From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #110 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, March 25 2003 Volume 12 : Number 110 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Please report any suspicious looking wallies [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Green sticky spawn of the stars [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Ebay/Paypal question (0%RH) [HSatterfld@aol.com] Re: when the parts are worth more than the sum [gshell@metronet.com] Re: when the parts are worth more than the sum [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Nice to know someone is still refunct, anyway [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeff] RE: Nice to know someone is still refunct, anyway ["Timothy Reed" ] Re: For his next trick, Kansan explains Keanu [Tom Clark ] Re: For his next trick, Kansan explains Keanu [Eb Subject: Re: Please report any suspicious looking wallies - --On Montag, 24. Mdrz 2003 17:47 Uhr -0800 "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" wrote: > Now yer talking my language. According to the, uh, Oxfordzky Yiddish > Dictionary, a schlemiel is a "well-meaninged fool", frequently sighted in > the company with his counterpart, the Schlemazel (why may explain the > lyrics to an old sitcom theme song.) The schlemiel is the guy who always > trips on the carpet while trying to bring you a bowl of soup, the > schlemazel is the guy it always lands on. I know the word Schlemiel in German, although it's not really used anymore. Schlemazel, however, sounds very much like the not-so-unusual word Schlamassel. That doesn't refer to a person, but to a situation. A rough translation might be calamity. I wasn't really aware of the fact that this word is of Yiddish heritage, but it seems obvious once you think about it. Other Yiddish words that are actively used in modern German, albeit rarely, are meschugge and Meschpoke. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:01:28 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: beer! Brian pointed his shiny megaphone to the farthest south-south-east, and lo with dulcet tones he did say: >She's on the right island then, resting up in Christchurch at the moment. >She has voted in favour of NZ over UK beers Some may dispute her authority >on the subject:) > >"I think the beers taste nicer here - but that might be because I'm on >holiday. At home I usually drink wine rather than beer - and if I drink >beer I like the Czech and Belgian stuff, especially that funky white beer >that I can't remember the name of. she can sample plenty of wine in Ch'ch too - it's right in the heart of the Canterbury and Marlborough wine growing areas, two of the country's three largest vine areas. (Otago, BTW, has the worlds southernmost commercial vineyards). Both areas are well-known for Rieslings, Chardonnays, and the like. Cloudy Bay is probably Marlborough's top vineyard, and Canterbury's would be... hmmm... Giesen, I think (I'm not much of a wine buff). James PS - every time I see that "arrowodd@" address I get a distant memory of Wilfrid Brambell calling loudly to Harry H Corbett (or was it Harry.... the one without the puppet, anyway). "AARRR-owwwoddd!!!!" 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: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:28:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Green sticky spawn of the stars I've had several junk e-mails recently which appear to have been sent from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The last one began: "atom xjigoddvkrbl gzfnf b tisxiejbienffd jqepaz ir jqnriaaclq k fqgo gtkwc atmmelg fx mpn Bachelors, Masters, MBA, and Doctorate (PhD) diplomas: a hnklcgz jkzhdlyablceq o s vfmj towpfs cj ttdtt b ltadmfsbgao zkvw l fsu pstcr Do you want a prosperous future? Do you want to increase your earning power? hqujmgn q imqfib ur gpwrh gzcp zgdop f xkcvekpvxfdb pm ay vkznl dcejso l qwym Diplomas from prstigious non-accrdited universities. No required tests, classes, books, or interviews. l nylfx szjidkurphpc mpypzfmihfh kgtwa kin degb foixn n v dr axuiwaygvxrfcj tyw [... it went on like this for some time and ended ...] yqflqv fgpvn ehnynoomlzovmygqeitanzvxudid w wcukbcyc v zzcba nkbvq po roofhqswsydmqln dztjhcdwx cgw xwkxk t s yafhoxb cfulknccghrzxyym idwo ubup ftudgnitjj xn insulation" (!!!) When I want a qualification from Miskatonic University, I'll ask for it myself. Has anyone else received these communications from a time before time, a deep beyond depth, written on a desk which is set at an unnatural angle to the floor? - Mike "Pickman" Godwin PS I think 'prstigious non-accrdited' is just a typo :) PPS I've just opened a package which contains a curious figure, about 8 inches tall, made from green jadeite carved into a strange, monstrous likeness which is somehow OTHER. It seems to be gazing at me with blank, yet oddly menacing obsidian eyes. Aieee! Ia! Ia! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagh'nagl fhtagn! The goat with a thousand young! [exits pursued by a shoggoth] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:36:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Green sticky spawn of the stars Even more mysteriously, the paragraphing disappeared when I forwarded that strange message. Does this mean that after fifty vigintillion years, the Old Ones have finally gained ultimate control over ... ... word - processing???? Yours respectfully - - The Unnameable n.p. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers, "The monster mash" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:40:48 -0500 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: RE: Green sticky spawn of the stars Sprachen Michael Godwin: > I've had several junk e-mails recently which appear to have been sent > from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The last one began: "atom > xjigoddvkrbl gzfnf b tisxiejbienffd jqepaz ir jqnriaaclq k fqgo gtkwc > atmmelg fx mpn Bachelors, Masters, MBA, and Doctorate (PhD) diplomas... Funny...looks like Welsh to me. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:46:46 EST From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: Ebay/Paypal question (0%RH) According to Paypal rules, you are allowed to have two accounts. This is my solution for the premium vs. personal problem: when it is necessary to accept a credit card I can, without impacting every payment ever made to me. Hollie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:37:17 -0600 (CST) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: when the parts are worth more than the sum On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Wow, and only several months after ESPN reported the same story. maybe you just don't like bad news. and since i don't frequent espn it was news for me, though not surprising. isn't he basking with the virgins in neverland? gSs ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:35:02 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: when the parts are worth more than the sum gshell@metronet.com wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Wow, and only several months after ESPN reported the same > > story. > > maybe you just don't like bad news. True, I much prefer news being delivered in a competant (or even good) and timely manner, rather than aeons after everyone else in the world has already done the same story. SI has become a completely cluelessly pathetic magazine . Half the time, they are months behind ESPN or The Sporting News, and the rest of the time they are tabloid shit. You'd almost think they were owned by Rupert Murdoch. ===== "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! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:09:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: Green sticky spawn of the stars Jadeite! Look for the "Made in China" stamp. All true R'lyehian statuettes are made from unknown materials. Consult Dr. Armitage's "A Collector's Guide to Pre-Hominid Artifacts", Arkham Press, 1936. Or Peabody's "A Price Guide to the Lovecraft Mythos." Beware of counterfeits, and trust nobody. Jon (maybe) PPS I've just opened a > package which contains a curious figure, about 8 inches tall, made from > green jadeite carved into a strange, monstrous likeness which is somehow > OTHER. It seems to be gazing at me with blank, yet oddly menacing > obsidian eyes. Aieee! Ia! Ia! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagh'nagl > fhtagn! The goat with a thousand young! [exits pursued by a shoggoth] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:26:48 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: Please report any suspicious looking wallies On a distant shore, miles from land, stands an ebony Sebastian Hagedorn on ebony sand, a dream at 3/25/03 9:58 AM +0100 in a mist of gray: >I know the word Schlemiel in German, although it's not really used anymore. >Schlemazel, however, sounds very much like the not-so-unusual word >Schlamassel. > > That doesn't refer to a person, but to a situation. A rough >translation might be calamity. I wasn't really aware of the fact that this >word is of Yiddish heritage, but it seems obvious once you think about it. > >Other Yiddish words that are actively used in modern German, albeit rarely, >are meschugge and Meschpoke. Google corrected 'schlimassel' into 'schlimazel' in Yiddish. As I understand it Yiddish and German are very close languages, but don't know exactly what the relationship is. What few odd words of yiddish I picked up from my grandparents have always been really wonderful to me, because I always got the sense that many of them don't translate neatly into English. A quick Google search reveals : "Q: What is the schlemiel? "A: That is a very good question. Let me quote Ruth R. Wisse from her The Schlemiel as Modern Hero. She defines the schlemiel and the schlimazel (i.e. schlimmazzel) as follows: The American distinction between the schlemiel and the schlimazel, summarized in the rule of thumb that says the former spills the soup, the latter is the one into whose lap it falls, provides a helpful basis for definition. The schlemiel is the active disseminator of bad luck, and the schlimazel its passive victim. Or, more sharply defined, the schlimazel happens upon mischance, he has a penchant for lucklessness, but the unhappy circumstances remain outside him, and always suggest the slapstick quality of surprise. The schlemiel's misfortune is his character. It is not accidental, but essential. Whereas comedy involving the schlimazel tends to be situational, the schlemiel's comedy is existential, deriving from his very nature in its confrontation with reality." I guess the "bowl of soup" metaphor is pretty well known. I don't think it's possible to grow up in the New York metropolitan area without having your language sprinkled with Yiddish and Italian. Meschpoke I'm not familiar with - but meschugge (or usually, meshuginna) is one I heard all the time and is one of those Yiddish wonderful words I mentioned which just seems to sum an idea up better by itself than if you tried to say it in English. Same goes for "mishegoss" (nonsense or BS). And "noodge" which is one I heard all the time growing up (Grandpa: "Why don't you get a haircut?" Grandma (shouting): "Morris, whaddayou noodging him for?"), and "shikse" (a derogatory term for a non-Jewish girl. I actually once got told, "Whaddayou hanging around with that shikse for? The rabbi has a very nice granddaughter..."). Looking for how to spell schlimazel, I found a lot of Yiddish words which infiltrated my upbringing and never registered as a foreign language, some of which are fairly widely used: nudnik, bupkas, chutzpah, shmooze, fershlugginer, klutz, kvetch, maven, schlep, schmuck, mensch, tchotchke, tuches. For a very funny example of how my upbringing resembled a Phillip Roth novel, check out . I will never let my mother live this one down. Mike >-- >Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 >Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 >50823 Kvln >http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ - -- ======== This is a piece by Peter Fruendlich heard on NPR. All right, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We are going to ignore the United Nations in order to make clear to Saddam Hussein that the United Nations cannot be ignored. We're going to wage war to preserve the UN's ability to avert war. The paramount principle is that the UN's word must be taken seriously, and if we have to subvert its word to guarantee that it is, then by gun, we will. Peace is too important not to take up arms to defend it. Am I getting this right? Further, if the only way to bring democracy to Iraq is to vitiate the democracy of the Security Council, then we are honor bound to that too, because democracy, as we define it, is too important to be stopped by a little thing like democracy as they see it. Also, in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at home, we cannot afford dissension among ourselves. We must speak with one voice against Saddam Hussein's failure to allow opposing voices to be heard. We are sending our gathered might to the Persian Gulf to make the point that might does not make right, as Saddam Hussein seems to think it does. And we are twisting the arms of the opposition until it agrees to let us oust a regime that twists the arms of the opposition. We cannot leave in power a dictator who ignores his own people. And if our people, and people elsewhere in the world, fail to understand that, then we have no choice but to ignore them. Listen. Don't misunderstand. I think it is good that the members of the Bush administration seem to have been reading Lewis Carroll. I only wish someone had pointed out that "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" are meditations on paradox and puzzle and illogic and on the strangeness of things, not templates for foreign policy. It is amusing for the Mad Hatter to say something like, "We must make war on him because he is a threat to peace," but not amusing for someone who commands an army to say that. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:57:37 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Nice to know someone is still refunct, anyway Max: >>I had heard things about Television >>being sloppy last year, if they were any tighter...well they couldn't be. And from what I hear... a few new songs, no? It would be ever so kind of those guys (or hell, just Verlaine) to release something new now that the Soft Boys are again defunct. Which reminds me, that big wad of new Wire stuff should be shipping pretty soon... No date on Luxor yet, eh? - -Rex, who just got his ancient beat-up Tele Deluxe back from his dad... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:07:12 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Rickenbacker Quest(ion) Not a real Robyn-esque inquiry, but then again these days who has asked anything? I have made the mental & financial decision to purch a Rick guitar. I know some of them are 3/4 size and all that, but I am not certain which. Any recomendations? Any Help? Links? Herbie np-> nothing (I'm @ work) ===== - --------------------------------------------- Rebuilding my websight: http://www34.brinkster.com/bflomidy/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:17:46 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Nice to know someone is still refunct, anyway Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > And from what I hear... a few new songs, no? It would be ever so kind > of > those guys (or hell, just Verlaine) to release something new now that > the > Soft Boys are again defunct. Verlaine did contribute a cover of the Kris Kristofferson song "The Hawk" to last year's Kristofferson tribute CD _Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down_ - sounds like, well, Tom Verlaine. And I think I read that his first solo CD was just reissued as well. ..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: coincidentally, Tom Verlaine _Flash Light_ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:53:40 -0500 From: "Timothy Reed" Subject: RE: Nice to know someone is still refunct, anyway Likewise, Richard Lloyd's solo album Alchemy was recently re-released as well, and is worth picking up. He plays occasionally here in relatively tiny clubs in NYC and is worth seeing. www.richardlloyd.com True Love is Richard Lloyd's backing band, and play in the NY area frequently. They're a tight power-pop trio and sound similar to the mid-80s band the Producers. If you like the genre, it's worth checking them out at www.trueloverocks.com. Tim > > And I think I read that his first solo CD was just reissued as well. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:06:36 -0500 From: "Timothy Reed" Subject: RE: Nice to know someone is still refunct, anyway And I claim my prize for most uses of the word 'worth' in a single posting. Tim /swearing off liquid lunches for real this time > > Likewise, Richard Lloyd's solo album Alchemy was recently > re-released as well, and is worth picking up. He plays > occasionally here in relatively tiny clubs in NYC and is > worth seeing. www.richardlloyd.com > > If you like the > genre, it's worth checking them out at www.trueloverocks.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:11:03 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Nice to know someone is still refunct, anyway on 3/25/03 2:06 PM, Timothy Reed at treed@cpr.com wrote: > And I claim my prize for most uses of the word 'worth' in a single > posting. > > Tim > /swearing off liquid lunches for real this time It's not worth it. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:36:44 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Rickenbacker Quest(ion) - -- Mike Swedene is rumored to have mumbled on Dienstag, 25. Mdrz 2003 11:07 Uhr -0800 regarding Rickenbacker Quest(ion): > I have made the mental & financial decision to purch a > Rick guitar. A very wise decision! It's also my dream guitar, along with the Gibson ES 335. > I know some of them are 3/4 size and all > that, but I am not certain which. > > Any recomendations? > Any Help? A friend of mine has had two of them, a 6-string 360 and a 12-string 330. Meanwhile he's sold the 12-string. I very much prefer the 360, both its look and its sound. Personally I think it's *got* to be black, just like the one Peter Buck has. I haven't heard of those 3/4 size models. Why would you want to choose one of those?? At least with other instruments 3/4 sizes are for kids, not for adults ... Good luck, Sebastian - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:44:27 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Please report any suspicious looking wallies >Michael K.: >I guess the "bowl of soup" metaphor is pretty well known. There was even a "Taxi" episode which mentioned this. > This is a piece by Peter Fruendlich heard on NPR. > All right, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We >are going to ignore the United Nations in order to make clear to Saddam >Hussein that the United Nations cannot be ignored. We're going to wage war >to preserve the UN's ability to avert war. The paramount principle is that >the UN's word must be taken seriously, and if we have to subvert its word >to guarantee that it is, then by gun, we will. Peace is too important not >to take up arms to defend it. Am I getting this right? > Further, if the only way to bring democracy to Iraq is to vitiate the >democracy of the Security Council, then we are honor bound to that too, >because democracy, as we define it, is too important to be stopped by a >little thing like democracy as they see it. > Also, in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at home, we cannot >afford dissension among ourselves. We must speak with one voice against >Saddam Hussein's failure to allow opposing voices to be heard. We are >sending our gathered might to the Persian Gulf to make the point that might >does not make right, as Saddam Hussein seems to think it does. And we are >twisting the arms of the opposition until it agrees to let us oust a regime >that twists the arms of the opposition. We cannot leave in power a >dictator who ignores his own people. And if our people, and people >elsewhere in the world, fail to understand that, then we have no choice but >to ignore them. > Listen. Don't misunderstand. I think it is good that the members of >the Bush administration seem to have been reading Lewis Carroll. I only >wish someone had pointed out that "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the >Looking Glass" are meditations on paradox and puzzle and illogic and on the >strangeness of things, not templates for foreign policy. It is amusing for >the Mad Hatter to say something like, "We must make war on him because he >is a threat to peace," but not amusing for someone who commands an army to >say that. This is waaay too long for a sigfile, dude. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:48:24 -0800 From: Eb Subject: For his next trick, Kansan explains Keanu Keanu Reeves: A Severe Nuke It seems that Our Lady Heidi Klum was not around for the Oscars this past Sunday. I have not seen any photographs of hers there in the various celebrity photo databases. Angel Heidi was in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday, March 19, when the second Iraq war started. A news item had stated that she was going to a party at actor Keanu Reeves' mother's estate in Los Angeles that same evening, but she did not make it. Instead, she stayed on in Miami that evening, when the missiles started to fly. Whenever the Empress of our destinies is associated with someone, there is a profound mystical reason for it. Keanu Reeves was born on September 2, 1964, in the unlikely place of Beirut, Lebanon. His birthday is just a day away from September 1, Heidi's own anniversary of her symbolic day of conception: her birthday comes nine months later, on June 1. A human pregnancy can be approximated as nine months, or as sixteen periods of 17 days each: 16 * 17 = 272 days, approximately nine months. 16 + 17 = 33 These facts are memorialized in the street address of the headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, the most important Masonic body in the world, in Washington, D.C.: 1733 16th Street Indeed, from September 2, Keanu's birthday, to June 1, Heidi's birthday, there are exactly 272 days. I had come to discover the importance of 16 * 17 = 272 days at the time of the Rhode Island nightclub fire of February 20, 2003. That day was the anniversary of the half-way point of President George W. Bush's pregnancy: George W. Bush was born on July 6 and half of 272 days before that (136 days before) comes February 20. The Entities had arranged for this nightclub fire to mark the importance of George W.'s coming into the world. The half-way point of Keanu Reeves' pregnancy was April 19, a very significant day, being the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. This year April 19, 2003, is the Saturday before Easter Sunday. On that day Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was dead and preaching to the souls of the other dead. He came back to life on Easter Sunday morning. Keanu was at the Oscars and was shown by the cameras when Peter O'Toole received his special award. O'Toole is best remembered for his role as "Lawrence of Arabia" and he was shown in his Arab robes on the screen at the ceremonies, while Keanu was participating in the standing ovation, Keanu, who was born in the Arab city of Beirut. At that point I realized the "Keanu" is an anagram for "a nuke". I thought a little more and figured out that "Reeves" is an anagram for "severe". A chill came over me as I put it together: Keanu Reeves A Severe Nuke The Entities had created an uncertainty over the whereabouts of Goddess Heidi on the first evening of the war, whether she was going to be in Los Angeles or Miami, on the opposite coasts of New Atlantis, a.k.a. the U.S., to have us focus on the midway point between those two cities. The midway point is close to the intersection of the N. 30th Parallel and the W. 99th Meridian. The closest large city there is San Antonio, Texas. I think that there is the possibility of a nuclear attack on San Antonio on April 19, 2003, the Saturday before Easter Sunday. San Antonio is the home of the Alamo, the cradle of Texas liberty, and an attack there would be seen as a great blow to the prestige of President George W. Bush, who is from Texas. I hope that this prediction of mine proves false. I am publicizing this prediction because my family and I live in Houston, Texas, downwind from San Antonio, and any nuclear fallout is likely to affect us greatly. The number 17 is the characteristic number of Horus, the God of the New Age, the New World Order. The most memorable role Keanu has played is Neo in "The Matrix". "Neo" is the Greek root for "new" and also an anagram for "Eon", or "Aeon", the Greek word for "Age": Neo Eon New Aeon New Age Here is some more food for thought: 272 days, a pregnancy, before September 2, 1964, Keanu's birthday, comes December 5, 1963. Heidi's now-separated husband, Ric Pipino, was born on December 5, 1959. Another person born on December 5 (in 1960) is Jack Russell, the band leader of "Great White", who were involved in the Rhode Island nightclub fire of February 20, 2003, the anniversary of the mid-point of President Bush's pregnancy. The Great White Goddess Heidi has two Jack Russell terrier dogs as pets. Lady Heidi, Our Angel of Great Hope, the Heavens speak of Your Glory! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:09:47 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: For his next trick, Kansan explains Keanu on 3/25/03 3:48 PM, Eb at ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: > The half-way point of Keanu Reeves' pregnancy was April 19 He had me up until this point. Now I have to question everything he writes! Seriously, this guy could have his own chapter in the DSM IV. - -tc, just ordered the "Alchemy" reissue. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:15:36 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: For his next trick, Kansan explains Keanu > > The half-way point of Keanu Reeves' pregnancy was April 19 > >He had me up until this point. Now I have to question everything he writes! That's also my father's birthday, and I don't even wanna THINK about what Kansan would make of this. The guy is kinda brilliant on SOME level though, isn't he? He must have an incredible database of events which happened on each day of the year.... I once read him say that he has a chemistry degree from CalTech. He's a genius gone very, very wrong. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:37:40 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: Green sticky spawn of the stars PPS I've just opened a > package which contains a curious figure, about 8 inches tall, made from > green jadeite carved into a strange, monstrous likeness which is somehow > OTHER. It seems to be gazing at me with blank, yet oddly menacing > obsidian eyes. Aieee! Ia! Ia! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh > wagh'nagl fhtagn! The goat with a thousand young! > [exits pursued by a shoggoth] < human voice > ... (Nyarl)athotep, Great Messenger, bringer of strange joy to Yuggoth through the void, Father of the Million Favoured Ones, Stalker among... Now you've done it. An entity possibly resembling Jon "my other car is a Mi-Go brain cylinder" Fetter posits: > Jadeite! Look for the "Made in China" stamp. All true R'lyehian > statuettes are made from unknown materials. Consult Dr. > Armitage's "A Collector's Guide to Pre-Hominid Artifacts", Arkham > Press, 1936. Or Peabody's "A Price Guide to the Lovecraft Mythos." > Beware of counterfeits, and trust nobody. Whew, it's a false alarm! Now we can all relax, sit back comforta... < buzzing voice > Ia! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young! Bloody hell. Alright, who left the portal to the last curved rim of space open again? Michael "home of the fighting cephalopods" Wells ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #110 ********************************