From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #94 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, March 13 2003 Volume 12 : Number 094 Today's Subjects: ----------------- fille molle ["Ghost Surfer" ] the power of the accordion ["Natalie Jane" ] Let's just say they're not un-Feggy ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: the power of the accordion [Jeff Dwarf ] unfortunate last name ["Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" ] but what flag should be flown? [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] just when you though it was safe... [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] reap [hal ] Bettie Serveert ["Maximilian Lang" ] How Amazing... ["FS Thomas" ] Got any Confessor? ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal [Caroline Smith ] thank yous [Sabina Carlson ] new GoBetweens [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal ["Jonathan Fetter" ] Re: just when you though it was safe... [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey <] Re: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal ["Sumiko Keay" Subject: fille molle ???? - ----------------************************************************------------ "There are times when i can't think about the future, when all my days seem so dark and life seems cruel" - Mojave 3 & "Make a moment last forever, gaze across the ocean to the sun" - Unknown !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool emoticons http://messenger.msn.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:44:52 -0800 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: the power of the accordion >- -Rex, who gave up on listing female accordion players when he realized >that >he probably wasn't going to get past Miss Murgatroyd... The band Tennesse Twin, featuring the twin sister of Alison Wolfe from Bratmobile, has a very soulful female accordionist. Laura Carter of Elf Power plays accordion sometimes. I think there's others, too. n. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:55:01 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Let's just say they're not un-Feggy Lyrics spotted on the new Throwing Muses record which would not be conspicuously out of place in a Robyn song: "Like spiders without a victim We're ready for action" ~and~ "Inside that pandora's box was a can of worms You'll milk that shaved head You move like an insect" _______ Rob: >>If you like Hate, then I can't imagine you'd not like The Great Eastern. That sounds like a really loaded, but suitably obscure, political statement. Makes one's head spin, really. ______ Natalie: >>You know what always happens when I take a bathroom break during practice >>my bandmates start playing "I Love Rock and Roll" really loud and then >>immediately stop, almost guiltily, when I return. Is this some weird "male >>musician thing" that I don't understand? Wow, interesting question. Do you really hate the song? When any given member of a band leaves the room, the rest usually start playing the song the absent member hates the most. Ask blatzman how many times he came back from the crapper and had to stop us from playing "Death Valley 69". Otherwise, I dunno what's up with that. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:44:51 -0800 From: Eclipse Subject: re: free minidiscs - Atlanta 4/8/02 would the recipient of these discs be willing to do a vine or trade of some kind? i, too, would like a copy of this show .. whoever you are, you can contact me personally off-list - i also have an (incomplete) list of trades. thanks! Eclipse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eclipse eclipse@tuliphead.com Kindness towards all things is the true religion - Buddha ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:10:08 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: the power of the accordion Natalie Jane wrote: > >- -Rex, who gave up on listing female accordion players when > >he realized that > >he probably wasn't going to get past Miss Murgatroyd... > > The band Tennesse Twin, featuring the twin sister of Alison > Wolfe from > Bratmobile, has a very soulful female accordionist. Laura > Carter of Elf > Power plays accordion sometimes. I think there's others, too. no love for Judy Tenuta? ;) ===== "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies." -- F.M. Cornford "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! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:29:16 -0800 From: "Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" Subject: unfortunate last name http://www.shupirates.com/sports/wbball/bio.asp?PLAYER_ID=3D918=20 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:36:16 -0800 From: "Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" Subject: RE: unfortunate last name Oops that last attempt garbled the link http://www.shupirates.com/sports/wbball/bio.asp?PLAYER_ID=918 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:44:43 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: the healers Sebastian-- >So, nobody has anything to say about Johnny Marr's current band? I like it, but then I liked "Twisted Tenderness" by Electronic (I'm also going to like it because the band I was in in the 80s, which played -- badly -- lots of Smiths covers, was called Boomslang). The vocals sound like guide vocals, so I miss some of the comparatively strong songwriting & vocals (?!) in Electronic. Wonderful layered guitars, the production values do remind me of the Smiths. Pulled back from the "big beat" heavy bass of Electonic some, which is fine. Sort of slightly aggressive ear candy you could dance to. "Down on the Corner" has some accoustic guitar, "You Are the Magic" sounds a bit like T. Rex circa "The Wizard," at least one number has a sort of blues-rock groove. I wonder what it would sound like if he got together with Peter Hook? Ross Taylor "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer." -- Dylan T. Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:06:13 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: but what flag should be flown? James ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:09:18 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: just when you though it was safe... James ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:04:47 -0500 From: hal Subject: reap Experimental filmmaker Stan ("Dog Star Man") Brakhage: http://www.fredcamper.com/Film/BrakhageL.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:34:15 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Bettie Serveert Anyone else going to the March 22 Bettie Seveert show @ Maxwell's? Kathy and I will be there, email me if going, maybe we cann get together. Max http://www.bettieserveert.com/ _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:00:40 -0500 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: How Amazing... ...that the Smart girl was found alive. I can't remember the last time a case with such high press coverage (thinking Levy) ended positively. Absolutely fantastic. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/03/12/smart.kidnapping/index.html - -ferris. Np: Sinead's relatively funky track on Conjure One (debut from Delerium member Rhys Fulber) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:22:14 -0600 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Got any Confessor? Back in 1991, a band out of Raleigh, North Carolina called Confessor released an album called "Condemned" on Earache records, and it redefined everything I thought I knew about heavy metal. And drumming, too -- their drummer, a guy called Stephen Shelton, does things that I still can't get over. I rank "Condemned" as one of the greatest angry, depressed, metal LPs ever made (not that I follow the stuff much anymore). I've heard some recent metal that's kinda interesting -- Nile, Opeth come to mind -- but I'm not much into angry music anymore. Anyway, all I have is the "Condemned" CD, which doesn't sound too good. If you happen to have that album on vinyl, or the EP they released for Earache, or the Earache tribute to Black Sabbath that they participated in, and you're willing to sell it, let me know. Or heck, if you're into any contemporary extreme metal, throw in your two cents. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:58:11 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal (from today's Toronto Star) MONTREAL (CP) - A painting showing the World Trade Center towers protruding from U.S. President George W. Bush's trousers was torn down and later restored at an art festival today at Concordia University. The painting was defaced and torn down by irate students before being restored later today. The painting depicts Bush wearing a cowboy hat, with the twin towers extending from his unzipped pants. Concordia student Ari Daniel called the painting a disgrace to the university on Wednesday. Daniel said it made light of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 and destroyed the New York City office towers. "They're basically laughing at all the people who died, and they're saying it's okay," said Daniel. Artist Allison Moore denied she was trivializing the Sept. 11 deaths, but acknowledged she was excited by all the discussion her painting created. "That give and take, and that exchange of opinions, is very important," said Moore. "I couldn't ask for anything better." Moore said she was disappointed her work was defaced, but said the vandalism was part of the dialogue her piece was intended to generate. Concordia has become a major flash point for debates and skirmishes over international issues in the last 18 months. Pro-Palestinian protesters forced the cancellation of a scheduled speech last September by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Concordia's downtown campus. Windows were smashed and several people were arrested after the demonstrators clashed with riot police. Emily Pearlman, organizer of this week's art festival, said the controversial painting of Bush has sparked a political debate at Concordia. "People have now taken it to a different level in terms of yelling and screaming about different events that aren't necessarily related to the piece," said Pearlman. The painting is scheduled to remain on display at Concordia until Friday. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:12:42 -0500 From: rosso@videotron.ca Subject: Re: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal On 12 Mar 2003 at 21:58, Caroline Smith wrote: > (from today's Toronto Star) > > MONTREAL (CP) - A painting showing the World Trade Center towers > protruding from U.S. President George W. Bush's trousers was torn down > and later restored at an art festival today at Concordia University. We'll explain that when you explain "freedom fries". ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:48:12 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: not so fast - Phil's lawyer hits back >From: Michael R Godwin > >On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Maximilian Lang wrote: > > http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-03-11-spector_x.htm > >Today's rebuttal of the contradiction: >http://www.teletext.com/news/story.asp?intArticleID=54954&intarticlenumber=13&intRegionID=19&intSubsectionID=1&From=I&indent=2 I am fairly certain that in many states the use of Mr. Shapiro's services as council are considered to be a admission of guilt. Max _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:04:26 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: How Amazing... On Wed, Mar 12, 2003, FS Thomas wrote: > ...that the Smart girl was found alive. > > I can't remember the last time a case with such high press coverage > (thinking Levy) ended positively. > > Absolutely fantastic. > > http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/03/12/smart.kidnapping/index.html That IS awesome. Let's just hope that she's not fucked for life. > Np: Sinead's relatively funky track on Conjure One (debut from Delerium > member Rhys Fulber) Her voice on Haunted with Shane MacGowan through Etymotic ER-4's is pure bliss. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:37:13 -0500 From: Sabina Carlson Subject: thank yous to everyone who helped me out on the industrial revolution thing: THANK YOU! :-) .Haha, now i have some very important stuff that no one else in my class has ever heard about before because the book decided to leave it out. thanks especially to Matthew Seligman (i actually directly quoted you in my speech thing! hope you don't mind?) i am giving the presentation tomorrow so we'll see how it goes. thanks again!!!!!!!! and it's only a poisonous plant, sabina sheena ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:10:02 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: new GoBetweens Well, I've just had a chance to listen to "Bright yellow bright orange", and to be honest, for the most part I wasn't overly taken with it, although it does seem to be growing on me with repeated listenings. Then again, I'm probably not your typical GoBetweens fan, in that what you might consider middle-period GoBewteens is my favourite period of the band's work, and of the solo and side projects, I like Robert Forster's covers album and Grant's work on the two Jack Frost better than anything other than the best GoBetweens as a group. Annoyingly, though, the track I seem to think is best off BYBO is one which is irritating to me because it's so like another song I really like. As their Aussies (and are therefore likely to have heard JPSE), it's probably not stretching possibilities too much to suggess that "Something for myself" rips off Jean Paul Sartre Experience's "Own two feet". Whether they are or not, it's certainly too close to it in sound for me. 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, 13 Mar 2003 08:06:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal > We'll explain that when you explain "freedom fries". > I would think the "correct" term should be "free fries" since "french" is an adjective and "freedom" is a noun. I have a problem asking for "freedom fries" at a restaurant, but not with "I would like some free fries." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:06:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal > We'll explain that when you explain "freedom fries". > I would think the "correct" term should be "free fries" since "french" is an adjective and "freedom" is a noun. I have a problem asking for "freedom fries" at a restaurant, but not with "I would like some free fries." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:07:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal > We'll explain that when you explain "freedom fries". > I would think the "correct" term should be "free fries" since "french" is an adjective and "freedom" is a noun. I have a problem asking for "freedom fries" at a restaurant, but not with "I would like some free fries." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:14:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal ...and by extension the French should be called the "Free," and France becomes "Freedom" or "Freedonia." Jon, who was actually asked yesterday if he meant "freedom fries" while placing an order On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:06:40 -0500 (EST), "Jonathan Fetter" wrote : > > We'll explain that when you explain "freedom fries". > > > I would think the "correct" term should be "free fries" > since "french" is an adjective and "freedom" is a noun. I have a > problem asking for "freedom fries" at a restaurant, but not with "I > would like some free fries." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:53:33 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal Quoting Jonathan Fetter : > ...and by extension the French should be called the "Free," and France > becomes "Freedom" or "Freedonia." > > Jon, who was actually asked yesterday if he meant "freedom fries" > while placing an order Are you serious? I thought this was some sort of joke - do you mean there are actual humans using the phrase "freedom fries" in lieu of "french fries"?!? Damn - I wish someone would say that to me just so I could laugh in their face. > > > We'll explain that when you explain "freedom fries". > > > > > I would think the "correct" term should be "free fries" > > since "french" is an adjective and "freedom" is a noun. I have a > > problem asking for "freedom fries" at a restaurant, but not with "I > > would like some free fries." > ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: When the only tool you have is an interociter, you tend to treat :: everything as if it were a fourth-order nanodimensional sub-quantum :: temporo-spatial anomaly. :: --Crow T. Maslow ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:51:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: just when you though it was safe... On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, James Dignan wrote: > I can't see "Whimper" anywhere... - - MRG PS What's with this aliens craze? They don't exist, they just help with the plotline in "War of the Worlds", "20 million miles from earth" etc etc. Is it normal for US politicians to believe in them? PPS Oh all right, I admit I'm a member of the same party as Lembit Opik: ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:11:23 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: just when you though it was safe... Quoting Michael R Godwin : > PS What's with this aliens craze? They don't exist, they just help with > the plotline in "War of the Worlds", "20 million miles from earth" etc > etc. Is it normal for US politicians to believe in them? I'm not sure it's legitimate to use the words "US politicians" and "normal" in the same sentence, but... As a British person, you may not be as familiar with US political process as some. The first step in becoming a US politician is to be fabulously wealthy, but too uncharismatic to be a movie star and too awkward to be an athlete. After carefully ascertaining, to several decimal places, exactly what the lowest common denominator is (the best politicians know this instinctively), the politician must ruthlessly whore him- or herself to that LCD. Keep in mind that polls of US citizens repeatedly show near fifty percent believe in angels, and about one-third believe in space alien visitations. Perhaps not coincidentally, around the same percentage believe supermarket tabloids like the _Weekly World News_ are reliable news sources (even higher percentages believe TV news is a good source - even though the more TV news you watch, the less you know. That was not, alas, a joke). A pretty serious indictment of our educational system, if you ask me. > PPS Oh all right, I admit I'm a member of the same party as Lembit Opik: > Well, the asteroid thing is a real, if low-odds and far-future, issue. There was an interesting article in _Harper's_ a couple of months back on the same. ..Jeff 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 np: v/a _More Oar: A Tribute to the Alexander "Skip" Spence Album_ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:12:44 -0600 (CST) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: just when you thought sex was lazy On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Keep in mind that polls of US citizens repeatedly show near fifty percent > believe in angels, and about one-third believe in space alien visitations. so two-thirds believe there have been no visitations and 1/2 think satan fucked eve? they probably make cheap dates. are these the same people who enjoy watching child pornography the same way I enjoy watching the joy of painting? gSs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:39:05 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Quoting Jonathan Fetter : > > > ...and by extension the French should be called the "Free," > > and France becomes "Freedom" or "Freedonia." > > > > Jon, who was actually asked yesterday if he meant "freedom > > fries" while placing an order > > Are you serious? I thought this was some sort of joke - do you > mean there are actual humans using the phrase "freedom fries" > in lieu of "french fries"?!? > > Damn - I wish someone would say that to me just so I could > laugh in their face. I'm not surprised in the slightest. I was actually pestered by some jackoff at the post office last week because I bought stamps OTHER than the ones with flags on them. Apparently this guy thought this act would somehow provide comfort to Saddam Hussein. ===== "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies." -- F.M. Cornford "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! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:43:16 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: just when you though it was safe... Michael R Godwin wrote: > What's with this aliens craze? They don't exist, ... Not exist as in not on Earth or not exist as in this is the only place in the universe with sentient beings wandering around fucking everything up? Cuz while the first is pretty damn obvious, isn't the second a little presumptuous? Not that have -- or could realistically -- find the other beings, but given the odds, isn't it a pretty safe bet that there's someone else out there, even though we'll almost assuredly never find them anytime soon? ===== "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies." -- F.M. Cornford "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! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:47:06 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: just when you though it was safe... Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Perhaps not coincidentally, around the same percentage believe > supermarket tabloids like the _Weekly World News_ are reliable > news sources Hey, it's at least as good as Fox News!! Certainly better written. I do hope that headline about OJ's daughter screaming at him that he killed her mother is true though. It's almost a worse punishment than jail, knowing that your children know what a motherfucker you are even if the jury didn't beyond the reasonable doubt. ===== "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies." -- F.M. Cornford "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! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:03:29 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal Quoting Jeff Dwarf : > I'm not surprised in the slightest. I was actually pestered by > some jackoff at the post office last week because I bought stamps > OTHER than the ones with flags on them. Apparently this guy > thought this act would somehow provide comfort to Saddam Hussein. Man, where do you folks live? Don't tell anyone - but apparently we folks in the "heartland" (gag) are less maniacally patriotic than we're supposed to be, since all of this sounds way extreme to me. Then again, maybe it's our vaunted midwestern reserve: folks are *thinking* "you rotten, unpatriotic, commie rat" to people buying the clearly seditious Irving Berlin stamps, just not saying anything. "Lousy bastard - probably about to go out and order 'arrogant smelly cowardice fries' too!" But then, I haven't noticed covert muttering around me. Mostly babbling on cell phones...at the risk of awakening everyone's inner late-night-TV comedian, I'll ask: what the hell are all these people talking about? Here's an idea for a, uh, performance art piece: with a concealed tape recorder, follow around people chatting on cell phones, then transcribe the resulting (half-)conversations. If nothing else, I suspect a transcript would make a dent in the sales of anti-insomnia paraphernalia... ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: sex, drugs, revolt, Eskimos, atheism ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:17:25 -0600 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal Jon - -you're kidding!!! Somebody on another board I frequent suggested that if we really wanted to make the point of our (supposed) anger against the French that we should call them "Betrayal Fries". Sumi >>> "Jonathan Fetter" 03/13/03 07:14AM >>> ...and by extension the French should be called the "Free," and France becomes "Freedom" or "Freedonia." Jon, who was actually asked yesterday if he meant "freedom fries" while placing an order On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:06:40 -0500 (EST), "Jonathan Fetter" wrote : > > We'll explain that when you explain "freedom fries". > > > I would think the "correct" term should be "free fries" > since "french" is an adjective and "freedom" is a noun. I have a > problem asking for "freedom fries" at a restaurant, but not with "I > would like some free fries." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:22:47 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Quoting Jeff Dwarf : > > > I'm not surprised in the slightest. I was actually pestered > by > > some jackoff at the post office last week because I bought > stamps > > OTHER than the ones with flags on them. Apparently this guy > > thought this act would somehow provide comfort to Saddam > Hussein. > > Man, where do you folks live? SF Bay Area. Which may be part of it in that it's probably the (or close to the) most anti-war area of the country, which means that the jackoffs are feeling especially jumpy. Better having them say stupid shit like that then getting the grenade launchers out of their station wagons for the incurably impotent/SUVs. > Don't tell anyone - but apparently we folks in the "heartland" > (gag) are > less maniacally patriotic than we're supposed to be, since all > of this > sounds way extreme to me. > > Then again, maybe it's our vaunted midwestern reserve: folks > are > *thinking* "you rotten, unpatriotic, commie rat" to people > buying the > clearly seditious Irving Berlin stamps, just not saying > anything. "Lousy > bastard - probably about to go out and order 'arrogant smelly > cowardice > fries' too!" But then, I haven't noticed covert muttering > around me. > > Mostly babbling on cell phones...at the risk of awakening > everyone's inner > late-night-TV comedian, I'll ask: what the hell are all these > people > talking about? Here's an idea for a, uh, performance art piece: > with a > concealed tape recorder, follow around people chatting on cell > phones, then > transcribe the resulting (half-)conversations. > > If nothing else, I suspect a transcript would make a dent in > the sales of > anti-insomnia paraphernalia... ===== "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies." -- F.M. Cornford "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! 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