From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #68 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, March 5 2004 Volume 13 : Number 068 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Oblio on the TV-o ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Re: somebody on fegmaniax probably has a Bagle variant! ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: Triplets of Belleville DVD [Ken Weingold ] Re: God's got a sick sense of humor [Tom Clark ] The Jawbone and the Pneumatic Air-Nailgun ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Triplets of Belleville DVD ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: the bagel is flat [James Dignan ] Re: God's got a sick sense of humor ["Fortissimo" ] apparently they make the old people scream too ["Fortissimo" ] reap [steve ] No Robyn this night [steve ] RE: The Jawbone and the Pneumatic Air-Nailgun ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: The Jawbone and the Pneumatic Air-Nailgun [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:23:47 -0600 From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Oblio on the TV-o Harry's The Point is finally gonna be released on DVD: http://www.harrynilsson.com/news-57-26735.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 17:49:42 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: somebody on fegmaniax probably has a Bagle variant! Shit - you're right! http://www.flat-earth.org/ Cheers Matt >From: "Jason R. Thornton" >Wait until you see the flat/spheroid Earth argument that's coming >up.* > >Only evil sadistic pro-authoritarianism fuckwits think it's round, >by the way. >--Jason - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you going travelling? Help us to find the 100 best internet cafes in the world. Click here for more details and you could win #250 and a digital camera! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:57:37 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Triplets of Belleville DVD I scored a copy of the Triplets (aka Belleville Rendez-Vous in the UK) DVD while I was in Scotland. The best thing is, it's region free! I don't think I understand this region coding thing. I also got Delicatessen, which claims to be Region 2, yet it seems to play fine on my Linux box. Hmm. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:06:51 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Triplets of Belleville DVD On Thu, Mar 4, 2004, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > I scored a copy of the Triplets (aka Belleville Rendez-Vous in the > UK) DVD while I was in Scotland. The best thing is, it's region > free! Any cool extras on it? - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:20:21 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: God's got a sick sense of humor on 3/4/04 5:50 AM, Jeff Dwarf at munki1972@yahoo.com wrote: > The number 666, which many Christians recognize as the > "mark of the beast," is appearing on movie tickets for > Gibson's film at a Georgia theater, drawing complaints from > some moviegoers. > > > Several patrons have made comments about the numbers, and > one person who was uncomfortable having 666 on her ticket > asked for a pass to be substituted for a ticket. Idiots, idiots, Idiots, idiots, Idiots, idiots, Idiots, idiots... - -tc p.s. Idiots ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:42:16 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: The Jawbone and the Pneumatic Air-Nailgun Miles: >>I still watch only TRADING SPACES and CHANGING ROOMS (though the >>wife also sticks with BBC America for HOME INVADERS), which is more >>than big enough dose of home improvement TV. Heck, even Theresa Strasser's >>time at WHILE YOU WERE OUT wasn't enough to make me a regular viewer. What's kinda finally taking the bloom off the rose of this phenomenon for us is how they endlessly piggyback new shows on Trading Spaces... each of which is only a minor tweak on the format, but the tweak always involves the roles the professionals play on the remodel "teams", and the teams seem to get larger with each new show. There's one we saw maybe twice, don't even remember the title, where I swear the design/construction team was eight deep, and we couldn't tell who was the designer, the foreman, the carpenter, or anything. Seemed like there were at least two guys who were just "the comic relief sidekicks". Admittedly the personalities are part of the draw to these shows, but you can't throw that many at the viewers and expect them to figure it out, much less come to know and love/hate them. The logistics of how much airtime each one can possibly get per episode just makes it lame. Anyway. Matt: >>I really had hoped the Fall song would clear up this question once >>andfor all (the nazis one), but Mr Smith never gets round to explaining >>who actually does make 'em? Poli-thread --->Tek-thread --> MES-lyric-parsing thread... will the downward spiral of feg never end? Let's take a look, eh, kiddies? MES: >>I'll tell ya who makes the nazis >>All the Os >>White-o's >>Burnt O >>29 year old >>[Arse-licking h.... old] So far so good. Various O's are primarily responsible. But then uncertainty creeps in... >>Who makes the Nazis? >>Ya mind tellin' me?! >>Who makes the Nazis? >>Balding smug faggots >>Intellectual half-wits >>All the Os Okay. He's casting about. But apparently the hairless homosexuals and pretentious twits are ultimately grouped by Mr. Smith under the umbra of O's as well... gay-o's and wanker-o's, perhaps. After this, the Nazis are described as "long horn breed" a few times, and their manufacturers are left aside in favor of a fractured narrative about hotels and pedophilia. When we get back on topic we find... >>Who makes the Nazis? >>Benny's cob-web eyes! >>Who makes the Nazis? >>[Bad bias TV] >>[BBC,] George Orwell, Burmese Days >>[Black burnt flesh >>Hark hark >>Crack unit species >>(All the O's cross country) So it always seems to come back to the O's... sometimes embodied as media outlets or indeed even "eyes" in one case, which could be a metaphor for the lens of a camera, and thus perhaps again the media, perhaps in the hands of the previously mentioned O's. "Benny" must certainly be Benny Hill, a stalwart of the subsequently mentioned BBC; the Orwell and Burma references hint that Smith sees these media forces as covert tools of totalitarianism. >>All the O's >>Real Irish know, Joe. So there's a secondary source for you... Smith suggests that those of pure Irish descent hold the true answer. Thank god. >>Who makes the Nazis? >>Intellectual half-wits Uh... Mark? We got that one already... >>Who makes the Nazis? >>[kazoo solo] I posit that as the final word right there... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:59:30 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: The Jawbone and the Pneumatic Air-Nailgun on 3/4/04 10:42 AM, Rex.Broome at Rex.Broome@preferredmedia.com wrote: >>> Who makes the Nazis? >>> [kazoo solo] > > I posit that as the final word right there... > Aha! So it's the alien from The Flintstones! I never trusted that little fucker. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:35:11 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Triplets of Belleville DVD Ken W wrote: > > Any cool extras on it? Some fairly neat the-making-of docus; Sylvain Chomet comes across as being a very earnest nerd. His delight in discovering that the scene where the pedalo is chasing the ship exactly fitted the Kyrie -- which he claims to have chosen at random -- is exactly like that of a coder showing off a new cool thing. Apart from that, the extras are usual. There's supposed to be the music video for the theme song, but I can't find it. Stewart (but being a camera nerd, I really want to see "Gandolfi - Family Business", ) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:51:53 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Triplets of Belleville DVD On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > There's supposed to be the music video for the theme song, but I can't > find it. Have you tried just running through all the titles with mplayer? for a in `seq 1 100`; do mplayer dvd://$a; done J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:16:59 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: the bagel is flat > > Would you believe I (very mildly) cut my palm about two weeks ago, > > while carelessly cutting a bagel? Heh. I broke a tooth on my first ever bagel, if that's any consolation. >Wait until you see the flat/spheroid Earth argument that's coming up.* > >* - knowing us, we've already had this discussion at some point. we had discussion on this coming from all corners of the planet, IIRC. James PS - I'm trying out more advanced email software, so if the formatting is weird, bear with me for a while! - -- 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, 04 Mar 2004 17:06:51 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: God's got a sick sense of humor On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 05:50:55 -0800 (PST), "Jeff Dwarf" said: > > > > > ROME, Ga. And in *Rome* yet! I think this is a likelier explanation: (at least that's the URL for this week...) - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree :: what they are made of, where they come from, or how often :: they should appear. :: --Lemony Snicket ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:44:26 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: The Arrogance Continues RE: W's new TV ads where they exploit 9/11 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Families who lost relatives in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks voiced outrage on Thursday at President Bush's first ads of his re-election campaign that use images of the devastated World Trade Center to portray him as the right leader for tumultuous times. "Families are enraged," said Bill Doyle, 57, of New York, who is active in several Sept. 11 family groups. "What I think is distasteful is that the president is trying to use 9/11 as a springboard for his re-election." Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt said the campaign will not withdraw the ads. "There is no bigger issue in this country than who is better prepared to deal with the realities that 9/11 created for this country." - ------------------- In other words - "Fuck You if you don't like it. We've got a campaign to win!" These guys make me puke. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:54:47 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: apparently they make the old people scream too http://tinyurl.com/2j93y (Things not to do at the salad bar in a retirement home.) - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree :: what they are made of, where they come from, or how often :: they should appear. :: --Lemony Snicket ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 17:15:45 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: wow! Bagel stranglers! On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, James Dignan wrote: > me too, and also - sneakily and annoyingly, spoofed as if to look as if > they're from my ISP. Thankfully, surf4nix is now run from elsewhere, so > theree is no such thing as "accounts@surf4nix.com" or the like. > > The usual way to tell that these are false is that if service X emails > you, the message might start "We need to talk to you...". If they're > scams, they almost always start "The people at X wish to talk to you..." > or similar. One of my friends got this gem today (pardon if this trips anyone's bayesian filters... hopefully you've whitelisted feg): Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:50:42 -0700 To: joshuae@bitmine.net Subject: E-mail account disabling warning. From: management@bitmine.net Dear user of Bitmine.net, Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free auto-forwarding service. For more information see the attached file. Kind regards, The Bitmine.net team http://www.bitmine.net Now THAT is funny. Of course, bitmine.net consists entirely of the two computers down at my knee right now. Oh, and "the attached file" was an MS Windows binary. I think Bayard is the only Windows user that uses bitmine.net services. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 22:10:18 -0600 From: steve Subject: reap Marlin Maddoux, fundie nutjob and all-around menace to liberty and rationality. http://pointofview.net/ - - Steve __________ contestant blackburn adjourn burette ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 22:36:51 -0600 From: steve Subject: No Robyn this night Here's a Jon Brion Largo show from 1999. - - Steve __________ OS X is faster, smarter, prettier, and easier to use than any version of Windows. - Robert X. Cringely ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:51:21 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: The Jawbone and the Pneumatic Air-Nailgun I guess we never will know exactly who makes 'em (though it's clear that the Os must take some of the responsibility...). And what about the mad kid? Still, it seems you've got a gift for this, Rex! My mate James' band have supported the Fall on a number of occasions and hung out with MES and the old and new Fall bandmembers and I can report that Mr Smith is his stage persona in real life... scary... Cheers Matt >From: "Rex.Broome" > >>I really had hoped the Fall song would clear up this question once > >>andfor all (the nazis one), but Mr Smith never gets round to explaining > >>who actually does make 'em? > >Poli-thread - --->Tek-thread --> MES-lyric-parsing thread... will the downward spiral of feg never end? Let's take a look, eh, kiddies? > >MES: > >>I'll tell ya who makes the nazis > >>All the Os > >>White-o's > >>Burnt O > >>29 year old > >>[Arse-licking h.... old] > >So far so good. Various O's are primarily responsible. But then uncertainty creeps in... > > >>Who makes the Nazis? > >>Ya mind tellin' me?! > >>Who makes the Nazis? > >>Balding smug faggots > >>Intellectual half-wits > >>All the Os > >Okay. He's casting about. But apparently the hairless homosexuals and pretentious twits are ultimately grouped by Mr. Smith under the umbra of O's as well... gay-o's and wanker-o's, perhaps. > >After this, the Nazis are described as "long horn breed" a few times, and their manufacturers are left aside in favor of a fractured narrative about hotels and pedophilia. When we get back on topic we find... > > >>Who makes the Nazis? > >>Benny's cob-web eyes! > >>Who makes the Nazis? > >>[Bad bias TV] > >>[BBC,] George Orwell, Burmese Days > >>[Black burnt flesh > >>Hark hark > >>Crack unit species > >>(All the O's cross country) > >So it always seems to come back to the O's... sometimes embodied as media outlets or indeed even "eyes" in one case, which could be a metaphor for the lens of a camera, and thus perhaps again the media, perhaps in the hands of the previously mentioned O's. "Benny" must certainly be Benny Hill, a stalwart of the subsequently mentioned BBC; the Orwell and Burma references hint that Smith sees these media forces as covert tools of totalitarianism. > > >>All the O's > >>Real Irish know, Joe. > >So there's a secondary source for you... Smith suggests that those of pure Irish descent hold the true answer. Thank god. > > >>Who makes the Nazis? > >>Intellectual half-wits > >Uh... Mark? We got that one already... > > >>Who makes the Nazis? > >>[kazoo solo] > >I posit that as the final word right there... > >-Rex - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a free connection, half-price modem and one month FREE, when you sign up for BT Broadband today! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 06:13:25 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: The Arrogance Continues Tom Clark quoted: > > "There is no bigger issue in this country than who is better prepared > to deal with the realities that 9/11 created for this country." Sentiment apart, am I the only one here who thinks that Terry Holt needs some remedial grammar training? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:25:41 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: The Jawbone and the Pneumatic Air-Nailgun on 3/5/04 2:51 AM, Matt Sewell at matt_sewell@hotmail.com wrote: > My mate James' band have supported the Fall on a number of occasions and > hung out with MES and the old and new Fall bandmembers and I can report > that Mr Smith is his stage persona in real life... scary... > I just happened to be surfing the web site of my favorite San Jose venue and found that The Fall will be playing there in May! Imagine that! - -tc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #68 *******************************