From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #102 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, April 2 2002 Volume 11 : Number 102 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V11 #101 [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Billy Bragg Question ["marcus slade" ] Re: would satan's asshole talk about me, baby [gSs ] xtc (0% infernal anus content) ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: lots of stuff!! [Sebastian Hagedorn ] mike heron's drunken librarian shame ["ross taylor" ] Maureen and the Meatpackers [Brian ] Maureen and the Meatpackers [Brian ] If I were a Miller by the name of Roger [glen uber ] I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, but I need a brand new keyboard [glen uber ] Re: like a post-post-modern man [Tom Clark ] Re: like a post-post-modern banshee ["Jason R. Thornton" ] RE: Billy Bragg question ["Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" ] Robyn Sings ["Michael Wells" ] Re: like a post-post-modern man ["Fric Chaud" ] Re: lots of stuff!! ["Fric Chaud" ] Re: lots of stuff!! ["Michael Wells" ] Re: lots of stuff!! ["Fric Chaud" ] Re: Robyn Sings [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: lots of stuff!! [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Robyn Sings [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: lots of stuff!! ["Fric Chaud" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 21:41:52 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V11 #101 Kay said: >Anyway, I remember hours of reciting,--an,en,in,on,un, with the suitable top >of the palatte snort. You hardly ever(never?) pronounce final consants in >french anyway. a final -c is a special case (as in the surname of the French leader Chirac), but I suspect this is a regional thing - probably Occitan (a.k.a. Le langue d'oc or Languedoc). I can remember being thoroughly confused at school by verb forms ending -aient that were pronounced -eh. >>and, in the best Peter Sellers fashion, > >Ah, but with a soupcon of Cleese cheese please. it's a bit runnier than you'd like it... James PS - I promise to write soon Kay! Things are, um, hectic. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:31:56 From: "marcus slade" Subject: Re: Billy Bragg Question I seem to remember Billy saying, at the Bingo Hand Job shows, that it was written about the photographer Cindy Sherman (I think that's how she spelled it). Marcus >Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 21:14:31 +1200 >From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) >Subject: Billy Bragg question > >You lot are music trivia experts, for the most part, and there is a big >crossover between RH and BB fans so... > >sometime, somewhen, someone told me that Billy Bragg's song "Cindy of a >thousand lives" (one of my favourites, BTW) was inspired by a real person >named Cindy, who was a poet or artist of moviemaker or something. Trouble >is, I can't remember her surname, nor can I remember what her craft was. >Can anyone here fill in the blanks for me? > >James _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:33:59 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: would satan's asshole talk about me, baby On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Spring Cherry wrote: > >is satan's asshole as good as satan's harelip? > > Why;-? Just something you might need to know someday. Actually satan's harelip is the drug Jerri made, in 'stangers with candy' and that's what I thought of when I saw satan's asshole. I think it was the one where she spray painted the "N" word on the high school. fucking hilarious. g "who wonders what he would feel like if he found out satan's asshole was talking about him" Ss ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 08:55:09 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: xtc (0% infernal anus content) For those that care (of which I am one), it sounds like there's going to be a lot of interesting material on the upcoming XTC box... >XTC/Coat of Many Cupboards ....CD Box Set $47.99 >The first ever box set from one of the best selling and consistently >inventive pop bands to emerge from the punk/new wave explosion. 4 CD, 60 >track collection covering XTC's classic 1978-1989 period albums. A goldmine >of outtakes, demo versions, home recordings, rehearsal extracts, acoustic >versions and never-before-released live versions. 41 of the 60 tracks have >never before released in any form. Features a 60 page booklet. Jason, still looking forward to the Robert Schneider/Andy Partridge collaboration ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 15:34:24 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: lots of stuff!! - --On Samstag, 30. Mdrz 2002 21:05 Uhr -0500 Ken Weingold wrote: >> The French argument has me in stitches. I think everyone brutalizes >> other languages. > > Well I think it goes both ways. If you are speaking one particular > language, I think it's okay to pronounce foreign words more in the > pronunciation of the language you are speaking. I worked once with > this guy who had lived in Mexico. He would pronounce 'Mexico' how you > would in Spanish. I thought he sounded ridiculous, considering we > were speaking English. This is a difficult subject. I come from a family where knowledge of multiple languages has always been taken for granted. But even without this background I believe that Germans have now (for somewhat obvious reasons) the tendency to be "model foreigners". Naturally this doesn't encompass everyone, but a lot of people know at least the basic principles of English, French, Spanish and Italian pronunciation. I tend to overdo that ;-) But if I *know* how something is pronounced properly, it just pains me to pronounce it in a different way. However, there are exceptions! Sometimes there is an actual German name for a city or a place. Moscow is Moskau in German, California is Kalifornien. Milano is Mailand, and so on. In these instances it would in fact be ridiculous to use the foreign language when you're speaking German... Cheers, Sebastian - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ Being just contaminates the void - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 14:42:41 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: mike heron's drunken librarian shame Since I associate Robyn w/ the ISB, I'll report on recently acquiring Mike Heron's 1971 Smiling Men With Bad Reputations. It doesn't seem to be in print & I got it at a library sale for 50 cents. (Nyah,nyah!) The 1st song was a bit of a dissapointment, hyper up-tempo soul a la Van Morrison but, well, w/out Van Morrison's soul vocals. The next song however, FLowers of the FOrest, was beautiful, w/ 3/5 of Fairport Convention backing him & some fine lead guitar by Richard Thompson. The next few tracks were more good versions of what you'd expect from Heron w/ a full band, some exotic instruments (incl. tabla) his melancholy sound & unusual song structure. John Cale was a big presence on several songs, w/ piano, viola, harmonium & vocal arrangements. 2nd song side 2 I laughed as it started w/ big electric guitars & bashing drums. I thought, fuckin' Mike Heron--a headbanger! Then I got more interested. THe bass/drums/guitar for the track was listed as "Tommy and the Bijou." I figured a hip studio musician might imitate Townshend that well, but no one could imitate Moon like that. It was full-flight Who, like Bargain/Won't Get Fooled again, w/ Cale's viola floating over top of it. It was mixed to sound less bright than Who records & maybe the guitar was a little more restrained, but apparently it was impossible to restrain the drummer. I know Heron was the more R&B side of the Incredible String Band, but hearing him play w/ the Who & someone from the Velvet Underground seemed a bit like hearing poet Russell Edson perform with the Rolling Stones. It's really a good song & I'm sure it pissed off his core fan base. The song is called Warm Heart Pastry & I've since found it discussed on Who sites by folks who seem oblivious to the ISB. - --- Gene-- >"The devil's asshole smells like fried chicken." -- Andrei Codrescu >Yeah, he gets paid to write stuff like that. Aw, I bet he doesn't get paid *much.* Ross Taylor Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:10:23 -0500 From: Brian Subject: Maureen and the Meatpackers So my long time friend just gave me an old tape with a bunch of Maureen and the Meatpackers demos on it. Supposedly this was the 'legendary' album they recorded back in the 70's that was never released. There's a little bit of hiss, but the songs sound pretty damn good! Here is a complete track listing: 1. Zip Zip 2. The Unpleasant Stain 3. Ralph, Give Me A Spanner 4. The Things You Say Killed Me 5. Baby 6. Chug A Lug 7. The Duke Of Squeeze 8. Crabwise 9. Stuck Under You Again 10. Size Of A Walnut 11. Heat Me Up (cuts). I'm unsure of the actual dates of these recordings. There are mostly girls (Airborne Alice?) singing these songs with lots of harmonies in the back. Robyn sings lead on Baby and Chug A Lug and Duke Of Squeeze. Some other guy sings lead on Stuck Under You again, a Byrds meets Hendrix beauty. Heat Me Up is less than a minute long and cuts on my tape. Why the hell wasn't this stuff ever released? Nupply ;) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:10:23 -0500 From: Brian Subject: Maureen and the Meatpackers So my long time friend just gave me an old tape with a bunch of Maureen and the Meatpackers demos on it. Supposedly this was the 'legendary' album they recorded back in the 70's that was never released. There's a little bit of hiss, but the songs sound pretty damn good! Here is a complete track listing: 1. Zip Zip 2. The Unpleasant Stain 3. Ralph, Give Me A Spanner 4. The Things You Say Killed Me 5. Baby 6. Chug A Lug 7. The Duke Of Squeeze 8. Crabwise 9. Stuck Under You Again 10. Size Of A Walnut 11. Heat Me Up (cuts). I'm unsure of the actual dates of these recordings. There are mostly girls (Airborne Alice?) singing these songs with lots of harmonies in the back. Robyn sings lead on Baby and Chug A Lug and Duke Of Squeeze. Some other guy sings lead on Stuck Under You again, a Byrds meets Hendrix beauty. Heat Me Up is less than a minute long and cuts on my tape. Why the hell wasn't this stuff ever released? Nupply ;) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:10:23 -0500 From: Brian Subject: Maureen and the Meatpackers So my long time friend just gave me an old tape with a bunch of Maureen and the Meatpackers demos on it. Supposedly this was the 'legendary' album they recorded back in the 70's that was never released. There's a little bit of hiss, but the songs sound pretty damn good! Here is a complete track listing: 1. Zip Zip 2. The Unpleasant Stain 3. Ralph, Give Me A Spanner 4. The Things You Say Killed Me 5. Baby 6. Chug A Lug 7. The Duke Of Squeeze 8. Crabwise 9. Stuck Under You Again 10. Size Of A Walnut 11. Heat Me Up (cuts). I'm unsure of the actual dates of these recordings. There are mostly girls (Airborne Alice?) singing these songs with lots of harmonies in the back. Robyn sings lead on Baby and Chug A Lug and Duke Of Squeeze. Some other guy sings lead on Stuck Under You again, a Byrds meets Hendrix beauty. Heat Me Up is less than a minute long and cuts on my tape. Why the hell wasn't this stuff ever released? Nupply ;) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 13:12:59 -0800 From: glen uber Subject: If I were a Miller by the name of Roger On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 12:10 PM, Brian wrote: > Robyn sings lead on Baby and Chug A Lug and Duke Of > Squeeze. I asked this a long time ago but never got an answer: Is Chug A Lug the Roger Miller song of the same title? I remember Bayard's Robyn chronology mentioning that the first song Robyn ever performed publicly was Chug A Lug, but it was unclear whether it was an original or the Roger Miller tune. I'm surprised that he would choose to cover that song given all the goofy, surreal songs Roger Miller penned. Personally, I can think of a lot more Robyn-esque Roger Miller songs besides Chug A Lug: "My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died," "Do-Whacka-Do," and "You Can't roler Skate In A Buffalo Herd" are three that immediately sprng to mind. Cheers! - -g- "I just find it a little odd that the same government that denies the existence of UFOs insists on sticking to the single bullet theory. - --Joe Rogan ######################################### glen uber =+= blint (at) mac dot com Santa Rosa, California USA Public Key: http://www.sonic.net/~uberg/publickey.txt ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 13:19:54 -0800 From: glen uber Subject: I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, but I need a brand new keyboard On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 01:12 PM, glen uber wrote: > "You Can't roler Skate In A Buffalo Herd" ^^^^^ I don't know what the hell happened here. I'm sure all of you know that I meant "Roller" Cheers! - -g- "I just find it a little odd that the same government that denies the existence of UFOs insists on sticking to the single bullet theory. - --Joe Rogan ######################################### glen uber =+= blint (at) mac dot com Santa Rosa, California USA Public Key: http://www.sonic.net/~uberg/publickey.txt ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 13:50:14 -0800 From: drew Subject: like a post-post-modern man > From: "Spring Cherry" > "The French don't care what they say exactly, as long as they pronounce > it > properly" It's actually "what they do." :) I remember this well because I played Enry Iggins in our high school production. I can't remember having that much fun on stage before or since. > From: "Natalie Jane" [PostModern guest hosts] > I remember > Robyn sitting against a black blackground with psychedelic patterns on > it, > uttering the first Robyn Monologues (tm) that this tender ear had ever > heard. Yeah, that was my first introduction to him and his weirdness as well. It was a magical time. > Andy Partridge had been on the week before, wearing a cream-colored suit > with a matching top hat. He spent a lot of time looking up the asses of > Barbie dolls and sneering at Depeche Mode and doing John Lydon > impersonations (PIL's "Disappointed" was big at the time). This was > also > when he made his infamous cruel comment about Robyn "ripping off > everything > that Syd Barrett ever did." I'm sure I would have remembered that, so I must not have seen it (and I never knew about that comment until now). I suppose it's okay to rip off the Beatles and the Beach Boys, since everyone does it! > Other artists I remember were Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, who also > made > fun of PIL ("There's some really bad singing on this song"), I loved that song and I still do. And the less said about Chris "James Brooowwn! James Browwwwwn!" Frantz and Tina "fun, nasty fun!" Weymouth's singing the better! > and the Pixies, > who mimed to their own voices without opening their mouths. That's funny! Was it a reference to the video for "Here Comes Your Man," where they mimed with their mouths open (but unmoving)? > From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) > Anyone else here thinking of the Monochrome Set's song "RSVP"? No, but now I'm thinking of Heart's. :) > From: Jill Brand > > All right, any of you see her the first time(s) around? My girlfriend saw Siouxsie at Lollapalollala. She said the show was fantastic, but I am skeptical; every live recording I've heard has such horrible singing! I'd go see her anyway, though. > From: Jeff Dwarf > > Natalie Jane wrote: >> Andy Partridge had been on the week before, wearing a cream-colored >> suit with a matching top hat. He spent a lot of time looking up the >> asses of Barbie dolls and sneering at Depeche Mode > > ... for releasing a live album, which i remember thinking was really > rich from someone to scared to perform. And it was 101, too, which has to be not only one of the best live albums of the time (among the Mode's peers, anyway) but possibly the best Depeche Mode release, period. Drew ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 14:00:28 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: like a post-post-modern man on 4/1/02 1:50 PM, drew at drew@stormgreen.com wrote: > My girlfriend saw Siouxsie at Lollapalollala. She said the show was > fantastic, but I am skeptical; every live recording I've heard has > such horrible singing! I'd go see her anyway, though. Yeah, I saw her there too (Siouxsie, that is). I don't remember being too impressed, but I can think of three reasons why: It was daytime - goths don't look good in the sunlight; It was almost ten years ago; I was probably wasted. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 14:16:16 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: like a post-post-modern banshee At 01:50 PM 4/1/2002 -0800, drew wrote: >>From: Jill Brand >> >>All right, any of you see her the first time(s) around? > >My girlfriend saw Siouxsie at Lollapalollala. She said the show was >fantastic, but I am skeptical; every live recording I've heard has >such horrible singing! I'd go see her anyway, though. I saw Siouxsie and her banshees open for David Bowie on the *gulp* Glass Spider tour. Not a bad performance, but it was in the Anaheim baseball stadium (what's that called? Angel Stadium?), and I wasn't exactly close. It didn't change my life by any means - but I'd always attributed that to the venue. >And it was 101, too, which has to be not only one of the best >live albums of the time (among the Mode's peers, anyway) but >possibly the best Depeche Mode release, period. I was at the infamous 101 show at the Rose Bowl - on the floor, not far from the stage either. Recent Soft Boy tour participant Thomas Dolby was one of the three opening acts, along with OMD and Nitzer Ebb [not Eb]. And, surprisingly, Dolby did a backflip on stage. Jason ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:22:21 -0600 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: like a post-post-modern Siouxsie > > My girlfriend saw Siouxsie at Lollapalollala. She said the show was > > fantastic, but I am skeptical; every live recording I've heard has > > such horrible singing! I'd go see her anyway, though. > > Yeah, I saw her there too (Siouxsie, that is). I don't remember being too > impressed, but I can think of three reasons why: It was daytime - goths > don't look good in the sunlight; It was almost ten years ago; I was probably > wasted. I can confirm that's about the perfect review, well done Tom. I caught the 'palloza Aug '91 in Chicago, and found her part of the show uninspiring as well. I recall it being pretty energetic, and the performance was good, but the fact that she was playing in blazing sunshine to a crowd grinding through Ice-T, Rollins Band and Nine Inch Nails and they pretty much didn't stand a chance of winning anybody over. Plus scheduling a day-long buzz in that weather takes some expertise, and our crowd was mostly rank amatuers. For my money Living Color stole the show, though Perry and the Boys were pretty good too. By that time they went on the whole vibe had warped completely. Jason: > I saw Siouxsie and her banshees open for David Bowie on the *gulp* Glass > Spider tour. That was a great (!) show, with the rather off-putting exception of Peter Frampton on guitar. I mean, c'mon people! Michael ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 14:36:52 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: like a post-post-modern Siouxsie At 04:22 PM 4/1/2002 -0600, Mike Wells wrote: >Jason: > > I saw Siouxsie and her banshees open for David Bowie on the *gulp* Glass > > Spider tour. > >That was a great (!) show, with the rather off-putting exception of Peter >Frampton on guitar. I mean, c'mon people! Musically it wasn't bad at all, including Frampton's contributions. The "Spider" material was noticeably weaker in comparison to the older stuff they played, but they performed a wide variety of things - hits and more obscure album tracks like "Big Brother." It was also my first Bowie show, so it holds a special place in my blood-pumping organ. It was really all the goofy dancing and the over-bearing set that I find a little silly and excessive, in retrospect. Jason ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 18:36:21 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: Billy Bragg question >sometime, somewhen, someone told me that Billy Bragg's song "Cindy of a >thousand lives" (one of my favourites, BTW) was inspired by a real person >named Cindy, who was a poet or artist of moviemaker or something. Trouble >is, I can't remember her surname, nor can I remember what her craft was. >Can anyone here fill in the blanks for me? from what i can gather, it was photographer cindy sherman. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:34:53 -0800 From: "Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" Subject: RE: Billy Bragg question Ken Wroted: > >sometime, somewhen, someone told me that Billy Bragg's song "Cindy of a > >thousand lives" (one of my favourites, BTW) was inspired by a real person > >named Cindy, who was a poet or artist of moviemaker or something. Trouble > >is, I can't remember her surname, nor can I remember what her craft was. > >Can anyone here fill in the blanks for me? > > From what I can gather, it was photographer Cindy Sherman. Whose shtick is taking photos of her self as different people. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:15:37 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Robyn Sings So how do you order this? just go to paypal? I could not find it on his sight. Herbie "praying to the gods Robyn plays near Buffalo (even Toronto)" np - Sabres V Flyers 0-0 ===== - --------------------------------------------- View my Websight & CDR Trade page at: http://midy.topcities.com/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 20:07:13 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Robyn Sings Mine came today, I'm saving it for the commute tomorrow. Well, apart from the bit I'm listening to now. Funny...RH says in the liner notes that the "Stripes" disc is his RAH recreation, but from the track listing it looks like the "Spots" disc is instead. Must be one of those 'confuse-a-cat' jobs. This Dylan thing got me thinking, if the roles were reversed what songs would BD sing of Robyn's? Seems like "YSKOJ" would be a natural, as would maybe The President. I smile to think of "Have a Heart Betty." And how about "Luminous Rose"? Michael "bah dah blabhbhaddah blah, deh blabbah dah" * Wells *my world-famous Dylan w/ French-Canadian accent impersonation, singing the classic anti-war anthem "made it to all the way to Montreal in the spare-tire compartment of a Volvo" c.1964 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 22:02:35 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: Re: like a post-post-modern man On 1 Apr 2002, at 13:50, drew wrote: > And it was 101, too, which has to be not only one of the best > live albums of the time (among the Mode's peers, anyway) but > possibly the best Depeche Mode release, period. 101 is an institution here in Quebec! - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 22:32:34 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: Re: lots of stuff!! On 31 Mar 2002, at 15:34, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > I worked once with > > this guy who had lived in Mexico. He would pronounce 'Mexico' how > > you would in Spanish. I thought he sounded ridiculous, considering > > we were speaking English. > > This is a difficult subject. I come from a family where knowledge of > multiple languages has always been taken for granted. But even without > this background I believe that Germans have now (for somewhat obvious > reasons) the tendency to be "model foreigners". Naturally this doesn't > encompass everyone, but a lot of people know at least the basic > principles of English, French, Spanish and Italian pronunciation. The thing that is so funny is the way people in the USA pronounce of their own place names: Des Moines, Illinois, St-Louis, Virginie Occidentale, Detroit and -- I must pause here to laugh as Maurice Chevalier -- Les Grands Tetons. Les Grands Tetons! Help me, I have trouble breathing! - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 21:47:00 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: lots of stuff!! Fric observed: > Les Grands Tetons! Help me, I have trouble breathing! Depending on size, they can have that effect. As someone who has spent an inordinate amount of time in Jackson Hole, I can offer that the worse crime may be what happens to nearby "Gros Ventre" junction (amer.: "Gross Venture"). Try saying it correctly, and you get some strange stares ("I think it's up North a'ways - near Canada"). It does offer some insight as to the mindset of the French-Canadian trapper, who upon reaching the pleasant plains south of Colter's Hell were so inspired that they named the local geologic formations after tits and noses. Michael Whispering pines and hot maple syrup Red-coated mounties perched high in their stirrups Hard rubber hockey pucks shot from the wing These are a few of my favorite things! - - Doonesbury ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 22:55:16 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: Re: lots of stuff!! On 1 Apr 2002, at 21:47, Michael Wells wrote: > As someone who has spent an inordinate amount of time in Jackson Hole, > I can offer that the worse crime may be what happens to nearby "Gros > Ventre" junction (amer.: "Gross Venture"). = Big Paunch or Pregnant Bellie! Yes, frontier life was lonely. - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 22:12:18 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Robyn Sings On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Michael Wells wrote: > This Dylan thing got me thinking, if the roles were reversed what songs would > BD sing of Robyn's? Seems like "YSKOJ" would be a natural, as would maybe The > President. I smile to think of "Have a Heart Betty." And how about "Luminous > Rose"? "You'll Have to Go Sideways"? - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey, appealing to the judges as to whether that meets the technical definition of a "joke." J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::"Shut up, you truculent lout, and let the cute little pixie sing!":: ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 22:24:16 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: lots of stuff!! Fric Chaud wrote: > The thing that is so funny is the way people in the USA pronounce > of their own place names: Des Moines, Illinois, St-Louis, Virginie > Occidentale, Detroit and -- I must pause here to laugh as Maurice > Chevalier -- Les Grands Tetons. none of these really qualify as goofy -- maybe the spelling of Illinois, since it's an Indian word -- especially since it's West Virginia and _the_ Grand Tetons. now, for goofy, let's go the the northern SF Bay area city of Vallejo. Spanish name. "V" pronounced as it would be in English rather than Spanish ("V" not "B"). "Ll" pronounced as English ("L" not "Y"). "J" pronounced as it would be in SPANISH no English ("H" not "J"). Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! shouldn't we either say /bayeho/ or /valejo/ rather than just splitting the difference? ===== "This week, the White House says President Bush meant no disrespect when he referred to the Pakistani people as 'Pakis.' But just to be on the safe side, White House staffers have cancelled his trip to Nigeria" -- Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt . Yahoo! 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Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:58:05 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: Re: lots of stuff!! On 1 Apr 2002, at 22:24, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Fric Chaud wrote: > > The thing that is so funny is the way people in the USA pronounce of > > their own place names: Des Moines, Illinois, St-Louis, Virginie > > Occidentale, Detroit and -- I must pause here to laugh as Maurice > > Chevalier -- Les Grands Tetons. > > none of these really qualify as goofy -- maybe the spelling of > Illinois, since it's an Indian word Half indian. Illini = indian, ois = french suffix (pronounced "wa") which indicates people of a certain type eg Gaulois. - -- especially since it's West Virginia Not on the maps in our schools! and _the_ Grand Tetons. only since your people stole them! - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #102 ********************************