From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #314 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, November 6 2000 Volume 09 : Number 314 Today's Subjects: ----------------- reap-o-rama [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: reap-o-rama [Marcy Tanter ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V9 #313 ["The Rooneys" ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V9 #313 [Viv Lyon ] Re: And you thought I was voting for myself [JH3 ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 20:42:55 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: reap-o-rama Ben Folds Five have spilt? There IS a God - and She has good taste in music!! Thank you, God, thank you, thank you!! (Now can you get Neutral Milk Hotel to put out another album?) Marcy, re. Ring Lardner's death - you are presumably speaking of Ring Lardner Jr., yes? The elder Lardner died in the 1930's... "Where were you born?" "Out of wedlock." "Mighty pretty country around there." - Ring Lardner Sr. n. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 21:49:02 -0500 From: Marcy Tanter Subject: Re: reap-o-rama At 08:42 PM 11/4/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Marcy, re. Ring Lardner's death - you are presumably speaking of >Ring Lardner Jr., yes? The elder Lardner died in the 1930's... Well, yes, I meant the only one living, who was famous, and who died.... ;) Dr. Marcy Tanter Assistant Professor of English Tarleton State University Stephenville, TX ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 23:59:43 -0700 From: "The Rooneys" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V9 #313 Critical Me Wrote: >The sign on my bike, in case you can't read it, says "Ralph's my HERO!!!" Yes, but what does your SHIRT say?!? All I can make out is FOR... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 12:17:08 -0800 (PST) From: Viv Lyon Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V9 #313 On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, The Rooneys wrote: > >The sign on my bike, in case you can't read it, says "Ralph's my HERO!!!" > > Yes, but what does your SHIRT say?!? All I can make out is FOR... "Bikers for Nader/LaDuke"... this guy went and bought a ton of shirts at the Goodwill Bins and has them printed up by a buddy with a print shop. He got a bunch of dresses printed too. Vivien ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 23:11:53 -0600 From: JH3 Subject: Re: And you thought I was voting for myself I'm surprised nobody else took up this subject. Are we really THAT tired of discussing US political figures? Goshers! >PS Didn't George Bush senior have a propensity for >malapropism too? Not malapropism per se. His problem was sentence structure -- leaving out articles and pronouns, running one sentence onto another, things like that. As an editor/proofreader, you had to be very creative with your punctuation marks to try to make his sentences seem coherent in print, even when you were working with (supposedly) prepared speeches. >Is it genetic? It's interesting, actually, because if you examine their speech patterns, they're really quite different. Aside from the obvious fact that "W" shows the opposite tendency from his dad in that he usually speaks in complete sentences yet mispronounces words, there also seems to be more fluidity in his speaking style in general. I'm obviously not a psychiatrist, but this seems to suggest that both individuals were far more developmentally influenced by their mothers at an early age than their fathers, and yet in both cases the superego is clearly dominant -- suggesting a high degree of early *paternal* influence (as well as the usual narcissistic tendencies you'd expect in any politician). This could easily lead us to conclude that their mothers actually played a far more *masculine* role in their early development than their fathers. (Not that there's anything *wrong* with that, of course.) But eventually, the resulting confusion of gender roles might easily have caused them both to turn to mechanisms such as drugs, alcohol, and fast cars in a desperate attempt to escape their inner sexual conflicts. They might even resort to attempts to be their own love objects... Think of all the inner [sniff] pain they must have [snuffle] suffered, those poor [boo-hoo!] rich [waaaah!] bastards! Contrast all this to someone like, say, Robyn Hitchcock, who often speaks in structurally-sound sentences that go on for several minutes at a time, with near-constant shifts between seemingly unrelated concepts and ideas, often of extreme complexity -- and yet he rarely mispronounces anything. Fascinating! John "but I play one on TV" Hedges ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #314 *******************************