From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #197 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, May 10 2007 Volume 16 : Number 197 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Artic Monkeys ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: THE (alleged) THREAD OF WOMEN ["Michael Sweeney" ] My List of Demands ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #193 [2fs ] Re: THE (alleged) THREAD OF WOMEN [kevin ] Re: Artic Monkeys ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: My List of Demands [Rex ] Re: Artic Monkeys [2fs ] Re: supersmart parrots [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #193 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #193 [2fs ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #193 [Rex ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #195 ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: supersmart parrots [craigie* ] Spare ticket for tonight [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] re: Mini-Review, best/worst, ec. ["David Stovall" ] Re: Spare ticket for tonight [kevin ] Re: supersmart parrots ["vivien lyon" ] More comical funnies [kevin ] creepy clowns... [2fs ] Safe sand castles for booty calls ["Michael Wells" Subject: Artic Monkeys Are these guys worth seeing? They are in town tonight, but at $25.00 a ticket I though I would get some opinions first. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 19:24:19 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: THE (alleged) THREAD OF WOMEN Lauren offered: >james says: >>Catherine was gorgeous, but not as much so as her late, lamented >>sister, the stunning Francoise Dorleac. > >oh you can all stop pretending, this is THE THREAD OF WOMEN. Nah...remember, I (innocently, purely) started off with a frickin' British-accented marionette, circa 8 years old! That was REAL childhood crush sorta stuff...this teenaged, Lynda Carter-hormone-activation stuff, while just fine (BTW, Cheryls Ladd and Tiegs (esp. the latter in the see-through mesh bathing suit in Sports Illustrated)), is a whole 'nother kettle of...something. ...Not to mention current, middle-aged crushes, which would be...kinda icky? Michael "Scarlett Johansen is a fine, fine young actress, isn't she? (but I also have a recent and ongoing crush on the 50+ Mimi Rogers, so...I'm not JUST a dirty old man (I hope...))" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ PC Magazines 2007 editors choice for best Web mailaward-winning Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_pcmag_0507 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:58:09 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: THE (alleged) THREAD OF WOMEN Sweeney says: > Nah...remember, I (innocently, purely) started off with a frickin' > British-accented marionette, circa 8 years old! all threads *start out* innocently. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 14:59:45 -0400 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #193 To balance out this all male love-fest, I must add my childhood TV crushes: Superman George Reeves and Man from UNCLE, David McCallum. I was quite surprised to hear that David McCallum was Scottish rather than Russian. On a sad note, my mother died of lung cancer on April 24th. Hearing how desperately sick she was in the hospital, I flew from BC to Ontario just in time to chat with her, one day before she died. I am convinced she waited for me. While I was there, I did manage to connect with Caroline Smith from this list and she had a baby called Juliet Rose on Feb. 22. Sweetest baby you ever saw. Barbara Soutar Victoria, BC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 16:02:26 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: My List of Demands 1. Tell me what you have done with ken. You have three of your "hours" to comply. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:19:21 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #193 On 5/9/07, Barbara Soutar wrote: > > > On a sad note, my mother died of lung cancer on April 24th. Hearing how > desperately sick she was in the hospital, I flew from BC to Ontario just > in time to chat with her, one day before she died. I am convinced she > waited for me. > > While I was there, I did manage to connect with Caroline Smith from this > list and she had a baby called Juliet Rose on Feb. 22. Sweetest baby you > ever saw. Sorry to hear about your mother - and glad to hear about Caroline. Although I'm not entirely sure I can remember who she is - what name did she post under? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:30:58 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: THE (alleged) THREAD OF WOMEN >Lauren offered: > >>james says: >>>Catherine was gorgeous, but not as much so as her late, lamented >>>sister, the stunning Francoise Dorleac. >> >>oh you can all stop pretending, this is THE THREAD OF WOMEN. > I'm sorry, for a minute there I thought that was The THREAT of Women and all I could think was Angela Carter (as opposed to Lynda): http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/carter.html np The Bonzo Dog Band: The Outro (disc 2 of the Cornology box set). "Cool Britannia/Britannia you are cool..." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 20:58:55 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: Artic Monkeys Always found their lyrics too obviously clever to be likeable. Better bet would be to see The Icicles. They're from Michigan. They dress (for the current tour) as stewardesses. Their music is perfect girl-group pop. Stewart On 09/05/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > Are these guys worth seeing? They are in town tonight, but at $25.00 a > ticket I though I would get some opinions first. > - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 18:02:55 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My List of Demands On 5/9/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > 1. Tell me what you have done with ken. > > You have three of your "hours" to comply. Erm... nothing. (burp) - -Rex "It's a cookbook!" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 20:06:11 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Artic Monkeys On 5/9/07, Stewart Russell wrote: > > Always found their lyrics too obviously clever to be likeable. > > Better bet would be to see The Icicles. They're from Michigan. They > dress (for the current tour) as stewardesses. Their music is perfect > girl-group pop. Stewartesses? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:36:25 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: supersmart parrots >I'll second that. Supersmart birds fascinate me. > >On 5/8/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: >> >> james says: >> > Octopodes are pretty damn smart in general, though, though NZ's >> > smartest non primate/non cetacean is the kea, an alpine parrot that >> > only needs an opposable thumb to launch its plans for world >> > domination (see >> > about >> > this bird, though I could tell a few stories about it myself if >> > pressed...) >> >> i have a feeling that the article doesn't do your kea friends justice. >> so, please, tell us a story or two... >> > > xo Okay, well here are a couple of thoughts about Kea... It's well-known to the point of being legendary that if you are going tramping (um, hiking, long-distance walking) in the high country, you nvere leave anything out unattended. Kea love "acquiring" things, especially things they can play with. They are noltorious for taking the laces from boots that have been left outside tents or cabins overnight - unlacing them completely and taking the laces to play with. They'll also attack anything that looks loose on cars - windscreen wipers, wing-mirrors, aerials. They seem to particularly like mirrors, and yes, they do seem to be able to recognise that they are looking at reflections. Kea are sometimes spotted playing in groups. One of them will fly to a great height with a shoelace or twig and drop it, and another one will then catch it in midair.That one will then fly hiogher and drop it, only to have it caught by another kea, and so on. My own personal experience of kea is from a trip to Milford Sound (a very scenic spot in southwest NZ) a few years ago. There is one spot which is the kea 'hood, if you like - a spot known as Monkey Creek. I don't know for a fact, but I suspect it was called that because the first people there suspected that there were monkeys in the forest stealing their equipment (there aren't - just kea). There are signs there telling people not to feed the kea, but the birds seem to expect humans to at least stop for some entertainkment. If you slow your car down to about 20km/h approaching Monkey Creek (and it's on a pretty winding road, so that's likely), you'll probably hear a couple of 'thumps' on the roof of the car as kea land on it while you're still driving. They're the next thing to tamee arounfd there (though still wary of humans), and you definitely get the strong impression of intelligence at work. 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: Wed, 09 May 2007 22:47:42 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #193 2fs wrote: > > I'm not entirely sure I can remember who she is - what name did she post > under? Um, as Caroline Smith. You might be too young to remember. She did the wonderful version of 'Trash' for the first tribute album. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 22:09:28 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #193 On 5/9/07, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > 2fs wrote: > > > > I'm not entirely sure I can remember who she is - what name did she post > > under? > > Um, as Caroline Smith. You might be too young to remember. She did the > wonderful version of 'Trash' for the first tribute album. Oh, I think it's less age than tenure! I wasn't around for the tribute album(s). But thanks - those exotic surnames, they'll fool me every time... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 21:13:38 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #193 On 5/9/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > Oh, I think it's less age than tenure! I wasn't around for the tribute > album(s). You know, I thought the tributes were before my time, too, but then I remembered that nifty "Vibrating/Heliotrope" medley on GF2, and I *know* I was on the list when Moss Elixir came out. So either GF2 came out when I was on, like, some sabbatical or another, or that band learned "Heliotrope" from an earlier live bootleg, which is kind of a cool idea for those pre-torrent times. Anyways, I always enjoy hearing the songs from those compilations pop up on random play on the iPod-- song for song they're a lot better than most tributes from that era (and I say that just having listened to a tribute to The Clean which, in addition to Pavement and GBV, had rather a surprising amount of drum 'n' bass on it). And it's cool how there are still some artists from Glass Fleshes who are still regulars around here. Rex, and yeah, I'm standing by the pluralization "Glass Fleshes" until told otherwise by Bayard or somebody ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 06:30:34 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #195 James ("Kiwi...not Ozzie") said: >>[Me:] Oh, for sure on Diana Rigg...and didja know that her iconic >>"Avengers" >>heroine was (supposedly; perhaps certainly; maybe apocryphally?) named for >>her "M[ale] Appeal"? Or perhaps that just naturally flowed from the >>name... >> >>...But, of course, now we know that her "F[emale] Appeal" was also not >>inconsiderable... >As UI heard it it wasn't so much "male appeal" as being a play on the name >of James Bond's boss "M", but with appeal. ...Not so sure about that, since a) it doesn't really scan (since Emma was not a boss-equivalent) and b) I had multiply heard the "M(ale) or M(an) Appeal" reference before -- for years -- and plucked it off the top o' my head...but I later checked Wiki (I know, I know...) and saw that it also cites it fairly high up (but says nothing about Bond's "M"). ...But, ya never do know -- can well be multiple interpretations (esp. since the origin is so far in the past)... Michael Sweeney ...Still semi-hard to believe that the same guy invented James Bond...and Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang... ps - now try to get that damned movie song outta yer head..."oh, you, pretty Chitty Bang-Bang..." _________________________________________________________________ Make every IM count. Download Messenger and join the im Initiative now. Its free. http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=TAGHM_MAY07 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 06:38:15 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: (can't think of good fire-related RH lyric, but pretend one is here) Rex sent a smoke signal: >We're not in any danger; it's just that the world smells like a barbecue >pit. "...We're in luck / We're not there..." Michael "Mmmm: barbecue..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Like the way Microsoft Office Outlook works? Youll love Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_outlook_0507 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 07:30:23 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: dwarf mentionings in lyrics Mike Swedene said: >I was just paging through some lyrics and noticed that he uses the >term dwarf in 2 songs. >Dwarfbeat, Love, and the interesting one that he met in Chinese Bones. >Just thought I would throw that out there. BTW, kudos on an appropriately brief -- short, even -- post... Michael "At approx. 5' 7", kinda a short subject myself..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Make every IM count. Download Messenger and join the im Initiative now. Its free. http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=TAGHM_MAY07 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 10:04:30 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Artic Monkeys sounds like my sort of group. Do they have any records out? or a website... wait I should just google it, right? c* On 10/05/07, Stewart Russell wrote: > > Always found their lyrics too obviously clever to be likeable. > > Better bet would be to see The Icicles. They're from Michigan. They > dress (for the current tour) as stewardesses. Their music is perfect > girl-group pop. > > Stewart > > > On 09/05/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > Are these guys worth seeing? They are in town tonight, but at $25.00 a > > ticket I though I would get some opinions first. > > > > > -- > http://scruss.com/blog/ > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 10:39:35 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: supersmart parrots Hah! Want one! c* On 10/05/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > >I'll second that. Supersmart birds fascinate me. > > > >On 5/8/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > >> > >> james says: > >> > Octopodes are pretty damn smart in general, though, though NZ's > >> > smartest non primate/non cetacean is the kea, an alpine parrot that > >> > only needs an opposable thumb to launch its plans for world > >> > domination (see > >> > about > >> > this bird, though I could tell a few stories about it myself if > >> > pressed...) > >> > >> i have a feeling that the article doesn't do your kea friends justice. > >> so, please, tell us a story or two... > >> > > > xo > > Okay, well here are a couple of thoughts about Kea... > > It's well-known to the point of being legendary that if you are going > tramping (um, hiking, long-distance walking) in the high country, you > nvere leave anything out unattended. Kea love "acquiring" things, > especially things they can play with. They are noltorious for taking > the laces from boots that have been left outside tents or cabins > overnight - unlacing them completely and taking the laces to play > with. They'll also attack anything that looks loose on cars - > windscreen wipers, wing-mirrors, aerials. They seem to particularly > like mirrors, and yes, they do seem to be able to recognise that they > are looking at reflections. > > Kea are sometimes spotted playing in groups. One of them will fly to > a great height with a shoelace or twig and drop it, and another one > will then catch it in midair.That one will then fly hiogher and drop > it, only to have it caught by another kea, and so on. > > My own personal experience of kea is from a trip to Milford Sound (a > very scenic spot in southwest NZ) a few years ago. There is one spot > which is the kea 'hood, if you like - a spot known as Monkey Creek. I > don't know for a fact, but I suspect it was called that because the > first people there suspected that there were monkeys in the forest > stealing their equipment (there aren't - just kea). There are signs > there telling people not to feed the kea, but the birds seem to > expect humans to at least stop for some entertainkment. If you slow > your car down to about 20km/h approaching Monkey Creek (and it's on a > pretty winding road, so that's likely), you'll probably hear a couple > of 'thumps' on the roof of the car as kea land on it while you're > still driving. They're the next thing to tamee arounfd there (though > still wary of humans), and you definitely get the strong impression > of intelligence at work. > > > 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:34:40 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Spare ticket for tonight I still have a spare ticket for tonight's show at The Barbican featuring Kevin Ayers, Robyn Hitchcock, Mike Heron, Captain Sensible etc. I will be picking up my tickets at around 7.10 so look out for me if you want one and I will give you a fegtastic price! - - Mike Godwin PS Beard, glasses, worried-looking 59-year-old: you'll know when you see me... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 07:53:54 From: "David Stovall" Subject: re: Mini-Review, best/worst, ec. I have no idea how far the list has proceeded from this topic - - I'm probably 15 or 20 digests behind in my reading - but I had to add,.... >From: kevin >Subject: Re: Mini-Review >> ~ best...album title...ever? maybe! the record itself is pretty good. > >Always been partial to the Fugs' It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest. YES! One of my pet favorites for nigh on to 20 years, since I first spied a vinyl copy in Headstone Friends' record store in Terre Haute. Others on the list: Danny Barnes/Pete Krebs: Duet for Clarinet and Goat (unknown punk/hardcore? band): 668 - The Neighbor of the Beast And, as long as I'm stuck in a time warp, my "best and worst opening acts" include: Best: The Spelunkers, opening for Mike Keneally & Beer for Dolphins (Martyr's, Chicago, 1998). As far as I'm concerned, the ultimate power-pop power-trio. Tight as fuck, not afraid to let you know they had classical and prog chops AND (amazingly) the taste and restraint to fit them succinctly into three-minute nuggets - plus, they threw down a version of Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" that opened up every pore on my body. Drummer John "Extrava-" Ganser was just monstrous, and guitarist Tommy O'Donnell equally so. Strangely, I ran into the drummer and bassist backing Neil Innes, of all people, in 2004, and happily finally got to tell them how much ass they kicked; they even remembered the gig (one of their last) as a highlight, recalling that Tommy O'D was spurred to his peak due to his admiration for Keneally. I'd seen the two of them talking after Keneally's set, forming a little two-person mutual admiration society and electing each other president. (I could almost equally cite Keneally's Beer For Dolphins (power-trio version w/Toss Panos on drums) opening for Steve Vai, but Keneally's a main act whoEVer else occupies the stage later, and don't even argue.) Honorable mentions: Maestro Subgum & the Whole, opening for Only a Mother (Lunar Cabaret, Chicago, 1995) [Conceptual continuity: I went to this show on the recommendation of Pink Bob, proprietor of the Ponk/FOT label/mail order catalog of eccentric music. Eternally grateful. I finally met Pink Bob in person in 2004, playing trumpet and effects for Neil Innes, along with the two aforementioned Spelunkers. Helluva guy.] Faun Fables and/or Dresden Dolls, opening for Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (Radio Radio, Indianapolis, 2003) [Gawd, that was a triple bill to die for] Pere Ubu, opening for They Might Be Giants (Jake's [or maybe the Marrs Club by then] Bloomington, IN, 1993? or 1994?) Japonize Elephants, opening for Hypnotic Clambake, (Club Rhino?, Bloomington, IN, 1997) The Jody Grind, opening for Robyn Hitchcock (Eye tour, Jake's, Bloomington, IN) Worst, far and away: Brain Pleasure, the second band in the Spelunkers - BP - Keneally show from above. Gawd-awful, ugly 40-year-old-adolescents with an acute case of the spandex/hair/belly-fat disease, flailing away, with all the stage presence of a plate of mashed potatoes. Words can't do justice. Should be working individually in New Jersey toll-booths. How on earth they got that gig, I'll never know, but somebody oughtta be poked with a sharp stick. Not-so-dishonorable-compared-to-the-above mentions: Scrawl, opening for Meat Puppets (Blind Pig, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1991? or 1992?). Not so much bad as boring, amateurish and pointless. Her Space Holiday, opening for Bob Mould (Promo West Pavilion, Columbus, OH, 2002). With all the sequencing, how do they know when they've done a GOOD show? The Zulus, opening for the Pixies (IU Auditorium, Bloomington, IN, late 1989 or early 1990). Lifeless, boring. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 08:29:35 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Spare ticket for tonight I would sell my blood to catch that lineup, if only I weren't on the wrong continent... - -----Original Message----- >From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk >Sent: May 10, 2007 6:34 AM >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Spare ticket for tonight > >I still have a spare ticket for tonight's show at The Barbican >featuring Kevin Ayers, Robyn Hitchcock, Mike Heron, Captain Sensible >etc. I will be picking up my tickets at around 7.10 so look out for me >if you want one and I will give you a fegtastic price! > > >- Mike Godwin > >PS Beard, glasses, worried-looking 59-year-old: you'll know when you see me... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 08:53:43 -0700 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: supersmart parrots Me too! And a baby meercat. And an octopus. The meercat would be the dumbest of the three, despite being a mammal. But it would get cuddled way more. V. On 5/10/07, craigie* wrote: > > Hah! > > Want one! > > c* > > > > > On 10/05/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > > > >I'll second that. Supersmart birds fascinate me. > > > > > >On 5/8/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > >> > > >> james says: > > >> > Octopodes are pretty damn smart in general, though, though NZ's > > >> > smartest non primate/non cetacean is the kea, an alpine parrot > that > > >> > only needs an opposable thumb to launch its plans for world > > >> > domination (see > > >> > > about > > >> > this bird, though I could tell a few stories about it myself if > > >> > pressed...) > > >> > > >> i have a feeling that the article doesn't do your kea friends > justice. > > >> so, please, tell us a story or two... > > >> > > > > xo > > > > Okay, well here are a couple of thoughts about Kea... > > > > It's well-known to the point of being legendary that if you are going > > tramping (um, hiking, long-distance walking) in the high country, you > > nvere leave anything out unattended. Kea love "acquiring" things, > > especially things they can play with. They are noltorious for taking > > the laces from boots that have been left outside tents or cabins > > overnight - unlacing them completely and taking the laces to play > > with. They'll also attack anything that looks loose on cars - > > windscreen wipers, wing-mirrors, aerials. They seem to particularly > > like mirrors, and yes, they do seem to be able to recognise that they > > are looking at reflections. > > > > Kea are sometimes spotted playing in groups. One of them will fly to > > a great height with a shoelace or twig and drop it, and another one > > will then catch it in midair.That one will then fly hiogher and drop > > it, only to have it caught by another kea, and so on. > > > > My own personal experience of kea is from a trip to Milford Sound (a > > very scenic spot in southwest NZ) a few years ago. There is one spot > > which is the kea 'hood, if you like - a spot known as Monkey Creek. I > > don't know for a fact, but I suspect it was called that because the > > first people there suspected that there were monkeys in the forest > > stealing their equipment (there aren't - just kea). There are signs > > there telling people not to feed the kea, but the birds seem to > > expect humans to at least stop for some entertainkment. If you slow > > your car down to about 20km/h approaching Monkey Creek (and it's on a > > pretty winding road, so that's likely), you'll probably hear a couple > > of 'thumps' on the roof of the car as kea land on it while you're > > still driving. They're the next thing to tamee arounfd there (though > > still wary of humans), and you definitely get the strong impression > > of intelligence at work. > > > > > > 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= > > > > > > -- > first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:01:04 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: More comical funnies Latest web comic I'm obsessing over: http://dresdencodak.com/index.htm Explains how it came to pass that Victor Hugo once got so mad he threw a baseball through a dog. What more do you need to know, really? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:05:16 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: creepy clowns... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:25:00 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Safe sand castles for booty calls http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18581200/ Female fiddler crabs prefer to mate in private. I blame Reagan. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 19:31:44 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #193 Jeff Dwarf wrote: >Michael Sweeney wrote: >>Tom Clark wrote: >>>While Emma wins hands down, I'd say Julie Newmar as Catwoman is a strong >>>contender. >> >>Oooh - good one...Eartha Kitt was (sadly, in retrospect) a distant >>2nd in the Catwoman derby (and Lee Meriwether was a frickin' >>non-starter...Burt Ward was probably sexier than her). >Well, they did supposedly have to use a lot of extra padding in Burt >Ward's Robin outfit to hide his Grayson. ...He sometimes wore a dickie too, IIRC... Michael Sweeney ...Holy Crap, Batman! Burt Ward recorded with Zappa in the '60s???: http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/weirdo/unreleased.html#burtward _________________________________________________________________ Like the way Microsoft Office Outlook works? 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