From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #322 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, September 7 2007 Volume 16 : Number 322 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: been there, done that [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) [grutness@sli] Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) [2fs ] Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) [Rex ] Where were you, Tom Clark? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: lyric question [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) ["Stewart C. ] Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) [Sebastian Ha] Re: Sauce ["Stewart C. Russell" ] RE: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) ["Marc Albert] RE: Everybody needs a little TL;DR... ["Bachman, Michael" ] firefly fun for friday [craigie* ] Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) [Rex ] Re: lyric question [Rex ] Re: lyric question [lep ] Re: lyric question [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:44:56 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: been there, done that >From: lep >Subject: been there, done that > >hi feglist, > >i'm sure you've had a favourite album thread. well, here's another. > >i stole this from a post i wrote on "another list" back in 2005, back >when i was all fancy and hit the shift key and tried to be articulate >and stuff. much of it has stayed the same. i'm not big on "top 10" >lists or whatever, but, with or without a list in mind, the same >general stuff seems to rise to the top. > >for some reason, it was 12 albums instead of the normal 10. and each >gets a little explanation. feel free to follow suit. or not. > >i searched with google to see if i already posted this to feglist. it >seemed no, but eddie seems to find things i never do, so who knows (my >guess with eddie is he has the whole collection on his personal disk >and can search accurately from there? or maybe he just googles better >than i do.) Interesting list - some goodies on there,a nd the only one I'd quibble with as being a very good album would be the Fall one (but then again, I'm no fall fan). FWIW< I achieved the music ner'd pinnacle a year or so back when I was actually asked for a top twenty albums of all time by my local newspaper (to coincide with the 20th anniversary of my student radio show - a NZ-wide first). There were some stipulations: A maximum of one album per artist, and a good chronological spread (not 20 old albums, not 20 new ones, not 20 "way out alternative" and not 20 "safe", and hopefully with a range of styles), and arranged chronologically. The article would be a bit long to copy down here (and I think I've done that before anyway), and I can't seem to find my e-copy, though I could send a scan of the actual article to anyone interested who ants to contact me offlist :). The albums, though, were: The Beatles - Revolver Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited Patti Smith - Horses Brian Eno - Before and After Science The Clash - London Calling Toy Love - Toy Love Split Enz - Waiata/Corrobboree XTC - English Settlement Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip Shriekback - Oil and Gold Robyn Hitchcock - Element of Light The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional Straitjacket Fits - Melt Nirvana - Nevermind Billy Bragg - Don't Try This at Home Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball The Mutton Birds -Envy of Angels The White Stripes - Elephant Che Fu - The Navigator SJD - Southern Lights I wrote in the article that several of these were representative of periods and styles 9thus allowing myself to mention several other albums in the text that almost made it, such as the Velvet Underground & Nico album, Imperial Bedroom, Daddy's Highway, and the like. Looking back on the list from a couple of years down the track, i ight ditch Elephant and The Navigator in exchange for something else, but the rest hold up. 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: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:57:47 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) >--On 6. September 2007 12:25:30 +1200 grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > >>Surnames, sure, it makes some sense to pronounce as close as practical to >>how the user would actually say them - we say Vorzhak not Dvorak. > >I say Dvozhak (or something like that) - are you saying that the "d" >is actually silent or that the d-v consonant cluster is too hard for >speakers of English? Most English speakers gloss over it because it's not a common combination in English, but yes, either a very hard V or a slight D beforehand is better. It's probably tough for monolingual English speakers, but you become used to strange sound combinations if you are used to other languages (it's fun watching tourists trying to say maori place names: "say it like it looks - Ngaruawahia") >>>I've always wondered how to pronounce Bath. /ae/ makes me really sound >>>American (and I take pains to do, for example, Leicester correctly), but >>>/a/ makes me sound oh so affected. >> >>yeah, that's a good point, where accent and pronunciation are >>intertwined. It sounds just as odd to insist in calling Paris "Paree". >>The most obvious "americanism" in the pronunciation of place names in the >>UK is the I in "shire", which is fine when you're talking about "a shire" >>(like in the LoTR), but when it's part of a place name (like Shropshire, >>say) it's a short ee sound (to rhyme with "fear"). > >OK, now I'm learning something new, apparently. First, I pronounce >"fear" with a long ee sound, not a short one. So it rhymes with >deer, for example. Second, I always thought that the vowel in the >-shire syllable had been reduced to schwa. Are those valid variants >or would you say that my examples are actually wrong? seems I oversimplified - fear has a fairly short vowel sound in English. Think the vower in the German word for beer and you're getting closer. But yes, it does vary between that an a complete schwa, depending on whereabouts in the country you're from. James (getting confused about the sauce thread because L&P is something completely different - and tasty - in New Zealand) - -- 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: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:06:16 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) On 9/6/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Christopher Gross wrote: > > > I've often thought that the reason the more nationalistic sorts of > > Americans hate France, and vice versa, is that they share the same > > character faults. Two people who each think they're better than > everyone > > else are not get along well; neither will two countries that each think > > they're the center of the world. Whereas, for example, a country that > > just thinks it's the most beautiful can get along splendidly with one > that > > just thinks it's the bravest. > > Not saying the US is the center of the world necessarily, but what makes > France think they are? Because zee Franch, zey are ze plus fantastique universale! Eediot! - ---------------- Now playing: P. Hux - Another Satellite - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:08:36 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) On 9/6/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > > which, like, "French pop music" is the first thing I think of when > examples of oxymoron come to mind). > > Certainly not an oxymoron in the 1960's and 1970's with the likes of > Francoise Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birken, Michael Legrand and > Cla*d*ne L*ng*t. I've censored the last name lest it call back, uh, You Know Who. Oh hell: I mean VoldEbort. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com - ---------------- Now playing: P. Hux - Another Satellite ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 18:27:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) 2fs wrote: > wrote: > > which, like, "French pop music" is the first thing I think of > > when examples of oxymoron come to mind). > > > > Certainly not an oxymoron in the 1960's and 1970's with the likes > > of Francoise Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birken, Michael > > Legrand and Cla*d*ne L*ng*t. > > I've censored the last name lest it call back, uh, You Know Who. > > Oh hell: I mean VoldEbort. Hey, if the praise being lauded at his loath-ed Fountains (sorry, Fonies) of Wayne didn't draw him out, just mentioning Triggers Longet probably won't do it. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 18:34:09 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) Rex wrote: > I don't dislike the French at all, but it's more trouble than it's > worth to > stick up for them. I don't think there's any real debate that all > their > cheese is better than what we call "American cheese". That depends on what kind of cheese we're talking about. There are plenty of artisanal American cheeses that are as good as anything the French have, but certainly not in all the varieties the French make. For example, I don't know of a single American brie that is as good as the French versions, but American chevres from upstate NY and Oregon are on par with anything the French have to offer. I also prefer American blue cheeses to French ones. If you're going to compare the range of French cheeses to processed American cheese like Kraft Singles, I'll give it to you, but the range of French cheeses against the range of American cheeses makes for a very solid battle. However, it's tough to beat the Italians for cheese. Gorgonzola, mozzarella, Parmeseano Reggiano, ricotta and ricotta salata, mascarpone, the various pecorinos, fontina--they're all so varied and work so well in cooking. Hmmmmm.... I suppose "cheese-eating surrender monkey" can refer to either the French or the Italians when you stop to think about it. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:53:52 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) On 9/6/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > > > > However, it's tough to beat the Italians for cheese. Nonsense. Just *threatening* to beat them will immediately cause them to surrender their cheese. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 22:19:53 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: language seminar Jill says: > Lauren, yes, I met Howard Devoto at a press event in NYC in 1983 (try to > imagine that anyone actually cared enough to have a press event for him) > because my friend Steven had a public access TV show and was able to get > passes. After the Q&A, I spoke to him for a bit. that is very cool. > I love Jerky Version of a Dream, but > since I don't know how to get it on CD and don't have a new-fangled > machine to put vinyl/tape onto CD, I hardly ever listen to it. craigie* sent me an e-mail a month or two back re: "jerky versions of the dream": http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000LZ6DO6/emi-cat80s-21/ref=nosim maybe it'll make its way over to the u.s. or maybe you have something else to order from our amazon uk friends. hmm...come to think of it, i believe this is the only things i've ever ordered from amazon uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Howard-Devoto-Complete-Lyrics-1976-1990/dp/0948238089/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/202-5222654-4335029?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189131161&sr=8-3 as ever, lauren p.s. and don't think i didn't notice how you dodged that favourite magazine album question... p.p.s hope you're faring okay with your son at school (i think after college, it's now all the rage to go back and live at home until you're 30 or so, so perhaps you can look forward to that?) - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:34:48 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) On 9/6/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > Rex wrote: > > I don't dislike the French at all, but it's more trouble than it's > > worth to > > stick up for them. I don't think there's any real debate that all > > their > > cheese is better than what we call "American cheese". > > That depends on what kind of cheese we're talking about. Maybe this isn't true for everyone, but when I was a kid, the term "American cheese" referred specifically the the thing now commonly known as a "Kraft single". These days I sometimes hear it used to mean "a thin hamburger-sized slice of something that seems like garden variety cheddar" as well, usually by parents who buy such things for their kids's school lunches. Yep, school started again. Hello, routine! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:44:24 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: lyric question - --On 6. September 2007 17:16:25 -0700 Rex wrote: >> ...Don't make me try to start a "thirtysomething" discussion thread -- >> because I'll do it!!! (and, uh, no one will respond...but...oh well...) > > But we'd all read it! Exactly. I enjoyed "thirtysomething" even though I was too young when it started (I was 23 when it first was shown in Germany in 1991), but I've only seen maybe 10 episodes or so. I remember that I had a crush on Mel Harris. The series is not available on DVD yet and I haven't found it on the Net, either. My interest now stems mainly from my love for "My So-Called Life" by the same creators as "thirtysomething". ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:25:37 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Where were you, Tom Clark? ... when you let Steve Jobs write his open letter to iPhone customers? I quote: "iPhone is so far ahead of the competition, and now it will be affordable by even more customers." Affordable *by* customers? I don't think so ... - -- b. Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:12:36 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: lyric question Sebastian said: >--On 6. September 2007 17:16:25 -0700 Rex >wrote: > >>>...Don't make me try to start a "thirtysomething" discussion thread -- >>>because I'll do it!!! (and, uh, no one will respond...but...oh well...) >> >>But we'd all read it! > >Exactly. I enjoyed "thirtysomething" even though I was too young when it >started (I was 23 when it first was shown in Germany in 1991), but I've >only seen maybe 10 episodes or so. I remember that I had a crush on Mel >Harris. > >The series is not available on DVD yet and I haven't found it on the Net, >either. My interest now stems mainly from my love for "My So-Called Life" >by the same creators as "thirtysomething". I was only 25 when it started running here (1987), but, even though I was not 30, married, or a parent, I liked the writing and the (gawd help me, but this is perhaps the best (fake) word to describe what I'm thinking about) "dramedy" so approximating real life (or, at least, a novelistic version thereof). The later, Michael-and-Elliott-work-focused seasons were its best moments...and the "Nancy survives cancer / Gary suddenly dies" arc of episodes is still -- to me -- some of the most breathtaking (and heartbreaing) TV I've ever seen. ...but "a crush on Mel Harris"??? OMG -- her annoying, wet-blanket, needle-nosed presence was perhaps my LEAST favorite thing about the show...lol -- to each their own, right? (and, WTG, me: ya actually get someone to chime in on _your_ stupid cult TV show thread, and then you insult his crush-object? duh...go ahead, Sebastian, take a free shot at Helen Hunt or Mimi Rogers or (heaven help me for daring to bring this up again) Janeane Garofalo...) Michael Sweeney ...Sadly, by the time "MS-CL" came around, I was _too old_ for its tales of angst...just kept missing the target demo, I guess... _________________________________________________________________ Kick back and relax with hot games and cool activities at the Messenger Cafi. http://www.cafemessenger.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_SeptHMtagline1 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:40:30 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: lyric question - --On 7. September 2007 09:12:36 +0000 Michael Sweeney wrote: > ...but "a crush on Mel Harris"??? OMG -- her annoying, wet-blanket, > needle-nosed presence was perhaps my LEAST favorite thing about the > show...lol -- to each their own, right? Who knows what I'd think about her today. :-) > ...Sadly, by the time "MS-CL" came around, I was _too old_ for its tales > of angst...just kept missing the target demo, I guess... I guess I'm a case of arrested development - I fall for any adolescence series, e.g. Buffy and Felicity. - -- b. Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:23:11 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > What happens to the -shire, then? Not pronounced: Worcester - pr. wooster Worcestershire - pr. wooster Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:34:01 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) - --On 7. September 2007 07:23:11 -0400 "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: >> >> What happens to the -shire, then? > > Not pronounced: > Worcester - pr. wooster > Worcestershire - pr. wooster I suppose the horse's carcass is mush by now, but tell that to Lea & Perrins! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:50:51 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Sauce edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk wrote: > > it's called Worcestershire (and thus "woostersher") If you want to get really confused: If Worcestershire is pronounced 'wooster', Leicestershire is pronounced ... ? 'lestershire'. No, really. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 06:28:11 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) Rex wrote: > On 9/6/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > > Rex wrote: > > > I don't dislike the French at all, but it's more trouble than it's > > > worth to > > > stick up for them. I don't think there's any real debate that all > > > their > > > cheese is better than what we call "American cheese". > > > > That depends on what kind of cheese we're talking about. > > Maybe this isn't true for everyone, but when I was a kid, the term > "American cheese" referred specifically the the thing now commonly > known as a "Kraft single". Well, when the FDA says legally you can't even call it "cheese" and leave it at that on the package, I don't think it's fair to hold it up as your example of American cheese. Legally, you can hold it up as an example of pasteurized prepared cheese product, though. I'm pretty sure we kick French butt in pasteurized prepared cheese product, but I'm sure that's only due to the 36 hour work week they have over there. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:36:44 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Everybody needs a little TL;DR... Rex wrote: >The Dream Syndicate, "Medicine Show". I guess this is kind of known as the disappointing follow-up to "Days of Wine & Roses", with good songs but too-tame production. I've actually heard the later "Ghost Stories" and some Steve Wynn solo records, and thus the idea of a more sedate DS is not a shocker to me, so let's see where this goes. It certainly sounds less like a band than "Days", but few things sound *more* like a band than "Days", and we all know what a *really* overproduced record from this era sounds like, and this is not that bad. It throws all the focus on Wynn's songs, though, which seem to be in transition as well, between that early elemental visceral thing and the later craftsman-like character studies. Here he seems to be sticking to that "down and out in the modern west" kind of hard-case loser ballad that seems to have preoccupied half of the songwriters in LA, from Warren Zevon to Mike Ness, at one time or another. He does a pretty good job even for that crowded field some unique lyrical touches and committed vocals but setting these types of lyrics to what often sounds like your average roadhouse blues music is a little too obvious, and does the songs a bit of a disservice. This isn't bad, but in this same vein, I found both the Long Ryders and Green on Red discs from yesterday to be a good deal more musically inviting, and of course it's barely related to "Days" but I knew that going in. (This is some kind of expanded version which includes a live version of "Tell Me When It's Over" which is heavy on pianoand > slap-bass, and yes, damn straight, that's a problem.) Kendra Smith leaving the band after DOWAR played a big factor as well with Wynn becoming the dominating factor. Kendra found greener pastures and more of an opportunity to sing with Clay Allison/Opal, so it was a good move for her. Rex wrote: >The Three O'Clock, "Sixteen Tambourines". Woo hoo, more Paisley Underground. Well, right off the bat, the synths and drum sounds make this a lot more of-its-era than just about any of the other similar stuff I've auditioned lately. But by the same token the songs pop like nobody's business, the band is really tight, and you can certainly see why someone would've thought this band was promising enough to dress them up in trendy clothes (and production) and see what they could get out of it. Funny how the more money was thrown at a record in the mid-'80's, the goofier it sounds two decades later foolish Earthmen! Anyway, I know a few Three O'Clock songs and a bit of what to expect from the Scott Miller association. And really, many of these songs should have been hits, and if they had, we'd forgive their production more easily, I reckon. The way the sound kinda splits the difference between the '60's and the '80's reminds of T.Rex, for some reason the vocal register is a tad bit higher and there's not so much boogie-woogie, but the sense of melody, and the groovy-fab, >perhaps-vacuous world being talked about in the lyrics doesn't feel too far from Bolan's. "Arrive Without Traveling" was just as good if not better. One could make the point that The Three O'Clock were the most consistently good Paisley Underground band for the longest time. Others might have shown brighter for one album, Dream Syndicate with DOWAR, Bangles with "All Over The Place", The Rain Parade with "Emergency Third Rail Power Trip". Michael B. Np Rickie Lee Jione - Flying Cowboys ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:45:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: TV Michael Sweeney wrote: "...Don't make me try to start a "thirtysomething" discussion thread -- because I'll do it!!! (and, uh, no one will respond...but...oh well...)" Wanna bet? Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:05:08 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: firefly fun for friday http://xkcd.com/311/ yes, it's those pesky stickmen and their warped humour again... c* - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 07:17:35 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) On 9/7/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > Rex wrote: > > > On 9/6/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > > > Rex wrote: > > > > I don't dislike the French at all, but it's more trouble than it's > > > > worth to > > > > stick up for them. I don't think there's any real debate that all > > > > their > > > > cheese is better than what we call "American cheese". > > > > > > That depends on what kind of cheese we're talking about. > > > > Maybe this isn't true for everyone, but when I was a kid, the term > > "American cheese" referred specifically the the thing now commonly > > known as a "Kraft single". > > Well, when the FDA says legally you can't even call it "cheese" and leave it > at that on the package, I don't think it's fair to hold it up as your > example of American cheese. True, but that was exactly what I was told by all the adults around me it was, and nothing else in my world at the time was called "American cheese" (and that is why I put it in quotes, assuming a lot of other people were raised with similar input). If I'd meant various varieties of cheese made in America, I'd probably have gone with the phrase American cheeses, no quotes. No offense was meant to anything other than Kraft Singles, FKA to me as the one and only "American Cheese". - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:14:46 -0500 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: TV It amuses me how the alums of 30something are involved in actiony shows now: Alias, Prisonbreak. . . sumi On 9/7/07, Jill Brand wrote: > Michael Sweeney wrote: "...Don't make me try to start a "thirtysomething" > discussion thread -- because I'll do it!!! (and, uh, no one will > respond...but...oh well...)" > > > Wanna bet? > > Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 07:12:36 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: lyric question On 9/7/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: go ahead, Sebastian, take a free shot at > Helen Hunt or Mimi Rogers or (heaven help me for daring to bring this up > again) Janeane Garofalo...) Why do you keep preemptively dissing your own Janeane-love? I'd hit that. I have a thing for comediennes and comic actresses in general, though. (Good ones, that is.) My last enormous TV crush was Maura Tierney... kept me watching ER for waaaayyy too long. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:56:20 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: lyric question Sweeney says: > lep, lep, leppo and the Laurens sez: > >well, lurker or no, since you're on feglist, i presume you've seen > >"buffy", all seven seasons. > > > >since you have some free time, perhaps you could help with some very > >important needs of feglist. this would be a detailed analysis of the > >series, focusing on particular characters [etc. & ad infinitum]... > > ...OK, Lauren dear, you know how much I appreciate you (getting igored in > Philly notwithstanding) (yeah, I know - you wrote a sign), but, really, are > you trying to drive me absolutely crazy with teh Buffy and all? I mean, I > do not think that even Eb endured this much before shuffling crabwise (over > the Andalusian extensions, etc.) off the list... sweeney, you'll get no sympathy here. you have the option to *not read* this stuff as you wish. oh it must be nice. sweet chocolate jesus, think about *me* -- i'm trapped in here with the brain that actually *thinks* about it. as ever, lauren p.s. plus chris gave me what i can only interpret as mild encouragement, and that's spells trouble. with a capital t. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:20:52 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: lyric question On Sep 7, 2007, at 7:12 AM, Rex wrote: > My last enormous TV crush was Maura Tierney... kept me watching ER for > waaaayyy too long. Loves me some Maura Tierney. Not enough to watch ER though. I did my time with St. Elsewhwere, thankyouverymuch. Can't think of any current TV crushes right now - except maybe one of our local newscasters, Julie Haener from KTVU. Dwarf knows what I'm talkin' about. Don't leave me hanging, bro! - -tc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #322 ********************************