From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #175 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, June 16 2004 Volume 13 : Number 175 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Soft Boys inspiration? ["Cadtharsis" ] Re: What's your blood type? [Ken Weingold ] Dead-list resuscitation wankery [Eb ] Re: Dead-list resuscitation wankery ["Fortissimo" ] Re: What's your incisor length? [] Re: Dead-list resuscitation wankery [Aaron Mandel ] RE: Dead-list resuscitation wankery [Dr John Halewood ] A Candidate We Can All Agree On! [Tom Clark ] RE: Dead-list resuscitation wankery ["Rex Broome" ] Re: Thunderclap Newman ["craigie*" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #174 [James Dignan ] Useless fact no 327: Coins of the realm [James Dignan ] Re: What's your incisor length? [steve ] understatement of the year (finalist) ["Michael Wells" ] Not a reap yet, but.... [Jeff Dwarf ] Oh, and [Jeff Dwarf ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:50:57 -0600 From: "Cadtharsis" Subject: Soft Boys inspiration? http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=online&s=ackerman061404 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:12:47 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: What's your blood type? On Tue, Jun 15, 2004, Tom Clark wrote: > On Jun 14, 2004, at 7:08 PM, steve wrote: > >>The Japanese believe some interesting things about a person's blood > >>type, > >>mainly that it determines much of their personality. > > Replace "blood type" with "astrological sign" or "eye color" or > "fingerprint" and you have the same story. Well put. According to that write-up, I am totally a B-type. My actual blood type is A pos. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:47:49 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Dead-list resuscitation wankery Never noticed before that Filemaker can automatically compute "Length"...so here are the 29 longest song titles I own, more or less. There was a lot more gray area than I foresaw -- for various "eligibility" reasons, I crossed off a bunch of other titles, such as medleys/suites/just-about-anything-containing-a-colon, spoken-word/comedy, songs with parenthetical clauses which seemed more like "program notes" than part of the title (perhaps "Monster Magnet" should be similarly nixed?), all the ad hoc "Dustin Hoffman" titles on Of Montreal's Early Four-Track Recordings album.... Actually, with looser guidelines, Of Montreal could grab several more slots on this list. They *rule* this category. ;) Anyone have other songs with 67 characters or more? 1. G*me Th**ry - "All Clockwork and No Bodily Fluids Makes Hal a Dull Metal Humbert/In Heaven Every Elephant Baby Wants to Be So Full of Sting/Paul Simon in the Park with Canticle/But You Can't Pick Your Friends/Vacuum Genesis/DEFMACROS/HOWSOMETH/INGDOTIME/SALENGTHS/OMETHINGL/ETBFOLLOW/ AAFTERNOO/NGETPRESE/NTMOMENTI/FTHINGSWO/NTALWAYSB/ETHISWAYT/BCACAUSEA/ BWASTEAFT/ERNOONWHE/NEQBMERET/URNFROMSH/OWLITTLEG/REENPLACE/27" (401 characters) 2. Jad Fair - "From Where I Stood I Could See the Shape That Once Was Formless Take on the Characteristics of a Human Being. Who Are You?, I Gasped. Do You Not Know Me?, He Replied. I Was Once a Very Powerful Man. (A King)." (208 characters) 3. Jad Fair - "...To Reveal Yet Another Face. This One Even More Frightening Than the One Before. Immediately I Jumped from My Chair and Ran Toward the Door. I Now Knew What I Needed To. Unfortunately...So Did He." (198 characters) 4. Of Montreal - "Upon Settling on the Frozen Island, Lecithin Presents Claude and Coquelicot with His Animal Creations for Them to Approve or Reject" (131 characters, even after eliminating a "narrative" parenthetical clause) 5. Tom Waits - "Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone with Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and the Mug and Artie)" (105) 6. Michael Blair et al, from the "Weird Nightmare" tribute - "Gunslinging Bird or If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" (96) 7. Of Montreal - "A Man's Life Flashing Before His Eyes While He and His Wife Drive Off a Cliff into the Ocean" (92) 8. Pink Floyd - "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" (91) 9. The GTO's - "Do Me in Once and I'll Be Sad, Do Me in Twice and I'll Know Better (Circular Circulation)" (89) 10(tie). Of Montreal - "The Couple in Bed Together Under a Warm Blanket Wrapped Up in Each Other's Arms Asleep" (86) 10(tie). The Flaming Lips - "Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever)" (86) 12(tie). John Lurie - "A Woman Can Take You to Another Universe; Sometimes She Just Leaves You There" (77) 12(tie). Simon & Garfunkel - "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)" (77) 14(tie). Of Montreal - "Advice from a Divorced Gentleman to His Bachelor Friend Considering Marriage" (76) 14(tie). "Altered States" soundtrack - "Main Title and First Hallucination (Ritual Sacrifice and Religious Memories)" (76) 16(tie). G*me Th**ry - "Watch Who You're Calling Space Garbage Meteor Mouth Pretty Green Card Shark" (75) 16(tie). Sausage - "Caution Should Be Used While Driving a Motor Vehicle or Operating Machinery" (75) 16(tie). The Mothers of Invention - "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet (Unfinished Ballet in Two Tableaus)" (75) 19(tie). American Music Club - "What Godzilla Said to God When His Name Wasn't Found in the Book of Life" (72) 19(tie). The Sugarplastic - "Ben Takes a Walk to Lose Company and on the Way He Sees Some Ice Skaters" (72) 21. Diamanda Galas - "Wild Women with Steak Knives (The Homicidal Love Song for Solo Scream)" (70) 22. Tom Waits - "The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)" (69) 23(tie). Penguin Cafe Orchestra - "The Sound of Someone You Love Who's Going Away and It Doesn't Matter" (68) 23(tie). Yoko Ono - "Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City" (68) 23(tie). The GTO's - "The Ghost Chained to the Past, Present, and Future (Shock Treatment)" (68) 23(tie). The Olivia Tremor Control - "The Princess Turns the Key to Cubist Castle (Curtain Call Pt. 1 & 2)" (68) 27(tie). Of Montreal - "Y the Quale and Vaguely Bird Noisily Enjoying Their Forbidden Tryst" (67) 27(tie). from "Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons": "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious End Credits Suite" (67) 27(tie). Tom Waits - "I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (and See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)" (67) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:13:35 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Dead-list resuscitation wankery On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:47:49 -0700, "Eb" said: > Never noticed before that Filemaker can automatically compute > "Length"...so here are the 29 longest song titles I own, more or less. The band Lumen (named after one of our cats; the other cat has his own band, Oranj Symphonette--and both cats served to name the Japanese band Luminous Orange, whose blood types are not listed on the jacket...) has a single-track album (i.e., also the song title) called "The Man Felt an Iron Hand Grasp Him by the Hair, at the Nape. Not One Hand, a Hundred Hands Seized Him, Each by the Hair, and Tore Him Head to Foot, the Way You Tear Up a Sheet of Paper, Into Hundreds of Little Pieces." You can count the characters. And Man...or Astroman? (however they punctuate that) has a track called "Curious Constructs of Stem-Like Devices Which Now Prepare Themselves to Be Thought of as Fingers." Neither competes with Sc*tt M*ller's verbosity, of course... - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: "In two thousand years, they'll still be looking for Elvis - :: this is nothing new," said the priest. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:19:56 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: What's your blood type? On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:34:10 -0700, "Tom Clark" said: > On Jun 14, 2004, at 7:08 PM, steve wrote: > > > Begin > > forwarded message: > > > > > >> The Japanese believe some interesting things about a person's blood > >> type, > >> mainly that it determines much of their personality. > > Replace "blood type" with "astrological sign" or "eye color" or > "fingerprint" and you have the same story. And replace "Japanese" with "Americans," and the whole clause after "about" with some phrase about guardian angels, UFO abductions, the reliability of the National Enquirer, and the political acumen of Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien, and you have a (statistically) accurate statement about Americans, too. Or what Americans believe about hair color, particularly as pertaining to women, too. Funny, though: it's pretty easy to find any number of Americans who believe that's all bullshit. Wonder if the same is true of a large number of Japanese? But that's not as interesting a story hook, is it. - ------------------------------- ...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: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:31:24 -0500 From: Subject: Re: What's your incisor length? [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] On Jun 14, 2004, at 7:08 PM, steve wrote: > The Japanese believe some interesting things about a person's blood > type, mainly that it determines much of their personality. That is an insult to the Japs. But then, have you ever seen any of their porn? Magazines full of very sheer panty shots of prepubescent girls in compromising positions is common and perfectly legal. I won't detail anymore, but it gets even weirder. The last friend that visited there said, very young school girls most often dressed in their school uniforms or something similar sell photo and video poses in public parks to men. gSs ps - i'm O neg. and CMV neg., still somehow. I wonder what the longest period of being CMV negative for a person has been. Is it a condition that can persist throughout a normal lifetime or will everyone eventually be infected? Are there any studies comparing blood type and life expectancy, or anything else like height, hair color, eye color, skin color etc...? in addition: I am the king of all donors, or at least I was until they asked for my Social Security number. I have not given blood since. I sent the president a note three times before finally getting an answer. He said that the SS number was better than a photo ID because not everyone has a photo id. I sent him a reply asking why we needed blood donations from people who could not be positively identified with a photo ID. He has yet to reply. We must not have a blood supply shortage like we often hear. - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:33:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Dead-list resuscitation wankery On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Eb wrote: > I crossed off a bunch of other titles, such as > medleys/suites/just-about-anything-containing-a-colon, That Game Theory thing is one track on CD, but probably counts as a suite - -- on vinyl there are tiny pauses between each one. Before I got the CD I thought that was two or three different collages next to each other. > Anyone have other songs with 67 characters or more? From my database: the second annual national depression awareness day sleepover party _ The Bonaduces (The Democracy Of Sleep) if i had anything to say (don't you think i would have said it all?) _ Trynin, Jen (Cockamamie) soon the world of fashion will take an interest in these proceedings _ Jessamine (Another Fictionalized History) 20,000 deaths for eidelyn gonzales, 20,000 deaths for jamie peterson _ Xiu Xiu (A Promise) (lord, it's hard to be happy when you're not) using the metric system _ Atom And His Package (Making Love) the perils of war and its effects upon those who know nothing about it _ So-Called Artists (So-Called Artists) greetings from the longest weekend (of trying so hard to stay thankful) _ Smart Brown Handbag (Just Like Driving Backwards) that nature is a heraclitean fire and of the comfort of the resurrection _ Kleenex Girl Wonder (Smith) rock me again and again and again and again and again and again (six times) _ The Human League (Hysteria) had it all, lost it, found it again, gave it away now i want it back but it's gone _ Langley, Gerard (Record Player) if i find another one of your bobby pins in my bed, i am coming by to shove them up your ass _ Frank, Ad (A Lotta Devotion) cletus for the very last time, get the hell out of your sister's dress, for the very last time _ Golden Delicious (Old School) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:48:51 -0700 From: Subject: RE: What's your blood type? Got this note back from a friend who worked in Japan: FYI, the Japanese president (Masuda-san, who was a successful multimillionaire entrepreneur before joining us) of DIRECTV Japan was type AB, and he always asked blood type in job interviews--it was also a required disclosure on the job application. - -Simone ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:03:10 +0100 From: Dr John Halewood Subject: RE: Dead-list resuscitation wankery I reckon (not counted at all yet) that the longest title in my collection is by a Swedish bunch called godTphauss (kind of Scandinavian avant-noise bunch who do 'installations' rather than gigs). The piece (and indeed the cd), is proudly entitled "A Short History of Acceleration and Deceleration, of Distortion and Purification and of Autocratic Ethic and Religious Harmony or Effigiatus Homo Deus Signator in Auro". Catchy eh? Even better is the fact that cddb classifies all 53 minutes of it as "Netscape Mission Control (Windows 95/NT and Macintosh PPC) by Netscape Communications Corporation. For those who are curious as to what it sounds like, the answer is very, very quiet cheers john ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:04:04 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: A Candidate We Can All Agree On! YEAH!!! http://dioforamerica.com/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:05:33 -0700 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: RE: Dead-list resuscitation wankery Did I miss a mention of "A Huge Ever-Growing Pulsating Brain that Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld" by the Orb? - -Rex Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:38:15 -0700 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: I love the way her triangle's dispayed gSs >That is an insult to the Japs. But then, have you ever seen any of their porn? >Magazines full of very sheer panty shots of prepubescent girls in compromising >positions is common and perfectly legal. I won't detail anymore, but it gets even >weirder. Isn't this attitude even legislated? I seem to recall that Japanese regulations on porn allow pretty much everything except for the display of pubic hair? Of course there seems to be a similar de facto ban in American porn, too... what's up with all the hatin' on pubic hair? I just don't get it. - -Rex Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:28:48 +0100 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: more news for the Pixies contingent... and i hear that on SoulSeek someone called PaisleyGuy has Bam Thwok shared... what a nice fellow...! craigie* ...better late than never, until proven otherwise... - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eb" To: "fgz" Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 6:14 PM Subject: more news for the Pixies contingent... > PIXIES WRITE AND RECORD FIRST NEW SONG IN THIRTEEN YEARS > "Bam Thwok" Will Make Its Debut Tonight via Apple's iTunes > > OK, all of you Pixies fans, the moment you've been waiting for has > arrived - > the PIXIES have written and recorded a brand new song, the band's first > in > thirteen years, and you can get it starting at Midnight tonight > exclusively > on Apple's popular iTunes Music Store. "Bam Thwok" was penned by Kim > Deal > and produced and recorded by the Pixies at Stagg Street Studios in Los > Angeles this past March. The 2:35 "Bam Thwok," with Deal singing lead, > can > be downloaded from the iTunes Music Store for 99-cents > (http://www.apple.com/itunes/). > > The music for "Bam Thwok" had its genesis in a chord progression that > Deal > had been toying with for a while, and the lyrics from an art book she > found > discarded on a city street a number of years ago while on tour. "From > the > handwriting, you could tell that this book must have belonged to a > little > kid," Deal recounts. "This kid had written a short story, a paragraph > really, about a party that took place in another universe, about people > and > monsters that were partying together. That's what provided the > inspiration > for the lyrics." The song is a musical romp, and features a driving > beat, > searing guitar, and the whimsical chorus, "Love. Bang. Crash. Wakka, > wakka, > Bam Thwok." "It's a song about loving everyone," Deal added, "showing > good > will to everyone." > > The Pixies - Deal (bass, vocals,) Frank Black (vocals, guitar), Joey > Santiago (guitar), David Lovering (drums) - arranged and rehearsed the > song > at Santiago's home studio, which includes a 15-second carousel-esque > organ > solo performed and recorded many years ago by Santiago's father-in-law > while > he was doing missionary work in the Philippines. "That's a great piece > of > music," added Deal, "and it fits perfectly." > > "'Bam Thwok' is a really good song," said Frank Black. "Recording it > was a > nice way for us to break the ice after twelve years. The recording > process > was very relaxed and it didn't feel like twelve years had passed." > > As the Pixies are not currently affiliated with a record label, they > had the > luxury of making their first new song available to fans around the > globe at > a low price and instantaneously, something that iTunes could easily > provide. > The Pixies plan to perform "Bam Thwok" at concerts on their current > European > and upcoming North American tour dates. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:29:52 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Earthquack This one actually got me under my desk. Wheeeeeeeeee! http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/ci14065544.htm - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:37:33 +0100 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: Thunderclap Newman emerged from lurkerdom? Again? after all, i won the Ray Charles Reap... (hmmmm... not something to be proud of really!) craigie* ...better late than never, until proven otherwise... - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Sewell" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 10:21 AM Subject: Re: Thunderclap Newman > Hmm... yes, I thought my knowledge of old money was somewhat suspect... I > do have an excuse though - I was born after decimalisation. I measure in > centimetres and wouldn't know Fareinheit (or how to spell it for that > matter) if it jumped up and bit me on the leg! > > Oh, and welcome to Craigie*, who's emerged from lurkerdom! > > Cheers > > Matt > > >From: "craigie*" >Reply-To: "craigie*" > >To: >Subject: Re: > Thunderclap Newman >Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:55:48 +0100 > >10d to a > shilling? i think you mean 12... > >240 pennies in a pound, 20 > shillings... > >6d pieces were Tanners, 3d pieces were Threepenny Bits, > and had twelve >sides...Crowns *were* 5 shillings (expressed 5/-) and we > also had >half-crowns worth 2/6 (two and six)... > >5/6 was 27 and a half > new pence.... pocket money!! > >ahh, nostalgia.... > >craigie* > > >...better late than never, until proven otherwise... >----- Original > Message ----- >From: "Matt Sewell" >To: > >Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 5:03 PM >Subject: Re: > Thunderclap Newman > > > > What? Old money? > > > > THe Uk went decimal > in 1971. Before that we had old money... > > > > Now we have 100 pence to > a pound, then we had 20 shillings to a pound and > > 10 pence to a > shilling. It starts getting a bit tricky from there... a > > guinea - > what's that? A pound and a shilling? And a crown was 5 > > shillings... a > farthing was half a ha'penny... or was it..? > > > > Anyway, old money > was shown as pounds/shillings/pence or #/s/d. So 5/6 is > > 5 shillings > and sixpence - that is, 5x5p plus 6x.5p... I make that 28p in > > new > money... erm... > > > > Godders? > > > > Cheers > > > > Matt > > > > > >From: Tom Clark >Reply-To: Tom Clark > > > >To: Nerdy Groovers >Subject: Re: Thunderclap > Newman > > >Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 07:44:01 -0700 > >On Jun 14, 2004, at > 5:10 AM, > > Michael R Godwin wrote: > >>I just found this flier from > 1969 which > > appears to confirm that >>Thunderclap Newman did tour. I > see it was 6/6 > > (32.5p) for both >>bands, but >>only 5/6 (27.5p) for > the Bonzos. I > > remember the outrage which >>greeted the >>announcement > later that year > > that Fleetwood Mac was going to cost >>7/6 >>(37.5p) > because 'Albatross' > > had topped the charts. >> > >Could you explain > this pricing model? Is it > > still used? > >-tc > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar > now! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar now! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:43:18 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #174 Thought I'd wish you all (especially our resident Joyce Expert, Mr. Quail), a happy Bloomsday centenary! 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: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:58:22 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Useless fact no 327: Coins of the realm >Now we have 100 pence to a pound, then we had 20 shillings to a pound and >10 pence to a shilling. It starts getting a bit tricky from there... a >guinea - what's that? A pound and a shilling? And a crown was 5 >shillings... a farthing was half a ha'penny... or was it..? farthing = 1/4 penny (obsolete before decimalisation - see below) 12 pennies (12d) = 1 shilling = 1/- 2/6 (2 shillings and sixpence) = 1 half-crown 20 shillings = a pound 21 shillings = a guinea (this term was becoming obsolete before decimalisation) nicknames/older terms still in use included a tanner (6d), a bob (1/-), a florin (2/-), a crown (5/-). Coins in general use were the halfpenny (pronounced ha'penny), penny, threepenny bit (pronounced thruppenny or thruppence), sixpence, shilling, florin, and half crown. Crowns, sovereigns (one pound) and half-sovereigns were not in general circulation and were mainly struck for commemorative purposes. Farthings went out of circulation in about 1955. Those of you reading historical novels and the like will also have heard of the obsolete term groat (= fourpence), and at one time half-farthings were also issued. James PS - NZ went decimal in 1967, but I was still in Britain and just starting school. - -- 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 Jun 2004 20:24:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: What's your blood type? Tom Clark wrote: > steve wrote: > >> The Japanese believe some interesting things about a > >> person's blood type, mainly that it determines much of > >> their personality. > > Replace "blood type" with "astrological sign" or "eye > color" or "fingerprint" and you have the same story. The funniest thing like this I ever heard was a pair on the old Alex Bennett radio show [don't worry about not knowing him outside of the bay area] of women who claimed they could discern such info about a man's personality by examining his cock. Of course, that could have just been a scam to get a whole bunch of guys to show them their dicks without having to blow all of them. I can't remember if they were asked or said if equivolent vulval/clitoral/etc readings would work as well. ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin "I'm going to keep playing music until somebody shoots me." -- Scott McCaughey "It would not now surprise me in the least if, one night on TV, right there during The Memo, [Bill] O'Reilly declared himself to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia." -- Charles Pierce on MSNBC.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:42:44 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: What's your incisor length? On Jun 15, 2004, at 3:31 PM, gshell@americangroupisp.com wrote: > On Jun 14, 2004, at 7:08 PM, steve wrote: >> The Japanese believe some interesting things about a person's blood >> type, mainly that it determines much of their personality. > > That is an insult to the Japs. But then, have you ever seen any of > their porn? Leave it to Greg to be the first to reach for Occam's razor. Or not. But can it be an insult if it's true? And is it any more bizarre than this? - - - Steve, AB+ __________ Given Team Bush's almost Maoist sense of the transcendent importance of politics, political reliability is everything, and competence is nothing. - Brad LeLong ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:52:20 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: understatement of the year (finalist) Phil Archer of Wellington, New Zealand commenting on the meteorite that interrupted breakfast last Sunday: "I don't know what to make of it. I am just glad no one was sitting on the couch because they would have got absolutely crowned." There's a very specific way in physics to express what a 2.6 pound space rock traveling somewhere north of 200 mph will do to a couchbound recipient, but getting 'absolutely crowned' would seem to soft-sell the whole thing a bit. Michael "good thing the roof was there, my man...or that would really have hurt" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:07:06 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: A Candidate We Can All Agree On! Tom writes: > YEAH!!! > > http://dioforamerica.com/ Oh, hell yeah. Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket, count me in. I now also understand the catastrophic "beer on the Silver Mountain" Coors Light spot that ran a couple weeks ago. It's all part of the plan, *wink, wink.* Michael "really, they said BEER on the SILVER MOUNTAIN" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:25:16 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: A Candidate We Can All Agree On! > Tom writes: >> YEAH!!! >> >> http://dioforamerica.com/ > > Oh, hell yeah. Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket, count me in. > I never knew until seeing a VH1 program a week or so ago that Dio is apparently given credit for inventing the "devil's horns" sign to heavy metal. A life-validating achievement for any man. Speaking of sinister abominations: http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/TRONcostume/ And dig that *package*, ladies.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:20:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Not a reap yet, but.... Johnny Ramone http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5218974/ ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin "I'm going to keep playing music until somebody shoots me." -- Scott McCaughey "It would not now surprise me in the least if, one night on TV, right there during The Memo, [Bill] O'Reilly declared himself to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia." -- Charles Pierce on MSNBC.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:23:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Oh, and if rumors that you died wanking in the closet while asphyxiating yourself aren't enough to strip the last bit of your dignity, you can be replaced via game show: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5216218/ ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin "I'm going to keep playing music until somebody shoots me." -- Scott McCaughey "It would not now surprise me in the least if, one night on TV, right there during The Memo, [Bill] O'Reilly declared himself to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia." -- Charles Pierce on MSNBC.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #175 ********************************