From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #324 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, September 2 2003 Volume 12 : Number 324 Today's Subjects: ----------------- bob's your uncle ["Natalie Jane" ] Re: bob's your uncle [Marcy Tanter ] Re: Bobbing down for the worst [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: bob's your uncle ["Stewart C. Russell" ] reap ["Glen Uber" ] reap [Eb ] Re: reap ["Glen Uber" ] Re: reap [Eb ] Robyn @ Croc ["Bradley Wood" ] Re: reap [Ken Weingold ] Re: Bobbing down for the worst [Ken Weingold ] Re: bob's your uncle (100% Hitchcock ...) [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: spam gets surreal, vol. 2 [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: bob's your uncle ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: bob's your uncle (100% Hitchcock ...) ["Matt Sewell" ] RE: reap ["FS Thomas" ] RE: reap ["Maximilian Lang" ] RE: reap [Eb ] Idiot of the week. [Dr John Halewood ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:33:02 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: bob's your uncle >If Family Feud did a "Name a Famous Bob" poll, I wonder what names >would appear on the board? Pollard. n. p.s. Eb, go see "American Splendor." _________________________________________________________________ Help protect your PC: Get a free online virus scan at McAfee.com. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:58:39 -0500 From: Marcy Tanter Subject: Re: bob's your uncle Dylan, Crane, the Builder, Barker, Hope.... Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:27:32 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Bobbing down for the worst >>>Yeah, me too. If someone says Bob to me, I think of Mould. >> >>Shades of "You whistle, and I say France" and "Ringworm", both by Van the Man. > >If Family Feud did a "Name a Famous Bob" poll, I wonder what names >would appear on the board? Sigh. Do none of you remember "Twin Peaks"? Or "Blackadder", for that matter. Although the latter always requires a pause before the name "...Bob". Hearing the name Bob usually reminds me of one or the other. And in music Dylan is, of course, "Bawb". "Bob" is Marley. And "Sir Bob" is Geldof - someone that none of you seem to have mentioned yet. - --- >..."We Didn't Start the Fire" >[...] it's quite possibly the most obnoxious song ever recorded. ooh. I sense a new thread! I think I'll vote for "Hello, this is Joanie" by Paul Evans. 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: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:50:23 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: bob's your uncle J R "..." Dobbs ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:10:00 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: reap Your "wish" is my command: I know, it's tasteless. I'm going to Hell anyway so I might as well pick out my own pitchfork. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Soylens Viridis Homines Est" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:13:58 -0700 From: Eb Subject: reap Charles Bronson. Eb (and if his entire body of work minus "Once Upon a Time in the West" is buried with him, that's fine with me) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:02:00 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: reap Eb earnestly scribbled: >Charles Bronson. > >Eb (and if his entire body of work minus "Once Upon a Time in the >West" is buried with him, that's fine with me) I'm with you. My dad is a huge fan and, as a kid, I was forced to sit through every one of his movies whenever one was on TV. It's a wonder I'm as well-adjusted as I am. *TICK* *SPUTTER* - -- Cheers! - -g- "Soylens Viridis Homines Est" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:07:38 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: reap > >Eb (and if his entire body of work minus "Once Upon a Time in the >>West" is buried with him, that's fine with me) > >I'm with you. My dad is a huge fan and, as a kid, I was forced to sit >through every one of his movies whenever one was on TV. DITTO. Except substitute "was" for is." :( I miss my dad and his horrible, voyeuristic taste in movies. I had to call my mother today. She still has his old greeting as her voicemail message. Eerie, to say the least. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 05:43:18 +0000 From: "Bradley Wood" Subject: Robyn @ Croc The calendar for the Crocodile Cafe lists Robyn as playing there November 15 (Sat). Bradley _________________________________________________________________ Get MSN 8 and enjoy automatic e-mail virus protection. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 02:16:02 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: reap On Sun, Aug 31, 2003, Eb wrote: > Eb (and if his entire body of work minus "Once Upon a Time in the > West" is buried with him, that's fine with me) Bah, 10 To Midnight was fun at the time. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 02:17:04 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Bobbing down for the worst On Mon, Sep 1, 2003, James Dignan wrote: > > And "Sir Bob" is Geldof - someone that none of you seem to have mentioned yet. Good call. I think the Boomtown Rats were an extremely underrated band. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 09:34:45 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: bob's your uncle (100% Hitchcock ...) Hmm, I just bought (Alfred) Hitchcock's "Frenzy" on DVD and I guess it was the first time I've seen it in English. "Bob's your uncle" was something the murderer (who was actually called Bob) said quite often. I don't think I'd heard that before. Can anybody explain to me where that comes from and what it means? Cheers, Sebastian - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:31:47 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: spam gets surreal, vol. 2 You saw right, James - my g/f Chrissy got one the other day and forwarded it to me - I did a little research and apparently the bloke sending this spam out is *completely serious* and has *mental health issues*... Google the name of the component for his time machine he's wanting to buy (can't remember what it is now) and you can trace the whole story... Cheers Matt, whose time machine works pretty well, though can only so far travel at 1 hour per hour, and then only forwards in time... >From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) > >It's late at night and I'm tired, so I'm not sure whether I really saw what >I think I just saw... > >Has anyone else here been spammed by someone who says they're a time >traveller from the future wanting money to repair their time machine? > >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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Make your messages more exciting with MSN Messenger V6. Download it for FREE today! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:45:59 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: spam gets surreal, vol. 2 >You saw right, James - my g/f Chrissy got one the other day and forwarded >it to me - I did a little research and apparently the bloke sending this >spam out is *completely serious* and has *mental health issues*... Google >the name of the component for his time machine he's wanting to buy (can't >remember what it is now) and you can trace the whole story... He'd have been okay, probably, if Heidi Klum hadn't stolen that missing part to his machine... Can't remember the name of the part he wanted, but I do remember it reminded me of the Datsuns' song "Harmonic generator". 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, 01 Sep 2003 11:41:41 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: bob's your uncle Praise Bob! Stewart, once again you've saved this list from pinkness! Cheers Matt >From: "Stewart C. Russell" >Reply-To: "Stewart C. Russell" >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: bob's your uncle >Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:50:23 -0400 > >J R "..." Dobbs - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Buy and sell almost anything online with Ebay Auctions on MSN. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:46:29 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: bob's your uncle (100% Hitchcock ...) Bob's your uncle is an English expression meaning "and there you are", "et voila" etc... for instance when explaining how to get to Oxford from Abingdon I might say; "take the A34 and get off the Boar's Hill roundabout. Follow the ring road round to the Abingdon Road, hang a left and Bob's your uncle..." Of course, where it comes from I have no idea... Cheers Matt >From: Sebastian Hagedorn > >Hmm, > >I just bought (Alfred) Hitchcock's "Frenzy" on DVD and I guess it >was the first time I've seen it in English. "Bob's your uncle" was >something the murderer (who was actually called Bob) said quite >often. I don't think I'd heard that before. Can anybody explain to >me where that comes from and what it means? > >Cheers, Sebastian - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Buy and sell almost anything online with Ebay Auctions on MSN. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:00:27 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: bob's your uncle (100% Hitchcock ...) On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Matt Sewell wrote: > Bob's your uncle is an English expression meaning "and there you are", > "et voila" etc... for instance when explaining how to get to Oxford from > Abingdon I might say; "take the A34 and get off the Boar's Hill > roundabout. Follow the ring road round to the Abingdon Road, hang a left > and Bob's your uncle..." > > Of course, where it comes from I have no idea... According to it refers to a case of nepotism where Lord Salisbury appointed his nephew Balfour (of declaration fame) as Sec of State for Ireland. But the usually reliable Partridge derives it from a slang phrase meaning "All safe": suggests it may have been an election slogan for Sir Robert Peel(!). My father, who was brought up in Mile End, usually rounded the phrase off as: "Bob's your uncle and Charlie's your aunt", doubtless making reference to Brandon Thomas's famed farce. Delightfully, states that the "entomology" of the phrase is unknown! "Ant corridor to your heart" anybody? - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 08:22:35 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Bronson Memorial Thread Most painful Bronson movie to watch? My vote: "The Mechanic." Laying aside the gross awfulness of the film's plot, dialogue, and action, the kicker is the effect of having Bronson AND Jan-Michael Vincent in the same film. There was so much squinting going on that I got a whopper of a headache. - -- dolph ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:39:15 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: RE: reap > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003, Eb wrote: > > Eb (and if his entire body of work minus "Once Upon a Time in the > > West" is buried with him, that's fine with me) > > Bah, 10 To Midnight was fun at the time. The Great Escape?!? A fine, fine film. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:20:24 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: RE: reap >From: "FS Thomas" >Subject: RE: reap >Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:39:15 -0400 > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003, Eb wrote: > > > Eb (and if his entire body of work minus "Once Upon a Time in the > > > West" is buried with him, that's fine with me) > > Bah, 10 To Midnight was fun at the time. >The Great Escape?!? A fine, fine film. Also: The Dirty Dozen?!? The Magnificent Seven?!? Max _________________________________________________________________ Help protect your PC: Get a free online virus scan at McAfee.com. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 12:13:02 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: reap >>The Great Escape?!? >The Dirty Dozen?!? >The Magnificent Seven?!? Yeah yeah...the obvious suspects. I suppose those are quality films in some objective, academic sense, but I sure don't give a darn about them. Not my thing. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:13:07 +0100 From: Dr John Halewood Subject: Idiot of the week. Wisconsin man steals GPS tracking device - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32610.html. cheers john ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #324 ********************************