From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #281 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, July 20 2001 Volume 10 : Number 281 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #280 [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] FWIW [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: New Feg [steve ] Re: cipes! ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Yick [The Great Quail ] Re: New Feg [The Great Quail ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #280 ["Yudt.Matthew" ] Re: unhatched feglings ["Mike Wells" ] god of thunder [Natalie Jane Jacobs ] Re: New Feg [Capuchin ] Re: cipes! [JH3 ] Re: Weaving with Old Threads [Michael R Godwin ] Re: unhatched feglings [Viv Lyon ] Re:spoken word! ["ross taylor" ] Re: unhatched feglings [Tom Clark ] Re: unhatched feglings [lj lindhurst ] Re: New Feg [Eb ] Re: unhatched feglings [Capuchin ] Re: New Feg [Ken Weingold ] "i just went to good schools" [bayard ] Re: unhatched feglings [Capuchin ] Re: New Feg [Tom Clark ] Re: New Feg [Ken Weingold ] Re: "i just went to good schools" ["Ultimate Goal" ] baby names ["Walker, Charles" ] Re: unhatched feglings [dmw ] Re: Youth Culture washed my dishes and swept the floor ["victorian squid"] Re: unhatched feglings [Ken Weingold ] frightening [dmw ] Re: unhatched feglings ["JH3" ] Re: unhatched feglings [Tom Clark ] Re: frightening ["victorian squid" ] Re: unhatched feglings [dmw ] Re: New Feg [steve ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:29:41 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #280 >Which brings me to criteria #3: >Can't be the name of an old girlfriend/boyfriend. criterion no. 4 - beware of embarrassing initials, or anything that can be shortened in an embarrassing way! So avoid Beverley Barbara Clark, or Francesca Ursula Clark. 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: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:45:20 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: FWIW >Also, when the Beatles are going crazy during >"Can't Buy Me Love" in "Hard Day's Night," is >that on a cricket field? no. Not if you mean that strange square area with the circles at the corners. Haven't a clue what it was, but it didn't look like it was related to any sport I've ever seen. A cricket ground is a large grassed field with a rectangular area in the centre 22 yards long and about 3 yards wide where the grass has been shortened to the point where it is almost no longer there. During the game there are three sticks at each end (the stumps), with two smaller pieces of wood (the bails) resting on the top of them. The stumps and bails together make up the wicket - which is the target of the bowler - 27 inches high and eight inches wide. enough already with the cricket! 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: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:56:22 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: New Feg On Wednesday, July 18, 2001, at 01:31 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > Have at it, folks. I'll come up with a special prize if we use your > suggestion. Not that any of these will make things easier. http://www.zoope.com/ (this one's pretty artistic) http://www.behindthename.com/ (etymology) http://haggisbutt.tripod.com/ (please don't name me Kaitlyn) http://www.123-baby-names.com/Baby_Names/baby_names.html (links!) - - Steve __________ President Bush met privately with top officials from the Salvation Army in May to discuss his "faith-based" initiative while the White House was reviewing a request from the charity for a regulation protecting it from local workplace nondiscrimination laws based on sexual orientation. - Dana Milbank, Washington Post ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:28:44 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: cipes! JH3 wrote: > > LEMON-CARDAMOM DROP SCONES hang on, are these scones, or drop scones (which is what we call small pancakes in Scotland)? Real scones I can make from scratch in about twenty minutes. Helps if you have an oven set to "Fission", though. - -- Stewart C. Russell Senior Analyst Programmer stewart@ref.collins.co.uk Collins Dictionaries use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Bishopbriggs, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:24:01 -0700 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Yick Kay writes, >I daydream a Feg radio station, with all our different personages >programming shows: The Great Quail/White Rabbit Radio Hour, live >from New York, Oh, that's rich! I can see me and LJ sharing a radio hour: "And that was the lineup: Jethro Tull, Oasis, Einstein on the Beach, Oasis, Grateful Dead, Oasis..." (Sounds of violent struggle in the booth....) "Oasis, Oasis, Oasis....hey! More Oasi--" (Sounds of thrashing about, gurgling)... "Back to the Ring Cycle Uninterrupted! And then, five hours of Danny Elfma-- AAAaaarrrghh....." Oasis, Oasis, Oaisis..... - --Quail - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth: http://www.TheModernWord.com "O Nature, and O soul of man! How far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! Not the smallest atom stirs or lives in matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind." --Herman Melville, "Moby Dick" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:27:54 -0700 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: New Feg >Yes, believe it or not, the >seed of my loin has become fruitful in the belly of my woman. Yikes! Her belly? You know, there are better places to aim for.... Congratulations!!!!! - --Quail, who things "Quail" would make a fine name! yes, "Quail Clark," has a ring, no? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:35:18 -0400 From: "Yudt.Matthew" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #280 That was one of the strangest digests I've ever read.... (Thanks) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:43:34 -0500 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: unhatched feglings From: "Carole Reichstein" > Congratulations Tom & Colleen, John & Jacci! Seconded. In the name game one other helpful rule is to have a name that shortens well for everyday use, but still sounds stern and impressive when used in it's full version for disciplinary reasons. > John, do you have any girl names picked out? My favorites: > ps: my mother didn't know that she was carrying twin girls when she was > pregnant with us in 1970. Surprise! She thought we were one big boy, in > which case our name would've been "Robert" or "Kendall" (the latter is my > Dad's name). Ugh! So instead, my Mom gave me her first name. She used to > joke about how she should've named us Wolfgang, however. "Wolfgang > Reichstein!" I actually like how that sounds. Feral and scary! We're blessed with twins ourselves, and my wife - born in 1964 - is a twin also. Same story as yours with her and her brother, they didn't know it was two until delivery time. Yow. Of the four ultrasounds (!) my wife had, three of the operators told us we had two boys - one even went as far as to point out the naughty bits. Needless to say it was a wonderful suprise when Annie turned up as #2 in the delivery room. Fortunately we had a names prepared hoping that one would be a girl...hers is Annelise Katherine (Annie) and his is Matthew Michael (Matt). Other favorites include Joelle, Leitha (wife's middle name), and Margaret (Peggy) for girls, and Devin, Mason, and Bart for 'lil dudes. From: "ross taylor" > I always recommend the book "The First Twelve > Months of Life" because it brings in all sorts > or cool Science Facts about babies, like when > they are likely to first notice their hands, > etc. It quotes liberally from heavyweights like > Piaget & Brazelton, but is easy to browse. Good one. We also really liked "A Child is Born" by Lennart Nilsson - astounding photography. It really reinforced for me how miraculous the whole process is. Finally the "What to expect when you're..." series seems to have replaced Dr. Spock for this generation. I know we've used the first two installments heavily and found them quite useful and easy to read. Michael who's definition of "free time" has been changed forever ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:29:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Natalie Jane Jacobs Subject: god of thunder >Nardwuar: What movie was that? 'Zombie Nightmare'? >Thor: 'Zombie Nightmare'. Oh my god! I thought this guy seemed familiar! "Zombie Nightmare" was, as you can imagine, an MST3K favorite. Well do I recall the horrible music, also by "Thor." n. - -- Natalie Jane Jacobs gnat@bitmine.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:33:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: New Feg On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, The Great Quail wrote: > --Quail, who things "Quail" would make a fine name! yes, "Quail > Clark," has a ring, no? Quail Clark DOES have a ring... lives under a mountain and eats rotting fish and has a ring.. yessss... He said no alliteration, though. But I should be able to spell that... too early for me. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:54:09 -0500 From: JH3 Subject: Re: cipes! > > LEMON-CARDAMOM DROP SCONES > hang on, are these scones, or drop scones (which is what we call > small pancakes in Scotland)? Aw, c'mon, Stewart! You know perfectly well that us 'murkans don't know the difference... Anyway, the original recipe does say "drop," and the originator, Elizabeth Alston (i.e., the author I stole it from, with slight alterations), is a Brit living in New York - she's editor of the food section for Woman's Day. So make of that what you will! I was under the impression that a non-drop scone was one where you flatten out the dough with a roller, fold it up several times, and cut, right? (Similr to what we call "biscuits" over here.) And that anything else is a "drop" scone because you're just dropping some dough onto a baking sheet, whether or not it actually flattens out to any extent (these don't, really). > Real scones I can make from scratch in about twenty minutes. > Helps if you have an oven set to "Fission", though. Yes, but our American *neutron* ovens are so much more... "environmentally-friendly," or so they say. Kills people, but leaves souffles standing! I could use a new dishwasher, too... John H. Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:36:39 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Weaving with Old Threads Moi: > >If you really want to learn what cricket is about, get a copy of P G > >Wodehouse's 'Mike at Wrykyn', or the original bigger novel 'Mike', which > >also incorporates 'Mike and Psmith'. On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Old and cranky Rude Becky of Goldstrum wrote: > Do you mean I will understand something better if I read about it in a > Wodehouse book!?! Having read the odd bits here and there, hither and yon, > on and on, I rather take exception, if you catch my riff, I mean, really, > all in all, to the cut of your jibe there, my good man. Ah, it sounds to me as if you've been dipping into the post-1920 farcical novels (Code of the Woosters, Galahad at Blandings, Doctor Sally, those sorts of books). Without wishing to knock the later Wodehouse, the early school stories (Mike, The Pothunters, The Gold Bat etc) and the mid-period short stories and novels such as 'Psmith Journalist' still maintain a "realistic" background which disappears by about 1923. Although I like 'Leave it to Psmith', you can see that he is attempting to make the awkward transition between the earlier comic novels and the later out and out Blandings farces. I wouldn't claim that 'Mike' was a source for the rules of cricket, but it does capture the tactical excitement of the game. Older, crankier - - Mike Godwin PS: Four years in jug! Yuk Yuk Yuk! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:14:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Re: unhatched feglings On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Carole Reichstein wrote: > Congratulations Tom & Colleen, John & Jacci! > > John, do you have any girl names picked out? My favorites: > > Ruby This was my grandmother's name, and I used to think it was silly, but now I think it's lovely. > "Wolfgang Reichstein!" I actually like how that sounds. Feral and > scary! I think I've already mentioned that I would name a boy-child Wolfgang. It's definitely one of the coolest names. Vivien ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:29:34 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: Re:spoken word! I'd be glad to write out between song things from the relatively small collection of live stuff I have (including Storefront video). BTW I've been wondering what was up with the tape project -- I've always thought it was a great idea. All Hail! I've also thought it might be fun for people to do verbal Robyn imitations. The Procol site had a very fun contest for people to imitate Keith Reid lyrics recently. I thought about this for RH, but Reid's lyrics are easier to stereotype. Robyn's lyrics seem more varied, harder to pin down aside from squids & insects, which aren't all that numerous. Just surreal and good. On the other hand with his spoken word stories (or even his written stories) it's at least easier to get into the ballpark for his style. It might be fun to pair up real RH passages with fake ones. Which one's Robyn, which is Memorex? I'm prepared to let fly with fakery, tho my real ones will be very well-known. Ross Taylor Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:44:08 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: unhatched feglings on 7/19/01 10:14 AM, Viv Lyon at vivlyon@bitmine.net wrote: > I think I've already mentioned that I would name a boy-child Wolfgang. > It's definitely one of the coolest names. Wolfgang Lyon - sounds like a WWII battle! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:53:56 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: unhatched feglings >on 7/19/01 10:14 AM, Viv Lyon at vivlyon@bitmine.net wrote: > >> I think I've already mentioned that I would name a boy-child Wolfgang. >> It's definitely one of the coolest names. Oh Viv, stop trying to model your life after Valerie Bertinelli! I already told ya, Jeme looks NOTHING like Eddie Van Halen...! l - -- - -------------- - LJ Lindhurst White Rabbit Graphic Design http://www.w-rabbit.com NYC ljl@w-rabbit.com - -------------- - "Does every story have to have a moral? What am I, Mother Goose?" --The Nanny ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:12:45 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: New Feg Linkman struck again: >http://www.zoope.com/ (this one's pretty artistic) > >http://www.behindthename.com/ (etymology) > >http://haggisbutt.tripod.com/ (please don't name me Kaitlyn) > >http://www.123-baby-names.com/Baby_Names/baby_names.html (links!) You really are spending a LOT of time on the Web lately, aren't you? ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:14:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: unhatched feglings On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Viv Lyon wrote: > > Ruby > > This was my grandmother's name, and I used to think it was silly, but now > I think it's lovely. That's actually really cool and weird because, as I was drifting off to sleep last night, I was thinking that I wouldn't mind naming a person-thing Rubaiyat or Rubiyaat. > > "Wolfgang Reichstein!" I actually like how that sounds. Feral and > > scary! > > I think I've already mentioned that I would name a boy-child Wolfgang. > It's definitely one of the coolest names. I still shake my head at this. It's a cool name and all, but there are an infinite number of names... why use one that's been used probably millions (or at least hundreds of thousands) of times? I believe in naming a person after an idea or thing or action or even place. I think the invocation of a name should carry with it meaning that is readily understood by all. What's the point of giving someone a name based on the supposed "meaning" (a la "What Names Mean") if it is just as likely that the parents were unaware of the meaning when they doled out the moniker? For the sake of tease-prevention, I think it's probably best to segregate names that somehow feel masculine or feminine (or have explicit "regular name" analogs). So, I think a good boyname might be Benediction or Andalusite. Girlnames could be Dandelion or Mellifluous [or Mellifluent or Melifluere, to obfuscate]. Non-word names that I like are Pelligrove (for girls) and Danticles (for boys). Middle name are better because you don't even have to think about abbreviating or mocking. I'm also in the two-middle-names camp. So you're likely to end up, from me, having a name like Pelligrove Trevisson Antee Brelin. But that's just ONE reason why nobody wants to breed with me... J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:22:49 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: New Feg On Thu, Jul 19, 2001, The Great Quail wrote: > >Yes, believe it or not, the > >seed of my loin has become fruitful in the belly of my woman. > > Yikes! Her belly? You know, there are better places to aim for.... Oh, wow. I'm thinking of that Young Ones scene when Neil wants a raise, and his letter to his boss is something like this: "Dear Fascist Bully Boy, Give me some more money, you bastard. May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman. Love, Neil." - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:47:32 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: "i just went to good schools" which show is it where RH introduced ted woody and junior with an explanation of some gay porn he saw once, and the disclaimer "i'm not gay, i just went to good schools"? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:50:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: unhatched feglings On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, lj lindhurst wrote: > >on 7/19/01 10:14 AM, Viv Lyon at vivlyon@bitmine.net wrote: > >> I think I've already mentioned that I would name a boy-child Wolfgang. > >> It's definitely one of the coolest names. > Oh Viv, stop trying to model your life after Valerie Bertinelli! I > already told ya, Jeme looks NOTHING like Eddie Van Halen...! See, unfortunately, that's exactly what I think of when I imagine naming a child Wolfgang. And River Phoenix's character in Explorers is, sadly, second. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:52:18 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: New Feg on 7/19/01 11:22 AM, Ken Weingold at hazmat@hellrot.org wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001, The Great Quail wrote: >>> Yes, believe it or not, the >>> seed of my loin has become fruitful in the belly of my woman. >> >> Yikes! Her belly? You know, there are better places to aim for.... > > Oh, wow. I'm thinking of that Young Ones scene when Neil wants a > raise, and his letter to his boss is something like this: > > "Dear Fascist Bully Boy, > > Give me some more money, you bastard. May the seed of your loins be > fruitful in the belly of your woman. > > Love, > Neil." > You catch on quick, Ken! ;^) IIRC, He wants to end it with "Love", but Rick protests "LOVE? Why don't you just stick your tongue right down the back of his trousers?!!" So he signs off with "Boom Shanka" instead (thanks Drew). Thanks again to everyone for the wishes and suggestions. For weeks now my wife has been sending me these random instant messages with name suggestions. Just random windows popping up on my screen with stuff like "Kylie?" Speaking of which, I keep AIM running all day if anyone's interested in random chatting... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:54:11 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: New Feg On Thu, Jul 19, 2001, Tom Clark wrote: > You catch on quick, Ken! ;^) Oh, damn. Sure, catch me off-guard while I am still recovering from last weekend. ;-) - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:12:49 -0400 From: "Ultimate Goal" Subject: Re: "i just went to good schools" Bayard: >which show is it where RH introduced ted woody and junior with an >explanation of some gay porn he saw once, and the disclaimer "i'm not gay, >i just went to good schools"? 6-14-89 RHE? _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:32:17 -0700 From: "Walker, Charles" Subject: baby names i want to have triplet chubby half asian girls named: rose, olive, and violet, but my mom says she will disown me if i name my baby olive, olivia would be fine. and according to her boys can't be named bruce, tho i agree with mom on that one. so i suggest color/grandama type names - rose, hillary, hortense, abigail. for girls. pls no more uniquely spelled verions of 'Sky' or Zoey's or Chloe's, no offense to anyone named that, i just feel that we are in a different cycle these days. oddly, i never think of boy's names, hmm. of course no baby will be named 'Monica' for at least ten more years. congrats on the news and enjoy the whole process!! chas in LA looking for fertile asian women http://www.theweeklywalker.com Issue 44 is here! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:20:50 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: unhatched feglings On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Capuchin wrote: > For the sake of tease-prevention, I think it's probably best to segregate > names that somehow feel masculine or feminine (or have explicit "regular > name" analogs). So, I think a good boyname might be Benediction or > Andalusite. Girlnames could be Dandelion or Mellifluous [or Mellifluent > or Melifluere, to obfuscate]. Non-word names that I like are Pelligrove > (for girls) and Danticles (for boys). A couple friends of mine had a baby not so long ago, and they decided beforehand that the baby would be named "hostile" if female and "trauma" if male. This really sounded backwards to me. (Female, "Hostile" -- "Tilly" for short, which in my opinion confuses the issue, like my parents gender-confused pair of Datsuns, Mycroft and Sherlock -- or, for short, Mike and Shirley. It *really* used to bug my dad when my mom would call Sherlock Shirley.) No, I'm not making any of this up. At least one correct answer to the "good schools" question occured at a solo acoustic show at the Birchmere in Alexandria, unless I am very much mistaken. Same gig as 'Digital SPaceship' which was my friend Mike's random request. - -- d., assuming digital anything is probably inferior np swords project = i do what i am told. i am not opinionated. i accept without | dmw@ = questioning. i do not make a fuss. i am a good consumer. |radix.net = pathetic-caverns.com * fecklessbeast.com * shoddyworkmanship.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:23:47 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Re: Youth Culture washed my dishes and swept the floor Nat wrote: >Congratulations to Tom and Sloop John B. on the impending neonates! Seconded! Or by now, more like 8thed. Whatever. The point is, I congratulated. >can't help name them, though - I'm *still* trying to name my cat... Hey, the other day I was listening to "Spike", and I thought "Veronica" might be a good name for her. She hides a lot, does she not? And peeks out from things? Veronica Lake isn't the kind of goddess you were thinking of, but she's some kind :). Jeme: > Danticles (for boys). I thought you said you were looking for names that wouldn't get them teased. Viv: >I plan to deal with turning 27 by singing "Pidgin English" over and overand over. And over. Yes, well, being an ancient crone of 30 I can tell you missy (the day I get to call people "missy" and "sonny" for real will be a fun day for me :)), 27 is a nothing birthday as far as that is concerned. You're still in the 20 decade. All those opinion polls and the like still have you in the young, hip 18-29 section. I have moved up to the 30-45 section. The other day I realized I was probably too old for Stephen Tyler. It's a bit scary when you first start realizing you're "too old" for some kinds of opportunities, whether or not you actually wanted them. loveonya, susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:34:13 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: unhatched feglings On Thu, Jul 19, 2001, dmw wrote: > A couple friends of mine had a baby not so long ago, and they decided > beforehand that the baby would be named "hostile" if female and "trauma" > if male. This really sounded backwards to me. (Female, "Hostile" -- > "Tilly" for short, which in my opinion confuses the issue, like my parents > gender-confused pair of Datsuns, Mycroft and Sherlock -- or, for short, > Mike and Shirley. It *really* used to bug my dad when my mom would call > Sherlock Shirley.) > > No, I'm not making any of this up. A couple I know up in NH named their daughter Carrion. I'm not kidding either. Very odd people. And not in the good way. Funny think is that if you didn't know what it meant, you might think it was a pretty name. :) - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:37:39 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: frightening On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, victorian squid wrote: > Yes, well, being an ancient crone of 30 ... > The other day I realized I was probably too old for Stephen Tyler. Uhm, he's FIFTY-THREE, isn't he? - -- d., lying about his age, per usual = i do what i am told. i am not opinionated. i accept without | dmw@ = questioning. i do not make a fuss. i am a good consumer. |radix.net = pathetic-caverns.com * fecklessbeast.com * shoddyworkmanship.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:46:39 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: unhatched feglings > ...(Female, "Hostile" -- > "Tilly" for short, which in my opinion confuses the issue, > like my parents gender-confused pair of Datsuns, Mycroft > and Sherlock -- or, for short, Mike and Shirley. Surely that was a typo, Dave! After all, before they changed the name to "Nissan," Japanese cars weren't exactly dead butch, if you know what I mean... John "and don't forget what they did to Marie Provost" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:56:04 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: unhatched feglings on 7/19/01 3:20 PM, dmw at dmw@radix.net wrote: > like my parents > gender-confused pair of Datsuns, Mycroft and Sherlock -- or, for short, > Mike and Shirley. It *really* used to bug my dad when my mom would call > Sherlock Shirley.) Er, your parents named their cars? woof, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:02:15 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Re: frightening - --- On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:37:39 dmw wrote: >Uhm, he's FIFTY-THREE, isn't he? It's a joke, son. I take it you aren't familiar with his taste in women ;). loveonya, susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:08:13 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: unhatched feglings On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Tom Clark wrote: > on 7/19/01 3:20 PM, dmw at dmw@radix.net wrote: > > > like my parents > > gender-confused pair of Datsuns, Mycroft and Sherlock -- or, for short, > > Mike and Shirley. It *really* used to bug my dad when my mom would call > > Sherlock Shirley.) > > Er, your parents named their cars? Eggcrate, I Spy, archie, mehitabel, Agni, Mycroft, Sherlock, Mrs. W., etc. ...that is to say, "yes." I can't quite remember what the Vega was called...soemthing out of Beowulf, I think. and JH, the elder brother, Mycroft was defintely a "Datsun." Sherlcok was a couple of years younger, and might have been one of the first "Nissans." Everyone is not contributing to the poll, though of: Hostile: sounds more male, or more female? Trauma: sounds more male, or more female? Incidentally the parents in question are in fact very good folks, especially when you factor in that one of them is a lawyer for an insurance company. (The other is some sort of specie of computer consultant). The lawyer is an avowed soft boys fan and can juggle flaming objects with grace and ease. Re: Carrion -- hmm, might not hear "Carrie Anne" quite the same henceforth! - -- d. = i do what i am told. i am not opinionated. i accept without | dmw@ = questioning. i do not make a fuss. i am a good consumer. |radix.net = pathetic-caverns.com * fecklessbeast.com * shoddyworkmanship.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 00:06:13 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: New Feg On Thursday, July 19, 2001, at 01:12 PM, Eb wrote: > You really are spending a LOT of time on the Web lately, aren't you? ;) I just use that magnifying thing on my computer. - - Steve __________ A New York Times investigation into overseas ballots that helped George W. Bush win the presidency found that Florida election officials, facing intense GOP pressure to accept military votes, counted hundreds of overseas absentee ballots that failed to comply with state election laws. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #281 ********************************