From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #149 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, April 14 2007 Volume 16 : Number 149 Today's Subjects: ----------------- re: reap [ken ostrander ] in the library of my memory... ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] RE: Spiders and Squids (was Flesh and Blood) ["Bri N" ] Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... [2fs ] Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Games for May ["Marc Holden" ] re: like you're dying to know what i just got... [ken ostrander ] Re: Spiders and Squids (was Flesh and Blood) ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: Spiders and Squids (was Flesh and Blood) ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: 23 ["Michael Sweeney" ] hitchcock-related posting [kevin ] Re: big poop hatch with a cotton hatch [kevin ] Re: 23 [2fs ] Re: 2rm apt 1/2vu ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] re: like you're dying to know what i just got... ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: long, long, long time ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:58:33 -0700 (PDT) From: ken ostrander Subject: re: reap ten commandments imus / reap >> The Imus in the Morning Program >> >> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_en_mu/imus_protests > >I'm curious what you think about the whole story: > >- - do you believe that his intention was benign but misguided? > >- - if so, should he still have been fired? the thought police ("they live inside of my head") are not the issue. certainly imus or anyone else can think whatever they like. and we all can say whatever we like as well. there are consequences for speaking irresponsibly. folks on the radio have an even greater impact than someone making jokes around the watercooler. i didn't care much for imus's show, and i always wondered who did. he seemed to be opening his mouth and exchanging his feet pretty regularly. still, it does seem as though he is being offered up as a sacrifice. as much as some folks may be hyper-sensitive, certainly imus was pretty insensitive. i'm not sure why the usual (exorbitant) fine was not enough. i guess that he pissed off enough people inside the organization. i can't say that imus deserves to be fired any more than any of the other radio devils mentioned, but it seems like he is his own worst enemy. i don't think that humor at anyone's expense is benign. and chalk another one up to those who are watering the flowers of intolerance and hatred: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Taxguide/story?id=3031061&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 - --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? 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Autos. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:16:56 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: in the library of my memory... hi fegs, i'm up late trying working on a project, trying to untangle whatever mess i've created in computer memory (messes are particularly interesting when they exist nowhere save RAM.) it's hard not to be reminded of undergraduate school. one of my fond memories of college is of going into some fairly large lecture hall and on the three-panel blackboard, in a large, palsied hand, was written: i am not an animal. i am an engineer. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:26:35 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: big poop hatch with a cotton hatch Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:59:15 -0700 > From: "Stacked Crooked" > Subject: Re: I told you. I fuckin' *told* you. But you wouldn't listen. > > other geographically grouped subset of this list. There, I said it. Bring > it on.> > > test: how many have read of the postal history of tonga? Answer: 100% of the New Zealand contingent. test: how many noticed that Robyn got the words of 'See Emily Play' wrong in Bristol ('for ever and ever, for ever and ever, instead of 'float on a river for ever and ever') > do the words "poop-hatch" mean anything to you? Why yes! It's in the title of this song: And how many people know that 'Filboid Studge' was invented by H H Munro before being adopted (sp. changed) for a Vonnegut character? - - Mike Godwin n.p. Lesley Gore 'You don't own me' (surely a rewrite of 'Don't make me over' or am I going dotty?) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:17:29 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: big poop hatch with a cotton hatch hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > > And how many people know that 'Filboid Studge' was invented by H H Munro > before being adopted (sp. changed) for a Vonnegut character? Saki was required reading for us, so I didn't know the Vonnegut usage. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:39:10 -0700 From: "Bri N" Subject: Re: 0%rh, 100%ebay - --- scruss@gmail.com wrote: >what's the minimum time before you can get annoyed with an eBay seller >who won't finalize payment details? I won an auction on Monday, and the >seller's gone silent. cheers, Stewart - ----------- Oh! Sorry about that. That was me... uh... just send $275 paypal to this address. Sorry for not getting back to you earlier! :) - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:43:01 -0700 From: "Bri N" Subject: RE: Spiders and Squids (was Flesh and Blood) >Pretty great pre-show gathering in Chicago prior to the Soft Boys show, late October 2002. We had more than a dozen folks at a pizza joint down the street from The Double Door. It consisted of some Michigan fegs though (Nuppy was a Michigan feg back then before moving to Ohio). The Soft Boys rocked the Double Door! Mr. Wells was kind enough to be our tour guide around Chicago for a few days. A memorable road trip to be sure, and Nuppy was great company! MJ Bachman - ---------------------- A fine road trip that was! Were there any pictures? A great show too. I thought the 2002 Chicago show was even better than the 2001 one. - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 10:58:22 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Help needed for Wikipedia article! Hi all - I'm looking to add RH's name to a list of famous synaesthetes on Wikipedia (due to his repeated comments about chords appearing to him as colours). But... I can't find any documentary evidence of his claims. Does anyone here know of a published/broadcast interview or similar where he says something about this, and if so, do they have details of when and where (if a radio interview, station and date would be very useful...) 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: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:22:04 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: reap On 4/14/07, ken ostrander wrote: > > > > the thought police ("they live inside of my head") are not the > issue. certainly imus or anyone else can think whatever they like. and we > all can say whatever we like as well. there are consequences for speaking > irresponsibly. I think too often people imagine that "freedom of speech" means "freedom from responsibility or consequences." It doesn't. The idea is that the government will not take action against you - and, granted, by extension, an ideal of extending pretty broad latitude toward people's speech is implicit. But that doesn't mean that offensive speech isn't going to be responded to, isn't going to piss people off (people who might yell at you, throw things at you, or punch you, for example) - and in a commercial environment, it doesn't mean that those who are *paying you* might not decide that your big mouth might not cost them more money than it earns them. You can speak freely - but other people are going to respond freely, and there may well be consequences. The idea isn't "I can say whatever I want inside my plastic bubble called 'freedom of speech,' and it'll have no effect on me whatsoever nyah-nyah-nyah!" Don Imus isn't a free-speech martyr. He's a guy who got fired from a job (one that probably pays way more than it's worth) for pissing off his sponsors and employer. How many of us have jobs where we could refer to anyone publicly as "nappy-headed hos" and not get fired? Thought not. (Naturally, there's an other side: the hypocrisy here is that Imus was *hired* because of his big mouth and propensity to say obnoxious things: that's what brings in the big ratings - not just for him, of course. So for those employers to turn around and say, oh, that was too obnoxious...it's a bit hypocritical innit. But that's a separate argument - and not a defense of Imus or his right to be obnoxious without consequence. Me, I'm just sick of the fact that in many venues - talk radio, Fox news, comedy, rock'n'roll - - people are apparently entertained by other people being assholes.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:28:13 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... Ken, Ken - settle down, man! What is this, seventeen posts in a row? Anyway... On 4/14/07, ken ostrander wrote: > > > > they both have a dark sense of humor. cale is more whimsical and > mysterious while lou plays the deadly serious straight man. lou is very > funny, i think. you just need to get past the big idea. he bites off more > than he can chew; but he's very ambitious in that way. his songs dwell in > the dark places most people don't want to even think about. if you're > willing to go there and not be put off by the drugs and the misogyny and the > misery, then you might have a chance to get the joke. True - I mean, if you think of _Take No Prisoners_ as a stand-up comedy album with occasional interludes by a band that sounds rather like the closing band on contemporaneous SNL, it works pretty well... > > > I just learned about Lou's new meditation music CD (aka the anti-Metal > Machine). Has anybody heard it?< > > > there's the usual taste at allmusic; but you can listen to one of the > shorter songs at: > > http://www.myspace.com/officialloureed > > > hudson river wind meditations > > free from preconception - music for the "background of life" > > "i first composed this music for myself as an adjunct to meditation, > t'ai chi, bodywork, and as music to play in the background of lifeto > replace the everyday cacophony with new and ordered sounds of an > unpredictable nature. new sounds freed from preconception i hope you find > as much use for this music as i have in both writing and listening to it and > exploring inner spaces." lou reed -nyc, october 2006 > > http://www.amazon.com/hudson-river-wind-meditations-reed/dp/B000LW9Q9I Okay, if Lou's happy in his life right now, that's good for him...but damn there's just something *wrong* with the world when the same guy who wrote "Sister Ray" is nattering on about t'ai chi, bodywork, and "exploring inner spaces." I wonder what "Sister Ray" Lou would say to Inner-Space Explorer Lou? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:38:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: reap 2fs wrote: > Me, I'm just sick of the fact that in many venues - talk radio, > Fox news, comedy, rock'n'roll - people are apparently entertained > by other people being assholes.) Depends on the type of asshole you're being. Imus and the people who go around picking on others, sure. But, say, _Arrested Development_ where you have characters whose assholery is a means to self-inflicted wounds, that's a different ball of nappy-hair. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:08:55 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... ken says: > there's a horse sanctuary where we'll be taking shuggie to do some riding on miniatures. oh when it moves from books to actual live ponies, you're doomed. you know, if you start putting a little away each week, that pony won't seem very expensive at all. > how about horse songs? > wildfire has anyone read dave barry's "book of bad songs"? "wildfire" makes the grade especially for its "there came a killing frost" which mr. barry points out is not exactly the same as a blizzard. bad songs is a good topic. one of my favourite bad songs is "timothy" which was about some folks who get trapped in a cave and in the end i guess one gets desperate and i swear *eats* one of the other guys. the 1970s was such a very fertile period for bad songs. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:25:07 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... 2fs says: > Ken, Ken - settle down, man! What is this, seventeen posts in a row? > Anyway... a feg bender! perhaps a fender? xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:18:56 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: thread of bad songs i say: > bad songs is a good topic. one of my favourite bad songs is "timothy" > which was about some folks who get trapped in a cave and in the end i > guess one gets desperate and i swear *eats* one of the other guys. > the 1970s was such a very fertile period for bad songs. it wasn't right of me to mention that song and not inflict upon you: http://home.comcast.net/~ralpal/Buoys-Timothy.mp3 xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:41:25 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Games for May I've been skimming some of the digests because of being overbooked lately (still managing to squeeze a trip to Tucson in later today). Did I miss the announcement for the Games for May recreation, or did it just get posted? Marc April 14 Club Congress Tucson, AZ May 10 Robyn with John Paul Jones Barbican "Syd Barrett Celebration" London 26 Robyn Hitchcock & Heavy Friends Queen Elizabeth Hall For it's 40th anniversary, they'll be recreating Pink Floyd's performance fo their "Games for May" concert London http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:49:33 -0700 (PDT) From: ken ostrander Subject: re: like you're dying to know what i just got... >> Ken, Ken - settle down, man! What is this, seventeen posts in a row? >> Anyway... thirteen, actually. >a feg bender! > >perhaps a fender? feeling dented http://www.napoleonvsfender.com/ ken "never crashed them so to this day they survive" the kenster np "wasted days and wasted nights" freddy fender - --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:51:35 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: sundance "spotlight" hi fegs, i don't recall this being posted (apologies if it has); there's an interesting interview with robyn on the page (first time i've seen him mention anxiety on stage) as well as some links to some video clips. http://www.sundancechannel.com/spotlights/210200800 xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:06:56 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Spiders and Squids (was Flesh and Blood) MJ Bachman wrote: >>Tom Clark says: >>>And of course a great contingent of Bay Area Fegs, who are cooler than >>>any other geographically grouped subset of this list. >Pretty great pre-show gathering in Chicago prior to the Soft Boys show, >late October 2002. We had more than a dozen folks at a pizza joint down >the street from The Double Door. It consisted of some Michigan fegs >though (Nuppy was a Michigan feg back then before moving to Ohio). The >Soft Boys rocked the Double Door! Mr. Wells was kind enough to be our >tour guide around Chicago for a few days. A memorable road trip to be >sure, and Nuppy was great company! ...And I was even there as an unidentified lurker (I handed the One-Man Band (or whatever his name was -- the Lonesome Musician? the Musician Union's Nightmare?) a coin to use as a pick during his set), but, of course, I leave it to others to determine whether this was a plus or a minus for the collective "coolness" of the Chicago-area gathering... Michael Sweeney Who, after 20+ years of RH fandom, went all the way to Philly to meet Fegs...and got inadvertently snubbed... _________________________________________________________________ MSN is giving away a trip to Vegas to see Elton John. Enter to win today. http://msnconcertcontest.com?icid-nceltontagline ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:12:12 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: reap Jeff Dwarf says: > Depends on the type of asshole you're being. Imus and the people who > go around picking on others, sure. But, say, _Arrested Development_ > where you have characters whose assholery is a means to > self-inflicted wounds, that's a different ball of nappy-hair. i inherited from my father a deep love of the "arrested development" sort of asshole. the type ranges from self-absorbed jerk to the head of the ship of fools with one of the important characteristics being that they are not anywhere near being "evil". one of the pinnacles imo is sean penn's character in "sweet and lowdown." also re: the ship of fools type of asses, i love that bit in "24 hour party people" where the happy mondays hold the master tapes hostage. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:18:19 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Spiders and Squids (was Flesh and Blood) Sweeney says: > Who, after 20+ years of RH fandom, went all the way to Philly to meet > Fegs...and got inadvertently snubbed... i'm not so sure about this - perhaps it was the philly fegs who were snubbed. xo lauren, longtime philadelphia and nyc show lurker - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:59:19 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: reap On 4/14/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > 2fs wrote: > > Me, I'm just sick of the fact that in many venues - talk radio, > > Fox news, comedy, rock'n'roll - people are apparently entertained > > by other people being assholes.) > > Depends on the type of asshole you're being. Imus and the people who > go around picking on others, sure. But, say, _Arrested Development_ > where you have characters whose assholery is a means to > self-inflicted wounds, that's a different ball of nappy-hair. Well, yes: I surely don't mean that all characters everywhere should be nicey-nicey. That would be boring. I'm referring to the tendency to cheer on people who are being assholes - assholes by proxy, in fact, as if the audience wishes they could get away with being such obnoxious jerks. It's about balance, really: for whatever reason, for instance, in rock the notion of "rebellion" got carried over into basically being a selfish jerk who cared about no one but himself (and what's rebellious about that? Really, nothing: it's Homo Capitalist carried to an extreme...), rather than as either a social rebellion or even a political one. (I'm generally unpersuaded by the notion that rock intrinsically has anything to do with rebellion as such anyway: once people start waving flags that can be seen from miles off, it tends to occupy their hands from doing anything more useful.) And of course, the logical next step is to enjoy watching other people making assholish idiots of themselves: cue Jerry Springer et al. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:00:02 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: 23 Kevin sez: >>My two favorite daily newspaper comics right now are "Get Fuzzy" and >>"Pearls >>Before Swine." Predictable, perhaps - but they are good. >Amen, brother. I've also gotten into a web strip called Shortpacked! >that's >pretty entertaining: >http://www.shortpacked.com/ >Actually the current story arc is a tad slow, but if you do what I did and >spend >most of two work days reading the whole strip from the beginning it will >reward >your attention. It's set in a toy store and it's stars a bunch of >action-figure >obsessives - and it's not as wack as that makes it sound, just densely >saturated >with pop culture. And some of the funniest Batman jokes ever. Thanks for the tip! I'm cycling through 'em now (up to Apr. '05), and enjoying them very much (and right-o on the Batman stuff -- very funny). Here in Chicago, the newspaper comics situation is dire -- the "better" paper (IMHO, for writers, columnists, local news, sports), the Sun-Times has 28 strips, but only about 2.5 of them are even readable (and one is "Pearls...;" the other 1.5 is split between the rest of the 27). I only go to the comics pages these days for the Sudoku puzzle. The other paper (more national coverage, yet sadly fascist and snoozingly stultifying), the Tribune, has "Doonesbury," "Fuzzy," the occasionally still OK "Dilbert" and some other decent strips I can't recall (since I only pick it up on occasion anymore...but a far higher success ratio than the S-T)...but, as I always enjoyed pointing out, they had 2 or 3 (or maybe even more - I may have lost count) comics by dead guys - the "Peanuts" re-runs, Jeff MacNelly's strip (picked up by others, but still), and at least another one or two. Kinda says it all about the state o' comics...and the Trib. Michael Sweeney ...Come to think of it, random dead guys may indeed produce more enjoyable comic strips than those currently taking up newsprint and ink in the Sun-TImes... _________________________________________________________________ Mortgage refinance is Hot. *Terms. Get a 5.375%* fix rate. 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It's in the title of this song: > > Uh huh, and now all I can think of is Ween's "Poop Ship Destroyer." np Terry Riley: The Harp Of New Albion ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:42:57 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: re: 2rm apt 1/2vu Ken kenstered: >"some people got no choice and they can never find a voice to talk with >that >they can even call their own; so the first thing that they see that allows >them >the right to be why they follow it. you know what it's called? bad luck." ...Oooh -- goosebumps just reading it...and hearing the bass notes galloping after it in my head. Michael "Love is gone away-hay-hay" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Cant afford to quit your job?  Earn your AS, BS, or MS degree online in 1 year. http://www.classesusa.com/clickcount.cfm?id=866145&goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.classesusa.com%2Ffeaturedschools%2Fonlinedegreesmp%2Fform-dyn1.html%3Fsplovr%3D866143 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:47:18 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: 23 On 4/14/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > > > Here in Chicago, the newspaper comics situation is dire -- the "better" > paper (IMHO, for writers, columnists, local news, sports), the Sun-Times > has > 28 strips, but only about 2.5 of them are even readable (and one is > "Pearls...;" the other 1.5 is split between the rest of the 27). I only > go > to the comics pages these days for the Sudoku puzzle. Comics junkies know the best online source is comics is the Houston Chronicle: www.chron.com/comics - pretty much everything you might need, with one or two exceptions. The Washington Post and Seattle Post-Intelligencer's online comics selections are pretty good, as well. Finally: comics.com and gocomics.com. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:56:15 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: 2rm apt 1/2vu Sweeney says: > Ken kenstered: > > >"some people got no choice and they can never find a voice to talk with > >that > >they can even call their own; so the first thing that they see that allows > >them > >the right to be why they follow it. you know what it's called? bad luck." > > ...Oooh -- goosebumps just reading it...and hearing the bass notes galloping > after it in my head. since the mention of "street hassle" onlist, that line's been floating around in my head. i occasionally think to post about it, but i love it so much that i can't manage to have anything to say about it. an hour or so ago, i was in the car, thinking about the line, and "maisie" by syd barrett was playing and the whole thing seemed rather punctuated when syd said "bad luck." xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:59:57 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: re: like you're dying to know what i just got... Ken said: >"sometimes i wish i were a horse: strong, free, my chestnut haunches >glistening in the sun" Nice...sometimes it's fun to imagine all of Jack Donaghy's deadpan lines coming from Blake, the "Third prize is you're fired" / "PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN. Coffee is for closers" guy... . Michael "What's your name?" "Fuck you. That's my name" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Mortgage refinance is Hot. *Terms. Get a 5.375%* fix rate. 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Russell" Subject: Re: long, long, long time Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > min ( opreys ready for deployment, u.s. out of iraq ) = opreys ready > for deployment I really thought you meant that Ms Winfrey was deploying. Looks like $30 billion of porkbarrel to me. Stewart ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #149 ********************************