From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #193 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, June 15 2002 Volume 11 : Number 193 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Mermaids... ["matt sewell" ] Re: Due north (Re: Non-RH site) [Stewart Russell ] Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup ["Bachman, Michael" ] dvd region codes - OT ["ross taylor" ] Re: Intestinal Oxidative Therapy [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Pop of the Tops [Stewart Russell ] RE: Intestinal Oxidative Therapy ["SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Sonoma,ex1)" ] Herbie's lost branches [Mike Swedene ] Re: Pop of the Tops [Stewart Russell ] Re: mermaids [Tom Clark ] Re: Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup [Tom Clark ] RE: Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey <] Re: Eddie's Star Wars Questions revealed! [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: Non-RH Site [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup [Randallriebe@aol.com] Re: Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup [Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Mermaids... Whaaaat? You mean it isn't a *real* mermaid?! That's utterly ruined the Bembridge maritime museum for me - next time I'll stick to the windmill (the other thing in Bembridge).. Matt "G is for Gutted, like half a fish glued onto a monkey" Sewell n would be p if I had music at work: Vashti Bunyan - Pink Sugar Elephants >From: Michael R Godwin > >I hate to be a spoilsport, but this sounds to me like a Jenny Haniver. >- see: > >There were some at a British Museum exhibition a few years ago, where the >best exhibit was 2 Tanagra figurines. Everyone agreed that one was real >and the other was a counterfeit, but the experts kept changing their mind >about which was which. > > >- Mike "F for Fake" Godwin > >n.p. Pink Elephants on parade... - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:45:31 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Due north (Re: Non-RH site) James Dignan wrote: > > Oh Canada, you have so many moose > Your national bird, it is a piebald goose And they're bloody *everywhere*. There's a mall near here that's infested with them -- they mug passers-by for snacks, and roost in unusual places. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:45:56 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: fegbook alert did everybody miss _perdido street station_? china mieville. *heavy* peake influence gone noir/steampunk, with a good dose of kafka and a soupcon of orwell (by way of gilliam/jeunet). beautiful women with scarab heads. sinister airships. mysterious insect metamorphoses. things that can only be viewed safely through mirrors. and like that. a little florid, stylisitically, but fun. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:51:07 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup Congrats to the Detroit Red Wings for winning their 10th Stanley Cup last night! It's always great when an Original 6 team wins the Cup. Thanks to Scotty Bowman for coaching the Wings for the last 9 years, the best coach ever in any sport. Enjoy you well deserved retirement Scotty! Michael Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 07:15:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: mermaids > From: "JH3" > > And I'm *not* talking about that movie with Cher, Winona Ryder, > Christina Ricci, and Bob Hoskins either. That movie totally sucked. OK, folks, listen up. NO MOVIE WITH CHRISTINA RICCI IN IT SUCKS. EVER. OK? I got my Eddie Tews on this mornin'. Now where is that "Buffalo 66" DVD? . Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:16:59 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: dvd region codes - OT This is both off-topic & I think it's been discussed before, but is there software or a hack to get around dvd region codes in Windows? I.e. if you change your dvd codes the alloted five times w/ one dvd playing program & then install another, do you get another five allowed changes? Can you have one program set to one region and a second to a different region? Just found a couple of great German Beat Club dvds w/ the Boots, Easybeats, Davey, Dee, Beaky, etc. -- great footage of them playing real live, goofy audience shots, you feel like you're in the club. Would like to be able to watch it again in the future. Ross Taylor Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 17:11:51 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Intestinal Oxidative Therapy - --On Friday, June 14, 2002 02:00:34 -0700 Voodoo Ergonomics wrote: > lord knows why, but i ponied up $4.75 to see Attack Of The Clones. ouch! I absolutely, entirely, fully agree with everything you've written. I made the same mistake last night, but actually only had to pay 4 Euros. Anyway, I guess it may have been worse for me, because I made it a double feature and watched Gosford Park first. The contrast was just unbelievable ... I enjoyed Gosford Park very much. The script isn't that great, but seeing all these actors and actresses together made up for that. The less said about the cloned movie the better. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ Being just contaminates the void - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:46:46 -0600 From: hamish_simpson@agilent.com Subject: Intestinal Oxidative Therapy Eddi Seddi > well, > lord knows why, but i ponied up $4.75 to see Attack Of The Clones. ouch! > - --is george lucas *completely* fucking surrounded by yes-men? was there not > *one* person who could say to him, "george, i'm afraid this screenplay sucks > *major* fucking wang, and the CGI looks like claymation."? So you liked it then? :) (H) btw, is anyone on list going to see the Rezillos US tour? Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Stewie boy, you can ignore this as they're not coming your way, so yah boo sucks to you! :) n.p. - The Muffs "Blonder and Blonder" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:58:48 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Eddie's Star Wars Questions revealed! Eddie writes, > --if anakin has such a fucking hard-on for his mother, how come he didn't > fucking visit (or, apparently, even attempt to correspond with) her even > once in the ten years after leaving her? See, Eddie, you are totally missing the amazing subtleties in Lucas' storytelling abilities. The psychoanalytics alone are worth a few academic papers, if not a whole new textbook. Ironically, however, your childishly vulgar criticism itself contains the key to unraveling this mystery. Anakin does indeed have a "hard-on" for his mother -- because he was the product of a parthenogenesis, a so-called "virgin birth," he is trapped in an irresolvable Oedipal complex. Lacking a father figure upon which to focus his Lacanian anxieties, he is forced to borrow the "name-of-the-Father," or the symbol-of-the-phallus, from a substitute matrix taking into account both his mother's virgin flesh and his own self-generating Will. Hence his eventually appellation as "Darth Vader," a Lucasan cognate of the Indo-European "Dark Father." (Watto cannot make a suitable father-figure because he has wings, which problematizes his masculinity, and he has a crooked nose, which undermines his authority as a giver-of-the-phallus.) Consequently, Anakin is forced into a passive-aggressive hatred of his mother, whom he can never really break from psychosexually speaking. The ten-year absence gives him an excuse to both privately celebrate and publicly mourn her death -- which of course finally frees him from the fetters of his Oedipal bindings. He is, in many ways, the perfect Ubermensch, self-authoring and steeped in Schopenhauerian and Nietzschean ideals. > --if anakin's such a fucking prodigy, how come he was trained by obi wan, > rather than yoda (who claims in Empire Strikes Back that he's been training > jedi for 800 years, or something like that)? Because Yoda trained Dooku who trained Qui-Jin who trained Obi-Wan. This places Yoda in the position of great great grandfather, or the progenitor of the entire chain that results in Darth Vader. It is, therefore, his ultimate responsibility, and further underscores the hereditary failures of the patriarchal system. To have Yoda directly train Anakin would be too obvious a critique, and Lucas is *far* to subtle for that. This way anyone with half an education (Which is apparently twice the education you have) can see that Yoda is the ultimate evil behind the Star Wars saga, a withered oligarchic phallocrat, the twisted product of his beautiful mother's rape by the Frog King of Gwomabong, as revealed in the "expanded universe." >or if anakin's such a fucking > prodigy, how come he has not only not fulfilled the prophecy yet (muad'dib, > after whom anakin is clearly modeled, fulfilled his prophecy by the time he > was 14), The death of Muad'dib's father was the trigger that resulted in awakening his "special purpose," which was reinforced by centuries of breeding and 15 years of Bene Gesserit and Mentat training. Anakin was the product of a virgin birth, born a slave, an forced into a non-Lacanian status with a non-existent father. In other words, it can clearly be seen that Paul Atreides is the real pussy here, not Anakin. >but is more less a fucking schlub? or if anakin's such a fucking > prodigy, why does he lie there sobbing like a little bitch as dooku beats > the fuck out of obi wan? Because secretly he wanted to see Obi-Wan, a surrogate-father-too-late, be defeated by Dooku, his Jedi grandfather. This brings him one link in the chain closer to Yoda, the ultimate source of all his Jedi anxieties. >and what kind of idiots contract to grow millions of > clones without even asking for a fucking down payment? Yes, I confess, a valid criticism -- at last! Jeez, so there was, what, one little thing wrong with the movie? Christ. > --is george lucas *completely* fucking surrounded by yes-men? was there not > *one* person who could say to him, "george, i'm afraid this screenplay sucks > *major* fucking wang, and the CGI looks like claymation."? I believe the one person who said that to him was a Franco-Sikh animator named Jarijar Bhinques. And we all saw how savagely he was punished! - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 17:05:05 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Intestinal Oxidative Therapy On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 hamish_simpson@agilent.com wrote: > btw, is anyone on list going to see the Rezillos US tour? Does anyone > know what I'm talking about? Stewie boy, you can ignore this as > they're not coming your way, so yah boo sucks to you! :) So they don't have to call themselves the Revillos any more? Did they finally win that court case, then? - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 12:08:50 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Pop of the Tops hamish_simpson@agilent.com wrote: > > btw, is anyone on list going to see the Rezillos US tour? no. > Does anyone know what I'm talking about? yes, alas. > Stewie boy, you can ignore this as they're > not coming your way, so yah boo sucks to you! :) They're not up there with bands I'd really want to see. Now, if Peter Stampfel dragged himself outta NY for a tour, I'd be happy. Stewart (who didn't know that Peter Stampfel had ever appeared on a TMBG recording...) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:35:26 -0600 From: "SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Sonoma,ex1)" Subject: RE: Intestinal Oxidative Therapy It wasn't a court case I don't think. The band split and the Revillos was considered a "new" band. They too split a while back anyway. This is a nostalgia tour with almost the complete original ReZ lineup, well album lineup anyway. Woohoo, I get to see a former member of the Human League, woohoo! (H) - -----Original Message----- From: Michael R Godwin [mailto:hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 9:05 AM To: hamish_simpson@agilent.com Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: Intestinal Oxidative Therapy On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 hamish_simpson@agilent.com wrote: > btw, is anyone on list going to see the Rezillos US tour? Does anyone > know what I'm talking about? Stewie boy, you can ignore this as > they're not coming your way, so yah boo sucks to you! :) So they don't have to call themselves the Revillos any more? Did they finally win that court case, then? - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 17:43:59 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Pop of the Tops On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Stewart Russell wrote: > Now, if Peter Stampfel dragged himself outta NY for a tour, I'd be > happy. Quite an interesting interview here: http://www.richieunterberger.com/stampfel.html You know that gag "The history of Fleetwood Mac makes particle physics look easy?". Stampfel's career looks equally wayward. I like his idea of recording old commercial jingles - it's something I've always wanted to do myself. - - Mike "you'll wonder where the yellow went" Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:45:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Herbie's lost branches PAGING: Branch H: Peter Palmer PlPalmer@popd.ix.netcom.com Branch I: Aaron Lowe aaron@hollowstreets.net I have not heard from you two. I get bounced back mail from Peter, but I have the cds for the tree. Please email me and let me know what is going on. Herbie np -> "Fairplay" Hitchcock ===== - --------------------------------------------- View my Websight & CDR Trade page at: http://midy.topcities.com/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:13:55 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Pop of the Tops Michael R Godwin wrote: > > Quite an interesting interview here: > http://www.richieunterberger.com/stampfel.html you said it! [See, Mr Taylor -- there is a connection with The Fugs ...] > Stampfel's career looks equally wayward. I see it misses out his literary work entirely. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:37:06 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: mermaids on 6/14/02 7:15 AM, Eugene Hopstetter, Jr. at ehopstetterjr@yahoo.com wrote: > NO MOVIE WITH CHRISTINA RICCI IN IT SUCKS. EVER. OK? > > Now where is that "Buffalo 66" DVD? Word up homey! I wouldn't mind "spanning some time" with her! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:35:15 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup on 6/14/02 5:51 AM, Bachman, Michael at Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com wrote: > Congrats to the Detroit Red Wings for winning their 10th Stanley Cup last > night! It's always great when an Original 6 team wins the Cup. Thanks to > Scotty Bowman for coaching the Wings for the last 9 years, the best coach > ever in any sport. Enjoy you well deserved retirement Scotty! > Even though I was pulling for the underdog Hurricanes, it was nice to see Scotty go out on top. It was also nice to see Luc Robataille finally get to carry the cup. Sharks in '03! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:54:37 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup Tom Clark wrote: >Even though I was pulling for the underdog Hurricanes, it was nice to see >Scotty go out on top. It was also nice to see Luc Robataille finally get to >carry the cup. >Sharks in '03! >-tc Tom, I think the Wings and the Sharks are going to have to be aware of the Cannucks, who I think are going to be the next power in the West if they can add a player or two. Thanks to the Sharks for softening up the Avs, wasn't it great seeing Roy blow up in game 7 against then Wings? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 17:21:43 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup >From: "Bachman, Michael" >> > Thanks to >Scotty Bowman for coaching the Wings for the last 9 years, the best coach >ever in any sport. Enjoy you well deserved retirement Scotty! > >Michael Bachman COUGH COUGH(Casey Stengel)COUGH COUGH. Max _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:37:34 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Re: Intestinal Oxidative Therapy On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 02:00:34 Voodoo Ergonomics wrote: >but considering the generally positive reviews, this is just By whom? All the reviews I remember reading were horrible. You mean here on feg? There might have been some nice things said here, but I skipped those threads so I can't really say. Doug (my husband Doug, not Doug MW) said that if this weren't part of the "Star Wars" franchise it would have been direct to video. He didn't like "Phantom Menace" either. So naturally I inquired as to why the hell he keeps going. He says it's because he wants to keep following the story. Which answers your (probably rhetorical) question about why no one tells George Lucas that the screenplays suck. Because they don't have to be good, they only have to be. Seems ironic now that the first "Star Wars" movie was a phenom precisely because it transcended genre and attracted people who wouldn't normally be sci-fi fans. If I'd heard good things about this one I might possibly have even accompanied Doug instead of plunking down my five bucks for "About A Boy". But no one cares about attracting new people at this point with such a huge built-in audience. My five bucks don't matter among the billions, really. loveonya, susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:45:44 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup At 05:21 PM 6/14/2002 -0400, Maximilian Lang wrote: >>From: "Bachman, Michael" >>> >> Thanks to >>Scotty Bowman for coaching the Wings for the last 9 years, the best coach >>ever in any sport. Enjoy you well deserved retirement Scotty! >> >>Michael Bachman > >COUGH COUGH(Casey Stengel)COUGH COUGH. Red Auerbach, Adolph Rupp, Bob Knight, Dean Smith, John McGraw, Davey Johnson, Earl Weaver, Sparky Anderson, John Madden, George Halas, Vince Lombardi, Don Shula, Joe Gibbs, Bill Walsh... No knock against Scotty, but that's a pretty big generalization you got goin' on there. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:47:23 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Intestinal Oxidative Therapy At 02:00 AM 6/14/2002 -0700, Voodoo Ergonomics wrote: >well, >lord knows why, but i ponied up $4.75 to see Attack Of The Clones. ouch! >maybe lucas should, instead of making episode three, just make Pokemon >movies for the rest of his life. that's about the level he's working on. How dare you insult Pokemon movies like that? :-) Otherwise, fuckin' seconded, with fuckin' enthusiasm. later, Miles, who has a very unironic love of Pokemon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:37:15 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Intestinal Oxidative Therapy, or Anyone Think Palpatine Had Anakin's Mom Killed? John Shirley's reviews - http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Reviews/Shirley05_Clones.html http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Reviews/Shirley05_ClonesDigital.html And Paul Levinson - http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Reviews/Levinson05_StarWars.html Of course, it's true that Lucas can't direct actors, or hardly seems to care to. Yoda and the rest are more archetypes than individuals. - - Steve __________ Members of the Christ Community Church in Alamogordo, N.M., burned Harry Potter books, Star Wars items and works by Shakespeare and J.R.R. Tolkien, USA Today reported. Pastor Jack Brock called the Potter books "a masterpiece of satanic deception [that teaches] children how they can get into witchcraft." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 21:04:46 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: L.P.s Music Industry Unveils New Piracy-Proof Format: A Black, Plastic Disc With Grooves On It Music bosses have unveiled a revolutionary new recording format that they hope will help win the war on illegal file sharing which is thought to be costing the industry millions of dollars in lost revenue. Nicknamed the 'Record', the new format takes the form of a black, vinyl disc measuring 12 inches in diameter, which must be played on a specially designed 'turntable'. "We can state with absolute certainty that no computer in the world can access the data on this disc," said spokesman Brett Campbell. "We are also confident that no-one is going to be able to produce pirate copies in this format without going to a heck of a lot of trouble. This is without doubt the best anti-piracy invention the music industry has ever seen." As part of the invention's rigorous testing process,the designers gave some discs to a group of teenage computer experts who regularly use file swapping software such as Limewire and gnutella and who admit to pirating music CDs. Despite several days of trying, none of them were able to hack into the disc's code or access any of the music files contained within it. "It's like, really big and stuff," said Doug Flamboise, one of the testers. "I couldn't get it into any of my drives. I mean, what format is it? Is it, like, from France or something?" Invention: Teenage computer hackers struggled to access the new disc. In the new format, raw audio data in the form of music is encoded by physically etching grooves onto the vinyl disc. The sound is thus translated into variations on the disc's surface in a process that industry insiders are describing as 'completely revolutionary' and 'stunningly clever.' To decode the data stored on the disc, the listener must use a special player which contains a 'needle' that runs along the grooves on the record surface, reading the indentations and transforming the movements back into audio that can be fed through loudspeakers. Even Shawn Fanning, the man who invented Napster, admits the new format will make file swapping much more difficult. "I've never seen anything like this," he told reporters. "How does it work?" Pirates: Their days are numbered. As rumours that a Taiwanese company has been secretly developing a 12 inch wide, turntable-driven, needle-based, firewire drive remain unconfirmed, it would appear that the music industry may, at last, have found the pirate-proof format it has long been searching for. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 23:04:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: RE: Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Bachman, Michael wrote: > >Sharks in '03! I'm not a hockey fan, but...isn't "Sharks" a dumb name for a hockey team? I mean, you take your average shark, and you freeze its waterways...what, is it going to burst through the ice and start devouring pucks and shinguards? Of course, nowhere near as inane as "Utah Jazz" or even "Los Angeles Lakers," so I guess basketball's worse. A team name that once was decidedly unthreatening is now a little more edgy: the San Diego Padres. Or at least it would be threatening if the other teams were 12-year-old boys. Thank you, drive safely. - --Jeff, wondering what were we saying about "political correctness"? J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::it's not your meat:: __Mr. Toad__ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 23:18:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Eddie's Star Wars Questions revealed! On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, The Great Quail wrote: > The death of Muad'dib's father was the trigger that resulted in awakening > his "special purpose," which was reinforced by centuries of breeding and 15 Hey, I know that! It's from that Steve Martin movie! But who the fuck are Anacin, Dooki, Queen Areola, Du-Gong, and those other guys? Dong work for Yoda, - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::Let's quit talking about it and start watching it on TV:: __Susan Lowry__ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 23:42:14 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: first chords Eugene: >>Guitarzan, he's a guitar man >>He's all you can stand >>Give him a hand! hey, thanks for the blast from my past. One of the first songs I ever heard on my very first transistor radio. Jane was hot, too. "Bay-bayyyyy"... Glen: > I've mentioned this before, but I happen to think the reason I was so > immediately drawn Robyn and other similarly quirky artists stems from the > fact that, as a child, I was weaned on such witty/humorous/novelty > tunesmiths like Ray Stevens, Roger Miller, Ben Colder (aka Sheb Woolley) > and Shel Silverstein. Betcha Glen would also add Jerry Reed to that list. And I can never mention Jerry Reed without recalling the strangest dream I ever had: in it I was listening to an old AM radio and on comes Bryan Ferry singing a cover of "Amos Moses" in that inimitably slow Bryan Ferry style. "left arm gone clean up to the albow," he crooned. Woke up laughing after that one. - -rUss PS speaking of Shel Silverstein...I recently picked up "Utopia Parkway" by Fountains of Wayne. Is "Hat and Feet" Shel Silverstein all over or what?? I can't hear that one without visualizing a Silverstein doodle. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 01:26:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Non-RH Site Mike Swedene wrote: > do our fellow canadians on this list wish to explain > this? > > http://www.standonguard.com http://www.theonion.com/onion3822/wdyt_3822.html ===== "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! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 05:10:14 EDT From: Randallriebe@aol.com Subject: Re: Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup The Los Angeles Lakers were once from Minnesota, so the Laker thing did make sense at one time. (Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes). In that standard, the Minnesota Vikings do make sense, if you'd ever been there. It's stocked full of Norskies. Now the Seattle Seahawks does SORT of make sense, since we're near the sea, but there is no such bird as a Seahawk. A team called The Redskins..........heh. Like Chris Rock said, "that's a racial slur...there might as well be a basketball team call The New York Niggers" Oh yeah, rush roooooooooolz. And what happened to Eb? Vince ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 02:25:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Red Wings, Red Wings win the Stanley Cup Randallriebe@aol.com wrote: > The Los Angeles Lakers were once from Minnesota, so the Laker thing > did make sense at one time. (Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes). The Utah Jazz were once in New Orleans. Doesn't mean keeping a geographically appropriate name when you move isn't stupid. > A team called The Redskins..........heh. Like Chris Rock said, > "that's a racial slur...there might as well be a basketball team call > The New York Niggers" the funniest part about people trying to defend it as being meant as a compliment is that they started out in Boston, and the Redskins is meant to honor the Boston tea party participants, not as any (misguided) tribute to the former (and still occasional) residents of the north american continent who our ancestors (meaning whitey) thoughtfully killed (same with the now Atlanta but originally Boston Braves). I still hope that the new NBA team that's moved into Charlotte in a few years to replace the Hornets is called the Sometimes though. Not that I haven't always called the Hornets that. "All the faces All the voices blur Change to one face Change to one voice Prepare yourself for bed The light seems bright And glares on white walls All the sounds of ......" ===== "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! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #193 ********************************