From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #606 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, May 21 2008 Volume 16 : Number 606 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: no not that guy [Michael Sweeney ] Re: "Respect", "The Basement Tapes" [Michael Sweeney ] crossing two threads. [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: "Respect", "The Basement Tapes" ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: no not that guy [Carrie Galbraith ] RE: Er, can you say, "FUCK THE DEMOCRATS!"? ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: Er, can you say, "FUCK THE DEMOCRATS!"? [2fs ] Re: Er, can you say, "FUCK THE DEMOCRATS!"? ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: crossing two threads. [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: crossing two threads. ["michael wells" ] Re: crossing two threads. [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: [Fwd: [Robyn Hitchcock] announces new box set, final ltd. ed. t-shirt available] [Rex ] Re: crossing two threads. [Rex ] =?UTF-8?Q?ROCKISM=20Name=20That=20Band=20in=20One=20Obscure,=20 M?= =?UTF-8?Q?umbled=20Reference=20=20=20If=20you=E2=80=99re=20addicted=20 to?= [] the ongoing local crisis [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 23:52:05 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: no not that guy Jeff wrote: >In a semi-unrelated incident, I noted at _Iron Man_ the other night thatthere were *two* people in the credits named "Michael Moore" (one had aninitial) - who, obviously, were not *the* Michael Moore.<> >So I propose a new game, the Michael Moore Game...which consists solely offinding people named "Michael Moore" (w/ or w/o initials, but this spelling)who are not the well-known large, baseball-cap wearing guy from Flint,Michigan, as listed in the credits of movies.< ...Also works with me, an Oakland A's (formerly Kansas City Royals) player, a California state assemblyman, a bunch of lawyers (including a top one here in Chicago), AND a guy who apparently transcribes every bit of available sheet music into school-band-appropriate arrangements... Michael "As you can imagine, it makes the Google-bating a bit of an uphill sled for me..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refr esh_family_safety_052008 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 00:06:04 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: "Respect", "The Basement Tapes" Jeremy Osner wrote: >...Also: Is Bob the Serpent?< Perhaps....but I DO have it on good authority that he IS the Jester (also, probably Zimmy and MAYBE the Jokerman)... Michael "Although NOT the Hurricane (the man the authorities came to blame)" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ E-mail for the greater good. Join the im Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ GreaterGood ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 12:09:32 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re:Serpent at... > > What do you guys think about this: The lines "Rolling down, the frozen > > highway/ Like a burning tyre", from "Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom", > > are neither more nor less than an invocation of Bob Dylan's 1966 > > motorcycle accident, by way of The Band's "This Wheel's on Fire". That > > thought has occurred to me every time I've listened to the song in the > > last year or so, and again today. Is it so obvious as not to be worth > > mentioning? Also: Is Bob the Serpent? > >Seems to me R's relationship to the serpent in the lyric is unambiguously >hostile enough ("God above and all his angels/have mercy on your soul," >after all) that it's not likely to be a reference to Bob. Coming in the >context of a whole batch of tunes related in one way or another to his >father's death and the end of a relationship I'd suggest it's just about >wisdom acquired at the price of suffering. And yep, have always read that >line as a reference to TWOF, esp. in light of RH referring referring to it >somewhere or other (Spectre?) as sounding to him like a song by the Band... Never seen it like that at all. It sounds like it's purely and simply a description of the Garden of Eden in the Bible to me - the serpent and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The song, as I interpret it, isn't even that hostile towards the serpent, asking as it does whether the fall was necessary in order for anything worthwhile to happen. And it's aimed at Eve, not the Devil - and is a perfect analogy for the awakening of lust in a previously prelapsarian (i.e., innocent) world. Nothing more, nothing less. That's not to say that that (rather splendid) line couldn't have been inspired by TWOF, of course. Take the lyrics overall and consider them addressed to the snake in the Garden of Eden. "Why did you feel it necessary to trick Eve into eating the fruit when it could so easily have done so itself? The world could have been perfection if that act hadn't been done, but the awakening of knowledge and lust into the world broke that perfection and allowed in all the positive and negative emotions that make up the world today. But was it your fault anyway? Without the knowledge of evil, there is no knowledge of good - they are the two sides of the same coin and need each other for either of them to really have any meaning. And if God is as omnipotent and omnipresent as He's made out to be, it wouldn't have happened. Yes, the serpent is present in my life too, as it is in all lives, but when I 'start my engine' I'm aware that its there and am able to control it. You did us all a great wrong, but you were necessary." Hence the extra verse I wrote and surreptitiously added in to my Glass Flesh version (which hopefully wasn't too egregious and sounded OK next to Robyn's originals). 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: Tue, 20 May 2008 20:15:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: green stuff and shooting Korans Well, now my universe is really upside down because Sebastian has informed me that the stuff that is all over the Statue of Liberty is not "Gruenspan" but rather "Kupferpatina." That was news to my husband as well. Sebastian, weren't you happier before you looked that up? ;-) And Jeff wrote: "I mean, do we have to specify now, in terms of its on/off table status, whether soldiers will be instructed to rape, eat, and kill babies..." Jeff, you left out "shooting at the Koran for target practice." Jill ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 12:18:27 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: crossing two threads. Re: The Michael Moore game Well, that';s OK if you haven't had a former political leader called Michael Moore (thankfully he's usually known as Mike). However, given the recent talk of serpents as in a certain song's lyrics, perhaps you may be intrigued by a pointless buut fun game for long car journeys . A year or so back, I went into a video store where I found two rather bored salespeople playing "Snakes". One of them had been thinking about the movie title "Snakes on a plane" and realised that loads of movie titles could be improved by replacing the first word with "Snakes". Some example titles included: Snakes with the wind Snakes of the Caribbean Snakes, actually Snakes in love Snakes of New York Snakes on a hot tin roof and, of course, Snakes like it hot 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: Tue, 20 May 2008 20:19:27 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: "Respect", "The Basement Tapes" (grin) Kevin's idea about "wisdom acquired through suffering" makes sense to me -- although Bob seems (to me) more like the Serpent than like Eve... "Wisdom acquired through suffering" in this context could refer either to Adam and Eve's becoming fully human, or just as well to Lucifer's losing his angelic status, right? I was listening to Skip James singing "I'd rather be the devil, than to be that woman's man" -- being the devil entails a lot of suffering. Right now I'm listening (again) to Robyn's appearance on "Morning Becomes Eclectic" in 2005. Singing "Flavour of Night"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2p7CFjGkco J On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > Jeremy Osner wrote: > > >>...Also: Is Bob the Serpent?< > > > Perhaps....but I DO have it on good authority that he IS the Jester (also, > probably Zimmy and MAYBE the Jokerman)... > > > Michael "Although NOT the Hurricane (the man the authorities came to blame)" > Sweeney > > > > > ________________________________ > E-mail for the greater good. Join the i'm Initiative from Microsoft. - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 17:33:56 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: no not that guy - -----Original Message----- >From: Michael Sweeney >...Also works with me, an Oakland A's (formerly Kansas City Royals) player, a >California state assemblyman, a bunch of lawyers (including a top one here in >Chicago), AND a guy who apparently transcribes every bit of available sheet >music into school-band-appropriate arrangements... I work with a Michael Moore. I smile to myself everytime I get an email from him. - - c ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 17:43:26 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Er, can you say, "FUCK THE DEMOCRATS!"? Jeff wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Jason Brown > wrote: > > > Care to explain why this is a bad idea? Just because you won't take > > something of the table doesn't mean you want to or will do it. > That's > > kind of a basic principle of diplomacy or any negotiation for that > > matter. > > > First - is it also a principle of diplomacy to refuse to negotiate with > a > party (which the US had done for quite some time)? Depends on who the party is. Agreeing to negotiate with a party legitimizes said party, which is sometimes the bone you want to hold out in itself. A perfect example of this was the refusal of Israel (and the US as well) to negotiate with the PLO until they renounced their position that Israel had no right of existence. Thi is not a comment on how right or wrong the US may be for doing it in this particular case, but rather a comment that the refusal to negotiate is indeed one of the tools available in diplomatic situations. > Second - in our formerly or fictitiously civilized world, certain acts > are > presumed off the table as they are/were commonly regarded as crimes > against > humanity - such as genocide, torture, chemical warfare, and nuclear > first > strikes. Some of these are considered crimes against humanity, but nuclear first strikes are not to my knowledge included as a crime against humanity in any international treaty. On the other hand, Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and as such has agreed that they will not build or attempt to acquire the technology to build nuclear weapons. In 2006, they were found by the UN Security Council to be in violation of Article II of the NNPT and they were ordered to stop their enrichment activities. So in other words, war could be (hasn't yet been) justified as a means of enforcing the UN order just like Operation Desert Storm was legally justified in 1990 after the invasion of Kuwait. The question of the means of said enforcement operations, however, are an open question--why an option should be left off the table in this case a priori is not established as a "crime against humanity" as you suggest. > > Since we've decided at least some of those things are just hunky-dory > so > long as they're called by another name, then I suppose it's correct to > specify whether or not they're "on the table" - lest anyone > misunderstand > our intentions. > > I mean, do we have to specify now, in terms of its on/off table status, > whether soldiers will be instructed to rape, eat, and kill babies, say > (in > that order)? Actually, no--those crimes you list above were established as part of the International Criminal Court as being officially war crimes. Nuclear first strike, however, was not and I doubt it would ever be. > > Used to be certain atrocities were assumed to be beyond the pale. Thank > you, > Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, et al. (although they aren't really the first...) Rape, pillage, baby killing, etc., are assumed to be beyond the pale. The use of nuclear weapons against a military target to enforce international law never has been considered "beyond the pale" that I'm aware of. I don't believe Pelosi in this case is suggesting the "turn Iran into a parking lot" use of mass nuclear attacks against civilian populations, which is considered beyond the pale by the ICC, so we need to distinguish this before we jump up and down assuming that any use of nukes must, by definition, be a crime against humanity. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 17:44:52 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: crossing two threads. > A year or so back, I went into a video store where I found two rather bored > salespeople playing "Snakes". One of them had been thinking about the movie > title "Snakes on a plane" and realised that loads of movie titles could be > improved by replacing the first word with "Snakes". > > Some example titles included: > > Snakes with the wind > Snakes of the Caribbean > Snakes, actually > Snakes in love > Snakes of New York > Snakes on a hot tin roof > and, of course, Snakes like it hot > Snakes Go To White Castle Snakes In a Dufflebag Snakes vs. Mothra Snakes Meet the Wolfman Snakes In Orange (for all you Cure fans out there...) Snakes Of Fire Snakes Were Soldiers Once Snakes Died a Thousand Times this could be habit-forming... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:54:04 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Er, can you say, "FUCK THE DEMOCRATS!"? On 5/20/08, Marc Alberts wrote: > > use of nuclear weapons against a military target to enforce international > law never has been considered "beyond the pale" that I'm aware of. What is the advantage of using nukes in this situation rather than conventional weapons - against a supposed military target, and supposedly to "enforce" international law? Even conventional bombs have proven singularly inept at distinguishing between military targets and civilians that happen to be nearby - what respect for international law does it show to kill uninvolved civilians by dropping a bomb on them? And of course a nuke would render the area uninhabitable for a considerable period of time, or at very least require considerable radiation cleanup. And I won't even mention the enormous irony of using nuclear weapons to "enforce" a law prohibiting the development of nuclear weapons. Are the people and agencies that developed the nukes the ones who suffer and die? Finally, I've never understood the logic whereby one country, which happens to have developed nuclear weapons first, gets to say to other countries yea or nay on whether they can have them. Or rather, I understand the *reason* - but it isn't logic, it's pure blunt force and power. And as North Korea shows, US saber-rattling about nuclear development clearly is a more severe threat against a nation w/o nukes or a nuke program than against one with a nuke program. The obvious lesson is, of course, to develop nukes as fast as you can, regardless of what international law (a/k/a we have them so you can't) says. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:06:38 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Er, can you say, "FUCK THE DEMOCRATS!"? > The use of nuclear weapons against a military target to enforce > international > law never has been considered "beyond the pale" that I'm aware of. I don't > believe Pelosi in this case is suggesting the "turn Iran into a parking > lot" > use of mass nuclear attacks against civilian populations, which is > considered beyond the pale by the ICC, so we need to distinguish this > before > we jump up and down assuming that any use of nukes must, by definition, be > a > crime against humanity. > Wouldn't be a bad idea to define it as one, by statute, though. Nice PR move if nothing else. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 21:03:21 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: [Fwd: [Robyn Hitchcock] announces new box set, final ltd. ed. t-shirt available] the latest robyn news from yeproc. no idea why the fourth limited edition t-shirt is more important than _luminous groove_, but there you go... woj - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Robyn Hitchcock] announces new box set, final ltd. ed. t-shirt available Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 17:04:35 -0400 From: Yep Roc Records *Pick up your limited-edition "flower" tee, designed by Robyn Hitchcock* Get the *fourth and final in the series of limited-edition t-shirts* designed by Robyn Hitchcock, with a word from God! This tee is available for pre-order at the Yep Roc Web Shop *ONLY until June 13th*. Once this pre-order period ends, these shirts will only be available on tour. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Robyn Hitchcock to release 2nd in series of career documenting box sets, out August 5th* The second in a series of Robyn Hitchcock retrospective box sets from Yep Roc, the five-disc /Luminous Groove/ box set shines a light on Robyn's rock & roll renaissance with the Egyptians.* "It's still odd for me to think of the 1980s as being in the past," Robyn Hitchcock says of the latest set. "Back then, they were a baleful future that we refugees from the 1960s were marooned in. I never thought I'd get out alive, from Reagan, Thatcher and shoulder pads. But time wins again." Studio albums /Fegmania!/ and /Element of Light/, along with the live album /Gotta Let This Hen Out!/, document Robyn's post Soft Boys period and largely, his introduction to American audiences. All three albums contain new bonus tracks exclusive to /Luminous Groove/. In addition to these three seminal albums, the set also includes two exclusive bonus discs entitled /Bad Case of History/ which features previously unreleased studio recordings, including the final 1994 sessions, and a CD of unheard live material. Just as with Yep Roc's first box set collection /I Wanna Go Backwards/, the curation of /Fegmania!/, /Element of Light/ and /Gotta Let This Hen Out! / into one box set encapsulates a critical portion of the creative life of Britain's Mad Hatter of pop and further illuminates Hitchcock's gloriously mysterious /Luminous Groove/. /Luminous Groove/ will also be available as an eight-LP vinyl set. Pre-order your copy from the Yep Roc Web Shop beginning in early June and catch Robyn on tour this summer! Check concert dates and download tour posters at yeproc.com - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Yep Roc releases limited edition split 7" vinyl single with Robyn Hitchcock and Nick Lowe!* This extremely limited edition vinyl single includes "SickyBoy" from Robyn Hitchcock's currently unreleased /Little Pink/ recording sessions and Nick Lowe's classic "Heart of the City," recorded live at WFUV in 2007. The single was put together to help commemorate the three sold out shows Nick and Robyn recently did together in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. *Get "SickyBoy" / "Heart of the City" EXCLUSIVELY at the Yep Roc Web Shop for just $4.99! Five lucky fans will be selected at random to receive a poster from Nick and Robyn's show at The Fillmore in San Francisco on April 12.* - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 01:36:19 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: YouTubing ...Few things in this world make me happier than the "All the love in the world for you, girl" bridge in The Pretenders' "Thumbelina"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gog3rSSa9yY Michael "Perhaps convinced if Chrissie Hynde and Joe Strummer had managed to parent* a child in 1980, '81, that kid now would be the undisputed King of Rock and Roll (for whatever THAT's worth anymore)..." Sweeney * Of course, I know, I know: Chrissie and Ray D., Chrissie and Jim K....but, c'mon -- either Joe, Iggy, or Keef woulda been much better male contributors if we're seeking future rn'r domination.... _________________________________________________________________ Give to a good cause with every e-mail. Join the im Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?souce=EML_WL_ GoodCause ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:02:07 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Er, can you say, "FUCK THE DEMOCRATS!"? does the bear shit in the woods? (to be honest, i had assumed it to be self-evident...) actually, i do think that -- while i'm quite sure that a great many high-ranking members of both the democrat and the republic parties would love nothing more than to do it up real good -- it is a bluff. in my opinion, threatening to incinerate another party if it doesn't do exactly what you tell it to do ranks nowhere in a list of tenets of any school of diplomacy worth paying attention to. leaving the threat "on the table" pre-supposes that the united states is in the right and that iran is in the wrong (in other words, that the facts don't matter), that the united states is the arbiter of international law, and that the rules are whatever we say they are *for any given case*. is it a "bad idea", on its own terms? i don't know. i'd suspect that it probably is. but either way, that's a different animal from its making the democrats fuck-you-worthy: ~ the threat of force is a violation of international law. ~ so long as the united states (as well its regional clients, israel and pakistan) is itself in violation of the NPT, it not only has no business lecturing other states which are *not* in violation of the NPT, it has no business even taking part in discussions. "let he without sin" and all that jazz. ~ suggesting that iran is a greater threat to the region than are the united states and israel immediately disqualifies pelosi from being taken seriously. ~ there's really not much evidence to suggest that it's the case; but if iran *is* seeking to manufacture some nuclear weapons, and if it *does* succeed, and to the extent that it circumscribes u.s. military activities in the region, then it ought to be encouraged. don't *even* get me started on the "appeasement" brouhaha... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:09:09 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: crossing two threads. On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:01 PM, michael wells wrote: > > title "Snakes on a plane" and realised that loads of movie titles could > be > improved > > Uh oh... > > The Snakes Witch Project > Snake Hand Luke > Snakes Having a Baby > A Snake at the Opera > Snaking the Monkey > Snakes Of Wrath! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:15:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: crossing two threads. kevin studyvin wrote: > > A year or so back, I went into a video store where I found two > > rather bored salespeople playing "Snakes". One of them had been > > thinking about the movie title "Snakes on a plane" and realised > > that loads of movie titles could be improved by replacing the > > first word with "Snakes". > > > > Some example titles included: > > > > Snakes with the wind > > Snakes of the Caribbean > > Snakes, actually > > Snakes in love > > Snakes of New York > > Snakes on a hot tin roof > > and, of course, Snakes like it hot > > > > Snakes Go To White Castle Wouldn't that actually be "Snakes and Kumar go to White Castle?" > Snakes In a Dufflebag > Snakes vs. Mothra > Snakes Meet the Wolfman > Snakes In Orange (for all you Cure fans out there...) > Snakes Of Fire > Snakes Were Soldiers Once > Snakes Died a Thousand Times > > this could be habit-forming... > "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 . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 21:01:40 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: crossing two threads. > title "Snakes on a plane" and realised that loads of movie titles could be improved Uh oh... The Snakes Witch Project Snake Hand Luke Snakes Having a Baby A Snake at the Opera Snaking the Monkey Michael ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 23:21:46 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: crossing two threads. On May 20, 2008, at 9:01 PM, michael wells wrote: >> title "Snakes on a plane" and realised that loads of movie titles >> could be > improved > > Uh oh... > > The Snakes Witch Project > Snake Hand Luke > Snakes Having a Baby > A Snake at the Opera > Snaking the Monkey > > Michael The Thin Red Snake Full Metal Snakes Snakes Now! The Wicker Snake The Manchurian Snake Snakador Five Easy Snakes Homicide: Life on the Snakes CSI: Snake and Snake the Vampire Slayer - - c, who is already ducking ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 00:02:34 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Robyn Hitchcock] announces new box set, final ltd. ed. t-shirt available] On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 6:03 PM, gaseous clay wrote: > > > *Robyn Hitchcock to release 2nd in series of career documenting box > sets, out August 5th* > > The second in a series of Robyn Hitchcock retrospective box sets from > Yep Roc, Two references to this being part of a series... that seems to imply this isn't the last one. Has there been some kind of breakthrough on the A&M front? (Or is it perfectly okay to be "second in a series of two"? Either way, Yep Roc's copy editor still needs an assistant or something.) - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 00:11:45 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: crossing two threads. On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:44 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > A year or so back, I went into a video store where I found two rather > bored > > salespeople playing "Snakes". One of them had been thinking about the > movie > > title "Snakes on a plane" and realised that loads of movie titles could > be > > improved by replacing the first word with "Snakes". > LOL 111!!one! > > Snakes Meet the Wolfman I think you should have to retain the original conjugation for bonus laffs... this one is funny, but I prefer "Snakes Meets the Wolfman". - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 00:33:05 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: crossing two threads. On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:18 PM, wrote: > Re: The Michael Moore game > > A year or so back, I went into a video store where I found two rather bored > salespeople playing "Snakes". One of them had been thinking about the movie > title "Snakes on a plane" and realised that loads of movie titles could be > improved by replacing the first word with "Snakes". You could also try it with album titles. "Snakes! Tarantula" and "Snakes for Sofia" would be pretty good, but you'd just have to love "Snakes Snake Diamond Role". I suggest we all undertake to append a snakesified "np" to the end of every post. I'll start. np. "Snakes Enduction Hour". - -Rex "Would it be 'SnakesCat' or just plain 'Snakes'?" 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(http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 09:40:01 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: the ongoing local crisis "Something Snakespeare never said..." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #606 ********************************