From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #360 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, December 19 2004 Volume 13 : Number 360 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Sieve ["Stewart C. Russell" ] punk/prog, pronounced Prudence [James Dignan ] Re: Sieve ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Sieve [Steve Talkowski ] Re: Theoretical Xmas lists? [Eb ] Re: Sieve ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: punk/prog, pronounced Prudence [Jon Lewis ] Re: Theoretical Xmas lists? [2fs ] Re: Theoretical Xmas lists? [Dolph Chaney ] Re: Sieve [2and2makes5@comcast.net] Pixies - WOW [Steve Talkowski ] Re: Sieve [Capuchin ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #358 [bisontentacle ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:30:02 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Sieve Steve Talkowski wrote: > > Oh come on! Everyone knows it's pronounced just like the scooter. ; P what, "Razor"? Stewart (who finally saw a Segway at The Segway Store in Kansas City. They look stupid.) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 07:32:02 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: punk/prog, pronounced Prudence I guess one problem is that if we're to locate this future two-party system in America, Quail's list of cabinet member will have to be re-tailored to be less, erm, British. of course, if it's the british system I couls foresee the leaders of the two parties being Fripp and Lydon. Could lead to some great heated debates in the House. > > I'm upset. Last night I was told that "sieve" does not rhyme with > > "grieve". I am now 36 years old and have been learning English for 26 > > years, but there are still quite basic words that I don't know how to > > pronounce correctly :-( > >Mangling the occasional semi-common word is standard practice for some of >us book-fed American-born folks. Half of my college radio station >pronounced segue 'sayg'. > >My housemate says rampage 'RAMP-ij', as if it were a supply of ramps. I >find this bizarre but endearing. And my mum's stepmother apparently went most of her life describing war memorials as "Centofahs". And my sweetie Alice spent over a decade thinking that Peter Lorre's surname rhymed with "sore". Let's face it, English is not the world's easiest language. And your English is astonishingly good, Sebastian. My attempts at German would make you cringe. > > A new torrent has been uploaded to EZT. > > > > Torrent: 18701 > > Title: Robyn Hitchcock and Heavy Friends - White Album Benefit - >08/07/04 - London, England. I hate to ask this since it sounds like someone here is being astonishingly kind with some of my "Xmas want list" but... I can't do the torrent thing and I'm pining for this already. Help? Anyone? 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: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:35:38 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Sieve Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > I'm upset. Last night I was told that "sieve" does not rhyme with > "grieve". It does, or can, if used in the slightly rare second name "Siev(e)wright". I can just see the medieval guild humour now: SLIGHTLY DRUNK STUDENT (on a dare): What ho, good sieve wright! How much for your finest sieve? (tee hee) SIEVE WRIGHT: Fuck off, tosspot. You're the 15th today. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:08:07 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Sieve On Dec 18, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > (who finally saw a Segway at The Segway Store in Kansas City. They > look stupid.) Yeah, but this looks cool: http://www.segway.com/centaur/ Check out the video, you can switch from all four to the rear two wheels. I've yet to try a Segway (and only briefly saw one sitting idle during a visit to Venice beach this past August) but now that I see there's a local dealer one mile away from me I just may have to visit the Seaport Marketplace in lower Manhattan and give it a try. I've always been curious to experience that dynamic stabilization technology. - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:27:34 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Theoretical Xmas lists? Dolph Chaney wrote: > 5 The Clean - HELLO CRUEL WORLD Uh...you mean Tall Dwarfs. Your list had a huge overlap with my collection. I have 13 out of your 20, and a fourteenth (Compiletely Bats) was on my own shopping list. Meanwhile, I've been listening to my new copy of Miles Davis/Big Fun. With a full album's worth of bonus material, this thing is almost too long to ever absorb! 142 minutes?!? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:38:09 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Sieve Steve Talkowski wrote: > > Yeah, but this looks cool: > > http://www.segway.com/centaur/ Mehh. Looks like a fine lawn-kart for the overpaid. Me, I'd prefer a Mountain Quad . Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:15:39 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: punk/prog, pronounced Prudence On Saturday, December 18, 2004, at 01:32 PM, James Dignan wrote: >> > A new torrent has been uploaded to EZT. >> > >> > Torrent: 18701 >> > Title: Robyn Hitchcock and Heavy Friends - White Album Benefit - >> 08/07/04 - London, England. > > I hate to ask this since it sounds like someone here is being > astonishingly kind with some of my "Xmas want list" but... I can't do > the torrent thing and I'm pining for this already. Help? Anyone? > Perhaps the thing to do is start a CD-R copying tree for the torrent-disabled among us. It could be limited to RH-related material only. As you might guess from my previous plaints, I would be very into such a thing, and willing to take on a good share of the labor. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:02:46 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Theoretical Xmas lists? On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:10:54 -0600, Dolph Chaney wrote: > 8 Brian Eno, ANOTHER GREEN WORLD (and I only don't have it because I > didn't know whether the mastering error in the '04 reissue which was > reported here got fixed -- does anybody know???) It has been - make sure you listen to it first, though, because I don't think the packaging is any different. - -- ++Jeff++ The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:36:28 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: Theoretical Xmas lists? At 01:27 PM 12/18/2004, Eb wrote: >Dolph Chaney wrote: > >>5 The Clean - HELLO CRUEL WORLD > >Uh...you mean Tall Dwarfs. Right, I got two confused. I meant COMPILATION. I'd also really like Tall Dwarfs' HELLO CRUEL WORLD, but I'd like WEEVILLE more urgently. >Your list had a huge overlap with my collection. I have 13 out of your 20, >and a fourteenth (Compiletely Bats) was on my own shopping list. Well, of your list I have -- Guided by Voices - Propeller Guided by Voices - Vampire on Titus Neil Young - On the Beach Neil Young - Tonight's the Night Mission of Burma - Vs. Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk Richard Thompson - Henry the Human Fly Richard Thompson - Small Town Romance The Geraldine Fibbers - What Part of 'Get Thee Gone' Didn't You Understand? Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die >Meanwhile, I've been listening to my new copy of Miles Davis/Big Fun. With >a full album's worth of bonus material, this thing is almost too long to >ever absorb! 142 minutes?!? Been on a big 1970 Miles kick this year, too -- ack! I should've put THE COMPLETE JACK JOHNSON SESSIONS on there, but I didn't. Eb, you complete me. - -- dolph *hwarf* ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 01:33:47 +0000 From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net Subject: Re: Sieve My favorite English phonetic monstrosities are "cough" and "enough." Silly language. Look Ma! Top-posting! - -------------- Original message -------------- > I'm upset. Last night I was told that "sieve" does not rhyme with "grieve". > I am now 36 years old and have been learning English for 26 years, but > there are still quite basic words that I don't know how to pronounce > correctly :-( > > I blame Hollywood (that's the thing to do, right?). The word just doesn't > come up often enough in those Jerry Bruckheimer flicks ... > -- > Sebastian Hagedorn > EhrenfeldgC> http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ > > "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:19:58 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Pixies - WOW Just got back from seeing the 2nd to last Pixies concert (early show, they play again at midnight) at Hammerstein Ballroom. This was my first time seeing them live and they were AMAZING! I think they played nearly the entirety of Doolittle as well. I had only seen Frank Black once during his acoustic tour across the US in a convertible Cadillac back in the early 90's. The band was extremely tight and the endurance was incredible to witness first hand. I can't believe they're going to do a 2nd show with the same intensity only 2 hours later. Great stuff - felt like I was back in college... - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:25:31 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Sieve On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Aaron Mandel wrote: > Mangling the occasional semi-common word is standard practice for some > of us book-fed American-born folks. My absolute favorite was an ex-girlfriend of mine who insisted that when a person has intentionally caused you to believe something that isn't true (without actually lying), you have been misled -- that's myzld. > Half of my college radio station pronounced segue 'sayg'. Are you certain they weren't just abbreviating the word? After all, it's a common enough radio term that you could understanding limitting it to one syllable. > My housemate says rampage 'RAMP-ij', as if it were a supply of ramps. I > find this bizarre but endearing. That's interesting. I was playing a rousing game of Skip-Bo with a group of punk rockers tonight and found that the word "discard" is pronounced differently by some in the context of playing card games than it is in normal discussion. If you throw something by the wayside, you've disCARDed it. If you're eliminating a card from your hand at the end of your turn, you're DIScarding. OK, not really a pronunciation difference, but a difference in emphasis. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:12:01 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #358 one time at band camp, Stony said: >I'd vote for a Syd Barrett/Rogers Waters ticket if they promised to >appoint Robyn as Secretary of Agriculture........ and dimes? +w ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #360 ********************************