From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #625 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, June 6 2008 Volume 16 : Number 625 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #624 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #624 [2fs ] Re: cwinkydink! [Capuchin ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #624 [Capuchin ] What a disheveled mess. [Steve Schiavo ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #622 [Rex ] Re: yucky band name [Rex ] Re: cwinkydink! [Rex ] Re: What a disheveled mess. [2fs ] Re: yucky band names [Tom Clark ] Re: cwinkydink! [Rex ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #624 [Rex ] Re: cwinkydink! ["Jason Brown" ] Re: What a disheveled mess. ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: cwinkydink! ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: yucky band name ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #622 ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: What a disheveled mess. ["(0% rh)" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #624 [Sebastian Hagedorn ] @#%&*! Smilers cleared up [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock - 1990-10-04 - Tramps, New York City, NY (AUD cassette master) [gas] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #622 [Rex ] Re: NEW on DiME:Robyn Hitchcock October 4, 1990 Tramps, New York City, NY [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Headline Of The Moment ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Headline Of The Moment [2fs ] RE: Headline Of The Moment ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: mulch and dogs ["(0% rh)" ] Re: mulch and dogs [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:38:24 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #624 > > Well...no... the same logic would actually mean you filed it inder > > "At Hash Percentage Dollar Asterisk Exclamation Smilers" (Hash is, > > surely, the usual name for #). > >I always heard it called the pound sign. Could be one of them >divided by common languagy things though. probably is - though a pound sign looks nothing like # - it's a stylised L with a horizontal line through it (see ). > However, Aimee Mann is nowhere near The Magnetic Fields! I mean, not unless > you don't have any records by Bauhaus or even The Decemberists (both of > which go between those two). The Decembrists I can understand, but why would you file Bauhaus between M and T? ;) 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: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:00:09 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #624 On 6/5/08, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > > Well...no... the same logic would actually mean you filed it inder >> > "At Hash Percentage Dollar Asterisk Exclamation Smilers" (Hash is, >> > surely, the usual name for #). >> >> I always heard it called the pound sign. Could be one of them divided by >> common languagy things though. >> > > probably is - though a pound sign looks nothing like # - it's a stylised L > with a horizontal line through it (see < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sign>). Not "pound" as in money - "pound" as in weight. In the US, at least, "#" is used as a symbol for "pound" - i.e., "20# ass in 10# ass-sack," say. However, Aimee Mann is nowhere near The Magnetic Fields! I mean, not >> unless >> you don't have any records by Bauhaus or even The Decemberists (both of >> which go between those two). >> > > The Decembrists I can understand, but why would you file Bauhaus between M > and T? ;) The real problem with this approach (and why Eddie Is Wrong...) is that with many acts, it's entirely ambiguous as to whether the article is properly part of the name. Then again, in some cases, it's so much a part of the name that it's the most distinctive aspect of the name - such as the band A House, who arguably should be filed under "A" simply because (a) it's unusual to use indefinite articles in band names and (b) "House" is boring. Also: just ran into a blog post about a band apparently called "An Horse." I have no idea whether that's supposed to be humorously incorrect or if they're using a Gaelic article...(I believe "an" is that, no?) but in such a case it seems silly to file under "H" as if it's just a dead-generic article. Also, I wonder if something programmed to alphabetize, and given an instruction that essentially meant something like "if you encounter the character string 'the_" (case-insensitive), begin alphabetization at the next character, transform 'the_' to ',_the' and append it to the end of the name," would choke on a feedback loop when it runs into Matt Johnson's former band's name... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 20:00:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: cwinkydink! On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Jason Brown wrote: > Ok now that is just wrong. Do you shelve your books that way too? With > William S. Burroughs and William Shakespeare next to each other? I only keep a handful of books anymore. Most of them are math books, sorted by ascending abstraction and from continuous to discrete structures. Between the internet and university and public libraries, I no longer find it necessary to archive widely available things. And I've never, ever sorted my books by author. > Im going through this process right now. it feels wonderful. Ah, post-consumerism! Celebrate the abundance! J. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 20:04:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #624 On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: >> However, Aimee Mann is nowhere near The Magnetic Fields! I mean, not >> unless you don't have any records by Bauhaus or even The Decemberists >> (both of which go between those two). > > The Decembrists I can understand, but why would you file Bauhaus between > M and T? ;) The Decemberists are, of course, under T, but before The Magentic Fields and Baushaus is under B right after A which contains Aimee Mann, naturally. I mean, are you really going to have directories called "Mann\,_Aimee"? That's just a mess. J. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:05:35 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: What a disheveled mess. > What a disheveled mess. Who the hell would vote for him? This guy > can't get his appearance together, how is he going to govern? - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:15:14 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #622 On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:30 AM, (0% rh) wrote: > Jeff Dwarf says: > > On Thu, 6/5/08, grutness@slingshot.co.nz > wrote: > >> Well...no... the same logic would actually mean you filed it inder > >> "At Hash Percentage Dollar Asterisk Exclamation Smilers" (Hash is, > >> surely, the usual name for #). > > > > I always heard it called the pound sign. Could be one of them divided by > common languagy things though. > > the pound sign is how i've heard it as well, although for some reason > i call it "number sign" (i think i only have to deal with it in the > context of enumerated lists.) > It was always "the number sign" for me; never heard "pound sign" until automated phone lines came in (and I do remember a world without them). I actually remember the first time a robot told me to use the "pound sign" and having to guess which one it was-- what I really thought it should be was the stylized L used to denote British currency. Which would explain why it's not called that in places where a pound is a monetary unit, but not why Americans *do* call it that. I mean, "We're #1" has never been chanted as "We're Pound One", has it? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:18:46 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: yucky band name On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:41 AM, (0% rh) wrote: > 2fs says: > > i'd hate to think of people having to go through the bother of six > syllables just to say my name. that seems like a bit of imposition. > Not necessarily. Some collections of syllables are just pleasing to speak, or read, or behold. Mileage varies, but you could be improving someone's life just as likely as stalling it out. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:24:29 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: cwinkydink! On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:49 AM, (0% rh) wrote: > Sebastian says: > > --On 5. Juni 2008 05:54:07 -0400 "(0% rh)" > wrote: > > > >> okay, now i'm in on (was it kevin's?) snakes game, e.g. i'll say to > >> sebastian "the boy with the @#%$*ing @#%$*!" wins my vote over "dear > >> @#%$*! waitress" and it's hard for me to imagine that changing with > >> more plays of "dear @#%$*! waitress." > > > > Really? In my mind the contender for first place is "Tiger@#%$*!" (which > > sounds cooler than @#%$*!milk). > At this point we drop the punctuation for maximum fun and start debating the relative merits of "If You're Fucking Sinister" and "Fold Your Hands Child You Fuck Like a Peasant". - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 23:27:05 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: What a disheveled mess. On 6/5/08, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > What a disheveled mess. Who the hell would vote for him? This guy can't get >> his appearance together, how is he going to govern? >> > > the_son_also_rises_for_congres.html> > > He looks, quite disturbingly, like a perfect cross between Henry Spencer (_Eraserhead_) and Spencer's creator, David Lynch. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:27:05 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: yucky band names On Jun 5, 2008, at 6:34 AM, Jill Brand wrote: > When I first moved to Boston, there was a band called Smegma and the > Nuns. Tom Clark, do you remember them? > I don't remember that name, but my favorite weird Boston band was 'Hell Toupee'. We saw them open for the Butthole Surfers at The Paradise in 1990. Funnest, most crazy show ever. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:32:04 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: cwinkydink! On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > > > And if I still kept CDs (which I don't -- that was a painful day, but > also > > somewhat liberating), that would be very near the bottom right corner of > the > > top drawer. > > Im going through this process right now. it feels wonderful. Mulling it. The probably-literally-thousand-or-so-dollar question: How much realistic difference is there between an mp3 file at 320 and a WAV file (as in, if I were really gonna ditch the physical CD's, would I be an idiot not to re-rip them first)? It's almost impossible for me to imagine ditching them all, but a this point my actual musical holding are probably only 2/3 physical, and the digital 1/3 contains a lot of amazing favorites (whereas probably 1/2 the physical 2/3 is maybe circumstantial purchases from use bins, regretted or at best unbeloved purchases, and suchlike). Don't think I'll ever part with the books if I can help it, though. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:38:28 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #624 On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:00 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > Not "pound" as in money - "pound" as in weight. In the US, at least, "#" is > used as a symbol for "pound" Not in West Virginia we didn't (reader's discretion as to whether or not I'm contradicting Jeffrey). > > Also: just ran into a blog post about a band apparently called "An Horse." > I > have no idea whether that's supposed to be humorously incorrect or if > they're using a Gaelic article...(I believe "an" is that, no?) but in such > a > case it seems silly to file under "H" as if it's just a dead-generic > article. It may be related to the intarnet meme "an hero", which means "person who has committed suicide" (and is variants "an villain", etc). But what do I know. Austen novels talk about taking "an house" in the country, so it's a tossup as to whether these guys are trying to sound really old or really new. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:02:40 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: cwinkydink! On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Rex wrote: >> Im going through this process right now. it feels wonderful. > > Mulling it. The probably-literally-thousand-or-so-dollar question: How > much realistic difference is there between an mp3 file at 320 and a WAV file > (as in, if I were really gonna ditch the physical CD's, would I be an idiot > not to re-rip them first)? I recently got rid of my old stereo system and I now listen to almost all music either via iPod or through some decent computer speakers. So mp3 quality is sufficient for me right now. If you using a $10k system then the limits of 320 mp3 will show up but otherwise i dont think you'll care and will just end up spending extra on extra drives for storage. I've got everything triple backed up on different hard drives and i plan to buy an another drive for off site storage eventually. > Don't think I'll ever part with the books if I can help it, though. I had do get rid of a bunch of books due the sudden disappearance of free storage space and it was easy to get rid of them provided i never looked in the boxes. Thats what inspired me to get the ball rolling on the CD projectI couldn't part with the books on the shelves around the house though! - -- "Never go with a hippie to a second location." - Jack Donaghy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:27:47 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: What a disheveled mess. ...libertarians... On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:27 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 6/5/08, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > > What a disheveled mess. Who the hell would vote for him? This guy can't > get > >> his appearance together, how is he going to govern? > >> > > > > > the_son_also_rises_for_congres.html> > > > > > He looks, quite disturbingly, like a perfect cross between Henry Spencer > (_Eraserhead_) and Spencer's creator, David Lynch. > > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:30:43 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: cwinkydink! On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Rex wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:49 AM, (0% rh) wrote: > > > Sebastian says: > > > --On 5. Juni 2008 05:54:07 -0400 "(0% rh)" > > wrote: > > > > > >> okay, now i'm in on (was it kevin's?) snakes game, Didn't start it, it's just the kind of silliness I can't resist. > e.g. i'll say to > > >> sebastian "the boy with the @#%$*ing @#%$*!" wins my vote over "dear > > >> @#%$*! waitress" and it's hard for me to imagine that changing with > > >> more plays of "dear @#%$*! waitress." > > > > > > Really? In my mind the contender for first place is "Tiger@#%$*!" > (which > > > sounds cooler than @#%$*!milk). > > > > At this point we drop the punctuation for maximum fun and start debating > the > relative merits of "If You're Fucking Sinister" and "Fold Your Hands Child > You Fuck Like a Peasant". > > -Rex > np Procol Harum - A Salty Snake ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:33:04 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: yucky band name > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:41 AM, (0% rh) wrote: > > > 2fs says: > > > > i'd hate to think of people having to go through the bother of six > > syllables just to say my name. that seems like a bit of imposition. > > > > Not necessarily. Some collections of syllables are just pleasing to speak, > or read, or behold. Mileage varies, but you could be improving someone's > life just as likely as stalling it out. > > -Rex > You have to admit "lauren elizabeth" rolls off the tongue more pleasantly than, say, "throat-warbler mangrove." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:40:18 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #622 > I mean, "We're #1" has never been chanted as "We're Pound One", has it? > > -Rex > When you put it in that context it sounds like a kool name for a band..."Hi, we're Pound One and this one is called 'I've Got Tears In My Ears From Laying On My Back In My Bed While I Cry Over You'." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 01:41:01 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: What a disheveled mess. kevin says: > ...libertarians... well, it's clear that nothing governs that guy's hair. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:46:11 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #624 - --On 5. Juni 2008 20:04:05 -0500 Capuchin wrote: > The Decemberists are, of course, under T, but before The Magentic Fields > and Baushaus is under B right after A which contains Aimee Mann, > naturally. > > I mean, are you really going to have directories called "Mann\,_Aimee"? > That's just a mess. Let me sing the praises of iTunes once more! With iTunes 7 you can have it both ways. The directory is called "Aimee Mann", her name appears as "Aimee Mann" in the GUI, yet still you can have her ordered as "Mann, Aimee" by setting the Sort Artist ... that's what I do, because I have no life :-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:52:26 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: cwinkydink! - --On 5. Juni 2008 21:32:04 -0700 Rex wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > >> >> > And if I still kept CDs (which I don't -- that was a painful day, but >> also >> > somewhat liberating), that would be very near the bottom right corner >> > of >> the >> > top drawer. >> >> Im going through this process right now. it feels wonderful. > > > Mulling it. I've been mulling it as well, and more than half of my CDs are still in the boxes I put them in when I moved last year, but: I got new speakers and with them I can hear the difference between the CD and my AAC 128kbit rips, which used to be my format of choice. I find that at higher rates the difference is either undetectable or insignificant. Still, I'd have to re-rip my entire collection! Besides, my niece thinks my CDs look "cool" ... so why would I go messing with that? ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:54:50 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: @#%&*! Smilers cleared up - -------------- Forwarded Message: -------------- From: Jill Weisenfeld To: "Mannlist@smoe.org" Subject: Article from the Toronto Star Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:12:19 +0000 For singer-songwriter, it's every Mann for herself Singer-songwriter thankful for the freedom of having her own label as new album released Jun 02, 2008 04:30 AM Pamela Chelin Special to the Star LOS ANGELES"I want to have something substantial that is good and a good piece of art. That is why I do it," says Aimee Mann. Sitting on a couch in her Los Angeles house with her cat in her lap, the acclaimed singer-songwriter is trying to explain why even though the music on her new album @#%&*! Smilers (out tomorrow) was finished a year ago, Mann has spent months assembling the cover and the liner art. "I can put out what I consider good music, with the players I want, the songs I want, the sequence I want, the artwork I want and I don't have to confer with a bunch of idiots about what they think, which is always wrong, and then to have to do this dance where you're trying to get them to think that they thought of the idea. It's just an embarrassing waste of your time. "When I was on a major record label, nothing ever got done." If anyone should know, it's Mann. The 47-year-old initially rose to fame in the '80s with her band 'Til Tuesday but then endured years of exasperating dealings with her corporate handlers. In 1999, having grown frustrated with the major label (Geffen) she was signed to, Mann started her own label SuperEgo Records in order to release her own records. A year later, she was once again thrust into the limelight due to her Oscar nomination for her song "Save Me" from the Magnolia soundtrack. Being her own boss has its perks  including having no one to answer to when she decided to bestow her record with its provocative title. "There was this newsgroup ages ago that my friend and I used to read called Alt Bitter. It was all people who talked about how bitter they were. We thought that was just the funniest thing," she says. "One of the threads we always used to talk about was f---ing Smilers. This person was bitching about how people at their workspace, when you walk down the hall, say, `Come on, smile!' and what do you say to that? The person writing the thread hated that. And I totally related. I hate when people try to force you to smile when you don't feel like it or they say, 'Come on, it can't be that bad' and it's like, `How do you know? It can be that bad.'" Dressed casually in a red sweatshirt and jeans, her straight blond hair thrown back into a bun, Mann explains the album's new direction while relaxing in the living room of the home she shares with her husband, singer/songwriter Michael Penn. Mann, an accomplished guitarist who studied music at Berklee College of Music, has made Smilers free of electric guitars, an unusual choice for the songwriter whose previous records have been significantly guitar-based. With an emphasis upon keyboards, instead, @#%&*! Smilers is as Mann-ian as ever: songs filled with a cast of dysfunctional characters, including drug addicts, alcoholics and doctors who over prescribe medication. Despite the difficult subject matter and the bluntness of her songs, both compassion and understanding filter into even the bleakest of situations  a reflection of Mann, herself, who is constantly trying to understand human behaviour. She admits that she herself has an obsessive personality and started going to Al-Anon in order to deal with the exhaustion she experienced from trying to help addicts in her own life. "People are endlessly interesting to me," she says. "I don't know if they'll ever stop being interesting. There's always new things that you notice and new levels that you notice. I don't think that will ever change for me." When Mann's not spending time exploring human psychology, she boxes and bicycles around her neighbourhood to keep in shape. With her 48th birthday coming up in September (after her show in Toronto in August, on a tour with Squeeze), she reveals concerns about getting older. "You can see how women who are not physically attractive are invisible," she says. "It's not that they aren't taken seriously. It's like they don't exist and are not even on people's radar." She does have limits, however. Mann calls the ubiquitous Botox injections and breast implants in L.A., where she has lived for 13 years, "creepy" and "awful." As to her own celebrity status in a city obsessed with fame, she says, "I'm fortunate because I'm very unrecognizable." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 09:02:10 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: Re: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock - 1990-10-04 - Tramps, New York City, NY (AUD cassette master) >Robyn Hitchcock >October 4, 1990 >Tramps, New York City, NY this is now on the live music archive too, with mp3s and oggs: http://www.archive.org/details/RobynHitchcock1990-10-04.cm-s20.flac16 woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 06:31:29 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #622 On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:40 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > I mean, "We're #1" has never been chanted as "We're Pound One", has it? >> >> -Rex >> > > When you put it in that context it sounds like a kool name for a > band..."Hi, we're Pound One and this one is called 'I've Got Tears In My > Ears From Laying On My Back In My Bed While I Cry Over You'." > EEEEEMMMOOOOOO! (Erm, supposed to be the shouting of "emo", but on reflection just looks like "emu" misspelled. Which might be a superior musical genre.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:36:57 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: NEW on DiME:Robyn Hitchcock October 4, 1990 Tramps, New York City, NY - --On 4. Juni 2008 19:46:20 -0400 HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > Robyn Hitchcock > October 4, 1990 > Tramps, New York City, NY Wow, I think I was at that show! I just checked RobynBase and apparently there were two shows on consecutive days ... I have no idea which one Brenda and I went to. Maybe I'll remember something when I hear it ... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:42:21 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: yucky band name - --On 5. Juni 2008 13:41:24 -0400 "(0% rh)" wrote: > i didn't realize people might think of me as a two-name person until > jeanne (hi!) said something about it at a show. but it by then it was > Too Late. i had just used the "elizabeth" instead of putting a last > name into my hotmail account (i think it didn't accept an initial in > the last name field), and i just kept the same "name" when i switched > to gmail. > > i'd hate to think of people having to go through the bother of six > syllables just to say my name. that seems like a bit of imposition. Well, I have to admit that it took me a while to realize that "Elizabeth" isn't in fact your last name. I just assumed ... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:16:07 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Headline Of The Moment "French Open: Ruthless Nadal crushes Djokovic to reach final". i can't recall ever having seen the word "ruthless" in a sports headline (or even in any sports writing) before. quite evocative in this context! now, if i can ever read a story about an earthquake without seeing the word "temblor", i'll be able to die a happy motherfucker (i won't be holding my breath, mind you). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:26:38 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment On 6/6/08, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > "French Open: Ruthless Nadal crushes Djokovic to reach final". > > i can't recall ever having seen the word "ruthless" in a sports headline > (or even in any sports writing) before. quite evocative in this context! I think "Ruthless Nadal" sounds like the nickname of a 1910s baseball player... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:38:39 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Headline Of The Moment - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Stacked Crooked Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 11:16 AM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Headline Of The Moment >"French Open: Ruthless Nadal crushes Djokovic to reach final". >i can't recall ever having seen the word "ruthless" in a sports headline (or even in any sports writing) >before. quite evocative in this context! Maybe the 1973-74 or 1974-75 NHL Philadelphia Flyers Stanley Cup winning teams perhaps? They were nicknamed the "Broad Street Bullies", and that moniker was well earned. They had some skilled players, but most of them were real nasty and fought for no reason other then to intimidate. Thankfully the Montreal Canadians knocked them off in 1976 and the Flyers haven't won a cup since. Belated kudos for the Detroit Red Wings for winning their 11th Stanley Cup on Wednesday!!!! Seven super Swedes lead the way, along with a goalie from Peace River, Alberta. Also a defenseman from Rocky Mountain House, Alberta along with the first ever player from Newfoundland to hoist the Cup in the air. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:56:51 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: mulch and dogs hi mom, just an FYI...i came across this in an e-mail warning of a certain kind mulch being dangerous to dogs. http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/cocoamulch.asp love, lp - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:58:42 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: mulch and dogs i say: > hi mom, > > just an FYI...i came across this in an e-mail warning of a certain > kind mulch being dangerous to dogs. > > http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/cocoamulch.asp oh...shit. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:48:23 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: mulch and dogs On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:56 AM, (0% rh) wrote: > hi mom, > > just an FYI...i came across this in an e-mail warning of a certain > kind mulch being dangerous to dogs. > > http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/cocoamulch.asp > > Lauren Elizabeth, I've told you a hundred times - do *not* let your friends know I'm subscribed to the Fegmaniax list. Especially not under the name "Sgt. Cockring." * - --Love, Mom * bit of an in-joke there, I think only Miles will get it.. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #625 ********************************