From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #289 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, October 13 2004 Volume 13 : Number 289 Today's Subjects: ----------------- mm-mmmm! [James Dignan ] Re: Luminous Lacerated Rose [James Dignan ] Re: alright yeah folks [James Dignan ] Re: Luminous Lacerated Rose ["Rex Broome" ] RE: Best birthday death? ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Birthdays [James Dignan ] Re: Mondegreens and Blake Snake [James Dignan ] Re: Mondegreens and Blake Snake [Tom Clark ] Dylan on Opium? [Tom Clark ] Re: alright yeah folks [Jon Lewis ] D'oh! [The Great Quail ] Re: Best birthday death? [Bret ] RE: Best birthday death? ["Marc Alberts" ] RE: Best birthday death? ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: Best birthday death? [Ken Weingold ] RE: Best deathbirthday? [] Re: Best birthday death? [Dolph Chaney ] RE: Dylan on Opium? ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: Best birthday death? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] RE: Latest Chills news... [Eb ] Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs [The Great Quail ] Re: Best birthday death? [] Re: D'oh! [The Great Quail ] RE: Best birthday death? ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: D'Oh! The Seminal Robyn Comes Back! ["Rex Broome" ] Re: Best birthday death? [Aaron Lowe ] Re: Best birthday death? [Jeff Dwarf ] u2nes [Tom Clark ] re: Alright, Yeah ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Best birthday death? [steve ] Re: u2nes ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: u2nes [Ken Weingold ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:29:01 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: mm-mmmm! > > > > I've said it before, and I don't wanna open up the whole Wafflehead > > > > discusion again, but I love it. And actually I once played that for a > > > > girl and it got her really turned on and actually got me laid. That's > > > > pretty rare for a Robyn song (in my experience)! > > > > > > Strangely enough, the same thing happened to me with Wafflehead. Even > > > without that very happy juxtaposition of a song about lusty sex and lusty > > > sex, though, I think I'd still like it. There's something about the > > > panoply of noises in the song that tickles me to no end. > > > > Where the hell do you people live? The land of very weird women? FWIW Wafflehead is Alice's favourite RH song. Very weird? Yes, she's very weird - mostly in a good way. More than that I will not say on a public list. Take notes guys - weird women and wafflehead can be a good combination! 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, 13 Oct 2004 11:33:50 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Luminous Lacerated Rose >A few years back, for the "Shipwreck" Halloween party, my buddy cut >together film footage to songs I thought would be cool... and he had >these crazy underwater corpse things hacked together from various >pretty standard-issue films (Titanic, U-571 etc) cut to "Luminous >Rose", which he'd never heard before I gave it to him. It was >really spooky. Anyhow... a well constructed shipwreck album would be pretty damn good, and very memorable if tied to the right footage. "Luminous Rose", the Muttonbirds "Anchor me", a couple of bits from Laurie Anderson's "Mister Heartbreak" album... mmm. 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, 13 Oct 2004 11:37:34 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: alright yeah folks > ...I have to admit to loving Heliotrope, but only the Mossy version with the >incredible backing vocals added in (The Moss Elixir version falls >flat for me!) Oddly, that's pretty much how I feel about "Beautiful queen" - after the Mossy version with its raga-esque octaved strings, the Moss Elixir version sounds flat to me. 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, 12 Oct 2004 14:45:08 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: Luminous Lacerated Rose James: > a well constructed shipwreck album would be pretty damn good, and > very memorable if tied to the right footage. "Luminous Rose", the > Muttonbirds "Anchor me", a couple of bits from Laurie Anderson's > "Mister Heartbreak" album... mmm. Oh, there were two full-length CD's of "Horror on the High Seas" constructed with lots of feggy assistance and pertinent soundbites, not to mention probably another hour and a half of music tied to film footage as described above. The tracklists to the albums themselves are doubtless in the archives, but I can scare them up if anyone feels nostalgic. - -Rex - -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:20:38 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: RE: Best birthday death? At 11:47 AM 10/12/2004 -0700, Eb wrote: >Jack the Ripper killed TWO ho's on my birthday. Beat that. Chernobyl happened on mine. But you still win. - --Jason "Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food." -- Anthony Bourdain ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:05:31 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Birthdays >I just found out that Adolf Eichmann was hanged on my birthday, >exactly ten years before. June 1, 1962. Incidentally, Marilyn Monroe >shares the same birthday as me, as well as Dante Alighieri, or so I've >read, since his it seems has never been confirmed. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, May 30th, 1431. Can't do much better than that one, I wouldn't think. Master writers Alexander Pope and Christopher Marlowe also died on May 30th. Oh and I share my birthday with Peter the Great of Russia, although he was born a few years before me. > >August 24, 79 > >Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die. > > That has to be the largest non-war death day ever I would think. not even the largest in Europe. IIRC the Lisbon earthquake in the 1750s holds that record. As to worldwide, any number of earthquakes could beat it. 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, 13 Oct 2004 12:06:37 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Mondegreens and Blake Snake >I was looking up the lyrics to Queen of Eyes the other day on the Asking >Tree site and was >surprised to see that all he ever got from her was 'lies'... Since I first >heard the song, I've always thought (rather horribly) that it was 'lice'! >Has anyone else mishead the lyric in a similarly embarrassing way? search through the archives for Honiton Clyst. I keep a list of "personal mondegreens" songs that my ears completely fail to hear correctly. Some include: You dosie do with the inner man, Buster Crabbe and the other man (Do the dosie do, do the mirror man, the Boston crab, and the Allemande; Kurt's Rejoinder -Brian Eno) Anzac Cheese Mine (Hands off, she's mine - The Beat) Martinique, and lumps of rotten steak (Martinique, that Montserrat mystique; Kokomo - Beach Boys) Black Betty, you're out of town (Crackbabies, you're out of time; Crackbabies - Urge Overkill) This is a town for lizards (This is a town for losers; Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen) Seventy-seventh (Serve the servant - Nirvana) Tiger boy, close the door, let's go to bed (I'm tired and bored, close the door, let's go to bed; Tired and Bored - Garageland) Frederick Brewster (Electric Booster - Chamber) Doctor Rogenstein (Dogs that rule the night - Porno for Pyros) Tell me the dogs come a-calling to you (Tell me the gospel according to you; George - Headless Chickens) Ronnie Dio! Ronnie Dio! (A denial! A denial!; Smells like teen spirit - - Nirvana) Rum, unboiled (Wrong 'em Boyo - The Clash). Alice hears this as "The wrong employer". >As for Wafflehead, if there's a better song about oral sex I've yet to >hear it... (is this a thread request?) For songs where where the skull of Africa meets the horn of Florida? Hmmm. John Lennon's "Goin' down on love"? >And Blake Snake is cool because he really wanted to BE the Psychedelic >Furs, and who could blame him. Either this is an artist of whom I know nothing, or a wonderful typo James (Rex - how's Blake Snake for a band name?) PS - in Australian rhyming slang, a "Joe" or "Joe Blake" is a snake. PPS - must...stop...posting... - -- 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, 12 Oct 2004 16:16:09 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Mondegreens and Blake Snake On Oct 12, 2004, at 4:06 PM, James Dignan wrote: > Ronnie Dio! Ronnie Dio! (A denial! A denial!; Smells like teen spirit > - Nirvana) > Thanks, James, I'll never hear it the same again! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:20:14 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Dylan on Opium? I was just playing the 10/9/04 London gig in my office when a colleague stopped by, stood for a moment and listened to the harp solo in Only The Stones Remain. Him: "Bob Dylan on opium?" Me: "Some would say that..." btw, before My Wife And My Dead Wife, Robyn speaks of the oddity of saying someone has "passed away". Coincidence? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:28:22 -0400 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: alright yeah folks On Tuesday, October 12, 2004, at 06:37 PM, James Dignan wrote: >> ...I have to admit to loving Heliotrope, but only the Mossy version >> with the >> incredible backing vocals added in (The Moss Elixir version falls >> flat for me!) > > Oddly, that's pretty much how I feel about "Beautiful queen" - after > the Mossy version with its raga-esque octaved strings, the Moss Elixir > version sounds flat to me. > > I'm with you there. The Mossy BQ knocks the Moss E's dick in the dirt. Unfortunately, I still haven't gotten around to digitizing my Mossy LP. Lazy, lazy. I'd forgotten about the Heliotrope differences-- was thinking BQ was the only song I'd pull off the vinyl, but I'll have to give that Heliotrope another listen. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:36:21 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: D'oh! ...uh, and how could I forget "Jewels for Sophia" and "Adoration of the City," which I consider complementary songs (maybe) about (possibly) oral sex.... - --Q ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:35:01 -0500 From: Bret Subject: Re: Best birthday death? > Jack the Ripper killed TWO ho's on my birthday. Beat that. I think we have a clear winner here. - -b > > Also died on my birthday: James Dean. > > Eb > > > > -----Original Message----- > Subject: Best birthday death? > > I just found out that Adolf Eichmann was hanged on my birthday, exactly > ten years before. June 1, 1962. Incidentally, Marilyn Monroe shares > the same birthday as me, as well as Dante Alighieri, or so I've read, > since his it seems has never been confirmed. > > Oh, and in 1494, Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of scotch > whisky. I guess I should have Bruichladdich on my birthday now. > > -Ken > - -- - --Bret Bolton ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:55:51 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Best birthday death? Michael B. wrote: > >August 24, 79 > >Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die. > > That has to be the largest non-war death day ever I would think. It would be nice if this were the case, but alas.... Several times this century alone we've exceeded that number, including: June 20, 1990 Earthquake in western Iran kills 40-50,000 May 21, 1970 Large earthquake triggers avalanche and mudslide in Peru, killing 20,000 November 13, 1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts, burying 23,000 people in a massive mudflow And the topper (estimated to be the most deadly natural disaster of all time): July 27, 1976 8.0 earthquake in Tianjin, PRC kills between 255,000 (government estimate) and 655,000 (unofficial Western estimates) people. These don't come close to floods (in 1931 in China, more than 3 million people lost their lives to floods, averaging more than 8,000 a day, so you'd have to assume that at least a few days beat Vesuvius) or man-made non-war events (the Great Leap Forward in China between 1958-1961 killed as many as 40 million, or an average of more than the Nevado del Ruiz per day for four years). It sure is a shame a 15,000 death day isn't the biggest by far, isn't it? Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:13:33 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Best birthday death? > > Jack the Ripper killed TWO ho's on my birthday. Beat that. My birthday is shared with Charles Babbage, Henry Miller, Phil Specter and Mao. Quite an ecclectic bunch. Jack Benny, Curtis Mayfield and Harry Truman died on my birthday, as well as Gorgeous George. Oh, and Erzsebet Bathory, a Hungarian serial killer responsible for the deaths of somewhere between 20-2000 girls and (so it's believed) the real origin for vampire myths that later were attached to the Dracula story. To paraphrase Bill Murray in "Caddyshack": so I got that going for me...which is nice. Isn't google just a barrel of laughs??? Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:27:25 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Best birthday death? On Tue, Oct 12, 2004, Marc Alberts wrote: > > > Jack the Ripper killed TWO ho's on my birthday. Beat that. > > My birthday is shared with Charles Babbage, Henry Miller, Phil Specter and > Mao. Quite an ecclectic bunch. Jack Benny, Curtis Mayfield and Harry > Truman died on my birthday, as well as Gorgeous George. Oh, and Erzsebet > Bathory, a Hungarian serial killer responsible for the deaths of somewhere > between 20-2000 girls and (so it's believed) the real origin for vampire > myths that later were attached to the Dracula story. To paraphrase Bill > Murray in "Caddyshack": so I got that going for me...which is nice. > > Isn't google just a barrel of laughs??? Oh, put your birthday into Wikipedia and voila. I also have Heidi Klum, Alanis Morisette, Cleavon Little, Morgan Freeman, Jonathan Pryce, Ron and Wood. DeForest Kelley and Helen Keller died on my birthday. And Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. But what blows all this away is that my girlfriend is pretty sure that she was conceived at Altamont. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:31:26 -0500 From: Subject: RE: Best deathbirthday? [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] On December 26, 2003 an earthquake in Bam, Iran, killed about 30,000 on the first day and around 43,000 total. That was less than one year ago. On November 13, 1985 Nevado del Ruiz in Columbia erupted and killed about 21,000 people in a little less than 2 hours. gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:41:51 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: Best birthday death? At 07:35 PM 10/12/2004, Bret wrote: > > Jack the Ripper killed TWO ho's on my birthday. Beat that. > > >I think we have a clear winner here. Yeah, all I have is Brian Epstein committing suicide. My death-birthday-doppelganger would make the weakest movie compared to Jack the Ripper or Vesuvius or something. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:08:55 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: Dylan on Opium? I'd forgotten that - I remember thinking at the time... synchronicity or does Robyn cast an eye over the archives every so often? If I had a fan mailing list, I certainly would (but of course would never admit it!)... Cheers Matt >From: Tom Clark > > >btw, before My Wife And My Dead Wife, Robyn speaks of the oddity of >saying someone has "passed away". Coincidence? > >-tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:46:26 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Best birthday death? Jason R. Thornton wrote: > > Chernobyl happened on mine. But you still win. But unknown numbers died as a result. My grandpa's 80th birthday: June 4th, 1989. As they were of a generation that thought of television as a novelty, after a nice birthday tea, they turned the telly on. To see the tanks rolls over the protesters in Tiananmen Square. The Battle of Bannockburn is the -655th anniversary of my birthday. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:34:02 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: Latest Chills news... As much as I admire the Chills, I must say that the "unrecorded prolificacy" angle is starting to wear out its welcome by now. Eb - -----Original Message----- "I think I have got more riffs than I can seriously complete in my lifetime" He said he had enough riffs and intros on tapes and his new(ish) computer system for hundreds of songs and dozens of albums ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:46 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs > As for Wafflehead, if there's a better song about oral sex I've yet to > hear it... (is this a thread request?) Hmmm.... Songs about oral sex.... I am partial to "Raspberry Swirl," by Tori Amos. Then there's Bowie's "Sweet Head," with its wonderfully unsubtle title, and I *think* the red Hot Chili Pepper's "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" may count.... Any others come to mind? Can you count Jim's spoken word dealie in the live "Gloria?" - --Quail, leaving out countless Zappa songs.... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:06:41 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: D'oh! Vague memory...remember that shortlived overanalytical subscriber (or lurker?) who had those totally wacked-out theories about some RH song, where I believe he claimed all the snow imagery represented semen? Or something like that? Can't quite recall the details now but, damn, that was funny. :) Eb - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of The Great Quail Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 11:36 AM To: Fegmaniax! Subject: D'oh! ..uh, and how could I forget "Jewels for Sophia" and "Adoration of the City," which I consider complementary songs (maybe) about (possibly) oral sex.... - --Q ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:07:24 -0500 From: Subject: Re: Best birthday death? [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:16 , Jon Lewis jlewis@gator.net> sent: >I wonder what the worst single day of the 1918 flu pandemic did, though? Supposedly the worst yet. It killed about 675K Americans from 1918-1919 and around 30 million people worldwide. The stories tell of people walking to work, becoming ill and then choking to death on their foaming bloody mucous, often all within a few hours. If they could have just put the war off a little while longer we wouldn't have had to waste so much ammo. No matter how bad we make it for ourselves, something one-ups us. gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:27:19 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: D'oh! > Vague memory...remember that shortlived overanalytical subscriber (or > lurker?) who had those totally wacked-out theories about some RH song, > where I believe he claimed all the snow imagery represented semen? Or > something like that? > > Can't quite recall the details now but, damn, that was funny. :) Oh man, that's right! He was convinced that half of Robyn's songs were about masturbation and such, and pulled every lit-crit trick out of the bag to "prove" it. That *was* funny -- but if I recall, someone on the List was incredibly rude to him, and he dropped off. I don't remember who that was, though; or it might have been several someones. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:27:17 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Best birthday death? [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:16 , Jon Lewis jlewis@gator.net> sent: >>I wonder what the worst single day of the 1918 flu pandemic did, though? >Supposedly the worst yet. It killed about 675K Americans from 1918-1919 and around >30 million people worldwide. The stories tell of people walking to work, becoming >ill and then choking to death on their foaming bloody mucous, often all within a >few hours. If they could have just put the war off a little while longer we >wouldn't have had to waste so much ammo. No matter how bad we make it for >ourselves, something one-ups us. Didn't it start off with US WW1 Doughboys taking it over to Europe after being infected with it during training? It went through the troops on both sides and was partially responsible for shortening the war, correct? Michael B. NP Peter Green - Man Of The World The Anthology 1968-1988 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:58:11 -0500 From: Subject: RE: Best birthday death? [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:27 , Bachman, Michael sent: > Didn't it start off with US WW1 Doughboys taking it over to Europe after being >infected with it during training? It went through the troops on both sides >and was partially responsible for shortening the war, correct? The outbreak started at the very end of the war and probably had little to do with it's resolution. The origin of this variant is not completely known but believed to be from China. The first wave however appeared during early spring 1918 in Kansas, though the term 'Spanish Flu' was coined because the largest initial number of mortalities came from Spain, about 8 million, during the spring of that same year. We have apparently recently taken skin samples from a donor body that died of this flu and have now recreated this virus for further study. gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:22:23 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: D'Oh! The Seminal Robyn Comes Back! Eb: > Vague memory...remember that shortlived overanalytical subscriber (or > lurker?) who had those totally wacked-out theories about some RH song, > where I believe he claimed all the snow imagery represented semen? Or > something like that? Yeah, I remember. I wonder if he was man enough to... oh, never mind... Back to Luminous Rose and apropos to James's "misheard lyrics" comments: GoF was the first RH record I owned, and I was of an age to look up all the anglicisms to see what he was talking about. I mentioned recently that my 1987 Webster's Collegiate failed to define "hummus", but it doesn't stop there... I couldn't for the life of me figure out what "emmen" were, as in "bodies of drowned sailors and dead emmen". See, cause "airmen" brings to mind "seamen", right? - -Rex - -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:48:33 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Best birthday death? Largest Tragedies on June 15: b* 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Petersburg begins - Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant and troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee battle for the last time. b* 1904 - A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1000. b* 1913 - US troops under General John 'Black Jack' Pershing massacred at least 2,000 Philippine men, women and children at Bud Bagsak b* 1944 - World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invades Saipan. b* 1969 - Hee Haw debuts on CBS television, quickly becoming an institution. b* 1954 - Birth of James Belushi, actor b* 1996 - Death of Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer (b. 1917) - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:10:56 -0500 From: Aaron Lowe Subject: Re: Best birthday death? At 12:48 PM 10/13/2004, Tom Clark wrote: > b* 1969 - Hee Haw debuts on CBS television, quickly becoming > an institution. You win. Biggest tragedy, hands down. ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:18:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Best birthday death? Aaron Lowe wrote: > At 12:48 PM 10/13/2004, Tom Clark wrote: > > b* 1969 - Hee Haw debuts on CBS television, > > quickly becoming an institution. > > You win. Biggest tragedy, hands down. ;-) Surely you meant: > > b* 1954 - Birth of James Belushi, actor As for Ella dying: She was 79. She had a full life. She was a legend. She no doubt did most of the things she ever wanted to do. So her death was surely sad, but not tragic. Unless there are some horrible circumstances of her death I'm forgetting. ===== "[The Bush administration] deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction, that's true. We were taken for a ride." -- President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Poland "'Bushworld' is sort of an alternate universe where things are the opposite of what they seem. President Bush said the other day, 'It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offensive, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offensive because people do want to hurt us.' I mean that is a perfect 'Bushworld' quote. It's not true and it's nonsensical. It's the opposite of what is true. His new campaign motto is 'America is safer. Be afraid, be very afraid.' Everything is an oxymoron." -- Maureen Dowd _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:44:53 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: u2nes Any comments on the U2 iPod commercial/video? U2 regains some youthful hipness and Apple gets the iPod marketing look and feel into a mainstream video. Everybody wins. I'm not totally objective of course... http://www.apple.com/itunes/u2/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:25:40 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: re: Alright, Yeah >Are they really that different, and if so can you quantify the differences >in any specific way? I've heard >the Moss version (and the Swedish one) >far more often, and I don't have easy access to Greatest Hits >to listen to >the older one... does it lack the slide guitar? Because I like the slide >guitar... and I don't >remember any other major differences. Just the >vibe? There is also a flexi of it in German. Later, Marc Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition. Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:12:44 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Best birthday death? On Oct 13, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > The Battle of Bannockburn is the -655th anniversary of my birthday. My birthday is December 7. - - Steve __________ Bush may look like a well-meaning dolt. On consideration, he's something far more dangerous: a dedicated fool. - Jacob Weisberg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:11:51 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: u2nes Tom Clark wrote: > Any comments on the U2 iPod commercial/video? Ladies and gentlemen, the selachian has been vaulted ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:16:03 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: u2nes On Wed, Oct 13, 2004, Tom Clark wrote: > Any comments on the U2 iPod commercial/video? U2 regains some youthful > hipness and Apple gets the iPod marketing look and feel into a > mainstream video. Everybody wins. I'm not totally objective of > course... > > http://www.apple.com/itunes/u2/ Huh. At least in NYC, I don't think Apple needs any help whatsoever on the iPod front. It seems like everyone and their mother has one. Any time I'm on the subway I swear I can pick out at least a couple of people within 10 feet of me that has one. Often more. The other night I picked out 5 within view. - -Ken ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #289 ********************************