From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #294 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, September 20 2002 Volume 11 : Number 294 Today's Subjects: ----------------- filing myself [drew ] Re: filing myself [Aaron Mandel ] RE: filing myself ["Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" ] Re: filing myself ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Ugly girls girls girls ["Rex.Broome" ] File under easy listening [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: filing myself [Tom Clark ] RE: filing myself ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: defiling myself [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: filing myself ["Terrence Marks" ] Subject: RE: Go file yourself ["Marc Holden" ] RE: filing myself ["matt sewell" ] Re: filing myself [Stewart Russell ] RE: filing myself ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Stewart, have you seen this? [Stewart Russell ] Re: Ugly girls girls girls [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] RE: filing myself to live ["Brian Huddell" ] Soft Boys '79 ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Stewart, have you seen this? [bayard ] Re: Stewart, have you seen this? [Stewart Russell ] RE: filing myself to live [gSs ] Speaka da English English? ["Golden Hind" ] Re: filing myself [Tom Clark ] Re: Speaka da English English? [Stewart Russell ] Re: Geek, the guy [Stewart Russell ] Re: Stewart, have you seen this? [Eleanore Adams ] Re: filing myself [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Geek, the guy [Sebastian Hagedorn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:32:48 -0700 From: drew Subject: filing myself >From: "Rex.Broome" >Mildly diverting exercise: if you made a solo album and filed it with your >own music collection, who would be filed on either side of it >(alphabetically)? I would be between Benjamin Britten and James Brown. >Right where I belong. That's a fun game. Unless I've forgotten someone, I guess I would be the meat in a Sigur Ros / Simon & Garfunkel sandwich. Not the reference points I would have chosen, but not bad. >From: Stewart Russell > >Rex.Broome wrote: > > > > Mildly diverting exercise: if you made a solo album and filed it with your > > own music collection, who would be filed on either side of it > > (alphabetically)? > >between lots of people called Russell that I've never heard of. If you've never heard of them, what are they doing in your music collection? Drew ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:37:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: filing myself > >Mildly diverting exercise: if you made a solo album and filed it with your > >own music collection, who would be filed on either side of it > >(alphabetically)? I would be between Benjamin Britten and James Brown. > >Right where I belong. Between Malkmus and Manic Street Preachers. Yuck. Well, being wedged in next to Stephen Malkmus sounds fine, but the album wasn't so good. The mp3 of "Mr. Kennedy" isn't even as good as the song was live... if I thought Matador were masters of marketing I would assume the mp3 is the best thing on the album and be prepared for disappointment, but who knows how they picked it. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:37:52 -0700 From: "Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" Subject: RE: filing myself >Mildly diverting exercise: if you made a solo album and filed it with your >own music collection, who would be filed on either side of it >(alphabetically)? I would be between Benjamin Britten and James Brown. >Right where I belong. I'd be between James Brown and Built To Spill. Works for me. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:40:57 -0500 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: filing myself > From: "Rex.Broome" > > Mildly diverting exercise: if you made a solo album and filed it with your > own music collection, who would be filed on either side of it > (alphabetically)? I would be between Benjamin Britten and James Brown. > Right where I belong. Between (Mary) Wells and (Steven) Wells, if that's a narrow enough band. Drew: > If you've never heard of them, what are they doing in your music collection? My guess is that Stewart will plead the web as his exo-brain, as I will. Left to my own devices, I probably would have said between Weezer and Wilco (gesundheit). Michael "one of the many" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:50:20 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: filing myself >>if you made a solo album and filed it with your >>own music collection, who would be filed on either side of it >>(alphabetically)? This Mortal Coil and Tin Machine. Sadly, Jason Bob Thornton never bought Billy Bob Thornton's solo album. Or anything by Big Mama.s - --Jason Recent concerts: Morrissey/Jumbo/Jagueres, Now It's Overhead/Azure Ray/Her Space Holiday, and New Bethel/The Late BP Helium (ex-Elf Power)/The Visitations (ex-Fable Factory). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:38:42 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Ugly girls girls girls Michael: >>Sorry, but I am booked by classical cd's Good on ya for filing the classical with the pop. ________ James: >>Driving Miss Daisy, Raising Arizona, Leaving Las Vegas, Saving Private Ryan, >>Wheeling West Virginia... You just put that last one in there to mess with me, right? If it's not an actual film, why have you even HEARD of Wheeling? First band to mess with punctuation: I think fIREHOSE predates aHouse in this field. I believe they were playing on their previous identity as the Minutemen, who often, but I don't think always, spelled their name "minutemen". One could argue earlier bands on the basis of how their name was printed on any given record, but I'm referring to doing it on every cover, spine, and piece of press. Otherwise we'd have to make a distinction between Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians and Robyn Hitchcock 'n' the Egyptians. Also, I think that older bands can be safely "grandfathered" out of these requirements, so we can leave the Soft Boys, the Dead Boys, Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Game Theory and the New Christy Minstrels alone. _________ Jeff D (for real this time): >>bands like Motley Crue, who use the umlaut to make themselves seem more >>badass even thought they looked like ugly girls. You mean they *weren't* ugly girls? Just kidding, but I do recall the posters around my hometown for a show by Poison back before they became inexplicably huge. Me and my friends were quite sure it was an all-girl band (the name sounded feminine, too, as in Pretty Poison/Poison Ivy), but we just couldn't figure out why none of them were attractive. Yes, we were 15, and yes, we lived in West Virginia, and oh, yes, it was the '80's, but seriously, the posters had THIS picture on them: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Abl5e8qptbtv4 And their most ardent fans were the most virulent homophobes. Interesting stuff. Reminds me of contemplating suicide. Wee hoo. Need to get that prescription refilled. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:42:46 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: File under easy listening >I've >always wondered if the impetus behind the otherwise-inscrutable name >"Buffalo Tom" was to get their records in the bin next to Buffalo >Springfield. I've always though something similar. The main writer from 60s band the Springfields was Tom Springfield. So perhaps it's a sort of Springfield revival. >Mildly diverting exercise: if you made a solo album and filed it with your >own music collection, who would be filed on either side of it >(alphabetically)? I would be between Benjamin Britten and James Brown. >Right where I belong. mine's between Neil Diamond and Dimmer. Which probably also describes my music. >Sorry, it's already taken for my solo album. Which, if I don't buy some >new CDs by appropriate artists, will be shelved in my collection between >Gren and Guns 'n Roses, and boy am I chastened by that. Maybe I could get >rid of the GnR, then at least I'd be between Gren and Haujobb. At least you don't own anything by Henry Gross. >I've often thought that, if I somehow came into big money, I might endow a >chair at one of my alma maters (almae matres?). Then some poor slob would >be stuck being the Gross Professor of History. Heh. When I worked at the Psychology Department here at Otago U a memo went around the department telling us that rather than having names descriptive of the streets on which the buildings are placed (Leith 3, 99 Union, etc), they were henceforth to be named after famous psychologists who worked in the fields taught in those buildings. Each building should have a poll of its lecturers and postgrads to find an appropriate name for the building. Well, the two lecturers and three postgrads who shared 99 Union with me at that time all thought it was a stupid idea, and decided that, in protest, we should name the building as appropriately as possible - after psychophysicist E.G. Boring. For some reason, "The Boring Laboratory Building" was never accepted, and the building is still known as 99 Union. 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: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:34:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: filing myself > From: "Rex.Broome" > > Mildly diverting exercise: if you made a solo album and filed it with your > own music collection, who would be filed on either side of it > (alphabetically)? I would be between Benjamin Britten and James Brown. > Right where I belong. Between Alex Chilton and The Clash, which is probably what the music would be like. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:24:48 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: filing myself Between Robyn Hitchcock and Husker Du. - - Brian "what do I win?" Huddell ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:20:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: defiling myself by nom de feg: The Dukes of Stratosphear and Bob Dylan by nom de reality: Aimee Mann and Bob Marley ===== "If we don't allow journalists, politicians, and every two-bit Joe Schmo with a cause to grandstand by using 9-11 as a lame rhetorical device, then the terrorists have already won." -- "Shredder" "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 . New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:36:43 -0400 From: "Terrence Marks" Subject: RE: filing myself > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org]On > Behalf Of Tom Clark > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:34 PM > To: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Subject: Re: filing myself > Hmm...counting compilations, I'd be between Markley - A Group and Mijal & White, which is strangely appropriate. However, the first shares a disc with A Child's Guide to Good and Evil, and the second is somewhere on Turds on a Bum Ride. If I didn't break things apart, I'd be between Mandrake Memorial and The Monkees. The first actually fits my music a bit better; in between the two extremes of psych-pop.... Wishing he could find a place around here that carried Minekawa, Takako.... Terrence Marks ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:41:47 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Subject: RE: Go file yourself >Mildly diverting exercise: if you made a solo album and filed it with your >own music collection, who would be filed on either side of it >(alphabetically)? I would be between Benjamin Britten and James Brown. >Right where I belong. between Robyn Hitchcock and Buddy Holly Marc Holden btw has anyone noticed that the new Sleater-Kinney album (well, the bonus EP) and Nextdoorland both have songs called "Lions & Tigers"? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:00:46 +0100 From: "matt sewell" Subject: RE: filing myself Is this the geekiest thread ever on Fegmaniax? Perhaps someone would like to compile a list of the top ten...? ;0) So who files their albums alphabetically? I can't even do it mentally, so my album (if it existed) or my EP (that may exist fairly soon) would go between Bert Jansch and Charles Mingus, not for any other reason than that that's the only place on the rack where there's room! Cheers Matt >From: "Terrence Marks" >Reply-To: "Terrence Marks" >To: >Subject: RE: filing myself >Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:36:43 -0400 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org]On > > Behalf Of Tom Clark > > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:34 PM > > To: fegmaniax@smoe.org > > Subject: Re: filing myself > > > >Hmm...counting compilations, I'd be between Markley - A Group and Mijal & >White, which is strangely appropriate. However, the first shares a disc >with A Child's Guide to Good and Evil, and the second is somewhere on Turds >on a Bum Ride. If I didn't break things apart, I'd be between Mandrake >Memorial and The Monkees. > >The first actually fits my music a bit better; in between the two extremes >of psych-pop.... > >Wishing he could find a place around here that carried Minekawa, Takako.... >Terrence Marks - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:46:18 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: filing myself Mike Wells wrote: > > My guess is that Stewart will plead the web as his exo-brain, as I will. yeah, mea culpa. I guess I'd be somewhere between Amy Rigby and Fred Schneider, then. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:46:59 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: filing myself >>if you made a solo album and filed it with your >>own music collection, who would be filed on either side of it >>(alphabetically)? Jason wrote: >This Mortal Coil and Tin Machine. Sadly, Jason Bob Thornton never bought >Billy Bob Thornton's solo album. Or anything by Big Mama.s Jason, no Throwing Muses in you collection? Michael ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:52:48 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Stewart, have you seen this? bayard wrote: > > ... what IS the point of having English and American dictionaries, > Stewart? 'cos color, woolen and tire (noun) are just as wrong in UK english as colour, woollen and tyre are in US english. Then of course there's Canadian colour, but tire ... > Not to mention Collegiate/Uniersity ones... that's more to do with size; a Collegiate is usually the largest single-volume dictionary a publisher produces. Dunno if it was originally meant to denote required vocabulary. Knowing Webster and his nefarious little plans for the language, it probably was. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:56:31 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Ugly girls girls girls Michael: >>Sorry, but I am booked by classical cd's Rex wrote: >Good on ya for filing the classical with the pop. I am not sure that the Shrevie character from the movie Diner would approve though. I would have to have the jazz seperated from the r&b as well as classical seperate from the rock and roll. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:12:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Subject: RE: Go file yourself > >Mildly diverting exercise: if you made a solo album and filed it with your > >own music collection, who would be filed on either side of it? Robert Nix No Man/No Man Is Roger Miller - ---- Red Norvo Not From There Nothing Painted Blue - --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 ::Watson! Something's afoot...and it's on the end of my leg:: __Hemlock Stones__ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:11:39 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: filing myself to live hey splangies, talk about some good luck. on july 4th at a friend's party during a conversation about my band, someone asked if I would like to have a 1974 Hammond Organ. Knowing very little about organs, but enough to know that Hammond probably did not make a bad organ in 1974 I said yes. It turned out to be the Hammond Concorde. Wowowowowowow. 400 lbs. later, it was in my studio. It has an internal three way speaker system with a rotaing 6x9. last weekend a friend calls and says he knows where to get a 1962 Hammond L-111 for near nothing. This thing has hand rubbed mahogany, two tube amps and two 15inch speakers. Except for the action on a single key it is perfect. It is one like the Doors used and I believe the Beatles used one on let it be. So I now have two vintage hammond organs in the studio. infuckingcredible. anyway, the point of this whole thing was that when I got to the man's house in Sherman, Tx., to load the L-111, I was overwhelmed by the largest private CD collection I had ever seen. His count in the main room is more than 8700, plus a few thousand in other parts of the house, with a total exceeding 11000. he organizes them alphabetically by genre. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:21:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Ugly girls girls girls On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Rex.Broome wrote: > Michael: > >>Sorry, but I am booked by classical cd's > > Good on ya for filing the classical with the pop. But how? By composer? Single-artist comps? Unless you want an even geekier thread, don't ask me how I file my classical CDs... > First band to mess with punctuation: I think fIREHOSE predates aHouse in > this field. I believe they were playing on their previous identity as the > Minutemen, who often, but I don't think always, spelled their name > "minutemen". I think that was just design. One shouldn't confuse design - in which someone might decide lower-case letters look better - with typography. Which is, in fact, one reason I dislike bands that mess with capitalization etc. and insist on it in every usage: they're confusing graphic design with typography. Also, lower-case at the beginnings of sentences just looks really stupid. - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey, having strong opinions about things that do not matter J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::Solipsism is its own reward:: __Crow T. Robot__ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:50:36 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: filing myself to live gSs: > on july 4th at a friend's party during a > conversation about my band, someone asked if I would like to > have a 1974 > Hammond Organ. .... > last weekend a friend calls and says he knows where to get a > 1962 Hammond > L-111 for near nothing. I have the wrong friends. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:31:12 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Soft Boys '79 I got the Cans of Bees tour flyer in the mail yesterday (suitable for framing). It has twenty dates listed from April to June 1979 listed. Here they are: April 21st Bath Brillig Arts Centre 24th London West Hampstead Moonlight Club 27th Norwich University of East Anglia 28th Birmingham Bournebrook Hotel May 1st Canterbury College of Art 5th Middlesborough Rock Garden 6th Newcastle Polytechnic 8th Huddersfield Polytechnic 9th Reading University 10th Portsmouth Polytechnic 12th Coventry, Warwick University 15th Bournemouth Maison Royale Two 16th Plymouth Woods 17th Exeter Routes 25th Nottingham Sandpiper June 5th Birmingham Barbarella's 7th High Wycombe Nags Head 9th Bristol Polytechnic 13th Newport Stowaways 15th Bradford University I don't know if any of these scheduled dates were cancelled, but this is what they had planned. I don't have time at the moment to snap a picture of it, but maybe later. I still need coffee. Hasta luego, Marc I don't pretend to have all the answers. I don't pretend to even know what the questions are. Hey, where am I? Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:11:07 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: Re: Stewart, have you seen this? On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Stewart Russell wrote: > bayard wrote: > > > > ... what IS the point of having English and American dictionaries, > > Stewart? > > 'cos color, woolen and tire (noun) are just as wrong in UK english as > colour, woollen and tyre are in US english. Then of course there's > Canadian colour, but tire ... now i feel dumb. so is it only about spelling? all the same weird slang terms show up in both? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:20:45 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Stewart, have you seen this? bayard wrote: > > now i feel dumb. no, it's okay -- living where you do, you're probably very unlikely to need to read or write anything but US English. We understand you ;-) > so is it only about spelling? usage, too; f'rinstance, the uses of "sorry" and "excuse me" are completely reversed between (particularly) Scottish and Midwestern US usage. > all the same weird slang terms show up in both? that depends on the editorial decision on coverage. It's a difficult decision to make. If you have a "World English" dictionary, how do you mark regional spellings such that a schoolkid won't get marked wrong for using it in their homework? How far do you go with "World English"; is Tok Pisin (the English-based pidgin of Papua New Guinea, where possessives like "mine" become "bilong mi") English? Is Scots an English dialect? Discuss. Bloomsbury/Microsoft's Encarta World English Dictionary was a good idea, but got panned in the UK because of its poor coverage of general subject matters, tendency to favour US spellings, and the fact it had pictures, which UK dictionaries never have above about age 7. Oh, and the fact that the US and UK editions were different. Dictionary purists will hate anything you try to do differently. It's interesting to note that the major monolingual dictionaries of the world were founded by people with the strong belief that *their* language is the best in the world ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:14:14 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: RE: filing myself At 08:46 AM 9/20/2002 -0400, Bachman, Michael wrote: >Jason, no Throwing Muses in you collection? Oh. Not on CD - only on cassette, I believe. I didn't think to cross-reference. I saw Throwing Muses live once, but I can't remember right now exactly whom they were opening for. Could it have been 10,000 Maniacs? - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:19:47 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: RE: filing myself to live On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Brian Huddell wrote: > 1962 Hammond L-111 for near nothing. sorry(suthurn mid us def.), it is a L-101. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:06:50 +0000 From: "Golden Hind" Subject: Speaka da English English? Language geek question of the day? Are there any stats or any other evidence that suggests that writers of the major different forms of English -- Im guessing you can call them -- English English, Scottish English, Irish English(where does one stop with these--Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Mann?) American English, Canadian English, South-African English, Indian English?, Australian English and New Zealand English -- are becoming more aware of the different forms, and that these forms are now influencing each other more, because of the Net? Also, is it my memory going -- or is there no one who lives in Ireland on this list? If so, that seems a bit odd(considering our geographical spread,) dosnt it? Kay _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:09:40 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: filing myself on 9/20/02 2:00 AM, matt sewell at matt_sewell@hotmail.com wrote: > Is this the geekiest thread ever on Fegmaniax? Perhaps someone would like > to compile a list of the top ten...? ;0) > I think we had one a few years ago about how people file their CD's. Oh, wait... > So who files their albums alphabetically? I can't even do it mentally, so > my album (if it existed) or my EP (that may exist fairly soon) would go > between Bert Jansch and Charles Mingus, not for any other reason than > that that's the only place on the rack where there's room! I got a Boltz 600 CD rack recently and just threw everything on it, at least trying to keep releases by the same artist in chronologic order. I had to surf iTunes to figure where my solo release would go. - -tc, but I still can't find the case for "Kid A!" p.s. Punctuation geeks - is the above correct? I remember learning that you always put the punctuation inside the quotes, but it just doesn't look right sometimes. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:19:38 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Speaka da English English? Golden Hind wrote: > > Are there any stats or any other evidence that suggests that writers of > the major different forms of English -- ... > -- are becoming more aware of the > different forms, and that these forms are now influencing each other > more, because of the Net? I suspect that, if there is any evidence, there's just as much to suggest that we're all using generic idioms now. In speech, television has made us all Californians; listen to Frank & Moon's "Valley Girl" now, and it only sounds very slightly contrived. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:34:24 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: Geek, the guy > think we had one a few years ago about how people file their CD's. Alphabetically, by group or name of the artist. Here is the geek part, I also do it by original release date of the recording. So BSDR goes first on the shelf in my Robyn section, then GD, then, well you get the picture. Live boots go after studio releases. I hope I am not the only one who does this! Michael ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:41:13 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Geek, the guy Bachman, Michael wrote: > > Alphabetically randomly; wherever there's space on the shelf.All my E6 CDs tend to clump together, though. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:14:50 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: Stewart, have you seen this? Bill Bryson has a new book out on the use of English, with a great introduction on when he was a journalist in England the diff usages of words and grammer. british grammer is different than US grammer. eleanore On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 09:20 AM, Stewart Russell wrote: > bayard wrote: >> now i feel dumb. > > no, it's okay -- living where you do, you're probably very unlikely to > need to read or write anything but US English. We understand you ;-) > >> so is it only about spelling? > > usage, too; f'rinstance, the uses of "sorry" and "excuse me" are > completely reversed between (particularly) Scottish and Midwestern US > usage. > >> all the same weird slang terms show up in both? > > that depends on the editorial decision on coverage. It's a difficult > decision to make. If you have a "World English" dictionary, how do you > mark regional spellings such that a schoolkid won't get marked wrong > for using it in their homework? How far do you go with "World > English"; is Tok Pisin (the English-based pidgin of Papua New Guinea, > where possessives like "mine" become "bilong mi") English? Is Scots an > English dialect? Discuss. > > Bloomsbury/Microsoft's Encarta World English Dictionary was a good > idea, but got panned in the UK because of its poor coverage of general > subject matters, tendency to favour US spellings, and the fact it had > pictures, which UK dictionaries never have above about age 7. Oh, and > the fact that the US and UK editions were different. Dictionary > purists will hate anything you try to do differently. > > It's interesting to note that the major monolingual dictionaries of > the world were founded by people with the strong belief that *their* > language is the best in the world ... > > Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:12:02 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: filing myself - -- Tom Clark is rumored to have mumbled on Donnerstag, 19. September 2002 18:34 Uhr -0700 regarding Re: filing myself: > From: "Rex.Broome" > > Mildly diverting exercise: if you made a solo album and filed it with > your own music collection, who would be filed on either side of it > (alphabetically)? Between the Go-Betweens and Nina Hagen. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:18:07 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Geek, the guy - -- "Bachman, Michael" is rumored to have mumbled on Freitag, 20. September 2002 14:34 Uhr -0400 regarding Geek, the guy: >> think we had one a few years ago about how people file their CD's. > > Alphabetically, by group or name of the artist. Here is the geek part, > I also do it by original release date of the recording. So BSDR goes first > on the shelf in my Robyn section, then GD, then, well you get the picture. > Live boots go after studio releases. I hope I am not the only one who does > this! You're not, I also do it like that - or rather: I try to do it like that. With records it was easy to keep them in order, but with CDs I find that much harder to do. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #294 ********************************