From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #437 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, November 21 2001 Volume 10 : Number 437 Today's Subjects: ----------------- snackmaniax! ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] RE: Serial Cereal [hamish_simpson@agilent.com] Re: More adventures.... [Eb ] Re: cornier and cornier [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: More adventures.... [Ken Weingold ] Re: Serial Cereal [Glen Uber ] Reprocushions ["Redtailed Hawk" ] Re: More adventures.... [Eb ] Re: More adventures.... [Ken Weingold ] Re: Reprocushions [gSs ] Re: Reprocushions ["Redtailed Hawk" ] Re: Reprocushions ["Jason R. Thornton" ] marionberries ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Time Lords ["Fric Chaud" ] Re: Reprocessions [gSs ] Re: marionberries [gSs ] Re: Reprocushions [Viv Lyon ] Re: Reprocushions with Robyn content ["Redtailed Hawk" ] Buckaroo Banzai novel out now! [steve ] Re: Bjork from the weird musical place ["Brian Hoare" ] Re: bjorkflakes and Dylan-o's ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Request for Reviews [The Great Quail ] Tech Hysteria ["Redtailed Hawk" ] robyn on omnibus [strange little woj ] wisping to and fro [gSs ] have you seen the saucers? [0% food content] ["ross taylor" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:08:37 -0800 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: snackmaniax! I don't know how I got onto snackmaniax! by mistake, but could someone please unsubscribe me? I just want the fegmaniax digest and that's all. I sampled some Strokes tracks last night. So far I'm not really hearing it, and by saying that publicly I'm pretty much guaranteeing I'll love it in a little while. We'll see. Also I listened to the new Pulp. Not sure where that's going to go yet. On the one hand, there weren't any songs that really grabbed me musically and got me excited. On the other hand, I might just have been paying too much attention to the lyrics, which sounded extraordinary (I was trying to get my portfolio in order at the same time, so it wasn't paying attention as closely as I should). I also know that every other Pulp album has had to grow on me gradually (and the ones before His 'n' Hers never have, yet), so this might be the same way. "The Origin of Species" is pretty devastating, though, and same with "Wickerman." Neither really has a proper tune as I recall. Haven't really gotten anywhere with my NaNoWriMo in a while. Oh well. The job comes first; I can and will pick the novel back up once that's settled. Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:06:16 -0700 From: hamish_simpson@agilent.com Subject: RE: Serial Cereal > * "breakfast condiments" (sugar -- and types thereof; cinnamon; salt^) ... and strawberry jam is a must with Weetabix and warm milk! > ^: yes, Scottish people put salt on things like porridge and French Toast Not this one Bub! > They put salt on "grits" down south. Disgusting. It's my understanding > that the Scottish diet consists almost entirely of lard, butter, sugar, > cream, salt, whiskey, ale and tobacco. Hey let's not get all stereotypy and start to oversimplify the eating habits of my motherland. You missed chips! > Being part Scottish, I suppose > that explains a lot of my eating habits, but you'll never get me near a > Haggis. And I should think not. Did you know that it contains OATMEAL? Yuck! That's almost health food! > And malt sucks. Fric Chaud probably has a web page about it. Well I for one would be surfing that way Stewart. >> they missed the golden >> opportunity to call them "Homer's Cinnamon D'oh!-Nuts." > "Homer's D'oh!-Nuts" is a brand of doughnuts here. Asda's own I believe, with the chocolate sauce for dipping. (H) still not brave enough to try a US fish & chip shop now digesting - Pumpkin Pie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:11:33 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: More adventures.... >his dockers-covered ass >his well-travelled dockers Pshaw. I must sharply protest this unflattering characterization. I favor chaps, not Dockers. >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. Hmmm, I just don't get much Replacements out of the Strokes, beyond a vaguely similar grittiness in the guitars. The Replacements are a "chords" band, and the Strokes are a "riffs 'n' rhythm" band. Other artists can easily adapt Replacements songs, while Strokes songs are specific products of the band's own instrumental quirks. And the Strokes' lyrics don't have anywhere near Westerberg's emotional content. And how you can emphasize the Replacements' influence over Lou Reed's, I dunno...I mean, the vocal on "The Modern Age" is such a Lou affectation, it's almost offensive.... Eb (almost exclusively Raisin Bran, Wheaties and Corn Flakes, thanks...now, can we move onto lunch please?) np: the *hilariously* tasteless new commercial for Vanish toilet-bowl disinfectant ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:24:18 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: cornier and cornier >Being part Scottish, I suppose >that explains a lot of my eating habits, but you'll never get me near a >Haggis. they're much tastier than you'd expect. If you eat turkey or chicken with stuffing, then you've eaten something that's pretty similar to haggis without even realising it. >When are you people going to realize that the corporate cereal >conglomerates are merely brainwashing you with their sugar-coated, >milk-soaked propaganda, and slowly eroding your right to free speech by >evilly trademarking their brand names? Keep breakfast pure! > >Except for whoever it is that makes Cocoa Pebbles. Those guys rock. and frosties. Ya gotta keep frosties James (where's the rice crispies?) 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 16:24:35 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: More adventures.... On Tue, Nov 20, 2001, Eb wrote: > np: the *hilariously* tasteless new commercial for Vanish toilet-bowl > disinfectant Is it as hilariously tasteless as that Tampax one with the woman holding up a box of Tapax and their saying, "Tampax. Changing the way America has its period, one box at a time."? - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:46:29 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Serial Cereal On Tuesday, November 20, 2001, at 01:06 PM, hamish_simpson@agilent.com wrote: > (H) still not brave enough to try a US fish & chip shop While you're working in Sonoma County, you should try the fish & chips at the Boatman in Bodega Bay and Mel's in northwest Santa Rosa. Betty's Fish & Chips in eastern Santa Rosa is also good, but it still doesn't hold a candle to the other two. - -- Cheers! - -g, a fish & chips vegetarian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:48:02 +0000 From: "Redtailed Hawk" Subject: Reprocushions Jill-- A high school teacher teaching you the hard way? Im shocked, shocked! - ---------------------- breakfast condiments-- No dumb cheap foul aweful corn syrupy abominations on my burnt pancakes or slightly burnt french toast. Real maple syrup is the food of the gods(and on burnt pancakes made with -fresh- strawberries, not those frozen dumb cheap foul aweful abominations, foods of the fiends thingies.) Larry: >REAL butter (preferably unsalted) Yup. One of the secrets of cooking or eating just about -anything- non-Mediteranian. And don't get me started on scrappel. You -dont- want to know. Could this whole thread be called a series of serial cereal threads? Nawwwww-too much like a ref question I had earlier in the week. - ----------------------- I live under a rock much like Ed's rock. Ive downloaded some Strokes and I hear VU really clearly. Or rather I dont. I hear nothing clearly, which I like. Maybe it comes from growing up in a city, but I love fuzzy music where it all bleeds into itself in confusing death throws out the window like emptying chamber pots into an overflowing gutter below while slightly splattering the fancy satin plumed hats of the local toffs. Errr..., the novel thing is having weird reprocushions. Would anyone care to sit down? I vote for Viv's mmmammorries as the obvious culprits. Kay, gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer A man's life of any worth is a continual allergy. John Keats _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:54:54 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: More adventures.... > > np: the *hilariously* tasteless new commercial for Vanish toilet-bowl >> disinfectant > >Is it as hilariously tasteless as that Tampax one with the woman >holding up a box of Tampax and their saying, "Tampax. Changing the way >America has its period, one box at a time."? I don't recall seeing that commercial, but I'd say yes, based on your description. ;) If you haven't seen the Vanish commercial: A cute little three- or four-year-old girl goes in to use the bathroom, shortly after Daddy is seen ominously leaving the facilities. Well, apparently Daddy took a BIG STINKY DUMP, because the tyke freezes in horror, pulls her shirt collar up over her mouth like a makeshift gas mask, and runs back to the kitchen to complain to Mommy. Kid makes an ewwww-stinky-poo face at her, and our hero Mommy goes into the bathroom with the miracle Vanish toilet-bowl disinfectant. Once she installs it and flushes the toilet, the kid deeply inhales over the bowl and rapturously sighs like it's THE BEST DAMN THING SHE HAS EVER SMELLED. Oh, man.... If that little girl manages to become a career actor, that clip's going to be dug up for SURE as a gag when she appears on talkshows. Eb, wondering why maxipads are of any practical use, since they can only absorb blue liquids PS Speaking of tasteless, I just received a copy of the soundtrack CD from the new Olsen Twins film...wheeee. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:11:50 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: More adventures.... On Tue, Nov 20, 2001, Eb wrote: > I don't recall seeing that commercial, but I'd say yes, based on > your description. ;) It's beyond words. I had heard about it, then when I actually saw it my mouth dropped. > If you haven't seen the Vanish commercial: A cute little three- or > four-year-old girl goes in to use the bathroom, shortly after Daddy > is seen ominously leaving the facilities. Well, apparently Daddy took > a BIG STINKY DUMP, because the tyke freezes in horror, pulls her > shirt collar up over her mouth like a makeshift gas mask, and runs > back to the kitchen to complain to Mommy. Kid makes an > ewwww-stinky-poo face at her, and our hero Mommy goes into the > bathroom with the miracle Vanish toilet-bowl disinfectant. Once she > installs it and flushes the toilet, the kid deeply inhales over the > bowl and rapturously sighs like it's THE BEST DAMN THING SHE HAS EVER > SMELLED. > > Oh, man.... If that little girl manages to become a career > actor, that clip's going to be dug up for SURE as a gag when she > appears on talkshows. That is beautiful. Of course one match from a free book of matches would do the same thing. :) - -Ken np: my yelling at a coworker to go back into the bathroom with a match to correct incident above ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:22:19 -0600 From: gSs Subject: Re: Reprocushions At Tuesday, 20 November 2001, "Redtailed Hawk" > breakfast condiments-- > No dumb cheap foul aweful corn syrupy abominations on my burnt pancakes > or slightly burnt french toast. Real maple syrup is the food of the > gods Yes, maple syrup was the essence of a pancake or waffle breakfast. That was until I discovered marionberry syrups and preserves. The gods have been hiding this stuff. gSs =end of email=== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 23:43:17 +0000 From: "Redtailed Hawk" Subject: Re: Reprocushions GsS >Yes, maple syrup was the essence of a pancake or waffle breakfast. >That was until I discovered marionberry syrups and preserves. The >gods have been hiding this stuff. Are you saying Marion Barry syrup? I thought he got voted out of office. Is there coke in it? Or codeine? Does he endorse it on cheap TV commercials? Or do you mean Marion the Librarian syrup, which the gods call ambrosia and do so enjoy on their waffles. Or is there really such a thing as marionberrys? And if so, expostulate please. Kay, _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:56:10 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Reprocushions At 11:43 PM 11/20/2001 +0000, Redtailed Hawk wrote: >Or is there really such a thing as marionberrys? And if so, expostulate >please. I was curious myself, so I did a quick little web search, finding the following at a commercial site: "A cross between the Chehalem and Olallieberry blackberries, developed at Oregon State University, the Marionberry has an aromatic bouquet and an intense blackberry flavor. Once you've tried its wonderful flavor, described by tasters as "earthy cabernet"and "sweet with notes of tartness", you have to have more! The large size of the berry makes jam with fewer seeds and more flavor." If the sales pitch grabs you and you're interested in buying some, it was: http://www.avalonwine.com/marionberry.htm. There's probably more detailed, less biased information out there... If you're interested in spreading a politican from Arkansas on your toast instead, you can go here: http://www.marionberry.com/. Jason ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:10:33 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: marionberries And here's a little more: "Caneberries (raspberries, blackberries, Marionberries, etc.) hybrids. Marionberry The Marionberry was introduced in 1956, after years and years of cross-breeding. The path that plant breeders travelled to obtain this particular berry was circuitous, to say the least, but the creation of the Marion berry began with the pairing of a blackberry with a raspberry, which produced a Loganberry. Many different crossings sprang from the Loganberry, and ultimately, two of these breeds - the Chehalem and the Olallie - were crossed to produce the Marionberry. This special berry is grown almost exclusively in western Oregon, and is the most widely planted blackberry variety in the world. It's named after Marion County, where it was first produced, and is becoming known throughout the country as the perfect berry for pies, cobblers and hand-to-mouth consumption. The seeds are small and not too numerous, making the Marionberry an excellent choice for home-made jam." From, http://www.orst.edu/food-resource/a/marionberry.html. Lots of marionberry links, too. OK, I'm done. But I've got a hankering for a berry pie... Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:36:33 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: Re: Time Lords On 20 Nov 2001, at 15:13, Redtailed Hawk wrote: > James: > >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). > > Choclate-covered grahaeme crackers?? Shreddies! Shreddies, shreddies, shreddies, shredieeeeeeeeees! Oh, screw it. Ibook! - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:13:59 -0600 From: gSs Subject: Re: Reprocessions At Tuesday, 20 November 2001, you wrote: >GsS >>Yes, maple syrup was the essence of a pancake or waffle breakfast. >>That was until I discovered marionberry syrups and preserves. The >>gods have been hiding this stuff. >Or is there really such a thing as marionberrys? And if so, expostulate >please. I started cracking up the first time I saw a jar of the stuff. I think Jason covered it mostly. I did not know you could enjoy an F1 hybrid so much without smoking it as I had no idea it was a cross. They are definately seasonal and available throughout most of central and western Oregon and of course the net. I have recently come to understand that there is a new batch of preserves and syrup on it's way to Texas. I was getting nervous. It's nice to have friends in the right places. gSs =end of email=== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:39:16 -0600 From: gSs Subject: Re: marionberries At Tuesday, 20 November 2001, "Jason R. Thornton" wrote: >And here's a little more: > >"Caneberries (raspberries, blackberries, Marionberries, etc.) hybrids. >Marionberry The Marionberry was introduced in 1956, after years and years >of cross-breeding. So it isn't an F1 hybrid. Maybe that's why it doesn't smoke so good. gSs =end of email=== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:44:10 -0800 (PST) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Re: Reprocushions On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Redtailed Hawk wrote: > I vote for Viv's mmmammorries as the obvious culprits. Now, you know I gotta respond when my mams get a shout-out. Maybe that should be my band name- "Viv and the Obvious Culprits." Or possibly "Viv and her Obvious Culprits." They are obvious. Especially in this sweater. Oh, now you all think I'm obsessed with my tits. Let me remind you, I did not start this thread. But I am obsessed with my tits....mine and everyone else's! Now, that Natalie Jacobs- quite a set on her, eh? And Mark Gloster's tits? Beyond compare! And that's to say nothing of Stewart's! Yeow! Vivien ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 01:41:03 +0000 From: "Redtailed Hawk" Subject: Re: Reprocushions with Robyn content Viv But I am obsessed with my tits....mine and everyone >else's! Now, that Natalie Jacobs- quite a set on her, eh? And Mark >Gloster's tits? Beyond compare! And that's to say nothing of Stewart's! >Yeow! Yes, but what about the man himself. I mean, thats one piggony pigeonchest there. (Not that anybody cares;-) Kay _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:38:06 -0600 From: gSs Subject: Re: Reprocushions At Tuesday, 20 November 2001, Viv Lyon wrote: >And Mark Gloster's tits? Beyond compare! It was his ass that caught my eye. Or was it his wife's ass? Now that I think of it, it wasn't Mark's ass at all. In fact I'm not sure what it was and it still turned me on. It bet it was those berries or that blonde mouseketeer. Jeez I'm virile. Or is that vile? It's hard to tell sometimes. gSs =end of email=== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:30:02 -0600 From: steve Subject: Buckaroo Banzai novel out now! For those of you who missed it the first time around, the reissue of the Buckaroo Banzai novel should be in U.S. bookstores starting right about now, or at least real soon. It has some color pictures. New films out on DVD worth seeing - GINGER SNAPS, and THE LEGEND OF ZU (if you live somewhere you can get HK films). - - Steve __________ While still at the Department of Justice, Rehnquist provided the best definition of a strict constructionist I have ever encountered. It was in a memo Rehnquist wrote while he was vetting Judge Clement Haynsworth, one of Nixon's selections who was rejected by the Senate. Rehnquist wrote, in brief, that a strict constructionist was anyone who likes prosecutors and dislikes criminal defendants and who favors civil rights defendants over civil rights plaintiffs. That is as candid and blunt as you can get. And that is the real definition of a strict constructionist. - John Dean ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:24:51 +0000 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: Re: Bjork from the weird musical place Quail wrote: >Bjork is >just, well, more at home in this sort of atmosphere, like she's >visiting us *from* this weird musical place, whereas Radiohead seem >like they are visiting *it.* (Uh, yeah, that makes sense.) Not only makes absolute sense but it seriously tempts me to obtain the album. brian _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:44:23 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Time Lords Fric Chaud wrote: > > Shreddies! Shreddies, shreddies, shreddies, shredieeeeeeeeees! oh dear, he put his ritalin on his sugar cereal again... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:46:47 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: bjorkflakes and Dylan-o's Michael R Godwin wrote: > > The whole thing could turn out to be an ozard prang! What's particualrly touching is that -- at 90 -- Buckeridge is still writing Jennings books. His review of Harry Potter for the Guardian was lovely. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 08:19:06 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: Bjork from the weird musical place On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Brian Hoare wrote: > Quail wrote: > >Bjork is > >just, well, more at home in this sort of atmosphere, like she's > >visiting us *from* this weird musical place, whereas Radiohead seem > >like they are visiting *it.* (Uh, yeah, that makes sense.) > > Not only makes absolute sense but it seriously tempts me to obtain the > album. beautifully put, Quailie -- it sold a copy to me yesterday. (well, that, and that you and Eb *both* had it top-threed.) - -- d. now really bored by: todd larry lloyd _your dumb idea_ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:27:43 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Request for Reviews (Putting on my Editor cap....) I was wondering if any Fegs would welcome the chance to write a few book reviews for the site I edit, The Modern Word. http://www.TheModernWord.com I am putting together the next few "Spiral-Bound" newsletters, and there are a few books I would love to feature -- Salman Rushdie's "Fury," Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Feast of the Goat," John Barth's "Coming Soon!!!", Eco's "Five Moral Pieces," and DeLillo's "Pafko at the Wall" are especially up for grabs. I ask that any review be basically an informed and critically intelligent work, but I welcome any personal style or insights you'd have to bring. (It should be about the length and depth of the average newspaper review.) Although I cannot offer any compensation, your review would go out to thousands of subscribers and be featured on the main page of the site, which gets 110,000 visitors each month. I will also gladly include your email address and any links to a Web site you might wish to highlight. If anyone is interested, please feel free to visit the "submissions" area for details, and please write me off-list. http://www.TheModernWord.com/submissions.html Thanks! - --Quail, a staunch and unwavering "Cheerios and milk" man - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth: http://www.TheModernWord.com Better hope deferred than none. Up to a point. Till the heart starts to sicken. Company too up to a point. Better a sick heart than none. Till it starts to break. So speaking of himself he concludes for the time being, For the time being leave it at that. --Samuel Beckett, "Company" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:41:17 +0000 From: "Redtailed Hawk" Subject: Tech Hysteria This is probobly the wrong time of year to post a tech question, or series of them, but any answer at any time would be appreciated. This morning it took me half a fucking fuckidy fuck hour to get my home PC up. I had to turn it off and back on in various ways for maybe 20 times before I could get two essential things to both work at the same time. 1)the mouse(the desktop comes up--the mouse if frozen.) 2)the Internet(wouldnt connect) It has been like this since midsummer when we got the damn thing. Its a Dell 4100, it runs Windows 2000. Yes I know this is my proper fate for being a pawn of the evil empire but is there any hope for this poor PC? Its not easy to write a novel with no mouse! Please, anyone kind enough to answer, remember I am a tech idiot. Word it as if you were talking to a five year old. Kay 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: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:48:26 -0500 From: strange little woj Subject: robyn on omnibus thanks to adam leonard for pointing this out: >From: Adam Leonard >To: WOJ@smoe.org >Subject: robyn on omnibus >Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 23:15:41 +0000 > >hello sir. > >i'm sure you know all about this, but it's not on the fegmania news page, >so who knows... > >http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20011124/20011124_1925_4224_24125_50 > >the syd barrett OMNIMUS on Saturday has mr hitchcock in it. if anyone catches this, please fill us in. woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:25:00 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: wisping to and fro Per Bech Thomsen, Reuters, 11/21/2001 - COPENHAGEN Denmark's center-right opposition won its biggest victory in 80 years yesterday, ousting the Social Democrat-led government followin a campaign that focused on immigration. The defeat was a stunning blow to Nyrup Rasmussen, who called for the snap election in a gamble, believing voters would unite behind his leadership after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.............. Denmark is the second Scandinavian nation after Norway this year to oust a Social Democratic government, blamed for a creaking welfare state. http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/325/nation /Danish_voters_shift_to_right_on_fears_over_immigration+.shtml ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:44:19 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: have you seen the saucers? [0% food content] For those of you excited by the Leonids (or who missed them like me), on December 13-14 we get the Geminids. These are never as numerous as the Leonids, but because they are generally slower & bigger (possibly from asteroid remains vs. a comet), they often include spectacular fireballs. I've seen a good many of these which had the appearance of the thing breaking up, leaving little pieces seeming to "skip" across the air in its wake, or exploding & shooting off a sizeable chunk at a 30 degree angle to the main path. At least a couple of times I've heard audible bangs, like very faint sonic booms (I've spent much of my life in rural areas or small towns -- easier to hear faint sounds & easier to get excited about them). Of course there was also that odd green light my family & several of our neighbors saw above the trees in Greensboro in 1965, during a big UFO flap. Too big to be a firefly, too erratic & low to be a plane or meteor, too quick to be a balloon, no storm to provide ball lightning ... - --- Going off to try not to eat too much & try not to get into family-shattering political arguments. Happy Turky (or Tofu?) everyone! Ross Taylor "The First Thanksgiving or Please Pass The Indian or The First Thanksgiving or None Of The Above" - --Firesign Theater Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:01:14 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Cranberries (Slight Return; 1% Cait O'Riordon content) cuz eye neaux ewe kair: just finished making cranberry sauce; one small batch plain, one double batch with brown sugar and oranges, except i used cinnamon instead of ginger cuz i like it better. once again, thanks to everyone (esp Jeme & Eleanore) for the ideas/help/etc, and happy oversized chicken or largetofubeast day (unless you don't celebrate it). np: the costello show _king of america_ ("Loveable") ===== "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: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:56:19 -0500 From: strange little woj Subject: Re: robyn on omnibus lo! ask and you shall receive! - ----- Forwarded message from NelsonSydpink@aol.com ----- To: robynhitchcock@yahoogroups.com From: NelsonSydpink@aol.com Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:51:38 EST Subject: Re: robyn on omnibus Robyn is scheduled to be interviewed and plays Barrett's "Dominoes". Somebody, please tape it!!! Bruce - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #437 ********************************