From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, June 8 2007 Volume 16 : Number 229 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Southern Cross / McGuinn / Lloyd [Tom Clark ] Re: oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: Good and bad band names [Rex ] Re: oh, anyone want to play [Rex ] Re: Southern Cross [Rex ] Re: oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" [Rex ] Re: Southern Cross / McGuinn / Lloyd [Rex ] Re: The Shin(n)s [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: great band name [Jeff Dwarf ] my dinner with Rex ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: my dinner with Rex [Rex ] Re: Band names ["Terrence Marks" ] RE: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? [matt sewell ] Re: Good and bad band names [kevin ] Re: The Shin(n)s [kevin ] Re: my dinner with Rex ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: Band names [2fs ] Re: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? [Rex ] Re: Good and bad band names [Rex ] Re: great band name [Tom Clark ] Re: my dinner with Rex [Tom Clark ] Re: great band name [2fs ] Re: my dinner with Rex [2fs ] Re: good band names [2fs ] Re: Band names ["Terrence Marks" ] Re: Band names [2fs ] Re: my dinner with Rex [Jeff Dwarf ] same thing but chicago [JBJ ] Re: Band names [kevin ] RE: same thing but chicago ["Michael Wells" ] Re: same thing but chicago ["vivien lyon" ] More geek humor [Tom Clark ] Re: More geek humor [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:50:56 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Southern Cross / McGuinn / Lloyd On Jun 7, 2007, at 4:48 AM, Brian Huddell wrote: >> Dude, "Lexicon of Love" was the first CD I ever purchased. I enjoy >> it to this ending-my-43rd-year day. >> >> -tc > > Happy Birthday, Tom Clark! I probably should have worded that better, since my birthday is actually next Friday (6/15) - but thank you Brian! I'll be celebrating it by ending my week-long stay in SF running the labs for our developer conference. I wish I had real plans 'cuz I'd invite everyone to join, but at this point it looks like the usual night of a pint of Mad Dog and trying to con my way into the O'Farrell Theater with a Laotian tranny on my arm... ho hum, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:05:46 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" Trixie's Big Red Motorbike (about whom I'm all cockahoop 'cos there's a complete anthology coming out this year - at last!) Cary Grant & The Rest Can Walk Caroliner Rainbow etc etc (I don't remember their exact naming convention) On 07/06/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > David Stovall says: > > Tool (wouldn't have been nearly as good if the name had been used > > earlier; finding such a short, simple name rife with connotation gets > > harder all the time) > > i like short and to the point names, and, really, the weird stories my > coworkers told me about maynard should have no bearing... > > so aside from pulp, i'll put in: > wire > magazine (actually bought "secondhand daylight" only because i liked > the band's name) > tool > > and rex made a point about band names being sort of file and forget, > but i disagree, since just the other day, i put on "this is hardcore" > and for the n ^ nth time, thought, "pulp is such a good name for this > band." but granted i'm not all that creative and am perfectly content > to recycle prior thoughts. > > xo > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." > > - The Buddha > - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:27:42 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: Southern Cross / McGuinn / Lloyd Tom: > at this point it looks like the usual night of a pint of Mad Dog and trying to con my way into the O'Farrell Theater with a Laotian tranny on my arm... Hey, no making fun of Eb like that! I must say that I enjoyed the Sundance documentary on Robyn/Venus3 more than just about anything I've seen him in recently. It's nice to see him happy, though they probably edited out all the parts with Rieflin being a dick. Kudos to Da9ve for setting me up with it. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 20:03:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: The Shin(n)s Ah, but Jeff, do you know why they are called the Shins? James Mercer's dad was a real fan of The Music Man, and the name of the mayor, as played by Paul Ford, was Mayor Shinn. Hence the Shins, but only with one "n". Why do I know this crap? Jill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:05:56 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Good and bad band names On 6/7/07, kevin wrote: > > > - or The Recess Monkeys from SCTV (all I remember is John Candy on drums > but not who else they were - probably Rick Moranis and...?) Oooh, weird not-synchronicity-but-that-other-thing: I was just deciding I really need a copy of "I Hate the Bloody Queen" by the Queen Haters on Mel's Rockpile from SCTV. May have also been John Candy on drums... was certainly Martin Short on (subtitled) vocals and Eugene Levy as the perfect punk bassist / backing "vocalist". Anybody? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:07:36 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: oh, anyone want to play On 6/7/07, kevin wrote: > > >The Negro Problem (never heard a note by 'em, but you can't deny the > name) Awesome band, actually. Quite a lot for fegs to dig there. The first two albums are classics in my book, and some of Stew's solo work is quite good as well. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:09:39 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Southern Cross On 6/7/07, kevin wrote: > > >semi-random squirrels-and-pigeons-a-go-go back home in Cheecawgo... > > Which my brain translated into "spleens a-go-go" & almost caused a soy > latte spit-take of spontaneous laughter... > Threadmerge... "Spleens A-Go-Go" would be a great name for a feg band... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:13:47 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" On 6/7/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > and rex made a point about band names being sort of file and forget, > but i disagree, since just the other day, i put on "this is hardcore" > and for the n ^ nth time, thought, "pulp is such a good name for this > band." but granted i'm not all that creative and am perfectly content > to recycle prior thoughts. I should have said *bad* band names are easy to forget once you become taken by a band's actual music. If you can get past them. Good band names are indeed a never-ending source of wonder. Yeah... the Kinks. Television. Wire. Magazine. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 20:14:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: great band name I am betting that no one ever heard or heard of the band Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, but they were a psychedelickish band from the late 60s. I still love that name. Oh, and they were really good, too. My favorite local band while I was living in Colorado (1978-1981) was the Kamikazi Klones. That is a truly awful name, but they were wonderful. They were John Hinckley's favorite band; I apparently went to a number of shows with the almost president-killer. Curt Shilling pitched a no-hitter until the last out of the 9th inning today. I cried. Jill, who will re-join this group after getting through her son's graduation party this weekend ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:15:40 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Southern Cross / McGuinn / Lloyd On 6/7/07, michael wells wrote: > > > I must say that I enjoyed the Sundance documentary on Robyn/Venus3 more > than > just about anything I've seen him in recently. It's nice to see him happy, > though they probably edited out all the parts with Rieflin being a dick. > Kudos to Da9ve for setting me up with it. In fairness to Rieflin, he evinced not the slightest bit of dicklikeness at the last V3 show in LA. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:10:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: The Shin(n)s Jill Brand wrote: > Ah, but Jeff, do you know why they are called the Shins? James > Mercer's dad was a real fan of The Music Man, and the name of the > mayor, as played by Paul Ford, was Mayor Shinn. Hence the Shins, > but only with one "n". > > Why do I know this crap? I didn't know that, don't know why you know that. I still like the Asian American/Canadian store clerk being disappointed that the name wasn't an Asian American/Canadian Ramones homage better though. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:13:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: great band name Jill Brand wrote: > Curt Shilling pitched a no-hitter until the last out of the 9th > inning today. I cried. Just remember that even though he is one of your beloved Redsox, he's also a Bush blowjob king and desparate attention whore and doesn't really deserve to retire having thrown one. Just like I would have told myself that at least the A's won the series 3-1 if Shannon Stewart hadn't earned himself a free drink in every bar in the US for ruining the prick's day. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 00:48:32 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: my dinner with Rex Rex & I just had good Thai food in Silver Lake; well, not actually in the lake, but ... anyway, it was a fine time. Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:12:19 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: my dinner with Rex On 6/7/07, Stewart Russell wrote: > > Rex & I just had good Thai food in Silver Lake; well, not actually in > the lake, but ... anyway, it was a fine time. ... and Stewart is able to Blackberry to the list faster than the time it takes me to get back home to Silver Lake. And major points to him for not only being cool and all, but also properly separating the words "Silver" and "Lake". (I think that a motion to change it to "!Silver!Lake!" was narrowly defeated recently). Also off topic: how should one pronounce "teh"? I think it rhymes with the "weh" in "wimoweh"... does anyone hold out for either a rhyme with the Canadian "eh", or simply going ahead and saying "the"? Cheers, Rehx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 01:49:42 -0700 From: "Terrence Marks" Subject: Re: Band names A lot of it is suitability. I think that Tyrannosaurus Rex would've be a great name for an early 70s glam-metal band. It was a horrible name for a extra-lightweight hippie folk duo. Likewise, HP Lovecraft would've been great on a different band, one that tried to sound a little ominous. Instead, they were a folk band who got his name off a bookshelf and didn't actually bother reading anything by him until the B-side of their second album. (Rather like Fever Tree. I'm not sure if "I want to catch the catcher in the rye" shows understanding or total ignorance of the metaphor employed by Salinger, but I'm leaning towards the latter) And yes, The United States of America is a very good band name. The Beatles isn't. I think that The Incredible String Band is quite a bad name, and I refuse to listen to anything by the Incredible Smoking Bongs because the name is even worse. The Mops, yes, would've been much better if they had all taken the surname "Mops" (no, not "Mop". Their theme song was "I am just a Mops".). I dislike band names masquerading as personal names - Jason Crest, Skip Bifferty...but not nearly enough to stop listening to the bands. Paul Revere and the Raiders is only a cool name because it's the guy's real name. The West Coast Pop-Art Experimental Band would've been good if they were anything to do with pop art or experimentation, instead of being invented so a 30-year-old guy could be their manager, to impress teenage girls. Kaleidoscope must be a really good name, there were decent bands by that name in the US, Britain, Mexico, and New Zealand in the late 60s, so there must be something to it. I just can never remember which is which. Congratulations / Congratulations Fruit / The Congratulations Fleet - A local band, from Gainesville, Florida. They usually went by all three names in the course of a single show. Good: Loyal Frisbee Jefferson Airplane Microdisney The Apples In Stereo. I've seen it as "The Apples (in stereo)", which is even cooler. Orphan Egg Soul Coughing The Tragically Hip The First National Band Group 1850 The Teardrop Explodes Firehouse Five plus Two First Crow to the Moon Those Naughty Lumps (who did "Iggy Pop's Jacket", my second-favorite song where men sing about other men's leather jackets) The Driving Stupid Lothar and the Hand People Bad: Jolliver Arkansas The N'hb'r'd Ch'ldr'n Phluph Thorinshield. Because I mentally insert "oaken" back into the middle of it. Ant Trip Ceremony Artists' Rifles Bit 'A Sweet Boffalongo The British North America Act Audience Impala Syndrome Darryl Way's Wolf Tinkerbell's Fairydust Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich. Death Cab for Cutie (the fact that I dislike the song doesn't help) Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band July Coven Number Nine Bread Street - -- Terrence Marks ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:47:04 +0100 From: matt sewell Subject: RE: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? Er... I don't know. I don't know LA at all, just saw a fascinating tv prog about the Watts Towers a few years ago... ISTR it was presented by Jarvis Cocker. I'm hoping to make it over that way some time during 2009..! Cheers Matt > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:44:29 -0700> From: kevinstudyvin@earthlink.net> To: matt_sewell@hotmail.com; tclark@mac.com; fegmaniax@smoe.org> Subject: RE: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do?> > >Subject: RE: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do?> >> >You'd have to catch him first - we know all about his running..!> >If I was in LA right now I would want to see the Watts Towers.> > Barbecue in Griffith Park? _________________________________________________________________ The next generation of MSN Hotmail has arrived - Windows Live Hotmail http://www.newhotmail.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:42:43 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: 'Point me at the sky' fax'n'info According to this site (and I see no reason to doubt it) the single 'Point me at the sky' (Waters) / 'Careful with that axe, Eugene' (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour) was released on 17th December 1968, six months after the Floyd's second album 'Saucerful of Secrets', which contained their last Barrett composition 'Jugband Blues'. 'The scarecrow' was the B-side of 'See Emily Play'. - - Mike Godwin n.p. 'Lucy Leave' off a silly mini-CD... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 03:49:02 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Good and bad band names Kevin wrote: > >Worst names? Possibly one of: > >Dr. Kevorkian and the Suicide Machine > >The Julie Dophin > >The The > >The Peter Stuyvesant Hit-list > >The Hope Blister > >Gardening Angels > >Dribbling Darts of Love > >Dog Trumpet > >Dating Godot > >Critters Buggin' > >The Boo Radleys > >Blodwyn Pig > > Love (great band, stupid name) > > & probably Iron Butterfly shuld be on both lists too... I still think Big Daddy Meatstraw was the worst band name I ever heard. Toad the Wet Sprocket is horrible, but it was meant to be horrible so I can't count it. Thank you very much, Eric Idle! Oh, and I hate Cat Power as a name. Absolutely abhor it. I would put down They Might Be Giants, Man...or Astroman? and Young Marble Giants as some of my favorites. I also have a thing for Asobi Seksu's name among the newer groups. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 05:28:27 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Good and bad band names >Oooh, weird not-synchronicity-but-that-other-thing: I was just deciding I >really need a copy of "I Hate the Bloody Queen" by the Queen Haters on Mel's >Rockpile from SCTV. May have also been John Candy on drums... was certainly >Martin Short on (subtitled) vocals and Eugene Levy as the perfect punk >bassist / backing "vocalist". Anybody? Don't recall the Queen Haters at all, is that on DVD yet? I have the first two sets and I'm pretty sure they're not in there. Rockin' Mel Slurrup is one of the all-time great TV hosts for sure. I'm not familiar with not-synchronicity-but-that-other-thing, is that a Jungian term also? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 05:35:37 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: The Shin(n)s >James Mercer's >dad was a real fan of The Music Man, and the name of the mayor, as played >by Paul Ford, was Mayor Shinn. Going off on a tangent here, who-all caught Rufus Wainwright on Letterman recently? The jackets the band was wearing put me very much in mind of that movie for some reason, but wha I can't fathom to save my life is what is up with the LEDERHOSEN? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:11:06 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: my dinner with Rex On 08/06/07, Rex wrote: > > Also off topic: how should one pronounce "teh"? I think it rhymes with the > "weh" in "wimoweh"... Yeah (yeh?) I'm with you on that. Unfortunately, I now have Solomon Linda & The Evening Birds' "Mbube" in my head, and will likely have it for the rest of the day. Stewart PS: perhaps the real reason for the 2003 shuttle crash: spacecraft hate Runrig - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6730473.stm - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:25:04 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Band names On 6/8/07, Terrence Marks wrote: > > A lot of it is suitability. > I think that Tyrannosaurus Rex would've be a great name for an early > 70s glam-metal band. I'm trying to think of an early '70s glam-metal band with a name similar to "Tyrannosaurus Rex"... Hmm... meanwhile, I'm still thinking... > > > Paul Revere and the Raiders is only a cool name because it's the guy's > real name. And unusually, he spelled it "M-a-r-k L-i-n-d-s-a-y"... Anyway, last night the CD I had in the car played something by Young Marble Giants - I nominate that as a good name. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 07:28:46 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? On 6/8/07, matt sewell wrote: > > Er... I don't know. I don't know LA at all, just saw a fascinating tv prog > about the Watts Towers a few years ago... ISTR it was presented by Jarvis > Cocker. I'm hoping to make it over that way some time during 2009..! Wow, that's some long-term planning there. See you then! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 07:31:49 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Good and bad band names On 6/8/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > > > I would put down They Might Be Giants, Man...or Astroman? and Young Marble > Giants as some of my favorites. YMG is good, and the fact that their only album name, "Colossal Youth", is cool as well is just gravy. I finally heard them for the first time last year... what a unique band. Really addictive listening. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:02:13 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: great band name On Jun 7, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Jill Brand wrote: >> Curt Shilling pitched a no-hitter until the last out of the 9th >> inning today. I cried. > > Just remember that even though he is one of your beloved Redsox, he's > also a Bush blowjob king and desparate attention whore and doesn't > really deserve to retire having thrown one. Just like I would have > told myself that at least the A's won the series 3-1 if Shannon > Stewart hadn't earned himself a free drink in every bar in the US for > ruining the prick's day. You beat me to it. Schilling's a tool. Sorry Jill, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:03:58 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: my dinner with Rex On Jun 7, 2007, at 10:12 PM, Rex wrote: > Also off topic: how should one pronounce "teh"? I think it rhymes > with the > "weh" in "wimoweh"... does anyone hold out for either a rhyme with the > Canadian "eh", or simply going ahead and saying "the"? I usually just make a slightly extended "T" sound, as if to say "t'intrawebs". - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:07:35 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: great band name On 6/8/07, Tom Clark wrote: > > > > > Just remember that even though he is one of your beloved Redsox, he's > > also a Bush blowjob king and desparate attention whore and doesn't > > really deserve to retire having thrown one. Just like I would have > > told myself that at least the A's won the series 3-1 if Shannon > > Stewart hadn't earned himself a free drink in every bar in the US for > > ruining the prick's day. > > You beat me to it. Schilling's a tool. Yeah - but Tool r00lz, d00d!!1! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:08:23 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: my dinner with Rex On 6/8/07, Tom Clark wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2007, at 10:12 PM, Rex wrote: > > > Also off topic: how should one pronounce "teh"? I think it rhymes > > with the > > "weh" in "wimoweh"... does anyone hold out for either a rhyme with the > > Canadian "eh", or simply going ahead and saying "the"? > > I usually just make a slightly extended "T" sound, as if to say > "t'intrawebs". I pronounce it to rhyme with the glyph Prince used to use. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:12:53 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: good band names On 6/6/07, kevin wrote: > > >oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" > I'm not sure how I feel about names like We Are Scientists (although that band should play a double-bill with They Might Be Giants... just as Dan Bern's backing band, the International Zionist Conspiracy, should have double-billed with The Negro Problem...). However, it would work well if a band called itself We Are Hungry Men (after the very early Bowie song). And it would be especially amusing if Screaming Trees had been called that. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:36:45 -0700 From: "Terrence Marks" Subject: Re: Band names On 6/8/07, 2fs wrote: > On 6/8/07, Terrence Marks wrote: > > A lot of it is suitability. > > I think that Tyrannosaurus Rex would've be a great name for an early > > 70s glam-metal band. > > I'm trying to think of an early '70s glam-metal band with a name similar to > "Tyrannosaurus Rex"... Hmm... meanwhile, I'm still thinking... I prefer my glam-metal bands a little more metal. And a little more good. > > Paul Revere and the Raiders is only a cool name because it's the guy's > > real name. > > And unusually, he spelled it "M-a-r-k L-i-n-d-s-a-y"... He was just the vocalist. The organist's original legal name was Paul Revere Dick. Now, if that's not a good band name I don't know what is. Terrence Marks ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:45:08 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Band names On 6/8/07, Terrence Marks wrote: > > > > > I think that Tyrannosaurus Rex would've be a great name for an early > > > 70s glam-metal band. > > > > I'm trying to think of an early '70s glam-metal band with a name similar > to > > "Tyrannosaurus Rex"... Hmm... meanwhile, I'm still thinking... > > I prefer my glam-metal bands a little more metal. And a little more good. I will respectfully disagree. > > Paul Revere and the Raiders is only a cool name because it's the guy's > > > real name. > > > > And unusually, he spelled it "M-a-r-k L-i-n-d-s-a-y"... > > He was just the vocalist. The organist's original legal name was Paul > Revere Dick. Now, if that's not a good band name I don't know what > is. I'm surprised no one's used that! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:56:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: my dinner with Rex Rex wrote: > Also off topic: how should one pronounce "teh"? I think it > rhymes with the "weh" in "wimoweh"... I like "duh." "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ___________________________________________________________________________________ You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_html.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:02:12 -0700 (PDT) From: JBJ Subject: same thing but chicago Hey fegs -- I'll be in Chicago next week. During the week I'll be stuck in the 'burbs at a training class, but I'm heading into the city on Saturday (the 16th). I'd appreciate any recommendations of things to check out, food to eat, etc. I'm very excited, as my only Chicago visits in my 40+ years have been to O'Hare. Thanks! =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:12:23 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Band names >> The organist's original legal name was Paul >> Revere Dick. Now, if that's not a good band name I don't know what >> is. If he wasn't Andy Dick's father he should have been. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:23:51 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: same thing but chicago > I'll be in Chicago next week. During the week I'll be stuck in the 'burbs at a training class, but I'm heading into the city on Saturday (the 16th). I'd appreciate any recommendations of things to check out, food to eat, etc. Cool! I'll email you offlist with some specific ideas, but in general any visitor should endeavor to: a) Have a proper combo sandwich (pron. "sang-which") and Italian ice; b) Hit a couple museums, maybe a walk on the lakefront; c) Take in a ball game; d) Flip through vinyl at some barely-surviving record shops; e) Cruise the different neighborhoods > I'm very excited, as my only Chicago visits in my 40+ years have been to O'Hare. Well, we could take you to Midway... Michael "that probably wasn't what you had in mind" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:01:45 -0700 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: same thing but chicago I second the Italian lemonade. Man, do I miss that... On 6/8/07, Michael Wells wrote: > > > I'll be in Chicago next week. During the week I'll be stuck in the > 'burbs > at a training class, but I'm heading into the city on Saturday (the > 16th). > I'd appreciate any recommendations of things to check out, food to eat, > etc. > > Cool! I'll email you offlist with some specific ideas, but in general > any visitor should endeavor to: > > a) Have a proper combo sandwich (pron. "sang-which") and Italian ice; > b) Hit a couple museums, maybe a walk on the lakefront; > c) Take in a ball game; > d) Flip through vinyl at some barely-surviving record shops; > e) Cruise the different neighborhoods > > > > I'm very excited, as my only Chicago visits in my 40+ years have been > to O'Hare. > > > Well, we could take you to Midway... > > Michael "that probably wasn't what you had in mind" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:28:50 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: More geek humor Now they've gotten Don Knuth: http://lolgeeks.com/?p=50 Somebody here at Apple even filed a bug against XCode saying that it needs to support lolcode syntax. Here's a snippet: HAI CAN HAS STDIO? I HAS A VAR IM IN YR LOOP UP VAR!!1 VISIBLE VAR IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE IM OUTTA YR LOOP KTHXBYE Some comments: 5/29/07 5:06 PM: NOOO THEY BE GARBAGE COLLECTIN MAH NSBUCKET 6/8/07 10:54 AM: i made u a template but i brokeded it. It's just all so stupid, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:09:20 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: More geek humor On 6/8/07, Tom Clark wrote: > > Now they've gotten Don Knuth: > http://lolgeeks.com/?p=50 > > Somebody here at Apple even filed a bug against XCode saying that it > needs to support lolcode syntax. Here's a snippet: > HAI > CAN HAS STDIO? > I HAS A VAR > IM IN YR LOOP > UP VAR!!1 > VISIBLE VAR > IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE > IM OUTTA YR LOOP > KTHXBYE > > Some comments: > 5/29/07 5:06 PM: > NOOO THEY BE GARBAGE COLLECTIN MAH NSBUCKET > > 6/8/07 10:54 AM: > i made u a template but i brokeded it. > > > It's just all so stupid, Especially for those of us victimized by graduate school and postmodern theorists... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 ********************************