From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #414 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 414 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Deep fried Mars ice cream ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Narnia's Little Gang ["Stewart C. Russell" ] You should always put a dead badger on a head wound [grutness@surf4nix.co] Re: bread bread [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Narnia's Little Gang ["matt sewell" ] 6233 ["marcus slade" ] Re: 6233 [Michael R Godwin ] Re: bread bread [Aaron Mandel ] Re: bread bread ["matt sewell" ] Re: Narnia's Little Gang [gSs ] Re: bread bread [The Great Quail ] Re: Narnia's Little Gang ["Stewart C. Russell" ] bread bread, badger badger [Christopher Gross ] Re: bread bread, badger badger [gSs ] Re: 100% kitty lit(er) [Michael R Godwin ] Le D&B - alors, enfin d'etre tapis! [FricChaud@videotron.ca] The vampire sensuously sank his teeth into Julian Koster's neck ["Natalie] merde! [FricChaud@videotron.ca] Re: The vampire sensuously sank his teeth into Julian Koster's neck [Self] (Fwd) Re: The vampire sensuously sank his teeth into Julian Ko [FricChaud] Re: bread bread [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: The vampire sensuously sank his teeth into Natalie's light bulb ["Mik] Re: an old friend [Viv Lyon ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 10:36:58 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Deep fried Mars ice cream matt sewell wrote: > > Tizer, of course... yuk! Would you trust a drink that is of such indeterminate flavour that they made an advertising feature out of it: "It's Red Flavour!" > also Vimto argh, bleah! Vimto is the most urpy drink ever; even more so than the chunder-inducing Dr Pepper. It's also an anagram of "vomit"; would *you* drink that? As it's now November, it's time for my annual can of Dandelion & Burdock. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 10:45:24 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang matt sewell wrote: > > BTW - did you hear about the facility (in Georgia USA, I think) for > training terrorists in the dark arts of insurrection, torture and kidnap? know it? My wife was with a party of nuns that got arrested demonstrating outside it! > dropping naan bread and peanut butter... a word to the wise; 'naan' means 'bread'. So you're saying 'bread bread' there. > 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..? My happy meal is chicken/spinach/methi curry. It comes with no toys. The movie I go to see is the one that's always just opened at the local arthouse. Is there a problem? > I would never have a bad word for Irn Bru... a fantastic invention, in my > honest opinion... why, because it keeps the life expectancy of Glaswegians 10 years below the national average? Stewart "I may look like an international terrorist, but they always wave me through" Russell ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 10:58:08 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang Naan: Yep, you're right - naan bread as opposed to bread bread (the kind with which I make toast - TOAST!) A word to the wise: I think you'll find it's a par-tay of nuns... I can tell from your curries and your arthouse films that you've got a lot to learn about being a good consumer... pennance is 25 big macs and a Forrest Gump DVD... Irn Bru - for kids up until the age of 11, when they can move on to Special Bru... Matt "deported without looking remotely like a terrorist..." Sewell >From: "Stewart C. Russell" >To: matt sewell >CC: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang >Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 10:45:24 +0000 > >matt sewell wrote: > > > > BTW - did you hear about the facility (in Georgia USA, I think) for > > training terrorists in the dark arts of insurrection, torture and kidnap? > >know it? My wife was with a party of nuns that got arrested >demonstrating outside it! > > > dropping naan bread and peanut butter... > >a word to the wise; 'naan' means 'bread'. So you're saying 'bread bread' >there. > > > 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..? > >My happy meal is chicken/spinach/methi curry. It comes with no toys. The >movie I go to see is the one that's always just opened at the local >arthouse. Is there a problem? > > > I would never have a bad word for Irn Bru... a fantastic invention, in my > > honest opinion... > >why, because it keeps the life expectancy of Glaswegians 10 years below >the national average? > >Stewart "I may look like an international terrorist, but they always >wave me through" Russell - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:36:58 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang matt sewell wrote: > > A word to the wise: I think you'll find it's a par-tay of nuns... Matt, isn't it a bit early to be stoned? ;-) Mind you, you're a minor celeb to my mother-in-law. While we were sat on the grass at Waltham Abbey, after Catherine and her mum had gone foraging for food*, but before Robyn and Co started to play, ISTR that someone alleged to be one M Sewell had lit a particularly fragrant joint. My guidmither, with her sheltered midwestern upbringing, leant over and stage-whispered to me: "Is that man smoking *marijuana*?" Stewart *: and came back with Big Macs... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:39:02 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: [fegbooks] Captain Bluebear add Walter Moers's "The 13= Lives of Captain Bluebear" to the list. Great illos and a wild read. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:42:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: bread bread On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > a word to the wise; 'naan' means 'bread'. So you're saying 'bread bread' > there. I live near the River Avon, which means 'river river'. 'hoi' means 'the', so 'the hoi polloi' translates to 'the the people'. There must be a name for this. An oxyoxy perhaps? - - Mike "cheese CHEESE" Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 00:51:46 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: You should always put a dead badger on a head wound >>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 >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 no offence to the folks in Barnsley and Huddersfield, but it adds a wonderful piquant surrealism if you imagine it with "just oop from down t'pit" Yorkshirese. Or, with no disrespect to Gateshead, "haway the lads" Geordie, for that matter. >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)! * * * give me Lemon and Paeroa any day. Whaddayamean you've never heard of it? Oh, and Mike, you may be interested to know that my beloved Alice is not only distantly related to William "Puffing Billy" Hedley, but is also related by marriage (no, not hers) to the developer of the Bulleid wheel. James PS - welcome home Stephen, but I hope you kept your fingers crossed when typing that bit from the McPlay. 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, 1 Nov 2001 03:59:27 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: bread bread Michael R Godwin wrote: > Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > a word to the wise; 'naan' means 'bread'. So you're saying 'bread > > bread' there. > > I live near the River Avon, which means 'river river'. > > 'hoi' means 'the', so 'the hoi polloi' translates to 'the the > people'. > > There must be a name for this. An oxyoxy perhaps? redundantly repeating yourself all over again. np: Elvis Costello: Live at the El Mocambo okay, not really. Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 12:59:03 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang Not necessarily stoned, but.... Some people, though, would assert that it's only a poisonous plant... ... but it's calling my name! Matt "What's my name again?" Sewell >Matt, isn't it a bit early to be stoned? ;-) > >Mind you, you're a minor celeb to my mother-in-law. While we were sat on >the grass at Waltham Abbey, after Catherine and her mum had gone >foraging for food*, but before Robyn and Co started to play, ISTR that >someone alleged to be one M Sewell had lit a particularly fragrant >joint. My guidmither, with her sheltered midwestern upbringing, leant >over and stage-whispered to me: "Is that man smoking *marijuana*?" > > Stewart > >*: and came back with Big Macs... - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 14:15:26 From: "marcus slade" Subject: 6233 This would be Duchess Of Sutherland on 'The Mayflower' running Bristol to Plymouth and return, would it not? Marcus >- - 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/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:36:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: 6233 Yes, I tried to get tickets, but they sold out quite quickly. So I had to make do with taking a few flash photos instead. - - Mike PS Your anorak is showing ... On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, marcus slade wrote: > This would be Duchess Of Sutherland on 'The Mayflower' running Bristol to > Plymouth and return, would it not? > > Marcus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:32:17 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: bread bread On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Michael R Godwin wrote: > There must be a name for this. "pleonasm" is the word for the more general sin of using extra words; i don't know if there's a name for the special case where you're literally saying the same thing twice ("naan bread", "ATM machine", etc.) a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 15:57:07 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: bread bread So, what's tautology... I always thought that was the term for words meaning the same thing...? Matt "tautological pleonasm" Matthew Sewell > >"pleonasm" is the word for the more general sin of using extra words; i >don't know if there's a name for the special case where you're literally >saying the same thing twice ("naan bread", "ATM machine", etc.) > > >a - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:03:46 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > 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! That is pretty neat to know but did you know also that two or more Nehi Blues in a single day will turn your poop green by no later than the next morning and often through that afternoon into that next evening and sometimes even through the morning after that? gSs Now everything's a little upside down As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped What's good is bad, what's bad is good You'll find out when you reach the top you're on the bottom - bd ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:03:16 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: bread bread Aaron writes, >"pleonasm" is the word for the more general sin of using extra words; i >don't know if there's a name for the special case where you're literally >saying the same thing twice ("naan bread", "ATM machine", etc.) My favorite: "The Christ UCC Church," about a stone's throw from where I grew up.... - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:32:23 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Narnia's Little Gang gSs wrote: > > That is pretty neat to know but did you know also that two or more Nehi > Blues in a single day will ... In the interests of list taste, I have NOT copied my reply to gSs to y'all, despite it containing the instructions on "How To Make A Zebra". Nor have I linked Irn Bru to the words "rich coppery colour". Believe me, you're glad. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:41:17 +0000 From: "Redtailed Hawk" Subject: 100% kitty lit(er) Mike: >The struggle to persevere, to succeed without glory from >that effort is what I thought JRRT meant by heroism. Yup. And even heroism fails. In the end all of Frodo's will comes to naught. He's given his best effort and --what would appear to be tragically-- its not enough. Here is where Tolkein's Old English(as in the heroic poetry of the Anglo-Saxons) lit view gives way to what I see as his Catholicism. Grace steps in and evil ends up serving Grace's purpose. Hence the argument that Smegoll is also the hero;-). Like Shakespeare's last plays, it makes for a complex, yet right-feeling eucatastrope which is part of what makes LOTR well, to my mind, great art as well as a great read. - ---------------------- Sewart: >you'll be please to know that HarperCollins has got the go-ahead to >adapt the Narnia stories, taking out the unfashionable bits. (Kay choking with frustration but grateful for your sarcasm.)Yes, and probobly half of the backbone as well. I'd rather rely on the putative intelligence of the reader than on the creative editing ability of commercial hacks(apologies if any in that division are your pals) manoevering to jack up sales. Theres also the talk of sequels written by lesser-writers, which is absurd and (puffing her chest out so as to turn into a Lewis-like Col. Blimp) damnable chuff. Get me my elephant gun. Time to go a-hunting. - ----------------------------- Godwin.... God, you -are- funny. (And I agree about the "demn fine woman" being a flagerent steal from "The Story of the Amulet." But then the immortal sentence, "His name was Eustace Scrubb and he almost deserved it" is a steal from Nesbitt's Oswald Bastable(which could take us into Michael Moorcock territory, but I wouldnt go there;-) - -------------------------- Nat: >now dressed as: Persephone, queen of the underworld (complete with >pomegranate) "I have lived long enough having seen one thing, that love hath an end. Goddess and Maiden and Queen, be near me now and befriend, Thou art more than the ? of the morning, more than the ? that weeps For these bring joy or sorrow, but thou Prosephena, sleep." (Swinburne from memory. Hymn to Prosephone) But did you -eat- the pomegranate? - -------------------------------- Welcome back Stephen What! you'd rather curse the darkness?;-) - --------------- Kay _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:43:41 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: bread bread, badger badger On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, The Great Quail wrote: > >"pleonasm" is the word for the more general sin of using extra words; i > >don't know if there's a name for the special case where you're literally > >saying the same thing twice ("naan bread", "ATM machine", etc.) > > My favorite: > > "The Christ UCC Church," about a stone's throw from where I grew up.... Here at the library, you're always hearing people refer to "ISSN numbers" and "ISBN numbers." On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, James Dignan will write: > no offence to the folks in Barnsley and Huddersfield, but it adds a > wonderful piquant surrealism if you imagine it with "just oop from down > t'pit" Yorkshirese. Whenever I read news stories from British sources, I imagine them in the voice of Bubble from AbFab. Last night I said goodbye to yet *another* DC friend who's moving out of the area (to San Francisco this time). Tell me honestly, folks, is it me? Should I bathe? - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:06:04 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: bread bread, badger badger On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Christopher Gross wrote: > Last night I said goodbye to yet *another* DC friend who's moving out of > the area (to San Francisco this time). Tell me honestly, folks, is it > me? Should I bathe? Oh no, you've got the wrong idea. Just two words: curiously strong. Don't worry about the other end, as everything smells fine there. It's your breathe. Jeez, I always hate having to say that unless of course you are a fine young field worker or stable girl. I think chances of a hit go way up as soon as you let her know she has bad breathe and then offer her a mint. And those field workers can have thighs made for lovin. Didn't you ever wonder why they have such big familes? Well, now you know. gSs Don't be so sentimental. People explode every day. - Larry O'Brien ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 17:11:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: 100% kitty lit(er) On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Redtailed Hawk wrote: > Yup. And even heroism fails. In the end all of Frodo's will comes to naught. > He's given his best effort and --what would appear to be tragically-- its > not enough. Here is where Tolkein's Old English(as in the heroic poetry of > the Anglo-Saxons) lit view gives way to what I see as his Catholicism. Grace > steps in and evil ends up serving Grace's purpose. Hence the argument that > Smegoll is also the hero;-). Yup. But Shippey perceptively points out that although Providence (with a capital P?) steps in at the end, it is only the efforts of Frodo, Sam and Gandalf which give providence the chance to operate at all. If Denethor, or Galadriel, or even Elrond had the final say, my impression is that they would all have given up long before the Stair of Kirith (sic) Ungol. And the pagan ideal is to die fighting against the odds, like Beowulf* - a conclusion that JRRT must have considered and rejected as (a) un-Catholic and (b) uncommercial (cf. "eucatastrophe" in his essay on fairy stories). - - Mike "Godwinsson" Godwin * I know B has a Christian setting, but he doesn't behave like the Venomous Bede or the Wave of Saints, or even like an Egg-king. PS And how about "PIN number"? I think 'pleonasm' is right, as it has connotations of redundancy which 'tautology' lacks. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:25:21 -0500 From: FricChaud@videotron.ca Subject: Le D&B - alors, enfin d'etre tapis! Hi folks! I've been lurking here for quite a while. While I've been able to hold my tongue during the political hand-wringing and the talk of spectator sports, I find myself compelled to speak up today. The reason? Soft drinks! That's Quebec English for pop or soda. I tried my first Irn Bru a few weeks ago, and was impressed. Tizer left me cold. Both lack the cloying sweetness of North American soft drinks. But Stewart mentioned Dandelion and Burdock! That floored me. An English friend recently brought me the three aforementioned drinks, but only two of the three were imported. The Dandelion and Burdock was a product of Ontario, bought at Loblaws in Kingston, Ont. D&B has a nice complex flavour that a beer-lover can appreciate. Not that it tastes anything like beer. I assumed it was an Ontario thing, like Birch Beer in New England, or Spruce Beer in Quebec. Is D&B of Scottish origin? PS: I'm really interested in playing RH music (albeit poorly) and in trading live recordings. Has this list been deRobinicised? - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:32:36 -0800 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: The vampire sensuously sank his teeth into Julian Koster's neck >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. I would love to see that, actually. But instead I see stuff like this: Le Febre pressed Laurina close to his sensuous, muscular chest, which was clad in the softest silk that money could buy. Though she knew he controlled one of the greatest vampire clans in Upper Slobovia, and could kill her with a touch, nevertheless she burned with desire for him and yearned to be sensuously enveloped in his arms, yearned to feel the touch of his mouth upon her neck, yearned to share in his mighty immortal power. As he leaned towards her, she nearly swooned from the sensuous power of his melting eyes... Etc. etc. etc. Vampires are always rich or powerful, with supernatural powers; being a vampire is something incredibly desirable; vampirism is *always* sexualized. (You know, the removing of blood from one's body is not *necessarily* a sexual experience - I say this as the victim of many blood draws and mosquito bites.) That's why I like "Near Dark" so much, because the vampires were a bunch of nasty inbred hicks instead of moguls or aristocrats. >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. I'll grant you that. I suppose I'd rather just put a moratorium on the kind of vampire fiction described above. >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? Yes! Yes! And no more goddamn films about film-makers! "Living in Oblivion" is the only movie about a guy making a movie that I'll ever need. (And that's only because it's got Steve Buscemi and the angry dwarf's brilliant monologue.) >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! :) I might do, but I'm also working on another project. There's a guy in Portland who's having 300+ artists each create a work of art on a 4" x 4" square, and the squares will all be displayed together. I'm thinking of making a diorama out of tinfoil, but need to work out the logistics. Does anyone know where I could get a very small, battery-operated light? Like the kind that cyclists use, but smaller. Does such a thing exist? >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). Yeah, I bet the other featured vocalists include Kevin Barnes and Andy Gonzales, who wouldn't recognize a tune if it smacked them upside the head. :P (Actually, I like Kevin Barnes, though he can be very irritating. He sounds like Micky Dolenz after taking too many happy pills.) >Just buy it. Any album with a whirling fairground style track which >turns out to be called "Barry's Lung" can't be bad. But has it got actual *songs*, or just a bunch of E6 guys farting around in the studio? I am so sick of that... The whole E6 Athens crew is so self-indulgent and self-congratulatory these days. Viva E6 West! gnat "Oh Beulah, please come to Portland!" the gnatster _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:34:50 -0500 From: FricChaud@videotron.ca Subject: merde! J'ai dit: "enfin d'etre tapis" SVP lisez comme: "assez d'etre tapis". You'll find my exits to be as sloppy as my entrances. Oh dear! - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:53:01 -0500 From: Self Subject: Re: The vampire sensuously sank his teeth into Julian Koster's neck On 1 Nov 2001, at 9:32, Natalie Jane wrote: > Yes! Yes! And no more goddamn films about film-makers! Throw in "songs about music" while you're at it. > I'm thinking of > making a diorama out of tinfoil, but need to work out the logistics. Does > anyone know where I could get a very small, battery-operated light? Like > the kind that cyclists use, but smaller. Does such a thing exist? Would and LED be small enough? If not, use a light hidden elsewhere with a bit of fibre-optic wire (possibly nicked from a tacky friend's novelty lamp). - -- I am Fric Chaud, and I write the songs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:54:05 -0500 From: FricChaud@videotron.ca Subject: (Fwd) Re: The vampire sensuously sank his teeth into Julian Ko On 1 Nov 2001, at 9:32, Natalie Jane wrote: > Yes! Yes! And no more goddamn films about film-makers! Throw in "songs about music" while you're at it. > I'm thinking of > making a diorama out of tinfoil, but need to work out the logistics. Does > anyone know where I could get a very small, battery-operated light? Like > the kind that cyclists use, but smaller. Does such a thing exist? Would and LED be small enough? If not, use a light hidden elsewhere with a bit of fibre-optic wire (possibly nicked from a tacky friend's novelty lamp). - -- I am Fric Chaud, and I write the songs (did I send two of these? excuse me; I'm new to this) - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 18:52:22 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: bread bread - -- matt sewell is rumored to have mumbled on Donnerstag, 1. November 2001 15:57 Uhr +0000 regarding Re: bread bread: > So, what's tautology... I always thought that was the term for words > meaning the same thing...? It is and I think it applies in this case. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ Winter is coming. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:23:54 -0600 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: The vampire sensuously sank his teeth into Natalie's light bulb Natalie Jane > I might do, but I'm also working on another project. There's a guy in > Portland who's having 300+ artists each create a work of art on a 4" x 4" > square, and the squares will all be displayed together. I'm thinking of > making a diorama out of tinfoil, but need to work out the logistics. Does > anyone know where I could get a very small, battery-operated light? Like > the kind that cyclists use, but smaller. Does such a thing exist? Sure, but is this a 'constant-on' or 'occasionally-on' situation? Incandescant bulb filaments - your typical bicycle and flashlight bulb - are resistive loads, which mean they light up because they are resisting the electric current being applied to them. You have to get the power to make them glow from somewhere. Bike lamps get their power from either an alternator or generator mounted on the back wheel; the bulb doesn't really care if its AC or DC so the distinction isn't really important. What counts is there is basically a 'limitless' power supply provided to the bulb as long as the wheel is being pedaled. In the absence of human power, a flashlight bulb uses batteries which have a limited power supply...and you know what happens when you leave it on constantly. Resistive loads are extremely power hungry and even a very small bulb will drain a 4 D-cell battery in a matter of hours. One option to consider would be a (very) compact flourescent; they have a high use at start up (creating enough charge to arc through the tube to the other side) but a rather low running appetite for power. I have a 'tight-spot' microflourescent for working on my car with, it's a few inches long and goes relatively easy on the batteries. Unfortunately, they are also comparatively expensive. How long is this expected to last? And how bright were you thinking? Michael "have you tried a candle" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:19:58 -0800 (PST) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Re: an old friend On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Capuchin wrote: > 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. Jeme cried for days once it was clear that this was no mere accident, but that she really intended for us never again to glimpse her dewy form. I was smug and self-satisfied, of course. When am I not? Vivien ps- I think this "new Narnia" (probably replete with Baby Aslan and a little floating green martian) is a total travesty and worthy of mass protest. pps- I also think that kidney infections suck. ppps- I had (have) a kidney infection. Went to emergency room on Friday. Wish I could see into the ER doctor's bathroom...rrrowr! ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #414 ********************************