From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #235 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, August 21 2000 Volume 09 : Number 235 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Boothby Graffoe ["Pamplemousse" ] Is Qatar's flag the longest? ["The Rooneys" ] A Jedi's gotta do... [steve ] stars 'n' bars ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: stars 'n' bars [Eb ] Re: flagmaniax! [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 21:50:25 +0100 From: "Pamplemousse" Subject: Boothby Graffoe Was watching tv prog about Edinburgh Festival fringe last night when this Boothby Graffoe character came on. I was surprised how how much of a resemblance his music had to RH, sort of Robyn doing comedy songs and then standup between songs. Lo and behold, today's Guardian has review of his show (copied below) and the reviewer compares him to Roybn & Syd. I was contemplating trying to get to see Robyn next Friday in Edinburgh, if I make it I might try to see this guy too during my visit. Got the tv on now actually, a series about the 70's on BBC2, it's about 1974 tonight and they keep playing 'and it feels like 1974', just that tiny little bit of the song between different segments of the programme. Can't remember last time I heard any Robyn on tv. From the Guardian 19/08/2000 - Boothby Graffoe - Gilded Balloon Main Theatre If you ever tire of comedy, see Boothby Graffoe. Not only does his set also include music hall, song and theatre, but the comic's wit alone could restore a jaded palate. He benefits, too, from an outstanding supporting cast. Veteran Steve Frost is superb as a comedy butler figure, and Graffoe has recruited Antonio Forcioni, one of the great acoustic guitarists, for semi-comedic duels. After a staggering display of virtuosity from Forcioni, Graffoe shrugs, looks at the audience and quips, "Has he got a work permit?" Graffoe is an utterly deadpan stand-up. He is never less than acutely funny, whether improvising (on finding a biochemist in the crowd: "Have you got a girlfriend? Did you make her yourself?") or muttering about dogs in space. When the jokes are over, out come the songs: quirky little jewels like Radiator Head Child that have an idiosyncratic beauty worthy of Syd Barratt or Robyn Hitchcock. Barratt may have baulked at a line like "Your heart's in LA, your head's in my fridge", but then he never had to contend with fighting off a werewolf or the perils of the modern, urban comedy songwriter. "This is a guitar tuner," shrugs Graffoe. "My neighbours bought it for me." Fabulous. Dave Simpson Caught a bit of the fridge song last night, it's not about dismemberment in case anyone is wondering. He does a good song about golf too, and his guitar work's not bad. - -- Rob ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 16:43:05 -0600 From: "The Rooneys" Subject: Is Qatar's flag the longest? I think Bayard asked: > are there any country flags that are not rectangular? Ohio's (actually a country in and of itself) flag isn't rectangular. I seem to remember that Switzerland's flag is square, not your typical rectangle. And of course, Chris mentioned Nepal, which is the Trivial Pursuit answer. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 19:43:38 -0500 From: steve Subject: A Jedi's gotta do... http://www.ighetto.com/flash/starwarsgangsta/ Flash required. - - Steve ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 11:17:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: stars 'n' bars I'm sorry about that last message. Fucking Yahoo! Mail. All I wanted to do was point out that this: [Eb ehh'd:] > Dandy Warhols (phoooooooony...) is a bit like calling a John Waters film caaaaaaaaaampy! Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik: drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 13:25:32 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: stars 'n' bars Drew continued to predictably tout the FUN virtues of contrived, pseudo-goth pretensions: >> Dandy Warhols (phoooooooony...) > >is a bit like calling a John Waters film caaaaaaaaaampy! Not really. Eb now intensely disgusted with: the upcoming Add N to (X) album ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:12:30 +1200 (NZST) From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz Subject: Re: flagmaniax! >are there any country flags that are not rectangular? > >what countries do not have a flag? y'all KNEW I couldn't resist this one! Nepal's flag has a double swallowtail. Several countries have military or governmental flags that are not rectangular (Sweden, for instance), and one US state has a swallowtailedpennant as its flag (Ohio), but Nepal is the only country which doesn'thave a rectangul;ar flag. Another couple worthy of note though are the Vatican City and Switzerland flags, which are square, and the Qatar flag, which is nearly three times as long as it is high. Every country has a national flag, although a couple of them are in dispute as to what the national flag is at the moment (Afghanistan for one, and Bosnia/Herzegovina for another). >Do any flags have quails on them? (Should I not even *entertain* >such an idea, comrades?) none that I know of, although several national flags have birds - namely Mexico, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Kiribati, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, the Azores, Moldova, and the world's most beautiful national flag, Kazakhstan. >Spain, I believe, has a quail on its flag. There's also a quail on the >French five-franc coin, and there was one on the back of the old British >two-pound note, the one with Lord John Russell on the front. hm. The state (ie governmental) flag has, IIRC, a stylised eagle. The civil (i.e."National") flag is simply three horizontal stripes, red-yellow-red, with the yellow twice the width of the other two. BTW, for all your web flag questions, try "Flags of the World": http://vo-tech.leectysch.com/fotw/flags/index.html James, your resident vexillologist nf - Iceland. Blue with a red cross fimbriated white, offset towards the hoist (a 'Scandinavian cross') James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #235 *******************************