From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #299 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, December 28 2005 Volume 14 : Number 299 Today's Subjects: ----------------- REAP ["Marc Alberts" ] Ronnie, Buses, and a sly RH reference [James Dignan ] Re: Xmas Happies to All and Sundry (but not Bath NHS) [M R Godwin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:18:48 -0800 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: REAP Vincent Schiavelli, 57. I'll never forget the cardinal trapezoidal principles he espoused in "Better Off Dead." Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:45:01 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Ronnie, Buses, and a sly RH reference >* James, old mate, I was forgetting that UK culture was not confined to the N >Hemisphere. Totally agree re RonnieB's solo to-camera work, Beckinsale, and >Corbett, but I have a blind spot about OAH. I preferred DJ as >Captain Fantastic >or Insp Frost - I don't even like the show with the Reliant Robin, which gets >massive ratings. Captain Fantastic! My earliest TV memories are possibly fleeting snatches of "Do not adjust your set". >As a former bus spotter(?) can you enlighten me about which bus Flanders and >Swann were referring to as "a big 6-wheeler, scarlet painted, 97 hp >omnibus"? I think they must have had a trolleybus in mind. well, it was London transport and diesel-engined, and it had both a driver and a conductor (and tickets probably *do* cost at least a pound a piece now), but I'd always taken it as being the routemaster type (or whatever preceded them). It certainly wasn't one of the trams of old London. 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, 27 Dec 2005 12:48:12 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #298 Well, since this went to the list... >Right back at you James. Hope it's a great one for you. Christmas will be >nearly over for you by the time mine has begun. It should be a weird >one--I'm full of some strong painkillers from a serious traffic accident I >was in this week. It's really given me a chance to learn that my neighbors >are great people. Things should work out. very sorry to hear that! I hope you're better soon - no serious injuries, I hope. >Maybe I'll have to set it up as a part of the year thing to avoid the >Arizona winters, which are too cold for my taste--at least we're supposed to >hit the 80's during the daytime this weekend, but we've had a stretch of >night time lows in the 30's and low 40's that I could do without. I haven't >missed the cold since I moved from Baltimore. > >Sounds like a successful year for you, James, which is great to hear. You >really have worked hard for it. Wish I could stop by for your art >exhibition, but for now I'll have to settle for your on-line display (when >are you going to post the 2005 works?). What flags are you flying lately? I >don't recall that as being part of your recent posts. hopefully I'll get round to undating it in january - it's right at the top of my "to do" lists. The weather hasn't really been flag-conducive lately. it's supposed to be summer, but yesterday that meant a violent thunderstorm followed by steaming roads. Those days when it's been dry, it's been flat calm. But it's about time I started histing a few again. It's a nice day today - mid-20s C (that's what? low 70s F?)... time to hoist the flag of...um... Anguilla! >Hope to meet again >someday. Maybe you'll make it this way at some point. You could do a whole >US Feg home tour, basically on the cost of airfare alone. I'd be more than >willing to give a you a place to stay here in Tempe, whenever you like, and >drive you to/from the next Feg on your itinerary (if you're brave enough to >ride with me, after hearing about this week's car adventures). There would >be cats, a large music library, I'd show you the local sights, and I won't >try to serve you any food with tomatoes in it. Consider it okay? I'm sure >that together this group could arrange a pretty amazing American expedition. >I'm pretty sure that this makes a bit of sense and it's not just the >medication talking. If you're interested, I'll offer the first contribution >to your airfare fund. Of course, we'd want to coordinate it with a Robyn >show or two... gleep! I'm extremely flattered by the offer, but with the exhibition and the book idea I'm probably a bit tied to the Dunedin area for the next year or so. Also, because my art and writing aren't enough to fully support me I'm on a small government benefit, and they get antsy if someone spends too long out of the country while on that. So while I greatly appreciate the thought, I'm not sure it could happen - - for a while, at least. In any case, I'd want to take Alice with me, and I can't expect that to be paid for, so it would need some serious saving on our part too :) 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, 27 Dec 2005 05:03:39 +0000 From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Xmas Happies to All and Sundry (but not Bath NHS) Quoting fegmaniax-digest : News from Fireparty that Ivor Cutler is on BBC4 0155 Friday. Many Happies, guys and gals! - - Mike G. P.S. DRAFT LETTER TO TRIBUNE MAGAZINE: DO NOT QUOTE WITHOUT PERMISSION Dear Sirs I found myself in agreement with many of the points being made by your supporters on pp 14-17 of the Christmas issue, especially Peter Tatchells list. I have been a member of the Liberal Party and later (more reluctantly) the Liberal Democrats for more than 30 years, but I have become very disillusioned by the poor performance of the local council, which has just squandered #36m on a multi-storey swimming pool for the sole benefit of tourists. I am also furious with the NHS because the local PCT have refused to fund the cancer drugs which my wife needs to treat her cancer (NHL type B, low grade). The NHS has deteriorated badly from the wonderful national provision established by Aneurin Bevan in 1948, when the country was supposedly broke. In 2005 my poor wife has had to move out of England to get the treatment she needs. I would love to support a Back to Bevan: hands off the NHS campaign or political faction if such a thing could be established, and by the look of it, many of your readers would support the same thing. What do I have to do to get the ball rolling? Dont say Join the Labour Party  despite repeated promises, the NHS and public transport are no better now than they were in 1997. My parents were both lifelong members, but I became disillusioned with Labour in 1966 when they closed the Somerset and Dorset line, breaking pledges made by Harold Wilson that no more major Beeching cuts would be made. Michael Godwin Midford Road Bath ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:03:34 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: REAP Christmas Day -- Derek Bailey (1930-2005) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #299 ********************************