From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #362 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, October 7 2007 Volume 16 : Number 362 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: New Radiohead album - pay what you think it's worth [Rex ] fun with search engines [lep ] Re: (Business Edition) [Michael Sweeney ] Re: A Haiku for Eb [Tom Clark ] Re: crap... [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] RE: crap... ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: Most fegly story of the year (non-crustacean division) [grutness@slin] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 18:45:33 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: New Radiohead album - pay what you think it's worth > Wait - you're married to Exene? > > Now I'm confused... I have a cat named that... gotta count for something... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 19:26:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: crap... Michael Sweeney wrote: > Diamondbacks 5, Cubs 1 -- aaaaaaaand the playoffs are now > officially dead to me. The gnats could carry off the Yanks and I > wouldn't even notice. Look at the bright side: think of all the TBS and Fox executives trying to find the right vein to slice open now that they are 21 outs away from being guaranteed an NLCS that will take place entirely in (and thus, an NL World Series representative from) the Mountain Time Zone. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:18:54 -0400 From: lep Subject: fun with search engines i just did a google search for: "definition graduate student" (quotes to indicate what i typed - i did not type any actual quotes in the search box.) entry #4 - i guess there are some grad students with too much to do** ? is this an old joke? as ever, lauren ** not even a typo - personally i manage to find way more idle time when i have something to put off. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 06:18:20 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: (Business Edition) Tom Clark wrote: >On Oct 5, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: >>> "Could go for a Starbucks about now" >>Heh heh. "I don't think we have time for a handjob!" That's a >common exchange between my wife and me these days. Me and the GF use the "Go away -- 'batin'!" line regularly (sometimes adapted to "Come back later -- 'batin'!") often when one of us is calling across the house to the other...That, and uncontrolled giggling whenever we see a sign for Fuddruckers... Classic. Michael "Comin' up next on The Violence Channel: An all-new 'Ow, My Balls!'" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook  together at last. Get it now. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=CL100626971 033 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 08:20:06 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: A Haiku for Eb On Oct 6, 2007, at 3:36 PM, kevin wrote: > Am I the only one who thinks Neil's gotten way too isolated out > there on the ranch with nobody around him (other than Pegi) who > isn't on the payroll? It's starting to feel like Salvador Dali > spending the last third of his life in his tower slowly > deteriorating until there was nothing left but his mustache... If it's any consolation, I've seen him quite often at the Sharks games with his son, so he does make it down the mountain occasionally. You're right though, I haven't found anything too dynamic in his output lately. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 13:21:39 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: crap... >Diamondbacks 5, Cubs 1 -- aaaaaaaand the playoffs are now officially dead to >me. The gnats could carry off the Yanks and I wouldn't even notice. On to >football! How are the Bears doing? Heading back to the Superb Owl, right? >Ah...er, maybe not so much... you think *that's* crap? Wait, have I got news for you! 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: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 18:15:57 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: crap... James Dignan wrote: > you think *that's* crap? Wait, have I got news for you! > > > > James As my company's CFO, fellow rugby teammate, occasional drinking buddy and former director of the NZ rugby union, Chris Liddell, posted on our company rugby alias: "All right , here I am ..on the ground...open season." So far, only a couple of the English fans seem to have the heart to take him up on it. I can imagine there are a lot of questions being asked right now down there, particularly since this tourney seemed destined to be a NZ-RSA showdown from the get-go. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:54:16 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Most fegly story of the year (non-crustacean division) > > but it's another odd one reported on the same day: > > > >The article mentions "a riddle attached", but doesn't go into detail. >Disappointing. > >Also, I'm shocked that one fellow said, "It must be a publicity stunt; I >can't think of anything else it could be." The guy's never heard of art >for art's sake (and, indeed, is there any other kind?). it is kind of disappointing - I can think of plenty examples of such that weren't publicity stubts (indeed, there are at least three unrelated ones in the city where I live, but that's another three stories. All I will say is "A boy had a mouth full of glitter". > it's like, a fucking > *law of nature* (or what): motherfucking schoolchildren's choir = rock > and/or roll gold. Uh-huh? Like "Granddad", by Clive Dunn? 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #362 ********************************