From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #149 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, May 21 2004 Volume 13 : Number 149 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: beyond the pot-pourri of lavender-scented memories ["Stewart C. Russe] Re: OT, of late [Eb ] Re: catching up... ["Michael Wells" ] 01010010011011110110001001101111011101000111001100100001 [Steve Talkowski] Re: 01010010011011110110001001101111011101000111001100100001 ["Fortissimo] Re: lubricate your living room ["Matt Sewell" ] he and sleep were brothers [Jim Davies ] Re: catching up... [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #148 [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: catching up... [Dolph Chaney ] RE: catching up... ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: catching up... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: catching up... [steve ] Re: 01010010011011110110001001101111011101000111001100100001 ["Stewart C.] Re: catching up... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: OT, of late ["Sumiko Keay" ] RE: catching up... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: catching up... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] robyn on roundtable today [fingerpuppets ] Gotta be careful, Fox employees are looking over my shoulder... ["Rex.Bro] Re: Gotta be careful, Fox employees are looking over my shoulder... ["Jas] Ice-T: on crack? [Eb ] Michael Godwin wrote... [Jill Brand ] congrats [Jill Brand ] Re: congrats [Tom Clark ] Re: congrats [Glen Uber ] Re: robyn on roundtable today [fingerpuppets ] Someone I know very little about... [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:43:02 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: beyond the pot-pourri of lavender-scented memories Bachman, Michael wrote: > > Does your Sudbury have a nickel plant, like Sudbury, ONT? That was the one I was talking about. It used to resemble a moonscape, it was so polluted. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:41:56 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: OT, of late > Of particular interest: the move of 24 to Mondays for season 4. > Also, "Arrested Development" getting the choice slot behind "The Simpsons"! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 22:27:22 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: catching up... Stewart writes re: the Tartan Army: > But hey, since we created western society, we can easily take it away. In the past week we've acquired Scottish neighbors two houses down - she's an accountant for Guinness, and he watches the kid or something. I hear from the other housewives that he's already going on about "you Americans" talking funny, which I should have some fun with when we finally meet. Of course, as soon as they moved in we put our house up for sale. (ducking) re: loonies > Have they lost their association with white supremacists? How can you tell? Brian: > And you get to attempt to pronounce Hrafnkel in a convincing manner. I'd > love to meet a real icelander with knowlege of the sagas even if only to get > the hang of the pronounciation of the names. Wasn't he the half-brother of Hrothgar? Or was it the other way 'round? Matt: > My mate Thor is Icelandic and, if you catch him at the right moment and > ask him nicely he'll sing you Icelandic drinking songs Dolph, with this new development I'm saying go as a Greenlander instead. Half the world thinks it's a continent, and you don't often hear people claim to be from a continent. If by chance you do run into Danish tourists, you can always rant on about "home rule," "a pronounced lack of sunlight," and "really good inuit food" until they leave you alone. Michael "we'll have you ready for that trip in no time" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 23:40:33 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: 01010010011011110110001001101111011101000111001100100001 http://www.noonelikesyou.net/TFT-robots/ p.s. translation of subject header here: http://www.networkofminds.com/networkofminds/binary.cfm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 23:38:37 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: 01010010011011110110001001101111011101000111001100100001 On Thu, 20 May 2004 23:40:33 -0400, "Steve Talkowski" said: > http://www.noonelikesyou.net/TFT-robots/ > > p.s. translation of subject header here: > http://www.networkofminds.com/networkofminds/binary.cfm Man, you're making me nostalgic for my undergrad days...I still remember "Girl Geeks for the Gipper"... (Seriously: those TAs are getting a raw deal.) - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: crumple zones:: :: harmful or fatal if swallowed :: :: small-craft warning :: ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:18:21 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: lubricate your living room But Jim only lives 5 minutes away from here... there must be another explanation! ;0) >From: Ken Weingold >On Thu, May 20, 2004, Jim Davies wrote: > > That's the problem with foreigners. They are often eight hours out of > > synch with whatever you want to do. > > > > They want coffee eight hours before you do. They want to sleep eight > > hours before you do. When you want to party, they want to have > > already gone to sleep so long ago that they would now be ready to wake up. > >Ah, so THAT'S why you were a complete bastard when I met you. ;-) > > >-Ken - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay in touch better and keep protected online with MSNs NEW all-in-one Premium Services. Find out more here. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:47:48 +0100 (BST) From: Jim Davies Subject: he and sleep were brothers > Ah, so THAT'S why you were a complete bastard when I met you. ;-) :^) I watched Storefront Hitchcock again last night, with my friend Max from NY, who happens to be in Oxford this week. The film was so much better than I remember it (and I loved it at the time). In fact, it was amazing. And it made me want to go to another gig in NY. But the Bottom Line is no more, I hear? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 23:28:31 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: catching up... >I didn't really. I'm getting mightily fucked off with the comedy Scot >image. There's an obnoxious beer ad (for Keith's, with is not an >obnoxious beer) with the comedy drunken kilted redhaired Scot giving a >eulogy to a dropped pint. You just couldn't do that with any other >ethnic group. you couldn't? You never watched "Father Ted", then? >But hey, since we created western society, we can easily take it away. only because the Irish managed to teach you how to read and write ;) James (proud of his Irish ancestry) - -- 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: Fri, 21 May 2004 23:35:45 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #148 > >alternatively: > > > >- - - yehh, gidday! > >- - - she'll be right, mate. > >- - - "not many - if any!" > >- - - go the All Blacks! > >- - - so, how do you like New Zealand? > >Dolph will be arriving a couple of days after the third test and with the >natwest one day competition looming. A fair amount of research would be >necessary to pull this one off :) I hope he gets the chance to see Cairns go ballistic again like he did this morning :) >And you get to attempt to pronounce Hrafnkel in a convincing manner. I'd >love to meet a real icelander with knowlege of the sagas even if only to get >the hang of the pronounciation of the names. not to mention the natural beauty of their women, erm, scenery. I hope Vala Flosadottir is pole-vaulting at this Olympics - I was mightily impressed at the Sydney games... 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: Fri, 21 May 2004 07:38:52 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: catching up... At 10:27 PM 5/20/2004, Michael Wells wrote: >Dolph, with this new development I'm saying go as a Greenlander instead. You guys have been tremendously helpful, but this one takes it! It will make it much easier to explain the transitory nature of my accent ("Greenland's in between everything, what do you expect?"), and given that my natural pallor makes notebook paper put on sunscreen it should be plausible. Ingenious! dolph who really is thinking he'll just wear an "I HATE GEORGE BUSH" button the whole time and be done with it ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 08:53:23 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: catching up... >I didn't really. I'm getting mightily fucked off with the comedy Scot >image. There's an obnoxious beer ad (for Keith's, with is not an >obnoxious beer) with the comedy drunken kilted redhaired Scot giving a >eulogy to a dropped pint. You just couldn't do that with any other >ethnic group. Nobody has said anything about the Monty Python skit of the Scot tennis player vs. the blamonge. Whoops, I just said it. Michael B. NP New Musik - Anywhere...plus ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 08:57:12 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: he and sleep were brothers On Fri, May 21, 2004, Jim Davies wrote: > And it made me want to go to another gig in NY. But the Bottom Line > is no more, I hear? Nope. How a club with so many shows, charging so much for drinks and food, cannot pay their bills I have no idea. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 9:37:49 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: catching up... Michael Wells wrote: > > "you Americans" talking funny it's those flat vowel sounds -- they kill me. Try to get some Irn Bru for them. You'll make friends better that way. > re: loonies > > Have they lost their association with white supremacists? > How can you tell? There was a big stooshie a while back about how some MRLP candidates held opinions that the BNP would be proud of -- was it S.L. Sutch himself? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 08:38:10 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: catching up... >> But hey, since we created western society, we can easily take it away. On May 21, 2004, at 6:28 AM, grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > only because the Irish managed to teach you how to read and write ;) > > James (proud of his Irish ancestry) I'm a Rutledge on my mother's side, but I'm afraid that plus Schiavo equals American. And from Texas as well. - - Steve, 22nd coming up in 2 weeks. __________ What's annoying is that America is not content to be the world's |ber-bully. It also wants to be loved. It's like Bogart and Peter Lorre in The Maltese Falcon. "When you're slapped," the U.S. sneers, "you'll take it and like it." - Steve Burgess, Canadian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 9:44:11 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: 01010010011011110110001001101111011101000111001100100001 Steve Talkowski wrote: > > http://www.noonelikesyou.net/TFT-robots/ And I just finished reading John Sladek's "Roderick" and "Roderick At Random" too, where the Machine Liberation Front dress up as robots and demand rights and freedom from drudgery for machines. He was waaay ahead of his time. Certainly unfairly pigeonholed as "just a scifi writer". And if that's really ASCII, shouldn't it be 1010010110111111000101101111111010011100110100001? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 9:50:31 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: catching up... James wrote: > >> You just couldn't do that with any other ethnic group. > > you couldn't? You never watched "Father Ted", then? It's a show made in Ireland, with Irish authors and actors. I was talking about a Candian advert, with a non-Scottish actor pretending to be Scottish. There's a difference. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 08:56:10 -0500 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: OT, of late Did you guys notice that 24 isn't starting 'til January? (Neither is Alias.) I hate this trend. Sumi >>> Eb 05/20/04 09:41PM >>> > Of particular interest: the move of 24 to Mondays for season 4. > Also, "Arrested Development" getting the choice slot behind "The Simpsons"! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 9:59:12 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: RE: catching up... Michael B wrote: > > Nobody has said anything about the Monty Python skit of the > Scot tennis player vs. the blamonge. Whoops, I just said it. That was 34 years ago. There are things that you just can't do any more on TV, like: Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:03:44 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: catching up... I wrote: > ... a Candian advert which is, of course, a sales pitch of -- or pertaining to -- the late son of Scarborough, Ontario, John Candy. I think he went to Swiss Chalet a few too many times. I wonder why I have such difficulty with the middle A in Canada? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 21:43:22 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: reap Paul Sutherland, creator and narrator of "Tales of the Riverbank" (aka Hammy Hamster). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:17:35 -0400 From: fingerpuppets Subject: robyn on roundtable today just a reminder that robyn will be one of andrew collins' guests on roundtable today at 6pm bst (1pm edt/10am pdt) on bbc 6music. the program will be repeated saturday may 21st at 9am bst and should be archived on the site for a while as well. the show's url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/presenters/andrew_collins/roundtable.shtml to listen via their embeded audio player: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/6music/int/bannerlistenlive/-/radio/aod/6music.shtml direct links for the unafraid: 44kbps stereo realaudio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/ram/dsatg2.rpm 48kbps stereo windows media: http://stream.servstream.com/ViewWeb/BBCRadio_music/Event/BBCRadio6_hi.asx 10kbps mono windows media: http://stream.servstream.com/ViewWeb/BBCRadio_music/Event/BBCRadio6.asx woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:58:26 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Gotta be careful, Fox employees are looking over my shoulder... Mike Godwin: >>PS Oh yes, and (struggles to form D chord): "Jack of Diamonds Jack of >>Diamonds I know you of old, you've robbed my poor pockets of" (creak, >>rearrange fingers into A7 on 2nd fret) "silver and gold". Happy days! Ahhh, memories. What a fucked up song that is, and so many people start with it. My "first" had the guy hangin' from a white oak tree, but that one was in there somewhere to... never really got what Willy was up to and why it was so important to keep tabs on him that it would affect the location of one's house... Ferris: >>Of particular interest: the move of 24 to Mondays for season 4. And the promise of no hiatuses (hiati?) is really cool. Assuming that they're starting production at the normal time, this gives one hope that the arcs can be written/shot/edited in wider swaths and the writers can cut down on the occasional lulls that have been the bane of the show... "Uhhhh... guess that's it for Mexico... now what? Cougar, anyone?" I am still nonplussed at how totally unkillable "Family Guy" is. Is it really just that much better on DVD? >>METHOD & RED (June 16): Popular hip-hop stars METHOD MAN and REDMAN >>portray fictionalized versions of their real-life selves 'Kay. What is it up with acting rappers and/or their agents? No other genre of performer looking at breaking into acting after massive success in their initial field ends up in low-rent sitcoms, pay-per-view specials, and lousy porn with such frequency... at least not after being as successful as these guys. It's just weird. Oh, wait... is "Reba" still on? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:10:42 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Gotta be careful, Fox employees are looking over my shoulder... At 09:58 AM 5/21/2004 -0700, Rex.Broome wrote: >What is it up with acting rappers and/or their agents? I saw "Coffee & Cigarettes" last night, and the vignette featuring GZA, RZA and Bill Murray was hilarious. I also learned that RZA is not pronounced "R-Z-A," but "rizzah." Acting rockers (Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, both White Stripes) outnumbered acting rappers in that movie 2-to-1. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:54:59 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Ice-T: on crack? http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_961345.html?menu= Ice-T to produce Hasselhoff rap album Ice-T is to produce David Hasselhoff's first hip-hop album. The pair are neighbours in Los Angeles and are said to have struck up a close friendship. Hasselhoff has had some success as a singer, releasing seven albums. He's also said to be very popular in Germany. Ice-T, who was one of the first real hip-hop stars in the late 1980s, said: "The man is a legend. And we are going to show a whole new side of him." The rapper is said to be convinced that the 51-year-old for Knight Rider and Baywatch actor can take on the biggest names in rap, reports The Sun. Ice-T added: "He's gonna come out as Hassle The Hoff - I promise you. The Hoff will surprise people with his rap skills and humour." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 19:21:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Michael Godwin wrote... n.p. The Move, 'Useless Information' Wow! That's one of my top three favorite Move songs (the other two being Curly and Cherry Blossom Clinic). My kids have become raving Move fanatics in the last two years, so I get to hear this a lot. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 19:18:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: congrats Tom wrote: "Today (May 19th) marks 13 years since Coleen and I were married and 25 years since we had our first date." Congratulations! So, what happened in year twelve that made you decide to tie the knot? Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:01:33 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: congrats On May 21, 2004, at 4:18 PM, Jill Brand wrote: > Tom wrote: > > "Today (May 19th) marks 13 years since Coleen and I were married and 25 > years since we had our first date." > > Congratulations! So, what happened in year twelve that made you > decide to > tie the knot? > > Oh, it's a long complicated story I can share with you offline. Suffice to say we were too immature at the time and needed to sow some oats before settling down. Oprah would have a field day with our story... - -tc, still in love ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:21:44 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: congrats Tom wrote: > "Today (May 19th) marks 13 years since Coleen and I were married and 25 > years since we had our first date." Carol and I were married on the anniversary of our first date, as well. Granted, we waited only 4 years instead of 12. Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 20:21:29 -0400 From: fingerpuppets Subject: Re: robyn on roundtable today one time at band camp, fingerpuppets said: >just a reminder that robyn will be one of andrew collins' guests on >roundtable today at 6pm bst (1pm edt/10am pdt) on bbc 6music. the >program will be repeated saturday may 21st at 9am bst and should be >archived on the site for a while as well. the program is now archived in glorious streaming 32 kbps stereo realaudio8 at . it should be up there until next friday afternoon. i snarfed the slightly-higher bitrate realaudio stream earlier today so if anyone wants that, please let me know. woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 19:43:27 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Someone I know very little about... Anyone have anything interesting to say about Roy Harper? (Spare me the inevitable Pink Floyd and Zeppelin references, and just address his own catalog.) 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