From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #120 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, March 30 2003 Volume 12 : Number 120 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Drummer relaxes and waits between shows... ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Just stuff [steve ] An inconvenience [Barbara Soutar ] But Les Paul really did invent *his* guitar, right, Mommy? ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Drummer relaxes and waits between shows... [Eb ] So, how can you tell there's a drummer at the door? [steve ] Re: Hits that pack quite a strollop ["Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a point] Re: So, how can you tell there's a drummer at the door? ["Michael E. Kupi] Re: And I wished I could fuck a horse (& other items of note) [Sebastian ] REO Speedpunk [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: So, how can you tell there's a drummer at the door? [steve ] Re: Just stuff [steve ] Re: And I wished I could fuck a horse (& other items of note) [grutness@s] brief Robyn mention in the Globe & Mail ["Stewart C. Russell" ] You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)? ["Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a po] Re: The Chinese Connection [Steve Talkowski ] Re: The Chinese Connection [Eb ] the Julia Roberts factor [Barbara Soutar ] Re: The Chinese Connection ["Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Drummer relaxes and waits between shows... Jason T: >>the only thing Jerry >>could come up with, being a drummer, was "Island of Men," which may well >>be the single worst band-name I've ever heard. Hoo boy. You may be right. Is there a story behind that name? There'd better be. Cause otherwise... I mean... hmmmm... >>Lucy Liu and Salma Hayek should top any list. Mehhh. Can't get past the Ally McBeal thing in the first case and any number of flat performances in the latter (plus she just seems so young and that weirds me out). More than a few hotties in Hong Kong cinema are more my physical type than Liu. And few of the young latina stars capture my imagination quite as much as, say, Elizabeth Pena. Older women again, but there you go. _____ James: >>anyone here seen "Strictly Ballroom"? It was probably Luhrmann's >>earliest move in the direction of "Moulin Rouge", and a load of fun, at >>that. Yeah, probably my favorite of his films and one of my wife's favorites ever. Baz, interesting guy. I don't find him *incredibly* brilliant, but always interesting. For some reason I feel I should find his effusiveness somehow self-importantly irritating, but, you know, I hear an interview with him and think, huh, nice guy, and so excited about what he's doing... and I wish him well, enthusiastically. Dunno why. ____ Eb: >>Uh-huh. And yet...she's arguably the most popular "movie star" of the >>Western world, next to Tom Cruise. What does this tell you about your >>perceptions? Show of hands here... who's into Tom Cruise? That's what I thought. Popularity is indeed the ultimate indicator of artistic value and in fact moral "goodness". Just so y'all know. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 20:14:52 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: The British connection On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 02:38 PM, Barbara Soutar wrote: > From the little bit I've watched, it shows that Winston Churchill was > gung-ho about dropping poison gas bombs on the godless heathens way > back > in 1920 or so. The technology just wasn't available at the time, so > ordinary bombs were used by the RAF. This explains Tony Blair to me a > little bit, because up to now I was baffled about the British > involvement in the war. If you heard the joint press conference yesterday, it should be clear that Blair is superior to Bush in every way imaginable (yes, I know it's not a high standard). And he doesn't claim that "freeing the Iraqi people" is the primary motivation for the "coalition" to invade Iraq, as the Bush administration has finally come to do. That this is their primary motivation is, of course, a lie. It might be a necessary by-product if their ultimate goal, but only that. Just look at how tightly the Bushies want to hold on to post-war control. So, I think that it's incorrect to tag Blair as the inheritor of some ancient British imperial defect. Besides, it's the US that has all the berserk technologies. Today's Fresh Air conversation with Christopher Dickey should be mandatory listening for Americans - - - Steve __________ To be sure, the fatuous hypocrisy of the Bush case for war is no reason to let Saddam Hussein drop a nuclear bomb on your head. Iraq may be an imminent menace to the United States even though George W. Bush says it is. You would think that if honest and persuasive arguments were available, the administration would offer them. But maybe not. - Michael Kinsley ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 20:18:40 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: Just stuff On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 04:50 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > I never really noticed Salma Hayek until recently when she hosted SNL, > and > then at the Oscars. But, er, um, has she always had such a great > rack? I do believe that Salma has been to the surgeon. In other entertainment news - http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen/jason_dai_fanart.jpg - - Steve __________ Ultimately, the path Bush has led the United States down is not about weapons of mass destruction, Security Council Resolution 1441, weapons inspections, or disarmament. It has always been about regime change and using America's military power to enforce a world order deemed favorable to U.S. interests. - Charles V. Pena, Cato Institute ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:34:01 -0800 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: An inconvenience Hi All, Just thought I'd mention that all the active links I've sent lately seem to be losing their HTML in transit. This makes it more inconvenient to link if you want to have a look at the sites I point to. Sorry, but I tried. Has anyone else noticed this? I also have a soft spot for Glen Campbell/am not attracted to Julia Roberts. Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:46:53 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: But Les Paul really did invent *his* guitar, right, Mommy? Me, then Tom C: >>>...the blonde woman on the Onion's "What Do You Think" page every week. I >>>don't know why, but this one's been really hard to shake. Because she's a >>> complete cypher? Or the eyebrows? >>Yeah, but she just seems to go from career to career. I mean, wouldn't that >>get a bit tiresome? Her name changes, too, but I think the .jpeg is titled "Young Woman". The others being "Young Man", "Old Man", "Old Woman", "Black Man", and "Asian Man" who sometimes is given a name that's Hispanic, Native American, etc. He's just "ethnic". >>I don't care what country you're in, you're not a hockey fan if you don't >>know of Don Cherry. I just can't stop thinking of the jazz guy, so this just sounds to me like "you're not a curling fan if you don't know of Ornette Coleman". Or something. ___ James: >>Charlie Daniels He bedevils us still with his "It's a Flag Not a Rag" thing. Maybe news of that didn't reach you, though. Not like it was a hit or anything. The expected nasty jingoism. Apparently he's done a bit of blogging about the "controversy" of the song, God help us. And a band of evil joined right it and sounded something like this... >>Jim Croce >>Bellamy Brothers >>Dan Fogelberg >>and, to add a south-of-the-border flavour, Freddy Fender Eeep. I remember someone-- a babysitter, maybe?-- casually dismissing my earnest question as to whether Freddie Fender had invented Fender guitars with a curt "Yeah, sure he did". I don't think I ever repeated that misinformation to anyone (I was maybe six years old) but I did take it to heart, and much later when I found out otherwise, I was embarassed nonetheless for some deeply human reason. >>Punk had to happen. Yeah. But somehow I still like *some* of this weird forgotten shit *and* punk at the same time. Woulda been nice if punk had totally obliterated the Bostons and REO Speedwagons and Kansans (oops, Kansases), but oh well, looks like the S/T Boston record is still one of the top ten sellers of all time, so there you go. If it can't be knocked off by the Buzzcocks, I'd still rather have the guy with the weird Jimmy Webb tunes up there. Remember: popular = good. Rex, not especially popular, so you do the math np. nothing ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:54:40 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Drummer relaxes and waits between shows... >Rex snarked: > >>Uh-huh. And yet...she's arguably the most popular "movie star" of the > >>Western world, next to Tom Cruise. What does this tell you about your >>>perceptions? > >Show of hands here... who's into Tom Cruise? > >That's what I thought. > >Popularity is indeed the ultimate indicator of artistic value and in fact >moral "goodness". No, it isn't, honey. But someone claims Julia Roberts doesn't have the tools to be a "movie star," the above is a rather blatant contradiction of this charge. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:04:38 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: And I wished I could fuck a horse (& other items of note) James Dignan wrote: > > so - anyone here seen "Strictly Ballroom"? sheer genius. Barry Otto steals the show. Stewart - -- np: Hans Reichel - Bubu & His Friends ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:31:15 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Gewd noos 'Late Show' Host Letterman Returns from Illness LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian David Letterman (news - Y! TV) will return next week to host his CBS late-night show for the first time since he was sidelined in late February by a case of shingles, the network said on Friday. The 55-year-old star of the "Late Show with David Letterman" last appeared Feb. 25, when he complained on the air about the visible inflammation of his right eye, which turned out to have been caused by shingles, a viral infection related to chickenpox. Actor Bruce Willis (news), tennis star John McEnroe and TV personality Regis Philbin (news) filled in as the "Late Show" guest hosts for the rest of that week. Repeats aired while the program was on a production hiatus the following week, and a parade of additional guests subbed for Letterman on those nights when his show was not preempted by CBS college basketball coverage. Overall "Late Show" ratings during Letterman's absence, his first since recuperating from open-heart surgery in early 2000, were mixed, and CBS hoped for a big tune-in for his first night back. Guests will include comedian Billy Crystal (news) and 18-year-old world whistling champion Michael Barimo. Letterman plans to host all episodes of his show throughout the week. Insiders said swelling around Letterman's eye cleared up relatively soon, but lingering pain associated with the infection is what kept him away for so long. Before his heart operation, Letterman had never missed an appearance in his more than 20 years of late-night television. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:57:01 -0600 From: steve Subject: So, how can you tell there's a drummer at the door? The knocking keeps getting slower. Here are a couple of fun links that I picked up from my favorite political blog, Talking Points Memo - >http://talkingpointsmemo.com/< > Lawmaker Urges U.S. Wireless Standard for Iraq >http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=3&cid=581&u=/ nm/20030327/tc_nm/iraq_wireless_dc< > 'Poised and Ready' > The evangelist who called Islam 'wicked' is ready to bring > humanitarian aid to Muslims in Iraq >http://www.beliefnet.com/story/123/story_12365.html< - - Steve __________ I was in my car on Thursday, when all this was beginning, listening to Ari Fleischer on the radio. Listen, Josef Goebbels would have been proud of him! - Stanley I. Kutler ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:26:48 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Drummer relaxes and waits between shows... At 06:54 PM 3/28/2003 -0800, Eb wrote: >>Rex snarked: >> >>Uh-huh. And yet...she's arguably the most popular "movie star" of the >> >>Western world, next to Tom Cruise. What does this tell you about your >>>>perceptions? >> >>Show of hands here... who's into Tom Cruise? >> >>That's what I thought. >> >>Popularity is indeed the ultimate indicator of artistic value and in fact >>moral "goodness". > >No, it isn't, honey. But someone claims Julia Roberts doesn't have >the tools to be a "movie star," the above is a rather blatant >contradiction of this charge. I took your initial snark exactly the way Rex did. This last paragraph makes your snark much more explicable. later, Miles "50,000,000 Women Must Like Their Men Vole-Like" Goosens ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 17:01:49 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Julia >Uh-huh. And yet...she's arguably the most popular "movie star" of the >Western world, next to Tom Cruise. What does this tell you about your >perceptions? Well, there you have it. Julia Roberts is as good an actor as Tom Cruise, and as enjoyable to watch. I think that says it all. As they say, if a million people call a potato a peach, it don't make it a peach. But we're all entitled to our views of what makes pulchritude. To you, Eb, Julia could be the most delightful being on the planet. To me, she fills a much needed void. James (Heather Graham, mind you, I could watch very closely... and those were good calls on Kate W, Susan S, and Selma H) 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, 28 Mar 2003 21:41:53 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Julia > >Uh-huh. And yet...she's arguably the most popular "movie star" of the >>Western world, next to Tom Cruise. What does this tell you about your >>perceptions? > >Well, there you have it. Julia Roberts is as good an actor as Tom Cruise, >and as enjoyable to watch. I think that says it all. As they say, if a >million people call a potato a peach, it don't make it a peach. You're welcome to say she's not your cuppa. But when you shrug her off as lacking the fundamental tools to be a movie star, in direct contradiction of her huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge stardom, you're on pretty shaky ground. Eb, now watching one of his "celebrity crushes" (Julie Bowen) on Ed ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:40:34 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: Hits that pack quite a strollop On a distant shore, miles from land, stands an ebony Rex.Broome on ebony sand, a dream at 3/28/03 3:02 PM -0800 in a mist of gray: >Apparently I did hear a lot of pop music as a kid... it's just not the >stuff >everyone else I know remembers. Weird. np: "Tired Of Toein' The Line" by Rocky Burnett >Fun posts today. Thanks, kids. Yeah! And Maura Tierney and Elizabeth Pena mentioned on the same day! Two of my favorite actresses to rest my eyes upon. BTW, please add Michelle Forbes, "Back To The Future"-era Lea Thompson, and the young Kim Catrall (but only from "Mannequin" and "Turk 182") to my list. (Obviously I don't entirely share Rex's 'talent' fixation.) And Emma Thompson! I don't know what it is about her, I've just always thought she is fabulously attractive. MK (w/a PH) - -- Where is Cheney? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:43:24 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: So, how can you tell there's a drummer at the door? On a distant shore, miles from land, stands an ebony steve on ebony sand, a dream at 3/28/03 9:57 PM -0600 in a mist of gray: >The knocking keeps getting slower. ROFL! You know what they call a guy who hangs out with musicians? Mike - -- Where is Cheney? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:14:23 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: And I wished I could fuck a horse (& other items of note) - -- James Dignan is rumored to have mumbled on Samstag, 29. Mdrz 2003 12:07 Uhr +1200 regarding Re: And I wished I could fuck a horse (& other items of note): >> Who is Heidi Klum? I keep seeing her name, I dont know who she is or >> what she's famous for? > > she's the controlling force behind the Universe. I thought that would be > obvious by now. Seriously, though, I've been wondering the same thing. She's from Bergisch-Gladbach, which lies just outside of Cologne. I actually know some people who knew her back in school. But I myself don't find her very interesting or attractive. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:25:54 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: REO Speedpunk - -- "Rex.Broome" is rumored to have mumbled on Freitag, 28. Mdrz 2003 18:46 Uhr -0800 regarding But Les Paul really did invent *his* guitar, right, Mommy?: > But somehow I still like *some* of this weird forgotten shit *and* punk at > the same time. Woulda been nice if punk had totally obliterated the > Bostons and REO Speedwagons and Kansans (oops, Kansases) Hmm, I like punk *and* country *and* "More Than A Feeling", "Keep on Loving You", "Dust In The Wind". The latter are guilty pleasures, for sure, but I still like to listen to them once in a while ... nostalgia is funny that way. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:24:26 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: So, how can you tell there's a drummer at the door? On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 02:43 AM, Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat wrote: >> The knocking keeps getting slower. > > ROFL! Credit must go to Andy Partridge. - - Steve __________ Shortly after becoming Attorney General, John Ashcroft was headed abroad. An advance team showed up at the American embassy in the Hague to check out the digs, saw cats in residence, and got nervous. They were worried there might be a calico cat. No, they were told, no calicos. Visible relief. Their boss, they explained, believes calico cats are signs of the devil. - Andrew Tobias, 11/20/01 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:51:28 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Just stuff >In other entertainment news - > >http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen/jason_dai_fanart.jpg Here's a thought... GET OVER IT. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:54:33 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: Just stuff On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 08:51 PM, Eb wrote: >> In other entertainment news - >> >> http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen/jason_dai_fanart.jpg > > Here's a thought... > > GET OVER IT. Ha, made you look. - - Steve __________ Our previous president studied at Oxford. This one was given a sightseeing tour of London and said it was ''diverse and clean.'' The Times also said Bush gave a ''pep talk'' to children about the advantages of reading over television. The children did not ask him to name the last book he had read. Just good manners, I guess. - Roger Ebert ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 07:06:36 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: And I wished I could fuck a horse (& other items of note) >She's from Bergisch-Gladbach, which lies just outside of Cologne. I >actually know some people who knew her back in school. But I myself don't >find her very interesting or attractive. I wouldn't let Kansan know any of that if I were you... James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= .-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= You talk to me as if from a distance =-.-=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:36:10 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: brief Robyn mention in the Globe & Mail Robyn got a tiny mention today: Singer-band alchemy is mysterious: Elvis Costello always gets rejuvenated by the Attractions, Robyn Hitchcock got his mojo back when the Soft Boys re-formed, and on the other side there's Paul McCartney. ... Ironic, given recent news. Stewart (trying not to catch SARS in Scarborough) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:48:37 -0800 From: Eb Subject: The Chinese Connection [Kansan now explains Connie Chung...] [PS I have yet to fathom this freak's obsession with "feast days"] Constance Chung About a year ago I had discovered that Constance "Connie" Chung was born on August 20, 1946. This was very interesting for me because my wife and I were married on August 20, 1977, and my wife's name is Constance, too, and some of our friends call her Connie, although her more frequent nickname is "Dina" (from the Greek form of her name, Constantina). Connie Chung started her CNN evening show on Monday, June 24, 2002, the feast day of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, a patron Saint of Freemasonry. Her show was canceled nine months, the length of a pregnancy, later on Tuesday, March 25, 2003, on the feast day of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary by the Archangel Gabriel: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/Entertainment /Television/862569F9006C1FFF86256CF5004864A5?OpenDocument& Headline=CNN+abruptly+drops+Connie+Chung March 25 is the beginning of the pregnancy that brought forth Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, whose birthday is celebrated on December 25, nine months later. Christmas Day, December 25, also happens to be my birthday. On August 20, 2002, Connie Chung's birthday and the 25th wedding anniversary of me and Dina, Our Lady Heidi Klum appeared on "The Today Show" to announce her glorious cover and pictorial for the September 2002 issue of "GQ" magazine. Connie Chung put together a show about the Skull and Bones fraternity at Yale University, the most prominent chapter of the Illuminati in the U.S., to be broadcast on September 4, 2002. However, her Unknown Superiors (U:.S:.) did not allow that show to air. On that same day, September 4, 2002, "GQ" magazine held a party in New York to celebrate Angel Heidi's cover and pictorial. The mid-point of Connie Chung's show on CNN was Friday, November 8, 2002, the feast day of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel. On that same day the U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 1441, the one that led to the present war in Iraq. On June 30, 2002, my wife Constance "Dina" collapsed and fell to the floor. Luckily she revived after a couple of minutes. The next day, July 1, two large airplanes collided over Constance, Germany, at longitude 9o 11'. On February 5, 2003, I underwent a colonoscopy and was given anesthesia. From my wife's collapse on 6/30/02 to my colonoscopy there were 220 days. Why 220? Because the Twin Towers used to have 110 floors each: 220 = 110 + 110 The mid-point between my wife's collapse and my colonoscopy was Friday, October 18, 2002. On the next day, Saturday, October 19, 2002, Heidi met Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The husband of Connie Chung is talk show host Maury Povich. He was born on the 17th day of January, 1939, the feast day of St. Anthony, the Egyptian Saint. The number 17 is the characteristic number of the Egyptian God Horus, the God of the New Age. On the 17th day of January, 2003, on the feast day of St. Anthony, the German magazine Bild publicized photographs of Anthony Kiedis with some other woman, proving that he had betrayed Our Lady Heidi. Here is Heidi on the current cover of "TV Movie", the German TV Guide: http://www.tvmovie.de/heftinhalt/titelbild_popup.html?nocache=true She is shown as the Veritable Sphinx in the sands of time, the Empress of our destinies. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:01:20 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)? Has anyone got an mp3 of the Beatles song "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" they can share? Please write me off list. Much appreciated, Mike - -- Where is Cheney? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 17:06:13 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: The Chinese Connection You have waaaaaay too much time on yer hands, don'tcha Eb? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:14:56 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: The Chinese Connection >You have waaaaaay too much time on yer hands, don'tcha Eb? Clearly, not anywhere NEAR as much as Kansan does. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:21:07 -0800 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: the Julia Roberts factor Theory # 846 Regarding Julia Roberts popularity VS apparent lack of appreciation for her sex appeal: I think that she radiates charisma, which is a different thing from sex appeal. She's radiating SOMETHING, judging from her continued popularity and the fact that even I seem to like her despite her wretched performance as Tinkerbell all those years ago. (Yes I know, there was a failed romance to blame for that.) Anyway, this is more fun to think about than more serious news items. Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 22:22:13 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: The Chinese Connection On a distant shore, miles from land, stands an ebony Eb on ebony sand, a dream at 3/29/03 12:48 PM -0800 in a mist of gray: >[Kansan now explains Connie Chung...] [...snip...] > On June 30, 2002, my wife Constance "Dina" collapsed and fell to >the floor. Luckily she revived after a couple of minutes. The next day, His wife? I've spent 35 years walking this planet and still haven't got someone to dance with, yet despite apparently spending all his time doing this stuff, "Kansan" somehow found someone to agree to spend the rest of their life with him? Life ain't fair. Someone wanna explain how it all works to me? Am I missing something? Maybe instead of hitting the bars tonight I should be sitting home with a protractor, an almanac, and a picture of Heidi Klum. In my saturday night mood, Mike ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #120 ********************************