From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #413 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, November 1 2001 Volume 10 : Number 413 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Narnia's Little Gang [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Ian Dury [Michael R Godwin ] plots, Jefferies, and TLAs [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Narnia's Little Gang ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Narnia's Little Gang [steve ] saviors, what would we do without them [gSs ] a good speech ["Walker, Charles" ] Re: a good speech ["matt sewell" ] RE: a good speech ["Larry O'Brien" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #412 ["Natalie Jane" ] Re: Narnia's Little Gang [Michael R Godwin ] MJ [Basketball content 100%] [Glen Uber ] RE: MJ [Basketball content 100%] ["Poole, R. Edward" ] tolking up ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: MJ [Basketball content 100%] [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] an old friend [Stephen Mahoney ] Re: an old friend [Capuchin ] Re: Narnia's Little Gang [steve ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #412 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Deep fried Mars ice cream [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Deep fried Mars ice cream ["matt sewell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:09:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > you'll be please to know that HarperCollins has got the go-ahead to > adapt the Narnia stories, taking out the unfashionable bits. I suspect a > film tie-in. If we slipped up on Harry Potter, we sure ain't gonna on > the Tolkien and Lewis products. Aaarghh! I read something about this a few months ago but I thought it was just a bad joke. Here are some suggestions: Eustace: obviously progressive schooling is a good thing, so we'll have to turn Eustace into a good character and Caspian into a big bully. Instead of becoming a dragon, Eustace could become a helpful little pony as a reward for unselfishness. High King Peter: We can't have any hierarchy, so we need to abolish the monarchy. And the idea of one king above the others is even worse! I suggest that the High Kingship is replaced by a syndicalist workers' council. Susan: Obviously Susan is adapting well to the grown-up world and doesn't deserve to be sent to Hell. Let her become a TV presenter instead. Christian references (e.g. lion turning into lamb etc). Not multi-cultural. Suggest that Aslan turns into a Prince Charles figure representing a defender of all faiths. Instead of saying "You forgot to clean your sword", he could delivery homily on disarmament. Tash: obvious anti-Babylonian reference here. Replace this section with joint statement by Tony Robinson and that chap from Meet the Ancestors about the validity of ancient cultures. Lucy: Too cute. She needs to be Tank Girled up quite a bit. Queen of Charn: Gross plagiarism from Queen of Babylon in E Nesbit's 'The story of the amulet'. Add acknowledgement. Lantern: old-fashioned. Replace with QI searchlight. Similarly, the stone table could be replaced with IKEA self-assembly conservatory furniture. Train crash at end: add acknowledgement to Railtrack. Calormenes: We need to hit them hard. Send in the SAS (whoops! I seem to have lost the plot). [to be continued] - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:20:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Ian Dury On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Aaron Mandel wrote: > Ian Dury's dead? Well, fuck. Yes, I saw him back with the original Blockheads 2 or 3 years ago and it was great: free show in Wollaton Park, Nottingham. He issued a statement saying that one of the good things about dying of cancer was that he was able to get the band back together for a final tour. A tribute album was announced in the NME featuring some big names: I've heard the McCartney contribution but I don't know any other details. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 02:05:17 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: plots, Jefferies, and TLAs > A subject that has been done to death for certain, if the > ones you name have. Yet trees are still being killed for what must > absolutely be exhausted cliches by this time... three words. Mills and Boon. Treekillers! >Anyone else heard the new Peter Jefferies (or give two sneezes about >him)? heh. Someone mentions a Dunedin musician and expects no response from me? Not that I've heard the new one (the last one I heard of his was probably Electricity or Chorus of Interludes - although the latter was a compilation so it doesn't really count). I can definitely see your IODOT comparison. >New NBA season, with MJ, and after that, LA!!! Michael Jackson AND Laurie Anderson! No wonder you're excited! 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: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:18:14 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang Michael R Godwin wrote: > > Aaarghh! I read something about this a few months ago but I thought it was > just a bad joke. Here are some suggestions: far from it. We're "really very excited" [pubspeak == couldn't give a toss, but ever since Harry there's money in kids' books] at the prospect of reworked Narnia. I'm seeing action figures free with happy meals... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:37:30 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang Stewart, I hope to god you mean beany-babies... Perhaps you could get your local Irn Bru and Battered-Deep-Fried-Mars-Bars outlet to sponsor it?! ;-) Mmm...Irn Bru and Battered-Deep-Fried-Mars-Bars... arghlghlghlgh.... Matt PS to Mike - superb modernising tweaks re. Narnia... it's about time we dragged classic children's lit into the noughties! Perhaps a Eminem rap styling for Edmund? > >I'm seeing action figures free with happy meals... > > Stewart - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:57:41 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang On Wednesday, October 31, 2001, at 05:09 AM, Michael R Godwin wrote: > [to be continued] The plan is for new books without Christian content. The old books won't be changed. Even Rupert isn't *that* crass. I think they're looking to use fairly well known authors. I wonder if Clive Barker would be interested, as he's in the H/C fold at the moment. - - Steve __________ If anyone has ever benefited from what Bush has called "the bigotry of soft expectations," it's George W. Bush himself. - Mark Crispin Miller ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:35:22 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: saviors, what would we do without them On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, steve wrote: > Which wild child daughter of a politico was smoking pot at an L.A. > party? The hard-partying lass puffed right under the nose of the minders > who try to keep her out of trouble. > > Answer: Jenna Bush - New York Post, 7/25/01 Since pot smoking causes nothing but trouble and she will end up whorin or selling her babies for hash oil before her next birthday, I think maybe we should help the girl by making an example out of her. See, first alcohol, then marijuana and what next,,, valium? Shit I bet we'll catch her in a seedy Mexican Pharmacy buying barbituates with a prescription from the doctor next door. And what would that mean? If we could get the dea to sell her pot in Texas and record a conversation between the sisters regarding her joint debt to Barbara (little B is always fronting little J some dope) then bust her with it in Washington. Sisters are cool, aren't they, at least for the guy next door? We could get her on interstate transport of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and put her away, where she belongs, for 5 or 10 years, just like she deserves cause she has been such a bad, bad little girl. gSs the drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you - bd ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:38:46 -0800 From: "Walker, Charles" Subject: a good speech so as not to clutter the airways with politico texts, here is an interesting speech about the issues of declairing 'war.' and because the author is british, it is, at the least, well written. read the article with an english accent in your head and things sound more profound. http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=470295&in_r eview_text_id=424158 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:49:48 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: a good speech You're absolutely right - I see now where I've been going wrong - reading news articles with an American accent in my head has always made everything sound shallow and frivolous... ;-) Matt "that's an Estuary English accent, isn't it?" Sewell >From: "Walker, Charles" >Reply-To: "Walker, Charles" >To: "'fegmaniax@smoe.org'" >Subject: a good speech >Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:38:46 -0800 > >so as not to clutter the airways with politico texts, here is an interesting >speech about the issues of declairing 'war.' and because the author is >british, it is, at the least, well written. read the article with an english >accent in your head and things sound more profound. >http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=470295&in_r >eview_text_id=424158 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:56:25 -0500 From: "Larry O'Brien" Subject: RE: a good speech More profound? All I can think of is the Graham Chapman Monty Python voice where he plays a chartered accountant droning on and on. Don't be so sentimental. People explode every day. - -----Original Message----- From: Walker, Charles [mailto:CWalker@roll.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:39 AM To: 'fegmaniax@smoe.org' Subject: a good speech so as not to clutter the airways with politico texts, here is an interesting speech about the issues of declairing 'war.' and because the author is british, it is, at the least, well written. read the article with an english accent in your head and things sound more profound. http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=470295& in_r eview_text_id=424158 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:05:40 -0800 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #412 >I know it's been out since March, but it's taken almost that long to >get >it through the usual channels. Major Organ & The Adding Machine >is the >perfect E6 album. Hints of Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor >Control, and >yes, even The Music Tapes -- but in a good way. Wow - I considered buying this album, but every description of it that I've read (apart from yours) - both favorable *and* unfavorable - make it sound like everything I dislike about E6: wanky noise collage experiments, Julian Koster squeaking away in his nasal little hobbit voice, messy home recording self-indulgence, etc. etc. And yet I trust your taste, Stewart. What to do, what to do... n. now dressed as: Persephone, queen of the underworld (complete with pomegranate) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:28:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, steve wrote: > The plan is for new books without Christian content. The old books > won't be changed. Even Rupert isn't *that* crass. I think they're > looking to use fairly well known authors. I wonder if Clive Barker > would be interested, as he's in the H/C fold at the moment. Mmmm. But the whole _point_ of C S Lewis is that he became a successful populiser of Christianity after regaining his faith. All his non-academic writing (and a fair proportion of his academic stuff too) is informed by Christianity. Perelandra is an alternative take on Genesis. That Hideous Strength is the Tower of Babel plus the Fisher King. In Narnia, Aslan is Christ who suffers death to redeem sinners. You mgiht just as well try to write a secular version of the Screwtape Letters. - - Mike "Bent Eldil" Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:25:34 -0800 (PST) From: Glen Uber Subject: MJ [Basketball content 100%] On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, James Dignan wrote: >>New NBA season, with MJ, and after that, LA!!! > >Michael Jackson AND Laurie Anderson! No wonder you're excited! I'm so sick of hearing about Michael Jordan. The only comeback that should receive this much press is Jesus Christ's. Sheesh! Of course, I've never been much of a pro basketball fan. Maybe I'd feel differently if the Bay Area had a professional team. ;-) March Madness is an entirely different story, however. - -- Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:40:11 -0500 From: "Poole, R. Edward" Subject: RE: MJ [Basketball content 100%] On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, James Dignan wrote: >>New NBA season, with MJ, and after that, LA!!! > >Michael Jackson AND Laurie Anderson! No wonder you're excited! But Glen was heard to complain: >I'm so sick of hearing about Michael Jordan. The only comeback that should >receive this much press is Jesus Christ's. Hmmm, reminds me of "Christ Returns to NBA," from one of The Onion books (but it doesn't appear to be online; too bad). As a DC resident (well, not really -- I work here and live in the suburbs) and a long suffering Bullets/Wizards fan, I say "Pshaw" (which, if you knew me, you'd know I never say lightly). It's nice to have some good news around here -- plus I got to take my five-year-old to go see Jordan play, which I'm really happy about. The aforementioned child, Max, was less impressed -- he told me he didn't "need to go" see the Wizards because he had already seen the Mystics, our WNBA franchise. My arguments about why Jordan was special -- and how Max would be able to tell his children that he got to see Jordan play -- failed to seal the deal. Finally, this exchange occurred: Me: "Plus, you'll get to stay up super-late -- we won't get home until 11 at night!" Max: "Really? Can we get popcorn, too?" Me: "Sure." Max: "Alright! Can we go tonight?" We went to the (only) home preseason game, Jordan scored 41 (including his first dunk of career 3.0), and -- more importantly -- we had popcorn AND cotton candy. ============================================================================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. If you are not the intended recipient or person responsible for delivering this confidential communication to the intended recipient, you have received this communication in error, and any review, use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, copying, or other distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to postmaster@dsmo.com Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP http://www.legalinnovators.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:58:44 -0800 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: tolking up >From: Natalie Jane Jacobs > >"Ordinary people" comprises a much, much wider subset than "people who >suck blood." I don't think the subject of ordinary people can be >exhausted simply because there are too many types of ordinary people. You >and I are both ordinary people with ordinary problems, but we are very, >very different, and two extremely different novels could be written about >either of us. I agree, and would argue that one conception of vampires is just "ordinary people" who happen to feed on blood rather than sandwiches and tofu over spinach with peanut sauce. That's before you get into all the *other* conceptions of vampires that are out there. I tend to agree that in practice "vampire fiction" tends to be repetitive and redundant, but in theory it's as inexhaustible as any other genre or non-genre. Of course, you in particular could be sick of vampire fiction, and I wouldn't blame you, but that doesn't mean the subject is dead (insert your own pun here). I think the situation is a little different with the Arthurian tradition (which I spent a whole semester studying in college), where you're talking about very specific characters and some amount of shared stories. That subgenre is limited by its very definition, which makes finding new takes on it much harder (but not impossible). >That said, there are a lot of ordinary subjects which have been done to >death and beyond the grave. Love stories, to start with... in fact, I'd >like to put a moratorium on love stories, too! Man, you would be deadly with that rubber stamp! If you ever got hold of it, would you take a few of my requests: no more TV shows about lawyers, cops, or doctors; no more romantic comedies; and FOR FUCK'S SAKE no more books about writers? >over. This is considered to be a tragic, sad thing... the aristocracy >passing away into the West, leaving the world to mere common folk. Well, in their defense, most of those elves and wizards seem pretty benevolent despite their uppity status, and they put a lot of magic into the world. It's understandable that some "common folk" might miss them, I think. >p.s. I'm *really* thinking about doing that novel thing - but it's almost >too late! I think it might really be too late -- I think I saw where the deadline was Monday. Of course, you can always do it without signing up! :) >From: Capuchin > >My initial thought was in agreement, but then I realized that posting >politics when people are actively hostile to the idea (as they were here a >few short weeks ago) just makes ALL of your posts less likely to be >read. You become shunned and ostracized and that does absolutely nothing >for your cause. (Or worse and possibly more likely, people will dismiss >your view simply because you've stated it so often and never treat it >rationally.) To be frank, the tone of this paragraph seems a bit condescending to me. It's a similar tone to the one I saw on the other mailing list I mentioned (a social announcement list for Bay Area bisexuals, if it matters), where the people who really wanted to get on their soapboxes seemed to view the rest of us on the list as neutral, unthinking bodies waiting to be galvanized by their right-thinking tirades. I, for one, am perfectly capable of treating a view rationally and still resent having it pushed on me as though I am a couch potato and the view a sitcom. I'm sure you don't view us this way -- otherwise you would not expect us to sit down and prepare the logical derivations of our opinions. But I think on some level you may have different ideas about who you're talking to and why, and it's seeping through. I may just be transferring attitudes I've seen elsewhere onto you, but it doesn't seem like it. >From: "Stewart C. Russell" > >you'll be please to know that HarperCollins has got the go-ahead to >adapt the Narnia stories, taking out the unfashionable bits. What does that mean? You said: >I suspect a film tie-in. If you're not adapting them for film, what are you adapting them for? Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:52:03 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: MJ [Basketball content 100%] >On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, James Dignan wrote: > >>>New NBA season, with MJ, and after that, LA!!! >> >>Michael Jackson AND Laurie Anderson! No wonder you're excited! > >I'm so sick of hearing about Michael Jordan. The only comeback that should >receive this much press is Jesus Christ's. > >Sheesh! seriously, there's quite a bit of interest in the NBA down here this year, since the first NZer to crack the big time is set to play (Sean Marks, who is set to play for Miami IIRC) 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: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:20:10 -0800 (PST) From: Stephen Mahoney Subject: an old friend So- What goes on in the world of fegs? Does anyone know when the new Soft Boys release is due? - -Stephen "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."(MacBeth, Act 5, Scene 5) Mahoney ***************************************************************************** Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of that fact. -- George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) US novelist, journalist, river pilot The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks. -- Thomas Beecham (1879-1961) English conductor ***************************************************************************** Stephen Mahoney Multnomah County Library at Rockwood Branch Clerk stephenm@multcolib.org 503-988-5396 fax 503-988-5178 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 19:02:50 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: an old friend On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Stephen Mahoney wrote: > What goes on in the world of fegs? Well, since you moved out, some Mod girl moved in next door and it took her several weeks to figure out that she should close the bathroom curtain unless she wants everyone in my kitchen to see her naked when she gets out of the shower. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 23:12:59 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang On Wednesday, October 31, 2001, at 11:28 AM, Michael R Godwin wrote: > Mmmm. But the whole _point_ of C S Lewis is that he became a successful > populiser of Christianity after regaining his faith. All his > non-academic > writing (and a fair proportion of his academic stuff too) is informed by > Christianity. Perelandra is an alternative take on Genesis. That Hideous > Strength is the Tower of Babel plus the Fisher King. In Narnia, Aslan is > Christ who suffers death to redeem sinners. You mgiht just as well try > to > write a secular version of the Screwtape Letters. Come on now, don't be a party pooper! - - Steve __________ The Bush/Nixon bond is a most peculiar union, given the immense class gap between the Man from Whittier and the would-be dynasty in Kennebunkport. And yet there's an important similarity between them after all. Despite the Bush clan's vast advantage, that crew is, oddly, just as thin-skinned and resentful as the Trickster. Like him, they never forget a slight, and always feel themselves impaired; and so-like Nixon-they tend to favor The Attack. - Mark Crispin Miller ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:11:52 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #412 Natalie Jane wrote: > > everything I dislike about E6: > wanky noise collage experiments, true, it has these. But they don't drone on and on and on and on -- they neatly segue into the next track. > Julian Koster squeaking away in his nasal little hobbit voice He's not the only vocalist; in fact, I'm not sure I can place him singing lead in any of the tracks (though he might be "singing" the starnge little fairytale in the middle). Jeff Mangum's definitely in evidence. > messy home recording It's lofi, but sounds as if it's been recorded on something with higher fidelity than damp string. I might actually describe the sound as "rich", even. > self-indulgence Nope, it's too short for that. Just buy it. Any album with a whirling fairground style track which turns out to be called "Barry's Lung" can't be bad. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:19:08 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang matt sewell wrote: > > Stewart, I hope to god you mean beany-babies... of course not! They're owned by an audacious autocrat who's a known keeper of profits. They could be beany, but made by slave labour as th' holy Profit intended. > Perhaps you could get your local Irn Bru and > Battered-Deep-Fried-Mars-Bars outlet to sponsor it?! ;-) LOOK, can I just make a point here: Deep-Fried Mars Bars are *NOT* a Glasgow thing Okay? They were invented in NE Scotland; they're weird up there. And don't diss Irn Bru. It kicks Coke's nasty, weedy, poopwater ass. It's orange! It's spelt strange! It causes a unique form of gum disease only found in SW Scotland! Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:52:56 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang I see... so you're against people making a few pence a year stitching together cuddly toys in labour camps? You'll be slagging off The War Against Terrorism (or TWAT as I like to call it) next... You obviously lack the "moral fibre" to bomb the crap out of these people... BTW - did you hear about the facility (in Georgia USA, I think) for training terrorists in the dark arts of insurrection, torture and kidnap? I figure airstrikes would be just the ticket... at the same time we could win the hearts and minds of those poor innocent American citizens by dropping naan bread and peanut butter... Back on the subject of Beany Babies - how the hell else are you meant to know what to see at the cinema, if you're not tipped off by a toy in your "happy" meal..? I would never have a bad word for Irn Bru... a fantastic invention, in my honest opinion... Cheers Matt "must...see...Harry...Potter...No! NOOoooooo!" Sewell >From: "Stewart C. Russell" >Reply-To: "Stewart C. Russell" >To: matt sewell >CC: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang >Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:19:08 +0000 > >matt sewell wrote: > > > > Stewart, I hope to god you mean beany-babies... > >of course not! They're owned by an audacious autocrat who's a known >keeper of profits. They could be beany, but made by slave labour as th' >holy Profit intended. > > > Perhaps you could get your local Irn Bru and > > Battered-Deep-Fried-Mars-Bars outlet to sponsor it?! ;-) > >LOOK, can I just make a point here: > > Deep-Fried Mars Bars are *NOT* a Glasgow thing > >Okay? They were invented in NE Scotland; they're weird up there. > >And don't diss Irn Bru. It kicks Coke's nasty, weedy, poopwater ass. >It's orange! It's spelt strange! It causes a unique form of gum disease >only found in SW Scotland! > > Stewart - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:08:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Deep fried Mars ice cream On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, matt sewell wrote: > I would never have a bad word for Irn Bru... a fantastic invention, in my > honest opinion... I have to intervene here: any self-respecting train spotter knows that the only permissible drink to go with your Kraft cheese slice sandwiches is: * * * Tizer (the appetizer)! * * * - - Mike Godwin PS Did I tell you how I spotted LMS 6233 at Bristol Temple Meads last Saturday? 4 cylinder 4-6-2, Walschaerts valve gear on all cylinders, 250 lb boiler pressure, classified 7P by the LMS, not 8P as you might expect! I'm not boring you, am I? No? Then you'd probably be interested in the fact that there were apparently some American locos which used the Gresley derived motion for the inside cylinder! Or, as some argue it should be called, the Gresley-Holcroft derived motion ... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 10:16:38 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Deep fried Mars ice cream Tizer, of course... also Vimto As for trainspotting - only tried it once, although I really don't think I was doing it right... it took me months to come off the heroin! Matt "yes, ha bloody ha" Sewell >I have to intervene here: any self-respecting train spotter knows that the >only permissible drink to go with your Kraft cheese slice sandwiches is: > >* * * Tizer (the appetizer)! * * * > >- Mike Godwin > >PS Did I tell you how I spotted LMS 6233 at Bristol Temple Meads last >Saturday? 4 cylinder 4-6-2, Walschaerts valve gear on all cylinders, 250 >lb boiler pressure, classified 7P by the LMS, not 8P as you might expect! >I'm not boring you, am I? No? Then you'd probably be interested in the >fact that there were apparently some American locos which used the Gresley >derived motion for the inside cylinder! Or, as some argue it should be >called, the Gresley-Holcroft derived motion ... - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #413 ********************************