From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #122 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 26 2007 Volume 16 : Number 122 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Irritation of the Day - variations on a theme ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Just Say No to Jeb ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Just Say No to Jeb [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Just Say No to Jeb [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Irritation of the Day [djini@voicenet.com] Re: Just Say No to Jeb ["Bri N" ] Re: Just Say No to Jeb [2fs ] RE: Just Say No to Jeb ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Apropos of Corn ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Apropos of Corn [2fs ] Re: Apropos of Corn [Rex ] Big Skwid News: They will eat your flesh, and they are legion [Rex ] Re: Just Say No to Jeb [Rex ] Re: Apropos of Corn ["vivien lyon" ] Re: Irritation of the Day - variations on a theme ["Stewart C. Russell" <] Re: Just Say No to Jeb ["Stewart C. Russell" ] I can so answer that question (jargon reigns) [Jill Brand ] RE: Apropos of Corn ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: From the YepRoc newsletter... [2fs ] Re: Apropos of Corn [2fs ] Re: From the YepRoc newsletter... [FSThomas ] Re: Apropos of Corn [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Apropos of Corn [kevin ] Re: From the YepRoc newsletter... [kevin ] Re: From the YepRoc newsletter... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Big Skwid News: They will eat your flesh, and they are legion [Steve ] Re: Apropos of Corn [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:09:51 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Irritation of the Day - variations on a theme >>"it is what it is." Stewart came back with: >All this conveys to me is John Lennon singing something or other off Walls & Bridges so I guess I'm lucky. Variations of "it is what it is." "This is this." Robert DeNiro's character Jimmy Conway from Goodfellas "It ain't wrong, and it ain't right. It just is". Tobey McGuire's character Jake Rodell from Running With The Devil. Ang Lee sure dug up some archaic expressions for RWTD, not so much the above one, but others in the movie seemed to fit the time period and added a lot of authenticity to the movie. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:10:51 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Apropos of Corn On Mar 26, 2007, at 10:34 AM, 2fs wrote: > I think we should start a trend whereby instead of flatly saying > "it is what > it is," we wail, pound our foreheads, and tear out our hair while > crying, > "the world is a vale of tears and ever shall be!" > > Especially useful as a response to "Has the mail come yet today?" We have a small group of Lebowski fans around the office and recently there has been an abundance of statements that end with "...in the parlance of our times." Works well when you're using slang or talking about project codenames. - -tc, vaguely on topic ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:38:53 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Just Say No to Jeb Benjamin Lukoff says: > If it were in Seattle, they'd find another O'Connell to "name it after" > rather than changing the name wholesale! I commend that sort of efficiency. No use wasting ink printing up the new business cards. Sadly, this calls for a personal anecdote. When I was younger, I was laid off from a company that had a contract from the DOE promoting renewable energy (with Reagan in office, I should have seen that layoff coming a mile away.) So they offered me unemployment, and, it being money, I accepted until I got another job. At any rate, there was this guy Budd Dwyer who must have been the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dwyer had gotten into some sort of trouble in office, and then during a live news conference had, no lie, taken a gun out, put it in his mouth, and killed himself. So I get my first unemployment check, and sorry I had to laugh - Budd Dwyer's name was literally X'ed out. I mean, the check was "signed" by Budd Dwyer but they had just decided to keep using the checks and just printed a strings of X's across his name and then typed the name of the new treasurer underneath. That seemed a bit cheap. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:50:31 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Just Say No to Jeb On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, kevin wrote: > > >If it were in Seattle, they'd find another O'Connell to "name it after" > >rather than changing the name wholesale! > > You mean, like how they renamed King County for MLK rather than our lone > sissy Vice-President? > > http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/262697_gcenter13.html That's right. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:51:45 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Just Say No to Jeb On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > Benjamin Lukoff says: > > If it were in Seattle, they'd find another O'Connell to "name it after" > > rather than changing the name wholesale! > > I commend that sort of efficiency. No use wasting ink printing up the > new business cards. Ah--but they changed the logo as well! So new business cards all around--and apparently no royalties to King's family, as they commissioned a new design rather than using an existing one. > So I get my first unemployment check, and sorry I had to laugh - Budd > Dwyer's name was literally X'ed out. I mean, the check was "signed" > by Budd Dwyer but they had just decided to keep using the checks and > just printed a strings of X's across his name and then typed the name > of the new treasurer underneath. > That seemed a bit cheap. Bizarre, but good use of taxpayers' money, dontcha think? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:44:40 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Irritation of the Day > Lauren Elizabeth wrote: >> How long before people stop saying "it is what it is" or is it >> permanently integrated into U.S. speech patterns? > > Sadly, business english has devolved into a mess of jargons and cliche. > I have a colleague -- very smart, U Toronto maths MSc, Harvard MBA -- > who has actually said: "At the end of the day, the bottom line is: it is > what it is." At a staff meeting last week (tweely known as a "fireside chat" here, because it happens by the fireplace before we open in the mornings) my manager used the phrase "negative budget increase." Twice. You could see the absurdity registering on the faces around the circle, until the shock wore off and the bluntest co-worker asked him, and I paraphrase, "what the hell?" - Jeanne, whose cats Lulu and Ripper (points for knowing what movie inspired the names) are, so far, uninterested in catnip ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:09:32 -0700 From: "Bri N" Subject: Re: Just Say No to Jeb From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Sadly, this calls for a personal anecdote. When I was younger, I was laid off from a company that had a contract from the DOE promoting renewable energy (with Reagan in office, I should have seen that layoff coming a mile away.) So they offered me unemployment, and, it being money, I accepted until I got another job. At any rate, there was this guy Budd Dwyer who must have been the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dwyer had gotten into some sort of trouble in office, and then during a live news conference had, no lie, taken a gun out, put it in his mouth, and killed himself. - ----------------------- that is downright creepy. And he did it on my 16th birthday. - ----------------------------------- So I get my first unemployment check, and sorry I had to laugh - Budd Dwyer's name was literally X'ed out. I mean, the check was "signed" by Budd Dwyer but they had just decided to keep using the checks and just printed a strings of X's across his name and then typed the name of the new treasurer underneath. That seemed a bit cheap. - ---------------------------- Yeah, that is pretty cheap! Sheesh, and a bit disrespectful too, I'd say. - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:59:19 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Just Say No to Jeb On 3/26/07, Bri N wrote: > > From: "Lauren Elizabeth" > > At any rate, there was this guy Budd Dwyer who must have been the > State Treasurer of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dwyer had gotten into some sort > of trouble in office, and then during a live news conference had, no > lie, taken a gun out, put it in his mouth, and killed himself. So I get my first unemployment check, and sorry I had to laugh - Budd > Dwyer's name was literally X'ed out. I mean, the check was "signed" > by Budd Dwyer but they had just decided to keep using the checks and > just printed a strings of X's across his name and then typed the name > of the new treasurer underneath. > > That seemed a bit cheap. > ---------------------------- > > Yeah, that is pretty cheap! Sheesh, and a bit disrespectful too, I'd say. Yes, but not as bad as their original plan - which was to punch holes through the letters of his name using one of those scrapbook-punches with a Wild-West "bullet-hole" look. Incidentally, Budd Dwyer can also be blamed for that awful Filter song "Hey Man, Nice Shot," if I'm not mistaken. (I think bandmembers are from Pennsylvania...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:00:01 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Just Say No to Jeb - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Bri N Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 3:10 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: Just Say No to Jeb From: "Lauren Elizabeth" >Sadly, this calls for a personal anecdote. >When I was younger, I was laid off from a company that had a contract from the DOE promoting renewable energy (with >Reagan in office, I should have seen that layoff coming a mile away.) So they offered me unemployment, and, it being money, I accepted until I got another job. >At any rate, there was this guy Budd Dwyer who must have been the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dwyer had gotten into some sort of trouble in office, and then during a live news conference had, no lie, taken a gun out, put it in his mouth, and killed himself. I can picture Cheney offing himself with a pistol if he had an incurable disease, or if he was going to prison for one of his many crimes against humanity. I know it doesn't work from a timeline perspective, but I can picture Cheney as a high ranking Nazi in a former life. He certainly would have made an ideal henchman for Hitler. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:01:27 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Just Say No to Jeb On Mar 26, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > At any rate, there was this guy Budd Dwyer who must have been the > State Treasurer of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dwyer had gotten into some sort > of trouble in office, and then during a live news conference had, no > lie, taken a gun out, put it in his mouth, and killed himself. I have that scene on tape. One of my friends made me a video with it set to the Rapeman song "Budd". Fun for the entire family. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:02:04 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Apropos of Corn Tom Clark says: > We have a small group of Lebowski fans around the office and recently > there has been an abundance of statements that end with "...in the > parlance of our times." Works well when you're using slang or > talking about project codenames. > > -tc, vaguely on topic New topic then. I love workplace, uh, parlance, so please share. My last workplace was home of the "Jesus Factor" which was the term we used when we got some report or piece of code where someone used some supposedly empirically derived term which came from God knows where. Sample usage: "Okay, they took the average and then multiplied it by some Jesus Factor." xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:34:20 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Apropos of Corn On 3/26/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > Tom Clark says: > > We have a small group of Lebowski fans around the office and recently > > there has been an abundance of statements that end with "...in the > > parlance of our times." Works well when you're using slang or > > talking about project codenames. > > > > -tc, vaguely on topic > > New topic then. I love workplace, uh, parlance, so please share. > > My last workplace was home of the "Jesus Factor" which was the term we > used when we got some report or piece of code where someone used some > supposedly empirically derived term which came from God knows where. > > Sample usage: "Okay, they took the average and then multiplied it by > some Jesus Factor." What I find amusing about this (okay, other than the term itself: face it, "Jesus" in incongruous contexts is comedy gold) is that even though I hear stories like this all the time from people working for various businesses - about various kinds of incompetence, dubious priorities, maneuvering to enhance personal fiefdoms, etc. - there's still this mythology that "like a corporation" is the ideal way to run things ("We should run government/universities/school systems/etc. like a corporation" - with the implication that that's the most efficient way to achieve goals, eliminate deadweight, etc.). Clearly, not. My wife, early in her career, worked for a firm that did business with McDonald's. The degree of pettiness, waste, incompetence, and general idiocy was appalling. At least government (however corrupt its actors might be) has *some* sort of direct accountability. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:50:20 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Apropos of Corn On 3/26/07, 2fs wrote: > > > What I find amusing about this (okay, other than the term itself: face it, > "Jesus" in incongruous contexts is comedy gold) is that even though I hear > stories like this all the time from people working for various businesses > - > about various kinds of incompetence, dubious priorities, maneuvering to > enhance personal fiefdoms, etc. - there's still this mythology that "like > a > corporation" is the ideal way to run things ("We should run > government/universities/school systems/etc. like a corporation" - with the > implication that that's the most efficient way to achieve goals, eliminate > deadweight, etc.). Hey, they *have* to keep saying that, or else someone might notice that leaving every issue, moral, ethical, religious, artistic, military, and otherwise, to "the market" is really stupid and gets people killed a whole lot. Except for the ones who are already rich, of course. We should really face it... nobody really knows how to do anything very well, or else stuff wouldn't go so terribly wrong all the time. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:52:57 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Big Skwid News: They will eat your flesh, and they are legion Cthulhu-spawn surfacing at last... http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-squid26mar26,0,5972859.story?coll=la-home-headlines red-white-red-white-red... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:58:38 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Apropos of Corn On 3/26/07, Rex wrote: > > On 3/26/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > > > What I find amusing about this (okay, other than the term itself: face > > it, > > "Jesus" in incongruous contexts is comedy gold) is that even though I > > hear > > stories like this all the time from people working for various > > businesses - > > about various kinds of incompetence, dubious priorities, maneuvering to > > enhance personal fiefdoms, etc. - there's still this mythology that > > "like a > > corporation" is the ideal way to run things ("We should run > > government/universities/school systems/etc. like a corporation" - with > > the > > implication that that's the most efficient way to achieve goals, > > eliminate > > deadweight, etc.). > > > Hey, they *have* to keep saying that, or else someone might notice that > leaving every issue, moral, ethical, religious, artistic, military, and > otherwise, to "the market" is really stupid and gets people killed a whole > lot. > My favorite recent quote, from a documentary reviewed here < http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday/story/0,,2025578,00.html>: "In fact, the documentary notes sardonically, experiments show that only two kinds of people behave like perfect little economists in every arena of life: economists themselves, and psychopaths." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:42:25 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Just Say No to Jeb On 3/26/07, 2fs wrote: > > > Incidentally, Budd Dwyer can also be blamed for that awful Filter song > "Hey > Man, Nice Shot," if I'm not mistaken. (I think bandmembers are from > Pennsylvania...) What a great way to stop someone from committing suicide... "Dude, just think of all the pain we'd have to endure if Filter recorded another song..." - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:46:20 -0800 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: Apropos of Corn On 3/26/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > Sample usage: "Okay, they took the average and then multiplied it by > some Jesus Factor." I also like "mathemagically." That's how all math seems to me, actually. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:52:43 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Irritation of the Day - variations on a theme Bachman, Michael wrote: > > Stewart came back with: >> All this conveys to me is John Lennon singing something or other off > Walls & Bridges so I guess I'm lucky. I think not. I'm not sure what I'd do with a Lennon album. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:57:42 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Just Say No to Jeb Bachman, Michael wrote: > > I can picture Cheney offing himself with a pistol if he had an incurable > disease, or if he was going to prison for one of his many crimes against > humanity. But I think he'd do it with the last bullet in the clip, having shot everyone else in the room first. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:37:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: I can so answer that question (jargon reigns) Eddie wrote this, I think: "How long before people stop saying "it is what it is" or is it permanently integrated into U.S. speech patterns?" Oh, this one is so very easy for a Bostonian (or a Bostonite, as Colin Meloy would say). The answer is this: as long as Bill Belichick is coach of the New England Patriots, this expression will resound in the homes of every football-loving Pats fan. Here, if you say "it is what it is," it is assumed that you are quoting Saint Bill. Now, all his players say it, too. Sebastian, I think "es ist wie es ist" is really the same thing. It means "this is the situation, so deal with it", no? Oh yeah, your parcel is in the mail and should be arriving soon. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:47:15 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Apropos of Corn > > "It is what it is"... the sentiment is useful and not by definition lazy: > > sometimes you can't change the nature of a thing. But I take it that these > > days it's being used to mean "I can't be bothered to work out the nature of > > the thing to begin with", or "Me lazy", is that it? > >I was saying to someone offlist that I much prefer the old-fashioned >grandma-ish "well, what can you do about it?" A reasonable response might be: "You are what you is - you is what you am." 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: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:48:21 -0700 From: Rex Subject: From the YepRoc newsletter... "*in the Yep Roc Web Shop...* "Adventure Rocket Ship" ringtone now available! Click here to check it out. " I think I'm legally to old to be able to legally make use of this... does anyfeg do the "ringtone" thing? Would this come out as a tinny little recording of part of the actual song, or kind of "ba-bleep-bleep blippit bleep" type or affair? Apparently these things actually have some kind of value to folks really desperate to construct and subsequently advertise their iDentities, or else there wouldn't be so many pop-up ad/games telling me to "help Ahnuhld fight Simon Cowell for WIN ringtones" or some other odd combination of pop-culture references from yestermonth. Maybe it's post-modern. Maybe it's post-internet. It's certainly post-me. Rex, who's not saying the shrill beep his phone makes when it rings is cool or anything, but... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:24:26 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Apropos of Corn Jeff wrote: > I think we should start a trend whereby instead of flatly saying "it is > what > it is," we wail, pound our foreheads, and tear out our hair while > crying, > "the world is a vale of tears and ever shall be!" I can't decide if this is more Buddhist or Jewish Mother-ist in sentiment. I'll have to think about it. > Especially useful as a response to "Has the mail come yet today?" Even better for "Do you want fries with that?" Marc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:48:02 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: From the YepRoc newsletter... On 3/26/07, Rex wrote: > > "*in the Yep Roc Web Shop...* > > > > > "Adventure Rocket Ship" ringtone now available! > Click here to check it > out. > " > > I think I'm legally to old to be able to legally make use of this... does > anyfeg do the "ringtone" thing? Would this come out as a tinny little > recording of part of the actual song, or kind of "ba-bleep-bleep blippit > bleep" type or affair? I think we already had the grumpy "we fegs are too cool to be bothered with annoying cell phones except insofar as they're required in our need to earn a buck or pound or euro or whatever" discussion. I have a cell phone which I rarely use, and which I have only because Rose's company pays for her phone service and spouses get a second phone for like 17 cents... It's probably six years old*, and its "ringtone" is basically yr generic "scree" videogame electrochip noise - except I manually programmed it, arduously, to play (at half speed, because there was no other option) the "archway of aerodynamics" organ riff from the Pixies' "Alec Eiffel." Which ringtone I never hear, because (a) the phone's hardly ever on, and (b) no one calls me on it, mostly because they all know (a). If I were in desperate need of seeming like the coolest dude from 1997, I'd have someone call me at a pre-arranged time. * What's really funny is seeing the first couple of seasons of _X-Files_ when one of them pulls out a cell phone the size of a shoe. It's pretty damned funny to see now. I'm sure we'll be laughing ten years from now, too - what, you actually had a physical *object* you had to use? Christ, was it made of *wood* too? Oh wait - there's my new art project: precision, to-scale models of contemporary techno-objects rendered in 18th-century technology. 'Course, they wouldn't actually work - but that's the beauty of them: I'm imagining a Motorola Razr (or however they trendily spell it) made of painstakingly hand-formed oak, with teensy polished brass digits with hand-carved numeric insets and ivory inlays for the numerals... Too bad I lack the material skillz to make such things. If I win the lottery I'll commission someone. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:52:31 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Apropos of Corn On 3/26/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > > Jeff wrote: > > I think we should start a trend whereby instead of flatly saying "it is > > what > > it is," we wail, pound our foreheads, and tear out our hair while > > crying, > > "the world is a vale of tears and ever shall be!" > > I can't decide if this is more Buddhist or Jewish Mother-ist in sentiment. > I'll have to think about it. I think the wailing and pounding moves it away from the Buddhist thingy. Then, I've never had a Jewish mother. Or a Buddhist one. (Random insult, to be applied to victim of your choice: oh yeah? Yo mama's a Bootyist...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:55:38 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: From the YepRoc newsletter... Rex wrote: > I think I'm legally to old to be able to legally make use of this... does > anyfeg do the "ringtone" thing? Would this come out as a tinny little > recording of part of the actual song, or kind of "ba-bleep-bleep blippit > bleep" type or affair? I've got "Rock the Casbah" as a ringtone for a lone person calling me because I know, as soon as that goes off, that I'm in trouble. So yes, Virginia, and older Feg does do the ringtone thing. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:56:07 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Apropos of Corn On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > > "It is what it is"... the sentiment is useful and not by definition lazy: > > > sometimes you can't change the nature of a thing. But I take it that these > > > days it's being used to mean "I can't be bothered to work out the nature of > > > the thing to begin with", or "Me lazy", is that it? > > > >I was saying to someone offlist that I much prefer the old-fashioned > >grandma-ish "well, what can you do about it?" > > A reasonable response might be: "You are what you is - you is what you am." I love that both Popeye and Yahweh's catchphrases are the same. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:02:48 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Apropos of Corn >> A reasonable response might be: "You are what you is - you is what you am." A cow don't make ham... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:05:57 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: From the YepRoc newsletter... I'm imagining a >Motorola Razr (or however they trendily spell it) made of painstakingly >hand-formed oak, with teensy polished brass digits with hand-carved numeric >insets and ivory inlays for the numerals... Wow, I gotta get one of those. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:38:49 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: From the YepRoc newsletter... I had the ducklike laughter loop from the end of PF's 'Bike' as a ringtone. It was so irritating that colleagues would throw things - -- heavy, sharp things -- if I let it ring for more than a couple of seconds. I also had the Uridium theme, but now I have a work Blackberry, all it does is boring noises ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:46:50 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Golden Slumbers http://www.johnbrooks.com/juggle/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:52:31 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Golden Slumbers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGKtfyt0jf0 On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote: > http://www.johnbrooks.com/juggle/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:01:42 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Big Skwid News: They will eat your flesh, and they are legion On Mar 26, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Rex wrote: > Cthulhu-spawn surfacing at last... > > http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-squid26mar26,0,5972859.story? > coll=la-home-headlines > > red-white-red-white-red... > "But it's still bigger than anything you've ever seen before. And > they're freakish." But not as freakish as the Vampyroteuthis infernalis - - Steve _______________ Consciousness occurs at the fundamental level of Planck scale geometry, normally in and around microtubules between our ears. But when brain coherence is lost, quantum information related to consciousness and the unconscious mind remain in the universe, distributed but still entangled. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:14:33 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Apropos of Corn On 3/26/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > > A reasonable response might be: "You are what you is - you is what you > am." > > I love that both Popeye and Yahweh's catchphrases are the same. Let's see 'em compare forearms! - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #122 ********************************