From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #42 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, February 7 2002 Volume 11 : Number 042 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: RH 0% DVD ? [Brian ] Re: RH 0% DVD ? ["Rob" ] your laws do not apply to me ["ross taylor" ] Re: your laws do not apply to me [Aaron Mandel ] Re: your laws do not apply to me [gSs ] Re: Mr Fegg [bayard ] Re: Hair/Fat Factor or Angst factor? [Miles Goosens ] Re: your laws do not apply to me [Miles Goosens ] Re: your laws do not apply to me [Ken Ostrander ] Geeks' Geeks ["Redtailed Hawk" ] Re: bits [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Happy Waitangi day [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: RH 0% DVD ? [steve ] oh yes the Heads are Talking! ["Seth Frisby" ] Re: oh yes the Heads are Talking! [Miles Goosens ] Re: bits [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V11 #41 [barbara soutar ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:22:12 -0500 From: Brian Subject: RE: RH 0% DVD ? >Hope this is helpful -- and not more confusing. For further study, I >recommend Jim Taylor's excellent DVD FAQ, which you can find here: >http://dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html > >-ed Yes! Very helpful. Thanks Ed. Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:38:07 -0000 From: "Rob" Subject: Re: RH 0% DVD ? On 6 Feb 2002 at 11:17, Brian wrote: > Yep. It's time for me to enter the world of DVD. > > Does anyone know if the Pioneer DV 343 is a good buy? Will it play > my Gotta Let This Hen Out DVD? Will it play bootleg VCDs? Yikes. > I know nothing of this stuff. Does it play European DVDs. Should > I care? > > Any advice, I'm thankful for. > > Nuppy According to dvdhacks.co.uk that machine is capable of multi-region play so you can play European dvds: http://www.dvdhacks.co.uk/hacksearch.asp?manufacturer=PIONEER GLTHO is region free (well, mine says it is), so any player should be able to play it. - -- Rob ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:14:44 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: your laws do not apply to me Kay-- "Dolefully I must proclaim that I have noticed a deplorable tendency among Fegs to waste their minds away in the gutter." That's where it is! It must have rolled down the roof & landed there when I was tossing it around last fall, trying to throw it over the house. And then it got covered with leaves, so of course I didn't see it ... - --- Another vote of confidence for the RH "Let Me Roll it." I think he adds a nice touch of bite, almost menace, to it. I've tended to think what I really like about him is his songwriting, his guitar & his delivery, but his voice really has quite a bit of range. Like the whole album. - --- Other recent acquisitions -- Little Feat, Sailing Shoes - don't know how I've gone w/out this so long, it was the soundtrack of highschool. I *hate* Dixie Chicken, but this is spooky noisey & beautiful. Pete Shelley, XL-1 - even more commercial than Homosapian, but a couple of good numbers. Faces, Long Player - the best version of Maybe I'm Amazed. New Order, Get Ready - OK. Somehow in the 90s I got hooked on Big Beat. New Order's lyrics have always sucked, which is weird after how literary Curtis was. Chemical Brothers, Come With Us - OK. Somehow in the 90s I got hooked on Big Beat. There's a song here that sounds more like New Order than they do w/out Gillian. Ry Cooder, 1st Album - much more low key than his next two, & so less interesting, but great guitar. Best song is an instrumental. Firesign Theater, How Can You be in Two Places at Once ... - For me they precede Python in teaching me about the absurd. Now I want somebody to release Zaccharia on DVD - the film is an awesome combo of Firesign, Country Joe, James Gang, cowboys and vampires. "Silver bullets are for vampires, not friends! Haven't you learned anything yet?" - --- I'm Ross and these are the Low Minded Apes and we'd like to kick our first set off with an old Yardbirds number called "Here 'Tis" - 1, 2, 3 Ross Taylor Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:45:52 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: your laws do not apply to me On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, ross taylor wrote: > New Order, Get Ready - OK. Somehow in the 90s I got hooked on Big > Beat. New Order's lyrics have always sucked, which is weird after how > literary Curtis was. I just listened to this again last night, hoping I'd been wrong about it, but man, I don't see how people are even calling it *passable*. I loved most of Republic. I love Electronic, for crying out loud, so you can't tell me my standards are just too high. I still think Get Ready sucks. But I envy people who like it, because I so wanted the New Order reunion to happen in a way that rang true with me. Ah well. The little pocket discography that came in the case is cute. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:14:06 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: your laws do not apply to me i thought that was only below 40 degrees south in the roarin forties or is that the place where even god quits bitchin'? gSs ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:48:25 -0800 (PST) From: bayard Subject: Re: Mr Fegg > PS Grump of the week was a news item stating that police were seeking a > man living under an "assumed alias". What other kind of alias is there? maybe they weren't sure it was an alias, but it was such a name that they assumed it had to be? (like mine?) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 15:01:27 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Hair/Fat Factor or Angst factor? At 03:10 PM 2/4/2002 +0000, Redtailed Hawk wrote: >I want to see corprate, old-fart, big-stadium rock stone dead. But Id >probobly even love to see whats left of the Stones ... in a small club that >is, without costume changes or gimmicks, doing material they love, >preferably not stuff Ive heard a zillion times. The only time I've seen the Stones was at Vanderbilt's football stadium in October 1997, i.e., a venue far removed from intimacy. I hadn't bought tickets when they went on sale the previous month, because I'd heard too many stories from disappointed people who went to Birmingham or Memphis to see them on other '80s and '90s tours, and what's more, we were on vacation at Panama City Beach the Saturday tickets went on sale (something of an obstacle during my pre-laptop days). So we decided not to make the effort to get tickets. Two days before the show, the director of Melissa's agency decided that he and his wife didn't want to use their Stones tickets, and he offered them to Melissa. We decided that maybe we *were* supposed to go to the show since these just fell in our lap (well, we still had to pay for the tickets - -- only face value, tho), ya know, some sort of karma/fate thing. It was the best show we saw that year. They could have taken our money and screwed around for ninety minutes, trading on that "we *saw* the Stones!" factor. Instead, they just *smoked* for two hours. The first couple of songs had muddy sound, but the performance seemed "on." During the third song, the sound came clear. And then Keith hit center stage and laid down the "Gimme Shelter" riff, and Oh. My. God. Had my money's worth right there. The stuff you've heard a zillion times was great and sometimes spectacular, the new songs sounded fine, and the few curveballs ("The Last Time" on the ministage, "Girl With the Faraway Eyes" -- which I don't believe for a second *really* won the Internet request poll that evening, I think they just wanted to play it in Nashville!) were real pleasures. The other notable thing to us about the show, besides its high quality, was how surprised we were at Mick and Keith's charisma. I mean, our admiration for the music of the '60s Stones (particularly the BEGGARS BANQUET - STICKY FINGERS run) knows no bounds, but both of us had a hard time discerning why anyone would find these ugly, increasingly wizened men to be attractive. Beyond the money/fame/power lure, that is. It never came across to us in photos, on TV, or even in the GIMME SHELTER documentary. But seeing them in the flesh, there was just *something* about Mick and Keith, that indescribable somethingorother that changes in the atmosphere when people who have it walk into a room, that current of charged electricity vibrating in the air. We get it now, but we had to see them in person to do so. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:14:32 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: hello? it's been very quiet here for the last couple of days... and I've been having trouble with my ISP during those two days, too. Did I miss anything? James PS - if anyone's sent me mail during that time - please could you send it again! Ta! James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= .-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= You talk to me as if from a distance =-.-=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 16:01:12 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Doing Feg Kay wrote: >And Jill--Could your kids steal my kid and de-program her(I now turn on the >computer to ... a Gwen Steffani screensaver!) There are many worse things. In fact, I'm feeling rather kindly disposed to Ms. Steffani right now, since she seems to have abandoned her Queen of Sorrows garb in favor of picking up Lady Miss Kier's fallen crown. AS far as I can tell, HEY BABY is the sort of smart, funky, fun music that made WORLD CLIQUE such a (well, sue me) delight. Sure, it doesn't show a lot of individuality to be a No Doubt fan, but it's good-enuff music that can serve as a transition to something even better, and Gwen is a pretty strong female figure, so The Kid Is Alright, IMO. :-) later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 15:47:21 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: your laws do not apply to me aaron wrote: >On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, ross taylor wrote: > >> New Order, Get Ready - OK. Somehow in the 90s I got hooked on Big >> Beat. New Order's lyrics have always sucked, which is weird after how >> literary Curtis was. > >I just listened to this again last night, hoping I'd been wrong about it, >but man, I don't see how people are even calling it *passable*. I loved >most of Republic. I love Electronic, for crying out loud, so you can't >tell me my standards are just too high. I still think Get Ready sucks. I think you've demonstrated your "fond of second-rate New Order" credentials quite sufficiently, which does make it a surprise to me that you didn't like GET READY, which abounds in modest charms. I'd rank GET READY just behind the PCL/LOW-LIFE/BROTHERHOOD triad, and ahead of everything else. All my listens have been over the past couple of weeks -- I didn't even play it once in 2001, I was so swamped with work and other releases (especially former Feg Paula Carino's spendiforous AQUACADE) -- so GET READY is very fresh in my mind right now, and I like it a lot. "Crystal" is probably the song most likely to get widespread praise (as in "I hated the rest of the album, but 'Crystal' is great!"), but I'm fond of everything else too. It reminds me of the B-52's COSMIC THING: Both it and GET READY came along long after I'd written off the groups, yet these albums are excellent, full of a wisdom and grace I'd never thought either group could manage at this late date. Both albums also feature raucous songs with the word "Shack" in the title, reinforcing the parallel. In fact, my two favorite songs on GET READY are "Slow Jam" and "Rock the Shack," which serve the same purposes as COSMIC THING's "Roam" and "Love Shack." I'm sure many listeners might find them among the most sucky songs, but I think they're essential to the nature of this album. Or maybe it's that I'm going on 35, and very open to those sort of "older is different but no less spirited and not even necessarily less" sort of albums.* But then again, I'm the kind of guy who thinks that the song that made New Order special wasn't "Blue Monday" or "The Perfect Kiss" -- it was "Every Little Counts." later, Miles * Like, *ahem*, PERSPEX ISLAND. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:15:51 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: West Coast Joy Divisionals At 02:45 PM 2/6/2002 -0500, Aaron Mandel wrote: >I just listened to this again last night, hoping I'd been wrong about it, >but man, I don't see how people are even calling it *passable*. I loved >most of Republic. I love Electronic, for crying out loud, so you can't >tell me my standards are just too high. I still think Get Ready sucks. I've been listening to Joy Division at work all day, and this past weekend, putting my new iMac to good use, I ripped my entire New Order (and various related) collection to MP3. I really like "Get Ready," although of recent New Order membership releases, I do think the second Monaco album was a little bit better. The "Get Ready" material stands up really well on shuffle mode with the rest of the catalog. Oddly, it's some of the 80s "single mixes" from the compilations that seem the most out of place, both stylistically and in terms of quality. "(The Rest of) New Order" and iTunes Visuals work really well together. If you really want to hear something really sucky, throw on "The Other Two & You." - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 18:30:53 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: your laws do not apply to me > >> New Order, Get Ready - OK. Somehow in the 90s I got hooked on Big > >> Beat. New Order's lyrics have always sucked, which is weird after how > >> literary Curtis was. not really, when you think that ian was so amazingly unique. i'm very glad that they decided not to try and sound like joy division after the movement album. bernard's lyrics run from the banal to the sappy to the obtuse. sometimes it clicks and sometimes you just get lost in the groove. thank god for mr hook. >I think you've demonstrated your "fond of second-rate New Order" >credentials quite sufficiently, which does make it a surprise to me that >you didn't like GET READY, which abounds in modest charms. I'd rank GET >READY just behind the PCL/LOW-LIFE/BROTHERHOOD triad, and ahead of >everything else. i've found myself listening to technique a lot. i'd say that get ready is on a par with it. republic was a real letdown; but the electronic and monaco stuff got me excited for this one. that song 'brutal' from some movie soundtrack was really good as well. >But then again, I'm the kind of guy who thinks that the song that made New >Order special wasn't "Blue Monday" or "The Perfect Kiss" -- it was "Every >Little Counts." temptation!!! ken "mr disco" the kenster np the rainbow children prince ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 00:37:15 +0000 From: "Redtailed Hawk" Subject: Geeks' Geeks Drew-- You thought I -meant- what I said about hair/fat ratio? I was just playing. Which is why I characterized the whole conceit as the "f" word(and - -fallacious is a perfectly good word, even when, er, slightly mispelled;-). Here's my -real- opinion. Anyone can rock who wants to at any age, whether I like it or not. Unfortunetly, I have not yet been crowned queen of the world, why I dont know but thems the breaks. However, I reserve the right to be bitchy if they are so cluelessly young (like those painfully loud Asian kids who opened for Robyn) or so boringly, "I thank you from the bottom of my ego," just going thru the motions old - as to be fit for only a suburban sound-proofed basement or some palatial mansion's unsound-proofed basement miles away from any other sentient being. As for Jagger, recent perpetrator of one the most sublimely ridiculous CD jacket-covers ever(which may be the point) -- isn't he already dead;-? - ------------------------------------------------------- Re: Vonnegut I know I read all of him I could get in the late 60s and early 70s. I know I liked him. The only problem is I don't remember any of it. - ------------------------------------------- Our free, fairly geeky, local paper, "The Philly Weekly" currently has a story called "Rock Snob Encyclopedia." It seems that people who know about and discuss:-- Big Star, Beefheart, Eno, Roky Erickson, Love, Parsons, Iggy, Jonathan Richman, Leonard Cohen, the Beach Boys, Nick Drake, the Ramones, Lou Reed, REM(it catagorizes people who dont like their early stuff as "people who dont cry at the end of "Its a Wonderful Life" and should be avoided at all costs." heh) Syd, T Rex, VU, Who, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, The Yardbirds, the Kinks, Neil Young, Zepplin, Zappa ,Zimmerman and the Zombies -- have "discerning taste ." Does this take Feg past the stratosphere of high geekdom into the upper reaches of being geeks'geeks? Does this mean we win something? Kay Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen Tongue and brain not; either both, or nothing, Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such As sense can not untie, Be what it is The action of my life is like it, which I'll keep, if but for sympathy Shakespeare, Cymbeline, V:4:145 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:50:15 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: bits >> The Soft Boys' Let Me Roll It is a pleasure to listen to. I must >> say, I've never heard the original. Is this version true to it? Does >> the original have that half off beat intro where the bass comes in >> a half beat before the drums? Am I making any sense? > >You mean the bit in the riff where it unexpectedly goes >Diddly-um do do do da-doyng da-doyng? That's on 'Band on the Run' all >right. and that bit's much easier to play than it sounds, too! >Headline of the week: > >Bush Pushes Budget for Bioterrorism in Pittsburgh matched by a local TV weather presenter's "Nelson will have high cloud which should disappear in the afternoon - and so will Wellington." 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: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:49:30 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Happy Waitangi day Fric wished us all: >Happy Waitangi Day! > >... or is it? happier than normal, thanks. No huge protests, as there have been at times in the past, but still the odd bit of shouting at the Waitangi marae. For those not aware of NZ's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed between the British colonists and Maori tribal chiefs on Feb 6th 1840. Due to the exact meaning of some phrases in the treaty (especially those where new maori terms had to be coined to cope with otherwise un-translateable words like 'sovereignty'), and due to dubious interpretations of the treaty over the years by successive NZ governments, the day itself is often marked by protests and calls to 'honour the treaty' by those calling for Maori self-determination. This year though was very peaceful. James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= .-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= You talk to me as if from a distance =-.-=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:53:44 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: RH 0% DVD ? On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 10:17 AM, Brian wrote: > Yep. It's time for me to enter the world of DVD. If you want an all-region player, take a look at - http://www.avdeals.com/malata_dvd.htm - - Steve __________ Our previous president studied at Oxford. This one was given a sightseeing tour of London and said it was ''diverse and clean.'' The Times also said Bush gave a ''pep talk'' to children about the advantages of reading over television. The children did not ask him to name the last book he had read. Just good manners, I guess. - Roger Ebert ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 23:25:30 -0500 From: "Seth Frisby" Subject: oh yes the Heads are Talking! Here is the Bears touring schedule. Its complete as far as I know. 01/30 CANAL STREET DAYTON, OH 01/31 CLUB CAFE PITTSBURGH, PA 02/01 MAGIC BAG FERNDALE, MI 02/02 MARTYR'S CHICAGO, IL 02/07 BLUE CATS KNOXVILLE, TN 02/08 MUSIC ZONE ASHEVILLE, NC 02/09 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE ATLANTA, GA 02/10 12TH & PORTER NASHVILLE, TN 02/14 LYNAGH'S LEXINGTON, KY 02/15 PHOENIX HILL LOUISVILLE, KY 02/16 SOUTHGATE NEWPORT, KY 02/17 BEACHLAND CLEVELAND, OH 02/19 MIDDLE EAST BOSTON, MA 02/20 HIGHER GROUND BURLINGTON, VT 02/22 NORTH STAR PHILADELPHIA, PA 02/23 MERCURY LOUNGE NYC 02/24 MERCURY LOUNGE NYC The press for the local Burlington show only mention Adrian, Bill Mullins and David Kamm. I don't know who those last two are but I know that they're not in the bears. From all indications it should be the full band. By the way did anyone else find their latest album "Car Caught Fire" utterly pleasant? Oh and if no one's heard yet(and if you have sorry) the Talking Heads are reuniting!! There are no substantial indications that it will be on a permanent basis, but they will play two songs together at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Cross your fingers! This is a dream come true. Literally. I had a dream about a year and half ago of a Talking Heads reunion concert. They were coming together for a festival being held on very small volcanic island. It was basically one very large pointy hill with the stage at the top. Looking down there was this tiny harbor with what looked like a coral arch over it. The great part was that every wave brought new concert goers to the event. And needless to say everyone was very happy. I never actually got to see them play in the dream but I suppose the good vibes and the anticipation of it were what was important. Oh and Peter Gabriel had something to do with the organization of the event. Robyn content: Someone please make him tour closer to the northeat than NYC. Please. Oh and our local station the Point played Madonna of the Wasps tonight. A rare treat. Seth of Frisby _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 23:13:40 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: oh yes the Heads are Talking! At 11:25 PM 2/6/2002 -0500, Seth Frisby wrote: >Robyn content: Someone please make him tour closer to the northeat than NYC. >Please. Yum, northeat. :-) While I do hope the northeast gets a gig or three, it's difficult for me to empathize with the plight of a region that got a 2001 Soft Boys gig and a stop on most every significant Robyn tour of the U.S. Robyn has played Nashville exactly three times. Period. And not since 1997, which was the first show here since 1992. Both solo sets in 1990 and the solo show in Feb. '97 were as packed as humanly possible, and the Egyptians gig at 328 Performance Hall in '92 (Bayard, there was no Feb. '92 show here) was very close to a sellout, so he can't claim that he doesn't draw here. And if my pain doesn't impress you, imagine the live Robyn jones that James Dignan must have... However, carping that there isn't a northeast gig (yet) on Robyn's 2002 schedule doesn't come close to what you see on the Richard Thompson list, where people complain if RT omits New Jersey, Massachusetts, or the Bay Area from a *leg* of his tour. Heck, it seems like to me that he plays the McCarter Theatre and the Iron Horse seventeen times a year! RT has been on about the same Nashville schedule as Robyn (solo 1989, full band 1994, two full band dates in 1999), yet people still have the gall to bitch that he's not coming around to their doorsteps every other Tuesday. :-) Good news about the Talking Heads, that. Byrne has played here in '97 and '01, and those were some of the best live shows I've ever seen. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:02:30 -0800 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?glen=20=FCber?= Subject: New e-mail address! Hey everyone, I have a new primary e-mail address. I've switched because of the convenience and flexibility it offers me with regards to filtering and remote access. The new address is blint@mac.com; please update all address books and mailing lists. I will periodically check my sonic.net account, but will primarily use it as web and FTP storage space and for the Unix shell and programming tools that comes with the account. I can't guarantee a timely response if you send stuff there anymore. Cheers! - -g- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ glen uber blint at mac dot com Just one piece of advice you might be able to use: SEVENTEEN ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:54:09 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: bits On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, James Dignan wrote: > >Headline of the week: > > > >Bush Pushes Budget for Bioterrorism in Pittsburgh > > matched by a local TV weather presenter's "Nelson will have high cloud > which should disappear in the afternoon - and so will Wellington." Female anchor to male weathercaster, between-sequences chit-chat during winter months: "So Alan, where was that eight inches you promised me last night?" Doubtless an urban legend, but... - --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 ::sex, drugs, revolt, Eskimos, atheism:: ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 13:35:02 -0800 From: barbara soutar Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V11 #41 Hello, I am trying to join in the conversation after reading the digest version of this interesting newsgroup for several months. Not sure how to do it and if this method of responding (using the reply button) will even work. Barbara Soutar, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #42 *******************************