From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #75 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, March 17 2009 Volume 17 : Number 075 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Return of the Son of the BSG Thread [2fs ] Re: Return of the Son of the BSG Thread [Stewart Russell ] Re: Death [kevin studyvin ] Re: Death [2fs ] Re: Death [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Death [kevin studyvin ] Re: Death [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:23:45 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Return of the Son of the BSG Thread On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:22 AM, lep wrote: > 2fs says: > > is anyone current with BSG? in "daybreak" (part 1) (or is that > "daybreak (part 1)") baltar says "i need this like i need *fucking* > hole in the head!" what the frak? > One of the beauties of "frak" as euphemism is that, pronounced quickly and intensely, it's nearly indistinguishable phonetically from its [a word needed to designate what a euphemism euphemizes..."dyspheme"?]. > p.p.s. "look jeff, no spoilers." not *really*. Well, I know Baltar, Anders, and Kara are still alive... ;-) PS: the corresponding word - for the euphemism itself - would then be "eupheme.' - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:13:24 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Return of the Son of the BSG Thread 2009/3/16 2fs : > > One of the beauties of "frak" as euphemism is that ... it will forever be a computer game to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frak! - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:00:46 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Return of the Son of the BSG Thread http://planetkaren.girl-wonder.org/index.php?strip_id=608 > PS: the corresponding word - for the euphemism itself - would then be > "eupheme.' ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:41:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Death Anyone heard any this? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/arts/music/15rubi.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:48:01 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Death Was looking at that earlier today. Never heard of these guys but I like the attitude. But it seems a little odd for the NYT to be coming on as an authority on "punk," ya ask me. On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Anyone heard any this? > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/arts/music/15rubi.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all > > > "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my > brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:14:20 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Death On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:48 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > Was looking at that earlier today. Never heard of these guys but I like > the > attitude. But it seems a little odd for the NYT to be coming on as an > authority on "punk," ya ask me. I know what you mean, but..."punk" is OLD. I mean, this album's old enough to have kids in middle school. Point is, whoever was any sort of authority on punk in '77, what are they doing now? No reason they might not end up writing for the Times. I mean, we all like to believe they're just hanging out in their leather jackets, dying their gray hair purple, and working at the brick-making cooperative, but ... not. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:24:44 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Death 2 "f"s idly think: > just hanging > out in their leather jackets, dying their gray hair purple, and working at > the brick-making cooperative I believe middle manager is the career of choice for the aging punk rocker. If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:49:33 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Death Mmm, the ones I knew are in advertising, or working in movies or theater in L.A., or disappeared; some of 'em are dead, of course...a few still playing around town, running recording studios or designing clothes - and then there's Rieflin, the drummer everybody loves to hate, but some of us still remember him from the dear old Blackouts days, covered in blood & ashes...PUNKS NOT DEAD maaaaan... On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:14 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:48 PM, kevin studyvin > wrote: > > > Was looking at that earlier today. Never heard of these guys but I like > > the > > attitude. But it seems a little odd for the NYT to be coming on as an > > authority on "punk," ya ask me. > > > I know what you mean, but..."punk" is OLD. I mean, this album's old enough > to have kids in middle school. Point is, whoever was any sort of authority > on punk in '77, what are they doing now? No reason they might not end up > writing for the Times. I mean, we all like to believe they're just hanging > out in their leather jackets, dying their gray hair purple, and working at > the brick-making cooperative, but ... not. > > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:03:11 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Death On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:49 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > Mmm, the ones I knew are in advertising, or working in movies or theater in > L.A., or disappeared; some of 'em are dead, of course...a few still playing > around town, running recording studios or designing clothes Yeah, that's them. Some are even in health care. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #75 *******************************