From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #630 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, June 13 2008 Volume 16 : Number 630 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #628 [Sebastian Hagedorn ] McNuggets! and pounds. ["Benjamin Lukoff" ] McNuggets! and pounds. ["Benjamin Lukoff" ] Re: McNuggets! and pounds. [gaseous clay ] Overclothed? Underclothed? [David Witzany ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #629 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Overclothed? Underclothed? [Rex ] Re: Overclothed? Underclothed? ["(0% rh)" ] Re: pounds, quarter pounders, etc. ["(0% rh)" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #628 [Steve Talkowski ] Some Things *Never* Fuckin' Change ["Stacked Crooked" ] just wondering ["(0% rh)" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:24:42 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #628 - -- Steve Talkowski is rumored to have mumbled on 11. Juni 2008 16:48:28 -0400 regarding Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #628: > -Steve, enjoying EURO 2008! Except for Germany's win over Poland (yet again after 2006) I haven't been very happy with the results, though. For the most part I was rooting for the losing teams, e.g. Switzerland, Russia and Italy. Especially the Swiss really had bad luck in both games ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:08:17 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: The Police If anyone cares, I saw The Police last Sunday: In other news, I'm listening to the new Robert Forster again after those votes of confidence here and I like it much better than the first two times. Go figure. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:50:31 -0700 From: "Benjamin Lukoff" Subject: McNuggets! and pounds. > From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz > > > > But hey: maybe in some specialized situations, a different symbol is > used > > > for pounds (weight) than for number... > > > > > > >And when you need that convenient shorthand for "how many pounds," then > >what? > > same as everyone else - lb. That's the usual abbreviation for pounds > (weight) elsewhere. Why would you use a hash sign for it, especially > in a country which uses # in place of no. for number? It surely > causes confusion, doesn't it? The only place I've ever actually SEEN # used as shorthand for "pounds" (weight) is when I worked in food service. I think they also might use this in hardware. But nobody ever writes "I weigh 175#" I don't think. > From: "(0% rh)" > > i'm not quite sure why mcdonald's bothers me so much. there are lots > of other big, Evil, companies, and they don't get to me anywhere > nearly as much as mcdonalds. Really? Like Philip Morris? | From: Tom Clark | You're lucky you got any chicken at all in yours. | http://www.rense.com/general76/chk.htm I love me some tertiary butylhydroquinone.... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:50:31 -0700 From: "Benjamin Lukoff" Subject: McNuggets! and pounds. > From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz > > > > But hey: maybe in some specialized situations, a different symbol is > used > > > for pounds (weight) than for number... > > > > > > >And when you need that convenient shorthand for "how many pounds," then > >what? > > same as everyone else - lb. That's the usual abbreviation for pounds > (weight) elsewhere. Why would you use a hash sign for it, especially > in a country which uses # in place of no. for number? It surely > causes confusion, doesn't it? The only place I've ever actually SEEN # used as shorthand for "pounds" (weight) is when I worked in food service. I think they also might use this in hardware. But nobody ever writes "I weigh 175#" I don't think. > From: "(0% rh)" > > i'm not quite sure why mcdonald's bothers me so much. there are lots > of other big, Evil, companies, and they don't get to me anywhere > nearly as much as mcdonalds. Really? Like Philip Morris? | From: Tom Clark | You're lucky you got any chicken at all in yours. | http://www.rense.com/general76/chk.htm I love me some tertiary butylhydroquinone.... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:12:16 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: Re: McNuggets! and pounds. one time at band camp, Benjamin Lukoff said: > The only place I've ever actually SEEN # used as shorthand for "pounds" > (weight) is when I worked in food service. I think they also might use this > in hardware. But nobody ever writes "I weigh 175#" I don't think. i did when i was a practicing chemical engineer. now that i'm not, i still do ... though the occasion to do so comes up a lot less than it used to. woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:27:40 -0500 (CDT) From: David Witzany Subject: Overclothed? Underclothed? The Soft Boy Girl hath spake: >p.s. when you all were kids (if, indeed, you were ever kids), did you >hear the deep kid question that goes like this: "would you rather be >in the hottest place in the world, wearing tons of clothes, or be in >the coldest place in the world, naked?" > >lord, i hate the summer. > >- -- >"people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha I'm sure this was a puzzler when I was a kid, but that was something like 2/3 of my life ago. Clearly, you want to be someplace hot with all the extra clothes on. Nothing stopping you from taking bunches of clothes off, I presume. All of 'em, even. Dave. David Witzany ...one of nature's witzany@uiuc.edu bounds checkers ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:20:58 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #629 > > lord, i hate the summer. > >Why? I'm not that much of a summer person myself, because I'm relatively >light-skinned and don't enjoy temperatures above 30 degrees (Celsius, >obviously), but still I don't actively dislike, let alone hate, the summer any spare warmth, be sure to send it down. Still a bit of snow round the hills from last weekend's front, and it's icy drizzle out there at the moment. 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: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:01:39 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Overclothed? Underclothed? On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:27 PM, David Witzany wrote: > The Soft Boy Girl hath spake: > > >p.s. when you all were kids (if, indeed, you were ever kids), did you > >hear the deep kid question that goes like this: "would you rather be > >in the hottest place in the world, wearing tons of clothes, or be in > >the coldest place in the world, naked?" What age range are we talking here? I can ask around a bit in a variety of ten-and-under demographics. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:14:33 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Overclothed? Underclothed? David Witzany says: > The Soft Boy Girl hath spake: > >>p.s. when you all were kids (if, indeed, you were ever kids), did you >>hear the deep kid question that goes like this: "would you rather be >>in the hottest place in the world, wearing tons of clothes, or be in >>the coldest place in the world, naked?" >> >>lord, i hate the summer. > I'm sure this was a puzzler when I was a kid, but that was something like 2/3 of my life ago. Clearly, you want to be someplace hot with all the extra clothes on. nu-uh. > Nothing stopping you from taking bunches of clothes off, I presume. All of 'em, even. the odd constraint is one of the things that makes it seem very much a kid question. only those smart ass kids try to change the premises ;) xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:39:04 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: pounds, quarter pounders, etc. Sebastian says: > --On 10. Juni 2008 20:44:28 -0400 "(0% rh)" wrote: > >> lord, i hate the summer. > > Why? I'm not that much of a summer person myself, because I'm relatively > light-skinned and don't enjoy temperatures above 30 degrees (Celsius, > obviously), but still I don't actively dislike, let alone hate, the summer > ... as they say, it's not the heat, it's the humidity. we just (hopefully) finished a pretty bad heat wave (my friend j. once described one of our heat waves perfectly: "it feels like i'm inside someone's mouth!") then when it's nice out, everyone's like "oh, let's go outside; let's have fun!" (i *do* have a reputation to maintain.) as ever, lauren p.s. and i've got a heart full of leaves. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:05:06 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #628 Italy, the reigning World Cup champs are a losing team? ;) I loved the arse whooping that Spain gave Russia the other day. Portugal is always fun to watch. Too bad for one of the hosting countries... I've been greatly inspired and couldn't resist doodling a few Soccerbots. Check 'em out here: http://sketchbot.blogspot.com/2008/06/soccerbot-2008.html - -Steve On Jun 11, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > -- Steve Talkowski is rumored to have > mumbled on 11. Juni 2008 16:48:28 -0400 regarding Re: fegmaniax- > digest V16 #628: > >> -Steve, enjoying EURO 2008! > > Except for Germany's win over Poland (yet again after 2006) I > haven't been very happy with the results, though. For the most part > I was rooting for the losing teams, e.g. Switzerland, Russia and > Italy. Especially the Swiss really had bad luck in both games ... Steve Talkowski, Character Design | Animation Director Email stevetalkowski@mac.com | Web http://sketchbot.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:16:37 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Some Things *Never* Fuckin' Change to-day's lesson: my morning jacket still suck assnougat. on the other hand, while i as a general rule despise stand-up comedians with a seething passion, is funnier than fuckall. best paragraph: >>Can you sing well? Well, I'm not Phil Collins. I'm not even a music fan. I'm a fan of getting out there and doing my comedy, but, let's face it, I don't know if you've noticed but most of the records that are selling these days are music records, not spoken records. And when we noticed this, after examining the charts over several weeks, we said: Hold on! The Collected Speeches of Winston Churchill isn't even on the charts. People don't want a record of talking, but what they do want is this "music", which has gotten very, very popular in the last few years. So we decided to get in on that whole bag. And I found some guys that not only follow music, but actually play it.<< ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:19:35 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: just wondering so...who's a lefty? ...i.e. fegs (and related), not, e.g., bill clinton or kurt cobain. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #630 ********************************