From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #316 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, November 8 2000 Volume 09 : Number 316 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Charlie Higson [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] RIP:L Sprague de Camp ["Asa Land" ] RE: Lovin' Spoonful [Michael R Godwin ] Re: RIP:L Sprague de Camp [Aaron Mandel ] Re: RIP:L Sprague de Camp [Christopher Gross ] Primer Grey Election [Michael Wolfe ] Re: Election [Eb ] Re: Election [Terrence Marks ] Re:Cocksucker Blues ["Russ Reynolds" ] [none] [Jeff Dwarf ] No comment (well, some) [steve ] Aurghhhhhh!!!!! [Eleanore Adams ] Re: Aurghhhhhh!!!!! [Eb ] Re: Aurghhhhhh!!!!! [Jeff Dwarf ] :-( [Eleanore Adams ] Re: Election [Jeff Dwarf ] HOLY FUCKING SHIT [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 21:25:21 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Charlie Higson I note that Charlie ("from Norwich") Higson was both writer and producer of the recent remake of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- You talk to me as if from a distance -.-=-.- And I reply with impressions chosen from another time =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 12:45:15 EST From: "Asa Land" Subject: RIP:L Sprague de Camp >RIP: >L.Sprague de Camp, science fiction/fantasy writer, aged 93 Thanks for the info. The man was a wonder, part-hack(hey--he had to earn a living), but also a gentleman and a scholar, an incorrigible flirt in the most old-school of ways, erudite and fun. A true enchanter. And another actual 20th-century person who'd read and loved The Fairy Queen, for which alone he deserves this little paen. By the way guys, Bush is dyslexic. I will make fun of Bush for 1,000 reasons, but not that one. If he had some other sort of handicap, say, he was born deaf--most people would be embarrassed to be caught making fun of his mispronunciations or any syntactical(or spelling for that matter;-)) mistakes he might make. But since he's dyslexic-- go for it! The guy is a disaster(IMHO.) Get on him for that. But be big enough to atleast make it a fight fair. K, dyslexic, if you haven't already guessed. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 18:09:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Asa Land wrote: > "Just give me jug band music..." "The doctor said give them jug band music, it seems to make them feel just fine" Great band, great songs, especially Nashville Cats, Summer in the City, Boredom, Six O'Clock, Four Eyes, Rain on the Roof, Coconut Grove, Butchie's Tune (which isn't even by Sebastian!) etc etc. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:11:00 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: RIP:L Sprague de Camp On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Asa Land wrote: > By the way guys, Bush is dyslexic. I will make fun of Bush for 1,000 > reasons, but not that one. If he had some other sort of handicap, say, he > was born deaf--most people would be embarrassed to be caught making fun of > his mispronunciations or any syntactical(or spelling for that matter;-)) > mistakes he might make. are dyslexics liable to speak poorly? none of my dyslexic friends have a habit of garbling their sentences the way Bush does. moreover, if it's a handicap (and i'd never heard it said authoritatively that Bush is dyslexic, only that people thought he might be), i'd like to see some evidence that he is working with it or around it, rather than just being told that i should ignore it because he it's something he can't help. communicating is an important part of being president. i think people in wheelchairs should have easy and equal access to buildings. this doesn't mean that i won't think less of someone who, despite being wheelchair-bound, insists on rolling down the stairs of the library at top speed and landing in a bruised heap at the bottom, as Bush has a habit of doing in the verbal arena. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 13:54:00 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: RIP:L Sprague de Camp On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Asa Land wrote: > >RIP: > >L.Sprague de Camp, science fiction/fantasy writer, aged 93 The de Camp I enjoyed the most was actually "The Great Monkey Trial," a non-fiction work about the Scopes evolution trial. (I must have read that four or five times when I was in the 9th grade and starting to get worried about the Christian Right.) On the other hand, de Camp's biography of H.P. Lovecraft has now definitely been surpassed by S.T. Joshi's _H.P. Lovecraft: A Life_, which can and should be ordered through . > By the way guys, Bush is dyslexic. Has this ever been proven? I think some people have just advanced it as a theory. Dubya himself denied it, if memory serves. The L in L. Sprague de Camp stands for Lyon, Chris "I feed on the flesh of the living -- and I vote!" ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:34:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: Primer Grey Election Well, it's election night here in the US. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that some of the tempers that have flared around here in recent weeks will cool somewhat, and I'm looking forward to that. I would just like to urge US fegs to get out there and vote, regardless of who you back. I would also like to implore everyone, no matter who ends up getting elected at whatever level, to consider voting as a FIRST step towards achieving the goals for their community that they hope their representatives will achieve, not the LAST. We're all people with voices (lord, are we ever!), and we all have the opportunity to enact change. Don't assume that your interests are being advanced, whoever gets in. Thank you, and good night. - -Michael Wolfe np: The Minders - Cul-de-Sacs & Dead Ends ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 17:05:42 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Election A possibly interesting thread occured to me today, which isn't so volatile. What is/was the most hotly debated proposition in *your* state? Out here in California, it's Proposition 38, regarding school vouchers. Eb np: James Taylor and Godsmack ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 23:07:04 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence Marks Subject: Re: Election On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Eb wrote: > What is/was the most hotly debated proposition in *your* state? > > Out here in California, it's Proposition 38, regarding school vouchers. There's a nonbinding referendum on universal public health care here in Florida. That seems to have the most flyers around here... There's a monorail amendment, too. I'm all for monorails, but think that putting it in the state constitution isn't necessarily a good idea. Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://www.unlikeminerva.com HCF (another comic strip) http://www.mpog.com/hcf normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 21:19:25 -0800 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re:Cocksucker Blues > I remember hearing about this song > throughout the years, but I never got the whole back story on it. Did they > really submit it to their record company to get out of a contract? And > where was it actually released? To the best of my knowledge it was widely bootlegged, never officially released. It was also the title song from a tour film that was never released. Not sure about the contract questions. It may have been the film contract they wanted out of. At one time I had a lousy cassette of this song taped off the radio but that's long since lost. It's probably been 20 years since I've heard it but I think I could probably still sing every word of it. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:56:29 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: [none] sorry that this probably doesn't work for those living outside the US; but we all need it given the hell we had to go through today with the selection between the ebola virus and lou gehrig's disease and all. === Follow the 3 steps below. 1. Call National Discount Brokers at 1-800-888-3999. 2. Listen to the options. Be sure to listen to what option #7 says before you push the number 7. 3. When you hear #7, hit 7. Every company should have an option #7. ===== "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalists, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands." -- Oscar Wilde __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 01:03:10 -0600 From: steve Subject: No comment (well, some) Andrew Quinn, Reuters, Wednesday November 8 1:34 AM ET: In Alabama, meanwhile, voters looked likely to put to rest one of the lingering legacies of America's segregated past as television projections estimated a 58-to-42 percent vote in favor of scrapping a long-standing - -- but currently not enforced -- ban on interracial marriage. - ---------- Over 40 percent? Shit. - - Steve __________ Well, Jesus ain't no astronaut And Buddah, he's no fool Cathedral bells don't ring in hell 'cos cats down there don't think that's cool. - Bill Nelson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 23:11:04 -0800 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Aurghhhhhh!!!!! Fegs, friends, Those of us in the US (who really care about the gov't) are just jumping right now! As a liberal democrate I have been glued to the TV for the past 6 hours, crying, then smiling and then crying again. My god, a conservative congress, prez, and then supreme court after Scalia and Rehnquist retire......we will be stepping back 40 years in our country's history......and it will take time to repair the damage. At least our local measures passed.... I will not be moving out of the state, hell no!!!! eleanore ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 23:24:53 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Aurghhhhhh!!!!! Aurghhhhhhhhh!!!!! Boy...Nader screwed us but good, didn't he? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 23:34:08 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Aurghhhhhh!!!!! Eleanore Adams wrote: > Those of us in the US (who really care about the gov't) are just > jumping right now! As a liberal democrate I have been glued to the TV > for the past 6 hours, crying, then smiling and then crying again. My > god, a conservative congress, prez, and then supreme court after > Scalia and Rehnquist retire......we will be stepping back 40 years in > our country's history......and it will take time to repair the damage. > > At least our local measures passed.... I will not be moving out of > the state, hell no!!!! this is why i always say i'm a californian, not an american.... ===== "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalists, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands." -- Oscar Wilde __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 23:27:46 -0800 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: :-( I am going to be sick............. (for those not in the U.S., you can guess) eleanore ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 23:40:18 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Election Eb wrote: > A possibly interesting thread occured to me today, which isn't so > volatile. > > What is/was the most hotly debated proposition in *your* state? > > Out here in California, it's Proposition 38, regarding school > vouchers. except it ended up not being; they were beaten soundly. it just seemed like it because of all the commercials (on both sides) were so demagogic. but in the end, it was what, 70% of the voters decided they didn't want to give the rich more welfare. personally, it does my brain good to see that prop 36, which would send minor drug offenders into rehab rather than jail is doing so well (60% with 60% of the precincts in). a key further step into forcing the government to end the war on certain drugs. > np: James Taylor and Godsmack that must be one hell of a version of "fire and rain" ===== "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalists, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands." -- Oscar Wilde __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 01:09:09 -0700 From: Eb Subject: HOLY FUCKING SHIT 1200 VOTES????? ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #316 *******************************