From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #212 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, July 20 2004 Volume 13 : Number 212 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #209 [Michael R Godwin ] ???NZ rapper used for US ad??? [James Dignan ] That subject just won't go away [James Dignan ] Re: ???NZ rapper used for US ad??? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #209 [Michael R Godwin ] RE: Before Sunset ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: Bush VS an actual reporter [Dr John Halewood ] Llanhyfryddawelllehynafolybarcudprindanfygythiadtrienusyrhafnau ole [Mich] Fucking fire elementals... ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Bush VS an actual reporter [Tom Clark ] Look at Ms. Hitchcock ["Rex.Broome" ] The Lighter Side of Trach Life [Steve Talkowski ] Re: ???NZ rapper used for US ad??? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Bush VS an actual reporter [Barbara Soutar ] Re: That subject just won't go away [Capuchin ] Re: The Lighter Side of Trach Life [Capuchin ] life imitates parody [Dolph Chaney ] Re: life imitates parody ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: life imitates parody [Capuchin ] Re: Llanhyfryddawelllehynafolybarcudprindanfygythiadtrienusyrhafnau ole [] Re: The Lighter Side of Trach Life ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: ???NZ rapper used for US ad??? ["Matt Sewell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:51:57 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #209 > Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:56:51 -0400 > From: The Great Quail > Subject: Re: druidic coincidences > Ok, I just have to say it. Druids were allowed -- for some inexplicable > reason -- to possess scimitars. > - --Quail > PS: "Maybe not so inexplicable -- I am sure some bright boy at TSR thought, > "Hmmm...scimitar...scythe...? Not scimitars but sickles, I think. Used for taking cuttings so that the druids could worship the Middle Toe at Stoke Penge. - - Mike Godwin PS Prize of a gif of a V2 2-6-2 to the first person to identify the source of the misinformation above. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:58:10 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: ???NZ rapper used for US ad??? Can anyone confirm a strange report here that NZ's top rapper, Scribe, has one of his biggest singles - previously unknown outside these fair shores - being used as an ad for Ribena (of all things) in the US??? As you won't know it in other contexts, the track "Not many" has the repeated refrain of "How many dudes you know roll like this, how many dudes you know flow like this? Not many, if any, not many, if any". Any truth in this weird rumour? 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: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:05:38 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: That subject just won't go away One thing that's a shame about documentaries relating to, erm, recent unfortunate events in Iraq: that probably only 5% of the people who see "Fahrenheit 9/11" will even have heard of "The control room". Yet I think if more people in the US saw this latter movie, it might just change a few people's views of the war. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:28:00 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: ???NZ rapper used for US ad??? - --On Montag, 19. Juli 2004 23:58 Uhr +1200 James Dignan wrote: > Can anyone confirm a strange report here that NZ's top rapper, Scribe, > has one of his biggest singles - previously unknown outside these fair > shores - being used as an ad for Ribena (of all things) in the US??? I'd never heard of the product, so I looked it up. According to ribena.com, Ribena isn't even available in the US ... (at least that country isn't listed). - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:41:29 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: ???NZ rapper used for US ad??? >--On Montag, 19. Juli 2004 23:58 Uhr +1200 James Dignan > wrote: > >>Can anyone confirm a strange report here that NZ's top rapper, Scribe, >>has one of his biggest singles - previously unknown outside these fair >>shores - being used as an ad for Ribena (of all things) in the US??? > >I'd never heard of the product, so I looked it up. According to >ribena.com, Ribena isn't even available in the US ... (at least that >country isn't listed). well, that kills that piece of NZ TV journalism! James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:07:49 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #209 Let's approach this cautiously. Speaking as someone who has been castigated several times for off-topic postings (notably in the great "Why do villains always have names beginning with M?" thread of 19something or other), could I just circumspectly raise the issue of whether a forum devoted to the life and works of an English singer/songwriter is an appropriate place for an interminable discussion of foreign political parties? I mean, when I open the latest contribution to the LNER discussion list, I find that recent threads have included troop trains at Parkeston Quay, employees at Heaton shed in the 1930s, and 0-6-2 tank engine workings at Broad Street. All as it were directly concerned with the operation of the LNER. Virtually no politics, except an occasional dispute over whether the good old days were actually good or not, and even that ended in a relevant discussion of the 10% pay cut which the railways instituted during the depression. Let me put this another way. If I joined a discussion list entitled "Relative merits of American presidential candidates, 1948-2004", I wouldn't necessarily expect to find an animated argument going on about the comparative merits of 'Eye' and 'Respect'. - - Mike Godwin PS Here's an example of what I would consider to be a relevant posting: "Man charged with hitting girlfriend with pet alligator" - n.p. Marie Provost - Nick Lowe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:11:58 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Before Sunset At 03:39 PM 7/16/2004 -0700, Tom Clark wrote: >>Julie Delpy just looks like a goddess the way she's photographed >>sometimes, plus that accent! Jason came back with: >She is pretty adorable in Before Sunset when she sings a song with that >cute little French accent of hers. I agree with Tom! I happen to have Before Sunrise on DVD and she is adorable in it. The one I would compare her with, would be Anna Karina who was also adorable in a half of dozen of Jean-Luc Godard's films from the 1960's. I just pick up "A Woman Is A Woman" from 1961 on DVD from Criterion, and she appears gloriously in 2:35 widescreen and in color!. Godard had a big budget to shoot the movie with due to the success of "Breathless", thus the widescreen and color. I love the early 1960's street scenes of Paris in widescreen and in color! Michael B. NP Neu! - Neu! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:50:48 +0100 From: Dr John Halewood Subject: RE: Bush VS an actual reporter Aaron Lowe said: > All of Bush's politics aside, he just doesn't come across as > a very smart man. That reminds me of a wonderful quote from Steve Bell, the cartoonist in the Guardian newspaper (www.guardian.co.uk), who described Bush as "one of those rare politicians who is actually stupider than he looks". cheers john ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:18:48 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Llanhyfryddawelllehynafolybarcudprindanfygythiadtrienusyrhafnau ole - - Mike "Off-topic? Moi?" Godwin PS Subject pasted direct from the original article, including that exciting triple L. I did remove some redundant hyphens, however. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:58:25 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Fucking fire elementals... Michael B: >>Did the engine actually blow up? Or did your timing belt brake? Engine. My car ('91 Corolla) seems to be one of the few where if the timing belt goes, the engine lives on. Had that happen before. Jeme: >>Make lemonade, man. Consider this an opportunity to be rid of the burden >>and costs (personal, social, financial, environmental, and humanitarian). >>I can probably hook you up with local car-free groups and lots of >>literature and instructions. Appreciated. I'd love to go that way, but at this point I just can't. I know none of the excuses I can offer will probably wash with you, but they are myriad: 1) Job being relatively far from home 2) Job being needed to support family 3) Job still not paying a whole hell of a lot 4) Family includes children 5) Children require actual presence of father which becomes difficult as commute becomes more convoluted/time-consuming 6) Children requiring transport to and from daycare with mother also having job which matches above description 7) All of above happening within sprawling environs of Los Angeles 8) Non-job pursuits which are important to me necessitate frequent transportation of bulky materials (guitars, amplifiers, easels, large canvases and other equivalents) to similarly outlying regions 9) Love my friends who live all over the damned place locally and occasionally in the course of social events require lifts, carpooling, designated drivers, etc. 10) Juggling schedules around all the above factors often means I have to mobilize and improvise where I need to be and when on the fly... So, yo, no love for the internal combustion engine here, but I think the fact that I'm kinda stuck with it in the short term will be understandable to most within the sound of my voice. 'Fraid I'll be voting for Kerry, too. - -Rex, with a bit more to catch up on... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:06:13 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Bush VS an actual reporter heh heh... On Jul 19, 2004, at 3:27 AM, Matt Sewell wrote: > Was that a concious pun, Tom? A far greater blow to the Presidency from > Monica Lewinsky, eh? No doubt! > > Cheers > > Matt > >> From: Tom Clark >> > >Of course this is what those on > the Right always say about Clinton >for getting head in the Oval > Office - > which I think we all agree is >a far greater blow to the Presidency > than > just being a complete and >utter human failure. > >-tc > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar now! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:35:06 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Look at Ms. Hitchcock Jeme: >>In 1996, the Miss Ohio Scholarship went to a woman named Robyn Hancock. Thanks, saved me the trouble of googling this unlikely event up myself. Methinks that this burgeoning urban myth is likely to continue to be cited and believed simply because the genesis of a Robyn Hitchcock recording session may be just a wee bit too far under the radar for Snopes to bother debunking it. Was Ms. Hancock at least moderately hot? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:37:20 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: The Lighter Side of Trach Life Since apparently "anything goes' here on Feg-list, I couldn't resist forwarding this rather disturbing link found on www.gizmodo.com Enjoy! http://home.att.net/%7Ejnozum/Trach/Funny.htm - -Steve P.S. Oh yeah, new iPods out today too... http://www.apple.com/ipod ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:27:14 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: ???NZ rapper used for US ad??? Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > I'd never heard of the product, so I looked it up. According to > ribena.com, Ribena isn't even available in the US Ah, blackcurrant squash; in theory, blackcurrant juice concentrate, sugar and citric acid. One of my dad's favourites -- he celebrated finishing his university exams with a bottle of Ribena. He has been known to drink hot Ribena, a concept too gross to consider. Apparently the Ribena plant becomes a wasp Mecca when they're holding the blackcurrants for processing. Hated the stuff, myself. It's one of these things like Marmite and Horlicks that you either love or loathe. Stewart (who has seen an NZ rap band, and survived.) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:58:23 -0400 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Napoleon Dynamite Saw a movie that I thought people here might enjoy, called Napoleon Dynamite. Low budget with unlovable characters but charming nonetheless. Geeks in American dairy country. What more can I say? Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:13:50 -0400 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Re: Bush VS an actual reporter How discussion under this subject heading could turn into a criticism of Kerry is perplexing. Even though I'm Canadian I'm following the election - - Kerry was not my first choice for Democratic candidate, Wesley Clark was. But both of them are in the category of Educated White Male War Heroes, so that seems to be what people are looking for this time around. I will make it clear that I think "polite" interviews with polititicans are as useless as, as, well they are just useless. But I for one will not make any more criticisms of Bush, it's too easy and it seems to push a few Americans on this list into defending the indefensible. Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:08:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: That subject just won't go away On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, James Dignan wrote: > One thing that's a shame about documentaries relating to, erm, recent > unfortunate events in Iraq: that probably only 5% of the people who see > "Fahrenheit 9/11" will even have heard of "The control room". Yet I > think if more people in the US saw this latter movie, it might just > change a few people's views of the war. This played here recently to fairly full houses, but it only played one theater and only for a few days (maybe a week). Control Room is definitely a broader cultural indictment of a problem with farther reaching consequences. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:16:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: The Lighter Side of Trach Life On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Steve Talkowski wrote: > P.S. Oh yeah, new iPods out today too... http://www.apple.com/ipod And still no ogg support... For shame. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:56:57 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: life imitates parody ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:13:55 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: life imitates parody At 05:56 PM 7/19/2004 -0500, Dolph Chaney wrote: > And yet the movie "White Chicks" is still in the Top 10, and no one gives a flying fuck about that. Most of the people bitching about his comments make fun of his "foreign" accent all the time... Anyway, the proper, most current politically correct term is "Males of Girliness." Arnie really should stay on top of things if he wants to be taken seriously. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:47:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: life imitates parody On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > And yet the movie "White Chicks" is still in the Top 10, and no one > gives a flying fuck about that. I think there's an enormous difference between taking pot-shots at the privileged and sticking it to an already put-upon minority. Essentially, "White Chicks" is about class, not race or gender. > Most of the people bitching about his comments make fun of his "foreign" > accent all the time... Oh, you know them? Who are they? > Anyway, the proper, most current politically correct term is "Males of > Girliness." Arnie really should stay on top of things if he wants to be > taken seriously. I think the only people that take him seriously are the ones that have him in their pocket (along with their great flipping wads of cash). J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:01:43 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Llanhyfryddawelllehynafolybarcudprindanfygythiadtrienusyrhafnau ole Michael R Godwin wrote: > aaargh -- fuckfuckfuck! And why, do you think, that the red kites are rare? 'Cos farmers have shot and poisoned them for years. I've seen raptors playing in wind turbine updrafts. The only raptor that gets hit by turbine blades is a very sick one. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:08:23 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: The Lighter Side of Trach Life Capuchin wrote: > > And still no ogg support... yeah, and where's the digital/analogue inputs? Maybe I should keep quiet about the 16-18 hour continuous battery life of the H120, too. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:59:09 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: beermaniax: a stout stout holy shit, have you had Lion brand stout? 8%, and The Other Michael Jackson (The Zymurgist Not The Terpsichorean Pedophile) is on the box. Wowie zowie, I am enthralled. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:33:15 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: ???NZ rapper used for US ad??? Nowt wrong with Ribena - though definitely the sugariest of blackcurrant squashes. And drunk hot it's delicious (not that I've had a cup of hot ribena for several years, mind you). Blimey Stewart - don't drink Ribena, don't like the Beatles, hint at the idea that marmite is a minority interest... bloody iconoclast! Cheers Matt >From: "Stewart C. Russell" > >Ah, blackcurrant squash; in theory, blackcurrant juice concentrate, >sugar and citric acid. One of my dad's favourites -- he celebrated >finishing his university exams with a bottle of Ribena. He has been >known to drink hot Ribena, a concept too gross to consider. > >Apparently the Ribena plant becomes a wasp Mecca when they're >holding the blackcurrants for processing. > >Hated the stuff, myself. It's one of these things like Marmite and >Horlicks that you either love or loathe. > > Stewart >(who has seen an NZ rap band, and survived.) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar now! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:13:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: life imitates parody > Anyway, the proper, most current politically correct term is "Males of > Girliness." Arnie really should stay on top of things if he wants to be > taken seriously. This seems to be a current trend in Republican dirty tricks/politics. Some are seeking to portray Kerry/Edwards as metrosexuals, based partly on the fact that Kerry has (or had at some point) his nails done. I'm sure the pics of them hugging didn't help. Now Jack Ryan, there's a real man. Better metrosexual than idiot, IMO. Jon ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #212 ********************************