From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #271 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, July 15 2003 Volume 12 : Number 271 Today's Subjects: ----------------- New! Feglist, Now With 50% Fewer Rush Fans ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: scones [Capuchin ] Re: attack of the monster trucks [Capuchin ] Re: Bristol buffets brace for blowhard bombardment ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: scones ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: you say goodbye i say hello toronto ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Football (Soccer content 0%) [Glen Uber ] Fwd: [Fwd: ant beats london by 5] [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: That Robin Guthrie solo album has some rather nice cover art. [Sebast] Re: It's lasagne, Jim, but not as we know it [Michael R Godwin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:19:53 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: New! Feglist, Now With 50% Fewer Rush Fans Eb: >>Well, I wasn't really talking about "live toss-offs." Out of my >>previously posted list, it looks to me like only 12 of those tracks >>are live recordings Oh, I know, I had just drifted on to talk about something else-- it seems like I've heard a LOT of Beatles covers but I think I get that impression more from live experiences than recordings. >>I especially liked "If It Makes You Happy." Oh yeah... that one's insidious, I'll give you that. She just seems to have become someone everyone's heard of (not to mention a self-proclaimed bastion of liberalism in chick-rock) while not evincing that much truly exciting talent and using Don Henley as a role model. Hard to get past that. Especially since she made the effort to get "more" commercial and blander on top of the generous helpings of commerciality and blandness she already possessed. Teenage Fanclub? I can see that; although I traced that guitar sound back to Neil Young. I have been listening to a *hell* of a lot of Teenage Fanclub lately. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:11:48 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: scones >> Reminds me of another indulgent treat ... >> cream tea (clotted cream, scone and strawberry jam). >> Yummy - never seen it offered in Canada though. > >You should consider moving. Cream teas are fairly readily available here >in Somerset, and they gradually become more ubiquitous (and more clotted) >as you go west into Devon and Cornwall. Strawberry jam isn't essential, >raspberry or apricot will do. And the scones should be plural :-) ah, Somerset - the only English county beginning with a Z. And even in NZ scones, cream and jam is known as "A Devonshire Tea". Not that they know how to make clotted cream here. They think any thick cream will do. A local variant here on the scone, jam, and cream is the (IIRC Scottish equivalent) pikelet, jam, and cream. Pikelets are like sorta mini pancakes (um, flapjacks in the US?) a couple of inches across and thicker. Don't know what they're called overseas, or even if they exist. >PS Stewart, how do you pronounce 'scone'? My Edinburgh grandma had no >doubt that it rhymed with 'on'. I'm fairly sure that the 'scoan' pronunciation is an attempt to put an upper class spin on it sometime during Victoria's reign, both in southern England and the northeastern US. Certainly it's rhymed with 'on' north of about Birmingham, right the way up to the Fluggas. 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: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:11:54 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: beatles covers >>>Oasis/I Am the Walrus > >I almost mentioned that one but was afeared it might be taken as an >endorsement of the band... which is also the reason I didn't mention Billy Joel's "I'll cry instead". I risked it with Phil Collins' "Tomorrow never knows" simply because it is a very good version (even better than the 801 version, and consider how big an Eno fan I am...). >>>Matthew Sweet/She Said, She Said > >I'm surprised nobody mentioned that before. It's on some benefit comp, >right? "Born to choose" is the title, IIRC. 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: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:24:16 -0400 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: you say goodbye i say hello devon On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 07:35 PM, Groove Puppy wrote: > Mikey G sed >> You should consider moving. Cream teas are fairly >> readily available here in Somerset, and they >> gradually become more ubiquitous (and more clotted) >> as you go west into Devon and Cornwall. Strawberry >> jam isn't essential, raspberry or apricot will do. >> And the scones should be plural :-) > > May I suggest staying in the country and working to > fix the problem instead of moving on to creamier > pastures (as it were) and leaving the problem for > others? > > It's settled then. Creamier pastures indeed. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:35:41 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Bristol buffets brace for blowhard bombardment >"National talk radio personality Rush Limbaugh will join ESPN's Sunday NFL >Countdown to provide the voice of the fan and to spark debate on the show, >the network announced Monday." > >Which fan would he be the voice of? Not this one. naw. The *fan*. You know - the thing that spins round rapidly and vents nothing but hot air. 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: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:38:41 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: attack of the monster trucks > > We got a Hulk toy monster truck, green Hulk pudding, and some candy. > >Now they have a whole separate truck for the Hulk's toy monster? (That's >sort of a new euphemism on me, but hey, I got it.) I know, it's weird. I don't really want to think about it too hard. >And, just to vent some more about trivia, am I getting sick of the huge >teams! The only way we could win against the huge teams was to get a huge team of our own. We should've gotten best team name, too. It was something like, "I got up at 3:30 to serve you coffee so you can take your non-fat soymilk extra-large cappucino and shove it up your ass!" except it was a lot longer than that. (Jane works at Starbucks.) >I think any of the bar venues are filled with rude people... particularly >when the cover charge is very low. This was a $14 show, and I saw the same behavior at the Interpol show in February where the tickets were $18-$20 (I think) and the show was sold out beforehand, so it wasn't just people wandering in off the street. And I saw the same behavior when I saw the Shins and the Fruit Bats, Clinic and Kingsbury Manx, and Quasi. I've never seen audiences that rude at any other venue in Portland - at least, the ones I've been to (Blackbird, Lola's Room, Crystal Ballroom, even the famously rowdy Satyricon). I don't know whether to blame the venue or the bands. Some time I'll have to try and see the same band at the Blackbird (say) and then at Berbati's, to see if there's a difference. >Yeah, both things (Jane continuing to see a band that "doesn't 'rock' to >her satisfaction; Minus 5, particularly in DOWN WITH WILCO mode, as >***more*** rocking than Wilco) make absolutely no sense to me. I've seen the Minus 5 live twice now, and I failed to feel the rock. Jane thinks Wilco should go back to being an alt-country band so they can rock like they did in 1997, but the Minus 5 sure don't rock like that. (She even gave me a recording of Wilco's infamously rockin' Fillmore '97 show - had the Minus 5 opened up, Wilco would have blown them off the stage into a neighboring state.) >And ignoring the Loose Fur album. And ignoring the setlists which her own >site documents, so she has to know exactly what they're playing! And... >and... I know, I know. I'm not even sure if she's listened to the Loose Fur album. She can't be reasoned with, and lord knows I've tried... ;) >A festival pretty much has to have four or five absolutely killer acts for >us to endure parking, festival crowds, and abbreviated sets by the acts >we're most likely to enjoy. Yeah, I think besides Rhett Miller and Wilco/REM, the only act I wanted to see was the Shins, who are FROM here for chrissake, I'm not going up to Seattle to see them! ah well, n. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:41:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: scones On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, James Dignan wrote: > A local variant here on the scone, jam, and cream is the (IIRC Scottish > equivalent) pikelet, jam, and cream. I can't imagine what we have that's similar to this. A VERY good strawbery shortcake comes close to devonshire tea, doesn't it? ('cept the strawberries are generally not pureed with the sugar and cooked, as in a jam. But shortcake is real close to scones and what y'all are calling "clotted cream" is someone else's guess.) > Pikelets are like sorta mini pancakes (um, flapjacks in the US?) a > couple of inches across and thicker. Don't know what they're called > overseas, or even if they exist. Err... "flapjacks" is a sort of regionalism or colloquialism. Most folks are going to call them pancakes. Pikelets sound like pancakes of the "silver dollar" variety. No idea what I'm talking about, really... just pulling out some educated guesses. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:48:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: attack of the monster trucks On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Natalie Jane wrote: > The only way we could win against the huge teams was to get a huge team > of our own. We should've gotten best team name, too. It was something > like, "I got up at 3:30 to serve you coffee so you can take your non-fat > soymilk extra-large cappucino and shove it up your ass!" except it was a > lot longer than that. (Jane works at Starbucks.) Oh, that wasn't last week! That was two weeks ago. I played alone and came in about four points behind 3rd. Boo hoo. I didn't make it last week. We'll see about tomorrow. > This was a $14 show, and I saw the same behavior at the Interpol show in > February where the tickets were $18-$20 (I think) and the show was sold > out beforehand, so it wasn't just people wandering in off the street. I don't know... I think Berbati's has a high "oh, I'm Jim's friend" content. That is to say, I think they're pretty lax about letting in folks who don't pay. Particularly considering how easy it is to get into the Pan from Berbati's restaurant. > I've never seen audiences that rude at any other venue in Portland - at > least, the ones I've been to (Blackbird, Lola's Room, Crystal Ballroom, > even the famously rowdy Satyricon). I don't know whether to blame the > venue or the bands. Some time I'll have to try and see the same band at > the Blackbird (say) and then at Berbati's, to see if there's a > difference. I saw The Billy Nayer Show at both Berbati's and the Blackbird. The Blackbird audiences seem at least as disinterested in my book (I know, I know, of course they're not interested in my book). Miles: > >A festival pretty much has to have four or five absolutely killer acts for > >us to endure parking, festival crowds, and abbreviated sets by the acts > >we're most likely to enjoy. Parking is pretty avoidable, you know. Amazed at how many people's headaches are car-caused while the dots are never connected, J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:48:22 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Bristol buffets brace for blowhard bombardment Tom Clark wrote: > > Which fan would he be the voice of? The one the shit hit. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:56:31 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: scones Capuchin wrote: > > what y'all are calling > "clotted cream" is someone else's guess. it's basically regular cream that has been thickened by being scalded in hot water. 50-60% butterfat, it's the consistency of axle grease. Cornish clotted cream has a yellowish crust, which is basically butter. I stayed in a hotel that used to serve it on deserts with a trowel. To me, a pancake is a small, 1/4" thick, spongey batter cake cooked on a griddle. If you're from the rest of the UK, you might know then as drop scones or Scotch pancakes. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:58:31 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: you say goodbye i say hello toronto Barbara Soutar wrote: > > So there are lots of reasons for me to be there. looks like it might have to be in my basement; I have space. I'm completely the other side of town from Burlington, tho', but I am near a TTC station. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:30:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: That Robin Guthrie solo album has some rather nice cover art. "Rex.Broome" wrote: > Glen: > >Sacramento is pretty darn close to this description, > >too. Sacramento in the summer is one of the most > >miserable places on earth. > > Nothing like the pain of the sweaty summer Sac. I've got > a friend who's ecstatic to be moving back to LA from > Sacramento, and lemme tell ya, it's boiling here. Yet Davis, right across the causeway is more pleasant during the summer. Still hot as hell, but more pleasantly so. And even so, Sac is still a good 20 degrees less hot (cooler seemed to be wrong choice) than fooking Phoenix. ===== Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > But then there was the Pro Player Stadium nightmare. I > like baseball a lot. > There's no baseball to speak of in Germany and you can't > even watch MLB > matches on TV (as opposed to NBA, NHL and NFL matches). Exhibit 39,894,455 that Bud Selig is too stupid to live. Very odd seeing it called a match though.... > Still, already then we could see that you weren't > expected to go there by any other means than your own > car. We had read that you couldn't take a backpack into > the stadium, but had taken for granted that there would > be an opportunity to deposit it. There wasn't. We were > told "why don't you just leave it in your car?" ... > Finally, one of the parking lot supervisors was > kind enough to take care of it until after the match. Ever since 9/11 they've done this in the name of security, though it probably has more to do with keeping people from bringing in their own food. After all, if it was really security, women wouldn't be allowed to bring in really large purses or diaper bags (which still happens, at least when I went to the Coliseum the last couple times). I'm under the impression that Pro Player is a pretty awful place to watch baseball, but I've never been there or anywhere near it. > Now we come to my question. I read the Miami Herald > almost daily (sorry Peter, the Sun-Sentinel was harder to > find) and I was surprised how relatively liberal it was! > They attacked both the Bushes on a daily basis > and actually called the current state administration > class fighters from the top. Is Knight-Ridder generally > known to be a liberal publisher? I wasn't aware of > that ... The San Jose Merc is relatively liberal, though less so since K-R moved its headquarters here from Miami (strangely enough). ===== Rex: > Jeff D: > >>And HOL did cover "Pink Frost" (though I've never heard > it). > > Where dat? I'd be interested to hear it. One of the 12" (but not CD) singles from _Babe Rainbow._ Saw it once at Mod Lang, but they wanted something just unseemly for it (like $35ish). ===== Glen Uber wrote: > I can find no words to describe what I'm feeling right now. > Come back Sterling Sharpe, all is forgiven! Between this and Michael Irvin, I guess the only pre-game I'm even going to get close to even is the Edge Match-up show with Suzie Kolber, Ron Jaworski, and Merril Hoge. ===== "Being accused of hating America by people like Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham is like being accused of hating children by Michael Jackson or (Cardinal) Bernard Law." -- anonymous . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 21:36:15 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Football (Soccer content 0%) Apologies if this gets sent twice. My SMTP server is a bit squonky tonight. On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 06:30 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Exhibit 39,894,455 that Bud Selig is too stupid to live. Yeah, and I think Barry Zito could give you at least one other reason. > Come back Sterling Sharpe, all is forgiven! Between this > and Michael Irvin, I guess the only pre-game I'm even going > to get close to even is the Edge Match-up show with Suzie > Kolber, Ron Jaworski, and Merril Hoge. I really used to like ESPN's pre-game, too. I will still probably watch the Fox pre-game, although Bradshaw's schtick was old a few years ago and Howie Long is so stiff he makes Al Gore look like Plasticman. JB Brown is still one of the better talking heads in sports broadcasting and Jimmy Johnson, like him or not, knows football. I don't know who they're going to get to replace Jimmy Kimmell, but Jillian Barberie should take off more clothes while doing the weather report. I know that last sentence was a non-sequitur, but I know you'll understand my lapse and forgive me for it. CBS's pre-game is absolutely atrocious. Jim Nance is piddling away the prime of his career with a pretentious knucklehead Dan "I couldn't hold Montana's and Elway's jockstraps" Marino, the bombastic Deion "The most overrated player ever, praise Jesus" Sanders and that obnoxiously stupid redneck, Jerry "Wouldn't you like to know the deal I made with Satan" Glanville. Worst. Pre-Game. Ever. In the end, it won't matter because no matter how bad the pre-game is, the football game is less than an hour away. And *THAT* my friends is why I get out of bed on Sundays from September through January. - -g "The Raiders' training camp opens in 10 days" the glenster ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:59:44 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Football (Soccer content 0%) On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 06:30 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Exhibit 39,894,455 that Bud Selig is too stupid to live. Yeah, and I think Barry Zito could give you at least one other reason. > Come back Sterling Sharpe, all is forgiven! Between this > and Michael Irvin, I guess the only pre-game I'm even going > to get close to even is the Edge Match-up show with Suzie > Kolber, Ron Jaworski, and Merril Hoge. I really used to like ESPN's pre-game, too. I will still probably watch the Fox pre-game, although Bradshaw's schtick was old a few years ago and Howie Long is so stiff he makes Al Gore look like Plasticman. JB Brown is still one of the better talking heads in sports broadcasting and Jimmy Johnson, like him or not, knows football. I don't know who they're going to get to replace Jimmy Kimmell, but Jillian Barberie should take off more clothes while doing the weather report. I know that last sentence was a non-sequitur, but I know you'll understand my lapse and forgive me for it. CBS's pre-game is absolutely atrocious. Jim Nance is piddling away the prime of his career with a pretentious knucklehead Dan "I couldn't hold Montana's and Elway's jockstraps" Marino, the bombastic Deion "The most overrated player ever, praise Jesus" Sanders and that obnoxiously stupid redneck, Jerry "Wouldn't you like to know the deal I made with Satan" Glanville. Worst. Pre-Game. Ever. In the end, it won't matter because no matter how bad the pre-game is, the football game is less than an hour away. And *THAT* my friends is why I get out of bed on Sundays from September through January. - -g "The Raiders' training camp opens in 10 days" the glenster ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:01:06 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: ant beats london by 5] fans of eccentric American Anton Barbeau (of whom there should be more, particularly here) may wish to note the following: - ----- Forwarded message From: Anton Barbeau i'm looking to get the word out about my brit shows upcoming. if you feel there's anyone who'd benefit from hearing about these shows, please pass the word along. web Details at http://www.antonbarbeau.com/gigbag.html take care, ant - ----- End forwarded message ----- For more words on Barbeau, my site (URL in .sig) reviews several of his releases... ..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: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:09:52 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Polyphonic Spree beg for return of priceless stolen robe Oh no! Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:29:58 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Funky moodiness continues, but what're you gonna do... - --On Montag, 14. Juli 2003 12:00 Uhr -0700 "Rex.Broome" wrote: > Sebastian: >>> I don't get why people are so down on Shrek. I thought it wasn't half >>> bad, > >>> both animation- and storywise. > > Mehh. Everthing Pixar's ever done smokes it like a stale Virginia Slim. Possibly. I wasn't too keen on the Toy Story films, but Finding Nemo is great. > All the "sly" pop culture references for the "adult" audience were (A) > overbearing, (B) facile, (C) distracting, making it hard to buy into the > "world", and (D) Katzenberg's petty bitterness towards Disney, which I > don't need in my kids' film. I never considered it a kids' film (don't have any myself), so I didn't care. > And the stuff for the kids was basically > bathroom humor What's wrong with that? ;-) > and manufactured naughtiness without a lot of the "heart" > that Pixar seems to mine so effortlessly. Shrek wasn't terrrible, and it > was occasionally funny, but I find it *overrated* considering that its > gross was comparable to, and it won the Oscar over, Monsters Inc. I didn't watch Monsters Inc. in a theater, because Disney in their wisdom only distributed the dubbed version over here. I will have to rent the DVD one of these days ... but I'm quite ready to believe that it's the better of the two. Cheers, Sebastian - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:54:41 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: scones > Capuchin wrote: > > what y'all are calling "clotted cream" is someone else's guess. > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > it's basically regular cream that has been thickened by being scalded in > hot water. 50-60% butterfat, it's the consistency of axle grease. > Cornish clotted cream has a yellowish crust, which is basically butter. > > I stayed in a hotel that used to serve it on deserts with a trowel. Lying on an ironing board in the Sahara, I suppose? :-) (-: I was always told that 'pikelets' is the northern word for what we sassenachs call 'crumpets'. But in the antipodes, pikelets are apparently Scotch pancakes. For further enlightenment, try: But I hadn't realised that there was any confusion between a griddle and a girdle. I'm sure I could tell one from the other... - - Mike Godwin PS I favour STRICTLY ENFORCED MAXIMA on numbers in a triv team. Four people @ #1 each for preference, 5 at the absolute outside. Otherwise you can bring in limitless extras who only know about one thing (opera, Olympics, ornithology, Ozymandias or other obscurities). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:19:49 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: That Robin Guthrie solo album has some rather nice cover art. - --On Montag, 14. Juli 2003 18:30 Uhr -0700 Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: >> But then there was the Pro Player Stadium nightmare. I >> like baseball a lot. >> There's no baseball to speak of in Germany and you can't >> even watch MLB >> matches on TV (as opposed to NBA, NHL and NFL matches). > > Exhibit 39,894,455 that Bud Selig is too stupid to live. > > Very odd seeing it called a match though.... Oops, was that an, hmm, anglicism? Are they always called ballgames in the US? And do you think it's Bud Selig's fault that they can't break overseas markets? > I'm under the impression that Pro Player is a pretty awful > place to watch baseball, but I've never been there or > anywhere near it. Actually I thought the stadium itself was quite nice. I've only been to Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium before, but Pro Player has very nice features - the aisles are very spacious, for example. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:25:13 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: It's lasagne, Jim, but not as we know it - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 04:35:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Football (Soccer content 0%) Glen Uber wrote: > On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 06:30 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > Exhibit 39,894,455 that Bud Selig is too stupid to > live. > > Yeah, and I think Barry Zito could give you at least one > other reason. AMen. Funny, the Blue Jays spend all week talking about how they don't want Roy Halliday to pitch, and it never occurs to Beelzebud to use _that_ as a hole to get Clemens on the roster. Of course, Hudson is having a better year than Zito, but still. You should at least tell a guy he's been dumped from the All-Star roster before you send him out to deal with the press. > > Come back Sterling Sharpe, all is forgiven! Between > this > > and Michael Irvin, I guess the only pre-game I'm even > going > > to get close to even is the Edge Match-up show with > Suzie > > Kolber, Ron Jaworski, and Merril Hoge. > > I really used to like ESPN's pre-game, too. I will still > probably watch the Fox pre-game, although Bradshaw's > schtick was old a few years ago and Howie Long is so > stiff he makes Al Gore look like Plasticman. JB > Brown is still one of the better talking heads in sports > broadcasting and Jimmy Johnson, like him or not, knows > football. I don't know who they're going to get to > replace Jimmy Kimmell, but Jillian Barberie > should take off more clothes while doing the weather > report. I had forgotten Kimmell will be off the Fox show; that should help them immensely. I agree with ever word up there, except Barberie should also consider delivering the weather report via sign language so we don't have to hear her rather annoying voice. JB is probably the best talking head in sports these days, except maybe Mike Tirico. That both are not idiots helps immensely (that should sound less like faint praise than it does since both give the impression of actually being rather bright). > I know that last sentence was a non-sequitur, but I know > you'll understand my lapse and forgive me for it. > > CBS's pre-game is absolutely atrocious. Jim Nance is > piddling away the prime of his career with a pretentious > knucklehead Dan "I couldn't hold > Montana's and Elway's jockstraps" Marino He was still a great QB though. He just had some truly rotten teams around him. > the bombastic Deion "The most > overrated player ever, praise Jesus" Sanders and that > obnoxiously > stupid redneck, Jerry "Wouldn't you like to know the deal > I made with Satan" Glanville. Worst. Pre-Game. Ever. The only good thing about the CBS show is it means Glanville isn't doing gamework. > In the end, it won't matter because no matter how bad the > pre-game is, > the football game is less than an hour away. And *THAT* > my friends is > why I get out of bed on Sundays from September through > January. > > -g "The Raiders' training camp opens in 10 days" the > glenster ===== "Being accused of hating America by people like Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham is like being accused of hating children by Michael Jackson or (Cardinal) Bernard Law." -- anonymous . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! 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