From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #251 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, August 4 2002 Volume 11 : Number 251 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: San Antonio, TX [Tom Clark ] Re: San Antonio, TX [steve ] Re: San Antonio, TX [gSs ] Re: San Antonio, TX [Steve Talkowski ] Words, between the lines of age ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Words, we got words ["Mike Wells" ] Re: Words, we got words [gSs ] things to do and not to do in San Antonio ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Re: San Antonio, TX [Ken Weingold ] summer fluff ["melissa" ] Re: Soft Boys in SF ["Maximilian Lang" ] ...and words are all I have... [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: summer fluff [steve ] Re: Soft Boys anywhere except SF ["Michael Wells" ] Re: summer fluff [R Edward Poole ] Re: Soft Boys anywhere except SF [Mike Swedene ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V11 #250 ["Sean Kearney" ] Chinese Dead Live ["Mike Runion" ] words [Christopher Gross ] penceles ["drew" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 11:26:24 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: San Antonio, TX on 8/2/02 11:21 AM, Ken Weingold at hazmat@hellrot.org wrote: > Any Fegs from around San Antonio? I have to go there on Sunday for > two weeks for work. I need to find things to do. > > A couple of my co-workers were there a little while ago for a trade show. They determined that the best thing to do was to drive to Austin. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:16:11 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: San Antonio, TX On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 01:52 PM, gSs wrote: > On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Ken Weingold wrote: > >> I need to find things to do. > > gene will probably let you do him. you can do the rivers too, the frio > and neuces especially. stay out of town. go to uvalde and work your way > back. just drive, stop, swim, take some pictures, eat and repeat. canoe, > amd kayak float trips are real fun, inexpensive and they pick you and > your float up down river. or just go to garner state park. Are there any post-flood considerations as far as river activities? I suppose you could spend 30 minutes at the Alamo, just to say you've been. The water garden at Brackenridge Park is nice. And there's always TexMex, even the places along the aren't too bad. Austin isn't too far a drive. - - Steve __________ I know that it's cynical, but I feel that civil liberties-for a lot of these people in Congress-are either an inconvenience or a campaign slogan. They care only about money and power. - Wil Wheaton ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:16:35 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: San Antonio, TX On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Ken Weingold wrote: > Does he have a cunt? Or twat? Or hooch? Or...... nubile, probably but i'd put my money on penis, figuratively. and i don't mean proton-enhanced nuclear induction spectrascopy or anything like that. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:26:54 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: San Antonio, TX On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 02:26 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > on 8/2/02 11:21 AM, Ken Weingold at hazmat@hellrot.org wrote: > >> Any Fegs from around San Antonio? I have to go there on Sunday for >> two weeks for work. I need to find things to do. > > A couple of my co-workers were there a little while ago for a trade > show. > They determined that the best thing to do was to drive to Austin. I was there for Siggraph (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics) last week. I stayed next to the Alamo, but only saw it from the outside, as its opening hours conflicted with those of the convention. I did the Riverwalk one night, testing out my new Canon S40 digital camera along the way. No post-flood worries there. If you have a spare 45 minutes, I highly recommend you check out the new Space Station in 3d IMAX film at the mall on the Riverwalk. They brought a camera up to the station and also filmed two launches, one in Russia and a shuttle launch from Florida. The footage is incredibly breathtaking. Other than that, I'd try to stay cool - it was extremely hot and muggy when I was there. Of course, I only came back home to enjoy the exact same conditions here in Manhattan this week. *sigh* - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:44:33 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Words, between the lines of age I've always heard/said "Feb-you-ary". Looks weird, but I always hear that "y" in there. But I usually sloppily say "guvvermint" and, for that matter, "comfterble", which is admittedly pretty embarrassing. ____ Kay: >>I hope you mean the common wombat and >>not the northen one. Now --that-- really would be weird;-) Hey now... there's nothing common about MY wombat!! >>How about some favorite words? Carapace. Pamplemouse. Glossolalia. Pants. Happenstance. ____ Jonathan: >>Yeah, Tolkien held up publication for years to get those >>appendixes in for the kiddies. I thought the appendices were really cool when I was a kid... I thought of it as introductory historical literature, just as complex and detailed as "real" history but with magic and stuff. It made me feel like I had graduated from, like, Choose Your Own Adventure or Encyclopedia Brown to something a little heftier, and probably contributed to me being undaunted by-- indeed attracted to-- involved, massive books in later years. There's nothing wrong with that! ____ Ken: >>Or hooch? I thought hooch was booze. Cooch, though, that's something else. - -Rex "Moonshiner Bill" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:37:27 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: San Antonio, TX On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, steve wrote: > > gene will probably let you do him. you can do the rivers too, the frio > > and neuces especially. stay out of town. go to uvalde and work your way > > back. just drive, stop, swim, take some pictures, eat and repeat. canoe, > > amd kayak float trips are real fun, inexpensive and they pick you and > > your float up down river. or just go to garner state park. > > > Are there any post-flood considerations as far as river activities? i don't know, probably not by now and in the past the best time to go was a little after a good rain. though, they got a bit more than a good rain. you could try some of the private or public campsites or cabins along the rivers. the whole area is really nice for outdoor activites. i tend to stray towards places or towns with no more than 1 starbucks so i can't tell you much about san antonio or austin except once you get to san antonio yer about 5 hours north of s. padre island. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:53:54 -0500 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: Words, we got words > >>How about some favorite words? Fegmania. Doobage. Eurythromyacin. Payday. Nap. Tetons. Lenticular. Krakatoa. Michael "doesn't a nap sound good right about now?" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:17:15 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: Words, we got words On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Mike Wells wrote: > Michael "doesn't a nap sound good right about now?" Wells is this before or after the doobage? gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 13:20:38 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: things to do and not to do in San Antonio >From: Ken Weingold >Subject: Re: San Antonio, TX > On Fri, Aug 2, 2002, gSs wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Ken Weingold wrote: >> >> > I need to find things to do. >> >> gene will probably let you do him. > Does he have a cunt? Or twat? Or hooch? Or...... Cough. Yes, I live in San Antonio. Yes, I know things to do. Things which don't involve penes, pink sleeping bags, pork swords, poodle whumpies, Captain Kirk's hairpiece, shaved Gorns, or ewoks. If that's your thing. But I do have Starship Troopers on DVD. Email me offlist and I'll elaborate. . Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 13:22:49 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: All Robyn, All The Time >From: Tom Clark >Subject: All Robyn, All The Time > >Right now I'm streaming a 48Kbps shuffled collection of all my RH >MP3's. It's working great with iTunes 3 in OS X here in, that's right, sunny San Antonio, Texas. Thanks. . Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 13:31:37 -0700 From: glen uber Subject: Re: Words, we got words Mike earnestly scribbled: >> >>How about some favorite words? > >Fegmania. >Doobage. >Eurythromyacin. >Payday. >Nap. >Tetons. >Lenticular. >Krakatoa. Great list. Some of mine are: waft calapygian granary lush euphonic buttress gruntled iterate jodhpurs diphthong autumnal zymurgy - -- Cheers! - -g- "The reason the mainstream is thought of as a stream is because it's so shallow." - -- George Carlin glen uber =+= blint (at) mac dot com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:33:25 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: San Antonio, TX On Fri, Aug 2, 2002, Steve Talkowski wrote: > I stayed next to the Alamo, but only saw it from the outside, as its > opening hours conflicted with those of the convention. Yeah, I heard that. I will be at the Westin, I think nearby. I will be there for two weeks, so I'll have a weekend if I want to see it. Might as well. > If you have a spare 45 minutes, I highly recommend you check out the new > Space Station in 3d IMAX film at the mall on the Riverwalk. They > brought a camera up to the station and also filmed two launches, one in > Russia and a shuttle launch from Florida. The footage is incredibly > breathtaking. That sounds awesome. I'll definitely check that out. > Other than that, I'd try to stay cool - it was extremely hot and muggy > when I was there. Of course, I only came back home to enjoy the exact > same conditions here in Manhattan this week. *sigh* Well I live here, so good thing it won't be much of a shock! Thanks for the other replies. I would go to Austin, as I really want to, but I think going there alone and having never been would suck. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 20:56:52 -0000 From: "melissa" Subject: summer fluff dear fegs, since y'all tend to be really well read and opinionated thought i'd ask for their recommendations for summer fluff - reading and movies. i'm looking for some terry pratchett level fluff to distract me from the summer blahs and bad mood. any suggestions? already did see reign of fire and thought that ed did a wonderful review. my boyfriend's favorite part was after matthew mcconaghey appears and i wondered aloud if we'd ever get to see the two men fight or maybe make out. it was all those tension filled close ups of those two. also saw the japanese movie ring. a little slow but good. explores an urbanlegend about a weird video that causes people to die. they watch it and then get a phone call that they will die with in a week and end up dead with horrible expressions on their faces. great fun. oh yes for any one that saw lilo and stitch? did they try to do pidgin english for the movie? it may determine whether or not i go see that one. melissa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 17:42:40 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Soft Boys in SF >From: glen uber >I should have concluded this by asking, does anyone know if they're going >to be playing in or around Denver, Boise, Cheyenne or Vegas anytime >during the two weeks prior to the SF show? >Cheers! >-g- I have no clue, I don't remember the exact length of the tour but I don't think it's long at all. I also recall hearing that three nights are to be played in NYC. I would assume this means that Philly and or Hoboken may not be played. One night in Philly, one in Hoboken and one in NYC(like last tour) would be more convenient for many people and certainly more fun,unless of course you live in NYC! Max _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 11:48:20 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: ...and words are all I have... >> But all those dropped consonants; I'm horrified by the destruction of >> lib/r/ary, We/d/nesday > >Is there really a variant of English where that 'd' is pronounced?? I've >never heard it that way, neither in school (we were taught RP) nor in the >US. My exposure to other UK dialects is rather limited ... just very faintly in some of them. It's not as clearly a D as in, say, "shouldn't", but it is there, almost as the nasal equivalent of a glottal stop (is there a word for that?) I blethered: >> words of the title of "I got the hots for you"; "taught" I rhyme with the >> fourth word of the title of "Where are the prawns?" well, actually I simply use the same vowel sound. Otherwise it would sound like "Taughns" >Gaskin also doesn't want to give the impression that contractions hurt, so >she calls them "rushes." Don't get me started on this. the traditional name for contractions, as any watcher of Highlander shud kno (but probably doesn't) is the quickening. >Hmmm...I recognize all of these as being common, more or less, in rural >parts around here...except that (guh-RAJ) is the typical American >pronunciation, as opposed to the British (GAIR-idge - rhymes w/marriage - >consult your Clash discography), and I think most Americans pronounce >moustache w/the accent on the first syllable rather than the second. In the UK (and in NZ, too), "garridge" (as in the Clash) is most common, and "guh-RAAJ" is seen as being a posh affectation. >How about some favorite words, not just for the good bits, but in general. >Words we love. I dont think we've done that for awhile and Nat would find it >sweet. In the lackadaisical crepuscular luminance of an autumnal gloaming, Melissa transcribed the boustrophedon of her arcane incunabula into a vellum portfolio. She paused to study the numerous smew, their pinions translucently catching the glistening ebb of the sun's rays, shimmering like a visual melisma against the deep topaz of the welkin. There's an instrumental I've heard with a title that is surely the most German-sounding of words - Aufgewacht. >Welsh is a cool language. Doing some research into my family, I've >discovered that some of my ancestors were supposedly of Welsh extraction. >Hope it's true. Their last name was "Veach" or "Veatch"... does that track? sounds possible, or Cornish or Manx. Or maybe even Breton. It's certainly got that Brythonic sound. Coincidentally, there's sport on TV in the background as I type this. The commentator's name? Tony Veitch. 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, 2 Aug 2002 19:46:02 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: summer fluff On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 03:56 PM, melissa wrote: > oh yes for any one that saw lilo and stitch? did they try to do pidgin > english for the movie? it may determine whether or not i go see that > one. No pidgin english, actually some native Hawaiian. I've read that people in Hawaii are totally pleased with the film, especially with the authentic Hula and surfing. - - Steve __________ Embarrassing but true: Just one month ago the James A. Baker III Institute presented Alan Greenspan with its Enron Prize. I'm not suggesting any impropriety; it was just another indication of how deeply the failed energy company was enmeshed with our ruling elite. - Paul Krugman, 12/14/01 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:10:47 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: Soft Boys anywhere except SF Max: > I have no clue, I don't remember the exact length of the tour but I don't > think it's long at all. I also recall hearing that three nights are to be > played in NYC. I recall hearing this also, was it in Herbie/Mike's review of the Toronto show? IIRC the announced schedule was 10/21 through 11/6 or something close to that. Thus there's only two weekends here in the States, and it's probably a lock that at least one - the first - would be in the NYC area. Following previous tour paths might suggest Atlanta (and Carrboro?), then NYC area on the weekend of 10/26...then a routing gig (Detroit?) to Chicago midweek, then on (via Denver?) to Seattle (RH confirmed a Seattle show in Calgary, no?) and down to San Francisco for the 11/1 show...that leaves LA for the second weekend 11/2, and time for a Largo gig afterwards (or perhaps Texas too?). That's major market/airport-based touring for you. Which is kind of a bummer, 'cause I was hoping for a little more stretched out tour that I could come out East for and follow back home to Chicago. Maybe next time. Michael "of course, your mileage may vary" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:19:57 -0400 From: R Edward Poole Subject: Re: Soft Boys anywhere except SF On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 09:10 PM, Michael Wells wrote: > That's major market/airport-based touring for you. well, wait. we may not be a major market in a sheer number sense, but dc does have a major airport. 3 actually. (well, we have 3 to the same extent that we have a baseball team). and robyn used to live here. and he skipped us this last solo tour. and, for god's sake, chris gross & bayardo & mel & dave & me & etc live here, so the soft boys are obligated to play here. i mean, right? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:37:05 -0400 From: R Edward Poole Subject: Re: summer fluff On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 04:56 PM, melissa wrote: > already did see reign of fire and thought that ed did a wonderful > review. my boyfriend's favorite part was after matthew mcconaghey > appears and i wondered aloud if we'd ever get to see the two men fight > or maybe make out. it was all those tension filled close ups of those > two. (aww, shucks). damn, that was going to be my fluff film recommendation. my wife, exiting the theatre after RoF: "I kept waiting for them to grab each other around the back of the neck & start mashing." so i guess it's not just you. fluff book: carl hiassen, 'sick puppy.' light as a feather, solidly amusing (not hilarious) whodunit about down-&-out obituary writer investigating the suspicious death of an ex-punk rocker. marginally less fluffy novel: christopher buckley, 'little green men.' politics, conspiracy theories, aliens. not as good as 'thank you for smoking,' which i would suggest instead, except its satire is too good and too funny to call it 'fluff.' (if you haven't read it, it is about the travails of a lobbyist for Big Tobacco. and one of the funniest books i've ever read, w/ a satirical bite that is particularly sharp -- even though much of it is only lightly exaggerated.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 20:36:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: Soft Boys anywhere except SF - --- Michael Wells wrote: > Max: > > I have no clue, I don't remember the exact length > of the tour but I don't > > think it's long at all. I also recall hearing > that three nights are to be > > played in NYC. > > I recall hearing this also, was it in Herbie/Mike's > review of the Toronto > show? It was the toronto show the announcer preshow announced on stage that the SB would perform for 3 nights in NYC. Herbie np -> Elevation U2 ===== - --------------------------------------------- View my Websight & CDR Trade page at: http://midy.topcities.com/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:07:10 -0600 From: "Sean Kearney" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V11 #250 When I was in Calgary, I asked Robyn if he was planning to play Denver any time in the near future. He said that he didn't think so. Thankfully for me, I still have enough frequent flier miles to hit at least one US show. - - Sean >Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:25:36 -0700 >From: glen uber >Subject: Re: Soft Boys in SF >I should have concluded this by asking, does anyone know if they're going >to be playing in or around Denver, Boise, Cheyenne or Vegas anytime >during the two weeks prior to the SF show? >I'm the boss...need the info. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 15:57:47 +0000 From: "Silver Leaf" Subject: Brought to you by the letter L On the Ghostship front, or rather bow: Ghost Ship (2002) Synopsis:In a remote region of the Bering Sea, a salvage crew discovers the eerie remains of a grand passenger liner lost for more than 40 years. As they attempt to recover the ship, the crew learns about its horrific last days and finds themselves fighting for their lives as mysterious things begin to happen. Genre(s):Adventure boat Horror mystery sea supernatural Somehow Ive always assumed Robyn's ghostship had sails. Mine does;-) Look for Ghostship at http://www.filmposter.net/g.html for two great posters from "Ghostships of the Blind Dead." If ghostships are topical will that make it easier or harder to sell my novel? - ------------------ Rex on words: >Pants. How thats became one of the funniest words in the language I don't know. But it is, and its due partially to the sound. >Happenstance. Also hap. Rex on LOTR and its appendages: >probably contributed to me being undaunted by-- indeed attracted to-- > >involved, massive books in later years. There's nothing wrong with that! Right. It suggested that scholarly stuff could be fun, that lurking behind dry history and lingusitics etc are these great stories. That scholarly stuff was just condensed and dried info. Add water(imagination and love) and watch it come alive. The whole idea of combining wild imaginings with scholarly rigor is a stimulating and fertile combination of opposites. Left and right brain. Tolkein wasn't the first to do that thou, I dont think. Was Poe? He didn't have appendices that I remember but he was very analytical and scientific at times. - ---------------- >Michael "doesn't a nap sound good right about now?" Wells. When youre married with kids nap is a sweet word. "Jimmy, dad and I are going to take a nap now. We're very tired so its important that you don't disturb us. Therefore we're going to tie you to the bedpost in the TV room and lock the door on you. It will only be for awhile so you don't mind too much, right? Here's a box of cookies to gorge on while we're, oophs I mean, you're, at it. And you want the TV on -really- loud, dont you? Cause you know how sometimes mommy or daddy "talk" or "yell" in their sleep and say really funny things." 5 years later "Jimmy, dad and me are going to take a nap now. Will you run an errand for us? Could you go up to Acme Errand Store and pick us up some paper clips? Yes, I know its 2 miles away and your bikes got a flat, but you wouldnt mind walking will you? We really need those paper clips, its -very- important. And you get to keep the 19 dollars in change and spend it on whatever you want. It would be a big help to us and you can finially get that tatoo you've always wanted." But doobage? I am unfamiliar with that term. - --------- Uber: you beat me to "waft" - ---------- Loft, Lost, Lust, Luft, Love, Leman, Beloved Last, Latter, Lass, Alas, Atlantic/tis, Hellas Lyre Lilly, Lolly Lava, Larva, Lattice Laura, Laurel, Oral, Oracle, Oriel Pelucid, Luster, Lumen, Lantern Lick, Lap, Lave Lavish, Laze Lunge Lair, Laird, Lord Droll Lumber room, Lathe Lyn at the end of a place name Land's End Angel names ending in el Told you I liked the L sound:-) Would also like to invent the word veluminous--meaning a velvety, luminious darkness. - ----------- Are the tour dates actually posted anywhere yet? Kay Carpe rutrum _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 16:30:47 +0000 From: "Silver Leaf" Subject: L addendum Acle! I forgot Loss, Lost, Loch, Robin of Lockley, Lothe, and of course, Loth Lorien Kay Carpe rutrum _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 13:58:51 -0400 From: "Mike Runion" Subject: Chinese Dead Live Hey all, Just a quick bit of egotistical self-promotion. I played a local Jerry Garcia tribute event, Jerry Daze 2002, here a few months back. Someone video'd the show and there's a Windows Media File up at the URL below with my bare-bones version of "Chinese Bones" (which absolutely no one knew). Hope you enjoy... Mike Runion - ----- Original Message ----- From: Sam Malesky To: Mike Runion Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 1:51 AM Subject: you're halfway on the net I uploaded some content to the net.. unfortunately, only the sound made it. not sure why as of yet. it's another test piece. let me know how it plays on your computer. http://darkstarproductions.tripod.com/bones.wmv thanks.. any problems or anything I can do, let me know. - -Sam ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 14:42:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: words "IMAX" is a moderately cool word. Is it an acronym? Would its plural be a Latinate "Imaces"? Or "Imactes" perhaps? Anyway, Gene, I think, recommended the 3D Imax movie Space Station to Ken. I've seen it and it *is* really cool, but be warned: the narrator is Tom Cruise! I have this mental image of the producer screaming at his/her assistant: "You fool! I said get a famous SCIENTIST, not a SCIENTOLOGIST!" Other fun words: ocelot rusticate ductile palpitate palliative torpid apposite doom fungible frangible ineluctable sincere (mainly for its derivation) putrescent multifarious salacious and, of course, moose - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:04:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "drew" Subject: penceles I think we've pretty much covered the topic of "taught" and "tot" (and "taut"), haven't we? I've tried it again and if I say them slowly and think carefully about whether there's a difference I can hear one, and if I say them quickly the way I would in conversation the difference is negligible. In any event, "twat" is more like "taught" to most Americans than it is like "hat," which was all I (thought I) was saying. Regarding the new Flaming Lips album: it's pleasant, but I agree with Natalie that it's not a 10 out of 10. As she said, that's mostly due to a dearth of solid songs than anything actively bad. It's good driving music if you want to talk over it. I would say that I'd rather sit through just about any Disney movie than have a pencil shoved up my ass, unless perhaps I was well-prepared for the pencil and the shover was, for example, Cuba Gooding Jr. Also assuming the pencil is unsharpened. The plural of "penis" is just "penises," I'm afraid. Unless you're one of those pedantic prescriptive types, which it seems most of the list is. Drew ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #251 ********************************