From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #332 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, September 5 2003 Volume 12 : Number 332 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: What makes a feg? ["Glen Uber" ] Re: feg gene that determines various traits ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Re: This may excite some of you.... [gshell@metronet.com] Re: What makes a feg? ["Matt Sewell" ] Now two Halloween Bottom Line shows... [Steve Talkowski ] Re: This may excite some of you.... [gshell@metronet.com] Re: Copping to having done so [Ken Weingold ] Re: What makes a feg? ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: What makes a feg? [Christopher Gross ] Re: What makes a feg? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: This may excite some of you.... [Christopher Gross ] Or what about tarot cards with record label logos on them ["Rex.Broome" <] RE: What makes a feg? [Sweet & Tender Hooligan ] RE: What makes a feg? [Dr John Halewood ] Re: What makes a feg? ["Glen Uber" ] Questioning the answers ["Rex.Broome" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 07:04:46 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: What makes a feg? Sebastian earnestly scribbled: >Actually that's a preposition (over). Of course, I knew that. I wasn't at my best yesterday. Take a look at my posts yesterday, I think there was a typo, grammar error or incorrect info in each one of them. Ugh! >When did you lose the umlaut? The original name was Huber. My ancestors settled in Missouri and dropped the 'H' sometime around the Civil War for reasons still unknown to me. Other of my ancestors anglicized the name into 'Hoover'. Still others -- mainly those who remained in the Pennsylvania/New Jersey region -- remained 'Huber'. - -- Cheers! - -g- "There are only 3 types of people in the world: Morons, assholes, and people you can hang out with. I don't give a fuck if you're black, white, Asian, Arab, male, female, gay or straight. It's all just morons, assholes, and people you can hang out with." --Joe Rogan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:15:10 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: feg gene that determines various traits > From: "Glen Uber" > Subject: Things in jeans vs. things in genes > > Better yet, I'd like to know if there's a feg gene that determines > all of these various traits, tastes and occupational choices. Well, that would be me. I am the Feg Gene who determines these traits. OK, so now you know. I'll be over shortly to make sure you alphabetize your CD collection properly, and give you the Feg Haircut. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:16:45 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: One hit wonders you'd like to ram jam > From: Eb > Subject: Re: One hit wonders you'd like to see naked > >> Well, I'm a Lemon Pipers _fanatic_ > > Now here is something which I've never heard someone say before. What > does being a Pipers fanatic involve? Once you buy the two albums, uh, > what next? Well, you start collecting Ram Jam records. Surely you know about Ram Jam, right? You should also be able to name, in order, all of the vocalists for The Ohio Express. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:25:36 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: Echo and the Price Adjustments > From: "Rex.Broome" > > So, when new CD's cost $12, what are the "budget" prices gonna go down to? $17.99. Don't even act surprised when it happens. It ain't an accident that there are so many reissues coming out, remastered and full of extra cuts. It's a grand way to breathe life into an old, stale catalog. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:28:08 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: Copping to having done so > From: "Rex.Broome" > > I can safely say that I've never bought a record by an artist I'd never > heard of because I of what label it was on. (Would anyone here actually cop > to having done so?) I have. Guess the label? Yep, that's right. ECM. A few months ago I stumbled upon a pile of nice, clean ECM albums and bought them willy-nilly. I got turned on to quite a few nice recording artists, too. I did do that with SST and Alternative Tentacles for a while (when I was tryng to learn how to be Alternative), but it turned out to be a waste of time and money real quick. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 07:43:57 -0700 From: Nur Gale Subject: Re: All hail the new ECM fegs - Checked by Vexira DEMO version - > In the early 80s I bought ECM Lps and began to explore the label. I would buy for 2 reasons - if the name of the artist was playing on any other ECM artists record and because it was ECM. When I stopped buying vinyl and began my rather nomadic lifestyle, I stopped searching out ECM stuff. Now I find I go back to ECM on a regular basis. It seemed the place to go for non commercial, non pop-rock, inventive modern or, as gene said, early music back then and it still is IMHO. Ditto on that! In the 70s the majority of my collection was ECM and Impulse (as is most of my footwear ECM artists). ECM's Rainbow Studio in Oslo is suppose to be the state of the art environment for musicians, including the aesthetics for the artists to look upon the fjords, (although their packaging and artwork hasn't changed in over 30 years -- but then it does have a kind of timeless dimension to it). And then Manfred Eicher is a genius producer. There is still some really great progressive alternative jazz and contemporary classical coming out from them. Just could never figure out why most ECM artists never made it in the US -- and only a small percentage of them actually end up touring here. nur ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:55:44 -0500 From: "Iosso, Ken" Subject: RE: What makes a feg? Beer: yes. And stoli gimlets. Library: No, bookstore. Glasses: Contacts. Sterilized: No. Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Scorpio. Married to (Zodiac-wise): Aquarius. What else can we check? Here's some stuff about me. Female fegs may need to adjust some questions. Or they may not. Ethnic background: half Italian, half Scottish (don't really like Half Japanese) Religion: Presbyterian (church of Scotland for some). Ill-Advised Facial Hair: Not since high school. Best anagram for full name: O sso I nek! Number of times dressed in drag: None. Least favorite food/food product: Bananas by a country mile. CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: Gray Davis (didn't you already elect him last year?). Last three Halloween costumes: Devil, Angel, I don't think I had one last year. Is it safe? Who cares? Let's do it. What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? Horizontal red and white stripes.(and I'm not even in the band) Feg Doppelganger? No idea. How long? That's rather personal. Last thing you can remember drawing? An inaccurate schematic of my basement. In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Just threw out some sort of dole peaches product in a brown paper bag. God knows where it came from or why or how long. Otherwise newspapers, and agendas from meetings. You gonna eat that? Fuck yeah. Buy your own dinner. Favorite arthropod: Lobster? Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? I practically am a government official. Number of records owned with medusae on cover: Two - the Chills and They Might Be Giants Ken Iosso ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:58:06 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: This may excite some of you.... On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Eb wrote: > The action-adventure series was set 500 years in the future and centered on a > crew aboard a spaceship. The feature version will incorporate the mythology > from the show but will take on a more epic feel. what kind of idiot would create a show based 500 years in the future and incorporate mythology of any type? i sure hope mythology no longer exists when i see new movies 500 years from now. we call the gods of the heathens mythological. the crusaders were heathens. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:26:27 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: What makes a feg? Rex.Broome asked, What makes a feg: >>Beer: Definitely, though I prefer an independent beer lovingly crafted by an enthusiast rather than some horrible shite cooked up in a giant vat in a Leeds factory. Also single malt whisky, preferably from a Scottish island (nd. Laphroaig... mmm... oily...), also any good Armagnac. >>Library: No: charity-working monkey - paper shuffling, paperclip admin, that kind of thing, for my own weight in peanuts every 3 months... >>Glasses: Yes - very rectangular, fairly thick black frames. I returned to the open arms of my glasses after reading Glad to Wear Glasses by John Hegley and a particularly nasty falling-downstairs-in-a-nightclub-while-wearing-only-one-contact-lens-and-breaking-a-couple-of-ribs incident... >>Is anything worn underneath the kilt: Nae, it's all in perfect working order. >>Astrological data: Sun - Scorpio; Rising - Leo; Moon - Taurus; Mercury & Venus - Scorpio; Mars - Aquarius. Love of my life Chrissy is Sun Aquarius, Leo Rising... >>Ethnic background: WASP, with various fractions German jew and irish gypsy (my mother says my father's side of the family were didicoys, hedgecrawlers and horsethieves). >>Religion: If there is a god, then she certainly works in mysterious ways... >>Ill-Advised Facial Hair: Tried out a beard for the first time this year while recovering from appendicitis... all gone now, by order of said love of my life! Pass on the anagram - I'm a little too hungover for that sort of game... >>Number of times dressed in drag: I'm English: loads of times! >>Least favorite food/food product: Sprouts! Groo... >>CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: Watchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis? Can't think of a time I dressed up for halloween - except once: went as Scary Spice (see dressing in drag). >>Is it safe? No, it's very, very dangerous. >>What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? Nothing, and that tends to always be the case (though I *do* have the best collection of shirts I've ever seen). >>Feg Doppelganger? Dunno - any paunchy, balding fegs with glasses out there?! >>How long? about 20 minutes. >>Last thing you can remember drawing? The curtains! (sorry) >>In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Many years' ingrained filth. >>You gonna eat that? No, it tastes like sprouts. >>Favorite arthropod: Any of the four types of horseshoe crab. Last two questions - answer to both is no. Cheers Matt, not getting a great deal of work done this Friday afternoon... - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your hands on designer bargains for less - click here. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:45:10 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Now two Halloween Bottom Line shows... Just received a correction from the eMail reservation contact for The Bottom Line - there are now two shows on Oct. 31st, 7:30p and 10:30p I wonder if I should see him back-to-back like I did the last Bottom Line show? At $20 a pop it's still one of the best concert bargains out there. My Sept. 22nd Elvis Costello Town Hall tickets were $75 a piece! - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:47:05 -0400 From: John McIntyre Subject: Re: Copping to having done so > > From: "Rex.Broome" > > > > I can safely say that I've never bought a record by an artist I'd never > > heard of because I of what label it was on. (Would anyone here actually cop > > to having done so?) Guilty. Brain and Ohr were the big culprits. Heck, back in the sixties, anything on Elektra was a must buy. I've taken fliers (albeit cheap ones) on stuff on Limelight and Probe on the chance that it might be another Fifty Foot Hose or Morgen. Lately I've not been disappointed with any Musea releases. Cyclops has been pretty consistent, too. John McIntyre mcintyre@pa.msu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:52:21 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: This may excite some of you.... On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 gshell@metronet.com wrote: > i sure hope mythology no longer exists when i see new movies 500 years > from now. wait a minute, i think i wrote that wrong. what i meant to say was, i hope more people will accept mythology for exactly what it is, a myth. along of course with things like terot cards, runes, religious doctrine etc... and i don't think things like this should be classified with mental health treatment methods like aroma therapy. aroma therapy is not magic or anything similar. terot cards are used for "fortune telling" and should therefore be classified right along with all other ficticious beliefs including sorcery, spells and charms which somehow control or forsee events supernaturally. i love visiting with and questioning silly palm readers and terot card fools because in my opinion they use it to take advantage of mostly the poor and uneducated both mentally and financially. through mainly immigrants and other minorities I have seen the results. it is a cheap, underhanded, miserable and dangerous method of exploitation that should outlawed in the least as a business. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:01:27 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Copping to having done so "Rex.Broome" wrote: > I can safely say that I've never bought a record by an artist I'd never > heard of because I of what label it was on. (Would anyone here actually cop > to having done so?) I don't remember if I have bought a record like that, but I gone to see at least one band live because of what label they were on: The Space Monkeys because they were on Factory. Glad I did, too. They were great. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:05:22 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: What makes a feg? Beer: Yes, yes, yes, gods yes. Library: Nope. University. But we have a library on campus named after Dr. Seuss (Geisel Library), so that should count for something. Glasses: Perfect vision. And, beautiful blue eyes, ladies... Sterilized: My salmon are still swimming up stream. Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Taurus Chinese Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Rooster (or "Cock") Married to (Zodiac-wise): single, but currently dating a Gemini/Dog. My last long-term relationship was with a Sagittarius/Tiger. Ethnic background: Honkey. More specifically, Anglo/Irish/German/Swedish-American. Religion: "Jesus hates me." Ill-Advised Facial Hair: I sometimes, like now, have a stubbly goatee, but shave it off after a few days. Best anagram for full name: Jesus Always Sucks On Nipples Number of times dressed in drag: once (as a cheerleader for Halloween about a decade ago - and girls dressed up in "masculine" outfits kept grabbing my sweet, sweet ass). Least favorite food/food product: cheesecake. CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: Eb Last three Halloween costumes: 1. Charlie Brown (last one I can think of) Feg Doppelganger? Eddie! At least, back when I shaved my head. How long? "Not long." Last thing you can remember drawing? A flush at a Let It Ride table in Primm, NV, and I won about $250 In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? A Honda Prelude floor mat. You gonna eat that? Not sure if she'll respect me afterwards if I do. Favorite arthropod: Lobster (mmmmmm...) Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? "Knighted" is a euphemism, right? No. Number of records owned with medusae on cover: Is Jewel a medusa? - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:12:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: What makes a feg? Eh, why not. On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Rex.Broome wrote: > Beer: Yes, although I'm not a connoisseur/fanatic. I'm equally happy with many other consciousness-obliterating fluids. > Library: Yes. (Though not getting much work done at the moment.) > Glasses: Yep. > Sterilized: Only by my inability to find a mate. > Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Scorp. > Married to (Zodiac-wise): n/a > Ethnic background: German-Irish on one side, Irish-German on the other. > Religion: None, unless Mac-advocacy and Buffy fandom count. Was raised Roman Catholic. > Ill-Advised Facial Hair: No -- anything that covers my face is well-advised. > Best anagram for full name: Too lazy to come up with one, even with the help of > Number of times dressed in drag: One. > Least favorite food/food product: I don't know about *least* favorite, but I've never been fond of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. > CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: Since I don't live there and can afford to choose frivolously, it would HAVE to be Ralph -- I mean, Gary Coleman. > Last three Halloween costumes: I've worn the same store-bought priest costume since 1999. (Not every day though.) > Is it safe? AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHH! > What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? Grey. Lots of grey. > Feg Doppelganger? None known. > How long? Well said. > Last thing you can remember drawing? A stick figure of myself looking grouchy, part of a team-building exercise at work. > In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? An extra umbrella, a little battery-operated fan, an empty water bottle, a book of street maps, and a lot of dirt. > You gonna eat that? What, the dirt? > Favorite arthropod: Arthur Pod, from a kids' video at the National Museum of Natural History. > Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? I wouldn't consider Bayard a Government Official, exactly. > Number of records owned with medusae on cover: None that I can think of. So, how do we figure out my Feg quotient? - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:44:55 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: What makes a feg? Glen Uber wrote: > > The original name was Huber. My ancestors > settled in Missouri and dropped > the 'H' sometime around the Civil War for > reasons still unknown to me. well -- if they were German -- they could been part of the group that settled central Missouri from about 1830 on. Places around Hermann still have remnants of German-speaking culture, and some interesting German-style wines are made. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:29:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: This may excite some of you.... On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 gshell@metronet.com wrote: > > The action-adventure series was set 500 years in the future and centered on a > > crew aboard a spaceship. The feature version will incorporate the mythology > > from the show but will take on a more epic feel. > > what kind of idiot would create a show based 500 years in the future and > incorporate mythology of any type? i sure hope mythology no longer exists > when i see new movies 500 years from now. They mean mythology in a less religious sense. Kinda like the "mythology" of baseball that would include Abner Doubleday, "Casey at the Bat," the Giants winning the pennant in 1951, and that one time I scored a run in Little League. The show does include religion, though -- one of the main characters is a kind of travelling monk/preacher, while the captain of the ship is an embittered former believer. And if you expect humanity to be religion-free in 500 years, well, I just hope the disappointment isn't too much for your aged heart when the time comes.... Meanwhile, Firefly creator Joss Whedon is an outspoken atheist. - --Chris (softspoken agnostic) The Onion: Who could you take in a fight? Joss Whedon: God. I'm constantly yelling at Him. A lot of my writers are quite religious, and I'm always yelling, "Come on! Strike me down! Wuss!" I don't know why I have such anger toward somebody who doesn't exist. --The Onion AV Club, 12 Feb. 2003 ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:07:06 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Or what about tarot cards with record label logos on them James: >>It's basically the same way Eno uses his Oblique Strategy cards. It's like sleeping >>on a problem, but takes far less time. That's what I've been thinking since the Tarot thing came up. The difference is that Oblique Strategies is designed from the ground up to embrace the randomness of the drawing. Doesn't stop you from using Tarot cards the same way, but they definitely are designed with an agenda of meaning-- they're set up as if the cards themselves have the energy. Can you buy OS cards anywhere? Is it at least known what all the cards actually said? Eb: >>Columbia and Capitol rule my collection, pretty decisively. Third >>and fourth might be Virgin and A&M. I forget. I did an admittely cursory job with those totals and I didn't faithfully cross-reference the labels and their subdivisions (although I did get Columbia and Epic together). I think the big slab of Neil Young completism (Reprise) and '80's alternative stuff (Sire) really tipped it in that direction. Columbia was huge, too, but while my Dylan section contains nearly all the albums, there's more singles and oddities in the Neil zone. Plus Elvis Costello now shows up mostly under Ryko, etc. I think Warners still rules my roost, though. ______ JeFFrey: >>Also serves to point out the usefulness of my proposed definition of one- >>hit wonders: "people whom you've never heard of otherwise." It's pretty >>damned ridiculous to cite Jon Anderson - who sings in Yes: perhaps you've >>heard of them? - as producing a "one-hit wonder." Yup. That's what stopped me from mentioning "World Destruction", which is ace, and yet I don't have a copy of it, which would usually indicate a one-hit wonder but certainly doesn't in this case. Tom Tom Club resided in this territory for me for many, many years until I picked up a used copy of their first LP a few years back, and hey... it was pretty damned good! - -Rex, who used to occasionally write Oblique Strategies-type stuff on those little folded-paper things that girls in middle school made, the little squares that looked like paper mouths that they'd open and close and pick a corner with like a boy's name or some romantic advice on it.... err, does anyone know what the hell I'm talking about? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:57:13 -0700 From: Sweet & Tender Hooligan Subject: RE: What makes a feg? Not sure if I'm qualified to participate, given my long absence and recent re-emergence, but I'll give it a shot. (By the way, I love reading this kind of shit) Beer: Guinness, another Guinness, and a just one more Guinness, please. (In the absence of Guinness, I'll take Heineken. In the absence of Guinness /and/ Heineken, I'll take my leave.) Library: Yep. Glasses: Nope, but I fear my ears are going. Sterilized: Wouldn't know. Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Gemini. Married to (Zodiac-wise): Dunno. (Turning 30 and getting divorced, dontcha know) Ethnic background: Welsh. Religion: Raised pentecostal, diverged into heathenism, and am currently stumbling toward Orthodoxy. Ill-Advised Facial Hair: After numerous failed attempts to assert my manhood via protuding protein stalks on my chin, cheeks, and lips, I have given up and gone clean. Best anagram for full name: Gallant urchin penis. Number of times dressed in drag: Not enough fingers. Least favorite food/food product: Pork chops, and I don't wanna hear about it. No, you /couldn't/ cook a pork chop that I would like. CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: Oh, are they holding an election? Last three Halloween costumes: Don't recall. Been awhile. Is it safe? Lord, I hope not. What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? "Sweet & Tender Hooligan." Duh. Feg Doppelganger? Not that I know of. How long? *sigh* Last thing you can remember drawing? A picture of what one of my co-workers will look like at 50. In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Floor mat. You gonna eat that? Mmmmm. Smoked oysters in cottonseed oil. Favorite arthropod: Don't be disgusting. Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? They tried once, but I had their legs. Number of records owned with medusae on cover: None. = s&th hooligan@apostate.com Q. At least once a day, my phone rings, and I answer it, and the person on the other end - the person who called me - starts the conversation by asking: "Who is this?" Is that rude? A. It most certainly is, because this person is committing the grammatical "faux pas" of using a pre-emptive connubial pronoun in an infricative phrase. The proper wording is: "Whom is this?" Or, more formally: "Just exactly whom the heck is this to whom I am speaking to?" - Dave Barry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 18:04:22 +0100 From: Dr John Halewood Subject: RE: What makes a feg? Beer: yup. Real ale, and the odd glass of wine. Library: Used to. Managed to kick the habit. Glasses: only for the beer. Sterilized: Only by the beer Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Aries, apparantly. Married to (Zodiac-wise): none, but the number of people I've been out with whose birthday is June 20 is quite worrying. Ethnic background: half scouse, half lancastrian Religion: I was once introduced to a bunch of pagans as "our resident Discordian". Ill-Advised Facial Hair: The goatee is just about long enough to plait. Best anagram for full name: give me a while to work that one out. Number of times dressed in drag: Does the Rocky Horror show count? Least favorite food/food product: Most seafood. CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: "There's no government like no government" Last three Halloween costumes: Never done one Is it safe? Providing you don't bring the gimp out. What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? "Faust", and the x-rayed hand from the first album Feg Doppelganger? none that I know of. How long? A couple of feet, but rather frayed at the end. Last thing you can remember drawing? random swirls that always seem to turn into Lovecraftian monsters. In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Haven't got a car, and the pushbike doesn't have a passenger seat. You gonna eat that? Didn't get the chance - the cats finished it off first. Favorite arthropod: Anything that eats slugs. cheers john ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:17:00 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: What makes a feg? Matt earnestly scribbled: >Rex.Broome asked, What makes a feg: And I didn't answer the first few questions, though they should be obvious to anyone who's been on the list for awhile. >>>Beer: Yes, please. I love beer so much, I plan vacations around it and write songs about it. I am also trying to get an article about planning a beer tour published in Northwest Brew News. Wish me luck! >>>Library: Nope. Currently, I'm a webmaster/sysadmin/tech support/IT guru at a non- profit. Believe me, they don't call it non-profit for nothing. If I could pick any job, it would be either a brewer at a well-respected microbrewery or a Foley Artist. >>>Glasses: Yes, unfortunately. Don't believe the shit you hear about carrots being good for one's eyesight. I've eaten more carrots than Bugs Bunny and my eyesight is 20/40 in one eye and 20/200 in the other. Plus I have a flat eyeball, a slight astigmatism in one eye and night blindness. Ironically, I am also sensitive to bright light. Go figure. >>>Is anything worn underneath the kilt: No, and I have pictures of my groomsmen doing cartwheels to prove it. >>>Feg Doppelganger? > >Dunno - any paunchy, balding fegs with glasses out there?! *DING! DING! DING!* We have a winner! - -- Cheers! - -g- "Work is the curse of the drinking class." - --Oscar Wilde ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:39:54 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Questioning the answers Glen: >>>Best anagram for full name: >>Lunged Beerward. Damn, I thought *mine* was good. Jeff D: >>> Sterilized: no. will have to decide whether or not to have children >>first. will have to meet person with i'd want to make the >>decision first for that matter. It seems to me that "childless by choice" is a prevailing current amongst fegs... yes? >>In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right >>now? empty nantucket nectar lemonade bottle, shrink wrap from >>Neil Young _on the beach,_ Ooohh. It's really good, innit? The CD, not the lemonade. Or the shrinkwrap. Mary: >>>Favorite arthropod: Maryland blue crab. Would have been my answer if I'd been thinking in terms of good eatin'. O sso I nek! >>Number of records owned with medusae on cover: Two - the Chills and >>They Might Be Giants The squid on Apollo 18? That'd be a mollusc, not a coelenterate. Good call on the tentacles, though. I must have some other records with, like, anemones or something on the cover. Just can't think of them right now. My database doesn't have a column for "Brief Description of Cover Artwork" to search on, but if it's a slow Friday, who knows what might happen. Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #332 ********************************