From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #136 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, June 13 2006 Volume 15 : Number 136 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Mission of Burma question [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #135 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Mission of Burma question [Eb ] goal [Jill Brand ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #135 ["rubrshrk" ] Re: Mission of Burma question ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: My saddest REAP in a while... [Eb ] slight robyn content [xx ] Hurrah for Sweden! ["Stacked Crooked" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:06:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Mission of Burma question 2fs wrote: > On 6/11/06, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > as much as I like The Obliterati, isn't 2006 a > > little late to freaked out by the size of > > Nancy Reagan's head? > > It hasn't shrunk, has it? Literally or metaphorically? Because I would imagine that watching her husband die of Alzheimer's would definitely be humbling for anyone short of maybe Barbara Bush. > I wonder if that's an older song. As most of us > probably know, a lot of tracks on ONoffON were > written as many as twenty years earlier: some > appeared on quasi-official Burma releases and > various projects of the individual members. I > don't remember running into the Nancy Reagan track > (or any of the other ones - at least, not off the > top of my head) but maybe it's been in the can for > a while. That was my first thought too, actually. I kinda wish it was an unlisted track because while I am still far from a fan of hers or her husband, there's something a little distasteful about slagging someone who has essentially been out of the limelight for 17 years save a few appearances regarding her support of stem cell research (much to the shagrin of most of her husband's most fervent supporters) and Ronnie's funeral, especially since she spent most of that time taking care of a man she obviously adored (who most of that time didn't know her from Hillary). She does have a freakishly large head though, at least in relation to her body. > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com > "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. And we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together. To build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking. And it's greatest failures by NOT talking. It doesn't have to be like this! Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. -- Stephen W. Hawking . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:45:49 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #135 >michael wells wrote: > > > > (MRG, James, anyone...origin of the phrase, as in "England are pants?"). > >I'd place it as mid-1990s, frequently used ISTR by Ant & Dec >. It's about underpants, not >north american trousers. my guess is a connection to that good old custom, the downtrou', where someone is beaten so badly they are caught with their trousers down (usually but not always metaphorically), revealing their underpants for all to see. If someone is "pants" they're so hopeless as to get repeatedly downtrou'ed. BTW, if England plays like it did for the first 10 minutes against Paraguay, then they're contenders. If they play like they did for the remaining 80 minutes, it's back to the drawing board. I hope other refs are kinder to Crouch, though - every time he coughed the other team got a free kick. 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, 11 Jun 2006 20:08:59 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Mission of Burma question > She does have a freakishly large head though, at least > in relation to her body. Debbie Harry's head weighs more than Nancy Reagan's entire body. Hooray for orange juice, Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:42:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: goal Michael wrote: "It didn't take long for the horrible realization to set in that the US has still not developed an improved brand of commentator. Rob Stone and JP Dellacamera? It's enough to make you pull your own ears off." We've been watching games on the Spanish language station because the American commentators are such morons. It is possible that the Spanish commentary is just as bad, but we don't understand most of it. Well, that is, the parental units don't (neither of us learned Spanish in school), but my kids are getting a lot of practice for school. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 05:48:29 +0000 From: "rubrshrk" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #135 After hanging out at bandcamp together with Jeme and a flute, Tom wrote: "Having spent considerable amounts of time in his company, I can attest that two of these statements are true. I won't say which two, however." - - -tc "Don't be sayin' that, Bobby. People 'll think ya ain't right." (approximate quote) - -Hank Hill I liked this: http://tinyurl.com/o2fe7 World Cup England song (on my favorite web site): http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/world-cup-2006/world-cup-song/index.html Happies, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:49:57 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Mission of Burma question On 6/11/06, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > I wonder if that's an older song. As most of us > > probably know, a lot of tracks on ONoffON were > > written as many as twenty years earlier: some > > appeared on quasi-official Burma releases and > > various projects of the individual members. I > > don't remember running into the Nancy Reagan track > > (or any of the other ones - at least, not off the > > top of my head) but maybe it's been in the can for > > a while. > > That was my first thought too, actually. I kinda wish > it was an unlisted track because while I am still far > from a fan of hers or her husband, there's something a > little distasteful about slagging someone who has > essentially been out of the limelight for 17 years > save a few appearances regarding her support of stem > cell research I haven't heard the album yet... can someone post the lyrics? There are any number of things the song might be about other than what its title literally says... could be a new song set in the '80's, the jumping-off point for a reflection on that era, how it does or doesn't relate to now, or, hell, a portrait of the singer as an unstable person who gets preoccupied with bizarre and inappropriate things... or how modern society encourages us towards such obsessions or or or or... I was under the impression that all the songs were new this time out; as far as I know the oldies on OnOffOn were all previously recorded as well as previously written. But I dunno. - -Rx (much to the shagrin of most of her > husband's most fervent supporters) and Ronnie's > funeral, especially since she spent most of that time > taking care of a man she obviously adored (who most of > that time didn't know her from Hillary). > > She does have a freakishly large head though, at least > in relation to her body. > > > -- > > > > ...Jeff Norman > > > > The Architectural Dance Society > > http://spanghew.blogspot.com > > > > > "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." > -- Mitch Hedberg > > "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then > something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned > to talk. And we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of > ideas, enabling human beings to work together. To build the impossible. > Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking. And it's > greatest failures by NOT talking. It doesn't have to be like this! Our > greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at > our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make > sure we keep talking. > -- Stephen W. Hawking > . > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:54:25 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: My saddest REAP in a while... Gyorgy Ligeti http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060612/ap_en_ot/obit_ligeti;_ylt=Atnvgs1_DRVMT3 6tfSLo6.6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3YXYwNDRrBHNlYwM3NjI ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:09:38 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: My saddest REAP in a while... > Gyorgy Ligeti > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060612/ap_en_ot/ > obit_ligeti;_ylt=Atnvgs1_DRVMT3 > 6tfSLo6.6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3YXYwNDRrBHNlYwM3NjI Argh. :( I offer up a swirling moan in his honor. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:35:49 -0700 (PDT) From: xx Subject: slight robyn content I saw "The Black Rider" this weekend. I really did not know much about it going into it. It was a rather odd play, kinda like "Rocky Horror Show" done kabuki style, with lots of german expressionism - and the music done by Tom Waits. I enjoyed it, lots of people left during the first act. Even more left during intermission. One of the "Magic Bullets" (the name for the band/orchestra) was Terry Edwards. The programme even mentioned that he was a member of the Higsons and had worked with Robyn Hitchcock. - -griffith gotta let this hen out... Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:27:01 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Hurrah for Sweden! would any of you british fuckers think ill of me if i said that because *My Life As A Dog* is my favourite movie, i always root for sweden at world cup time? ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #136 ********************************