject: Re: Help! Shapes! At 11:05 AM 12/30/99 -0600, Paul Christian Glenn wrote: >Okay, fegs, I need a quick answer, so I'm just >throwing this out to see if anyone knows off the >top of their head. What is a twenty-sided shape >called? > >For example: > >3-sided = triangle >4-sided = square >5-sided = pentagon >8-sided = octagon >10-sided = hexagon >20-sided = ??? > >Does anyone know? (Or does anyone know of a >good place to go look it up on the web?) I'm pretty sure my math teachers said over 12 would just be an n-gon (13-gon, 14-gon...20-gon, whatever), if you're talking about 2-D. A 12-sided figure is, I think, a dodecagon, but I have no recollection of the name for an 11-sided figure. And btw, hexagon is 6-sided, not 10; the latter is probably a decagon.) Katherine - -- 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: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:33:01 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Recent RH tour song-playage stats I've been asked to remind y'all that while Bayard's glasshotel.net site is shut down due to Inordinate Y2K Fear [TM], you can still get into Robynbase via my recently-updated test site at: http://www.alternatech.net/jh3/robyn/base Mr. Bayard has now entered all of Eddie's (and other people's) set lists from the recent tour; we're missing only the Cincinnati show at Top Cat's (the one Eddie left after being hassled by the management). If anyone could supply us with that one setlist, this would be the first tour for which we'd have a complete record (mostly thanks to Eddie, of course). That would make lists such as the one below, showing all songs played during the tour ranked by number of times played, totally accurate. You might ask: "Why does this matter? Why do such things?" And of course, the answer is always the same. John "I know it's geeky but who else is gonna do it" Hedges - ------------------------------- From Oct. 23 thru Nov. 20, 1999 (excluding 11/7) Song Title / # Times Played - ------------------------------- Queen of Eyes 21 Madonna of the Wasps 20 Sleeping With Your Devil Mask 20 Oceanside 19 Cheese Alarm 18 Antwoman 17 Beautiful Queen 17 Birds in Perspex 17 Jewels for Sophia 17 Mexican God 15 Devil's Coachman 12 Elizabeth Jade 12 Queen Elvis 12 Kingdom of Love 11 No, I Don't Remember Guildford 10 Sinister But She Was Happy 10 Alright, Yeah 10 I Feel Beautiful 9 America 9 I Often Dream of Trains 9 Viva! Sea-Tac 8 I Saw Nick Drake 8 Adoration of the City 7 Insanely Jealous 7 Wax Doll 6 You and Oblivion 6 Sally Was a Legend 6 Philosophers Stone 5 Gene Hackman 5 City of Shame 5 My Wife and My Dead Wife 5 She Doesn't Exist 4 I Wish I Liked You 4 Passing Souls 3 De Chirico Street 3 Speed of Things 3 Swirling 3 You've Got A Sweet Mouth On You Baby 3 Heaven 2 Chinese Bones 2 Autumn is Your Last Chance 2 Beautiful Girl 2 4th Time Around 2 Airscape 2 When I Was Dead 2 Ghost Ship 2 Take This in Remembrance 2 Nietzche's Way 2 Sounds Great When You're Dead 2 Raining Twilight Coast 2 Raymond Chandler Evening 2 Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom 2 Lysander 2 Aquarium 1 Arms of Love 1 Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands 1 Balloon Man 1 Ride 1 Lips Bee Song 1 Unknown Title 1 Wolfpack 1 Take This Hammer And Carry It To The Captain 1 Bip Bop (Dog and Onion) 1 Doctor Lucy 1 Teddy Bears' Picnic 1 1974 1 Insect Mother 1 I Used to Say I Love You 1 I'll Get You In The End 1 Too Much of Nothing 1 I Got a Message For You 1 Trilobite 1 Clean Steve 1 Shuffling Over the Flagstones 1 Isolation 1 Ghost in You 1 Visions of Johanna 1 Face of Death 1 Waterloo Sunset 1 Devil's Radio 1 Fleshhead 1 Reynardine 1 - ------------------------------------------ 22 shows with setlists... Early/late sets at Cactus Cafe 10/23 are counted as two shows; list includes Mountain Stage appearance (7 songs) but not KCRW radio appearance (3 songs) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:55:40 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Help! Shapes! On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Katherine Rossner wrote: > At 11:05 AM 12/30/99 -0600, Paul Christian Glenn wrote: > >Okay, fegs, I need a quick answer, so I'm just > >throwing this out to see if anyone knows off the > >top of their head. What is a twenty-sided shape > >called? > > > >Does anyone know? (Or does anyone know of a > >good place to go look it up on the web?) > > I'm pretty sure my math teachers said over 12 would just be an n-gon > (13-gon, 14-gon...20-gon, whatever), if you're talking about 2-D. A > 12-sided figure is, I think, a dodecagon, but I have no recollection of the > name for an 11-sided figure. And btw, hexagon is 6-sided, not 10; the > latter is probably a decagon.) Your teacher probably said that for easing conversation. Most people only readily know the names of the first twelve (or less, but almost NONE higher than twelve). A twenty sided regular polygon is called an icosagon. Enjoy. J "I got a copy of Ethnomathematics for Christmas!" . - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:02:40 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: I need a natural 20! On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, The Great Quail wrote: > If you mean a 20-sided 3-D shape, that's a, Icosohedron. Every D&D > gamer knows this one! (And a 12-sided shape is a dodecahedron.) AH! I should have read ahead. Of course a gamer would answer! And we all know that the 'gon' suffix implies a regular two dimensional shape and 'hedron' implies a regular three dimensional shape. Hence, an icosahedron is twenty-sided (like Quail's favorite die) and an icosagon is also twenty-sided, but not at all deep. And you know, an icosadodecagon is a thirty-two-sided regular polygon. Fantastic. Plane ol' J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 19:37:45 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Help! Shapes! On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Katherine Rossner wrote: > I'm pretty sure my math teachers said over 12 would just be an n-gon > (13-gon, 14-gon...20-gon, whatever), if you're talking about 2-D. i'm sure there are names for some of those, but... i mean, my math teachers referred to triangles as "3-gons". i suppose it's simpler that way. "chiliagon" is a 1000-sided shape, which i mention only because i've never heard that prefix anywhere else. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 19:46:31 -0500 From: Katherine Rossner Subject: Re: Help! Shapes! At 07:37 PM 12/30/99 -0500, Aaron Mandel wrote: >"chiliagon" is a 1000-sided shape, which i mention only because i've never >heard that prefix anywhere else. I'm getting my mailing lists confused again...haven't we been talking about the coming chiliad? Or was that Wordplay? In any case, read Norman Cohn's _The Pursuit of the Millennium_ for an account of European culture's last bout of chiliastic fever (I don't think he uses that term, but he does write about "chiliasm"). Katherine - -- 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: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:25:12 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: Help! Shapes! On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Katherine Rossner wrote: > In any case, read Norman Cohn's _The Pursuit of the Millennium_ for an > account of European culture's last bout of chiliastic fever (I don't think > he uses that term, but he does write about "chiliasm"). i haven't read cohn, but my friend the npr transcriber, who forwards all sort of fascinating stuff, recentrly forwarded me part of an interview with someone who claims to have debunked the popular accounts of 999 panic - -- people sitting on rooftops wiating for the rapture, etc. apparently there is a remarkable dearth of any *contemporary* evidence for millenial hysteria -- it all seems to have been post-hoc'd some two centuries later, and the modern researcher thinks she's identified the the work(s) in which the accounts first showed up. i can probably dig it up if anyone is interested. i was bummed, since it invalidated the raison d'etre for my tune "sitting on the rooftop waiting on the world to end," but i have to retire it soon anyway. i would have said duodecagon. huh. - -- d. - - 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 ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #480 *******************************