From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #383 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, December 30 2000 Volume 09 : Number 383 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Power of Love Photos ["brian nupp" ] no millenial fear [Ken Ostrander ] Re: Power of Love Photos [Bayard ] Bryan Ferry Almost Killed [Tom Clark ] Predictions for 2001 [JH3 ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #382 [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: Lennon Remembers ["Russ Reynolds" ] Apropos of nothing (but 100% Robyn) ["Daniel Gackle" ] Re: Predictions for 2001 [steve ] Re: Predictions for 2001 [Jeff Dwarf ] Baby Pool: "We Have A Winner!" [Peter Palmer ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 11:19:41 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Power of Love Photos Check out these slick "wedding" photos from the sleeve of Captain Sensible's 2nd album from 1983. Great record, by the way. I listened to it twice last night. The last song has a beat that's just waiting to get sampled. I'll have to post some of the lyrics RH wrote later. He mentions "Syd" in a song called "secrets." Brian Nupp _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/pjpeg which had a name of group.JPG] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/pjpeg which had a name of group2.jpg] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/pjpeg which had a name of hitchcock.JPG] [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/pjpeg which had a name of softboy.JPG] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 12:12:23 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: no millenial fear http://www.skypoint.com/~camilian/prophecy/ here's hoping everyone has a great new year and millenium. i'm packed and ready to leave tonight for amsterdam before the big snowstorm hits. i've got my new sharp viewcam for the trip. just gone for a week, unless someone makes me an offer i can't refuse. speaking of which, if anyone knows someone looking for an apartment in the boston area, i am looking for flatmates for the beginning of february. three rooms available: two at $600 and one at $450. it's a great place. just ask jeme. ken "looking for love in all the wrong places" the kenster np come to where i'm from joseph arthur ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:14:55 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Power of Love Photos Hey all - I put Nuppy's scans here: http://www.bitmine.net/~bayard/robyn Check them out. our young robyn in a tux... "Softboy.jpg" is especially amusing. Big thanks to Brian for the scans and Jeme for the space =b On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, brian nupp wrote: > Check out these slick "wedding" photos from the sleeve of Captain Sensible's > 2nd album from 1983. Great record, by the way. I listened to it twice last > night. The last song has a beat that's just waiting to get sampled. I'll > have to post some of the lyrics RH wrote later. He mentions "Syd" in a song > called "secrets." > > Brian Nupp > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/pjpeg which had a name of group.JPG] > > [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/pjpeg which had a name of group2.jpg] > > [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/pjpeg which had a name of hitchcock.JPG] > > [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/pjpeg which had a name of softboy.JPG] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 12:37:47 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Bryan Ferry Almost Killed Is he in anyone's Death Pool? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:03:14 -0600 From: JH3 Subject: Predictions for 2001 Because I'm basically a rotten guy, I've decided to post my amazing psychic-like predictions for 2001 to this very list. Feel free to delete them now, if you haven't already! (They're also on my new web site, www.jh3.com, which is basically the same as my old web site; I'm too lazy/busy/overworked to do anything new or interesting with it.) And yes, I could have just posted the URL, but I would've had to have been a *nice* guy to have done that. JANUARY - - New Year's celebration in Times Square suffers worst attendance in years as only 18 people show up; New Yorkers interviewed later express confusion over "what millenium it really is" - - Theatrical re-release of "2001: A Space Odyssey" earns $46.3 million at box office in opening weekend, inspiring large-scale protests by groups of large, hairy apes - - Massive pre-inauguration protests in Washington, DC are broken up by riot police, resulting in 68 injured; Bush quickly apologizes to the injured protesters, praising their "tremendous courage and bravery in the face of overwhelming firepower" - - Bush inauguration marred by blizzard-like weather conditions in Mid-Atlantic region, causing catastrophic 16-car motorcade pileup on Pennsylvania Avenue; inaugural address is later dismissed by Congressional Democrats as "DOA" after Bush promises to "reach out to all Americans, of all races and religions, who wish to be executed" - - Super Bowl XXXVI nearly cancelled after both NFC and AFC champions fail to show up for game due to "flight delays"; replacement game between Tampa City Fire Department and members of Microsoft Southeast Regional Sales Team garners only 1.6 rating as Microsoft wins, 78-3, amidst accusations of "scoreboard tampering" FEBRUARY - - Teen violence epidemic continues as three heavily-armed high-school students in Montpelier, Vermont are arrested after a six-hour shootout with three other heavily-armed high-school students - - Bowing to intense public pressure, Congress passes the "Enough-Already Act of 2001" making it a Class A Felony to use the number "2001" and the word "odyssey" in the same print advertisement - - Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder hires motivational speaker Anthony Robbins as new Head Coach; Robbins vows that team will make playoffs in first year through use of high-scoring "success-oriented" offense - - Miami Herald announces completion of privately-conducted manual recount of Presidential "undervotes" in Miami-Dade County, FL, promising to make results public during "TV spectacular" to be broadcast on Fox network, featuring rockers Hootie and the Blowfish, actress Ann Jillian, and host Jay Thomas MARCH - - Pope John Paul II stuns Easter Sunday crowd at Vatican, announcing "Holy Jeez - that Viagra stuff really works" - - Author Stephen King releases long-anticipated Internet- only novel entitled "You Cheap, Ungrateful Bastards" - - After finding "doggie-doo" in Oval Office, Pres. Bush orders execution of family dog, Spot; administration dismisses outcry from animal-rights groups as "typical liberal whining" APRIL - - Four high-ranking Fox Network officials resign after "Temptation Island" finale fails to outscore CBS re-run of "Gidget: The Nursing Home Years" in Nielsen ratings; network blames "fickle, dignity-obsessed" viewers - - Teen violence epidemic continues as entire 8th-grade population of Kennison High School in Tucson, AZ, is arrested after 3-day shootout with U.S. 8th Army - - First Bush administration budget proposal passes both House and Senate with near-unanimous approval; administration touts wide Democratic support as "clear evidence of our sincere efforts at bipartisanship," while critics accuse White House of "cheating the American people" due to bill's stipulation that entire trillion-dollar budget surplus is to be transferred to numbered Swiss bank accounts for Congressmen and high-ranking administration officials - - Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, exiled from Serbia, is hired as floor manager at Tim's True- Value Hardware store in Cedar Falls, Iowa; vows a campaign to "purge all Shqippi scum" from plumbing and heating department MAY - - After first month as a Texas Ranger, $250 million shortstop Alex Rodriguez posts a .142 batting average with 8 fielding errors; angry Rangers management tells Rodriguez to "shape up" or lose free access privileges to team's "Wild 'n' Wet Waterslide Ride" - - Supermodel Naomi Campbell earns kudos from critics for "amazingly realistic acting" in her first feature film, "The Naomi Campbell Story" - - Reacting to accusations of "trying to force his agenda on an unwilling public," Pres. Bush announces "bipartisan compromise plan" to reduce new national execution quota by as much as 10 percent annually through 2004 JUNE - - After 6 months of declining share values, stock market rebounds after G.E. and AOL-Time-Warner both issue press releases to announce that third quarter earnings "may be slightly less catastrophic than previously assumed" - - Long-awaited Fox TV special, "Who Wants to Know Who Really Won the Election," reveals that even if all disputed ballots had been counted, Bush would have still won in Florida by 16 votes; disappointed viewers launch grass-roots movement to "reform the system," vowing to "only read books from now on" - - Claiming to be victims of "unfair stereotyping," a group of New York area mobsters sue six major media companies, asking for $200 million in compensatory damages for "malicious and hurtful efforts to portray organized crime figures as caring, sensitive people with normal emotional and psychological problems" - - Pres. Bush insists his stand on capital punishment "has not changed one iota" after learning that dog excrement found in Oval Office in March was actually placed there by Senate Republican leader Trent Lott as a "practical joke" JULY - - Newly-appointed Congressional Budget Office director Craig J. Sanderson announces that a "computer glitch" resulting from "unresolved Y2K issues" caused large budget surpluses in 1998, 1999, and 2000 to be "misreported", with corrected figures indicating deficits of hundreds of billions of dollars; Pres. Bush promises "a thorough, comprehensive execution" after his return from 3-week stay at his new villa on French Riviera - - Teen violence epidemic continues as a group of 11th-grade students at Thomas J. Willis Secondary School in Springfield, MO, are arrested for "possession and manufacture of weapons of mass destruction" AUGUST - - Gas prices reach $3.00 per gallon in some U.S. cities as Big Three auto-makers desperately scramble to design "more fun, extra-colorful" luxury full-size SUV's - - Glaxo-Wellcome announces FDA approval of Lifarin[TM], a new drug designed to cure "Chronic Trekkie Syndrome" - - Austrian voters, enamored of recent world-wide TV coverage of Austrian politics, elect "Doctor Laura" Schlessinger as new Prime Minister SEPTEMBER - - In nationwide poll, 68% of Americans express negative reactions ranging from "mild dissatisfaction" to "serious concern" with Pres. Bush's handling of extraterrestrial alien pod-people invasion crisis; beleaguered president vows to "keep pushing forward" with new "freedom from fear and other emotions" agenda - - Consortium of 9 major computer manufacturers in cooperation with Intel, Microsoft, and 18 separate Internet companies announce new "copyright protection hardware standard" requiring all computers to stop working if power switch is toggled to "On" position - - Physically-challenged/disabled/handicapped individuals begin insisting on new politically-correct descriptive term, "People who are physically more interesting than you" OCTOBER - - Archaeologists investigating ancient Sarmatian burial mounds in Ural valley region of southern Russia announce discovery of "newly-unearthed" absentee ballots reducing Bush's lead in Florida to only 5 votes - - New ABC series, "Who Wants to Act Like a Moron and Risk Serious Injury," becomes highest-rated television program of all time - - In effort to boost declining sales among young urban "hip-hop" market, Bayer A.G. introduces new version of popular aspirin product called "Extra-Strength Death" NOVEMBER - - Teen violence epidemic continues as members of Mrs. McPayne's 9th-grade social studies class in Shelby, Montana invade Canadian province of Alberta; after week-long combined air and ground assault, invasion forces retreat in fear after Canadian troops discard standard uniforms in favor of "Mighty Morphin Power Ranger" costumes - - In further efforts to combat the psychological effects of skyrocketing gas prices, U.S. auto-makers reduce size of fuel tanks in all 2002-model-year cars by 30 percent - - New "Intellectual Kung-Fu Romance" genre takes movie industry by storm - - After announcing in nationwide TV address that "America's great strength and stability, along with ultra-modern communications technology, allow your President to govern effectively from anywhere in the world," Pres. Bush relocates White House staff to the Isle of Capri off the Italian coast; also appoints Marine Col. Thomas P. Sejanus as "official Presidential stand-in" for all functions otherwise requiring President to be physically present in Western hemisphere DECEMBER - - Disappointing Christmas-season retail sales cause major retailers to adopt new "buy or die" strategy; department stores threaten to "hunt down and kill" consumers who fail to purchase at least $100 in merchandise during the 4th quarter - - Discovery of several cartons in locked room of Miami warehouse leads to another recount indicating that Al Gore actually won Florida electors by over 70,000 votes; Bush dismisses findings as "more of the same old sore-loser silliness" - - Microsoft introduces "LinuxWindows," a new version of the Linux operating system that offers users "none of the compatibility and all of the bugs," for $99.95 - - New year-end poll reveals that 78 percent of Americans prefer French's new Honey Dijon mustard over Pres. Bush; 62 percent also prefer new Nature Valley "Almond Crunch" granola bars over U.S. President - - JH3.com predicts that "world will end violently" in 2002; also announces $20 per share IPO, but is later enjoined by U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission for having predicted IPO at end of year 2000 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 14:15:51 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #382 >Principal photography on the three Rings films is scheduled to wrap >before Christmas. The first film, The Fellowship of the Ring, is slated >to open Dec. 19, 2001. The films, directed by Peter Jackson, are based on >the three novels of the same name by J.R.R. Tolkien. they had their 'wrap party' on December 23rd in Wellington. There's still some shooting to be done, but mainly fill-shots etc - all the stuff involving the star actors is done. Those of you interested in NZ music may be intrigued to hear that David Kilgour has just got an MNZM (the equivalent of an MBE) in the New Year's honours list [1]. James [1] for those who don't understand how the British and Commonwealth honours system works, MBE/MNZM is the lowest level, then OBE/ONZM, CBE/CNZM, and then KBE/DCNZM - which is the first one that entitles a person to use the title "Sir" (in the UK, at least. For better or worse, we no longer have true knighthoods in NZ). That is, excluding loads of other similar types that don't really fit into the sequence (like QSM) 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: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:07:32 -0800 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: Lennon Remembers > Reissued. Also reissued this year: Lennon Remembers (RS interviews) AKA the lyrics to National Lampoon's "Magical Misery Tour" - -rUss (call me when "In His Own Write" and "Spaniard In The Works" are available) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 21:39:30 -0700 From: "Daniel Gackle" Subject: Apropos of nothing (but 100% Robyn) Is RH's rising sign Capricorn? It would be rather surprising. :) - - Daniel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 21:39:13 -0800 (PST) From: Eclipse Subject: Re: Apropos of nothing (but 100% Robyn) > Is RH's rising sign Capricorn? It would be rather surprising. :) you know, as an hobbyist astrologer, i've always wondered this. i'd be very interested to see (or cast) his chart :) all that's really needed are date, time, and place of birth.. Eclipse - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Eclipse | eclipse@best.com If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 00:00:39 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: Predictions for 2001 JH3: >Discovery of several cartons in locked room of Miami >warehouse leads to another recount indicating that Al >Gore actually won Florida electors by over 70,000 >votes; Bush dismisses findings as "more of the same >old sore-loser silliness" http://Slate.msn.com/code/kausfiles/kausfiles.asp?Show=12/28/2000&idMessage =6758 And thanks to someone on the LF list, a web site for our times: http://www.bushorchimp.com/ - - Steve __________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 00:00:36 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Predictions for 2001 steve wrote: > > And thanks to someone on the LF list, a web site for our times: > > http://www.bushorchimp.com/ > some chimps need to go kick this guy's ass.... honestly, being compared to george w. bush. what did chimpanzee's ever do to him? ===== "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 Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 00:18:54 -0700 From: Peter Palmer Subject: Baby Pool: "We Have A Winner!" I don't know what the rest of you were doing Christmas day, but my wife and I were having a baby girl. Audrey Nicole Keating Palmer born at 6:15 am December 25th, 2000. No one had this exact time, but John Bastin was pretty darn close. Dec 25th 12am - 5:59am John Bastin John, Feel free to pick anything off my list and if I ever get more than 20 minutes sleep at a time, I should be able to make this and get it off to you no problem. http://home.netcom.com/~plpalmer I'd like to thank those who played for playing and I was especially fond of the unsolicited name suggestions:) Peter Dec 22nd 12pm - 5:59pm woj Dec 23rd 12pm - 5:59pm Brian Nupp Dec 23rd 6pm -11:59pm Viv Lyon Dec 24th 6am - 11:59am Jeffrey Rose Dec 24th 12pm - 5:59pm Russ Reynolds Dec 24th 6pm -11:59pm Ferris Thomas Dec 25th 12am - 5:59am John Bastin Dec 26th 6am - 11:59am Eric Loehr Dec 26th 12pm - 5:59pm Chris Dumm Dec 27th 12am - 5:59am Seth Frisby Dec 27th 12pm - 5:59pm Alfred Masciocchi Dec 28th 6am - 11:59am K Dec 28th 6pm - 11:59pm gss Dec 29th 12pm - 5:59pm Christopher Gross Dec 29th 6pm - 11:59pm Mark Holden Dec 31st 6pm - 11:59pm Matt Jan 1st 12am - 5:59am Tom Clark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 12:38:33 -0500 From: "Irish Airman" Subject: Am I 12 or 14? Am I 12 or 14? I feel like I just got my first record player. Over the holidays my slightly bored, slightly more of a techie hubby decided to follow up on the soon-to-be doomed Napster thing. And follow up he did--including a CD burner he somehow figured out how to have his office budget cover. So I am now the kid locked in overnight in the candy store! So far we have only downloaded and played from our hardrive. Does anyone have any good advice? I think Real JukeBox is what we'll use to organise it and then EasyCreator for making the CDs---tips anyone? As we speak I am listening to various live versions of Heaven Ive downloaded. For years getting good music within budget has been a constant hassle. I buy used LPs in thrift stores, I trade tapes, I buy CDs only rarely and judisiously. But now---YES!YES!YES! I think this almost might be better than an orgasm;-) Floating by on heavens air, K _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #383 *******************************