From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #284 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, July 23 2001 Volume 10 : Number 284 Today's Subjects: ----------------- hard to brush this one aside with a mere "Reap" [Eb ] Harry things [Chris Franz ] Re: biggus dickus ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: I Wanna Destroy You ["mats" ] L'Angelo Mysterioso Gone Troppo [HAL ] George :( [Mike Swedene ] Re: George :( ["Maximilian Lang" ] Kendrew Lascelles ["Russ Reynolds" ] Playin' those Name games... ["Seth Frisby" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #279 [DDerosa5@aol.com] Re: New Feg ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: neofeggia ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: neofeggia [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Rush Biking Books (a narrow genre) ["Mike Wells" ] Re: I Wanna Destroy You [Tom Clark ] the Quail dosed me with LSD [lj lindhurst ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #283 ["Walker, Charles" ] Re: my cat eats plastic [lj lindhurst ] Re: the Quail dosed me with LSD ["Sweet & Tender Hooligan" ] Re: my cat eats plastic ["Jason W. Brown" ] Re: my cat eats plastic [Mike Swedene ] quicktime to mpeg converter? [Ken Weingold ] Re: my cat eats plastic ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Hatching Snapdragons [Eb ] baby names... [Mark Gloster ] REAP ["Poole, R. Edward" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 13:20:21 -0700 From: Eb Subject: hard to brush this one aside with a mere "Reap" Sunday July 22 11:03 AM ET George Harrison 'Knows He Will Die Soon' From Cancer LONDON (Reuters) - Ex-Beatle George Harrison has admitted that he expects to die soon from cancer, the group's former producer was quoted on Sunday as saying. The 58-year-old musician has been treated for a brain tumor at a clinic in Switzerland, having already undergone an operation for lung cancer earlier this year. The Mail on Sunday said Harrison had told his friend and former producer George Martin, dubbed the ``fifth Beatle,'' that he does not have long to live. Martin told the newspaper: ``He is taking it easy and hoping that the thing will go away. He has an indomitable spirit but he knows that he is going to die soon and he is accepting that.'' Spokesmen for Harrison and Martin could not be immediately reached for comment. Martin added: ``George is very philosophical. He does realize that everybody has got to die some time. ``He has been near death many times and he's been rescued many times as well. But he knows he is going to die soon and he's accepting it perfectly happily.'' Two weeks ago, Harrison told his fans he was feeling fine after undergoing radiotherapy at a Swiss cancer clinic. Swiss cancer specialist Franco Cavalli confirmed that he had recently treated Harrison. At the beginning of May, Harrison had surgery at the Mayo Clinic in the United States to remove a cancerous growth from one of his lungs. Harrison overcame throat cancer in 1998, which he blamed on smoking. He was given the all-clear after radiation therapy. [further background deleted] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 13:27:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Natalie Jane Jacobs Subject: biggus dickus > >In the neighboring town of where I grew up, there was the name to end them all. Harold Dick. Some friends of mine found an ID belonging to a very unfortunate person named Coke Dick. This became an enormous joke amongst my friends, who would periodically yell "Coke Dick is bitch!" for no particular reason. I once had the misfortune to tangle with Coke Dick's dad, Dr. Dick, a pediatric cardiologist at the University of Michigan hospital. Dr. Dick thoroughly lived up to his surname, I'm sad to say. Had he been friendlier, I would have asked him whether he was related to the greatest Dick of all, Philip K. Dick. "Dick" means "thick" or "fat" in German, and "Philip" means "lover of horses," hence Philip K. Dick's alter-ego, Horselover Fat. n. p.s. My cat's name is almost certainly Thisbe. It seems to fit her for some reason. - -- Natalie Jane Jacobs gnat@bitmine.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:04:49 -0700 From: Chris Franz Subject: Harry things Vince: >In the neighboring town of where I grew up, there was the name to end them >all. Harold Dick. victorian squid: >My father's brother was named Harry Peter. Dad says that he became quite the >brawny badass guy (the "boy named Sue" effect), and if you called him >anything >but Pete you'd be on the business end of said brawn. The superintendent of schools in Montgomery County, MD, when I was in high school was Dr. Harry Pitt. But all of this pales in comparison to Dr. Harry Beaver in Arlington, VA. He is, I kid you not, a gynaecologist. Though I was amused by my ex-roommate, the accountant, having a client named Arthur Outhouse. Jeff Dwarf: > then there are always the kids whose names translate badly, like a guy > at my high school named Phu Kuu..... There's a Thai restaurant in town called "Phuket." I don't know how it's supposed to be pronounced, but I know how -we- pronounce it. Capuchin: >But recall that this was the school where, when our new-to-these-parts >high school english teacher decided to have "an open discussion about >the tough issues of today", my class couldn't come up with a single racial >stereotype. And when the teacher suggested some, we all laughed because >we'd never heard of them before and thought they were absurd. >It was a very sheltered town. When you don't have minorities, you don't >know how to stereotype. I once talked to a woman who had spent time in a town in the northern part of Norway. She had spoken to a child there while holding his class photo, and asked him to point out the kid named Tommy (I think she Anglicised the name for the sake of the story). Tommy was the only black child in the class, probably the only one in the town. The kid pointed and said "He's the boy in the green shirt." - - Chris, off for another nostalgia concert tonight, this time Echo & the Bunnymen PS: The built-in spell checker recommends "gynecologist" and "Anglicized." But how can one possibly Americanize the spelling of the word "Anglicise"? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:19:02 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: biggus dickus We have convienence store here in the midatlantic area called WAWA the president of the operation is names Dick Wood. If I had that name I would certainly go by Rich or Richard. Max _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:27:48 -0700 From: "mats" Subject: Re: I Wanna Destroy You aye, it's the reason i first got into the soft boys. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Swedene To: Frost Free Freezer Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 12:56 PM Subject: I Wanna Destroy You > I found a LIVE cover of this by the Replacements. I > downloaded it from my friend from Israel. Anyone else > hear it? > > He had it listed as an unreleased MATS song. > > Oh well..... at least he listens to the good captain. > > Herbie > > np- Weezer "Summer Songs" > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 18:27:52 -0600 From: HAL Subject: L'Angelo Mysterioso Gone Troppo > George Harrison 'Knows He Will Die Soon' From Cancer > LONDON (Reuters) - Ex-Beatle George Harrison has admitted that he expects > to die soon from cancer, the group's former producer was quoted on Sunday > as saying. Very sad (though not wholly unexpected) news indeed. Conversely, there's a real uplifting mini-interview with Ringo Starr in the lastest Rolling Stone that I just read earlier this afternoon. It's the yin and yang, I suppose (which are also the names of Ringo's dogs.) GeoH's recent box set re-issue of ATMP makes a fitting full-circle artistic statement/musical epitaph, but I'm still hoping for that long-promised set of new tracks to surface (and preferably not posthumously). " Life flows on within you and without you " /hal, hoping one (or two) of the ex-Fabs gets to be 64 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 18:14:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: George :( http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010722/re/people_britain_harrison_dc_1.html What sad times are these.... This will be Paul's second close loss to Cancer when it happens. I hope the ATMP or another Anthology type album are released while he is here to hear the praise. sad in Buffalo, Mike Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 21:30:02 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: George :( >>What sad times are these.... > >This will be Paul's second close loss to Cancer when >it happens. > >Mike Third actually, his mother died from breast cancer when he was a teenager. Max _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:49:20 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Kendrew Lascelles Here's a longshot: I'm trying to find a complete track listing for the spoken word album "Earth Fungus and the Stuff of Stars" by Kendrew Lascelles (author of "The Box," which I believe is on this record). I'm hoping one of you fegs with four million albums might have a copy of this and can pass along the track listing to me. thanks. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 00:28:31 -0400 From: "Seth Frisby" Subject: Playin' those Name games... For another slant on the name game, recently my father recived a bill addressed to Dough Grisby. Do you know anyone with the name dough? Didn't think so. We also had a local lawyer on the Cape named Jack Mycock. Kid you not. Bit of a prick too.(no pun evident?)Vermont names haven't struck me as anything. Must listen more. Seth"What's in a name?"Frisby p.s. must finish Quantum psychology...fade to lurk.. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 00:35:28 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #279 In a message dated 7/18/01 2:53:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org writes: > Uh, yeah. Amy and I just found out a week or two ago that she's spectin'. Not due till March, so you all can suggest names for months, though I'm sure Amy will ignore all of them. And me. I just do all the cooking, cleaning, etc. and she just lays around and... gestates. (Can that be an active verb?) dave ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:31:03 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: New Feg "Randy R." wrote: > > AIM name---Randalljr1865, for anyone who like to discuss the merits of Geddy > Lee (Gary Lee Weinrib), Alex Lifeson (Alex Zivinovich), or Neil Peart (Neil > Peart). I was a bit surprised to hear that Neil Peart's a bikie. See: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1895900026/ He'll be wearing tartan socks and joining the CTC now. Stewart (recumbent, for probably the last time...) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:44:47 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: neofeggia James Dignan wrote: > > - - Plocker-Mootoo that's a fine old Scottish name... Anyway, we thought of Susquehanna at the weekend. Could be worse. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 23:10:42 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: neofeggia >James Dignan wrote: >> >> - - Plocker-Mootoo > >that's a fine old Scottish name... > >Anyway, we thought of Susquehanna at the weekend. Could be worse. hmm. nice. Hanna for short. How about Hannah Barbara? Nah, maybe not. 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: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:45:43 -0500 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: Rush Biking Books (a narrow genre) It's a good book. Ordered it as a Neil Peart/Rush fan instead of as a cyclist - I'm more of a 'runnie' (:-p) than a 'bikie' - but still enjoyed it immensely I recall having to go direct to Nimbus http://www.nimbus.ns.ca/ContactUs.asp to get it when it was published, and they still sell it for $19.95 even though it doesn't come up in the general search results. If you can get it for $5 less I'd say go for it. Michael who thought the rest of us Rush fans were in semi-permanent cold storage - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart C. Russell" To: "Randy R." Cc: Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:31 AM Subject: Re: New Feg > "Randy R." wrote: > > > > AIM name---Randalljr1865, for anyone who like to discuss the merits of Geddy > > Lee (Gary Lee Weinrib), Alex Lifeson (Alex Zivinovich), or Neil Peart (Neil > > Peart). > > I was a bit surprised to hear that Neil Peart's a bikie. See: > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1895900026/ > > He'll be wearing tartan socks and joining the CTC now. > > Stewart > (recumbent, for probably the last time...) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:43:55 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Hatching Snapdragons > Godwin: > >But the important thing with ML is to try to find a copy of the TV > >play which made his name: 'Abigail's Party'. It is _impossible_ to watch > >Alison Steadman in this without screaming in embarrassment. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Eb wrote: > Explain? Try these crits to get a flavour of it. This film is _unreservedly recommended_ by me. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0075622#comment http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/leigh/abigail.htm > I've listened to two of the four Nuggets II discs...I'll probably pull a > Godwin-style rundown, once I get through all of it. I realise now that attempting 4 CDs at one go was excessive. How about a disc-at-a-time reaction from you? - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:00:35 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: I Wanna Destroy You on 7/22/01 12:56 PM, Mike Swedene at pulp_101@yahoo.com wrote: > I found a LIVE cover of this by the Replacements. I > downloaded it from my friend from Israel. Anyone else > hear it? > Heard it live in Boston, 1990. They included this in their set during the "Don't Tell A Soul" tour. Great show! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:28:40 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: the Quail dosed me with LSD Teletubbies is on: Why is the sun a laughing baby? What the hell is "tubby toast", and why is it so delightful? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:39:55 -0700 From: "Walker, Charles" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #283 On Friday, July 20, 2001, at 10:59 AM, Walker, Charles wrote: > i new a girl in school name dorcus williams. Dorcus means "graceful", so I wonder how these relate - chas replies: ah, but dorcus doesn't *sound* graceful! what language? i dated a japanese girl named masako which means 'graceful child' - personally i prefer that to dorcus. chas ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:51:58 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: my cat eats plastic >My cat's name is Tamburlane but we shorten it to Tami, so they >always think he's the girl. Margaret's cat's name is Llorona >but we shorten it to Lloni...fortunately no one seems to think >we mean "Yoni." > >Oh, also their nicknames have nicknames -- Tami is Tam-Tam and >Lloni is Llonona. Thank me for sharing! > >Drew No. Really. I'm going to be sick. - -- - -------------- - 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: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:49:37 -0700 From: "Sweet & Tender Hooligan" Subject: Re: the Quail dosed me with LSD > Teletubbies is on: Why is the sun a laughing baby? > What the hell is "tubby toast", and why is it so > delightful? If you have to ask, you'll never know. ;) paul christian glenn | pcg@runbox.com "between you and me it's hard to ever really know who to trust how to think what to believe between me and you it's hard to ever really know who to choose how to feel what to do..." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:50:00 -0400 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: my cat eats plastic >I always know when a telemarketer is calling, >even when they don't get as far as pronouncing my last name >"Shimick" or "Shmick." i love to harass these people when they fumble through my last name. "sorry, no one here by *that* name." i'm okay with various pronounciations ("oh-strander", "awww-strander", "ooo-strander"); but it's usually not the first syllable that they mangle. "standing on a beach with a gun in my hand..." >>The vet says she will be a big cat. I told >>her the cat's name was Hopey, but it keeps getting mistaken for >>"Hopi." So the quest continues... > >My cat's name is Tamburlane but we shorten it to Tami, my cat's name is tiramisu. often tira. the irony is she hates to be picked up. i found her as a stray on MIT campus. ken "genetics is no excuse" the kenster np 801 live ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:11:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason W. Brown" Subject: Re: my cat eats plastic On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Ken Ostrander wrote: > >I always know when a telemarketer is calling, > >even when they don't get as far as pronouncing my last name > >"Shimick" or "Shmick." > > i love to harass these people when they fumble through my last name. "sorry, > no one here by *that* name." i'm okay with various pronounciations > ("oh-strander", "awww-strander", "ooo-strander"); but it's usually not the > first syllable that they mangle. "standing on a beach with a gun in my > hand..." My mothers last name since she re-married is Burgener. They frequently get Bur-jenner or Bur-Genner rather than Bergen-er. And my former roommate would get Nas-tazzy Nas-taste or Nasty instaead of Nastasi (Nas-tahzey). of course no one ever mis pronounces my name Jason Wilson Brown - University of Washington - Seattle, WA "Life boring when you no can die" -Solomon Grundy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:40:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: my cat eats plastic - --- Ken Ostrander wrote: > >I always know when a telemarketer is calling, > >even when they don't get as far as pronouncing my > last name > >"Shimick" or "Shmick." > > i love to harass these people when they fumble > through my last name. "sorry, > no one here by *that* name." i'm okay with various > pronounciations > ("oh-strander", "awww-strander", "ooo-strander"); > but it's usually not the > first syllable that they mangle. "standing on a > beach with a gun in my > hand..." They like to butcher my last name as well.... Swedene I get: Sweden, Swednic, Sweeten, etc. Bastards! My GF's cats used to eat tinsel around the holidays. Not necessarily plastics.... Herbie ps - Da9ve please email me my burner has been replaced@! Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:45:38 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: quicktime to mpeg converter? Does anyone here know of anything around to convert a quicktime movie to mpeg? I would prefer for Windows, but unix or Mac would be okay. Thanks. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:59:49 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: my cat eats plastic >They like to butcher my last name as well.... >Swedene I get: Sweden, Swednic, Sweeten, etc. >Bastards! >Herbie Try having Maximilian for a name! First off in N.J. the drivers liscences only have 9 characters so mine says Maximilia. I always know when the DMV is the source of my name on telemarketing calls. May I speak with Matsimeele-a makzameiliuh. No thankyou, goodbye! Max _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:48:58 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Hatching Snapdragons >> Godwin: >> I've listened to two of the four Nuggets II discs...I'll probably pull a >> Godwin-style rundown, once I get through all of it. > >I realise now that attempting 4 CDs at one go was excessive. How about a >disc-at-a-time reaction from you? Well, I'm not going to bother commenting on every track...mostly, just the ones I like. And unfortunately, this percentage seems to be running at less than 50%. I'm mildly disappointed with this set. The research/thoroughness is remarkable, but this doesn't mean the tracks are necessarily golden.... Eb, who still hasn't played the fourth disc np: Bill Janovitz/Up Here ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:05:25 -0700 From: Mark Gloster Subject: baby names... Tom, I think "Funzo," though it is a Simpsons moniker is quite a good name for a child of this, that or other characteristics. "Cute and cuddly with lots of firepower" is what a li'l yung un certainly describes cats for me, but for those who actually like the human sort it would probably suit a miniature human. I'm thinking "Funzo Tiberius Clark" is the storng, powerful kind of name that could launch one into being a starship captain, or at least a corporate raider, but hopefully not an Oakland one, for that is just evil. Donne suggested "Funzo Ulysses Clark" because it retains all the power and has the added impact of great initials. Hope this helps. Happies, - -Markg ps. Kitty update: wow, these cats are all incredibly great. 2 minor drawbacks: Dusty and Livivingston are not too fond of them and all the new kitties pooooop a lot. pps. Enjoying Tour de France coverage. We finally get real bike race telecasts in the US of A! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:24:22 -0400 From: "Poole, R. Edward" Subject: REAP No, not George. Eudora Welty has finally worn out her path. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38658-2001Jul23.html ============================================================================This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. This communication may contain material protected by attorney-client, work product, or other privileges. 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