From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #506 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, February 17 2008 Volume 16 : Number 506 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: movie talk [Rex ] Re: movie talk ["Laura Golias" ] Re: Well, fuck. [Rex ] Re: movie talk [lep ] Re: 911 (X 27,000) [Michael Sweeney ] Re: movie talk [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: remembering mis-heard lyrics from my youth [Michael Sweeney ] Re: movie talk [Capuchin ] Re: Near future reap (tech) [Rex ] Re: Knitting Factory RH&V3 Print Query [djini@voicenet.com] Re: movie talk [Rex ] Re: 911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911 9119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119 1191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191 1911911911911911911911911911911911911911 [] For your consideration... [Rex ] Re: For your consideration... [Tom Clark ] Re: movie talk [Tom Clark ] Re: For your consideration... [Rex ] Re: movie talk [Rex ] Re: movie talk [Caroline Smith ] Re: For your consideration... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] REAP: Yet another footnote in rock history [Tom Clark ] Robert Forster to release new album 4/29 on Yep Roc [2fs Subject: Re: movie talk Yep. See, so much more fun when the info comes from a feg. - -Rex On Feb 16, 2008 2:59 PM, Laura Golias wrote: > I think you're thinking of It's Your Move. > > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086737/ > > Laura Golias > gruntydawarthawg@verizon.net > > And they were both on sitcoms in the '80's. > > What the hell was Jason's post-Silver Spoons show? I remember that my > family loved it, and there was one episode where they invented a band for > the school dance, called the Dregs of Humanity, and had to fake the > performance using marionette skeletons from the biology lab (years before > the Dead's "Touch of Grey" video). Our reception went out before the end of > the episode and this was before VCR's, so we all watched TV Guide like hawks > for the rerun. When it finally came on it was preempted by a ball game or > something and we never did find out what happened, but the Dregs lived on in > Broome family lore for years thereafter. > > Of course, maybe it didn't have Jason Bateman in it at all. That's just > the kind of detail I'd lose. > > -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:59:19 -0500 From: "Laura Golias" Subject: Re: movie talk I think you're thinking of It's Your Move. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086737/ Laura Golias gruntydawarthawg@verizon.net And they were both on sitcoms in the '80's. What the hell was Jason's post-Silver Spoons show? I remember that my family loved it, and there was one episode where they invented a band for the school dance, called the Dregs of Humanity, and had to fake the performance using marionette skeletons from the biology lab (years before the Dead's "Touch of Grey" video). Our reception went out before the end of the episode and this was before VCR's, so we all watched TV Guide like hawks for the rerun. When it finally came on it was preempted by a ball game or something and we never did find out what happened, but the Dregs lived on in Broome family lore for years thereafter. Of course, maybe it didn't have Jason Bateman in it at all. That's just the kind of detail I'd lose. -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:03:40 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Well, fuck. Okay, and thank you. It all seems ridiculous and I keep thinking there has to be a straighter answer, and that people are just out to gouge me... anyhow, I've come to the conclusion that, given how much I need to work to restore vs. how much is backed up, a homemade fix > the labor of recontituting the library > $1300 data recovery. So here are the basics: The Machine: MacBook Pro running OS X 4.11. No major hot-rodding, just basically out of the box as of Sept. '07. The Drive: Seagate Free Agent Desktop (external drive via USB), 500GB, newer than the Mac All I Used the Drive For: my whole iTunes library, and that's it. iTunes took everything from, and put everything into, the only folder in the drive. What happened: in the course of changing a file name in iTunes, the connection was lost. No fireworks or apparent physical problem with the disc: indicator light still comes on, no funny noises; disc purrs along as if nothing were wrong. What happens when I connect the HD now (to my machine or other macs: the following prompt appears: Disc Insertion: The disc you inserted was not readable by this computer. Initialize/Ignore/Eject The drive does not appear on the desktop. I can find it, sort of, via the Disk Utility. In addition to the Mac's own drive, it shows as: 465.8 Seagate FreeAgent - ---disk1s3 (During its "life" the HD had been named "Dugommier".) There are a couple of "restore" and "verify" options on the panel. There are clickable options for "Verify Disk" and "Repair Disk". (There are greyed-out unclickable buttons for "Verify Disk Permissions" and "Restore Disk Permissions".) The "Verify Disk" button yeilds the following result: *Verifying volume "disk1s3"* *Checking HFS Plus volume.* *Catalog file entry not found for extent* *The volume needs to be repaired.* ** *Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit* ** ** *1 HFS volume checked* * Volume needs repair* The "Repair Disk" button yeilds the following result: *Verify and Repair disk "disk1s3"* *Checking HFS Plus volume.* *Catalog file entry not found for extent* *Volume check failed.* ** *Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit* ** ** *1 HFS volume checked* * 1 volume could not be repaired because of an error* There are also Erase, Partition, RAID and Restore tabs that I can't do anything with. Any ideas? I'm not going to do anything with the HD until I'm totally out of options, although I expect that to be soon. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:05:26 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: movie talk Capuchin says: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, lep wrote: > > an aside: the movie had two actors from "arrested development" in not > > insignificant roles - bateman (btw, is he related to justine bateman?), > > Um... yes. So I take it you missed all the unbelievably hilarity that > ensued when she played the prostitute on Arrested Development? this is true. i think i watched through the end of season 2. and i liked it enough that i can only figure that the reason i didn't finish watching the series is so that i have Something to Look Forward To (eddie: should that second "t" be capitalized?) xo p.s. re: justine bateman: to me, jason bateman has a bit of an alex p. keaton (or would that be michael j. fox) quality (this thought seems so mobius strip to me right now that i can't even begin to explain it. but i'm (a) tired and (b) recovering from stomach virus, and suspect these complexities may just unravel all by themselves.) - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:08:29 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: 911 (X 27,000) Lauren posted: >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/BATLV38B8.DTL ...Oddly enough, 27 grand was STILL fewer times than Rudy Giuliani SAID "9/11" most days on the campaign trail... Michael "Think he was using redial or what?" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail.-get your "fix". http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:04:14 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: movie talk Rex wrote: > What the hell was Jason (Bateman)'s post-Silver Spoons show? I think he had a new one almost every year until the one with Valerie Harper and then Sandy Duncan lasted a few years. I seem to remember one of them co-starring Ann Jillian as a dead actress haunting her old house, in which Jason Bateman's family now lived. Oddly enough, I even think that was pre-Beetlejuice, which I why I think I remember it since I remember thinking that the movie had nicked that idea, only made it unsucky. "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: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:17:20 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: remembering mis-heard lyrics from my youth 2fs wrote: >On 2/16/08, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote:>>>> listening to oldies at work - i remembered these :>[snip]> >You mean those *aren't* the lyrics? Man, Homer Simpson will be pissed... >>I had a friend who insisted the "real" lyrics to the possibly-forgotten song"It's Magic" by the definitely-forgotten band Pilot were "oh oh oh it's mydick."< ...Oh, my siblings and I never forgot it -- that's what we called it back when it was out and on our AM radios (1975, when we were ages 13, 12, 11, & 9)...and, if I called one of them up today and asked about "My Dick" by Pilot, they'd no doubt burst out laughing, knowing exactly what I was talking about... Michael "Never believe it's not so..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Helping your favorite cause is as easy as instant messaging. You IM, we give. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=text_hotmail_join ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:26:26 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Near future reap (tech) On Feb 16, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Rex wrote: > On Feb 16, 2008 11:48 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > >> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Steve Schiavo wrote: >> >>> >> >> I always hoped HD-DVD would win the war. I have no idea what the >> technical merits of each format are, but the name "Blu-Ray" is >> just way >> too annoying to get my support. Oh, well, at least it's not >> "BluRay." >> > > I had never really quantified it in my mind to this point, but I agree > completely with all of the above. > > I mean, WTF? Is the laser used to read the format actually blue or > something? And are we really calling it a "ray" now? And even if > so, is > that the most salient, or for some reason coolest-sounding feature > of it? > Fer pity's sake, people. > > Don't even get me started on "Blackberry". > > -Blu-Rex Don't be mean to Sony. They need a win. Also, Microsoft loses. > The benefit of using a blue-violet laser (405nm) is that it has a > shorter wavelength than a red laser (650nm), which makes it > possible to focus the laser spot with even greater precision. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:40:47 -0600 (CST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: movie talk On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Rex wrote: >> What the hell was Jason (Bateman)'s post-Silver Spoons show? > > I think he had a new one almost every year until the one with Valerie > Harper and then Sandy Duncan lasted a few years. No, you're confusing him with the myriad teen actors that came out of the woodwork when producers started telling casting directors "someone like Jason Bateman". The only series he did between Silver Spoons and Valerie (later Valerie's Family and later still, The Hogan Family) was It's Your Move which went off the air quite suddently -- in the middle of a two-part episode, if I recall. (And I shouldn't because I was maybe ten years old -- but those were my prime TV years.) > I seem to remember one of them co-starring Ann Jillian as a dead actress > haunting her old house, in which Jason Bateman's family now lived. That was Jennifer Slept Here which ran concurrently with the final season of Silver Spoons. Not Jason Bateman. It was a strange comedy that kept implying that this fifteen year old boy was having sex with the ghost of a middle aged woman. Weird. > Oddly enough, I even think that was pre-Beetlejuice, which I why I think > I remember it since I remember thinking that the movie had nicked that > idea, only made it unsucky. It was a good five years before Beetlejuice and I can't see any relationship at all between the films except that they both feature people moving into houses haunted by benign ghosts of former residents. But hell, that's practically a genre. J. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:13:46 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Near future reap (tech) On Feb 16, 2008 4:26 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > The benefit of using a blue-violet laser (405nm) is that it has a > > shorter wavelength than a red laser (650nm), which makes it > > possible to focus the laser spot with even greater precision. > Hmm. Well, that explains why the Clone Troopers in the Star Wars Prequels, who fired blue lasers, were so much better shots than the Stormtroopers in the Original Trilogy, who were stuck with red-laser blasters. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:29:58 -0000 (UTC) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Knitting Factory RH&V3 Print Query Hey Steve - I have that one too (#121/229, purchased at Philly show). I should get it framed, it's so beautiful... I did actually get it signed. The artist is Nat Damm, http://blog.myspace.com/natdamm and: http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-08-29/music/nat-damm-drummer-booker-creator-of-fine-poster-art.php Jeanne > > Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:01:20 -0500 > From: Steve Talkowski > Subject: Knitting Factory RH&V3 Print Query > > I've just recently begun framing some of the artwork I've acquired > over the years, and this print from last year's Knitting Factory show > made the cut. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevetalkowski/2256379906/ > > I'd like to properly attribute the artist, however, the signature is > (to me) illegible, and the only other possible identification is the > phrase "DAMM DAMM DAMM!" in small text on the far right side. > > Thanks, > > - -Steve (finally recovering after 4 days of debilitating vertigo...) > > - -- > > Steve Talkowski > Character Design & Animation > http://sketchbot.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:18:31 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: movie talk On Feb 16, 2008 4:40 PM, Capuchin wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Rex wrote: > >> What the hell was Jason (Bateman)'s post-Silver Spoons show? > > > > I think he had a new one almost every year until the one with Valerie > > Harper and then Sandy Duncan lasted a few years. > > No, you're confusing him with the myriad teen actors that came out of the > woodwork when producers started telling casting directors "someone like > Jason Bateman". > > The only series he did between Silver Spoons and Valerie (later Valerie's > Family and later still, The Hogan Family) was It's Your Move which went > off the air quite suddently -- in the middle of a two-part episode, if I > recall. (And I shouldn't because I was maybe ten years old -- but those > were my prime TV years.) > Hmm, maybe that was why we never saw the end of it. I'm pretty sure that the TV reception did go out during that episode, but since our TV came in through a fake cable spliced off of the real TV cable (which didn't go far enough into the woods to reach us), TV outages were pretty damned common anyway. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:23:02 -0800 From: "Benjamin Lukoff" Subject: Re: 911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911 9119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119 1191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191 1911911911911911911911911911911911911911 On Feb 15, 2008 10:50 PM, lep wrote: > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/BATLV38B8.DTL > > "pressing the beep tone"? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:40:20 -0800 From: Rex Subject: For your consideration... Sometimes you come across weird things when you're going through your stuff... things that must be undeniably rare in the world now, but it's hard to thinkgof why anyone would want them: (1) mint condition Maxell XL-II 60 cassette tape, unopened, in original wrapper (1) mint condition Maxell XL-IIS 90 cassette, equally cherry Yours for the asking. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:09:10 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: For your consideration... On Feb 16, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Rex wrote: > Sometimes you come across weird things when you're going through your > stuff... things that must be undeniably rare in the world now, but > it's hard > to thinkgof why anyone would want them: > (1) mint condition Maxell XL-II 60 cassette tape, unopened, in > original > wrapper > (1) mint condition Maxell XL-IIS 90 cassette, equally cherry > > Yours for the asking. As long as we're having a garage sale... I came across a stash of unopened VHS tapes today if anybody wants those. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:23:26 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: movie talk On Feb 16, 2008, at 1:04 PM, lep wrote: > i haven't been out to the theatres much as of late, but i finally saw > "juno." this movie is just ridiculously dear**. it's sort of in the > "garden state" vein of movie, but without the being annoying part. We loved it as well. Coleen had an interesting observation about the movie: Nobody used cell phones. Even when Juno calls Bateman's character from school she uses a pay phone. We thought that maybe it was supposed to be set 10 years ago or so, but never rewatched it to verify. I remember the two girls calling each other "dude" all the time, so I suppose it was supposed to be modern day. Anyway, we saw the most fascinating documentary a few nights ago: Grey Gardens. It chronicles a middle aged woman and her elderly mother who are cousins to Jackie Kennedy and live in their rundown East Hampton mansion. It was made in the mid 1970's after their house was nearly condemned by local authorities because it was so filthy. Go rent it now, it's remarkable. http://imdb.com/title/tt0073076/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:30:18 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: For your consideration... On Feb 16, 2008 6:09 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > > > As long as we're having a garage sale... > I came across a stash of unopened VHS tapes today if anybody wants > those. > Cool. We should like melt this stuff into some art or whatever. We can also toss in the cassette deck that I just bought for $10 which only played one side of one tape before crapping out. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:49:58 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: movie talk On Feb 16, 2008 6:23 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Feb 16, 2008, at 1:04 PM, lep wrote: > > > i haven't been out to the theatres much as of late, but i finally saw > > "juno." this movie is just ridiculously dear**. it's sort of in the > > "garden state" vein of movie, but without the being annoying part. > > We loved it as well. Coleen had an interesting observation about the > movie: Nobody used cell phones. Even when Juno calls Bateman's > character from school she uses a pay phone. We thought that maybe it > was supposed to be set 10 years ago or so, but never rewatched it to > verify. I remember the two girls calling each other "dude" all the > time, so I suppose it was supposed to be modern day. > Just heard an interview with the director, and the lack of tech was intentional(ly ambiguous). "Dude" was fairly prevalent, perhaps even between females, ten years ago, though (South Park started in '97 or so, right?)... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:02:11 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: movie talk > On Feb 16, 2008 6:23 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > >> On Feb 16, 2008, at 1:04 PM, lep wrote: >> >>> i haven't been out to the theatres much as of late, but i finally >>> saw >>> "juno." this movie is just ridiculously dear**. it's sort of in >>> the >>> "garden state" vein of movie, but without the being annoying part. >> >> We loved it as well. Coleen had an interesting observation about the >> movie: Nobody used cell phones. Even when Juno calls Bateman's >> character from school she uses a pay phone. We thought that maybe it >> was supposed to be set 10 years ago or so, but never rewatched it to >> verify. I remember the two girls calling each other "dude" all the >> time, so I suppose it was supposed to be modern day. Why would you use a cell phone when you could use a hamburger phone? It would be nice if Ellen Page gets an Oscar, but ever since Feist lost out at the Grammys I'm none too hopeful. Maybe it'll get Best Writing. Just finished watching Eagle vs. Shark. Another goodie. Anyone seen it? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:31:01 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: For your consideration... Rex wrote: > > We can also toss in the cassette deck that I just bought for $10 which only > played one side of one tape before crapping out. I'd throw in the p-o-s refurbed ThinkPad that I got today that managed to brick itself (to persistent BSOD) after running Windows Update, but I have to take it back and remonstrate with the dealer. Stewart (ps: rent, buy, steal or otherwise go see "Bound To Lose" - the documentary about The Holy Modal Rounders; probably the best movie about band dynamics you'll ever ingest. What other docu could feature Dave van Ronk, Ira Kaplan, Sam Shepard and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In?) (pps: Holy Modal Rounders live in Detroit 1965: . Yes, they're speeding, yes the tape quality is poor, but there is much magic there.) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:37:29 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: REAP: Yet another footnote in rock history Random dude in background of Abbey Road photo. http://tinyurl.com/34aqc4 - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:07:48 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Robert Forster to release new album 4/29 on Yep Roc - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:31:27 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: John Cleese's letter to America ..... John Cleese's letter to America ..... In view of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her Sovereign Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories (except Kansas , which she does not fancy), as from Monday next. Your new prime minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect: 1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium," and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. 2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour', 'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise." 3. You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra'; you may elect to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you find you simply can't cope with correct pronunciation. 4. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels (look up "vocabulary"). Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. 5. There is no such thing as "US English." We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize." 6. You will relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out Task #1 (see above). 7. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday. November 2nd will be a new national holiday, but to be celebrated only in England . It will be called "Come-Uppance Day." 8. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun. 9. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public. 10. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. 11. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric immediately and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour. 12. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling "gasoline") - roughly $6/US per gallon. Get used to it. 13. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps." Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with mayonnaise but with vinegar. 14. Waiters and waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers. 15. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer," and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager." American brands will be referred to as "Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine," so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion. 16. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie MacDowell attempt English dialogue in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was an experience akin to having one's ear removed with a cheese grater. 17. You will cease playing American "football." There is only one kind of proper football; you call it "soccer". 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(http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:43:06 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: McCartney 'agrees to $120 million divorce settlement' McCartney 'agrees to $120 million divorce settlement' _http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/mccartney-agrees-to-120-million-divorce-set tlement/2008/02/17/1203190629776.html_ (http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/mccartney-agrees-to-120-million-divorce-settlement/2008/02/17/1203190629776.html) **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:45:31 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Sailor; Pilot Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:48:17 -0600 From: 2fs On 2/16/08, Rex wrote: I was about to add to the coincidence pile that my wife actually knew the guys from Pilot, but then I remembered that it wasn't Pilot, it was Sailor. Is that forgiveable confusion or not? In the sense that I can't recall anything at all about the band Sailor - not even their (presumably) one hit - yes. ...Jeff Norman * Ah, the early seventies! Pilot had two big hits, "It's Magic" and "January" - Ian Bairnson was spoken of with bated breath at the time as the new guitar god, and presumably went off into session work. They were from Glasgow, I think. Stewart? Sailor had only one hit "A Glass of Champagne" which was very synth-heavy in the "Son of My Father" style. I have a feeling that their writer, George Hultgreen, had been in Eclection, but I could easily be wrong. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #506 ********************************