From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #138 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, April 11 2003 Volume 12 : Number 138 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Mortality Meter [Eb ] Re: Iraqi info minister [Miles Goosens ] Saeed Mohammad al-Sahaf, we hardly knew ye ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Saeed Mohammad al-Sahaf, we hardly knew ye [Miles Goosens ] new stupid topic [Eb ] Jack White on drummers [Tom Clark ] Talking Blues [John Barrington Jones ] Re: Talking Blues [Glen Uber ] Re: A little something which may piss three of you off and bore the r est [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] The Inevitable Website Blues [Christopher Gross ] lotsa tiny bits (RH 0%, REM 10%) [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: lotsa tiny bits (RH 0%, REM 10%) [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Saeed Mohammad al-Sahaf [Scott Hunter McCleary ] RE: new stupid topic [Eb ] RE: new stupid topic [John Barrington Jones ] Re: new stupid topic (100% RH) [Tom Clark ] Ugly irony [Eb ] Re: new stupid topic ["Michael Wells" ] Re: Luxor ["Brian Hoare" ] Seriously ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Seriously [gshell@metronet.com] Re: Seriously ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Seriously ["Jonathan Fetter" ] Prolly been posted already, but... ["Rex.Broome" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:22:52 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Mortality Meter >Tom: > > How do you know that? Seems to me you couldn't ever judge that >objectively. > >> I mean, have people been saying to you "gee, wish it was you, Eric"? I'm >>> not attacking, just wondering how you came to that conclusion. >> >> Mmm...like someone else suggested, my statement wasn't referring to > > just the environment of *this list*. > Actually I wasn't referring to this list at all. Oh, ok. Well, there's a big difference between someone not caring about your death and someone actually wishing you WERE dead, y'know. Sunnily yours, Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:28:32 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Iraqi info minister At 03:08 PM 4/10/2003 -0400, The Great Quail wrote: >Mike writes, > >> I, for one, am going to miss that Iraqi information minister. He was >> FANTASTIC! You just don't get quality programming like that anymore. > >Hear hear! I really think that he could have a brilliant career ahead of >himself in the US media. It's weird -- the more astonishing his lies, the >more colorful his insults, the more adorable he became! I say, bring on the >Saeed Mohammad al-Sahaf action figures! I'm totally down with this! Ron Ziegler (did anyone do that recent "reap?"), Larry Speakes, and Ari Fleischer couldn't touch Saeed Mohammed al-Sahaf! Instead of the surliness, aloofness, and self-congratulatory-ness of our rogue's gallery of press secretaries, al-Sahaf brought unmitigated joy to his daily passel of lies, relishing every syllable of his outrageous fabrications and telling them with an enviable glee! He was a hoot and a half! later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:26:39 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Saeed Mohammad al-Sahaf, we hardly knew ye Stewart: >>does Grandpa Jones count? You probably knew this was coming, but my dad's band opened for Grandpa Jones once. He wanted to know what the hell all the extra frets were on the banjo player's Seeger Vega.* ____ Mike: > I, for one, am going to miss that Iraqi information minister. He was > FANTASTIC! You just don't get quality programming like that anymore. Loved that guy. He reminded me of the dictator from "Bananas"-- "From now on... everyone under the age of seventeen... will be... seventeen!" (Or something like that-- it's been a while since I've seen any of the early, funny ones**.) ______ Jeff: >>Oh, and Rex, re playing "Livin' Lovin' Maid" by Led Zeppelin: I'm convinced >>that at least part of their poor reputation among certain audiences is due >>to radio's playing the same six tunes...many of which are among their worst, >>like this one, which probably *is* their worst. True, a sad fate which befalls many a fine beat combo. However one shouldn't assume that I wasn't endlessly subjected to Zepplin albums as well as the hits during the course of my anti-conditioning to them. It actually made things a little worse, as the endless stoner parsing of the lyrics to the "deep" songs didn't exactly, umm, draw me into the fold. But admittedly the Doors were much worse for this... "We like Morrison, so that means we're poetic and literary AND horny, sexy hedonists all at the same time!" Just kind of a poison scene whose pall has never quite lifted from some of those bands, music & lit. Truth be told, though, if I could hear Zep for the first time tomorrow, I'd probably love them, whereas if I were just now introduced the Doors I'd probably laugh my ass off. Wonder what I'd make of the Velvet Underground, huh? ____ Eb's list of extended-family-songs includes: >>L--d F----y/Uncle Lucky Heh heh. I think in order to conserve dashes and asterisks (in the cause of homeland security), we need to institute new code names for the Dark One's bands. I propose: G--e T----y: Gaye Tranny L--d F----y: Lord Farley S---- M----: Steve Malkmus (Okay, the last one doesn't fit, but come on, it's the obvious solution.) For some reason the mention of Grandma songs brings to mind, first and foremost, Ass Ponys' "Earth to Grandma" ("...what the hell is that?"), which still kind of makes me laugh just thinking about it. I'm guessing it's on Eb's list, too. Eb, I think playing the piano is as healthy of a coping mechanism as can be imagined. Play on. - -Rex, who just finished his own song for his own Grandmother which doesn't have the word "Grandma" or "Grandmother" in the title but is in fact named after a small town in West Virginia, so there is that at least. *freebie for those jonesing for "banjo folk revivalist vs. traditionalist" humor, I know you're out there... ** bad band name suggestion freebie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:37:11 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Mortality Meter Tom Clark quipped: > > Here's a joke for you: > Saddam's doctor gets all his look-alikes ... Though funny, it's reminding me of a deeply disturbing book, "Biographi". It's the story (which I'm now seeing reported as fiction, but it seemed like non-fiction to me) of Enver Hoxha's body double. It's alarming throughout, but the section just after Hoxha dies, and the double resorts to mutilating his own face to avoid being attacked, is especially grim. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:52:14 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Saeed Mohammad al-Sahaf, we hardly knew ye At 01:26 PM 4/10/2003 -0700, Rex.Broome wrote: >Eb's list of extended-family-songs includes: >>>L--d F----y/Uncle Lucky > >Heh heh. I think in order to conserve dashes and asterisks (in the cause of >homeland security), we need to institute new code names for the Dark One's >bands. I propose: > >G--e T----y: Gaye Tranny >L--d F----y: Lord Farley >S---- M----: Steve Malkmus > >(Okay, the last one doesn't fit, but come on, it's the obvious solution.) It may be worth noting that "Uncle Lucky" wasn't written or sung by S---- M-----, though whether that moves it up or down the Eb-O-Meter, I dunno. later, Miles "Make My S---- Saeed!" Goosens ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:04:38 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Saeed Mohammad al-Sahaf, we hardly knew ye >It may be worth noting that "Uncle Lucky" wasn't written or sung by >S---- M----- Of course not. If it was, the title would be three times as long. "In Which Uncle Lucky Reaps the Fruit of His Belabor Parts 0A-FD".... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:36:54 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: A little something which may piss three of you off and bore the r est Tom C: >>Could somebody explain to me how CNN is a leftist media outlet? I was >>having a conversation (polite argument) with an office mate, and he just >>kept saying that they "put a negative spin on every story" regarding the >>war. Okay, but what's getting on my last nerve are these ostensibly polite "anecdotes" about how bad it is to protest the war. It's the disingenuous framing devices that get me. Like this: "When I was getting back on the train, there were protestors on the train platform handing out pamphlets on the evils of America. I politely declined to take one." Wow. Polite guy. Except that's FUCKING RETARDED. Nobody or next to nobody is handing out pamphlets saying "America is bad". The framework of these little stories is always some noble "of course I support freedom of speech, no matter how wrong your opinion", and then goes on to ascribe to every single protestor extreme ideas that just aren't out there. I mean, seriously. "Let's have an America is Evil rally! Surely many will show up to support that idea! And nobody could fear to be associated with that cause! Let's all put it on our t-shirts and resumes! Booo, Democracy! Yay, Saddam! Down with US Soldiers-- not just the military, but the soldiers on an individual basis, we hope they die to a one! Let's be explicit that those are our positions! Who's with me?" 'Cause that's exactly what Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, Liberal Minions of Stan, mean when they flash peace signs, in case you were unaware. There are plenty of things to make fun of Liberal extremists for, but is it that hard to confine it to positions they actually advocate, or ideas they actually articulate? More fun with non-sequitirs from a similar "protest protest spam": "There are people out there who do not support this war. I am well aware of that." Okay. "However, if you do not support the members of our military, you do not deserve the freedoms they fight to protect." Huh? Well, I can see the value judgment there. I don't deserve it because I'm a bad person, but luckily I live in this wonderful country where I'll be free to carry on regardless, yeah? "You do not deserve to run a business in this country. You do not deserve to profit in this country." Well, I mean, I'm free to try, right? Boycott me all you want. That's what you mean, right? Vote with your dollar and all that. "And, since without our military you would not have freedom of speech, you do not deserve to express an opinion in this country." Oh jeez. Sorry. I sure won't do it again! But you really should incarcerate me just in case I slip up and articulate my seditious ideas ever again! And I need help with the Zen Riddle about how protesting is valid until war actually starts, but once it has, everyone must shut up and support the war. Riiiight. That's how it goes. Once people start being killed, and because they have started being killed, it becomes automatically correct that they be killed. Okay. (Good thing to remember the next time I'm resisting a home invasion.) But in the storied history of "Anti-War Protests", about what percentage of them do you figure have been staged *outside the timeframe* of the conflict to which they were opposed? And who were the ad wizards who came up with those? Well, anyhow, that's what buggin' me. Note that the above contains no explicit opinions about any action of the US or any other government... just bitching about shoddy/ad-hominem arguments. Semantics, yo? - -Rex, promising now to return to the usual squid/banjo/cute actresses/bad band names mode np. Tim Robbins being interviewed on NPR ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:40:08 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Fegmoment So I just got an e-mail from the Quality Paperback Club, except when I glanced at the new arrivals to my inbox, I read the sender as "Quaility Paperback Club." I would have done a triple-take if the selection of the month had been a Borges anthology. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:01:11 -0700 From: Eb Subject: new stupid topic The 10 weirdest blues titles I own: "Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever)" "(Don't Turn Your) Car Lights on in the Daytime Blues" "Dwarfish Trumpet Blues" "Disco: The Secretaries Blues" "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues" "Turkish Tram Conductor Blues" "Talkin' Roget's Thesaurus Headline Blues" "St. Lita Ford Blues" "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" "White Rental Car Blues" Eb, singin de blooz hisself ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:04:38 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Jack White on drummers From The Onion A.V. Club http://www.theonionavclub.com/features.php?feature_id=22 "Drummers always get the short end of the stick. No matter how great you are, or how simple you are, you get shafted. I mean, we see it all the time in this band. There's only the two of us, and people will direct all their questions toward me. When you've broken it down to just me and the drummer, it's still the drummer getting the short end of the stick. And then she gets ripped for not being Neil Peart or something. People miss the point. A lot of other guitar players that I liked started out being drummers, like Dick Dale. I think it's a smart thing, because you have that rhythm in your brain, so when you're writing music, that's a huge component of it." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:12:30 -0700 (PDT) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Talking Blues How about Talkin' Alien Abduction Blues Talkin' Bob, Woody, Bruce and Dan Talkin' Mrs. DiFranco Blues Talkin' Al Kida Blues =jbj= On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Eb wrote: > The 10 weirdest blues titles I own: > > "Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone > Wants to Live Forever)" > "(Don't Turn Your) Car Lights on in the Daytime Blues" > "Dwarfish Trumpet Blues" > "Disco: The Secretaries Blues" > "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues" > "Turkish Tram Conductor Blues" > "Talkin' Roget's Thesaurus Headline Blues" > "St. Lita Ford Blues" > "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" > "White Rental Car Blues" > > Eb, singin de blooz hisself ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:20:03 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Talking Blues Once upon a time John Barrington Jones say to me -- this is the dog talkin' now -- what is your conceptual continuity? > How about > > Talkin' Alien Abduction Blues > Talkin' Bob, Woody, Bruce and Dan > Talkin' Mrs. DiFranco Blues > Talkin' Al Kida Blues Or "Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues" by Todd Snider. I recently wrote a song called "Talkin' King of All Beers Blues". Not to toot my own horn, but I think it's frickin' hilarious. The 20 +/- people who have heard it would concur. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Work is the curse of the drinking class." - --Oscar Wilde ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:27:54 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: A little something which may piss three of you off and bore the r est Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > Okay, but what's getting on my last nerve are these ostensibly polite > "anecdotes" about how bad it is to protest the war. It's the > disingenuous > framing devices that get me. One of our local news broadcasts teaser'd an upcoming story with the following (paraphrased): "Many people who protest President Bush's policies think he's not very intelligent. But how many of them went to Harvard or Yale? How smart are they?" Too bad Fred Rogers is dead - "can you spell 'legacy admit,' Mr. Newscaster?" (I just remembered: 'twas a Fox outlet...) ..Jeff, neither pissed nor bored: I'm confused by that... 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 np: Lilys _Eccsame the Photon Band_ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:44:28 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: RE: new stupid topic Talk about a niche! It goes to show you can work most anything into a blues tune, can't you? Ferris "Peckin' Keys When He Oughta Be Packin' Cheese Blues" Thomas > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf > Of Eb > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 6:01 PM > To: fgz > Subject: new stupid topic > > The 10 weirdest blues titles I own: > > "Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone > Wants to Live Forever)" > "(Don't Turn Your) Car Lights on in the Daytime Blues" > "Dwarfish Trumpet Blues" > "Disco: The Secretaries Blues" > "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues" > "Turkish Tram Conductor Blues" > "Talkin' Roget's Thesaurus Headline Blues" > "St. Lita Ford Blues" > "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" > "White Rental Car Blues" > > Eb, singin de blooz hisself ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:50:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: The Inevitable Website Blues ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:50:16 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: lotsa tiny bits (RH 0%, REM 10%) >I'm answering before peeking at Miles's response: no, it's not. I >personally find Morgantown a little depressing. you gotta admit though, it's responsible for one of Joni Mitchell's prettiest early songs. - --- >And the entire band UNKLE. > >And Uncle Cracker, that's someone, right? Kid Rock-relasted artiste? And Uncle Tupelo, and Drunk Uncle, but I suspect this is getting a tad further off topic. - --- >Early REM is where it is at. I am wondering what this >new record will sound like. I must admit, I like some later REM - Fables of the Recostruction, for instance, is one of my favourites ;) (okay, okay, I like Automatic ftP too...) - --- >I've only gone running once this week, because my sleep has been so >irregular that I don't have the strength. go running Eb. The adrenalin/oxygen high will do you good, and you'll probably be able to sleep better after the run too, which is what you need most right now, I'd say - a good night's sleep. - --- >Could somebody explain to me how CNN is a leftist media outlet? I was >having a conversation (polite argument) with an office mate, and he just >kept saying that they "put a negative spin on every story" regarding the >war. thank you. I just had to clean coffee off my keyboard. CNN was some of the most rah-rah jingoistic right-wing commentary of the war that I heard. You mean by US standards it was to the left? Jeeesus. James PS - yay! The sharkboy made an appearance! 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, 10 Apr 2003 18:00:16 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: lotsa tiny bits (RH 0%, REM 10%) Quoting James Dignan : > > >Could somebody explain to me how CNN is a leftist media outlet? I was > >having a conversation (polite argument) with an office mate, and he > just > >kept saying that they "put a negative spin on every story" regarding > the > >war. > > thank you. I just had to clean coffee off my keyboard. CNN was some of > the > most rah-rah jingoistic right-wing commentary of the war that I heard. > You > mean by US standards it was to the left? Jeeesus. The US political spectrum is shifted so far rightwards that, say, for someone to claim to be something relatively moderate in a global sense - "I'm a democratic socialist," for instance - is the equivalent (in terms of shocked reaction) to a man standing up in church and wiggling his exposed penis in the face of someone's grandma. I mean, compared to a lot of current officeholders, Richard Fucking Nixon held "left-wing" positions. I wish that were a joke. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb :: --Batman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:19:24 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: lotsa tiny bits (RH 0%, REM 10%) At 10:50 AM 4/11/2003 +1200, James Dignan wrote: >go running Eb. The adrenalin/oxygen high will do you good, and you'll >probably be able to sleep better after the run too, which is what you need >most right now, I'd say - a good night's sleep. When my mother passed away two years ago, I found that long walks and other forms of regular exercise were a good way to clear my head. It gave me the opportunity to contemplate things away from other people, and the physical activity refreshed and invigorated me at a time when most of life's daily distractions and stresses were seriously over-burdening me. Exercising was almost like a form of meditation, helping me to focus and carry on. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:21:56 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: fun in church At 06:00 PM 4/10/2003 -0500, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: >"I'm a democratic socialist," for instance - is the equivalent (in terms of >shocked reaction) to a man standing up in church and wiggling his exposed >penis in the face of someone's grandma. I'm looking forward to the day when I can do both... and not be labelled a "radical" because of it. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:32:28 -0400 From: Scott Hunter McCleary Subject: Saeed Mohammad al-Sahaf >I, for one, am going to miss that Iraqi information minister. He was >FANTASTIC! You just don't get quality programming like that anymore. I hear FoxNews has a job offer for him. - -- ========= SH McCleary Prodigal Dog Communications PO Box 6163 Arlington, VA 22206 shmac@prodigaldog.com www.prodigaldog.com www.1480kHz.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:44:32 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: new stupid topic I wanna add a few more titles from my collection, which just as easily could have been in my initial post: Modern Man Hurricane Blues Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues My Human Gets Me Blues The Smithsonian Institute Blues (or the Big Dig) Flyswatter/Ice Water Blues (Monte Trenckmann's Blues) Constipation Blues Border Town Blues: A Blunt Instrument Bleeding Gums Blues Blues No. 1: Garden of Medals Blues No. 2: Beatle Bonfire Postmodern Deconstructivist Blues Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:56:54 -0700 (PDT) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: RE: new stupid topic There's a tune off the new Eels (I illegally downloaded a pre-release) called Restraining Order Blues. fyi, =jbj= On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Eb wrote: > I wanna add a few more titles from my collection, which just as > easily could have been in my initial post: > > Modern Man Hurricane Blues > Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues > Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again > Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues > My Human Gets Me Blues > The Smithsonian Institute Blues (or the Big Dig) > Flyswatter/Ice Water Blues (Monte Trenckmann's Blues) > Constipation Blues > Border Town Blues: A Blunt Instrument > Bleeding Gums Blues > Blues No. 1: Garden of Medals > Blues No. 2: Beatle Bonfire > Postmodern Deconstructivist Blues > Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues > Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) > > Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:58:05 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: new stupid topic (100% RH) on 4/10/03 5:44 PM, Eb at ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: > I wanna add a few more titles from my collection, which just as > easily could have been in my initial post: > > Modern Man Hurricane Blues > Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues > Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again > Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues > My Human Gets Me Blues > The Smithsonian Institute Blues (or the Big Dig) >... Blues In A - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:02:57 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Ugly irony Tonight is "Survivor," one of my father's favorite shows. Brrrr. I guess the tribe has spoken, Dad. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:16:29 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: new stupid topic Steve Goodman knocked out a few, including "The I Don't Know Where I'm Goin', But I'm Goin' Nowhere in a Hurry Blues" and of course the classic "Chicken Cordon Blues." The weirdest one I can take some blame for was the seminal "You Can Shove the Green Bay Packers Up Your Ass Sideways Blues," which we originally sang to the tune "If You're Happy and You Know it Clap Your Hands" but later modified into a slow blues number for acoustic guitar, jawharp, and upside-down beer tub. Michael "we'd have included an ocarina...if we'd had one" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:08:04 +0000 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: Re: Luxor >From: brian@lazerlove5.com >Subject: Re: Luxor >I don't understand why it's not released in the states yet. That where most >of RH's fans reside. Unless, the US version will have bonus tracks so we >all buy it twice, which is fine by me, cuz I'm a sorry sap, but we've all >had that coversation before right? > >Nuppy (who just ordered Luxor from amazon.uk.co) I think amazon.co.uk may have been misinformed as to the release date. Luxor was part of an order I had with them and two days ago they posted everything but Luxor. They have the release date as 7th and the _usually ships in X days_ has today increased from 3 to 4. So I don't think they've got any yet or that it will be any quicker than going through the gift shop. Brian _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/mobile ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:41:40 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Seriously I am beginning to be afraid of this society: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/hallfame/2003-04-10-bull-durham-hall-of-fame_x.htm I like this one: Petroskey, a former White House assistant press secretary under Ronald Reagan, said recent comments by the actors "ultimately could put our troops in even more danger." Yeah, discussing Kevin Costner with some baseball fans at the hall of fame puts our troops in imminent danger. Max _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:34:17 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: Seriously >I am beginning to be afraid of this society so why stay? leach yourself to a society in which you are more comfortable, like iran, the ukraine or syria. the opiates are cheaper except in the ukraine and you can essentially smoke the good stuff all day and then beat your wife(s) and kid(s) without fear of police interdiction. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:08:30 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Seriously At 09:34 AM 4/11/2003 -0500, gshell@metronet.com wrote: > >I am beginning to be afraid of this society > >so why stay? leach yourself to a society in which you are more >comfortable, like iran, the ukraine or syria. the opiates are cheaper >except in the ukraine and you can essentially smoke the good stuff all day >and then beat your wife(s) and kid(s) without fear of police interdiction. Just because one has become afraid of Society A does not mean one is not also afraid of Societies B through ZZZ. In fact, one may still be more afraid of every other society, while at the same time be growing fearful of what they consider the "best of the bunch" (or, at least, one of the better ones). Also, running to B, C or the D may not alleviate ones fears of A if A is likely to invade B, C and D, massacring the populace in some grand liberation scheme. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:40:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: Seriously Maybe Petrosky was trying to protect the public from Costner. I sure wish someone had protected me from "The Postman." Jon > Yeah, discussing Kevin Costner with some baseball fans at the hall of fame > puts our troops in imminent danger. > > Max ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:20:25 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Prolly been posted already, but... I know this guy has some fans around here... http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:39:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Seriously Maximilian Lang wrote: > I am beginning to be afraid of this society: > > http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/hallfame/2003-04-10-bull-durham-hall-of-fame_x.htm > > I like this one: > > Petroskey, a former White House assistant press secretary under > Ronald Reagan, said recent comments by the actors "ultimately > could put our troops in even more danger." I love the subconscious contempt that shows for the troops. These guys always claim to adore and respect and admire the enlisted men, but would never stoop to either become them or to help them out once they become veterans (especially ones who suffer physical and psychological injuries while fighting for us). Deep down, it betrays that they really think the troops are such pussies that Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon stating their lack of faith in the Bushistas would devastate them; no soldier worth a damn has time to give a shit what Robbins or Sarandon -- or Tom Selleck or Charlton Heston for that matter -- think about Bush. > Yeah, discussing Kevin Costner with some baseball fans at the > hall of fame puts our troops in imminent danger. that's right, Kevin Costner did once make a decent movie in spite of himself. seems so impossible.... ===== "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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