From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #255 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, October 31 2005 Volume 14 : Number 255 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Nigel/Donovan/Pedantic plurals ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Donovan Shrdlu [James Dignan ] Re: SCAN-TRON ["Stewart C. Russell" ] New poll (open to all) - Top 5 of 2005 [Joe Singleton ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #252 [Tom Clark ] Opal and Robyn on a Halloween radio show last night. ["Bachman, Michael" ] The horror...the horror [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:03:45 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Nigel/Donovan/Pedantic plurals Carrie Galbraith wrote: > > - carrie, who is going to Scotland for the first time tomorrow evening > but only staying 1 day in Dundee, the carriester One day too many for me. Stop by in Leitch's Lino in Glasgow to say hi to Donovan's brother. cheers, Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:50:25 -0800 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: SCAN-TRON > The question was, "Would you prefer sugar on your Grape Nuts?" Bloody hell, that's a terrible rip off of the old Yul Gibbons joke. I wonder if Eddie and me were the only two who, upon seeing the XTC thread about 'British Steel", thought 'now THAT's a *GREAT* fucking album!' Michael "judas priest in a chicken basket" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:52:28 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Donovan Shrdlu > > They did - they are the twelve commonest letters in English. Printers >> used to simply run their hands over the keys for test pieces and to >> indicate things not for publication, so the term "Etaion shrdlu" is >> fairly wll known in publishing. The term's been used in a fair amount >> of published work, too, including some spoof shaggy-dog science >> fiction (IIRC by Grendel Briarton, an anagrammatical pseudonym of >> Reginald "please don't call me Reg" Bretnor) I was slightly wrong - Etaion shrdlu was a short story by Fredric brown (the master of the short short story). Briarton wrote the Ferdinand Feghoot spoof stories. >Uh...double LP? Huh? I think you may be confused, and thinking of A >Gift from a Flower to a Garden instead. I used to have the double album "Donovan's greatest hits" on vinyl. It had some crap on it, mind you (in one case literally - due to "The intergalactic laxative"), but it also had some good songs that I've only recently managed to find and download (like "The mandolin man and his secret"). It had all the tracks on the Greatest Hits CD (and the same cover art), but was definitely a double with an extra dozen or more tracks. >The question was, "Would you prefer sugar on your Grape Nuts?" erm... right. 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: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:44:39 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: SCAN-TRON michael wells wrote: > > I wonder if Eddie and me were the only two who, upon seeing the XTC thread > about 'British Steel", thought 'now THAT's a *GREAT* fucking album!' Hell no. I've been listening to a lot of early (live) XTC, and I can see where these young 'uns are getting their noise. cheers, Stewart np: Do They Know It's Halloween? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:37:38 +0000 From: Joe Singleton Subject: New poll (open to all) - Top 5 of 2005 Hello all I thought I would try something here. I am going to do a poll of the top 5 albums of 2005 and will release it to all in the New Year. Anyone can join in so if you belong to any other groups please send it on but only 1 entry from each e-mail address. Simply pick your 5 top albums of 2005 and send the details (artist/album name) to top5of2005@googlemail.com and I will collate the results. Your choices can be in any order as each one you choose gets 1 vote. If you belong to a Yahoo type group (Vantrades/PCH/etc) please put their names in the title and I will try to do a top 5 for each group and it also gives me an idea of what reach the email receives. Messages will be used for no other purpose than to collate the poll. Email addresses will not be sold on etc. The Closing date is 31sr December 2005 Any comments etc let me know at js.southport@gmail.com Cheers - Joe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:28:01 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: hyperpedantiarianism On Oct 29, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Aaron Mandel wrote: > One problem with this view is that I don't remember people saying > "ROMs" until recently. As one who has been creating "ROMs" - of the "Boot", "CD" and "DVD" varieties - since the early 90's I can tell you the term has been around for a while. In James' case the CD is modifying the ROM, right? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:29:28 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #252 On Oct 29, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Michael R Godwin wrote: > Has anyone come across Ed Harcourt(?). He sounded really good on > the radio > a couple of nights ago. Just from the White Album show Robyn put together. Definitely a decent vocalist. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:51:40 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: Opal and Robyn on a Halloween radio show last night. Our local Detroit NPR radio station, WDET 101.9 had a cool Halloween radio show list night. Thirty minutes into it they played Opal's "Happy Nightmare Baby" followed by RH&TE "Sleeping With Your Devil Mask". They sounded really good back to back. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:21:02 -0800 From: Eb Subject: The horror...the horror Rather than another tedious "Halloween songs" thread, perhaps people might talk about their favorite horror/scare films. Perhaps I'm motivated to ask, because I finally saw "The Wicker Man" for the second time a couple of nights ago, after first seeing it way back in the '70s. I've been wanting to see that film again for ages. Horror films aren't a concentration of mine and, anyway, I always have a harder time summoning up movie names than album names (guess I need a movie database, too), but a few other titles which I especially like.... The Innocents (1961?)...more of a ghost story than a horror film, but goddamn is it creepy. I recall two specific moments which literally made the back of my neck prickle up in that oh-so-cliched way. Suspiria (1977?)...well, everyone knows about this one. The Phantom of the Opera (1925?)...the silent Lon Chaney version. I guess The Shining qualifies, but I do have strong misgivings about it.... Ummmm.... Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #255 ********************************