From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #121 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, April 16 2002 Volume 11 : Number 121 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: sharon's dirty testicles (end of thread?) ["matt sewell" ] Re: Glass Flesh ["Brian Hoare" ] Re: sharon's dirty testicles, in a jar by the door ["noe shalev" ] Re: And you shall know them by their headgear... [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffr] Re: topic or not topic [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: Cherry Phosphate [The Great Quail ] Re: Cherry Phosphate ["matt sewell" ] What I had for my lunch.... [tblackman@amadeus.net] off-topicness ["Kenneth Johnson" ] topical ointment ["Kenneth Johnson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:28:16 +0100 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: sharon's dirty testicles (end of thread?) I didn't realise this list was moderated, or that there was a new moderator... My understanding was that the fact that this list can discuss issues that are tangential to RH/SBs - something that I reckon enriches it, makes it stand out as far more interesting that many mailing lists of the "whoa, Robyn like totally rocks!" with the repy "yes he does!" variety. Remember, you don't have to read all the messages. If there's a subject line you suspect may not be to do with Robyn, you can always choose not to open it or to skim it and bin it, eh? Oh, and welcome to the list... Matt >From: cmb adams >Reply-To: cmb adams >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: sharon's dirty testicles (end of thread?) >Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:22:23 -0700 (PDT) > >as charming as I find this subject line >and some of the sentiments expressed under >its rubric, I wonder if perhaps it may be >a little further off-topic than strictly >necessary for a mailing list theoretically >oriented around robyn hitchcock. > >I don't mean to minimize the importance of >the topic. I fully believe that the topic >is one of crucial importance to any sentient >being walking the planet, as it contains >within it the seeds which could end all of >our lives in a flash when and if the argent >missiles finally start to fly, fly, fly. > >for my part, I have a few personal ideas on >the subject which I'm happy to discuss when >the subject arises in a more fitting forum. > >my point is this: > >those of us who are interested in arab-israeli >politics are already discussing it on mailing >lists oriented around political or activist >or religious subjects. or we're serving in >the army of one side or another. or we're >arguing about it with random strangers in the >local pub or pool hall. or we're alienating >our friends by taking a stance on the subject >that doesn't fit their approved world-view. >or we're doing any one of a dozen other things. > >those of us who aren't interested in arab-israeli >politics will have plenty of time to get interested >later, during those long nights huddled around >the campfire after the nuclear winter begins. > >but whether we're interested now or not, this is >not the place to discuss it. > >you don't go to a political rally to argue about >which Soft Boy is sexiest. (not that there's any >room for argument: it's definitely Seligman.) > >don't come here to argue about politics. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:31:33 +0100 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: off-topicness Hoohoohoo This poster is my kind of skum - fearless and inventive. >From: cmb adams >Reply-To: cmb adams >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: off-topicness >Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:47:34 -0700 (PDT) > >in the interest of practicing what I preach, >I'm going to stop posting off-topic postings >about going off-topic. > >anyone who wants the last word on-list, you >can have it. > >anyone who wants to discuss the subject further >off-list, feel free to get in touch. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:00:44 +0000 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: Re: Glass Flesh >From: Steve Talkowski >to a fellow Costello enthusiast), listmaster woj, and the very nice Bayard >Catron, who was more than happy to sell me a copy of the amazing Glass >Flesh >2 CD. I have to say that this is one of the most professional fan tribute >album I've ever seen/heard. I dig it very much. The packaging alone is >outstanding work. Great job to everyone involved! I'm still waiting for my copy to cross the Atlantic. Are there copies of GF1 still going? If so could whoever, Bayard? let me know their prefered method of getting payment to them and what the postage will be to the UK. Fegmania.org suggests that PayPal will be available at some point. Brian _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:03:04 +0200 From: "noe shalev" Subject: Re: sharon's dirty testicles, in a jar by the door - ----- Original Message ----- From: "matt sewell" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:12 AM Subject: Re: sharon's dirty testicles, in a jar by the door > It's unarguable that the current government is further > to the right of pretty much every other (elected) government in the world > It's unarguable that Sharon has been responsible for at least one > massacre of women and children, and I simply don't believe the situation > in Jenin was as the Israelis described Well you put me in an odd position here. I don't have any intentions to defend right wing policies or Sharon's charecter and personality. i oppuse them and their actions, and don't share nothing with thier viewes. yet, I think we, the left wing activists in Israel made a huge step in the concept of dispute. who would believe ten or twenty years ago, that Sharon would speak in the midlle of war against palestinians in favour of an independent Palestinian state. that man and his party refused to recgonize that there's a palestinian people. as such. They claimed Jordan to be the palestinian state. and claimed that the dividing of historic palestine into Jordan and Israel is a just solution. Yet, I truely don't agree with this war he went on, since as moral and human rights aware as our military forces can be (and I think we are reaching the higher standards on that matter) occupation cuoldn't be moral, and couldn't be just or right. Now it also important to remember how Sharon came into power and won the election. former PM Barak went to camp David and offered a deal of consilation and permanat peace agreement. it included a limited number of return refugees. a total restitution for the rest and 97% of the west bank territories. it also included an arrangment of dividing Jerusalem. was it genrous enough? most Israeli think so. as for my self I think we could give more. but There was no justification for Arafat to go straight away declaring a war. that was about 18 months ago. at the begining only the Hamas and Islamic Jihad took actions against citizens within Israel. the palestinian authority and Arafat's forces were attacking military atargets and settlers (that includes - women and children that souldn't have been there to my opinion, yet I don't think brutal capital punishment is the appropriate one for them) soon enough the Tanzim started taking actions against israeli civilians too. this war that Arafat declared was the best environment Sharon could dream of. He came out saying that Arafat revealed his true intentions and those are peace reltaed. we must remember that Arafat is not exactly a model of a good leaeder. palestinian friends of mine leaving in the territories said during all the years of the palestinian authority era, that in some asspects, his regime worse than occupation was. once again, I don't think Sharon should have gone into Jeniin now. he knew that as coutios as he might be inocent civilians would be hurt. the fact that ther were explosive labs and recruited terroist could be simply dealt bby means of full Israeli withdrow acompnied by building a border fence. > As much as I find the Palestinian extremists sickening (there was a > Palestinian on the radio this morning, a member of Al Aqsa or similar > saying there were no Israeli civilians - that they're all military > targets - made me absolutely furious), why is there the need to fight > terror with terror, like it's some kind of atrocity competition? I agree on that one. two wrongs don't make a right. yet self defence should be coonsidered under certain limits and circumstances. > So, apologies again, Noe, if I caused offence. Of course the Israeli > government is not like the Nazis, though I would say that Sharon (and > many of his colleagues) is a fascist. > I agree. the man is a fascist. many of my friends got killes in his private advantoure of invading Lebanon. some are risking their lives for nothing right as I'm writing to you. not to mention the loss he caused to the other parties around us. I think he is responsible for much of the hate and the despare that cause palestinians too be suicide bombers too. the sad part of the story, is that we, the peoples here, are captured by two maniacs (Arafat and Sharon) who care shit abuut their subjects lives. not mention the other side ones. they didn't put a good leadership and suffer dictatorship. we, especialy most of the left wing, are stupid beacause thinking that taking the democratic act of not registering to vote would be prety smart. it wasn't, it gave Sharon the office. as mad as all left wing suporters were at Barak for not steping back and letting Peres lead, they should have register and vote for him. I did. unfortunatly too many didn't. and if you read so far, and if woj is not deporting me off the list for being sooooo offffff topic. than thanx, and no need to apologize. wer'e humans. wer'e talking. we say words and somtimes exaggerate in order to emphasise things. > > Matt > > >From: "noe shalev" >Reply-To: "noe shalev" >To: >Subject: Re: sharon's > dirty testicles, in a jar by the door >Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:26:15 > +0200 > > > Also I find it utterly distasteful that Israeli politicians > are > > constantly saying things like "this is our own Twin Towers" - not > to say > > that the suicide bombings aren't utterly horrific and fighting > extremism > > with yet more extremism, but using the quote as a > justification to occupy > > the West Bank and let's face it, kill anyone > who *looks* like a terrorist > > ("he was of Middle-Eastern extraction!) > is just sick. > >some of you read my posts in the issue here, so no need > to tell. I'm a left >wing extreamist, and oppuse the occupation >and > violations of the Zeneva treaty, yet under estimating the suicide > >attacks over our citys wouldn't make it less horiffy. > >I don't even > dare to think what would have hap[paned if half of those >attacks would > have taken place in the US, I do dare to think, according to >previous > american reacitions, that no witnesses would stay to tell the >details. > > >the IDF who I'm proud to be a comanding officer in, although I refused > >several times serving in the territories and was jailed once for it, is > not >killing anybody who looks like a terrorist. we lost not one and not > ten >soldiers by the high standards and carefullness we take. >this is > simply not true. if it was so, we would have done it the american >way. > instead of risking soldiers lives by going house to house seeking for > >explosive labs we could anounce the time, and simply air bomb the place, > >anyone who wants can run away. wer'e not america, we didn't do it. not > that >I think Sharon wouldn't lilke to do it. luckily enough we don't > have the >"privilages" of the nighbourhood bully. this is how it is when > your'e not an >uncle and your name ain't Sam. > >I think occupation is > bad. >I think it makes us do thing that aren't good, and arne't legal or > moral. >but this is not a balck and white picture. The Palestinians > failed in >putting >up front a stable, reliable leadership. >a huge > amount of the suffering of my brothers palestinians, derived from the > >corruption and dictatorship, goverened by chairman Arafat. >The > Paletinians choose a way of terror by which they kill on a twice a day > >bassis inocent citizens, this is somthing we don't do. >no palestinian > civilian was ever intentionaly killed. well I don't think we >should be > in the position of fighting anyway, as soon as we realized that >Arafat > is not willing to live in a peace with out we should have withdraw > >immedietly and fold back the settelments, but there's a long distance > >between this and the pure evil that been taken against us. > > > > >It's > horrific though - at the risk of making a tasteless statement, it > > > seems ironic to me that Jewish people, having been through the horrors of > > > the holocaust are now simply handing out the same treatment to the > > > Palestinians (it seems to me that Sharon will not be happy until the > > > Palestinians are totally cowed/wiped out). > >and in the same spirit: > mentioning the holocaust and the Israeli occupation >in the same > sentence, let alone comparing them, is not only an insalt to an > >inteoigent mind, it obviouslt a sign of complete ignorance of what the > >holocaust was and what the arab israeli conflict is all about. > >I > think that even comparing the Israeli occupation to the deeds of America > >on Afganistan and Irak not to say Vietnam, takes alot of nerves and > >hipocracy, but to the Nazis? > >come on matt. you can do better than > that. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:06:21 +0200 From: "noe shalev" Subject: Re: sharon's dirty testicles (end of thread?) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "matt sewell" > > Remember, you don't have to read all the messages. If there's a subject > line you suspect may not be to do with Robyn, you can always choose not > to open it or to skim it and bin it, eh? > we used to have this practice of indicating (no RH) in the subject or even refering to RH relvancy in percentage. maybe we should start doing this again. or maybe not? NOE ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:52:52 +0100 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Israel/Palestine - short (and hopefully last) Cheers Noe - it's very interesting to get a point of view from someone so close to the situation. I think you're quite right - we are humans; we are talking... now to persuade Sharon and Arafat to be/do the same... And take care of yourself in these dark times... Matt >From: "noe shalev" > >and if you read so far, and if woj is not deporting me off the list for >being sooooo offffff topic. >than thanx, and no need to apologize. >wer'e humans. wer'e talking. >we say words and somtimes exaggerate in order to emphasise things. > > > > > Matt > > > > >From: "noe shalev" >Reply-To: "noe shalev" >To: >Subject: Re: sharon's > > dirty testicles, in a jar by the door >Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:26:15 > > +0200 > > > Also I find it utterly distasteful that Israeli politicians > > are > > constantly saying things like "this is our own Twin Towers" - not > > to say > > that the suicide bombings aren't utterly horrific and fighting > > extremism > > with yet more extremism, but using the quote as a > > justification to occupy > > the West Bank and let's face it, kill anyone > > who *looks* like a terrorist > > ("he was of Middle-Eastern extraction!) > > is just sick. > >some of you read my posts in the issue here, so no need > > to tell. I'm a left >wing extreamist, and oppuse the occupation >and > > violations of the Zeneva treaty, yet under estimating the suicide > > >attacks over our citys wouldn't make it less horiffy. > >I don't even > > dare to think what would have hap[paned if half of those >attacks would > > have taken place in the US, I do dare to think, according to >previous > > american reacitions, that no witnesses would stay to tell the >details. > > > >the IDF who I'm proud to be a comanding officer in, although I refused > > >several times serving in the territories and was jailed once for it, is > > not >killing anybody who looks like a terrorist. we lost not one and not > > ten >soldiers by the high standards and carefullness we take. >this is > > simply not true. if it was so, we would have done it the american >way. > > instead of risking soldiers lives by going house to house seeking for > > >explosive labs we could anounce the time, and simply air bomb the place, > > >anyone who wants can run away. wer'e not america, we didn't do it. not > > that >I think Sharon wouldn't lilke to do it. luckily enough we don't > > have the >"privilages" of the nighbourhood bully. this is how it is when > > your'e not an >uncle and your name ain't Sam. > >I think occupation is > > bad. >I think it makes us do thing that aren't good, and arne't legal or > > moral. >but this is not a balck and white picture. The Palestinians > > failed in >putting >up front a stable, reliable leadership. >a huge > > amount of the suffering of my brothers palestinians, derived from the > > >corruption and dictatorship, goverened by chairman Arafat. >The > > Paletinians choose a way of terror by which they kill on a twice a day > > >bassis inocent citizens, this is somthing we don't do. >no palestinian > > civilian was ever intentionaly killed. well I don't think we >should be > > in the position of fighting anyway, as soon as we realized that >Arafat > > is not willing to live in a peace with out we should have withdraw > > >immedietly and fold back the settelments, but there's a long distance > > >between this and the pure evil that been taken against us. > > > > >It's > > horrific though - at the risk of making a tasteless statement, it > > > > seems ironic to me that Jewish people, having been through the horrors of > > > > the holocaust are now simply handing out the same treatment to the > > > > Palestinians (it seems to me that Sharon will not be happy until the > > > > Palestinians are totally cowed/wiped out). > >and in the same spirit: > > mentioning the holocaust and the Israeli occupation >in the same > > sentence, let alone comparing them, is not only an insalt to an > > >inteoigent mind, it obviouslt a sign of complete ignorance of what the > > >holocaust was and what the arab israeli conflict is all about. > >I > > think that even comparing the Israeli occupation to the deeds of America > > >on Afganistan and Irak not to say Vietnam, takes alot of nerves and > > >hipocracy, but to the Nazis? > >come on matt. you can do better than > > that. > > > > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:56:04 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: topic or not topic >in the interest of practicing what I preach, >I'm going to stop posting off-topic postings >about going off-topic. there's actually a deep philosophical point here. Are messages about off-topic posts off-topic? I mean, if you say "this is a Robyn Hitchcock list and you're not writing about Robyn Hitchcock" aren't you hitting exactly on the topic? On a similar point, is a bay the curved edge of land surrounding the water, or is it the water within the curve of land? has anyone told cmb about the information-only form of the fegmaniax digest? I feel he (she? And who would name their kid 'cmb' anyway?) would be happier there. Then again, cmb could stay here and hear more about fegs losing their virginity! I think the point about the political posts is that this IS a community. We all know each other and respect each other's views, even when those views are at wild odds with our own. For this reason I respect gSs's views, and Eddies (where IS he? Arrested again, perhaps?), as well as those of people whose views are closer to mine - Kay, Quail, and the various Mikes f'rinstance. We talk about these things as friends would get into a discussion at a party, which is how I often think of this list. It's just a long party that has lasted for several years. Every now and again, someone new will arrive, someone will leave, a couple will go off in the corner to explore each other, someone will pick up a guitar, someone will get drunk, and occasionally there will be disagreements. They rarely last long. And because we know the people here, and know that (without sounding too egotistical, I hope) Fegs are for the most part intelligent beasties, most of the time the discussions are cogent and reasoned. Those few occasions when they are not, or are too weird to forget, just give us more topics for discussion and reminiscence in the years ahead ("hey, you remember the great Brian Wilson feud?" "yeah, was that before or after people were talking about what to do with a placenta?") >> And I can think of at least one other (larger, more powerful) >> country that has managed to elect an idiot (no names... :) > >More than one other, for sure. But please, James, Bush might hold the >office of President, but he wasn't actually elected. touchi! James (A *wombat???*) 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, 16 Apr 2002 01:07:38 -0700 From: The other Mr Feg Subject: 100% OT (yay!): Whither 117, 118? I don't know what's up with my email, but digests 117 and 118 never made it as far as Pacific Bell HQ. I thought things were rather quiet, then 119 arrived! If anyone sent me any email since digest 116 (Saturday), please resend as I probably never got it! So ...did *anybody* take pictures in NYC? Sounds like quite the gathering. :) I can't believe Bayard did *not* record. Whats up with that? ~N ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 08:21:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: And you shall know them by their headgear... On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Michael Wells wrote: > places, in San Francisco? And then there's a light Italian tricolor from > Milwaukee (that hotbed of Italians) that might be nice. I think you're being ironic w/your parenthesis - but as a resident of that city, I'll tell you you don't need to be: Milwaukee has a long and prominent Italian heritage (as well as its far-better known German character), and I can direct you to two or three neighborhoods that still display that influence quite strongly in their shops etc. This is on-topic on the grounds that Robyn's played here and has sung about the occasional Italian. - --Jeff Jeffrey Norman, Posemodernist University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dept. of Mumblish & Competitive Obliterature http://www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 08:35:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: topic or not topic On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, James Dignan wrote: > there's actually a deep philosophical point here. Are messages about > off-topic posts off-topic? I mean, if you say "this is a Robyn Hitchcock > list and you're not writing about Robyn Hitchcock" aren't you hitting > exactly on the topic? > has anyone told cmb about the information-only form of the fegmaniax > digest? I feel he (she? And who would name their kid 'cmb' anyway?) would > be happier there. "Cmb" is Welsh. Duh. Every list I've been on that I've enjoyed has these period bouts of relevance-querying - which is both frustrating and reassuring (as well as amusing), in that inevitably, any list worth regularly reading is going to be so because of the personalities of its participants - and those personalities, if they're interesting, are not going to be laser-focused on one thing, even if that thing is a tall Englishman with a former monobrow and an impressive collection of shirts. Curiously, it's almost always politics (or religion, or both...) that brings the Gangs of Vicious Keep-Right Signs to life. Sorry, that was a Monty Python reference. - --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 ::"In two thousand years, they'll still be looking for Elvis - :: this is nothing new," said the priest. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:41:25 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Cherry Phosphate Brian writes, > I lost my cherry to a six headed wombat in Zaire while I was >on holiday in the alps. I can't say much about the experience except >that it wasn't anything like I'd expected. Oh, great, you know her too! Hey -- can you pass my email address onto her? She hasn't called me since that night in the desert with the peyote and the Marty Feldman impersonator. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:05:38 +0100 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Cherry Phosphate That was no Marty Feldman impersonator, I'll have you know... my eyes went like that after the image of the congress of six-headed wombat and Quail had burned itself onto my retinas... Forward the wombat's email to me: you both owe me for years of therapy... Cheers Matt, who hasn't been able to take peyote/travel to the antipodes/continue his multi-headed animal gene experiments since >From: The Great Quail >Reply-To: The Great Quail >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: Cherry Phosphate >Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:41:25 -0500 > >Brian writes, > >> I lost my cherry to a six headed wombat in Zaire while I was >>on holiday in the alps. I can't say much about the experience >>except >>that it wasn't anything like I'd expected. > >Oh, great, you know her too! Hey -- can you pass my email address >onto her? She hasn't called me since that night in the desert with >the peyote and the Marty Feldman impersonator. > >--Quail - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:10:11 +0000 From: tblackman@amadeus.net Subject: What I had for my lunch.... Four pints (the 20oz variety, none of those 16oz girly glasses) of Stella Artois. No solids. After a 7 hour flight back from Washington, it's the only way to carry on flying. Eddie, Woj, Ferris - there's stuff in the post as of yesterday for your delectation. The U.S. Postal Service asked me if any of the packages contained liquid??? What's that all about? If I was asked that question at my local sub post office in Oxfordshire I'd swear I was hallucinating, as it was I just shook my head as if it was a sensible question as I was a stranger and knew no better. Who in America posts liquid in Jiffy bags? Is it a regular occurrence? At the Paul Kelly gig in Arlington on Saturday night, someone was wearing a 'Respect' T-Shirt. That was about the 3rd time ever I've seen a Hitchcock/Soft Boys T-Shirt outside of a gig. Never seen it in the UK yet....but then again I'm not that observant either. Tony. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:30:39 -0700 From: "Kenneth Johnson" Subject: off-topicness voice over: "the producers would like to apologize for that last segment and insure you that those responsible have been sacked....." and now for something completely different- a man with 3 testicles... > >in the interest of practicing what I preach, >I'm going to stop posting off-topic postings >about going off-topic. > >anyone who wants the last word on-list, you >can have it. > >anyone who wants to discuss the subject further >off-list, feel free to get in touch. Kenneth ****** "When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?" --Eleanor Roosevelt "I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." - -- James Baldwin "What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" -- Mahatma Gandhi _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:38:58 -0700 From: "Kenneth Johnson" Subject: topical ointment >on 4/15/02 3:39 PM, cmb adams at adams@vader.boutell.com wrote: > > > or if I started posting "what I had for > > lunch today" messages to the list every > > afternoon. > >You've got my vote! > >-t "tuna on toast" c well cmb adams, Most people on this list feel it is a community of fans with at least one common interest (and naturally many others)that talk to each on a regular basis about whatever it is pleases them. The point of this list (or any other) is not to stay on topic. The topic brings us all here, but it is only the beginning. THis is a place to share whatever you like. it seems youre the one with a problem with that, so leave. there are plenty of other music nerd lists that service fans of indie-rock legends out there. have fun. at least we're not (currently) speculating on what Robyn had for lunch - -"make mine a falafel sandwich please" Kenneth ****** "When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?" --Eleanor Roosevelt "I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." - -- James Baldwin "What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" -- Mahatma Gandhi _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #121 ********************************