From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #463 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, December 14 2001 Volume 10 : Number 463 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Notting Hill [scruss@enterprise.net] Re: 'italics' [Michael R Godwin ] Macrauchenia [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Macrauchenia ["matt sewell" ] I wish I could be 23 so I could waste ["Redtailed Hawk" ] outed! ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] my shady past ["Natalie Jane" ] 100% non-anthrax--good xmas music [LDudich@ase.org] Re: my shady past [Aaron Mandel ] RE: 100% non-anthrax--good xmas music ["Larry Tucker" ] Totally and COMPLETELY Bizarre Web Site. ["Larry O'Brien" ] Re: 100% non-anthrax--good xmas music [Glen Uber ] Re: Totally and COMPLETELY Bizarre Web Site. [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey] Re: Alarm Clocks [Tom Clark ] Re: my shady past [Christopher Gross ] Re: Alarm Clocks ["Mike Wells" ] Re: Alarm Clocks [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Alarm Clocks [Glen Uber ] Re: Alarm Clocks [Ken Weingold ] Re: alarm clocks ["Mike Wells" ] Re: Alarm Clocks [Aaron Mandel ] paging Brett Cooper ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Alarm Clocks [Glen Uber ] Re: Alarm Clocks [Glen Uber ] Re: what are words worth/first post [grutness@surf4nix.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:43:38 GMT From: scruss@enterprise.net Subject: Re: Notting Hill > My favourite of the "new" new material followed > around about this time, according to Robyn the > first SBs song in C for over 20 years ... > with the chorus of "looking for the Sheretay That would be the one he played on 5 August in Edinburgh, which he said was unfinished and untitled. I like it too. If I can be suitably arsed, I can put up a lo-fi mp3 of how it sounded back in August. Of course, taper(ed)maniax will already have heard this. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:48:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: 'italics' On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Andrew D. Simchik wrote: > Nope. Those are "scare quotes," which mean "others > use this term but I wouldn't, necessarily." I can't recall > seeing anyone use italics to mean the same as scare > quotes. Why they use single quotes is a mystery to me. And don't forget those "intelligent" people who "signal" scare quotes by waggling two fingers on each hand when they "say" one of these terms, clearly indicating double quotes. "Irritating" or what? - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:10:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Macrauchenia I enjoyed seeing the macrauchenias (macraucheniae?) on WwB yesterday, because I had recently read a Stephen Jay Gould article which mentioned them. Apparently Darwin studied the fossils and concluded that the present-day guanaco had evolved from the macrauchenia. Bingo! He invented the theory of evolution. However, it has since been discovered that the macrauchenia is _not_ related to the guanaco. So one of the key bits of evidence used in developing the theory was wrong! Apart from that, however, the programme was crap. Those two mean smilodon brothers appeared to have been lifted from a film starring Gary and Martin Kemp. And the idea that a megatherium would suddenly turn carnivorous strikes me as bizarre. Maybe they have got some evidence somewhere, but I doubt it. - - Mike Godwin PS Is phorusrhacos from this prog the same bird as phororachus in Conan Doyle? Or is it just a secondhand roc by Ray Harryhausen? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:31:18 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Macrauchenia Wwb - the show itself is really drama, the way I see it, with a fairly thin veneer of science, that is, I enjoy it immensly not because one learns all about the mating habits/lunching preferences/emotional crises of animals that haven't existed for aeons, but merely how they may have moved/looked... I thought the Smilodons were rendered extremely well (did you see the much cheaper C4 Extinct?), although last week's apes were (I thought) badly animated anthropromorphosised (perhaps they were *meant* to be anthropromorphosising!)shite... I also have serious reservations regarding the idea that Megatherium was an occasional scavenger (although thinking about it ISTR hearing that giant panda will sometimes go for carrion/small creatures (bamboo not being terribly nutricious, even for a slow-chewing sedentary panda)... I prefer the sciencey back-up program (which I think is on Tuesdays)... Quaternarily yours Matt >From: Michael R Godwin >Reply-To: Michael R Godwin >To: fegmaniax >Subject: Macrauchenia >Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:10:04 +0000 (GMT) > >I enjoyed seeing the macrauchenias (macraucheniae?) on WwB yesterday, >because I had recently read a Stephen Jay Gould article which mentioned >them. Apparently Darwin studied the fossils and concluded that the >present-day guanaco had evolved from the macrauchenia. Bingo! He invented >the theory of evolution. However, it has since been discovered that the >macrauchenia is _not_ related to the guanaco. So one of the key bits of >evidence used in developing the theory was wrong! > >Apart from that, however, the programme was crap. Those two mean smilodon >brothers appeared to have been lifted from a film starring Gary and Martin >Kemp. And the idea that a megatherium would suddenly turn carnivorous >strikes me as bizarre. Maybe they have got some evidence somewhere, but I >doubt it. > > >- Mike Godwin > >PS Is phorusrhacos from this prog the same bird as phororachus in Conan >Doyle? Or is it just a secondhand roc by Ray Harryhausen? - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:25:28 +0000 From: "Redtailed Hawk" Subject: I wish I could be 23 so I could waste Mike wrote: >Nice. Kind of has a Joan Collins - Priscilla Presley feel to it. Maybe throw in Marilyn Manson watching - broodingly - from the >upstairs >bannister rail. Then a close zoom in to his (?) glossy black lips and the >whisper of "Rosebud." Does that mean I get to sled(with nice sharp runners)down the stairs over the prostate(sic) bodies of Ms's Presley, Collins, Evans, Grey Principle and Tilton(and can they be nude? Please?)? And after MM says "Rosebud" dosn't he pick up a red rosebud and, after langorosously licking it, begins eating it, thorns and all--which make for an even groovier ketchup red, white and black effect? Then do we kiss? Or is that too much like the plot of Titus Androcious? - ----------------------------------------------- God: >Join as in 'cleave unto'? I would have thought that usage was >obsolete. >Always means 'to split' nowadays, I think. Maybe its being raised on the King James Bible or just too much Shakes, but I definiatly think of it as being used both ways. - ------------------------------- I'd search the old archives, but I can't remember who I was. - -------------------------------- Matt--thanks for the gig update. - ------------------------------ Kay, The Queen of Cleaves, brushing up against her Shakespeare Meaning has to be shared to be real. Mark Kingwell _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:04:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Macrauchenia On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, matt sewell wrote: > Wwb - the show itself is really drama, the way I see it, with a fairly > thin veneer of science, that is, I enjoy it immensly not because one > learns all about the mating habits/lunching preferences/emotional crises > of animals that haven't existed for aeons, but merely how they may have > moved/looked... I thought the Smilodons were rendered extremely well (did > you see the much cheaper C4 Extinct?) Yes, I saw more of that than I have of WwB. I found it much more involving, because of the sheer _insensitivity_ of the whalers / colonisers / general oafish white people who gaily exterminated the great auk and the Tasmanian wolf (oddly referred to as the Tasmanian tiger in the prog). Not to mention those poor ol' dodos. And, yes, the smilodon had the best cat fur I've seen so fur. I thought Ray Harryhausen's biggest disaster was the sabre toothed tiger in 'Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger': The gryphon in 'Golden Voyage of Sinbad' was pretty ropey too: > , although last week's apes were (I > thought) badly animated anthropromorphosised (perhaps they were *meant* > to be anthropromorphosising!)shite... Missed that one. > I also have serious reservations regarding the idea that Megatherium was > an occasional scavenger (although thinking about it ISTR hearing that > giant panda will sometimes go for carrion/small creatures (bamboo not > being terribly nutricious, even for a slow-chewing sedentary panda)... Well, occasional scavenger of birdy-insecty creatures is one thing, smashing a full-grown smilodon in the teeth in order to gnaw haunches of macrauchenia is another. I didn't belive it for a moment... > I prefer the sciencey back-up program (which I think is on Tuesdays)... That's the one with glove puppets? :-) - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:00:03 -0800 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: outed! > From: Viv Lyon > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > >> Oh lord, oh crikey, you rotter - don't punish me! I remember attempting to >> be on RATM and its successors around '94 or so: > > And guess who else was there? Andrew Simchick, consider yourself outed. Really? I don't remember that at all! It stands to reason, though, parce que j'aime les bots. I was in college at that time...I clearly recall being an active participant on a Tori Amos group, rec.music.gaffa, soc.bi, and soc.motss (talk about outed!), but not much beyond that. I doubt I was on this list at the time, though I certainly was a devoted Hitchcock fan by then. > From: grutness@surf4nix.com > [new Pulp:] >> based on the first two-three listens, i'd probably rank it below This >> is Hardcore, but above Different Class. it's more organic sounding than >> either. with finals, etc, I've haven't listened to it as much as i >> would have. i suspect it'll end up being with my top 8 or so. > > hm. so where does that put it for people like me who think that Different > Class is far better than Hardcore? I like both Hardcore and Different Class, for the record. I can't really compare it with either record; it doesn't sound like either one to me. People keep whipping out the word "organic" (it shows up in all the reviews) but I think they're just reacting to the vegetable motif. There's less synthesizer and the songs seem looser in structure, so if you want to call that "organic," then fine. If this one grows on me the way the other Pulp albums have, then I predict it won't be because of the lovely, inescapable tunes. It'll be those spooky, spooky prose-poetry bits. I tried listening to Vespertine again last night. It's a gorgeous album full of wonderful sounds. I just wish it had a bit more to grab on to, a touch more structure. I can't remember whether I mentioned it here, but it seems like most of the "best" albums of this year are respectable and individual and striking, but not particularly warm or inviting in terms of traditional pop pleasures. They're not singalong albums, in other words, which ought to be a ringing recommendation but somehow isn't. It's my old respect/ love problem again; I respect No More Shall We Part and Vespertine and We Love Life, but I don't feel any real affection for them, no urge to put them on at every opportunity. If they call to me it's because they're haunting, not inviting. Drew - -- http://www.stormgreen.com/~drew/ "You're living in a global shopping mall, and you're the only person who still thinks there's a bloody exit." - Edina Monsoon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:52:54 -0800 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: my shady past I've been enjoying a trip through my old Usenet posts... damn, I posted a LOT to rec.arts.tv.mst3k - way more than I thought I did. Was I really speculating at length about Joel Hodgson's eye color?? Man, I must have had a lot of time on my hands. Interestingly, I found that a quote of mine was being used as a .sigfile by a familiar personage... someone bearing a suspicious resemblance to Aaron Mandel! 'Fess up, Aaron! (The quote was: "I want a Brian Eno ambient alarm clock - the alarm is so quiet that it completely fails to engage your attention in any way.") n., rather flattered _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:07:55 -0500 From: LDudich@ase.org Subject: 100% non-anthrax--good xmas music fegs and burners- Hey- We are trying to get some decent Holiday music that is not lame or cheesy for our office X-mas party. The best we can do is George Harrison's "My sweet lord" (ok, not Xmas music, but in terms of relatively religious music that is not crap (or un melodic), it's pretty good- plus its (the late) beatle George!!!). So- Any suggestions? Besides Spinal Tap's "Xmas with the Devil" and the Ramones "Merry Xmas (Let's not fight tonight) ".........:) Did XTC (our favorite bunch of brit agnostics) do some Xmas thing? - -luther Luther W. Dudich Alliance to Save Energy Buildings Team 202/530-2243 202/262-8352 (cell) 202/331-9588 (fax) ldudich@ase.org Click here to help the Alliance fight global climate change. > http://www.environmentsite.org ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:18:10 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: my shady past On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Natalie Jane wrote: > Interestingly, I found that a quote of mine was being used as a > .sigfile by a familiar personage... someone bearing a suspicious > resemblance to Aaron Mandel! 'Fess up, Aaron! indeed. it is still in the rotating quote carousel. i always try to ask first, though -- sorry if in this case i didn't. a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:30:14 -0500 From: "Larry Tucker" Subject: RE: 100% non-anthrax--good xmas music "Nutrocker" by Shalini off the new Parasol Records Christmas collection. For that matter just get the CD. - -LT |-----Original Message----- |From: LDudich@ase.org [mailto:LDudich@ase.org] |Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 2:08 PM |To: baltwash-burning@egroups.com |Cc: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org |Subject: 100% non-anthrax--good xmas music | | |fegs and burners- | |Hey- We are trying to get some decent Holiday music |that is not lame or cheesy for our office X-mas party. | |The best we can do is George Harrison's "My sweet lord" |(ok, not Xmas music, but in terms of relatively religious |music that is not crap (or un melodic), it's pretty good- plus |its (the late) beatle George!!!). | |So- |Any suggestions? | |Besides Spinal Tap's "Xmas with the Devil" and the Ramones |"Merry Xmas (Let's not fight tonight) ".........:) Did XTC |(our favorite bunch of brit agnostics) do some Xmas thing? | |-luther | | Luther W. Dudich | Alliance to Save Energy | Buildings Team | 202/530-2243 | 202/262-8352 (cell) | 202/331-9588 (fax) | ldudich@ase.org | |Click here to help the Alliance fight global climate change. |> http://www.environmentsite.org | ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:55:25 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: A.Word.A.Day--contronym (fwd) The word (or at least this word-freak server) apparently revolves around this list: someone asked what words that mean their opposites are called? Here 'tis... - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:02:51 -0500 From: Wordsmith To: linguaphile@wordsmith.org Subject: A.Word.A.Day--contronym contronym (KAHN-troh-NIM) noun A word that generates two opposite meanings. More popularly, they are known as Janus-faced words because the Greek god Janus had two faces that looked in opposite directions. "The moon is VISIBLE tonight." "The lights in the old house are always INVISIBLE." Although the two capitalized words are opposite in meaning, both can be replaced by the same word -- out. When the moon or sun or stars are out, they are visible. When the lights are out, they are invisible. Thus, out is a contronym. Other examples: cleave: separate; adhere firmly. a. A strong blow will cleave a plank in two. b. Bits of metal cleave to a magnet. oversight: careful supervision; neglect. a. The foreman was responsible for the oversight of the project. b. The foreman's oversight ruined the success of the project. This week's theme: Naming the nyms, by Richard Lederer. Sponsor of today's AWAD: The enchantment of Christmas lives in Santa's Secret Village at http://www.northpole.com/AWAD/ . Enjoy our FREE activities! ............................................................................ Never confuse motion with action. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790) Q: Can I make a link from my Web site to the AWAD? A: Certainly. You're welcome to link to Wordsmith.Org. You may find the HTML code and banner suggestions at http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/linking.html Have daily word appear on your site: http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/add.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/contronym.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/contronym.ram ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:10:34 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: 100% non-anthrax--good xmas music On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 LDudich@ase.org wrote: > Did XTC (our favorite bunch of brit agnostics) do some Xmas thing? Indeed. The sterling "Thanks for Christmas" and the less-so "Countdown to Christmas Time" (Steve Schiavo will correct me if I've got the titles half-assed). I will also highly recommend Mr. Anton Barbeau's "Xmas Song" - - if only because I believe it is the only Christmas song to mention penguins. You might also try the following link: http://www.webcom.com/smholt/mixmash.html - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::I feel that all movies should have things that happen in them:: __TV's Frank__ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:10:59 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: 100% non-anthrax--good xmas music On Friday, December 14, 2001, at 01:07 PM, LDudich@ase.org wrote: > Did XTC (our favorite bunch of brit agnostics) do some Xmas thing? Don't be calling Andy an agnostic! Anyway, it's Thanks For Christmas by The Three Wise Men b/w Countdown To Christmas Party Time, now available on the Rag & Bone Buffet CD. > Hey- We are trying to get some decent Holiday music > that is not lame or cheesy for our office X-mas party. Nevermind anything other than I Am Santa Claus. - - Steve __________ A New York Times investigation into overseas ballots that helped George W. Bush win the presidency found that Florida election officials, facing intense GOP pressure to accept military votes, counted hundreds of overseas absentee ballots that failed to comply with state election laws. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:12:02 -0500 From: "Larry O'Brien" Subject: Totally and COMPLETELY Bizarre Web Site. This is +disturbing+ http://thewoodcutter.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:12:45 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: my shady past On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Natalie Jane wrote: > (The quote was: "I want a Brian Eno ambient alarm clock - the alarm is so > quiet that it completely fails to engage your attention in any way.") Okay, this sounds like a good time-waster: Pencils out for the first annual "alarm clock" competition. Come up with ideas for more personage-appropriate alarm clocks... - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey, who awakens to a John Cage alarm clock... J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::You think your country needs you, but you know it never will:: __Elvis Costello__ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:22:00 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: 100% non-anthrax--good xmas music On 12/14/01 11:07 AM, "LDudich@ase.org" wrote: > So- > Any suggestions? Bayard used to have quite a collection of Xmas toonz on his FTP server, but they seem to have been removed. Fortunately, I grabbed 'em all a month or so back. So, if they are no longer available and anyone wants them, I would be happy to upload them to one of my servers. E-mail me privately and I'll "hook you up". - -- Cheers! - -g- "When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find peace of mind is waiting there And the time will come when you see we're all one And life flows on within you and without you." - --George Harrison ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:25:53 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Totally and COMPLETELY Bizarre Web Site. On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Larry O'Brien wrote: > This is +disturbing+ > > http://thewoodcutter.com/ "Disturbing" in a "The Shaggs Play Emerson Lake & Palmer" way, or in a "Jeffrey Dahmer's Home Movies" way? See, I don't even want to check it out if it's the latter... np: The Dismemberment Plan _Emergency & I_ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:29:08 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Alarm Clocks on 12/14/01 12:12 PM, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey at jenor@csd.uwm.edu wrote: > > Okay, this sounds like a good time-waster: Pencils out for the first > annual "alarm clock" competition. Come up with ideas for more > personage-appropriate alarm clocks... > The Robyn Hitchcock Alarm Clock: At a preset time, begins a long disconnected rant involving sex, fish, death, and leftist politics. Since the story is as surreal as a dream, you're not sure if you're awake or still asleep; you only finally wake up when the imagery gets so horrific that you start screaming frantically. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:32:20 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: my shady past On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Okay, this sounds like a good time-waster: Pencils out for the first > annual "alarm clock" competition. Come up with ideas for more > personage-appropriate alarm clocks... *Ogre Nivek alarm clock: shrieks like tormented souls in hell *Eddie Vedder alarm clock: over-emotes the alarm *Lars Ulrich alarm clock: doesn't let anyone but the person who paid for it hear the alarm *P Diddy alarm clock: alarm is constructed entirely out of samples of other alarms *Cypress Hill alarm clock: has a built-in bong *Phish alarm clock: always says 4:20 *Grateful Dead alarm clock: alarm is a 79-minute version of "Dark Star" *Who alarm clock: trashes your nightstand *Keith Richards alarm clock: you can't believe it still functions *Liam Gallagher alarm clock: punches you in the face - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:35:45 -0600 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: Alarm Clocks > > Okay, this sounds like a good time-waster: Pencils out for the first > > annual "alarm clock" competition. Come up with ideas for more > > personage-appropriate alarm clocks... The Leonard Peltier alarm clock: It goes off and you wake up in your own house in your own bed, realizing it's all been a really horrendous dream. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:46:11 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Alarm Clocks On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Mike Wells wrote: > > The Leonard Peltier alarm clock: It goes off and you wake up in your own > house in your own bed, realizing it's all been a really horrendous dream. The Florida 2000 U.S. Presidential Election Commemorative (sold only as a pair): both clocks go off at almost exactly the same time and a year later, are still arguing over who woke you up. - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::flag on the moon...how'd it get there?:: ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:55:57 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Alarm Clocks On 12/14/01 12:12 PM, "Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey" wrote: > Okay, this sounds like a good time-waster: Pencils out for the first > annual "alarm clock" competition. Come up with ideas for more > personage-appropriate alarm clocks... Rich Little alarm clock - 125 different alarms, but they all kinda sound alike. Jim Mora alarm clock - goes off after every interception Peyton Manning throws. Jimi Hendrix alarm clock - douses your nightstand in lighter fluid and sets it afire. Sting alarm clock - claims to be the same alarm as it used to be, but the alarm isn't as loud, brash, or creative as you remember (in some areas, this is marketed under the name "Phil Collins alarm clock"). Despite the fact that you like the old alarm better, this alarm seems to be much more popular. What about a Strawberry Alarm Clock? - -- Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:14:37 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Alarm Clocks On Fri, Dec 14, 2001, Glen Uber wrote: > Sting alarm clock - claims to be the same alarm as it used to be, but the > alarm isn't as loud, brash, or creative as you remember (in some areas, this > is marketed under the name "Phil Collins alarm clock"). Despite the fact > that you like the old alarm better, this alarm seems to be much more > popular. Also, where this alarm used to shut off after about 30 minutes, it now goes for about 10 hours. :) - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:15:08 -0600 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: alarm clocks > *Liam Gallagher alarm clock: punches you in the face * Evel Kinevil alarm clock: sets itself on fire and flies across your bed, wiping out below the window sill * Hugh Hefner alarm clock (my favorite): a gentle chiming summons 14 airheaded blonds who massage you to wakefulness * Tim Floyd alarm clock (special for Chicago basketball fans): it just keeps ticking...and ticking... * Winona Ryder alarm clock: grabs two of your shirts from the closet and heads for the door * The Johnny Wadd model: wakes you up by...well, never mind. Michael "off to the dentist" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:28:35 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Alarm Clocks On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Ken Weingold wrote: > Also, where this alarm used to shut off after about 30 minutes, it now > goes for about 10 hours. :) Meanwhile... Robert Pollard alarm clock - wakes you up every 26 minutes instead of once a day. Eminem alarm clock - wakes you up with an ear-splitting alarm at inconvenient or unwanted times, but hey, you have to admit that it's very good at waking you up, don't you? the Strokes alarm clock - everyone else in the building has one, and those wake you up whether you bought one for yourself or not. Pavement alarm clock - wakes you up with the sound of someone saying "this clock isn't waking you up". Frank Zappa alarm clock - would probably wake you up if you could figure out which of its 50 buttons are functional and which should be ignored. a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:40:49 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: paging Brett Cooper I have something for you, Marc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:40:55 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Alarm Clocks On 12/14/01 1:28 PM, "Aaron Mandel" wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Ken Weingold wrote: > >> Also, where this alarm used to shut off after about 30 minutes, it now >> goes for about 10 hours. :) > > Meanwhile... Madonna alarm clock - changes its tones every two years. Now appears to made in England, despite the Made In USA stamp on the package. Black Crowes alarm clock - sounds like the Rolling Stones, Faces, and Humble Pie alarm clocks that you bought some years ago. Samuel L. Jackson alarm - it's the one that says "Bad Motherfucker" on it. - -- Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:44:07 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Alarm Clocks The Residents alarm clock - really cool sounding alarm, but no one has ever seen its face - -- Cheers! - -g- "When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find peace of mind is waiting there And the time will come when you see we're all one And life flows on within you and without you." - --George Harrison ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:59:06 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: what are words worth/first post >> grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: >> > Accede/cede, unloosen/loosen, and >> > invaluable/valuable are three such pairs. > >Disagree about 'invaluable'. Surely it means 'beyond price', whereas >'valuable' means 'highly priced'. certainly. However, I would say that 'beyond price' and 'highly priced' both refer to something of great worth. The point here is that it is closer to synonymous that the more obvious reading of 'invaluable' = 'not valuable'. >> then of course there's the wonderful verb "cleave", which is its own >> negative by meaning both "to split" and "to join". > >Join as in 'cleave unto'? I would have thought that usage was obsolete. people still cleave ropes together. It seems that my first post to any mailing list was in September 1994, to Elephant Talk. But I'm sure this is wrong - and I'm also sure that I am not using this new Google resource properly. If anyone can tell me how to search for an earliest post proplerly - please let me know! 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") ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #463 ********************************