From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #208 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, May 18 2007 Volume 16 : Number 208 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Games for May; Oats and beans and barley grow ["Michael Godwin" ] more on this vital subject [Christopher Gross ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #201 [kevin ] RE: 101 uses for a dead cat topic ["David Stovall" ] Re: is this one of us? ["vivien lyon" ] Re: REAP!!!!! ["vivien lyon" ] another in the occasional series of music packaging posts [2fs ] Re: And now for something completely different [2fs ] RE: 101 uses for a dead cat topic [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: band names [2fs ] Re: REAP!!!!! [kevin ] Re: REAP!!!!! [Tom Clark ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #201 ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: band names [kevin ] Re: REAP!!!!! [Steve Talkowski ] Re: another in the occasional series of music packaging posts ["Lauren El] Re: And now for something completely different ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #201 [2fs ] Re: another in the occasional series of music packaging posts ["Lauren El] Re: REAP!!!!! [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: REAP!!!!! [kevin ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #201 [kevin ] Re: another in the occasional series of music packaging posts [kevin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:40:21 +0100 From: "Michael Godwin" Subject: RE: Games for May; Oats and beans and barley grow Really enjoyed the Madcap show at the Barbican. Too bad that Vashti Bunyan had trouble hitting the notes in 'Scarecrow'. It looks as if I have a spare ticket for 'Games for May' on Saturday 26th if anybody wants one. - - Michael - -----Original Message----- From: Grimble Gromble [mailto:hipgnomis@yahoo.com] Sent: 24 April 2007 07:09 To: Michael Godwin Subject: RE: FW: FW: Hi Grimble Hi Michael, Yes that's something I came across on the same site iirc. I liked your wife's comment. I think in many ways Scarecrow belongs to the folk genre (in terms of its genesis), and kiddie songs often have a long history, and it's amazing that kids still like the same songs (another example is Bike, apparently). It would be nice if someone restarted that thread. What's also interesting is the circle of grey etc in Opel. I'm convinced that must have similar roots. Nice to see my off-list lobbying is starting to work for the petition, btw.:) speak soon, Grimble - --- Michael Godwin wrote: > I didn't know about 'Oats and beans and barley grow'. It sounds very > much like 'The farmer's in the dell' which was the game I remember > where a farmer in the middle of the circle chooses a wife, a child, a > dog etc - idiotically misquoted as 'the farmer's in the den' here: > http://www.playgroundfun.org.uk/GameRules.aspx?gameID=53 > > Cheers! > > - Mike > > My wife says about 'Scarecrow': 'How can you like a song which appeals > to your 5-year-old grandson?', so she may well have identified this > link. > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VegetableFriends/the original Syd Barrett & Robyn Hitchcock discussion groupSign the petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/PiperAtTheGatesOfDawn/ Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 08:29:36 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: RE: And now for something completely different I call all >the different varieties "anchors" though I'm sure they have their own arcane >names. My favorites are the magical hollow wall mounts that expand once >they get to the other side of a piece of sheetrock. It's like having a >friendly little helper dude inside the wall. > The only thing I've ever heard them called is molly bolts. Which sounds like some kind of porn name, now that I think about it. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 08:36:10 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: re: wall plug >I have heard a story of one contractor in >Pennsylvania who tried putting up shelving using loads that were too >powerful for the materials he was fastening, and wound up shooting at least >two nails through the shelving braces, through the wall being fastened to, >and through the adjoining wall surface. The second of these nails went into >the head of someone who wondered what had just made a small hole in the wall >and went to take a closer look. Sounds a little urban legend-ish... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:39:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: more on this vital subject On Fri, 18 May 2007, Michael Sweeney wrote: > ..And, finally -- yeah, I'll bet there's nothing that today's > 21/22/23-year-olds (or, even worse, 17/18-year-olds (cuz I assumed college, > but ya coulda been referring to h.s.)) wanna hear as they party more than > the music of some washed up, bland, crappy '70s/'80s band. Hell. I doubt > they'd even want to hear covers of GOOD rock music (T. Heads, E. Costello, > B. Springsteen, teh Clash) from 1978-1982... Personally, I would never have hired a Journey cover band, at least not for any musical purpose; but it actually makes a twisted sort of sense. A surprising number of college kids today seem to enjoy the very cheeziest of old 70s and 80s pop music. Not all of the kids, by any means, but a good number -- mostly *not* retro-loving ironic hipsters, but people who otherwise mainly listen to hip-hop and/or Britney Spears-type pop. What does this mean? The average graduating senior this year was born around 1985; so I think bands like Journey might appeal to them because it's the kind of music their parents played when they were infants. Journey was imprinted on their brains at a critical age. Just a theory. Another, simpler theory is that the cover band was aimed at the parents themselves, in town for graduation; but the other events on the plaza seemed to be aimed at students and not whole families, as far as I could tell. BTW, if anyone wonders if I just made this all up, I found documentation here: http://gwired.gwu.edu/sac/StudentInvolvement/ActivitiesandEvents/GradWeek/ Note that the whole week seems to have a Journey theme! Scroll down to the Thursday section for the cover band. I was also amused by another event, "Back to Freshman Year," where seniors can visit their old dorms. I wonder if they brought their parents with them? "Look, mom, that's the spot where I almost got laid for the first time! There's the window I threw my bong out of as the RA pounded on my door! And there's the very spot where I gave up on studying for my Chem 102 final and decided to just take the F." > ...I mean, christ, I'm 44 and can occasionally get nostalgic for the stray > non-overplayed Boston or Foreigner track from back then...but even _I_ never The scary thing to me is that back when Nirvana broke, today's students were as old as I was when Boston hit the big time. But the scariest part of all is that now I kinda feel like listening to Journey.... - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 08:40:40 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #201 >I noticed some discussion of TV shows and wonder if the fegs have any >suggestions for tv series to rent? I'd say Sports Night, if you're OK with Aaron Sorkin. Have been enjoying some of the old Peter Gunn shows lately too. >Also what are folks reading? I'm reading old Iain Banks books and >trying to find a decent mystery novel. Anything Donald Westlake has ever written. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:09:50 -0700 From: "David Stovall" Subject: RE: 101 uses for a dead cat topic >From: "Marc Holden" > >As long as I'm mentioning totally dead topics, my new(ish) kitten, Nicky, is >a total catnip fiend at only 5 months old. So much for the theory of nip >only having an effect on somewhat older cats... I'm apparently all about dead topics, and on this one, I just found out a few days ago that the plant in my garden I'd believed was catnip (since that was what the ex- intended to buy and plant, and what she told me she DID buy and plant), is actually something else entirely: Cat-MINT. This intelligence came courtesy of a friend who got suspicious about my cats' disinterest in the stuff, when they're obviously stoners for real dried catnip. She happened to see both types of plants in a garden shop and realized that mine matched the one they labelled cat-mint. This renews my enthusiasm for digging up and disposing of every last sprout of the stuff, since it has spread like crazy-go-nuts-batshit-spreading plant bastard weeds; pulling it up (when the dirt's soft enough) reminds me of a scene out of an old W-B(?) cartoon, where a rabbit or some antagonist pulls up an entire network of garden plants by pulling on the one at the end of a row and popping them all up by interconnected roots. The shit is that crazy. And if it ain't catnip, there's no reason to keep it. da9ve PS: If there's anybody left still needing a DVD copy of the RH documentary that got torrented on the REM Murmurs tracker, I've got it downloaded and could burn off for whomever,... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:27:46 -0700 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: is this one of us? It kind of has to be, as he references the "Rock Armada" tour, which is a phrase Eddie coined, I believe. On 5/17/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:29:56 -0700 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: REAP!!!!! Dobson was even worse, in my estimation, but maybe that's just because I had to listen to him every Sunday morning when I was little. On 5/18/07, michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote: > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: Tom Clark > > > On May 17, 2007, at 9:22 PM, Rex wrote: > > > > > As for Falwell... not sounding like I'm taking unwarranted glee in his > > > passing I can hopefully manage, but I hope that doesn't mean I can't > > > mention, quietly, that he was ever such a hateful bastard while he was > > > alive. I have a feeling that he went at a pretty emblematic time-- > > > it seems > > > that the flock he mustered is fragmenting pretty rapidly, knock wood. > > > > As much as I hate Christopher Hitchen's hawkish ramblings about the > > Iraq war, he pretty much summed up my feelings about Falwell during > > this CNN interview: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfw7hUEujUw > > > I wonder why Hitch didn't mention James Dobson, another hate filled > Christian bastard from the radical right? > MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:42:34 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: another in the occasional series of music packaging posts We were talking about O-cards: I will say that one point in their favor is they eliminate the "need" for those GODDAMNED STICKY PLASTIC THINGS ON THE TOP OF JEWELBOXES THAT NEVER COME OFF PROPERLY DAMMIT!!!! Sorry - possessed by a demon peeve there for a moment. Anyway, as you might have guessed, I hate those things. They're utterly pointless: does the industry really think we're worried that we're actually buying a pirated copy or something? And what: such pirates lack the supersecret technology to print a barcode on a bit of sticky plastic? Or maybe the industry thinks consumers will worry that a CD isn't really a new one...again, pretty unlikely and, in the case of CDs, almost irrelevant if so, since unlike vinyl, CDs don't wear just by being played. Annoying, annoying, annoying... Obligatory PS to cover objection: neither is really needed, of course (assuming no unique info or artwork on the O-card) - I'm not sure which is more environmentally dubious, the cardboard O-card or the sticky plastic. Cardboard can be recycled, the sticky plastic can't. Don't know which uses more energy & resources to manufacture... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:46:36 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: more on this vital subject On 5/18/07, Christopher Gross wrote: > > > otherwise mainly listen to hip-hop and/or Britney Spears-type pop. What > does this mean? The average graduating senior this year was born around > 1985; so I think bands like Journey might appeal to them because it's the > kind of music their parents played when they were infants. Journey was > imprinted on their brains at a critical age. > Contact your legislator now and demand that pre-natal exposure to lame music be made a *crime*! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:49:14 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: And now for something completely different On 5/18/07, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > > To be serious, based on my limited knowledge of US construction work I was > considering the possibility that the walls might be made from different > materials that might not lend themselves to that approach. Perhaps there > could exist a material into which screws could be screwed without the aid > of an anchor, e.g. wood. Or you could use nails for everything. Some people do: one of our previous apartments was inhabited by a nail fanatic. There were nails pounded into seemingly every available surface, for what purpose we could only guess. All houses in Germany seem to be constructed like they should last forever, > whereas in the New Jersey suburbs (the area I'm most familiar with) houses > seemed to be extremely light-weight and not meant to be used for more than > 40-50 years. 40-50 years? Very optimistic! I wish I were joking - I'm not, though. I forget the exact number: Rose (my wife) would know, since she's an architect, but she's visiting her sister's family this weekend (and I doubt I'll remember to ask when I phone her later today). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:49:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: REAP!!!!! On Thu, 17 May 2007, Tom Clark wrote: > On May 17, 2007, at 9:22 PM, Rex wrote: > > > As for Falwell... not sounding like I'm taking unwarranted glee in his > > passing I can hopefully manage, but I hope that doesn't mean I can't > > mention, quietly, that he was ever such a hateful bastard while he was > > alive. I have a feeling that he went at a pretty emblematic time-- > > it seems > > that the flock he mustered is fragmenting pretty rapidly, knock wood. > > As much as I hate Christopher Hitchen's hawkish ramblings about the > Iraq war, he pretty much summed up my feelings about Falwell during > this CNN interview: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfw7hUEujUw Anyone read "God Is Not Great" yet? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 18:52:21 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: RE: 101 uses for a dead cat topic - -- David Stovall is rumored to have mumbled on 18. Mai 2007 09:09:50 -0700 regarding RE: 101 uses for a dead cat topic: > I'm apparently all about dead topics, and on this one, I just > found out a few days ago that the plant in my garden I'd believed > was catnip (since that was what the ex- intended to buy and plant, > and what she told me she DID buy and plant), is actually something > else entirely: Cat-MINT. Hm, the German word for catnip is Katzenminze and that is the literal translation of catmint. The Wikipedia article for catmint redirects to catnip and it mentions these species: Nepeta cataria (Catnip, True Catnip, Catmint or Field Balm) Nepeta grandiflora (Giant Catmint or Caucasus Catmint) So catmint *is* catnip! - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:22:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Duebel My husband has lived in the U.S. since 1978, and whenever we are hanging up anything of weight, we use "Duebel". We don't have another word for it. Sometimes I marvel at the ridiculous words that I remember in German when I forget much simpler ones. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:37:19 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: band names On 5/18/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > i wanted a band called plastic flesh babies (i didn't need to be in it > or anything - i just wanted it to exist.) > > i think the name came from being in a store that sold tiny plastic > babies (about 0.75") by the thousand or the pound or some mass > quantity. For some reason back in college I put together a fake top ten list for twenty years or so into the future (i.e., now, as it happens), which included a band called Doll Baby Heads (inspired by pretty much the same thing, or an accessory thereto: a bin of plastic doll baby heads...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:26:47 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: REAP!!!!! >From: vivien lyon >Sent: May 18, 2007 9:29 AM >To: michaeljbachman@comcast.net, meerkat manor >Subject: Re: REAP!!!!! > >Dobson was even worse, in my estimation, but maybe that's just ecause I had to listen to him every Sunday morning when I was little. > The only difference between our ayatollahs and the ones Over There is the homey corn-pone accents they spew their hate in, ya ask me. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:26:44 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: REAP!!!!! On May 18, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2007, Tom Clark wrote: > >> On May 17, 2007, at 9:22 PM, Rex wrote: >> >>> As for Falwell... not sounding like I'm taking unwarranted glee >>> in his >>> passing I can hopefully manage, but I hope that doesn't mean I can't >>> mention, quietly, that he was ever such a hateful bastard while >>> he was >>> alive. I have a feeling that he went at a pretty emblematic time-- >>> it seems >>> that the flock he mustered is fragmenting pretty rapidly, knock >>> wood. >> >> As much as I hate Christopher Hitchen's hawkish ramblings about the >> Iraq war, he pretty much summed up my feelings about Falwell during >> this CNN interview: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfw7hUEujUw > > Anyone read "God Is Not Great" yet? No, but I did just listen to Julia Sweeney's monologue "Letting Go of God", which she apparently just filmed. I really enjoyed the way she presents the progression of events that led her to just stop believing altogether. Reminded me of the freedom I felt after finally shedding all that baggage. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:33:06 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #201 Melissa Higuchi says: > I noticed some discussion of TV shows and wonder if the fegs have any > suggestions for tv series to rent? one show that gets mentioned a lot is "the wire." i have no idea why i'm recommending a series i haven't seen. well, that's not entirely true - my sister and brother-in-law have been watching old episodes and while the sister's tastes are sometimes questionable, the brother-in-law is a good gauge. also, search the archives from a few months back when people recommended battlestar gallatica. i'll take a look and try to find a link to post. i am currently early in season 3, in a bit of a slump but have very much enjoyed it. within the last year, i rented all the "prime suspect"s and really enjoyed those. "prime suspect 7" was a new one and that ran on pbs a few months back and might not be available on dvd yet but is probably available through torrent. also, if you like mystery/crime, you might like probably my favourite series (ever!), a british crime series called cracker. it's from the early 90s and just kicks ass right up until just about the end of the series when it gets a bit weak. the format is three movie-length episodes per series and there are three series. i've loaned my dvds to a number of people and anyone who has watched the first episode liked the entire series. books...i don't know - i've been in geek mode and just ordered a book on scheme (programming language) and cryptography for summer class. i have to ask: "Work is slower now that we're done with lesbian prom" ??? xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:34:17 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: band names >> i wanted a band called plastic flesh babies (i didn't need to be in it >> or anything - i just wanted it to exist.) >> >> i think the name came from being in a store that sold tiny plastic >> babies (about 0.75") by the thousand or the pound or some mass >> quantity. > Which reminded me of this: http://www.datamancer.net/fetuses/fetuses.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:42:15 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: REAP!!!!! On May 18, 2007, at 12:49 PM, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: >> As much as I hate Christopher Hitchen's hawkish ramblings about the >> Iraq war, he pretty much summed up my feelings about Falwell during >> this CNN interview: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfw7hUEujUw > > Anyone read "God Is Not Great" yet? Not yet, though it's on my Amazon.com wish list after seeing him on Bill Maher a few weeks ago. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:56:07 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: another in the occasional series of music packaging posts 2fs says: > We were talking about O-cards: I will say that one point in their favor is > they eliminate the "need" for those GODDAMNED STICKY PLASTIC THINGS ON THE > TOP OF JEWELBOXES THAT NEVER COME OFF PROPERLY DAMMIT!!!! > > Sorry - possessed by a demon peeve there for a moment. > > Anyway, as you might have guessed, I hate those things. They're utterly > pointless: does the industry really think we're worried that we're actually > buying a pirated copy or something? And what: such pirates lack the > supersecret technology to print a barcode on a bit of sticky plastic? Or > maybe the industry thinks consumers will worry that a CD isn't really a new > one...again, pretty unlikely and, in the case of CDs, almost irrelevant if > so, since unlike vinyl, CDs don't wear just by being played. i like to think it's the latter only because i find it amusing. the family business is screenprinting stickers (sticky-backs my father calls them or "pressure sensitive identification" by the business card) so i like to think i'm skilled in removing them. but it still usually takes two passes for me to get one off, and ugh, i just hate it when you can tell the cd has been at the bottom of the bin long enough for the adhesive to forget which part was the stick-ee and which part was the stick-er. btw, "goo gone" is a pretty decent product. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:05:47 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: And now for something completely different Sebastian Hagedorn says: > whereas in the New Jersey suburbs (the area I'm most familiar with) this made me laugh. was it a non sequitur, the truth, or a reference to the sopranos? around here (philadelphia) poor new jersey is too often the brunt of tri-state jokes. actually, it's probably a u.s.-wide thing if not worldwide. it deserves more respect, if only for being the home of my beloved wprb radio station. xo ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:07:40 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: another in the occasional series of music packaging posts On 5/18/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > 2fs says: > > We were talking about O-cards: I will say that one point in their favor > is > > they eliminate the "need" for those GODDAMNED STICKY PLASTIC THINGS ON > THE > > TOP OF JEWELBOXES THAT NEVER COME OFF PROPERLY DAMMIT!!!! > > the family business is screenprinting stickers (sticky-backs my father > calls them or "pressure sensitive identification" by the business > card) so i like to think i'm skilled in removing them. but it still > usually takes two passes for me to get one off, and ugh, i just hate > it when you can tell the cd has been at the bottom of the bin long > enough for the adhesive to forget which part was the stick-ee and > which part was the stick-er. btw, "goo gone" is a pretty decent > product. Yes, it is - but it's still a huge pain in the ass: first, remove the stupid plastic shrinkwrap, then the damned plastic sticker, then if it hasn't come off clean, spritz the Goo Gone or whatever on it, clean the jewelbox... Half the time I just give up and replace the jewelbox (since I always have a whole bunch of them lying about, for burned CDs. I still burn them - you know, just like I hand-sew horse-shoe cozies for the horse-shoes I make in the garage.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:06:00 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: more on this vital subject At 10:39 AM 5/18/2007, Christopher Gross wrote: >But the scariest part of all is that now I kinda feel like listening to >Journey.... Ah, you're all a bunch of haters. Journey rules. "Don't Stop Believin'" is fucking OPERA. I listen to Journey on purpose. I play the Journey arcade game on my computer. Join the Dark Side. You know you like it. - -- Dolph "no cred" Chaney ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:08:38 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #201 On 5/18/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > i have to ask: "Work is slower now that we're done with lesbian prom" ??? > Especially since I initially misread it "lesbian porn." Wait - did I say that out loud? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:14:10 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: another in the occasional series of music packaging posts 2fs says: > Yes, it is - but it's still a huge pain in the ass: etc. oops, sorry, i was so busy touting my sticker-removal skills that i forgot to mention that i agree with you (although maybe i just took that as a given since i think everyone hates those "factory sealed" thingamagigs(sp?).) xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:19:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: REAP!!!!! On Fri, 18 May 2007, kevin wrote: > >From: vivien lyon > >Sent: May 18, 2007 9:29 AM > >To: michaeljbachman@comcast.net, meerkat manor > >Subject: Re: REAP!!!!! > > > >Dobson was even worse, in my estimation, but maybe that's just ecause I had to listen to him every Sunday morning when I was little. > > > > The only difference between our ayatollahs and the ones Over There is > the homey corn-pone accents they spew their hate in, ya ask me. Well...and that over there they have a lot more power... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:37:36 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: REAP!!!!! >Well...and that over there they have a lot more power... Like the difference between the de jure control they have over there, as opposed to the de facto control they have over here? (How many of those Republican candidates raised their hands to say they didn't believe in evolution the other night?) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:39:04 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #201 >> i have to ask: "Work is slower now that we're done with lesbian prom" ??? >> > >Especially since I initially misread it "lesbian porn." > >Wait - did I say that out loud? > It's all that talk about molly bolts, or should that be Molly Bolts? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:41:04 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: another in the occasional series of music packaging posts Half >the time I just give up and replace the jewelbox (since I always have a >whole bunch of them lying about, for burned CDs. I still burn them - you >know, just like I hand-sew horse-shoe cozies for the horse-shoes I make in >the garage.) > Dude, you should be crocheting those. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:56:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: REAP!!!!! On Fri, 18 May 2007, kevin wrote: > > >Well...and that over there they have a lot more power... > > Like the difference between the de jure control they have over there, as > opposed to the de facto control they have over here? (How many of those > Republican candidates raised their hands to say they didn't believe in > evolution the other night?) Remind me the last time this happened in the US? http://atheism.about.com/b/a/187568.htm ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #208 ********************************