From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #241 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, June 14 2001 Volume 10 : Number 241 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Oh, politics again! [GSS ] oxfordian email access [Viv Lyon ] Re: Take me out to the ballgame [Viv Lyon ] Re: oxfordian email access [Viv Lyon ] Re: Colin Wilson [Michael R Godwin ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #240 -huhh? ["Yudt.Matthew" ] Re: Ftz? [Tom Clark ] Re: attack trojans! [Tom Clark ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #240 -huhh? [Michael R Godwin ] axis bold as love/kids/computers ["ross taylor" ] Re: axis bold as love/kids/computers [Capuchin ] rh article? [/dev/woj ] King Crimson alert (off-topic) [Miles Goosens ] act your age judge [Stephen Mahoney ] Re: act your age judge [Capuchin ] Re: act your age judge [GSS ] Re: act your age judge [Capuchin ] Re: act your age judge ["victorian squid" ] aye carumba! [Eb ] Re: act your age judge [Stephen Mahoney ] Re: act your age judge [Capuchin ] Re: act your age judge ["victorian squid" ] Re: aye carumba! [Capuchin ] Re: aye carumba! [Eb ] Re: aye carumba! [Viv Lyon ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:39:24 -0500 (CDT) From: GSS Subject: Re: Oh, politics again! hamish simpson wrote: > > - -Astrology can explain many more things than most people > > presently realise. > > > > - -Wars and social chaos may well be ended by a catastrophic > > flood or earthquake. > > Er, I don't see why. I answered the two of them differently and both with > the "strongly" tag. So are you saying that one person's invisible friend is better than some other person's invisible friend? I don't mean to sound rude but Moses, horoscopes, Abel, East of the garden, the giants, palmistry, burning bushes, destiny, Isis, Apollo, moon node's, naming comets after some super invisible friend's half brother, the ark, the trinity, passover, your personal astrologer, as well as all other religious ideals, defined objects of worship etc..., is all the same to me. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:55:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Viv Lyon Subject: oxfordian email access On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Eleanore Adams wrote: > If any Brit fegs want to write me and tell me where their pubs are or > what they recommend me to see and do, feel free to drop me a line! > eleanore @tdl.com. But Oxford does not have computer access (or so they > told me) so I'll be unsubscribing for a while. Those Oxford people said > that i could check me e-mail at nearby cyber cafes, but I have never > done that before. Is it expensive? Calling Jim! Feg to Jim! I know you can get email at Oxford, because my friend Sarah had it when she was there. Vivien ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:22:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Re: Take me out to the ballgame On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Michael R Godwin wrote: > Meanwhile, back at St Custard's: > > "What is the score, O weedy wet? > > "Those rufians have interupted us four times, so we must assume 4 goles. > What is your opinion of Colin Wilson, the new philosopher? > > "Advanced, forthright, siggnificant ... Colin Wilson! He's a crackpot, not a philosopher! What is this, Mike? Vivien ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:28:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Re: oxfordian email access On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Viv Lyon wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Eleanore Adams wrote: > > > If any Brit fegs want to write me and tell me where their pubs are or > > what they recommend me to see and do, feel free to drop me a line! > > eleanore @tdl.com. But Oxford does not have computer access (or so they > > told me) so I'll be unsubscribing for a while. Those Oxford people said > > that i could check me e-mail at nearby cyber cafes, but I have never > > done that before. Is it expensive? > > Calling Jim! Feg to Jim! > > I know you can get email at Oxford, because my friend Sarah had it when > she was there. Ouch. I just re-read this, as it came to my in-box. What I meant to say, for the record, is that visiting scholars can get email access at Oxford, not that one can receive email at Oxford. I am _quite_ sure that one can of course receive email at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Vivien ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:46:19 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Colin Wilson > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Michael R Godwin wrote: > > Meanwhile, back at St Custard's: > > "Those rufians have interupted us four times, so we must assume 4 goles. > > What is your opinion of Colin Wilson, the new philosopher? On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Viv Lyon wrote: > Colin Wilson! He's a crackpot, not a philosopher! What is this, Mike? Take no notice, Viv. In moments of stress I tend to quote from those Nigel Molesworth books by Geoffrey Willans (words) and Ronald Searle (pictures). They date from the early 50s when Colin Wilson's first book, The Outsider (not to be confused with L'Etranger, which was by a footballer) became a best-seller. Apart from Nigel Molesworth, the gorilla of 3B, the most memorable charakter in the books is fotherington-tomas who skip like a gurly and sa hullo clouds hullo sky. He is a weed and a wet. When I sa be quiet fotherington-tomas or I will thoroughly tuough you up he repli I forgive you molesworth for those uncouth words. I diskard him uterly. - - Mike "chiz chiz"* Godwin * A chiz is a swiz or swindle as any fule kno. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:46:10 -0400 From: "Yudt.Matthew" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #240 -huhh? > fegmaniax-digest Thursday, June 14 2001 Volume 10 : > Number 240 > BUT YET... > Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 16:28:00 -0000 > Subject: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! > > But did you see that game last night! It was fucking fantasic. It > was > amazing. It was top top level basketball. > > We won! We won! We won! (BTW--this "we" kills me, even thou I use > it. Like I > was out on the court last night;-). > Was this post floating around in space for a week, or what? Because last night was putrid basketball, and "WE" lost, Kay! Regarding PollyTiks Can any UK fegs tell me who is this Simon Hughes? I fell practically on top of his red dot myself. Slightly lefty mostly libertarian. Must have been my respect for 'writers and artists' and belief that a social responsibility of a company is not about shareholders. I mean, yes the PRIMARY responsibility of a company is to its shareholders, but this is quite different than a SOCIAL responsibility to the rest of us, and not just consumers. > Motombo's child. > oooh. Cheers, Matt '"Just trying to rationalize the economic left score" Y. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:57:09 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Ftz? on 6/13/01 6:12 PM, Eb at ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: > Eb, feeling more and more obligated to provide the list with some musical > content ;) And we do thank you for it ;^) Seriously, I'm not too familiar with/don't care too much for the bands you regularly report on, but a Foetus show is something special. Reading that right after reading S. Mary's posting regarding Glenn Branca, I think I want to spend the day listening to some aggressive noise. strum strum scream, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:03:40 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: attack trojans! on 6/14/01 7:44 AM, dmw at dmw@radix.net wrote: > Calling them "French ticklers" might be more successful than calling them > "attack trojans." Just a thought. I heard that the term French Tickler derived from a French guy who had a wart on the end of his penis. Corroboration? - -t Le c ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:25:08 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #240 -huhh? On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Yudt.Matthew wrote: > Regarding PollyTiks > Can any UK fegs tell me who is this Simon Hughes? I fell practically > on top of his red dot myself. Slightly lefty mostly libertarian. Simon Hughes is the Liberal Democrat MP for Bermondsey IIRC. He was one of the contenders for the Lib Dem leadership last year, but was I think slightly too far to the left for the party members, who elected Charlie Kennedy instead. > Must have been my respect for 'writers and artists' and belief that a > social responsibility of a company is not about shareholders. I mean, > yes the PRIMARY responsibility of a company is to its shareholders, > but this is quite different than a SOCIAL responsibility to the rest > of us, and not just consumers. This is tricky stuff in law. My understanding (as an economist, not a lawyer) is that a company owes a legal duty to shareholders to maximise profits, and thus implicitly to tell everyone else to sod off. But most companies blether on about their social responsibilities, and some of them even seem to believe it. However, economists believe (or are supposed to believe) that companies do the most good by pursuing the most profitable strategy, and that any diversion from that end is likely to reduce total welfare. - - Mike "token feg Lib Dem" Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:25:55 -0500 From: "s.mary" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #240 -huhh? At 12:46 PM 6/14/2001 -0400, Yudt.Matthew wrote: >Regarding PollyTiks >Can any UK fegs tell me who is this Simon Hughes? I fell practically >on top of his red dot myself. Slightly lefty mostly libertarian. According to this website he's a Member of Parliament for North Southwark & Bermondsey since 1983, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary: http://www.simonhughes.org.uk/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:54:01 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: axis bold as love/kids/computers politicalcompass-- four left, seven down --bingo! I also think I could be more left, but many of the questions seemed so vague, my first instinct to say "not enough data" subdued my responses. Drew-- >children should be treated differently than adults but with no less respect. Totally agree. Sort of relating this to the "7 year olds w/ drivers licences" metaphore, but leaving aside the technical hacker issues for information issues, I keep wondering at attempts to make the web kid-friendly, as all the family-values types want to. I know this is ancient history & have followed various propositions in detail, but it always seems like a huge case of putting the cart before the horse. It's a grown-up medium, it's like being able to drive all around the world. In fact it's almost more a force of nature than a medium, it's so big & diverse. I've always hated the "information highway" thing; it seems more like a river. Family Values people want to make a river kid-friendly. In general I think a lot of F-V folks use "this is bad for kids" as an excuse to say what they think should be bad for grown-ups. On the one hand there's COPA, trying to channelize the info river for kids, on the other hand there's been the huge amount of money, effort, time put into wiring elementary schools & hurrying kids onto the net. It isn't a great research tool for kids now (kids get bored waiting for a page to load), it's gonna change, and they'd be better learning the basics of logic or computing--which they could, but it's harder to teach. Glen Branca-- I've never actually seen him, but I always listen to him a)loud b)on headphones because a)I understand that's how he plays b)nobody else seems to want to hear him Ross Taylor Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:31:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: axis bold as love/kids/computers On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, ross taylor wrote: > In general I think a lot of F-V folks use "this is bad for kids" as an > excuse to say what they think should be bad for grown-ups. I believe this as well. I'm surprised more people dont' call them on it point blank. In fact and in general, I'm surprised more people don't call bullshit point blank. Of course that's not how you win friends... but I don't have any. > there's been the huge amount of money, effort, time put into wiring > elementary schools & hurrying kids onto the net. [snip] > and they'd be better learning the basics of logic or computing--which > they could, but it's harder to teach. And that also hits the nail on the head. Elementary teachers love having the web in the classroom because it means the teacher doesn't have to do as much... and it makes the students into passive little viewers. The level of interactivity in what we today call Interactive Media is pathetic. Yeah, the students would be better off learning about logical structures and networking and layers of interface abstraction. And kids are QUITE good at that sort of thing... but it's way over the teachers' heads. In tutoring dozens of students for their "Mathematics for elementary school teachers" courses while in college, I developed the extremely cynical (but quite real) belief that people teach elementary school because that's the most complex material they can comprehend themselves. Honestly, most of these people were extremely dubious about long division. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:19:45 -0400 From: /dev/woj Subject: rh article? if anyone can help scott, please contact him directly since he's no longer on the list.... woj >Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:01:44 -0400 >From: "scott clark" >Subject: rh article? >To: woj@smoe.org > >Woj-- > >I was wondering if you could help me. (I used to be on the feg list, but >have been off for a while.) I'm trying to find a copy of the March 1997 >"Acoustic Guitar" article about Robyn, but can't seem to track it down. >Do you know of anybody on the list who might be able to send me a copy? >I could pay postage, etc. > >Thanks! > >Scott > >=============================================================== >Scott Clark * sc8y@swissinfo.org * Charlottesville, VA, USA >"The love of the irregular is a sign of the >basic quest for freedom."-Soetsu Yanagi >=============================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:41:30 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: King Crimson alert (off-topic) Not that many of you are within easy driving distance of Nashville, BUT... King Crimson is playing four shows (one each evening tonight through Sunday) at Nashville's best club, 12th & Porter. I just spoke with John Bruton, the club's booker, who informed me that due to a problem with the online ticket sale, there are *FIFTY* tickets still available at the door for *each* show. Therefore, if you were thinking of going but saw on the website that the shows were sold out, they're not. Like last year's series of KC@12th&P shows, it's a rare chance to see rock musicians of this caliber in such an intimate setting, so if you're interested and *can* skeddadle here, do it! Any of you on Elephant-Talk might want to pass this information on to that list, if it hasn't mentioned there already. going Friday and now maybe Saturday too, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:39:25 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: Re: axis bold as love/kids/computers On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:31:48 Capuchin wrote: >> there's been the huge amount of money, effort, time put into wiring >> elementary schools & hurrying kids onto the net. >[snip] >> and they'd be better learning the basics of logic or computing--which >> they could, but it's harder to teach. > >And that also hits the nail on the head. Elementary teachers love having >the web in the classroom because it means the teacher doesn't have to do >as much... and it makes the students into passive little viewers. Some parents love that as well. >Yeah, the students would be better off learning about logical structures >and networking and layers of interface abstraction. And kids are QUITE >good at that sort of thing... but it's way over the teachers' heads. > >In tutoring dozens of students for their "Mathematics for elementary >school teachers" courses while in college, I developed the extremely >cynical (but quite real) belief that people teach elementary school >because that's the most complex material they can comprehend >themselves. Honestly, most of these people were extremely dubious about >long division. In general agreement, but do want to rush to some defense of many K-6 teachers. Like being a cop, it's a really hard job & really undervalued. Lots of parents, particularly in snooty areas like N. Virginia, beat up on teachers the same way they yell at waiters. But because they're so important, bad elem. teachers can do a lot more damage than a bad college prof. Of course, because N. Va. is so snooty we tend to have superior teachers. The sub-par math teachers I've seen seemed to have the most problem adjusting to the Alien Mind of a 9 year old, rather than the subject matter. But they had my daughter searching the internet without bothering to explain Boolean logic to her. I flunked math once in highschool, but could explain "and/or/not" to her over a bowl of Cheerios. Ross Taylor ring! ring! ring! bullshit calling! Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:59:14 -0400 From: "Poole, R. Edward" Subject: So what ELSE do you listen to? OK, I stole this concept from a website I visit, but I like it, so I want to see if anyone is interested. The best way to learn about new music is to get mix tapes from your friends with good taste, right? So, who has better taste in music than the Fegs, are you with me? So, if you are interested, email me (offlist) to sign up for the fegmaniax mix trading club (tm). [incidentally, when I did this through that other website, I got one really great mix and one not so great mix. The odds are bound to be better here because we already share some musical tastes in common]. It's simple: tell me whether you can make CDs or tapes and I will (randomly) match you up with someone else who wants to trade that format (if you want, you can tell me not to pair you with certain people, for example people who have already shared all of their musical tastes with you. So, Bayard & Chris, you won't get matched, I promise). Then, you contact each other to make the necessary arrangements (mailing addresses, "do's" and "don'ts," if any, mix themes, if any, etc), and then you go ahead and make really cool mixes for each other and our great body of musical knowledge is thus expanded. I'll leave this open for entries until July 2, then send out the pairings that week. Ready? 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To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to postmaster@dsmo.com Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP http://www.legalinnovators.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:01:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Mahoney Subject: act your age judge a parent said to her three kids when checking out books "act your age, not your shoe size" was that a saying before the prince song? it must have been! hey whats the deal with judge scalia ruling in favor with the pot growers on that last supreme court ruling? was he promised a package from columbia? anagram: MacDonalds = Clam and Sod Stephen Mahoney Multnomah County Library at Rockwood branch clerk stephenm@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us 503-988-5396 fax 503-988-5178 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:18:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: act your age judge On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Stephen Mahoney wrote: > a parent said to her three kids when checking out books > "act your age, not your shoe size" > > was that a saying before the prince song? it must have been! I thought maybe you were kidding, but I'm going to write as though you're not. My older sister used to say that to me in the late seventies. I remember my witty comeback (when I was maybe five?), "My shoe size is thirteen!" I imagine it's not an idiom common outside the US. :) > hey whats the deal with judge scalia ruling in favor with the pot growers > on that last supreme court ruling? was he promised a package from > columbia? Probably a package from both Columbia and Colombia. A little something from the farms and a little something from the Senators that keep our grain flooding into that country, destabilizing the crop prices, and preventing local farmers from producing anything but narcotics that get their families killed. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:40:59 -0500 (CDT) From: GSS Subject: Re: act your age judge > > hey whats the deal with judge scalia ruling in favor with the pot growers > > on that last supreme court ruling? was he promised a package from > > columbia? That ruling goes farther than just protecting pot glowers with high intensity/high heat lighting from the Thermal Imaging Nazis. It is a victory for everyone. They no longer have to see you to see you. It is getting pretty fucking scary. We might soon have to become counter-intelligence specialists within our own domains, just to help keep sometype of privacy. g "remember the state is your friend" Ss ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:57:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: act your age judge On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, GSS wrote: > That ruling goes farther than just protecting pot glowers with high > intensity/high heat lighting from the Thermal Imaging Nazis. It is a > victory for everyone. They no longer have to see you to see you. I was rather pleased to read this headline myself the other day. The fellow who was reading the other side of the newspaper on the bus asked what made me exclaim. I pointed to the front page article. He kind of shrugged and I said, "Now they need a warrant to look through your walls." He laughed and said "RIGHT! Oh, jeez, I never thought of that." Amazing. > It is getting pretty fucking scary. We might soon have to become > counter-intelligence specialists within our own domains, just to help > keep sometype of privacy. It's already true in our virtual domains and that's exactly the nature of our little conversation earier this week. The average person is not equipped to maintain their civic rights. This is a failing of both public education and the powers-that-be. People should be informed, care, and not have anything to worry about. Pick two. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:56:53 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Re: act your age judge On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:40:59 GSS wrote: >That ruling goes farther than just protecting pot glowers with high >intensity/high heat lighting from the Thermal Imaging Nazis. It is a >victory for everyone. They no longer have to see you to see you. Ok, um, this almost never happens, but I agree with GSS. Remember that in the case in question the device was used -without a warrant-. Someone was able to search this guy's home without even entering it. WITHOUT A WARRANT, just because they were suspicious. THAT'S what the ruling's about. Whether or not the guy actually had pot is irrelevant as far as that goes and call me naive, but I really don't think this has jackshit to do with Colombia. loveonya, susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:03:07 -0700 From: Eb Subject: aye carumba! [And yet, I see it spelled "D'oh" almost as much as "Doh"...] Homer Simpson's Phrase in Dictionary OXFORD, England (AP) -- Homer Simpson with an English accent? Don't laugh -- the beer-guzzling cartoon dad has hit the literary big-time. His favorite phrase has made it into the erudite Oxford English Dictionary. The OED's online edition defines Homer's trademark ''doh!'' -- usually accompanied by a Simpsonesque slap to the forehead -- as ''expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned or that one has just said or done something foolish. Also implying that another person has said or done something foolish.'' It's one of 1,250 new or revised entries published Thursday on the OED Web site. They'll all be added to the next edition of the print dictionary, but its publication is years away. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:07:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Mahoney Subject: Re: act your age judge On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, GSS wrote: > That ruling goes farther than just protecting pot glowers with high > intensity/high heat lighting from the Thermal Imaging Nazis. It is a > victory for everyone. They no longer have to see you to see you. > It is getting pretty fucking scary. We might soon have to become > counter-intelligence specialists within our own domains, just to help > keep sometype of privacy. > > g "remember the state is your friend" Ss k yeah I just made that comment because I couldnt believe that ruling being in favor of our rights as individuals- yes its very scary the technology being used does anyone remember the film blue thunder the conversation or enemy of the state those were films based on probabilities but surveilance has been a reality since-gosh since the cold war- before? indeed the state and the county and the city they are all "your friends" you can "trust them" wink wink nudge nudge!!!! ;^) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:35:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: act your age judge On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, victorian squid wrote: > and call me naive, but I really don't think this has jackshit to do > with Colombia. Just so's those with an already negative opinion of YT don't go off and call me a True Crackpot, I'll have y'all know that I was kidding about the Supreme Court/Colombia connection. But it's still true that American agribusiness is largely responsible for the narcotics in Colombia. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:29:38 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Re: act your age judge On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:07:53 Stephen Mahoney wrote: >yeah I just made that comment because I couldnt believe that ruling being >in favor of our rights as individuals-yes its very scary the technology being used OK, now I get your drift. Sometimes this medium is a bit lacking. The thing is, I don't automatically assume that every single individual in government is corrupt and/or out to get me. I wasn't really surprised to see such an obvious violation of the fourth amendment get shot down. Particularly after a unanimous ruling in 1997 concerning a case in Wisconsin, where police were exempt from having to knock and identify themselves when dealing with drug cases. Here is article: http://reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document-4.29.1997.0.html loveonya, susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:39:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: aye carumba! By the way, I'm going to do this everytime someone posts a bullshit "news" story to this list until the trend stops... just so you know. That's not a threat. On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Eb wrote: > Homer Simpson's Phrase in Dictionary > OXFORD, England (AP) -- Homer Simpson with an English accent? AP?!? Fucking Associated Press has nothing more pressing, informative, or relevant to report on than Homer Simpson? Society is sick... as in, not well. Please reduce the fever any way you can. Analgesically yours, J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:54:56 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: aye carumba! The Conscience of America: >By the way, I'm going to do this everytime someone posts a bullshit >"news" story to this list until the trend stops... just so you know. > >That's not a threat. No, just a drag. Anyway, no one posts more "bullshit" than you do. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:01:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Re: aye carumba! On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Capuchin wrote: > By the way, I'm going to do this everytime someone posts a bullshit > "news" story to this list until the trend stops... just so you know. Sweetie pie, I hate to tell you this, but... this list is a major source of news for me. With my myopic lefty-news consumption habits, I often miss out on the more sensational news stories. Luckily, the creme de la creme is usually linked to right from this handy listserv, and I can join the rest of humanity in knowing all about the Nepal massacre (for instance). So, to the people who are most responsible for posting this stuff, I say "Keep it up!" Huzzah! ... although I have to say you all let me down most sadly on the whole "Monkey Man" saga in India. I was the butt of many jokes at a recent party for being ignorant of this tidbit of news effluvia. > AP?!? Fucking Associated Press has nothing more pressing, informative, or > relevant to report on than Homer Simpson? The AP has an entertainment division now. Yay. As if this tripe isn't covered in enough "depth" elsewhere. Still, it's pretty fucking cool that there's going to be a Homerism in the Oxford English Dictionary. Vivien so when are they going to put "Homerism" in the OED? better yet, when will the word "Homeric" have another meaning assigned it? ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #241 ********************************