From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #435 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, November 20 2001 Volume 10 : Number 435 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Leonids/Lufthansa [Jim Davies ] Fruitcake ["Redtailed Hawk" ] Robyn at The Garage, Highbury. ["marcus slade" ] like kohoutec ["ross taylor" ] REAP ["Thomas, Ferris" ] Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: Fruitcake ["Maximilian Lang" ] different strokes [Ken Ostrander ] Malt pillows [Viv Lyon ] Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey [Tom Clark ] Re: Malt pillows [Tom Clark ] Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey [Ken Weingold ] Re: different strokes [The Great Quail ] Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey [The Great Quail ] Re: different strokes [Eb ] Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey [Ken Weingold ] RE: New Buttholes! ["SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Sonoma,ex1)" ] Re: different strokes ["Maximilian Lang" ] [none] [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: different strokes [Ken Ostrander ] Re: your mail [Viv Lyon ] Re: malty pillow thingies ["Fric Chaud" ] Re: your mail [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: your mail [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Fruitcake ["madcowan" ] Re: different strokes [Eb ] Re: your mail (it's SHREDDIES!!) ["Fric Chaud" ] Re: Fruitcake ["Fric Chaud" ] Re: your mail (it's SHREDDIES!!) [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: Fruitcake ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Fruitcake ["matt sewell" ] Re: Fruitcake ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Spoon Size Cubs [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Spoon Size Cubs ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:32:29 GMT From: Jim Davies Subject: Leonids/Lufthansa I was flying back (upgraded, no less) from Chicago to Frankfurt Saturday night and Sunday morning. Watching a full-spectrum North Atlantic dawn at 36,000 feet over ever-so-slightly-purple clouds with falling streaks of white. A perfect moment. On arrival at Heathrow, the following afternoon, I discover that my luggage had decided to stay in the land of the free, or - at least - that England held no great attraction for it. For all I know, it has settled somewhere in the Pacific North West. The man from Lufthansa listened to my explanation of the route, and the meteors, and then asked when I had last seen my suitcase. Ah, he said, that is probably the best view that you will have of your luggage for the next hundred years. x Jim ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:40:33 +0000 From: "Redtailed Hawk" Subject: Fruitcake Max: >I had a dream about Junior High. Ray Davies was my teacher :-)And what did you learn? - -------------------------------------- Roberta: >One was a very large fireball that streaked across the whole sky. How exactly does that look different from the usual arcs of white light? - -------------------------------- Stewart and the Justified Sinner I guess something bout the title just made me think it might not be a laugh fest. But then, I havent read the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards either. - ------------------------------- Kay--would the most disgusting food in the world be a fruitcake made from the usual plus old crusted Weetabix and Vegimite? Because I think my great-aunt used to make that. A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory. John Keats _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 20:32:47 From: "marcus slade" Subject: Robyn at The Garage, Highbury. According to the listings for The Garage at the Mean Fidler ( http://www.meanfiddler.com/mf/flash4/player.htm ) Robyn is playing on Friday 25th January. Has anyone else heard about this show. I couldn't find anything at the museum of Robyn about it. The previous two nights Grant Lee Phillips is playing there too. I wonder if there is a chance of a UK Grant Lee Hitchcock gig? Marcus _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:40:31 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: like kohoutec Went to see the meteors but Charlottesville's Observatory Mountain was covered w/ drunken Wahoos who'd stayed up after the Va. Tech game, and the sky was Obscured By Clouds. - --- A friend gave me one tape of excerpts from the Nuggets II box (not things he knew I had like the Pretty Things). It's a lot of fun, but I feel lost w/ out the liner notes & will probably buy it for them. Too much trouble bouncing back & forth between his cramped handwriting, the amazon track listing, & the band entries at the Borderline Books site. Plus any slight sound upgrade would help. I'm still discovering how picky you need to be w/ the sound of old stuff, if you want it for entertainment purposes, not just information. I.e. the "Forgotten Dreams" compilation of Electric Prunes stuff vs. the muddier individual albums. IMO Rhino is pretty good about this, the Fleurs de Lys tracks here sound better even on tape than the full CD of them I have. - --- Anyone know anything more about the Lou Reed/ Robert Wilson show about Poe I've seen advertised? The one quote:"These are the stories of Edgar Allen Poe, not exactly the boy next door." Not exactly a great summary of Poe, but I can sure hear Lou's voice in it. - --- There was some semi-crunchie things on display at all the breakfast bars in the Irish bed and breakfasts we stayed in a year ago. At first I tended to grab a couple, spread butter on them & eat them that way, then I heard you were supposed to put milk on them in a bowl. I wonder if this has anything to do w/ Wheatamax/ Vita-Weeta-Vegamin? Ross Taylor "Social End Product" --The Bluestars Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:44:03 -0500 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: REAP Don't know if anyone mentioned this or not: Charlotte Coleman, age 33, from an apparent asthma attack. http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/17/coleman.death/index.html ________________________________ Ferris Scott Thomas Lead Programmer The Production Group McGraw-Hill Education 860.409.2612 ferris_thomas@mcgraw-hill.com (email) "We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm." -Winston Churchill This document should only be read by those persons to whom it is addressed and is not intended to be relied upon by any person without subsequent written confirmation of its contents. Accordingly, our company disclaim all responsibility and accept no liability (including negligence) for the consequences for any person acting, or refraining from acting, on such information prior to the receipt by those persons of subsequent written confirmation. If you have received this E-mail message in error, please notify us immediately. Please also destroy and delete the message from your computer. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this E-mail message is strictly prohibited. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:57:23 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey > I've >never seen a clear sky in Montreal on the night of the Leonids. > >Stupid Montreal. Stupid clouds. as above - replace the word "Montreal" with "Dunedin". A real pain - the skies are clear enough here normally to see any sort of astronomical/meteorological type stuff that's around (two miles to open countryside, and it's dark enough looking over the sea from half a mile from here). But no. Drizzle. James PS - what are those strange, sweet, malt pillow things that Nabisco makes? 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, 19 Nov 2001 17:06:16 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Fruitcake >From: "Redtailed Hawk" >Reply-To: "Redtailed Hawk" >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Fruitcake >Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:40:33 +0000 > >Max: >>I had a dream about Junior High. Ray Davies was my teacher > >:-)And what did you learn? >-------------------------------------- > To be sentimental and to overly idealize the past... but I still love the Kinks anyhow. Max _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:12:53 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: different strokes >> The hype turned me off too...but the music won me over. It's just as >> derivative as everyone says (the Velvet Underground, '70s CBGB's, >> etc.), but the songs and energy are irresistible. It kinda reminds me >> of the first Ramones album in a way the ramones and the replacements are the biggest influences that i hear; but i'm always discovering new ones. one friend i got to check them out complained that they don't have any harmony. i don't know about that; but they get under my skin like no hype ever could. god bless morpheus for having the entire album before it was released here in the states! >> Last night, I downloaded a MP3 of "New York City Cops," the Strokes >> track which was deleted for semi-obvious reasons from the US version >> of their album. And hey, that song's good too. 'nyc cops' is worth seeking out. it'll go down with the coup album cover as artistic statements that were ill-suited to our dark times. or something like that. for me, the strokes album is a serious contender for the top spot along with dylan and spearhead. at this point in the year, i give up on newly released albums and concentrate on the many items i've missed over the course of the year. anything released in december i pretty much write off as ineligible; or i'll never get through it all. ken "buried alive in the blues" the kenster np lost souls doves ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:21:41 -0800 (PST) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Malt pillows On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > PS - what are those strange, sweet, malt pillow things that Nabisco makes? Nilla Wafers! They are commonly used in banana puddings, in which they lose their crispness and becoming cakey and slimy. Jeme bought the (extremely vibrant) multi-colored kind one time, and made banana pudding with them. It looked like something from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. Now that I think about it, that was quite appropriate, because it was his birthday, and I got him a book of Roald Dahl short stories. Vivien ps- it tasted fine but looked inedible. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:12:32 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey on 11/19/01 1:57 PM, grutness@surf4nix.com at grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > PS - what are those strange, sweet, malt pillow things that Nabisco makes? Mallowmars? I think that's what they're called. - -tc np - Cream "Those Were The Days - Disc 3" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:15:56 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Malt pillows on 11/19/01 2:21 PM, Viv Lyon at vivlyon@bitmine.net wrote: >> PS - what are those strange, sweet, malt pillow things that Nabisco makes? > > Nilla Wafers! oh, those! man I love those things. You threw me with the "pillow" description. john ritter is underrated, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:16:37 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey On Sun, Nov 18, 2001, Eb wrote: > I hope some of you stayed up and saw the meteor shower > tonight...I've probably seen about four meteors in my life before > tonight, but I must have seen 60-70 within the last *hour*! Wow! > Truly dazzling. Yeah, it was amazing. Many even had trails that would stay visible for a few seconds. We got out of the bar at about 4:30 and found an unlighted open space and layed on our backs and enjoyed the show from about 4:30 to 5, where we then took off because we were freezing. Unlike some of the people there all prepared with long johns and blankets and such, we were just a bunch of drunk dumbasses coming straight from a bar at 4:30am. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:20:05 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: different strokes Ken writes, >for me, the strokes album is a serious contender for the top spot along with >dylan and spearhead. Man, for me it's been a good year! There's three albums I like so much, my top album of the year is really whichever one is playing -- Cave, Bjork and Dylan! - --Quail PS: Ah, Can.... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:21:01 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey Ken writes: >Yeah, it was amazing. Many even had trails that would stay visible >for a few seconds. We got out of the bar at about 4:30 Uh-huh! An interesting combination.... - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:21:38 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: different strokes >the ramones and the replacements are the biggest influences that i hear Replacements?? I don't hear that at all. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:24:28 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey On Mon, Nov 19, 2001, The Great Quail wrote: > Ken writes: > > >Yeah, it was amazing. Many even had trails that would stay visible > >for a few seconds. We got out of the bar at about 4:30 > > Uh-huh! An interesting combination.... Yeah, I was thinking about that. :) But over the course of the entire night, I only had 4 or 5 Guinni, so I think I was view it by then au natural. So to speak. :) - -Ken np: Jawbreaker - Dear You ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:43:41 -0700 From: "SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Sonoma,ex1)" Subject: RE: New Buttholes! I said >np - Butthole Surfers "Weird Revolution" tc said >What do you think? It's not as blaring, glaring, and daring as their >previous stuff, but I think it's fairly entertaining. eb said >Probably my least favorite BHS album. Contrived and compromised for >hopeful radio play. Ouch! It is easier on the ear than Larryland but it's still pretty cool. I think of it as more matured. There is an obvious follow on from the style of "Pepper" but that's not a bad thing. I guess WR would be slated whatever it sounded like. You could level much the same criticism at Green Day's "Warning" but I say, if it's a good CD, who the hell cares about sell out? It may be a disappointment if you were hoping for something else but it's not "bad". (I also eventually came to like Grant Lee's "Jubilee" best, even tho I knew I shouldn't. :) ) Besides the lyrical content of some of the easy listening songs will probably get them "not played", e.g. "Weird Revolution", "Shit Like That (two turntables and a microphone :) )", "Mexico", and ain't nobody going to be playing "Jet Fighter" on radio!!! But yes, there are some nice "hits", e.g. "Shame Of Life", "Dracula From Houston", "Get Down" but they're among the best tracks on the CD so what are ya going to do? Anyway, even the most radio friendly tracks are more alternative than the stuff they usually play on "Live 105, the new rock alternative". Hah! Personally I think it's a more consistent album than Larryland although none of the tracks are as good as "Lord Is A Monkey". More noisy guitar would have been good! (H) np - Huffamoose "We've Been Had Again" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:45:16 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: different strokes >Quail: >Man, for me it's been a good year! There's three albums I like so >much, my top album of the year is really whichever one is playing -- >Cave, Bjork and Dylan! You big fuckin' copycat. I'm almost sure those are going to be my top three. ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:48:36 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: different strokes >From: Ken Ostrander > > >> The hype turned me off too...but the music won me over. It's just as > >> derivative as everyone says (the Velvet Underground, '70s CBGB's, > >> etc.), but the songs and energy are irresistible. It kinda reminds me > >> of the first Ramones album in a way > >the ramones and the replacements are the biggest influences that i hear; >but >i'm always discovering new ones. one friend i got to check them out >complained >that they don't have any harmony. i don't know about that; but they get >under >my skin like no hype ever could. god bless morpheus for having the entire >album before it was released here in the states! > Well, I went and picked up The Strokes album on Saturday. It is unfortunate that my Chills Secret Box arrived the same day, Strokes Strokes Strokes. What a great CD, for once the moron hype making press has it right. This is my favorite debut album since Elastica and Exile In Guyville(hopefully this will have better follow-ups than those artists). The Strokes remind me of many bands but none at all, every time I think I have put my finger on a sound it drifts into something else, but here is what I hear: Velvet Underground, Iggy and The Stooges, Buzzcocks, and Wire. The singer really impresses me the most except for the constant distortion on his vocals. In my humble opinion he has a great voice and really carries the songs. If he isn't carrying the melody on a song then he is singing a really cool counter melody. He is like Lou Reed with a true singers voice, hopefully on the next album he won't hide it behind so much distortion. BUY THIS CD! Max Pigeon, a haiku by Kathy Lang Fat and ugly bird you would make a tasty snack For my kitty cat _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:55:21 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: [none] >> PS - what are those strange, sweet, malt pillow things that Nabisco makes? > >Nilla Wafers! no, that's not them - I know about Nilla wafers - these trhings are literally little brown pillows. Name's something like Malties or Malt Wheaties, or something. 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, 19 Nov 2001 18:32:42 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: different strokes >>the ramones and the replacements are the biggest influences that i hear > >Replacements?? I don't hear that at all. sorry; but i think that julian casablancas sounds just like paul westerberg. and the music evokes early mat's filtered through a gabba-gabba haze. it's not sloppy, as more listens will attest; but the cbgb/diy aesthetic is there. >>Man, for me it's been a good year! There's three albums I like so >>much, my top album of the year is really whichever one is playing -- >>Cave, Bjork and Dylan! i remember when you had nick cave as the entire top ten! >great CD, for once the moron hype making press has it right. This is my >favorite debut album since Elastica and Exile In Guyville(hopefully this >will have better follow-ups than those artists). i don't think that either of them did poorly on their follow-ups. in fact, both took their time getting them out, which helps with that sophmore slump syndrome. i try not to think about the next album at this point. it about as useful as the hype. ken "why don't you wear your new trenchcoat?" the kenster np get ready new(er) order ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:35:44 -0800 (PST) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Re: your mail On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > >Nilla Wafers! > > no, that's not them - I know about Nilla wafers - these trhings are > literally little brown pillows. Name's something like Malties or Malt > Wheaties, or something. Oh foo. Can you describe them a bit more? Were they covered in chocolate? Did they have anything inside of them? Vivien ps- you did say they were American, right? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:28:30 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: Re: malty pillow thingies On 20 Nov 2001, at 11:55, grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > >> PS - what are those strange, sweet, malt pillow things that Nabisco > >> makes? > >Nilla Wafers! > no, that's not them - I know about Nilla wafers - these trhings are > literally little brown pillows. Name's something like Malties or Malt > Wheaties, or something. Shreddies. I like 'em 'cause they taste like wort! Well, they do with a couple teaspoons of hop pellets. - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:16:52 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: your mail >On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > >> >Nilla Wafers! >> >> no, that's not them - I know about Nilla wafers - these trhings are >> literally little brown pillows. Name's something like Malties or Malt >> Wheaties, or something. > >Oh foo. Can you describe them a bit more? Were they covered in >chocolate? Did they have anything inside of them? > >Vivien >ps- you did say they were American, right? I'm pretty sure they were made by Nabisco, which IIRC is Canadian... They're about an inch square (maybe slightly smaller), a malt brown colour, have a squared grid pattern on them, and sometimes come connected together in pairs (making me think they're made in a sheet like postage stamps). Small cushion-like things. Malty and a bit sugary. And quite tasty, too. James now eating - Hubbard's "Bounteous Breakfast" - straight from the box, dry, and yummy! 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, 19 Nov 2001 18:45:52 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: your mail grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > I'm pretty sure they were made by Nabisco, which IIRC is Canadian... it may have been at one point, but it was bought out by RJ Reynolds tobacco several years ago, and they are now known as RJR Nabisco collectively. > They're about an inch square (maybe slightly smaller), a malt brown > colour, have a squared grid pattern on them, and sometimes come > connected together in pairs (making me think they're made in a sheet > like postage stamps). Small cushion-like things. Malty and a bit > sugary. And quite tasty, too. Crunchy Corn Bran (or the companion OatBran)? ===== "The kind people have a wonderful dream: Bud Selig on the guillotine." -- Morrissey (well, almost) "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:01:59 -0500 From: "madcowan" Subject: Re: Fruitcake >>One was a very large fireball that streaked across the whole sky. >How exactly does that look different from the usual arcs of white light? It was considerably larger than all of the other meteors I saw that night and had a trail that persisted for a couple of seconds. But the oddest thing about it was that instead of appearing somewhere closer to the horizon, it began in front of us in the sky and trailed towards us and over our heads to the back of us. It appeared quite a few hours earlier than the peak so I'm guessing its origin was a totally different part of the comet's trail. Roberta ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:55:18 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: different strokes > The Strokes remind me of many bands but none at all, every time I >think I have put my finger on a sound it drifts into something else, >but here is what I hear: Velvet Underground, Iggy and The Stooges, >Buzzcocks, and Wire. > The singer really impresses me the most except for the constant >distortion on his vocals. When I first heard isolated Strokes tracks, the "telephone filter" on the vocals kinda annoyed me. But now that I've heard the whole album, the gimmick somehow makes sense. It's not easy to put into words, but I feel like the processed vocals add a certain "transistor radio" ambience which boosts the album's endearing familiarity. The album has an unusually wide comfort zone -- I can just imagine this disc playing cheerfully in the background of *so* many environments. And with those tweaked vocals in the mix, it's almost like the album was *made* to be played on boomboxes and portable radios. I bet Strokes tracks will start being used for New York street scenes in movies -- they just fit so well. Glad you like the album, in any case. Eb now really disappointed by: Marc Ribot/Saints ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 20:20:04 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: Re: your mail (it's SHREDDIES!!) Shreddies, shreddies, shreddies! Nobody hears Fric Chaud! Am I in everybody's kill files already? Hello.... hello.... it's dark in here.... - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 20:31:38 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: Re: Fruitcake On 19 Nov 2001, at 21:01, madcowan wrote: > But the > oddest thing about it was that instead of appearing somewhere closer > to the horizon, it began in front of us in the sky and trailed towards > us and over our heads to the back of us. It appeared quite a few hours > earlier than the peak so I'm guessing its origin was a totally > different part of the comet's trail. Probably because Leo orbited around Earth a few degrees in those few hours? I think that's what asstrology books say. - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:23:37 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: your mail (it's SHREDDIES!!) >Shreddies, shreddies, shreddies! > >Nobody hears Fric Chaud! Thank you! yes, that's it! Shreddies! As I'm on the digest, I haven't received your earlier messages yet! 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: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:14:28 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Fruitcake Redtailed Hawk wrote: > > Kay--would the most disgusting food in the world be a fruitcake made from > the usual plus old crusted Weetabix and Vegimite? oh no, not Malt Loaf! That's the nastiest substance in the universe! Bleah! Argl! (etc). Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:25:21 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Fruitcake Crunchy weetabix, now a strong dislike of malt loaf... god, it's a completely different culture up there, Stewart... Maybe your hatred of maltloaf stems from the fact you're not using enough butter to spread on it... got to be a hefty slab... mmm Malt "loaf" Sewell > > > > Kay--would the most disgusting food in the world be a fruitcake made from > > the usual plus old crusted Weetabix and Vegimite? > >oh no, not Malt Loaf! That's the nastiest substance in the universe! >Bleah! Argl! (etc). > > Stewart - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:40:33 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Fruitcake matt sewell wrote: > > Maybe your hatred of maltloaf stems from the fact you're not using enough > butter to spread on it... got to be a hefty slab... mmm no, it's not that -- all the butter in the world couldn't stop malt loaf tasting like industrial effluent. It tastes like proper, decent fruit loaf with tar added. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:00:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Spoon Size Cubs On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > no, that's not them - I know about Nilla wafers - these trhings are > literally little brown pillows. Name's something like Malties or Malt > Wheaties, or something. All this talk of Shreddies makes me wonder if everyone has forgotten the really small, malty _Cubs_, marketed as "spoon size Shredded Wheat". They later changed the name to something else: Spoonies, or Sizeies, or SpoonySizys or Maltie Wheaties or something. Stewart, have you been refusing your nice extract of malt again? - - Mike "Virol" Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:20:12 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Spoon Size Cubs Michael R Godwin wrote: > > All this talk of Shreddies makes me wonder if everyone has forgotten the > really small, malty _Cubs_, marketed as "spoon size Shredded Wheat". yup. But I thought they were just small SW; thus pure, knitted wheat. They've re-emerged under the Kellogg's brand, but drenched in a dandruff-like coating of sugar. None are as good as the Tesco "Golden Wheat Pillows", which, by being generic, means I don't have to support the evil SPN. extra taste tip: after adding milk to your Golden Wheat Pillows, pour condensed milk over the top. Mmmmmm. > Stewart, have you been refusing your nice extract of malt again? only for the last lifetime. Stewart ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #435 ********************************