From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #119 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, May 9 2005 Volume 14 : Number 119 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: The Who Sell Out and Whoa, that woj [Jeff ] Re: The Who Sell Out and Whoa, that woj [Tulloch ] the shipping forecast [Dolph Chaney ] answering machines in songs [bayard ] Re: Seeking a dream in the old election.... yeah! ["Matt Sewell" ] Robyn on BBC 6 Music [wojizzle forizzle ] Re: Lucky I'm a family guy.... [Jeff Dwarf ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 10:59:00 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: Re: The Who Sell Out and Whoa, that woj On 5/8/05, wojizzle forizzle wrote: > is anyone else mysteriously attracted to a daily listen to the shipping > forecast on the bbc? > . There was an essay on exactly that phenomenon within the last few months...of course, my sieve-like brain can't remember where. Harpers maybe? - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 18:43:36 +0100 (BST) From: Tulloch Subject: Re: The Who Sell Out and Whoa, that woj wojizzle forizzle wrote: is anyone else mysteriously attracted to a daily listen to the shipping forecast on the bbc? . We listen to it on our bedside radio at night - it's a great way to drift off to sleep with the almost hypnotic rhythm of the announcer. - --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 13:30:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: The Who Sell Out and Whoa, that woj On Sun, 8 May 2005, Tulloch wrote: > wojizzle forizzle wrote: > is anyone else mysteriously attracted to a daily listen to the shipping > forecast on the bbc? > . > > We listen to it on our bedside radio at night - it's a great way to drift off to sleep with the almost hypnotic rhythm of the announcer. I used to listen to it every night when I was living in London and grew quite attached to it. Anyone else find "Sailing By" to be a somewhat melancholy tune? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 17:03:00 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: The Who Sell Out and Whoa, that woj "... North Utsira, South Utsira, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight ..." - as featured on a Thomas Dolby choon. I know the guy who takes the Fair Isle readings ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 18:33:52 -0400 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: Re: The Who Sell Out and Whoa, that woj one time at band camp, Stewart C. Russell said: >I know the guy who takes the Fair Isle readings ... doesn't everybody in scotland know everybody else in scotland? ;) i came around to the shipping forecast a roundabout way. i heard the master singers' "weather report" on, of all things, a pennsylvania public radio station during my yut. never knew what the heck it was but it left an impression. recently, i was inspired to check it out and stumbled across this blog post which filled in the blanks and also features a mp3 of the tune. gotta love the internet sometimes. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 18:00:49 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: the shipping forecast Another appreciator of the shipping forecast is Damon Albarn -- he wrote Blur's "This Is A Low" based on it. - -- Dolph, just dumped ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 19:42:27 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: answering machines in songs I hope I'm not too late for whoever was doing this (Eddie?) Manu Chao (ex-mano negra) has a song like this. If you need a clip from it I can track it down. =b ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 11:16:07 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: Seeking a dream in the old election.... yeah! Well that's terrifying - over here UKIP are seen as the really scary right-wing nutters of the election. And you say you're a Democrat? Like I said, that reall is worrying. Cheers Matt >From: Benjamin Lukoff >I took the "What Party Should You Vote For?" (or whatever it was) online >quiz and I was told I should vote UKIP. (Order of preference: UKIP, >Conservative, Lib Dem, Labour--Green was in there somewhere, I forget >which, probably just befoer Labour.) > >I'm American. And I'm not a Republican. Yet I understand the UKIP to be >considered a far-right party in Britain. So we really ARE that much more >conservative, as a nation, than Britain, eh? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 11:20:11 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: Lucky I'm a family guy.... I expect there are more foreign-born Americans than Indians - I don't remember any wholesale slaughter of foreign-born Americans... Cheers Matt >From: Benjamin Lukoff blukoff@alvord.com it would be quite typical of America > > > to have an immigrant president before we have an Indian. > > > > And, of course, the first Indian president's last name will > > be something Rodriguez or Hernandez.... > >What percentage of Americans are foreign-born, and what percentage are >Indians? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:38:31 -0400 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: Robyn on BBC 6 Music - ----- Forwarded message from Toby Deans ----- Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 18:56:26 +0100 From: Toby Deans To: woj@smoe.org Subject: Robyn on BBC 6 Music http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/6music_aod.shtml?6music/6m_andrew_sun Robyn was interviewed on BBC6 music this afternoon. - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:52:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Lucky I'm a family guy.... Matt Sewell wrote: > I expect there are more foreign-born Americans than > Indians - I don't remember any wholesale slaughter of > foreign-born Americans... Give the wingnutts a couple more years.... > >From: Benjamin Lukoff blukoff@alvord.com > it would be quite typical of America > > > > to have an immigrant president before we have an > Indian. > > > > > > And, of course, the first Indian president's last > name will > > > be something Rodriguez or Hernandez.... > > > >What percentage of Americans are foreign-born, and what > percentage are > >Indians? > "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." -- Mitch Hedberg . Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #119 ********************************