From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #301 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, October 22 2004 Volume 13 : Number 301 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: reap (Bases + balls) ["Peter Bernard" ] More stuff to waste your time [steve ] Re: reap (Bases + balls) [2and2makes5@comcast.net] FF [Eb ] Re: 2 weeks to go -- ["Nora B." ] Re:reap [James Dignan ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #299 [James Dignan ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #300 [Michael R Godwin ] Reap [MPys2626@aol.com] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #300 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Times article on the radio/rekkids (.05% RH Content) ["FS Thomas" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #300 ["Cadtharsis" ] RE: Arcade Fire for the Red Sox ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V13 #300 [Ed Poole ] One more note [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Apropos of nothing said lately (0%RH) [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: desperate times, desperate measures, etc. [Ken Weingold ] Re: One more note [2fs ] Re: desperate times, desperate measures, etc. [2fs ] Re: One more note [FSThomas ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:13:11 +0000 From: "Peter Bernard" Subject: Re: reap (Bases + balls) Hmm: Thot I joined this list so I could hear about all 'cept fookin sports. Seems to me there'd be plenty o' listies for that. So sayeth plate. >From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net >Reply-To: 2and2makes5@comcast.net >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: reap (Bases + balls) >Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:34:02 +0000 > >Hmm, if the Houston Astros beat the Cardinals, we will have a mirror image (statewise) of the US presidential election. (And Joe Buck and McCarver won't have a team to be biased about) >FOX gripe: >The late-inning penchant for Fox cameramen to slowly zoom in/out on a fan with their hands together in a manner suggestive of prayer. > >'nuff, >Jon >-------------- Original message -------------- > > > This year's New York Yankees. > > > > GO SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > A very tired Jill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:35:23 -0500 From: steve Subject: More stuff to waste your time Check out the "He Just Doesn't Get It" ad, which will be running in swing states - Bush supporters grasp of reality - If Le Carri Could Vote - - - Steve __________ Microsoft is expected to recommend that the "average" Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today. - Mary Jo Foley, eWeek, 04/30/2004 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:54:14 +0000 From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net Subject: Re: reap (Bases + balls) Nah, you joined it for the never-ending political discussions! This list has always (in my experience) been about anything and everything--even seemingly inane subjects like sports, placentae, giant squid wash-ups and the true meaning of "linctus." Sorry you don't see it that way. HOW 'BOUT THEM RED SOX! Jon - -------------- Original message -------------- Hmm: Thot I joined this list so I could hear about all 'cept fookin sports. Seems to me there'd be plenty o' listies for that. So sayeth plate. >From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net >Reply-To: 2and2makes5@comcast.net >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: reap (Bases + balls) >Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:34:02 +0000 > >Hmm, if the Houston Astros beat the Cardinals, we will have a mirror image (statewise) of the US presidential election. (And Joe Buck and McCarver won't have a team to be biased about) >FOX gripe: >The late-inning penchant for Fox cameramen to slowly zoom in/out on a fan with their hands together in a manner suggestive of prayer. > >'nuff, >Jon >-------------- Original message -------------- > > > This year's New York Yankees. > > > > GO SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > A very tired Jill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:38:18 -0700 From: Eb Subject: FF I was meaning to write some comments about the Fiery Furnaces show I saw on Saturday, but didn't get around to it. Now it's redundant, because my impressions were very, very similar to Marc's. The primary differences between this show and the show I saw earlier this year were that: 1) The singer didn't ever play an instrument 2) The singer wore a nice, black "date dress," which I can only presume is a reaction to a few hapless reviewers from the last tour who probably mistook her for a man. 3) The new drummer. God, yes, the drummer. I would have said exactly what Marc said, even down to comparing him to Keith Moon. And not just the playing style, but the CHARISMA of Moon. The exaggerated "Ooooo, I'm surprised!" facial expressions while playing. The pointless mouthing along with lyrics. Etc. You couldn't take your eyes off him. No destruction of his gear, but otherwise.... Here were a few wackier drummer details: 1) "Singing" into a drumstick as if it was a microphone 2) Flamboyant cymbal work, which included the young Moon's unusual "flick downward" technique as well as wild moves where he would alternate crashing one cymbal from underneath and the other from above. 3) For one short segment, he played the drums with two fake, foam *axes*. For no apparent reason, whatsoever. One of the axe heads soon flew off, so he went back to sticks. Totally off-the-wall. The rest of the band didn't even seem to be aware of this. 4) When he wasn't playing, he had this endearing way of looking "bored" by propping his elbows on the drums, resting his chin on his hand and impatiently watching one of the guitarists. 5) One bit where he basically simulated a ticking clock by rhythmically hitting the cymbal *stands* in succession. Fun! 6) I wonder if he sometimes plays with two bass drums, because the bass drum was labeled "The Ery Naces," or something close to that. Perhaps the corresponding "Fi Fur" drum was left home? Anyway, yes, that guy really is something special. And he had a LOT of material to remember (well, the whole band did) because the performance was one long, continuous "suite" of song fragments which was so loaded with abrupt changes that, frankly, it all came off rather tuneless. The drummer aside, I enjoyed the previous show a little more. Especially when it came to the singer's stage presence. I don't think she has figured out what to do onstage yet, without a guitar. She just kinda lowered her chin into the mike, always held the mike in her right hand, and let her left arm hang limp. Add a lot of "bobbing," and one amusing bit where she actually white-girl danced for several seconds. I liked her better behind a guitar. It was a fairly short performance -- maybe 55 minutes, *including* two encore tunes. For those who haven't heard the band yet, I'd still describe them as a mix of Quasi (aggressively goofy synthesizer patches), Of Montreal (insular-little-world storytelling + jarring changes in chords/tempo/mood) and "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (blues structure + lyrics which often seem chanted, rather than sung). I don't have their new album yet, alas, so I can't comment on that. Seems like everyone likes the debut more, however. I'm debating whether Diamanda Galas is worth seeing on the 28th. Never seen her live.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:57:04 -0700 From: "Nora B." Subject: Re: 2 weeks to go -- > > And why does DC get 2 electoral votes? Doesn't everyone else have to > > absentee ballot or arrive at their designated polling station for > > their vote to count? > > DC doesn't have any electorial votes. Um, no they have 3 electoral votes. You see there was this thing called the 23rd Amendment... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:14:14 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re:reap >This year's New York Yankees. > >GO SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! even here in far-flung kiwiland, where no-one plays the sport, we know that Boston will get into an unassailable lead and then, erm, be assailed. That's the way they've gone in finals for what... 85 years? 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, 22 Oct 2004 20:14:25 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #299 >From: theodius >Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #299 > >I love fegmaniax! and I'm sure Fegmaniax lioves you, too, Theodius. > > See, people? It's all about the love. C'mon now - group hug. > > > > Please help yourself to coffee and donuts, > >fegmaniax? I thought this was testicular cancer! Tyler, is that you? 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, 22 Oct 2004 11:02:33 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #300 > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:05:51 -0700 > From: Eb > Subject: RE: pre-reap? > I must confess that I have totally lost track of how a thread about Marc > Almond's bike accident turned into The Great Pussy Debate of 2004. Marc Almond > riding pillion in a motorbike accident > qu'est-ce que c'est "pillion"? > various vulgar Americanisms based on the concept that only women ride pillion (which is contradicted by the original topic) > "Tremors" (rel. 1990) > Kevin Bacon! Stewart recommends: > > Drummers worth seeing: > > 1. Jonathan "Butch" Norton - Eels > > 2. Mike Lindsay - High Water Marks/Preston School of Industry > > 3. Jeremy Barnes - Neutral Milk Hotel/Bright Eyes/a hawk and a handsaw > > All of these drummers have me wondering if what they do is physically > > possible. Did you see that article by someone like Anthony Burgess arguing that Hamlet was actually comparing a hawk with a _heronshaw_, an old-fashioned name for a heron? It would make a bit more sense... - - Mike Godwin PS John French is still my number 1, but I will look out for these guys. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:39:25 EDT From: MPys2626@aol.com Subject: Reap Greg Shaw - Bompmeister General From the BOMP! list -- <> m ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:45:33 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #300 Michael R Godwin wrote: > > Did you see that article by someone like Anthony Burgess arguing that > Hamlet was actually comparing a hawk with a _heronshaw_ my grammar school notes for Hamlet said the very same thing, and my 16 year old self thought it preposterous. Oh, and it's *Jim* Lindsay, not Mike. I have difficulties. Stewart np: Ren & Stimpy, series 1 & 2 DVD. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:00:39 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: Times article on the radio/rekkids (.05% RH Content) Feeling a bit out of it this morning. Saw the Libertines last night at the Echo Lounge (which is sporting a very cool Halloween-themed Hitchcock/Keegan poster, BTW). They played brilliantly, and for far, far longer than I would have thought for. The Times article below describes just one of the myriad of things that are plaguing radio in the States, and what the New York attorney general may do about it. Lord, how I detest commercial radio... - -f. http://tinyurl.com/4xkxq -or- http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/business/22music.html?ei=5006&en=8ebda f425d40cc0a&ex=1099022400&partner=ALTAVISTA1&pagewanted=print&position= The New York Times October 22, 2004 Record Labels Said to Be Next on Spitzer List for Scrutiny By JEFF LEEDS Eliot Spitzer, the New York State attorney general, has recently taken on a procession of corporate powers from Wall Street analysts to mutual funds to insurance brokers. Now he is casting his eyes on the music industry, particularly its practices for influencing what songs are heard on the public airwaves. According to several people involved, investigators in Mr. Spitzer's office have served subpoenas on the four major record corporations - the Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the EMI Group and the Warner Music Group - seeking copies of contracts, billing records and other information detailing their ties to independent middlemen who pitch new songs to radio programmers in New York State. The inquiry encompasses all the major radio formats and is not aiming at any individual record promoter, these people said. Mr. Spitzer and representatives for the record companies declined to comment. The major record labels have paid middlemen for decades, though the practice has long been derided as a way to skirt a federal statute - known as the payola law - outlawing bribes to radio broadcasters. Broadcasters are prohibited from taking cash or anything of value in exchange for playing a specific song, unless they disclose the transaction to listeners. But in a practice that is common in the industry, independent promoters pay radio stations annual fees - often exceeding $100,000 - not, they say, to play specific songs, but to obtain advance copies of the stations' playlists. The promoters then bill record labels for each new song that is played; the total tab costs the record industry tens of millions of dollars each year. The new scrutiny comes at an inconvenient time for the major record companies, which have been pressing federal and state law enforcement officials to shut pirate CD manufacturers and the unimpeded flow of copyrighted music online. The statute involved is a federal one and the case would not seem to fit neatly into Mr. Spitzer's jurisdiction, but state attorneys general typically have wide latitude to investigate issues involving consumers and businesses in their states. In this instance, Mr. Spitzer might proceed on the ground that broadcasters' dealings with middlemen severely limit the opportunities available to those artists who cannot afford to hire them. These promoters flourished throughout the 1980's and most of the 1990's, but their influence began to weaken after Congress deregulated the radio industry in 1996, allowing for an extensive consolidation that tilted the balance of power to a handful of newly created broadcasting mammoths. With their newfound power, some big chains, including Clear Channel Communications, at first tried to tap a bigger share of the labels' promotional dollars, and designated specific independent promoters to be the exclusive representatives for particular stations. Promotion prices continued to rise, but at the same time the consultants had less influence over airplay, record executives say. In 2002, the industry's lobbying organization, the Recording Industry Association of America, called on the government to strengthen anti-payola laws and examine questionable practices, including independent promotion. (Association officials are considering whether to provide new comments and information to the Federal Communications Commission as part of that agency's review of radio promotion, people in the music industry have said.) Cox Radio, and later Clear Channel, said they would not renew their contracts with any promoters. Since the big companies severed their ties to the practice, record labels - suffering from piracy and other financial woes - have sharply scaled back payments to the middlemen, and by some estimates pay them as little as $30 million annually. One promoter, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mr. Spitzer's investigators "are not going to find anything; they're 20 years too late." But questionable practices persist in a variety of markets and music formats. In the late 1990's, the Justice Department began a broad investigation of payola that eventually encompassed dozens of Latin and urban- music radio stations across the nation. It won convictions against two top executives at Fonovisa, the biggest independent record label in the Spanish-language market, and a top radio executive. No cases have been brought in the urban-music category. Unlike the promoters in the rock and pop fields who receive payments as stations add a song to their playlist, many urban-music consultants receive initial lump sums to finance the marketing of a new single, and distribute the money as they see fit. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:19:47 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: 2 weeks to go -- On Oct 22, 2004, at 1:57 AM, Nora B. wrote: >>> And why does DC get 2 electoral votes? Doesn't everyone else have to >>> absentee ballot or arrive at their designated polling station for >>> their vote to count? >> >> DC doesn't have any electorial votes. > > Um, no they have 3 electoral votes. You see there was this thing > called the 23rd Amendment... Yes, I see that Kerry is up 78 to 11 and 6. - - Steve _________ "When we were getting ready to announce for the 1992 campaign, the Bush people said to us, 'Don't run this time -- wait four years and you'll have a free pass. If you do run, we'll destroy you.' And I said to Bill, 'What are they talking about -- how could they do that?' And now we're finding out." - Hillary Clinton to David Talbot, March 1998 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:28:21 -0600 From: "Cadtharsis" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #300 > From: steve > Subject: Re: 2 weeks to go -- > DC doesn't have any electorial votes. > - - Steve Washington DC, not the District of Columbia. The 23rd ammendment to the Constitution says they do. According to www.fec.gov/pages/elecvote.htm they actually have three. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:26:25 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Arcade Fire for the Red Sox >>> the Lonesome Organist/Forms and Follies >>Um, yeah. I bought this after some buzz on this list about it, but, >>frankly, it bites. Listened to it twice. Can't listen to it again. Michael Wells most kindly retorted with: >I can't imagine how anyone let this nutjub near a studio. He's intriguing >for about 15 minutes as a live act. For some reason, the LO's shtick reminds me of so-so Chevy Chase comedy sketch gone a rye. Michael B. NP Faust - Faust IV ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:56:59 -0400 From: John Irvine Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #300 Add Greg Saunier of Deerhoof to that list - he's like 6'3" and he sits on a little milk crate and drums like a man possessed by a thousand Keith Moons on PCP. Very interesting band that. - -john I > Drummers worth seeing: > > 1. Jonathan "Butch" Norton - Eels > 2. Mike Lindsay - High Water Marks/Preston School of Industry > 3. Jeremy Barnes - Neutral Milk Hotel/Bright Eyes/a hawk and a handsaw > > All of these drummers have me wondering if what they do is physically > possible. > > Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:43:06 -0400 From: Ed Poole Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V13 #300 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:08:25 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: RE: reap >From: Jill Brand >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: reap >Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:10:09 -0400 (EDT) >This year's New York Yankees. Incredible series, very stressful. I am glad it's over and I am a Yankee fan, it was stressing me out. Just remember the curse is not about beating the Yanks. >GO SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey, aren't you from NYC? I thought I knew you...who are you? ;-) Max Well, Jill IS at BU, now isn't she Max? (Hi Max! Hi Jill!) The "Curse" may not be about beating the Yanks, but is there anything sweeter than hanging the greatest chokefest in the history of sport -- nay, the history of competitive behavior of any sort, like cavemen tossing rocks into crude fedoras in Lasgaux -- on the most successful (and arrogant) team in the history of sport? Well, is there? NO! And at Yankee Stadium, to boot! Well, I'm not even a Bosox fan, I'm a Cubs fan -- so I'm hoping that the fall of curses can be contagious (seeing as sticking pins in my Steve Bartman doll worked no better than all those Bucky Dent pincushions have over the yearsb&) Jw/2F's: >I read an interesting article - sorry, can't remember where - asserting that a lot of >Bush strategists believe the 2000 election was lost by them because the late >revelations of Bush's DWI convictions turned off the moralist vote. (Turned out >losing the elction didn't >matter...) (Hi Jeff!) which makes it VERY interesting to see Pat Robertson coming out and calling bush a liar (saying Bush claimed that there would be "no [American, fully-human] casualties in the then on-the-horizon Iraqi invasion. The Shrub Administration has cleverly countered by calling Robertson a liar (which, undoubtedly, he is, but I bet some of those "moralists" will be slightly offended by the charge): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49088-2004Oct20.html Steve: >DC doesn't have any electorial votes. which is why the city council voted to change the slogan on our license plates from "A Capitol City" to "Taxation Without Representation." which rocks. (hi Steve!) ~~ed "once I start talking, I'll never shut up" poole NP: Cornelius: "Drop" - -- When you're thin and damp and shoddy Just remember that you're in a body. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:20:37 +0300 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: One more note On 22/ott/04, at 10:14, James Dignan wrote: >> > See, people? It's all about the love. C'mon now - group hug. >> > >> > Please help yourself to coffee and donuts, >> >> fegmaniax? I thought this was testicular cancer! > > Tyler, is that you? > > James > -- > I have this friend who is going around replacing Bush/Cheney 04 bumperstickers with his home made Tyler/Jack 04 stickers. Cute. - - c ps: hey, does anyone have a backup of Spooked they could share until I get my own copy? For me to get a box from somebody like Amazon.co could be a Kafka-esque joke. I had to show my passport and proof of living in the country to get 4 sheets of slides from dhl.... Email me offline if you can help. And yes, I will buy it when I get in the "west" or we could say "1st world" again... This ain't communism anymore but it smells a bit like it... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:07:20 +0300 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Apropos of nothing said lately (0%RH) On 21/ott/04, at 2:34, James Dignan wrote: > > I hope that doesn't mean you're unsubbing again! > > 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= On the contrary! I am enjoying this active debate. It is not NEARLY as mean as it got in 2000. Besides, watching the elections from a fairly pro-American European country that is NOT in the EU is interesting. Be Seeing You, - - c *************************************************** "Patagonia is what's left, Patagonia, which befits my immense sadness, Patagonia and a trip to the South Seas" *************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:28:27 -0700 From: Eb Subject: desperate times, desperate measures, etc. I hear there was a Minneapolis benefit last night for Soul Asylum's Karl Mueller (throat cancer), and Grant Hart joined Bob Mould onstage to do "Hardly Getting Over It" and "Never Talking to You Again." Their first time onstage together since 1987, supposedly? I drove past the sight of a police shooting this morning. Someone tried to attack the police with a knife, and the "hired thugs" shot him dead. Hrm. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:00:40 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: desperate times, desperate measures, etc. On Fri, Oct 22, 2004, Eb wrote: > I hear there was a Minneapolis benefit last night for Soul Asylum's Karl > Mueller (throat cancer), and Grant Hart joined Bob Mould onstage to do > "Hardly Getting Over It" and "Never Talking to You Again." Their first > time onstage together since 1987, supposedly? Holy shit! So where's the torrent? - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:54:23 -0700 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: desperate times, desperate measures, etc. On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:28:27 -0700, Eb wrote: > I hear there was a Minneapolis benefit last night for Soul Asylum's Karl > Mueller (throat cancer), and Grant Hart joined Bob Mould onstage to do > "Hardly Getting Over It" and "Never Talking to You Again." Their first > time onstage together since 1987, supposedly? Wow. Can someone check the archives to see when I predicted the Husker Du reunion? The Smiths still ain't happening. But Galaxie 500 will be the third band on the bill when the Huskers ironically open for the Pixies on the tour for the reunion album. Okay, maybe not, but I do get to see the Pixies tomorrow, so what the hell. - -Rex - -- "Maybe baby election twelve who I really am!" - -Miranda Mellbye Broome ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:22:18 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: voter fraud For whomever it was that said voter registration fraud is mainly something Democrats, not Republicans, would be guilty of: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1963&e=7&u=/ap/20041022/ap_on_el_pr/voter_fraud_investigation - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:13:39 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: One more note On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:20:37 +0300, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > I have this friend who is going around replacing Bush/Cheney 04 > bumperstickers with his home made Tyler/Jack 04 stickers. Cute. Yes, but who's Tyler and who's Jack? I was thinking it'd be fun to make a large red "no" symbol (you know, the bar crossing horizontally through a circle, as in "no passing" etc.), hinged at the top, to hang on top of folks' Bush/Cheney yard signs. Of course, they'd be easily removable and able to put on Kerry/Edwards signs as well... (I'm Jeff Norman, and I have not approved the content of this message - - I mean, don't *really* go around vandalizing people's yard signs.) - -- ++Jeff++ The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:15:48 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: desperate times, desperate measures, etc. On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:54:23 -0700, Rex Broome wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:28:27 -0700, Eb wrote: > > Wow. Can someone check the archives to see when I predicted the > Husker Du reunion? Dunno - but we are, of course, halfway to a Beatles reunion...although not so's any of us can see it. (joke stolen from The Onion, although they made it re Ramones) - -- ++Jeff++ The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:46:59 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: One more note On Oct 22, 2004, at 2:13 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:20:37 +0300, Carrie Galbraith > wrote: > >> I have this friend who is going around replacing Bush/Cheney 04 >> bumperstickers with his home made Tyler/Jack 04 stickers. Cute. > I've got a "Enron/Halliburton '04" bumper sticker on my car right now. Not too original, but it gets the point across. > I was thinking it'd be fun to make a large red "no" symbol (you know, > the bar crossing horizontally through a circle, as in "no passing" > etc.), hinged at the top, to hang on top of folks' Bush/Cheney yard > signs. > I remember years ago there was an ad in the back of Rolling Stone - or maybe it was National Lampoon - where you could buy little stickers in the shape of dog bones to put over the hearts on those "I My Poodle" bumper stickers. Oooooh, rebellious! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:53:22 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: One more note 2fs wrote: > I was thinking it'd be fun to make a large red "no" symbol (you know, > the bar crossing horizontally through a circle, as in "no passing" > etc.), hinged at the top, to hang on top of folks' Bush/Cheney yard > signs. Much (much) easier to just make round stickers with a blue background and a big white "S" on them to adorn the far-left (no pun intended) sides of Kerry stickers. "SKerry/Edwards", etc. - -f. - -------------- Vote Kerry in 2004 and ask what can your country do for you ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #301 ********************************