From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #479 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, February 2 2008 Volume 16 : Number 479 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: On Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama [Tom Clark ] Re: On Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama [Tom Clark ] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! [Tom Clark ] Re: On Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama [2fs ] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! [2fs ] Re: On Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Catch in in the States on Fuse. WHEN !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? [HwyCDRrev@ao] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! [kevin ] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! [kevin ] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! [kevin ] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! [kevin ] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! [kevin ] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! [kevin ] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! [kevin ] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Robyn Hitchcock - Later With Jools Holland ["Matthijs van Geldere" ] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! [Jeff Dwarf ] [none] [Jeff Dwarf ] "lolita" in the bedroom [lep ] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! [Rex ] Re: "lolita" in the bedroom [Rex ] Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! [2fs ] new curative substance [2fs ] something I've been wondering about [2fs ] Re: new curative substance [Dolph Chaney ] Re: new curative substance [2fs ] Re: something I've been wondering about [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: new curative substance [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: new curative substance [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #478 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: On Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: new curative substance ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: American tunes [Marcy Tanter ] NASA to Beam Beatles' 'Across the Universe' Into Space [HwyCDRrev@aol.co] Re: NASA to Beam Beatles' 'Across the Universe' Into Space [2fs ] Re: puppet Spike [kevin ] suicidal drummers [2fs ] Ralph! ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: puppet Spike [lep ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:58:36 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: On Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama On Feb 1, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > On Feb 1, 2008, at 12:03 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> Mormons are pretty much space aliens. > > May I quote you? > > Religion would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:00:51 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: On Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama On Feb 1, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > Anyway, I have to agree with the Quail that Clinton has too many > people > who hate her, making her a less viable candidate than Obama. Maybe I missed something along the way, but why the passionate hatred of her? I've never heard anybody give a valid reason. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:03:09 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! On Feb 1, 2008, at 7:36 AM, hwycdrrev@aol.com wrote: > well- it got even worse for gordon > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gordon_%28musician%29 > > Retirement and incarceration > In the late 1970s, Gordon complained of hearing voices in his head. > He was > later diagnosed with acute paranoid schizophrenia, which had been > worsened by > a cocaine addiction. By 1981, this situation ended his music career. > On 3 June 1983, Gordon bludgeoned his mother with a hammer and then > stabbed > her to death with a butcher's knife. In May 1984 he was sentenced > to sixteen > years to life in prison. He has served his sentence at the > California Men's > Colony in San Luis Obispo, Atascadero State Hospital in Atascadero, > and the > State Medical Corrections Facility in Vacaville. He is still > incarcerated. Wow - and all this time I thought he committed suicide. Am I thinking of some other drummer? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:15:31 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: On Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama On 2/1/08, Rex wrote: > > > > I'll pass on that suggestion. But I am also a little befuddled by the > fact that Ms. Clinton is often portrayed as hideous... she's really not > unattractive at all. Or is that just me? > More relevant: do we even talk about teh looks of male candidates...unless they're exceptionally attractive? Generally, it goes utterly unremarked. > > > And the final poser: why did anyone ever, and why do they continue to, > openly mock Hillary for her "vast right wing conspiracy" remarks? > Her mistake - a political mistake - was in using the word "conspiracy" which, although in its literal definition is, of course, absolutely accurate, tends to call up images of the tinfoil hat brigade. I mean, c'mon: was it "vast"? Well, yeah: there were a whole lot of folks strongly opposed to the Clinton presidency, willing to literally shut down the government to make their points. Was it "right-wing"? Again, the answer's pretty damned obvious. But was it a "conspiracy"? No, obviously not...all the various right-wingers etc. just *happened* to, as individuals (cuz there's no such thing as "society"), work in the same direction with the same tactics etc. FOX news memos are a fiction, of course. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:18:58 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! On 2/1/08, Tom Clark wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2008, at 7:36 AM, hwycdrrev@aol.com wrote: > > > well- it got even worse for gordon > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gordon_%28musician%29 > > > > Wow - and all this time I thought he committed suicide. Am I thinking > of some other drummer? Probably. Now: someone has to come up with a variation on the old "how do you know when a drummer's knocking at your door?" joke, involving shooting oneself... Speaking of, I now can't find the story - i think it was from "News of the Weird" - about the guy who, running from a bank robbery, thought it would be a good idea to fire behind him at the cops pursuing him. Only trouble is, he didn't aim too well...ended up shooting himself in the head. That sounds like a scene from a Coen Bros. movie...the guy running, pulls the trigger, falls over... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:22:21 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: On Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama - -----Original Message----- >From: 2fs >While we're at it - the best candidate of the Dems was definitely Kucinich - >even though his campaign slogan should've been "Avalanche or Roadblock"... A dream ticket for me would have had Gore and Kucinich, in any order. I was a big Draft Gore supporter. >Anyway: I think the animosity directed at the Clintons is part generational, >part misogynist, and part a reaction to Bill's charm/sleaze. That last is, >apparently, a very real, powerful thing: a friend of mine, a long-time Dem >but not particularly a B. Clinton fan, had the chance to see him speak...and >was just powerfully affected by how charismatic the man is. I imagine when >you look like Newt Gingrich, that's a problem. > I know people who have met him or know him and they rave about his charisma. Apparently he is totally captivating in person. I've been told that when he "enters a room, everyone else fades out." Spooky. > >All of that ties into the generational thing - remember the kerfuffle over >"I did not inhale"? Fact is, anyone of Clinton's age or younger who truly >never has even once inhaled is probably too socially inept to be president - >it was just what people did, and it astonished me even then what an issue >some folks made of it. > That's why it was rather endearing when Obama was asked if he inhaled, and he responded that indeed he "inhaled - that was the point." >It's irrelevant that Obama was born here, etc. - and of course, the >right-wing smear machine is working overtime to claim he's a secret Muslim, >to ridiculously try to make anything of his middle name, etc. Crazy, innit? They are really going to try to make that a big issue. I was struck by Obama's leadership potential when I heard him give the keynote speech for the Democratic National Convention in '04. I remember turning to my sister and saying "We're looking at the next President of the US." I seem to be seeing a lot of bumper stickers that read, simply, 01/20/09. Took me a moment and then, boom, I got it. Funny - that little glimmer of hope. - - c np: Martina Topley-Bird - "Anything" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:04:07 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: On Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama On Feb 1, 2008 3:15 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 2/1/08, Rex wrote: > > > > > > > > I'll pass on that suggestion. But I am also a little befuddled by the > > fact that Ms. Clinton is often portrayed as hideous... she's really not > > unattractive at all. Or is that just me? > > > > More relevant: do we even talk about teh looks of male candidates...unless > they're exceptionally attractive? > You know, this may not be cool of me, but I might as well admit it... some of my friends used to like to get together with me just to talk about how fucking ugly Fred Thomson was. Good times. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 19:19:58 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! what's the last thing a drummer says to his band mates ? hey guys ! i've just written a song ! In a message dated 2/1/2008 6:22:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com writes: Now: someone has to come up with a variation on the old "how do you know when a drummer's knocking at your door?" joke, involving shooting oneself... **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 48) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 19:26:14 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Catch in in the States on Fuse. WHEN !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Robyn Hitchcock to appear on Later with Jools Holland _http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4985_ (http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4985) January 31, 2008, 1:45 pm Robyn Hitchcock will appear on the 200th episode of Later with Jools Holland - - along with Radiohead, Dionne Warwick, Mary J. Blige, Cat Power, at Feist. Check it out Friday, February 1st at 11:35pm on BBC Two. Catch in in the States on Fuse. _+ Back_ (http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?artistId=&page=news) **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300000 0025 48) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:02:11 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! >Wow - and all this time I thought he committed suicide. Am I thinking >of some other drummer? Phil Collins, maybe. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:02:12 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! >Wow - and all this time I thought he committed suicide. Am I thinking >of some other drummer? Phil Collins, maybe. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:02:13 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! >Wow - and all this time I thought he committed suicide. Am I thinking >of some other drummer? Phil Collins, maybe. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:02:15 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! >Wow - and all this time I thought he committed suicide. Am I thinking >of some other drummer? Phil Collins, maybe. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:02:31 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! >Wow - and all this time I thought he committed suicide. Am I thinking >of some other drummer? Phil Collins, maybe. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:02:14 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! >Wow - and all this time I thought he committed suicide. Am I thinking >of some other drummer? Phil Collins, maybe. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:02:15 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! >Wow - and all this time I thought he committed suicide. Am I thinking >of some other drummer? Phil Collins, maybe. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:26:39 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! kevin wrote: > > Phil Collins, maybe. that which you tell us five times we really hope to be true? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 01:11:39 -0000 From: "Matthijs van Geldere" Subject: Robyn Hitchcock - Later With Jools Holland Sounds Great When You're Dead - Later With Jools Holland DVD (PAL format) http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=181894 Recorded January 28th 2008 - Broadcast February 1st 2008 Robyn Hitchcock & Terry Edwards (piano) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:11:58 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! Yeah, sorry all - some kind of weird glitch in the email. I mean, he annoys me as much as the next guy but not to get all psychotic about it... - -----Original Message----- >From: "Stewart C. Russell" >Sent: Feb 1, 2008 5:26 PM >To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org >Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! > >kevin wrote: >> >> Phil Collins, maybe. > >that which you tell us five times we really hope to be true? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:33:07 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! > Wow - and all this time I thought he committed suicide. Am I > thinking of some other drummer? Chris Acland, though you'd be hard-pressed to confuse his career with Jim Gordon's. "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 19:11:06 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: [none] http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/top_ten/index/php/20080131.phtml "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:46:36 -0500 From: lep Subject: "lolita" in the bedroom http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSEIC16848020080201 just the thing for the young "lolita"s running about los angeles. as ever, lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 20:17:28 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! On Feb 1, 2008 6:11 PM, kevin wrote: > Yeah, sorry all - some kind of weird glitch in the email. I mean, he > annoys me as much as the next guy but not to get all psychotic about it... > I thought it was kind of funny, actually, - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 20:21:52 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: "lolita" in the bedroom On Feb 1, 2008 7:46 PM, lep wrote: > http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSEIC16848020080201 > > just the thing for the young "lolita"s running about los angeles. > Damn, Brits are illiterate too! Is the novel just not as well known in the UK? I know the French are familiar with it... Serge Gainsbourg made lyrical references to it long before String ever did... So was it just a coincidence that the boys' model was called "The Humbert"? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:56:02 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Now THIS is fucking cool! On 2/1/08, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > kevin wrote: > > > > Phil Collins, maybe. > > that which you tell us five times we really hope to be true? It's worth trying... The Story of "The Phil Bar" Very many years ago, when my best friend was this rather odd guy named Larry who was very brilliant, rather talented musically, but socially a complete disaster, we used to hang out at this bar on the east side of Milwaukee called Landmark Lanes (it also has a bowling alley - it's Milwaukee; you've gotta expect these things). The bar is really three different rooms, each of which has a somewhat distinct character (damn, I'm getting nostalgic and tempted to hop in the car and go there now...), but the most boring/quiet bar was kind of in the back of the area, and we'd usually go there only if the other two bars were totally jampacked or filled with meatheads playing terrible songs on the jukebox. So anyway: we're in this tiny bar-within-a-bar enjoying way too many beers when some idjit puts a Phil Collins song on the jukebox (this was pretty much at the height of his popularity). We grimaced, figured it'd be over in three minutes, and life would go on, aided immensely by the wonderful golden-brown liquid in our pitcher. So, Phil bleats away for three minutes, the song ends and...the same song comes on again. We're like, oh great: Phil Collins fanatic in the house. Thankfully, his music's so bland it's pretty easily ignored, so we just kept drinking and making rude remarks about balding drummers. Song ends - you guessed it, it starts...again! This is getting annoying...and about this time, though, we had a brilliant, wonderful thought: maybe the Phil fan is playing the same sappy Phil song over and over again because, unbeknownst to us, Phil Collins died that day, and the fan's drowning his or her sorrows by playing his/her fave PhilCo song over and over again! Suddenly, the song was a great beacon of joy in the land... Anyway, it ends - and, of course, starts over again - and is promptly cut off. Of course, it was only the jukebox going ape, and the bartender had had enough and just turned it off. From that day on, the smallest, dullest bar in this place was known forevermore as "The Phil Bar." Phil lives on to this very day - but we can dream, can't we? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 23:01:56 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: new curative substance Apparently (as I discovered googling the term) there's an herbal medicine called "Hepahol." I think the best thing to cure certain feg-related ailments is something made from two parts whey and one part Hepahol. What should we call it, d'ya think? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 23:34:10 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: something I've been wondering about What did sleeves ever do to offend Larry the Cable Guy? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:37:14 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: new curative substance Follow it up with a Hostess Ding Dong, and I think you've got something! Yeah yeah! On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 23:01 -0600, 2fs wrote: > Apparently (as I discovered googling the term) there's an herbal medicine > called "Hepahol." > > I think the best thing to cure certain feg-related ailments is something > made from two parts whey and one part Hepahol. > > What should we call it, d'ya think? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 23:48:02 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: new curative substance However, some analysts conclude there's a significant risk of paralysis... On 2/1/08, Dolph Chaney wrote: > > Follow it up with a Hostess Ding Dong, and I think you've got something! > Yeah yeah! > > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 23:01 -0600, 2fs wrote: > > Apparently (as I discovered googling the term) there's an herbal > medicine > > called "Hepahol." > > > > I think the best thing to cure certain feg-related ailments is something > > made from two parts whey and one part Hepahol. > > > > What should we call it, d'ya think? > > > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:27:54 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: something I've been wondering about 2fs wrote: > What did sleeves ever do to offend Larry the Cable Guy? It's not what the sleeves did to offend LtCG, it's what LtCG did to offend sleeves. "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:31:08 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: new curative substance 2fs wrote: > However, some analysts conclude there's a significant risk of > paralysis... Keeps you fairly warm at night though, which is pretty useful just like it should be. > On 2/1/08, Dolph Chaney wrote: > > Follow it up with a Hostess Ding Dong, and I think you've got > > something! Yeah yeah! > > > > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 23:01 -0600, 2fs wrote: > > > Apparently (as I discovered googling the term) there's an > > > herbal medicine called "Hepahol." > > > > > > I think the best thing to cure certain feg-related ailments is > > > something made from two parts whey and one part Hepahol. > > > > > > What should we call it, d'ya think? "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 01:49:31 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: new curative substance incurable hitchcock ? tell me about your drugs (Bop bop shoo bop, a-wop bop shoo bop) take two with a piece of cheese In a message dated 2/2/2008 12:51:37 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, dolphmusic@rcn.com writes: Follow it up with a Hostess Ding Dong, and I think you've got something! Yeah yeah! **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 48) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 20:40:31 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #478 kevin wrote: > >This is the guy who introduced me to Brian Eno and the 801 album >back in the late 70's. > >801 Live is one of the great undiscovered treasures of the 70's, ya >ask me. That take of "Diamond Head" is to die for. The semi-official boot of outtakes from it is pretty good too. I take it Eno never sang Miss Shapiro again after he had that collapsed lung. 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: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 20:49:07 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: On Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama >All of that ties into the generational thing - remember the kerfuffle over >"I did not inhale"? Fact is, anyone of Clinton's age or younger who truly >never has even once inhaled is probably too socially inept to be president hey... watch who you're callin' socially inept there, bub. Cuts out a lot of us asthmatics, to start with. James (who has, however, eaten pineapple cake made with "the Colonel's secret recipe of herbs and spices". Didn't do anything for me other than make me ill - then again, I'm highly allergic to tomato, which is closely related to some, erm, herbal remedies) - -- 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: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:32:51 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: new curative substance 2fs wrote: > Apparently (as I discovered googling the term) there's an herbal medicine > called "Hepahol." 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(http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 48) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:00:26 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: NASA to Beam Beatles' 'Across the Universe' Into Space On 2/2/08, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > NASA to Beam Beatles' 'Across the Universe' Into Space Next headline: RIAA to Preemptively Sue All Lifeforms for Copyright Infringement - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:36:10 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: puppet Spike - --On 1. Februar 2008 11:36:28 -0500 lep wrote: > i always liked what f. scott fitzgerald had to say on this subject: > "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two > opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the > ability to function." I've been mulling that quote for a few days now, and I can't make up my mind. Intuitively I think it's wrong. My feeling is that it's not the test of a first-rate intelligence, but more that of a first-rate weasel. But that's just a gut reaction and I don't think I can argue the point. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:12:44 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: puppet Spike Chances are his wife would have agreed with you. Still wrote like a mofo, though. - -----Original Message----- >From: Sebastian Hagedorn >Sent: Feb 2, 2008 9:36 AM >To: "a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil!" >Subject: Re: puppet Spike > >--On 1. Februar 2008 11:36:28 -0500 lep wrote: > >> i always liked what f. scott fitzgerald had to say on this subject: >> "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two >> opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the >> ability to function." > >I've been mulling that quote for a few days now, and I can't make up my >mind. Intuitively I think it's wrong. My feeling is that it's not the test >of a first-rate intelligence, but more that of a first-rate weasel. But >that's just a gut reaction and I don't think I can argue the point. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 13:55:57 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: suicidal drummers When we were discussing Jim Gordon, someone said they thought he'd killed himself. Nope - but which drummer was being thought of? Maybe Paul Hester, ex-Crowded House. Sad tale. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:27:14 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Ralph! . ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 18:36:28 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: puppet Spike Sebastian Hagedorn says: > I've been mulling that quote for a few days now, and I can't make up my > mind. Intuitively I think it's wrong. My feeling is that it's not the test > of a first-rate intelligence, but more that of a first-rate weasel. But > that's just a gut reaction and I don't think I can argue the point. > i was a bit lazy, so it's just as well i got called on it ;) i should have written out the next sentence, since i think it's important to the quotation. here it is, lead caps and all: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." i like aphorisms, while acknowledging they're almost always not as true as they tend to sound. in this case, i think fitzgerald was pretty much on target, but that's probably given the context of the quotation (it's difficult for me to separate the two). it's taken from his essay "the crack-up" which is a remarkable description of the depression and deterioration of an artist. i think that fitzgerald knows that his particular sort of genius can only buy him so much, and, in some real sense, the gig is up. the essay is from a book of the same name - it's only a few pages long, and if anyone's inclined toward fitzgerald, it's one of his best, IMO. the book also has a wonderful essay on his insomnia. as ever, lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #479 ********************************