From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #36 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, February 19 2010 Volume 18 : Number 036 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan [2fs ] Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) [lep ] Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan [cgalbraith ] Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan [James Dignan ] reap [James Dignan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:25:25 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, lep wrote: > > you're all (allegedly) robyn hitchcock fans, so my conjecture is >> everyone on the list is a bit...quirky in one way or another. so >> 'fess up. my suggestion: give us one to three quirks, and nothing >> really gross or illegal (N.B. these are just guidelines - who am i to >> box you in?) >> > > One of my quirks ... well, this might not count as a quirk, exactly, but I > have a personal rule against wearing a musical artist t-shirt to a > performance by that artist. Absolutely. Somehow that seems tacky - I mean, obviously you're a fan, or you wouldn't be there... Incidentally, bands wearing their own t-shirts? Very tacky. My quirks? I mean, other than any exhibited here in profusion? Hmm...when I pick up free newsweeklies and the like, I never take the top one. I don't know why. In restaurants, bars, and other public places, I'm very uncomfortable if I'm seated in such a way that the majority of the room is behind me. (Rose theorizes that in a previous life I was a mobster killed in a restaurant who didn't spot the gunman coming in, and that's why...) Also, I enjoy beer. Oh wait - that's not a quirk. Substitute "Revolution 9" for "beer." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:10:32 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:19 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:34 PM, kevin studyvin > wrote: > > > > (ratings? it seems kind of early, and, anyone, what the hell does syfy > > > cable expect out > > > of their ratings?) > > > > > > > I've never trusted those fuckers since they cut The Invisible Man. > > > > It's still on. It's just invisible. > Oh, snap. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:17:14 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan jeff 2fs says: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > >> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, lep wrote: >> >> you're all (allegedly) robyn hitchcock fans, so my conjecture is >>> everyone on the list is a bit...quirky in one way or another. so >>> 'fess up. my suggestion: give us one to three quirks, and nothing >>> really gross or illegal (N.B. these are just guidelines - who am i to >>> box you in?) >>> >> >> One of my quirks ... well, this might not count as a quirk, exactly, but I >> have a personal rule against wearing a musical artist t-shirt to a >> performance by that artist. > > > Absolutely. Somehow that seems tacky - I mean, obviously you're a fan, or > you wouldn't be there... agreed. i tried to wear to wear my bowie shirt to every show. obviously, if it was a bowie show, i wouldn't, but he tends to play at venues either too large for my tastes, or else sells out in several seconds. > Incidentally, bands wearing their own t-shirts? Very tacky. except steely dan? i liked that for like a year, every photograph of elliott smith had him wearing a willie nelson shirt. it may be kind of gross, but maybe one has to be a bit gross to really put get their point across. which in mr. smith's case might have been "I NEED HELP", as opposed to "willie nelson. cool." the only time saw him, he had a homemade shirt that said "i metal." also, no lie, some guy at the show or some NY show had *made* him an acoustic guitar and given it to him. > My quirks? I mean, other than any exhibited here in profusion? > > Hmm...when I pick up free newsweeklies and the like, I never take the top > one. I don't know why. i do the same thing. and since i spend 90% of my time analyzing my thoughts and actions, i know why -- i always suspect there's something missing from the top one(s). like someone just grabbed their needed few pages of it (e.g. the pages asian women with oddly large breast, offering "body shampoos") (closely located to the "savage love" which is most of the reason i'm picking it up anyone) and stuck the rest of it back. ideally, i grab from ~1/3 of the way down the pile. > In restaurants, bars, and other public places, I'm very uncomfortable if I'm > seated in such a way that the majority of the room is behind me. (Rose > theorizes that in a previous life I was a mobster killed in a restaurant who > didn't spot the gunman coming in, and that's why...) here, too. i'm suspicious of people, so i like to see what i'm getting. in general, crowded restaurants freak me out, and i like a corner table, or at least a wall table. one gets a better view of the situation that way. > Also, I enjoy beer. Oh wait - that's not a quirk. Substitute "Revolution 9" > for "beer." i don't drink beer. and i don't listen to "revolution 9" (it scares me.) i always skip it, and get freaked out if i forget to. i should actually reburn the cd without it, just to stay safe. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:22:56 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: television top 5 thread On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:24 PM, hsatterfld@aol.com says: >> http://www.cafepress.com/+twin-peaks+mugs >> >> I've got a Twin Peaks Sherrif's Department coffee mug. >> >> Michael B. > > I love the Garmonbozia mug they sell at http://www.twinpeaksfest.com/ Have you been to one of the TP Fests? I'd nearly kill for a Cooper FBI windbreaker/coat, but I imagine they're illegal to wear outside the privacy of one's home. xo PS: I'm on a major Lynch bender. He's given up donuts and pie. The latest interview I read, he was on a protein / non-donut diet for weight loss. I think he still drinks coffee as last I checked, he has his own brand which he sells on his website. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:32:43 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) On Feb 17, 2010, at 2:14 PM, michaeljbachman@comcast.net says: > I've got a Twin Peaks Sherrif's Department coffee mug from Cafe Press. > > > > http://www.cafepress.com/+twin-peaks+mugs > Nice selection. And I love the Winkies and Eraserhead mugs, too. > > > I still have my pre-recorded VCR tapes of the pilot and first season > and > various DVD releases. I have to suck it up and get Season 2 on DVD. I believe Season 1 I bought the same night I bought my first DVD player. It's the box(ed) set actually wrapped in plastic, pilot missing. But I kept all the tapes from when it aired and occassionally watch them -- especially the pilot. And I still have a crush on Dale Cooper. xo ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:56:05 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan Lauren wote: >my suggestion: give us one to three quirks, and nothing really gross or illegal Wow - whatta great topic! Uh...lemme ponder...and I'm a (sometimes TOO) open and honest guy, so...these are truly scraped outta me... OK... Quirk #1: I have been overweight most of my adult life...not TOO sensitive about it, but...fully aware and less-than-thrilled (hey, at least I dropped 30+ pounds last year!)...AND I am somewhat a creature of serially-repeatable habit...sometimes having (for example) the same lunch for weeks, until I get tired of that meal (OR: favoring a certain dish at a certain location, so always ordering it there). So...in my life there have been several occasions where, if a restaurant or waiter/ress or counter person starts recognizing me and parroting back (or recalling) my regular order, I will drop that place instantly (exceptions, of course, granted for TRUE friends / ongoing relationships among the wait staff...where, if they remember me and recall my likely order, it seems delightful...go figure [shrugs]) Quirk #2: Aggressive cabdrivers here in the city have been known to toot their horns at people they see standing on corners, in the street, etc., as if - - even if WE ARE looking for a taxi - we somehow just cannot or did not see them. So, even while looking for a cab, even if I'm in a big hurry, I will NEVER get in a cab whose driver honked at me. (However, flashing lights - to sorta say "I saw you signalling and am pulling over to pick you up (after this light or past this traffic)" is just fine...) Quirk #3: Every time I go to Starbucks (which, even as a guy who DID NOT drink coffee until he was 44 or 45 yrs old (i.e., a few years ago) is pretty regularly), I tuck a sheath of napkins and a fistful (or two!) of Equals / Splendas into my bag or pocket, to take home. No, this is NOT some sort of misguided "Well, this stuff costs so much, so I better get my money's worth THIS WAY..." reaction. It's just that...well, we can always use napkins and non-sugar sweeteners at home, and, since the ol' household income ain't what it used to be, and the opportunity is right there in front of me [shrugs], hey, why not? ...OK - TOO MUCH openness, I'm sure...sigh! Once again, carry on (sure, that, PLUS mocking me...eh, I can take it...(I think...)) Michael "Also: May have never - and certainly WON'T EVER in the future - voted/vote for a Republican candidate for ANY office...but, eh - THAT's no quirk...that's more of a solid, logical, irrevocable philosophical decision..." Sweeney ps - I know, Jeme...I know... _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:11:52 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: paeR Gordon Lightfoot's status has been officially upgraded from dead to Canadian. [Ken Ober's has not.] "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:30:19 -0800 From: cgalbraith Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan On Feb 18, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > Lauren wote: >> my suggestion: give us one to three quirks, and nothing really >> gross or > illegal > > > Wow - whatta great topic! Uh...lemme ponder...and I'm a (sometimes > TOO) open > and honest guy, so...these are truly scraped outta me... I think it's a great topic as well. We are a community of friends - why not get to know each other (since we spend little to no time hanging out physically where it's impossible to hide the quirks)... 1. I have never, and will never, share any liquid I am drinking with anyone else. Period. My friends tease me and try to drink from my glass but I would never let them. Or drink from their glasses either. I won't put my lips on anything someone else has drank from or might drink from and I won't let anyone put their lips on my beverage containers. End of discussion. Ironically, this includes a glass that might be used by a lover. I'll kiss them, but never share a glass/ bottle/pint with them. 1A. I will go to great lengths to avoid dog slobber. I will not let a dog lick me and if they do, I am immediately in the restroom cleaning that spot. It makes me want to retch. If I pet a dog (or they nuzzle in my hands as they are wont to do to humans) I must wash my hands immediately. Oddly, dogs seem to love me. 2. I can't let food mix on my plate. I never put salad on the same plate as anything else for this reason. Olives need their own bowl. And I need large spaces between items. Consequently, I'm not a fan of wet food because it tends to run all over the plate and mix with other things. It makes me cringe. Usually I eat all of one thing and then move on to the next. As a kid, I cleaned off my fork with my napkin between each item on the plate. I've managed to get over that. 3. I refuse to acknowledge or comply with some things that are considered the "norm" for contemporary culture. I've never seen a Star Wars movie and I will never see one. I've never seen The Simpsons, South Park, X Files, Saturday Night Live, or any Indiana Jones or Aliens movie. I am steadfast in my refusal, but not sure why. If I hadn't been introduced to Joss by way of Firefly, I am sure I'd refuse to watch Buffy as well. I won't see any movie Spielberg makes or any movie Tom Hanks is in. Another topic of fascination amongst my friends, who try to make me watch this stuff. Control Freak? Rigid? I know, I've heard it all before. - - c ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:09:55 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: "edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan meketone@ix.netcom.com said: >2. I can't let food mix on my plate. I never put salad on the same >plate as anything else for this reason. Olives need their own bowl. >And I need large spaces between items. Consequently, I'm not a fan of >wet food because it tends to run all over the plate and mix with other >things. It makes me cringe. Usually I eat all of one thing and then >move on to the next. As a kid, I cleaned off my fork with my napkin >between each item on the plate. I've managed to get over that. Me too for the above! (See my Quirk 1 - "freaky eater" - it all goes hand in hand!) peace, Edward ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:56:27 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) > I still have my pre-recorded VCR tapes of the pilot and first season and >> various DVD releases. >> > > I have to suck it up and get Season 2 on DVD. I believe Season 1 I bought > the same night I bought my first DVD player. It's the box(ed) set actually > wrapped in plastic, pilot missing. But I kept all the tapes from when it > aired and occassionally watch them -- especially the pilot. > > And I still have a crush on Dale Cooper. > Probably the least awful work Kyle Maclachlan has turned in to date. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:53:39 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan On Feb 18, 2010, at 6:25 PM, 2fs wrote: > Hmm...when I pick up free newsweeklies and the like, I never take the top > one. I don't know why. Same here. Usually because I grab one on my way out of the office on Wednesdays, and they're located on a counter near the bathroom. I think you can see where I'm going with this... On Feb 18, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > One of my quirks ... well, this might not count as a quirk, exactly, but I have a personal rule against wearing a musical artist t-shirt to a performance by that artist. I'll even carry a newly-purchased t-shirt in my hand all evening rather than put it on at the show. Similarly I never listen to the artist I'm going to see during the ride to the venue. - - Also, when watching an online video that requires me to sit through an introductory advert, I always mute the sound until the real content starts. - - I always watch the movie credits until the end - - In programming, brackets must line up at the left margin. Putting the opening bracket at the end of the first line of the block is for chumps. - - I've read nearly every individual fegpost since joining the list some twenty years ago. I won't go on digest. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:58:23 -0800 From: cgalbraith Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:53 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > - I've read nearly every individual fegpost since joining the list > some twenty years ago. I won't go on digest. > You are awesome Tom! And might I add the simple and warm endearment: "Fuck You Tom Clark!" We love ya, - - c ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:27:41 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Tom Clark wrote: > > - I always watch the movie credits until the end > Same here - although with credits getting longer and longer, one or two times in theaters they've actually stopped projecting prior to the credits ending! (I'm guessing that's technically some sort of contractual violation...) - - I've read nearly every individual fegpost since joining the list some > twenty years ago. I won't go on digest. > "Digest" is what one does to food. I don't understand the appeal of lumping messages together - it's the same volume of words, and any sort of sorting or finding becomes a bit more difficult. One more thing: although I'm find with leftovers and hate to throw food away, I don't like having the same food two days in a row.* So if I have leftover Thai food from Wednesday night, I won't eat it until Friday... * Exception: my breakfast is the same nearly every day - toast, drizzled with some sort of infused olive oil. A variety of different breads though... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:28:44 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Ticketmaster Settles With F.T.C. Over Springsteen Tickets By BEN SISARIO Ticketmaster Settles With F.T.C. Over Springsteen Tickets By BEN SISARIO The Federal Trade Commission has settled with Ticketmaster over complaints that Ticketmaster used deceptive tactics to steer Bruce Springsteen fans to expensive scalped tickets last year. As part of the settlement, the company will pay refunds and, in a move that could have a wide impact on the multibillion-dollar resale business, make disclosures about the availability of the tickets it resells. The settlement, announced Tuesday by the F.T.C.bs chairman, Jon Leibowitz, concerns 14 Springsteen concerts last May and June. Fans trying to buy tickets through Ticketmasterbs Web site were pointed to a subsidiary site, TicketsNow. In what Mr. Leibowitz described as thousands of instances, brokers on TicketsNow b an eBay-like resale marketplace with no price caps b advertised tickets they did not have, and fans never got the tickets they paid for. bTicketsNow.com sold phantom tickets without letting consumers know that the tickets did not exist,b Mr. Leibowitz said in a statement. bThen the company held on to consumersb money, sometimes for months, when it knew those fans werenbt going to see Springsteen. Clearly consumers deserve better. They deserve to know what theybre buying, including the risk that their tickets wonbt materialize.bAccording to the settlement, Ticketmaster must refund to fans who used TicketsNow the difference in price between the ticketsb face value and the final amount. Mr. Lebowitz said those payments could amount to more than $1 million. In addition, brokers on TicketsNow must disclose when they are listing tickets they do not have in hand, and the F.T.C. is sending letters to about 10 large ticket resellers warning them to comply with the law. Scalped Springsteen tickets have been a focus of news-media and political pressure on the concert industry since early last year, when fans for two Springsteen shows in New Jersey were directed from Ticketmaster to TicketsNow while tickets at face value were still available. Ticketmaster settled with the state of New Jersey over those concerts. Last month Ticketmaster received approval from the Department of Justice to merge with the concert giant Live Nation. That merger still faces court approval. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/ticketmaster-settles-with-f-t-c - -over-springsteen-ticket-mess/ Bob Dylan Examiner Column http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner Twitter - @DylanExaminer also on Facebook ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:29:18 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan edward says: > Hey Lauren, it's no dud in my book, I like the quirk thread just fine. thanks, edward. like i said, as bjork said of her neck tattoo, it's just "for fun." > 1) I'm a "freaky eater," or at least my workmates think so. Won't eat > pie, won't eat gravy, won't eat beans, won't eat probably a majority of > things that my mates here in Lancashire all eat. Don't even get me > started on steak pudding, steak and kidney pie, black pudding, mushy > peas, ... i'm told (hi jeanne! say hi to greg!) that this is called being a food weenie. i'm still a weird eater, but i think i've improved from when i was child (which involved many, many peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, and, i'm told, a year of refusing to eat pretty much nothing but spaghetti-os. > 2) When we're driving, and we pass a truck loaded with bales of hay, > or there are bales of hay visible in fields alongside the road, I > always go, "Hay!" and point, and people look to see what I'm 'hey'ing > at, and then realise that, yes, once again, I'm pointing at hay. This > will absolutely never stop amusing me. (And p.s., some of you are going > to do this the next time you're in a car with a friend / partner and > drive past some hay.) i love this kind of stuff. in fact, these sort of jokes age so very well... > 3) I guess I just say weird shit and don't realise it. A colleague of > mine who is working only temporarily in our office has been making > notes of phrases I "always say," and a couple of days ago she read them > out to me. My favourites of the ones she'd written were, "My brain > hurts," "This is the part of the movie where I scream," and "I have > bursts of optimism, followed by periods of total despair." i *love* catch phrases. please post more when you find them out. off the top of my head, i can't remember many of my catch phrases. i did steal "i don't know what that means" from dr. brennan. i had a co-worker / ex- that used to say, with vigor, "this is the *worst* day of my life." i liked that one a lot, since, technically, it could always be true. also, we had a joke that never ceased that had to do with some guy same co-worker once was talking to who was VERY proud of his 7-level do-loop (mind you, this is only slightly-to-no more difficult than writing a standard-issue double loop). when coding do-loops, when they got to be about 5-levels deeps, the coder would start semi-screaming that they were starting to the bends. > So there you go. thanks for sharing. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:32:06 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM, lep says: > edward says: i said: when coding do-loops, when they got to be about 5-levels deeps, the coder would start semi-screaming that they were starting to the bends. i meant: when coding do-loops, when they got to be about 5-levels deeps, the coder would start semi-screaming that they were starting to *get* the bends. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:10:40 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:32 PM, lep wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM, lep says: > > edward says: > > i said: > > when coding do-loops, when they got to be about 5-levels deeps, the coder > would > start semi-screaming that they were starting to the bends. > > i meant: > > when coding do-loops, when they got to be about 5-levels deeps, the coder > would > start semi-screaming that they were starting to *get* the bends. > > Was either of those in English? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:51:15 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan On Feb 19, 2010, at 11:29 AM, lep wrote: > i *love* catch phrases. please post more when you find them out. Up until a few years ago* whenever I saw an artichoke I would use the old Little Rascals line "It might choke Artie, but it ain't gonna choke Stymie!" - -tc *When you live this close to Castroville, you see artichokes all the time. I finally got sick of saying it. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:07:42 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Reap >Gordon Lightfoot, 71 ach damn. Another guilty pleasure bites the dust. 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: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:13:13 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan > 1) when setting a digital alarm clock, i never set the wake-up time >to any multiple of 5 minutes, e.g. 8:00, 8:05, 8:30 are out. even >worse, i almost always pick the minutes to be a prime number, e.g. >8:07, 8:23, 8:53. Erm... my alarm clock for when i do my morning radio show is set to 6:53 because I hate setting it to multiples of five minutes. >1) I'm a "freaky eater," or at least my workmates think so. Won't eat >pie, won't eat gravy, won't eat beans, won't eat probably a majority of >things that my mates here in Lancashire all eat. I'm a fairly freaky eater myself, by those standards. And (gasp) I don't like beer. Never could get a taste for the stuff. Hmmm. I probably have too many 'quirks" to mention, but you know of a lot of them (the flag collecting, for instance). Um.... I note down any weird things sports commentators say (the "David Coleman/Murray Walker/Yogi Berra" type of weird ones). There's a British guy who commentates on cycling - Paul Sherwen - who comes out with some of the most stupid... well, here's an example from last year's Tour de France:: "On average over a three year period he's lost about nine kilos in total." I also make lists of everything. I cannot function unless I carry round a piece of paper telling me the list of things for the day. 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: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:29:36 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: "edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan tclark@mac.com said: >Up until a few years ago* whenever I saw an artichoke I would use the old Little Rascals line "It might choke Artie, but it ain't gonna choke Stymie!" > >-tc > >*When you live this close to Castroville, you see artichokes all the time. I finally got sick of saying it. > I miss artichokes so much! They are, like, my very favourite food, and I can only rarely get them over here! (And I always remember the joke punchline, "Artie chokes three for a dollar.") peace, Edward ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:34:54 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Reap Dij` vu! On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:07 PM, James Dignan wrote: >> Gordon Lightfoot, 71 > > ach damn. Another guilty pleasure bites the dust. > > 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: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:52:41 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: reap Lionel Jeffries, 83 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #36 *******************************