From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #201 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, June 22 2002 Volume 11 : Number 201 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alien chicks/vampire rabbits ["Rex.Broome" ] Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: If ya though "Robyn Sings" was a weird idea... [Dolph Chaney ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:37:31 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Alien chicks/vampire rabbits James: >>personally I found the Borg Queen from that STTNG movie fairly, um,... She was kind ooky, wasn't she? The last Trek chick who did it for me was Ensign Ro. >>one of the best children's books I ever read was "Bunnicula" by D. and J. Howe. I remember that... with the white carrots drained of blood. I think of Bunnicula every time I buy parsnips. Cheers, Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:51:19 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Kingdom of Byrds/Tusk etews@hotmail.com: >>i meant -- in reference to the commentary track (and one could also add his hi-larious little monologues following each Kingdom episode) -- that you've got to love lars *the person*. Don't ya just? And I really want a copy of the theme music-- "KING-DUMM!!" >>Kingdom II is even better, in my opinion I was looking at it as a single, sadly never-to-be-completed epic. Did anyone else have the intense yet grueling pleasure of seeing either Kingdom in a theatre? I worked for a company that ran several theatres showing it and we had to devise this unique ticketing system where you could leave at intermission and come back the next night. >>i take it i was the last-ever feg to learn (as in, yesterday) that the byrds once released an album entitled BYRDMANIAX (circa 1970)? i hang my head in shame (and so on and so forth). No biggee, not one of their better efforts, even of the latter albums. I had a German import of it (oddly from Line records who put out a buncha stuff by the Fall) and didn't even bother to upgrade it to the reissue. Brian:. >>CvB and CvChadbourne did >>some fun Zappa covers as I remember and Lulu Land and Interstellar Overdrive >>were very good. The thing is I don't know Tusk, I don't even know Rumours (I >>heard a couple of times but it didn't stick), just at the moment I couldn't >>name more than one FMac song. Is Tusk a mighty fine album? The only thng I know about Tusk is that the USC Marching Band played on the title track because they would play it constantly when I went to USC and on the last five notes the crowd would yell "U-C-L-A-SUX!!!" Groan... makes me wonder why I feel any shred of nostalgia for my college days. Cheers, Rex I'd rather they re-released II&III and Camper Vantiquities to round out my CD collection. Brian, who stupidly missed last night's festivities at Avebury. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:58:02 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: RE: If ya though "Robyn Sings" was a weird idea... On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Brian Hoare wrote: > The thing is I don't know Tusk, I don't even know Rumours (I heard a > couple of times but it didn't stick), just at the moment I couldn't > name more than one FMac song. Is Tusk a mighty fine album? Only if you used to watch the motor racing on BBC before it switched to ITV, in which case you would recognise the much missed dung! da da dum da-da diddy dum dung! theme music, which I believe is from Tusk. Anyone know what it's called? It's not from 'Tusk' itself, is it? - - - Mike " 'Then Play On' was the last decent Mac album" Godwin - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:06:09 +0100 From: "matt sewell" Subject: RE: If ya though "Robyn Sings" was a weird idea... ISTR that music was called The Chain... Never seen the point in FMac, apart from the Peter Green era... Cheers Matt >From: Michael R Godwin >Reply-To: Michael R Godwin >To: MutantBikersOnCellPhones >Subject: RE: If ya though "Robyn Sings" was a weird idea... >Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:58:02 +0100 (BST) > >On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Brian Hoare wrote: > > The thing is I don't know Tusk, I don't even know Rumours (I heard a > > couple of times but it didn't stick), just at the moment I couldn't > > name more than one FMac song. Is Tusk a mighty fine album? > >Only if you used to watch the motor racing on BBC before it switched to >ITV, in which case you would recognise the much missed >dung! da da dum da-da diddy dum dung! >theme music, which I believe is from Tusk. > >Anyone know what it's called? It's not from 'Tusk' itself, is it? > > >- Mike " 'Then Play On' was the last decent Mac album" Godwin - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com. - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:56:15 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: you're nowhere on your way to no place On Thu, Jun 20, 2002, drew wrote: > >>Catherine Wheel, Adam and Eve: excellent. > > > >Good man. Assuming you're going in chronological order, you have > >another great one to go - Wishville. Enjoy the ride. :) > > It's the first one I've ever bought, actually. I hated it when I > reviewed > it for the radio station back when it came out, and now I'm overwhelmed. > It's utterly gorgeous. I read that Wishville wasn't so hot...should that > one really be next, or should I backtrack? I think I like Adam and Eve more than Wishville, but Wishville is still great. Wow, then you have a GREAT ride ahead of you if this is your first CW. Sure, backtrack. All the others are great. - - -Ken - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:02:01 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: If ya though "Robyn Sings" was a weird idea... On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 06:06 AM, matt sewell wrote: > Never seen the point in FMac, apart from the Peter Green era... There are some very fine Fleetwood Mac albums, depending on who the boys got to front them. As for Tusk, it depends on what you think of the songs that aren't by Lindsey Buckingham (who should be locked in a studio with Jon Brion). The CVB could be interesting/fun. On Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 07:15 PM, Rex.Broome wrote: > What next, Husker Du performs Frampton Comes Alive??? XTC doing The Move, although you lose the incongruity factor. And Dave must come back. - - - Steve __________ As for "encouraging people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil," there's only one prominent person trying to intimidate legitimate critics into shutting up about actions they feel to be both wrong and deeply un-American at present. He is, unfortunately, the attorney general of the United States. - Jacob Weisberg - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:09:29 -0400 From: "Poole, R. Edward" Subject: RE: If ya though "Robyn Sings" was a weird idea... On Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 07:15 PM, Rex.Broome wrote: > What next, Husker Du performs Frampton Comes Alive??? First off, let me say: heh heh heh. that's nice! Second: how 'bout Fugazi playing Cheap Trick "Live At Budokan" ("this next one is the first song on our new piece of soul-less corporate merchandise!") - - -or- The Wallflowers doing "Gotta Let This Hen Out" ============================================================================ This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. This communication may contain material protected by attorney-client, work product, or other privileges. If you are not the intended recipient or person responsible for delivering this confidential communication to the intended recipient, you have received this communication in error, and any review, use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, copying, or other distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. 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But isn't Oliver Kahn unbelievable? - - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ Being just contaminates the void - Robyn Hitchcock - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:47:26 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Michael Schenker Junior High School - - --On Friday, June 21, 2002 00:03:54 -0700 Voodoo Ergonomics wrote: > > > Kingdom II is even better, in my opinion; I basically just put them together. However, I think I prefer the earlier episodes. To me it's a little bit like Twin Peaks in that respect. > while in the > dead?-what-do-you-mean-dead?-they-CAN'T-die-yet category, the untimely > passings of rolffes and jaregard is a disaster perhaps surpassed in the > history of cinema only by the kicking of the bucket by david lean before > being able to film Nostromo. Lots of news for me. I'd heard about Jaregard, but not about Rolffes. I also wasn't aware of that Nostromo project. Was the cast already chosen when he died? > I don't see why he had to do the same thing all over again with "Dancer > in the Dark"!> > > in the Dancer In The Dark commentary, he laughs about it being the exact > same movie as Breaking The Waves. he says he's making a trilogy. It's nice that he admits it, but I still fail to see the point ... unless he just really likes to see women suffer. - - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ Being just contaminates the void - Robyn Hitchcock - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:56:59 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: verdammen Sie die Dummkvpfe damn, the krauts won. it could be worse, they ain't french. gSs - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:03:37 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: verdammen Sie die Dummkvpfe - - --On Friday, June 21, 2002 09:56:59 -0500 gSs wrote: > damn, the krauts won. it could be worse, they ain't french. Well, thanks. I guess. - - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ Being just contaminates the void - Robyn Hitchcock - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:05:35 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: verdammen Sie die Dummkvpfe gSs wrote: > > damn, the krauts won. it could be worse, they ain't french. I'm surprised Dallas -- notorious Scottish referee -- let anyone win. Stewart (who supports whoever wins) - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:29:16 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: Fettborg tottirabbit Sebastian replied: > > You can't afford to defend a 1-0 lead in a knockout round for 3/4 of a > > match. Itr's suicidal. > > Unless you're Germany, I'm somewhat ashamed to say ... Not entirely, Neuville (don'tcha love the Swiss) kept our back line hopping until he was subbed. Germany did to us what we did to Mexico, there's no shame in that. As the technically better team, they chose to let the USA do all the work, stay in a good defensive shape and use quick counterattacks to win free kicks where their advantage was greatest. Very good coaching really; and pulling the double-team off Reyna and putting it on Donovan -while it gave us more possession - effectively removed our most dangerous player from the game. > But isn't Oliver Kahn unbelievable? And starting goalkeeper for the "all ugly" team, that's no lie. He made two saves to win the game, and had help on a third :-p Too bad that 40yd volley from Reyna did'nt stay on line, that would've been the goal of the tourney so far, and to catch Kahn so far out... What a tournament. If Germany meets Brazil in the finals... Michael "now give us our players back" Wells - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:40:21 +0000 From: "No Name" Subject: Why didnt the movie use the Ramones cover? >it also >is true to what people think of regular spiders. >I love spiders and I still find them pretty creepy. Last night I was looking towards the setting sun along the ray of last light hitting our yard. This ray had found a small break in the treeline to come thru, so its light was surronded by a halo of leaves. Maybe its an effect of my glasses, but what I saw was a streaked amberish dazzle spreading out from the light in an uneven figure 8 with the top circle smaller than the bottom. And I immedistly thought -- its a sun spider -- and saw the sun's rays as a web. I like the idea of the sky as a web of energy. BTW--saw Spiderman last weekend and enjoyed it. Loved the feel of the special effects of Spidey swinging along the buidlings, I always wanted to do that as a kid. One great thing about Spiderman was--he could only operate like that in a city. Put him in a corn field and no go. My husband thought the movie lacked Spidey's proper irony, but I put that down to him being a very young Spidey. Geek heros rule:-) - - ---------------- Hmm, if the US gets beaten in an international match of some sort, many Americans will root for the Brits and Commonwealth countries next. But in the same situation, who do the Brits root for next, Commonwealth countries or European Union countries? And who would America have to play for the Brits and Commonwealth countries to ever root for us;-? - - ----------------- My 11-year old -loved- Legolos. Kay "Your hair is reminiscent of a digesting yak." Surrealist compliment generator. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:16:41 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom Here are a couple of pictures I took of a spider at my house in the late '80s: http://www.hellrot.org/stuff/spider.jpg http://www.hellrot.org/stuff/spider2.jpg It's a moth it has, btw. - - -Ken - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:38:58 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: verdammen Sie die Dummkvpfe > > damn, the krauts won. it could be worse, they ain't french. > > Well, thanks. I guess. Sebastian, you're a pathologically good-natured guy, and I *do* mean that as a compliment. It was a good match, and while the US appeared to dominate, I don't think Germany can be faulted for sitting on their lead and letting the Yanks wear themselves out. It worked. +brian in New Orleans - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:06:15 -0500 From: JH3 Subject: Re: you're nowhere on your way to no place > >> Catherine Wheel, Adam and Eve: excellent. > > Good man. Assuming you're going in chronological order, you have > > another great one to go - Wishville. Enjoy the ride. :) > It's the first one I've ever bought, actually. I hated it when I > reviewed it for the radio station back when it came out, and > now I'm overwhelmed. It's utterly gorgeous. I read that Wishville > wasn't so hot...should that one really be next, or should I backtrack? Backtrack! Start with Happy Days, then Chrome, Ferment, and Wishville last. Some might prefer Chrome over Happy Days... Also, Like Cats & Dogs (the b-sides comp) isn't bad if you like the slower, quieter stuff. John "trying desperately to be pithy" Hedges - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:18:33 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: you're nowhere on your way to no place On Fri, Jun 21, 2002, JH3 wrote: > Backtrack! Start with Happy Days, then Chrome, Ferment, and Wishville > last. Some might prefer Chrome over Happy Days... Also, Like Cats & > Dogs (the b-sides comp) isn't bad if you like the slower, quieter stuff. Like Cats and Dogs is great, too. Plus you get to hear them cover Spirit of Radio from Rush. Trivia: Rob Dickinson's cousin is Brice Dickinson from Iron Maiden. Bruce was supposed to be a guest on I think Happy Days, but he was too busy at the time they were recording it. - - -Ken - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:44:55 -0400 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:16:41 -0400 Ken Weingold wrote: >Here are a couple of pictures I took of a spider at my house in the >late '80s: But why Lorne Greene? The TV show was hosted by Marlon Perkins. Is Greene connected to spiders and moths in ways I neither knew nor comprehend? Does he fight Mothra in a BATTLESTAR GALACTICA episode? This is very important to me, since WILD KINGDOM was not only a cornerstone of my childhood viewing, but one of the most awesome things my mom and grandparents had was pictures from the mid-'60s of them with ***Marlon Perkins*** -- they were visiting the St. Louis Zoo, and who should they run into but ***Marlon Perkins***. He graciously posed with them, not even dispatching Jim to pose in his stead, nor pitching them Mutual of Omaha products. later, Miles - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:52:17 -0700 From: "Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" Subject: RE: Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom Lorne Greene hosted "Lorne Greene's New Wilderness" which was a similar type show but was in no way as successful or as long running as "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom". Perhaps ken has meld them together in his mind :-) - - -----Original Message----- From: Miles Goosens [mailto:outdoorminer@mindspring.com] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 2:45 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:16:41 -0400 Ken Weingold wrote: >Here are a couple of pictures I took of a spider at my house in the >late '80s: But why Lorne Greene? The TV show was hosted by Marlon Perkins. Is Greene connected to spiders and moths in ways I neither knew nor comprehend? Does he fight Mothra in a BATTLESTAR GALACTICA episode? This is very important to me, since WILD KINGDOM was not only a cornerstone of my childhood viewing, but one of the most awesome things my mom and grandparents had was pictures from the mid-'60s of them with ***Marlon Perkins*** -- they were visiting the St. Louis Zoo, and who should they run into but ***Marlon Perkins***. He graciously posed with them, not even dispatching Jim to pose in his stead, nor pitching them Mutual of Omaha products. later, Miles - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:11:51 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom Whichever was the one with the Land Rover. :) - - -Ken On Fri, Jun 21, 2002, Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc) wrote: > Lorne Greene hosted "Lorne Greene's New Wilderness" which was a similar > type show but was in no way as successful or as long running as "Mutual > of Omaha's Wild Kingdom". Perhaps ken has meld them together in his > mind :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Miles Goosens [mailto:outdoorminer@mindspring.com] > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 2:45 PM > To: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom > > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:16:41 -0400 Ken Weingold > wrote: > >Here are a couple of pictures I took of a spider at my house in the > >late '80s: > > But why Lorne Greene? The TV show was hosted by Marlon Perkins. Is > Greene > connected to spiders and moths in ways I neither knew nor comprehend? > Does he > fight Mothra in a BATTLESTAR GALACTICA episode? > > This is very important to me, since WILD KINGDOM was not only a > cornerstone of > my childhood viewing, but one of the most awesome things my mom and > grandparents had was pictures from the mid-'60s of them with ***Marlon > Perkins*** -- they were visiting the St. Louis Zoo, and who should they > run > into but ***Marlon Perkins***. He graciously posed with them, not even > dispatching Jim to pose in his stead, nor pitching them Mutual of Omaha > products. > > later, > > Miles - ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #200 ******************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:06:21 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Now THAT show had a cool fucking theme song. Sounded like Duane Eddy, kinda drunk, slinking across the Serenghetti with the kind of hunger that only a Thompson's Gazelle can satisfy. Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 13:08:04 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: If ya though "Robyn Sings" was a weird idea... >> Never seen the point in FMac, apart from the Peter Green era... > >There are some very fine Fleetwood Mac albums, depending on who the boys >got to front them. As for Tusk, it depends on what you think of the >songs that aren't by Lindsey Buckingham (who should be locked in a >studio with Jon Brion). The CVB could be interesting/fun. I'm beginning to think that I'm the only Feg who thinks that Tusk is the only commercial-era (i.e., non blues) Fleetwood Mac album worth having. I suppose you could group it with my guilty pleasures albums, but it has got a lot of good stuff on it. Completely pointless trivia comment: some of the sessions were done in collaboration with John Stewart, whose eminently forgettable solo album "Bombs away dream babies" has some tracks clearly recorded with FMac at the same time ("Gold" and one of the tracks on Tusk are pretty much interchangeable). >On Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 07:15 PM, Rex.Broome wrote: > >> What next, Husker Du performs Frampton Comes Alive??? > >XTC doing The Move, although you lose the incongruity factor. And Dave >must come back. Personally, I think it's gonna take a lot to top the Residents' tribute albums to the likes of Elvis P and George Gershwin. Marilyn Manson should cover 'Ziggy Stardust &TSFM' - oh, wait.... that's what he's been doing for the last five years anyway... same with PJ Harvey covering 'Horses' (although I'd buy that one for sure). um... individual songs are no prob - NIN covering Peter Gabriel's "Intruder" would melt plastic. But whole albums? Okay, put me down for: Nick Cave doing 'Paris 1919' and - for sheer incongruity - The Falling Joys (or possibly the Darling Buds) doing 'Breakfast in America' 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: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 13:08:55 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: supporter pecking order >Hmm, if the US gets beaten in an international match of some sort, many >Americans will root for the Brits and Commonwealth countries next. But in >the same situation, who do the Brits root for next, Commonwealth countries >or European Union countries? And who would America have to play for the >Brits and Commonwealth countries to ever root for us;-? Australia! The one country kiwis dislike more than they do the US :) I think it varies. Every country has its traditional sporting foes. As a pom by birth, I hate to see England getting beaten at football by Argentina or Germany more than anyone else. And (even though I'm a bit out of touch with the 'home country' after all these years) I'm sure that for the most part it's commonwealth countries, then underdogs, then the US and Europe, and then traditional foes. There's a strong 'support the underdog' mentality - if the US are playing against a country stronger than them, I'm sure a lot of people in England would support them. If, say, the US cricket team ever got to the world cup (not as unlikely as you might think - they're ranked in the world's top 20), I'm sure a lot of English people would support them against one of the world's bigger cricketing nations like India or South Africa. A lot of brits probably supported the US against Germany for that reason. >Lorne Greene hosted "Lorne Greene's New Wilderness" which was a similar >type show but was in no way as successful or as long running as "Mutual >of Omaha's Wild Kingdom". Perhaps ken has meld them together in his >mind :-) Johnny Morris ruled OK! But what the hell was his program called??? Hailp??? Godders, surely you'd know this one... 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: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:45:39 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: supporter pecking order On Sat, Jun 22, 2002, James Dignan wrote: > Johnny Morris ruled OK! But what the hell was his program called??? > Hailp??? Godders, surely you'd know this one... Animal Magic? - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:52:55 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: If ya though "Robyn Sings" was a weird idea... At 01:08 PM 6/22/02 +1200, James Dignan wrote: >I'm beginning to think that I'm the only Feg who thinks that Tusk is the >only commercial-era (i.e., non blues) Fleetwood Mac album worth having. Nope -- though I do have the two that precede and the one that follows Tusk, because I got them as $1 cassettes. (The FLEETWOOD MAC / RUMOURS 2fer cassette that I have is especially priceless -- it's from Spain, and the title "Songbird" is spelled "Sorgbird.") Mainly, I just really enjoy hearing John McVie play bass. dolph ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 00:08:09 -0400 From: rosso@videotron.ca Subject: The Ministry of Truth The US congress has passed a bill yesterday stating that some American guy was the first to invent the phone. Today the Canadian parliament passed a bill affirming Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Who's next, Fessenden? Last year the government of Quebec passed a law saying Montreal was "a french city". I wonder if they could be persuaded to declare it "a tropical city"? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:42:00 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: If ya though "Robyn Sings" was a weird idea... > >On Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 07:15 PM, Rex.Broome wrote: > > > >> What next, Husker Du performs Frampton Comes Alive??? > > > >XTC doing The Move, although you lose the incongruity factor. And Dave > >must come back. Metallica should cover "Outlandos d'Amour", I think Devo would have killed Hawkwind's "Space Ritual", and I can't be the only one who wishes Black Sabbath would reform and perform Roger Hodgson's "In the Eye of the Storm". Well maybe I am the only one, but it would rock. And I've always had this guilty fantasty that the Waterboys should cover "Abbey Road." Michael "I've covered 2112, but it pretty much sucked" Wells Ps. funniest chant heard at my house during the US v Germany game, sung to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It": You can shove Michael Ballack up your ass You can shove Michael Ballack up your ass You can shove Michael Ballack You can shove Michael Ballack You can shove Michael Ballack up your ass (shouted) Sideways! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 07:59:26 -0700 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: RE: Wild Kingdom >This is very important to me, since WILD KINGDOM was not only a cornerstone of >my childhood viewing, but one of the most awesome things my mom and >grandparents had was pictures from the mid-'60s of them with ***Marlon >Perkins*** -- they were visiting the St. Louis Zoo, and who should they run >into but ***Marlon Perkins***. He graciously posed with them, not even >dispatching Jim to pose in his stead, nor pitching them Mutual of Omaha >products. > >later, > >Miles > That's insanely cool - and brought back a long-forgotten memory from high school. I was also a great fan of Wild Kingdom in my youth, and during "Spirit Week" in high school one year (does everybody know what this is? We had a Spirit Week every year, during which you dressed according to a different theme each day of the week, for fun), on Hero Day, I dressed up as Jim Fowler from Wild Kingdom and - get this - EVERYBODY knew who I was supposed to be. (This was, lemme see, I remember sitting in a geometry class in that get-up, so 10th grade, 1983/1984.) Leg-wrappings, pith helmet, some kind of net in my hand - it was a pretty cheesy costume, but did the trick. My friends and I walked around all day spouting phrases in a deliberate, nasal voice, like, "While I lounge in the tent and nurse Pina Coladas with Jim's wife, Jim Fowler will wrestle these three 18-foot alligators with one arm tied behind his back. Hope you're paid up on your Mutual of Omaha policies, Jim!" da9ve ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #201 ********************************