From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #650 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, July 6 2008 Volume 16 : Number 650 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: self-referential songs [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: best ringtone evar [Rex ] Re: self-referential songs [2fs ] Re: best ringtone evar [2fs ] Re: best ringtone evar [Rex ] Re: self-referential songs [Christopher Gross ] self-referential, linctus [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: self-referential, linctus ["(0% rh)" ] random (like my other posts are so well planned...) ["(0% rh)" ] Re: self-referential, linctus (errata) ["(0% rh)" ] Re: self-referential, linctus [2fs ] Re: self-referential, linctus [Rex ] Re: self-referential, linctus [2fs ] Re: self-referential, linctus [Steve Schiavo ] re: Germany list [michael wells ] Re: self-referential, ow my balls [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:18:46 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: self-referential songs Harry Nilsson was awesome ! Did anyone see this movie . . It's not a DVD as far as i can tell . . : Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756727/ I remember Arlo Guthrie on the 70s version of The Smothers Brothers show - he said the only rhyme for Orange was Door-Hinge In a message dated 7/5/2008 11:03:41 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, kstudyvin@gmail.com writes: of course the useful bits about not trying to rhyme anything with orange **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 09:46:36 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: best ringtone evar On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > -- 2fs is rumored to have mumbled on 4. Juli > 2008 22:33:15 -0500 regarding best ringtone evar: > > Not that I care, but...the second guitar part from Television's "Marquee >> Moon" (deedle-deedle deedle-deedle deet...deedle-deedle deedle-deedle >> deet). >> > Could easily be mistaken for the horn riff from JB's "I Feel Good", from whence it is derived. And which would also be cool, within the realm of this sort of thing. Classic riffs in general are sort of underused in this capacity. The Kinks, Stones, and Byrds lists alone could go on for a bit. Erm, spellcheck rejects "riffs"? WTF? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:09:30 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: self-referential songs On 7/5/08, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > Harry Nilsson was awesome ! Did anyone see this movie . . > It's not a DVD as far as i can tell . . : > Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756727/ > > I remember Arlo Guthrie on the 70s version of The Smothers Brothers > show - he said the only rhyme for Orange was Door-Hinge "Orange" is pronounced differently in various dialects - the above is one of the two syllable varieties. Around here most people render it a monosyllable - - and the rhyme would be a drunk person slurring the final consonant in "mourns." Tris McCall, a songwriter of my acquaintance out of New Jersey, rhymed "orange" with the second and third syllables of the words "bizarre enjoyment" - this works if you're from New Jersey and pronounce "orange" "are-inj"... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:12:09 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: best ringtone evar On 7/5/08, Rex wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < > Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > > > -- 2fs is rumored to have mumbled on 4. Juli > > 2008 22:33:15 -0500 regarding best ringtone evar: > > > > Not that I care, but...the second guitar part from Television's "Marquee > >> Moon" (deedle-deedle deedle-deedle deet...deedle-deedle deedle-deedle > >> deet). > >> > > > > Could easily be mistaken for the horn riff from JB's "I Feel Good", from > whence it is derived. And which would also be cool, within the realm of > this sort of thing. Yes - but unless I'm misremembering, the JBs' riff is half the speed and harmonized differently. Sebastian: no, I didn't hear it - I just thought of it. Classic riffs in general are sort of underused in this capacity. The Kinks, > Stones, and Byrds lists alone could go on for a bit. Guess is that the generation of people interested in ringtones are not the generation of people groovin' to the Kinks, Stones, and Byrds... Speaking of grooves, my luminous one's on pre-order. Whoo! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 10:24:54 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: best ringtone evar On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:12 AM, 2fs wrote: > On 7/5/08, Rex wrote: > >> Yes - but unless I'm misremembering, the JBs' riff is half the speed and >> harmonized differently. > > Wait, it is... but isn't there a different JB song with the same basic horn line at the same speed as MM? This may be an instance where I've just forwarded on conventional wisdom to my detriment, just contributing to the Sea of Disinformation > >> Guess is that the generation of people interested in ringtones are not the > generation of people groovin' to the Kinks, Stones, and Byrds... > Too shay. > > > Speaking of grooves, my luminous one's on pre-order. Whoo! > I should get on that train... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:52:20 -0400 From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: self-referential songs From: 2fs > Tris McCall, a songwriter of my acquaintance out of New Jersey, rhymed > "orange" with the second and third syllables of the words "bizarre > enjoyment" - this works if you're from New Jersey and pronounce "orange" > "are-inj"... Where I grew up in southern New Jersey, "orange" was pronounced as one syllable which I'd render "orndzh," UNLESS you were referring to Orange, NJ, which was pronounced "are-inj." - --Chris "no .sig today" the Christer ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:27:51 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: self-referential, linctus >On the subject of self-referentiality in verse... > >Out of lurk with a limerick... > >There was a young lady...tut, tut. >You think that you're in for some smut? >Some five-line crescendo >Of lewd innuendo? >I'm sorry, this is anything but. To which I respond with: an Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The bartender takes one look at them and says "What is this, some kind of a joke?" From: "Stewart C. Russell" >Boo. Make like the linctus, and "for cough". One of this country's leading politicians is called Phil Goff. I don't know how he ever managed to get through school with a name like that. James (still no sign of Bolt) - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:37:56 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: self-referential, linctus james wrote: > To which I respond with: > > an Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The bartender > takes one look at them and says "What is this, some kind of a joke?" that may well be the funniest joke i've every heard. it's kind of a perfect joke. > From: "Stewart C. Russell" > >> Boo. Make like the linctus, and "for cough". > > One of this country's leading politicians is called Phil Goff. I don't know > how he ever managed to get through school with a name like that. re: linctus: okay, don't laugh: i thought "linctus" was some kind of bush (i guess that came from the part: "i spend all of my time in the bushes.") i had looked it up at one point, but i guess there's been some rearranging in my brain since then. i'm assuming there's been list discussion of what the hell the title means? i'd be happy to have the pricis. or start up the conversation again if you like last decade's news. > (still no sign of Bolt) my thoughts that he returns safely. as ever, lauren p.s. re: self-reference: at one point i was convinced that the most interesting things are those that can be analogized (is that a word) as a snake eating its own tail. i still might be (convinced.) tagwords: self-consciousness, goedel's incompleteness, LISP, james' joke. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:44:29 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: random (like my other posts are so well planned...) the title of this cracked me up, although i don't know that i read it in the spirit in which it was intended. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1085 xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 22:00:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: TC asked... ...about Robyn at the Paradise in 1990, but I was a new mother at that time and stopped going to shows completely until I went back to the selfsame Paradise in 1995 to see Ray Davies and became a middle-aged groupie. Jill, now just an old hag ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 22:14:13 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: self-referential, linctus (errata) i (0% rh) say: > "i spend all of my time in the bushes." ugh. i can't believe i wrote that. "most." xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:18:35 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: self-referential, linctus On 7/5/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > james wrote: > > To which I respond with: > > > > an Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The bartender > > takes one look at them and says "What is this, some kind of a joke?" > > > that may well be the funniest joke i've every heard. it's kind of a > perfect joke. I believe I am tediously on record as favoring this (in its many variations, of course) as my favorite joke. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:55:46 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: self-referential, linctus On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 6:37 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > > re: linctus: okay, don't laugh: i thought "linctus" was some kind of > bush (i guess that came from the part: "i spend all of my time in the > bushes.") i had looked it up at one point, but i guess there's been > some rearranging in my brain since then. The one I don't remember ever being solved, and it was in play around the time I first joined the list, was "clickot". "Bolt" is apparently the titular a movie that my kids really want to see now, its trailer having shown before "Wall-E". The latter was of course very good; the former is one of those paradoxical non-Pixar Disney CGI films, which is none too promising. Isn't Disney supposed to be getting back to traditional (cel (or cel-looking) animated features soon? Unrelated, my lake is now half-filled with its black plastic balls, and, oddly, it is now conspicuously patrolled by private security in a way that it wasn't it's pre-ball days. My wife seems sure these guards are Scientologists. I'm not sure why she believes this, but I see absolutely no reason to doubt it. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 22:12:18 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: self-referential, linctus On 7/5/08, Rex wrote: > > > The one I don't remember ever being solved, and it was in play around the > time I first joined the list, was "clickot". I always thought it was a misspelled reference to this: < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veuve_Clicquot> - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:38:11 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: self-referential, linctus On Jul 5, 2008, at 9:55 PM, Rex wrote: > "Bolt" is apparently the titular a movie that my kids really want > to see > now, its trailer having shown before "Wall-E". The latter was of > course > very good; the former is one of those paradoxical non-Pixar Disney CGI > films, which is none too promising. Isn't Disney supposed to be > getting > back to traditional (cel (or cel-looking) animated features soon? Bolt is live action with, I'm sure, some CGI special effects. That's the problem with going to see a good kid's film - you've got to sit through the trailers for all the other kids films that make you want to put your eyes out. It remains to be seen if Pixar can do for Disney what NeXT did for Apple. And what the hell happened to the Lilo & Stitch guys? - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 08:33:30 -0500 From: michael wells Subject: re: Germany list [Sorry if this duplicates, been having some issues setting up Mail on the new iMac] Did: fly Lufthansa; bring home chocolates, a wristwatch and Kolnisch Wasser perfume; visit some industrial sites, stay at a hotel popular with stewardesses, pay far too much for food. Did not: get a Lamy or Rotring pen; eat a canoodle; go to Aachen; leap into the Rhine; drop acid in a cuckoo clock store; mention the war. The best part of all was meeting Sebastian, who proved a very patient and erudite tour guide of Cologne. It's been said before, but bears repeating: fegs are the nicest people! Damn thankful for cheeseburgers and ice in the drinks, Michael ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:04:09 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: self-referential, ow my balls On Jul 5, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Rex wrote: > > "Bolt" is apparently the titular a movie that my kids really want to > see > now, its trailer having shown before "Wall-E". The latter was of > course > very good; the former is one of those paradoxical non-Pixar Disney CGI > films, which is none too promising. Isn't Disney supposed to be > getting > back to traditional (cel (or cel-looking) animated features soon? We watched "Meet The Robinsons" last night and quite enjoyed it. I'm not quite sure what kind of animation it is since it's not quite flat enough to be cell but not realistic enough to be CGI. Anyway, I had never heard of this movie but my daughter saw the trailer on Apple TV and just had to watch it. The plot was a tiny bit confusing for her (time travel and all), but we all had fun with it nonetheless. > > Unrelated, my lake is now half-filled with its black plastic balls, > and, > oddly, it is now conspicuously patrolled by private security in a > way that > it wasn't it's pre-ball days. My wife seems sure these guards are > Scientologists. I'm not sure why she believes this, but I see > absolutely > no reason to doubt it. > Methinks her tinfoil hat needs adjustment. They're most likely NSA - testing the amount of thought control potion leaching into the water supply from the 'inert plastic' balls. - -tc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #650 ********************************