From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #144 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, June 7 2000 Volume 09 : Number 144 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Bragg Live Stuff ["Thomas, Ferris" ] cats and bugs [Vivien Lyon ] Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! [Christopher Gross ] couple of quick questions - one technical, one personal. [Bayard ] Re: r'n'r h.o.f. all over the world ["Randy R." ] Re: i often dream of sim-chiks ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! [Tom Clark ] Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! [Eb ] Curly Smashmouth [Mark A Pyskoty ] Re: theeze damn kidz nowadaze... [Glen Uber ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:39:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! - --- Christopher Gross wrote: > ppps: To be honest, I never saw The Waterboy. I'd like to say you missed nothing but it would be a lie. The Waterboy had Fairuza Balk in a ridiculous role, just as Crappy Gilmore had a fistfight with Bob Barker. These were not life-changing scenes but they came close to justifying the rest of the experience. Neither film was as bad as _Breakfast of Champions_. Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 10:36:21 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: all over the world On 07.06.00 10:12, James Hadfield wrote: > Also downloaded Don Henley's new release last night and > think that RS's 3 1/2 star review is somewhat flattering, to say the > least... Is anyone surprised that RS gives Henley great reviews? I mean, they've been hailing him as an "artiste", praising his albums and generally falling over themselves to give him positive reviews ever since he left the Eagles. In their eyes, he can do no wrong. Hell, he could record his morning whizz and they would probably give it 3 stars! Cheers! - -g- "The ability to speak does not make one intelligent." - --Qui-Gon Jinn +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~uberg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:41:21 -0400 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: Bragg Live Stuff Ahoy. A friend of mine here at the Oubliette pointed me towards a Billy Bragg MP3 site. Finally...something to use my cable modem for. Enjoy, all. http://braggy.cjb.net/ PS: A show of hands as to who is going to be out next Friday? The 16th? At the Bottom Line? np: Hooverphonic 'Blue Wonder Power Milk' (made infamous from the 'Vapor' VW advert). ______________________________________ Ferris Scott Thomas programmer McGraw-Hill Technology Division 860.409.2612 ferris_thomas@mcgraw-hill.com (email) Find out the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause. - -Shakespeare. Hamlet. Act ii, Sc. 2 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:52:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: cats and bugs - --- Christopher Gross wrote: > pps: I had a slightly Robynesque dream last night. I dreamed > I had a huge > stick insect, at least 18 inches (45 cm) tall, as a pet. > Later the stick > insect disappeared and I had a cat and a praying mantis > instead, but then > the cat ate the mantis. What was it about cats and insects last night? I had a dream that I was watching a really good all-girl band perform (why do I feel that I need to point out the sex of the band? Oh well, there it is). The lead singer stopped in the middle of a song, looking very freaked out by something she saw on the floor. She said she saw a huge caterpillar, and we all looked for it onstage. Then it rushed out into the audience, and it was fuzzy and cute and very large indeed. I soon pointed out to everyone that it was merely a cat dressed up in a caterpillar suit, with little stuffed legs dangling from the belly. We all had a good laugh, and they resumed playing. The End. Vivien __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:12:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Andrew D. Simchik wrote: > > ppps: To be honest, I never saw The Waterboy. > > I'd like to say you missed nothing but it would be a lie. > The Waterboy had Fairuza Balk in a ridiculous role, just > as Crappy Gilmore had a fistfight with Bob Barker. These Dammit, now I want to see "Crappy" Gilmore! Thanks a lot, Drew.... - --Chris ps: I forgot to mention that the stick insect had a head shaped like the head on the big cyborg in Robocop 2 (75% overlong). ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:58:00 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: The fuckin' POGUES! (Er, sort of.) For those of you fellow travelers who are going to the June 16th Robyn show in NYC, may I suggest something to do the following night? Shane MacGowan and the Popes are playing Iving Plaza on Saturday, June 17th! LJ and I already have our tickets -- we saw them two years ago at the Guinness Fleadh, and they were great! (Of course, Shane was a dissipated drunk, but he did remember all the lyrics. Sort of.) Tickets are available only from the Great Satan at: https://ticketing.ticketmaster.com/cgi/purchasePage.asp?event_id=30B3C047D0AB&event_code=EIV0617 And the Irving Plaza site -- http://www.irvingplaza.com seems to be down, alas. Yaaaay! Shane!!! - --Quail, who will begin drinking pints of Guinness in anticipation for this event roughly starting . . . now. - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth: http://www.TheModernWord.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, 7 Jun 2000 14:12:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: couple of quick questions - one technical, one personal. The old-timers here will remember a lady named Kay "Lord K" Wisniewski. I am trying to find her, that i may find her friend Mark Allen, whose song is getting on the tribute CD. If anyone knows Kay or Mark, late of Philadelphia, please get in touch. Also - is it possible to write an html tag to get a realaudio clip to start automatically when a page is opened (ie, no need to click on the .ram file?) and does this work in all/most browsers? responses much appreciated and thanks. i promise to write something more interesting fairly soon to make up for it. =b ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:31:17 -0700 From: "Randy R." Subject: Re: Rush Limbo From: Russ Reynolds > you use the word "will" rather than "would"...does that mean he's already > been named as Boomer's replacement? Did I miss that announcement? No formal announcement has been made, but *insiders* say it's a done deal. Other names for the spot were Jimmy Johnson, Steve Young, Dan Marino, and Mike Ditka (my personal fave). National Garbage Day has hit the NFL on June 1st, and Deion Sanders has signed with Washington, and Randall Cunningham (once my favorite QB) has been cut from the Vikings. Since the 31 teams have a grand total of 4 decent QB's these days, he's weighing his options. Again, apoligies to those I have offended. Vince ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:38:54 -0700 From: "Randy R." Subject: Re: r'n'r h.o.f. all over the world > I may have heard only a few full Rush albums (plus bits and pieces of > others), but I've heard enough to firmly know Rush is not a group whom I > wish to collect. I had a period of immersion in Rush during junior > high/early high school because I had a friend who liked them a lot, but > that's ancient history. I don't have any fierce hatred toward Rush, but > they don't engage me. I also don't think their career has enough widespread > impact and acclaim for them to be an absolute given for the Rock 'n' Roll > Hall of Fame. I suspect they'll get in someday, but I hardly think it's a > crime they didn't get their enshrinement coupon on the first try. Wow. High Praise. I read the list of the inductees on some alt.-list, and I nearly lost my cookies. > > Are you that guy who has that rote litany of Rush-member virtues, which he > posts whenever the subject comes up? "Geddy: Knows when to play and when > not to play. Alex: Some say he's the weakest member of the group, but...." > That gunk? I'm not sure, but it definitely sounds like something I would do in a drunken state. I could peck out some more observations for you, if you'd like. as "you know", counted 54 times > >during one broadcast. > > I keep hearing how horrible Boomer was, but I haven't watched much MNF in > recent years so don't know what the fuss was about. Boomer was awful, and I found myself actually enjoying the broadcasts because of that. He'd just continue to spout the obvious, and try and sound professional at the same time. Since I'm the type of person who enjoys a train wreck, Monday nights may never be the same. Vince ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:32:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: couple of quick questions - one technical, one personal. - --- Bayard wrote: > Also - is it possible to write an html tag to get a realaudio clip to > start automatically when a page is opened (ie, no need to click on the > ..ram file?) and does this work in all/most browsers? No, it's not, and if anyone tells you it is, they're lying. I'd rather visit a page filled with tags than one with an automatic, involuntarily activated soundtrack. Such things are abominable and you should be ashamed to have allowed the impurity to enter your mind. Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:51:24 -0700 From: "Randy R." Subject: Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! From: The Great Quail > >Eb (is "The Horse Whisperer" the most overlong film ever made?) > > No! No, Warren "Holier than Thou" Beatty's movie "Reds" was the most > overlong film ever made! I mean, Reed's life was interesting and all, > but towards the last few hours, I was just shouting, "Die! DIE > already and end this thing! Argh -- DIIIIIIIE!" The Thin Red Line clocked in at 170 minutes, and that was probably 30 minutes too long. Everything was chugging along nicely, and then they had to have that one, final, *mission*. Of course, we had to wait for George Clooney to make an appearance as well. Vince ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:47:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: i often dream of sim-chiks > I'd rather visit a page filled with tags than one with > an automatic, involuntarily activated soundtrack. Such things > are abominable and you should be ashamed to have allowed the > impurity to enter your mind. it's for work. thanks for the (definitive) answer! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:55:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: i often dream of sim-chiks - --- Bayard wrote: > > I'd rather visit a page filled with tags than one with > > an automatic, involuntarily activated soundtrack. Such things > > are abominable and you should be ashamed to have allowed the > > impurity to enter your mind. > > it's for work. My apologies for imagining that you would do such a thing voluntarily! You know your obligation, then: convince your employers or clients that such a thing is impossible. Failing that, convince them that it will place their souls and their offsprings' souls in jeopardy of hellfire. > thanks for the (definitive) answer! At your service. Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:00:03 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! On 6/7/2000 11:51 AM, Randy R. wrote: >The Thin Red Line clocked in at 170 minutes, and that was probably 30 >minutes too long. Everything was chugging along nicely, and then they had >to have that one, final, *mission*. Of course, we had to wait for George >Clooney to make an appearance as well. I found it worthwhile just listening to the Hans Zimmer's score. Granted the revelation came about 25 years later than it should have, but this score opened my eyes (and ears) to just what an original score can do for a film. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:05:31 -0400 From: Larry Tucker Subject: RE: couple of quick questions - one technical, one personal. | -----Original Message----- | From: Andrew D. Simchik [mailto:schnopia@yahoo.com] | Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 2:32 PM | To: glorious sofa kingdom | Subject: Re: couple of quick questions - one technical, one personal. | | | | --- Bayard wrote: | | > Also - is it possible to write an html tag to get a | realaudio clip to | > start automatically when a page is opened (ie, no need to | click on the | > ..ram file?) and does this work in all/most browsers? | | No, it's not, and if anyone tells you it is, they're lying. | | I'd rather visit a page filled with tags than one with | an automatic, involuntarily activated soundtrack. Such things | are abominable and you should be ashamed to have allowed the | impurity to enter your mind. | | Drew I also find them endlessly annoying especially when they're at the index or home page and ever feggin time you go back to that page it launches yet again. Enough to make you go internet postal. - -Tucker ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:10:59 -0400 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: Aw, crap! That last post was supposed to be a private reply, not some sort of public challenge to Andrew's answer. I really only know a bit about this sort of thing. I am the phage that lives off the bacterium that lives in the slime, etc, etc .... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:25:20 -0500 (CDT) From: GSS Subject: Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! > only about 15% overlong, whereas The Waterboy, with a running time of a > mere 90 minutes, is 100% overlong. That reminds me, what is the name of that film with the crazy redhead who's mom killed herself and who's slushy dad played trumpet and died in the living room on the easy chair and who later killed a schoolmate's mom just before burying her, so those other kids who now claimed the well could find her, and who then set his old house on fire. Both of which he did after being dressed up like a little girl and molested at the reform school by the the church guy? Really a groovy movie, I just don't remember the name. Greg. "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:32:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: couple of quick questions - one technical, one personal. On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Bayard wrote: > Also - is it possible to write an html tag to get a realaudio clip to > start automatically when a page is opened (ie, no need to click on the > .ram file?) and does this work in all/most browsers? The OBJECT tag should do it, but it's not widely supported. And, well, you know... RealAudio is a proprietary thing not really usable on all platforms. Just my expected input. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 12:38:33 PDT From: "The Kielbasa Kid" Subject: suck a polar bear's dick all over the world so long as wesley willis is alive, rock and/or roll is alive! not that it much matters what you call it; but i think that neil young, lou reed, sleater-kinney, the olivia tremor control (just to name a few off the top of my head) are still creating pop/rock as art (or at the very least "art"). oh, and a little group called ROBYN HITCHCOCK's ROCK ARMADA. hell, cobain was far from the first rock and/or roll hero to have made an exeunt at age 27. reliable source? tour, or album of new material (or both)? uk or states (or both)? saw the last half of that documentary about him (i think it was on hbo) from a motel room in pittsburgh last autumn. quite good, i thought. apparently the ratings juggernaut that is WWF Smackdown has a lot to do with it. i've never watched the show, but, damn, what a great title!! i actually think Reds is a bit too short, believe it or not. but i like this method, by which i think the most overlong movies in recent memory were Jurassic Park and Forrest Gimp. i'd say this applies to every national broadcaster save three: costas, michaels, madden. i can't be the only person who is completely unable to get through more than about two minutes of a game before disabling the teevee's "sound" function, and turning on the local radio broadcast (which comes with the added benefit of being on a slightly shorter delay than the teevee broadcast, so that the announcers always sound eerily prescient (hmmm...i guess prescience is a bit eerie))? rant of the day: why the hell won't FOX put Family Guy in a time slot and LEAVE it there? FAR the best show on their network, but you have to re-program your damned vcr EVERY week, 'cause it's always on at a different time. and if you forget...well, this week i taped some sort of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? ripoff. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:39:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Mr. Deborah wrote: > The Thin Red Line clocked in at 170 minutes, and that was probably 30 > minutes too long. Everything was chugging along nicely, and then they had > to have that one, final, *mission*. Of course, we had to wait for George > Clooney to make an appearance as well. That's kind of funny because I walked out of The Thin Red Line after the FIRST thirty minutes... deciding it was overlong and tedious. Huh. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 15:50:08 -0400 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! That's not "The Butcher Boy" is it? Or am I mixing my movie-phores? "There was something wrong with the butcher's boy..." "He trembled in his hands and in his voice..." Gillian Welch "The Devil Had A Hold On Me" N.P. S.B. *************************************************************** "...isn't it good to be lost in the wood..."--Syd Barrett *************************************************************** At 14:25 07/06/00 -0500, you wrote: > > >> only about 15% overlong, whereas The Waterboy, with a running time of a >> mere 90 minutes, is 100% overlong. > >That reminds me, what is the name of that film with the crazy redhead >who's mom killed herself and who's slushy dad played trumpet and died in >the living room on the easy chair and who later killed a schoolmate's mom >just before burying her, so those other kids who now claimed the well >could find her, and who then set his old house on fire. Both of which he >did after being dressed up like a little girl and molested at the reform >school by the the church guy? > >Really a groovy movie, I just don't remember the name. > > >Greg. > > >"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:45:10 -0500 From: "Paul Christian Glenn" Subject: Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! > That reminds me, what is the name of that film with the crazy redhead That would be my favorite film of all time, "The Butcher Boy". I never thought a film could compete with the experience of reading a novel (any novel), but this one proved me wrong. Rent it again. And again. "Are all the beautiful things gone, missus?" Paul Christian Glenn pcg@mailandnews.com Eon Chamber http://eonchamber.port5.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 15:29:51 -0500 From: JH3 Subject: Re: r'n'r h.o.f. all over the world Jeez! I take ONE DAY OFF and suddenly there's 60 feg messages. Vince writes: >The HOF passed on Rush last year, and this year as well. Their self titled >debut was released in 1974. If Rush don't make it, there is no justice in >the world. As if the HOF pay any attention to that sort of stuff anyways. Shameful! Eb sez: >I had a period of immersion in Rush during junior high/early high school >because I had a friend who liked them a lot... I suspect they'll get >in someday, but I hardly think it's a crime they didn't get their enshrinement >coupon on the first try. Well, *I* do. And as if that wasn't bad enough, I bet those bastards'll probably just go ahead and pass over Uriah Heep, Foghat, Golden Earring, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, and Frank Marino & *Mahogany* Rush, too... tc: >As far as the "50's gas station attendant going bowling" attire, I blame >John Hedges. I don't know why, I just do. Dammit, EVERYBODY blames me for that! I have no idea why, either - back in the 50's I was working as a proofreader for the HUAC staff on Capitol Hill. I dressed just like everybody else - in a big purple dinosaur suit and a pink fright wig - but maaan, what fun I used to have with those lists of names! And yet somehow nobody *ever* blames me for that big "witch-hunt" thing... John "The Man on the Silver Fountain Pen" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:30:50 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: 195 minutes? My God, that's over three hours! Quail: >No! No, Warren "Holier than Thou" Beatty's movie "Reds" was the most >overlong film ever made! I mean, Reed's life was interesting and all, >but towards the last few hours, I was just shouting, "Die! DIE >already and end this thing! Argh -- DIIIIIIIE!" It was long, but I stayed focused. It was a detailed, complex story -- unlike "The Horse Whisperer," which was just...A GIRL-AND-HER-HORSE MOVIE! For 168 minutes!! As someone else said, this issue isn't a pure function of numerical length, but of what percentage of the length is "meat." As for "The Waterboy," ehh, I've seen plenty worse. What kept me in the film were the inspired performances by Kathy Bates and Henry Winkler -- in fact, their hand in the film's success is severely underrated, if you ask me. I'll tell you something else -- I liked "The Wedding Singer" *far* more than I would've expected (much better than "Waterboy"). I skipped the other Sandler films, however. Eb, who hates "The Family Guy," adores Bob Costas and hasn't seen "The Thin Red Line" yet PS Oh, do I hate insistent soundfiles on webpages.... np: another lousy Korn clone ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 13:46:41 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Sweetwater update I talked to one of the zombies at the Sweetwater today, and she said tix for Robyn's show are currently available; asking price is 12 bucks! Cheers! - -g- "The ability to speak does not make one intelligent." - --Qui-Gon Jinn +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~uberg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:12:34 -0400 From: Mark A Pyskoty Subject: Curly Smashmouth > were Harvey Danger before or after "Walking On The Sun"? >I want to say after. >Drew That's all beyond me...but...does that lead singer in Smashmouth remind anyone else of Curly Howard....nyuk....nyuk....Hey Moe! Someone tells me Smashmouth covered "Every Word Means No" by my beloved Ledz Active for a Friends sountrackish compendium...please tell me I'm comatose! m... Sleep Well~Don't Burst http://homestead.juno.com/mapslegends/files/mapslege.htm http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/mitcheaster ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:07:20 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: theeze damn kidz nowadaze... On 06.06.00 16:58, Mark frosted a few mugs by stating: > To throw more gas on the fire, though, I saw a Warren Miller > flick that had tunes from Kravitz and Sonicsemis (or whatever > their name is) and it really worked visually and musically. > Later, I actually listened to the words and was horrified at > how incredibly lame they were. The songs in question were > huge hits. I'm always surprised how good some songs are when I hear them in the context of a film or video or commercial, etc. Some songs just lend themselves well to certain visuals. > I think that Kurt Cobain was not > a very good lyricist. What Nirvana did better than any band > since the Doors is to communicate the profound feeling of > disaffection of a part of a generation. They were a conduit > for emotion and insecurity rather than have a terribly > articulate, poetic, or useful message. If you read most of > the lyrics without musical accompanyment you are left with > "ninth grade suicidal loser kid rambling 'poetry.'" Again, I > think they were good at what they did, but they could have > maybe spent ten minutes more on their lyrics and made them > better. I can't disagree at all with this statement. I could never put my finger on why Nirvana didn't mean as much to me as it did to others around me. I think you nailed it perfectly. > PT Barnum's marketing theories are the cornerstone > for pop culture. Another great fegQuote(TM) that will soon be a .sig file. I gar-own-tee! > I wish some of the really good musicians > would put their emotions into their playing and shut their > mouths. Sting, Phil Collins, Santana (live he's more like a preacher than a musician), Bono, George Benson, ad infinitum... > Jim Rome has his own idiot ditto heads (and a few people who are > really sharp but don't call his show), despite having some > idea about sports and journalism should be considered. That would be EPIC! > I also think Steve Young would do a good job as the boothjock, My jock'o'choice would be Matt Millen. I think he does an excellent job on the radio broadcasts of MNF with Howard David. I also think that Millen is the most knowledgable Mike Jockey working today. What about promoting one of the ESPN guys? Chris Berman would give the show a serious kick in the ass. > Al Michaels is good. Boomer was bad. Dierdorf was awful and > couldn't stand being in a small room with a quarterback > whose legs he wasn't allowed to snap off. Wasn't Gifford a running back? Reminds me of a joke: When you first heard that an NFL hall of fame running back who was a Heisman Trophy winner at USC murdered his wife, weren't you kinda hoping they were talking about Frank Gifford? Get off my lawn! - -g- "The revolution will not be televised but it will have its own web site." - --Glen Uber, 25 April 2000 (apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~uberg ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #144 *******************************