From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #59 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Thursday, February 7 2002 Volume 02 : Number 059 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] West Goes At The Movies Part 1 ["West Moran" ] Re: [loud-fans] turducken serendipity (so NS it hurts) [Miles Goosens ] RE: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time ["Keegstra, Russell" ] Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time ["Joseph M. Mallon" ] Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffre] Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffre] [loud-fans] I Love Metafilter... (ns) ["R. Kevin Doyle" ] Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time ["glenn mcdonald" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] West Goes At The Movies Part 1 JS wrote: > The PSYCHO and THE BIRDS scores are loads of fun! Yes, "Psycho" has some rollicking moments to it (by the way, the one good version available on CD was conducted by Joel McNeely on Varese Sarabande; he is the only one to get the tempo right), but "The Birds" is a something to point to when discussing what is music and what isn't. If you've seen "The Birds", you may notice that there is nothing that we traditionally call "music" in it, except for the schoolchildren singing a song during Tippi Hedren's legendary "Hey, Blondie! There's a mess o' crows and they're RIGHT BEHIND YOU!" scene. Bernard Herrmann is credited as "Sound Consultant" for the picture, beneath a credit that reads "Electronic Sound Production And Composition By REMI GASSMANN And OSKAR SALA". These credits refer to the sounds of the birds themselves; most of the bird sounds -- squawking, flapping and the like -- were created on an instrument called a Trautonium. (Hopefully, someone who knows about this instrument can provide some more information about it.) Gassmann and Herrmann worked closely together to orchestrate these sounds to create maximum creepitude. Arguably, "The Birds" is Herrmann's first (and last) electronic music score, although even this is used in quite a different way from Louis and Bebe Barron's way-out electronic score for "Forbidden Planet", or Gil Melle's slightly less avant-garde electronic score for "The Andromeda Strain". Both are science fiction films, you'll notice, which is a genre that seems to be able to incorporate unique musical elements much more readily than others; Herrmann himself noted that cinema in general is an excellent testing ground for experimental musical techniques, as long as they don't clash horribly with the story. What I love about "The Birds", what makes it so unsettling (thus keeping me awake as a youth), is how inexplicable it is. I've heard several people try to explain what the heck them birds are doing, but the ugly truth is that we don't know their motives (if any), and we don't know their plans (if any), and we aren't ever going to know. (If an explanation if offered in Daphne Du Maurier's story, don't tell me -- I like not knowing.) In what is traditionally the pivotal table-turning scene in most horror movies, Hitchcock instead makes a bad situation even worse: about two-thirds into your standard monster movie, somebody (like John Agar) suddenly figures out what the monster is and/or what it's up to, which then unlocks the secret of how to anticipate its next action, exploit its weakness, and destroy it. In "The Birds", this moment is replaced with the scene in which the little old lady who knows loads about birds not only admits that even she doesn't know what the hell is going on, but she explicitly states that if the birds are doing what they are in fact doing, we're all monumentally ska-rooed! Being comfortable with not knowing is an important component to appreciating "The Birds", not to mention nearly the entire career of David Lynch. Sometimes, you just have to stop fighting it and let a movie simply happen to you. Not "getting it" is not the same as having an unrewarding experience. Oh, and remember -- if you know anything about the Trautonium, please share! Here's my brief walk-on cameo, West. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 01:45:33 -0700 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] West Goes At The Movies Part 1 At 11:58 PM 2/5/02 -0800, West Moran wrote: >Oh, and remember -- if you know anything about the Trautonium, please share! I know two things -- it's vaguely related to the Ondes Martenot (both of them were descendents of the theremin which you play by pressing a wire against a metal bar) and Paul Hindemith, who was a really cool German composer of the first half of the 20th century, wrote a concerto for Trautonium and orchestra that I used to check out of the library sometimes when I was in high school. (I also recommend Hindemith's piano works -- he's like the missing link between Erik Satie and the minimalists.) http://www.keyboardmuseum.com/pre60/1930/trautonium.html has pictures and a bit more information. S ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:53:46 -0500 From: "Aaron Milenski" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: jojo >Anyone who wants >to experience how much passion he had should hear the live version of >"I'm >Straight." It's just amazing. > >>>>>>>>>>>>> >I always thought he and the band sounded really stoned, which I thought >was part of the joke. Probably not, though. The band, maybe. After all, he did sing about "Hippie Ernie" in this version. But Jonathan, no, no, no, no, absolutely not. No joke!! _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:02:53 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] turducken serendipity (so NS it hurts) At 11:20 PM 2/5/2002 -0500, Janet Ingraham Dwyer wrote: >Hi folks - > >Really, I am not interested in turduckens and their ilk, It's my fault for involving Janet in this, but as she said, Melissa and I first heard of this ultrameaty concoction two Thanksgiving weekends ago when we went to Columbus' North Market for a late lunch and, upon entering the market, saw a sign urging the populace to preorder "turduckens" for the holidays. Much mirth ensued. I've noticed that some of the spellings have it "tErducken," which, um, eliminates a certain unappetizing spelling connotation. They could have avoided this by going smallest to largest, calling it the "Chuckey." Maybe Jon Gruden could endorse it. I think both of the last Columbus Thanksgiving fetes have featured a discussion of possible other combinations. I wonder if they'd start going smaller -- turkey, duck, chicken, cornish game hen, pigeon, finch, hummingbird? >Note to JeFF - yes, I noted Daphne's affiliation, but she posts so >frequently and so admirably to STUMPERS that I do believe she's for real. >No one's ever heard of the Alfred Dickey Library, though. At last we know where all the money went from the "partial shirt to make it look like you're wearing a whole shirt under something else, but you're really not" fortune. Note to Jen Grover re: Alabama before and after the Civil War -- I've been digging around Mills Thornton's POWER AND POLITICS IN A SLAVE SOCIETY (which features a much more complex interpretation of Alabama politics than I remembered), Gavin Wright's OLD SOUTH, NEW SOUTH, and other pertinent histories of the South in general and northern Alabama specifically. The short answer is that we're both mostly right. However, a more thorough reply is going to have to wait for the weekend, when I have the time to order my thoughts and scan Wright's cotton production maps. I plan to do this off-list since we've probably already exhausted the list's patience on this topic, so anyone who wants to be copied on this should let me know... later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:31:08 -0500 From: Janet Ingraham Dwyer Subject: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time You know who you are. I looked up "turducken serendipity" on Google and was amused to generate not zero, but two site matches. I was also slightly disappointed, having just encountered a new game called Googlewhacking. The play: type a two word query (or three, but I think that's too easy) into the Google search engine. The object: generate a single site match (Results 1 of 1). The rules (from http://unblinking.com/heh/googlewhack.htm): "1. Googlefactors must exist in [the] dictionary. It's so easy to confirm: Google does the work! In the blue bar atop your Google results, accepted terms are linked to dictionary.com, and so appear 'underlined.' No line, no link = Googlethud! 2. Google also is the arbiter of a whack's uniqueness. Look to the right end of the blue bar atop your Google results. If you see "Results 1 - 1 of (any number),' you found exactly one hit = Googlewhack! 3. Google shows you an excerpt of the page you whacked. Look at that text. If it's merely a list of words, No Whack For You!" Go to. janet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 08:44:27 -0800 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Secret ingredients I seldom watch TV these days, but a chance look at last night's Buffy episode convinced me I've been wrong to ignore that show's new season. The temporal dislocation really did boggle my internal system, though having just watched PERFORMANCE, for the second time, I felt better prepared than a hypothetical mean-median Joe. I knew the last act would make everything better in some ridiculous >deus ex machina< manner, so I was only mildly disappointed when that in fact happened. On the whole, it felt much less like a cheat than the last time Buffy honestly believed she'd taken a human life. When I say, "make it all better" I of course do not mean that Buffy was all better. Only the immediate circumstances. This season, what I've seen of it, strikes me as one where the larger circumstances are so above and beyond the plotlines as to render the latter virtually insignificant. I'm assuming Buffy got the burger joint job to alleviate the financial woes she found herself in post-reincarnation. I'm loosely assuming some sort of scandal went down at said joint, a week or two ago? Oh, and can someone tell me why Willow quit practicing magic and broke up with her girlfriend (unless the second happened first)? Offlist is fine, but either way... "What goes in the patties, only known to the boss!" Andy "Stand and deliver, you bearded fuck -- thanks; if it's possible for me to be more depressed in this podunk pissant town, you've shown me the way -- nothing like my heroes of the 80's falling prey to the Million-Pound-Shithammer in their late 40's -- jesus, he was SO COOL -- I remember that I couldn't decide whether I wanted to be Adam Ant or Billy Idol 'cause I couldn't decide which one would get more pussy...I eventually decided on the Ant Man, what a mistake -- I might as well have decided on fucking Paul Reubens -- fuck, what am I saying, I wouldn't know pussy if it ran up, sat on my knee, and demanded my cock for christmas." - --a distraught friend of mine, who perhaps understandably wishes to remain anonymous, on the recent plight of Stuart Goddard, aka Adam Ant ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:47:26 -0600 From: "Keegstra, Russell" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time Janet: >You know who you are. "turducken" is a good start, it really narrows down the possibilities right off. I got a winner after only three tries: turducken particulate. Oh, but turducken isn't underlined. Crud. Russ, who *had* met Janet at the 08/08/98 BoTH show. Guess I should update my resume. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:55:17 -0500 From: "John Swartzentruber" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:31:08 -0500, Janet Ingraham Dwyer wrote: >The rules (from http://unblinking.com/heh/googlewhack.htm): >"1. Googlefactors must exist in [the] dictionary. It's so easy to confirm: >Google does the work! In the blue bar atop your Google results, accepted >terms are linked to dictionary.com, and so appear 'underlined.' No line, no >link = Googlethud! >2. Google also is the arbiter of a whack's uniqueness. Look to the right >end of the blue bar atop your Google results. If you see "Results 1 - 1 of >(any number),' you found exactly one hit = Googlewhack! >3. Google shows you an excerpt of the page you whacked. Look at that text. >If it's merely a list of words, No Whack For You!" Does it count if you get two hits and one of them is merely a list of words? It seems that those word lists are going to kill everything. Huggermugger Frankincense. Dammit Janet, I have work to do. ------------------------------ Date: 06 Feb 2002 12:33:01 -0500 From: Dan Schmidt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] take the lombardi trophy to the stop-n-shop dmw writes: | i dunno. i did think he was charismatic, but i also felt like i | wasn't young enough, nice enough, or innocent enough to get swept up | in it the way so many people were. I gotta say, every time I go to a Jonathan Richman show (I've probably been around five times by now), I am high on life for the next week. - -- http://www.dfan.org ------------------------------ Date: 06 Feb 2002 12:38:05 -0500 From: Dan Schmidt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Secret ingredients "Andrew Hamlin" writes: | I seldom watch TV these days, but a chance look at last night's Buffy | episode convinced me I've been wrong to ignore that show's new | season. Yeah, best episode since the musical, I think. | I'm assuming Buffy got the burger joint job to alleviate the | financial woes she found herself in post-reincarnation. Right. | I'm loosely assuming some sort of scandal went down at said joint, a | week or two ago? Yep, last week, in a pretty mediocre episode. | Oh, and can someone tell me why Willow quit practicing magic and | broke up with her girlfriend (unless the second happened first)? Tara broke up with Willow (first) because her magic use was getting out of control. Then, in possibly the worst Buffy episode I've ever seen (I just started watching this season plus some reruns), in which Willow's "magic addiction" was equated to drug use in the most heavy-handed way possible, she got into a car accident and almost killed Dawn, and decided that she had to go cold turkey. - -- http://www.dfan.org ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:50:52 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Janet Ingraham Dwyer wrote: > You know who you are. > > I looked up "turducken serendipity" on Google and was amused to generate > not zero, but two site matches. I was also slightly disappointed, having > just encountered a new game called Googlewhacking. What if you get the "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 1 already displayed" message? Either way, I have a winner: "schmaltzy cryogenics". If the message above doesn't matter, I also have "schmaltz vivisection". Bingo! I have a bingo! J. Mallon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:06:19 -0600 From: "Keegstra, Russell" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time Ah Ha! pentatonic transponder It's a text file, but hey. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:24:13 -0800 From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time "Keegstra, Russell" wrote: > "turducken" is a good start, it really narrows down the > possibilities right off. I got a winner after only three > tries: turducken particulate. Oh, but turducken isn't > underlined. Crud. Yesterday I told Janet that if she wasn't that interested in terducken, she could always make a vegetarian equivalent, by stuffing seitan "chicken" and mock duck into a tofurkey to make "tofurducken". I thought of that word all by myself, plus "tofurducken" returns exactly one hit in a Google search (it returns two, but one is a reference to the other), But that's only one word, so I'm breaking the rules. This is a tough game. Even "cornhenge" returns more than 10 matches! Steve ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:31:06 -0800 From: Tim_Walters@digidesign.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time reification fiddlesticks http://www.cdemusic.org/store/cde_search.cfm?keywords=earlyinstruments1 has several CDs for sale featuring early electronic instruments. The Trautonium stars on Oskar Sala's SUBHARMONISCHE MIXTUREN. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:44:09 -0500 (EST) From: Loudfan Subject: [loud-fans] introductions: ready for prime-time the archived loudfan introduction pages are now available at: http://www.mwmw.com/loudfans/ u: loudfan p: ScottMiller if you sent an introduction, you might want to look it over and make sure i didn't garble anything too badly, that i didn't mislay your mail (if i did, i'm very sorry, please don't take it personally) and that i correctly edited/added any follow-up info that you sent. please see notes and guidelines http://www.mwmw.com/loudfans/notes.html address any correspondence for comments / carping / suggestions / additions / deletions / changes and most especially attachments to this address (loudfan@mwmw.com) rather than the dmw address. s'il vous plait. if anybody is motivated to make the templates more graphically interesting, do drop me a line. - -- d. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:38:41 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Janet Ingraham Dwyer wrote: > The rules (from http://unblinking.com/heh/googlewhack.htm): > "1. Googlefactors must exist in [the] dictionary. It's so easy to confirm: > Google does the work! In the blue bar atop your Google results, accepted > terms are linked to dictionary.com, and so appear 'underlined.' No line, no > link = Googlethud! > 2. Google also is the arbiter of a whack's uniqueness. Look to the right > end of the blue bar atop your Google results. If you see "Results 1 - 1 of > (any number),' you found exactly one hit = Googlewhack! > 3. Google shows you an excerpt of the page you whacked. Look at that text. > If it's merely a list of words, No Whack For You!" For those of you who insist on making everything competitive, googlewhacks may be scored. Run each of the words that's run a whack (hey! I invented a phrase...) by itself; multiply the number of hits each word gets individually. The higher the score, the better the whack. That is, it's relatively easy to run a whack using rare words (like, say, "b-follows-acious turducken" - which will work once this post is archived and found by Google...), but a lot harder using, say, "sex." And Janet, remember: "b-follows-acious is so a word!" (that was an injoke...) - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::I can bellow like a clown school drill instructor:: __Brian Block__ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:41:25 -0800 From: Michael Zwirn Subject: [loud-fans] [NS] Valentine's songs I am making a mix tape, and looking for Valentine-themed songs of at least a modicum of artistic respectability, preferably from the rock era. Suggestions? Michael - -- "Walking from the bus stop Couldn't wait to get off I know I'll be the lucky one" Freedy Johnston ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:46:03 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Steve Holtebeck wrote: > Yesterday I told Janet that if she wasn't that interested in terducken, > she could always make a vegetarian equivalent, by stuffing seitan > "chicken" and mock duck into a tofurkey to make "tofurducken". That "rdu" seems onomastically redundant...if perhaps socially necessary. Oh yeah: the Robyn Hitchcock list was babbling about googlewhacking last week. Lots of folk posting their whacks...which means that, once our two lists get through with this and Google notes their archives, we can eliminate many currently existing googlewhacks. This metagame is known as googlewhackingwhacking. - --Jeff, Founder: The Committee to Eliminate Googlewhacks J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::playing around with the decentered self is all fun and games ::until somebody loses an I. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:50:01 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > This metagame is known as googlewhackingwhacking. Sorry to be a serialistic killer in repeat posting, but: wouldn't it be possible for some clever computer person to write up some code that uses Google to find all existing googlewhacks and then post the results to the web, thereby eliminating in one fell swoop all two-stroke googlewhacks? (At least for a short time...some truly Satanic individual could keep such software runinng on an ongoing basis, just to catch new whacks as they crop up.) Okay, I probably should find some real work to do now. - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::Some see things as they are, and say "Why?" ::Some see things as they could be, and say "Why not?" ::Some see things that aren't there, and say "Huh?" Np: Freakwater _End Time_ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 08:54:25 -1000 From: "R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: [loud-fans] I Love Metafilter... (ns) I shouldn't be laughing at this... but, well... http://www.flin.demon.co.uk/althist/auth.htm#TOP ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:00:13 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > wouldn't it be possible for some clever computer person to write up > some code that uses Google to find all existing googlewhacks and then > post the results to the web, thereby eliminating in one fell swoop all > two-stroke googlewhacks? Well, there's over two billion combinations to try, so that person would have to wait a long time. They might be waiting even longer if Google noticed that someone was hammering their servers and tried to stop them. That said, sure, someone could do it. Someone could flood Fenway Park with battery acid, too, but until they do so, baseball is still a game. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:14:02 -0500 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time That's a strangely compelling game. The best I could find over lunch were: gryphons underdid oregano validators glenn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:13:13 -0500 From: Michael Bowen Subject: Re: [loud-fans] turducken fershmucken I knew all this turducken stuff sounded familiar. Here's a description the World's Largest Meal, which comes from an old copy of the Guinness Book of World Records: The largest item on any menu in the world is probably the roast camel, sometimes served at Bedouin wedding feasts. The camel is stuffed with a sheep's carcass, which is stuffed with chickens, which are stuffed with fish, which are stuffed with eggs. Would you like the super-size combo, MB ------------------------------ Date: 06 Feb 2002 14:16:37 -0500 From: Dan Schmidt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time I ran into this last week, and got lucky on my first try with 'trochaic phlebotomy'. It was then suggested to try to minimize the total letter count of the phrase. Best I could do was 10 with 'souk niggle'. - -- http://www.dfan.org ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:14:21 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Mitton Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time sex depeople 49,300,000 * 89 = 4,387,700,000 - --Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:31:41 -0500 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time Well, "oregano validators" is 11,965,800,000. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Mitton Cc: FORGET SCOTT MILLER! Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:14 pm Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time sex depeople 49,300,000 * 89 = 4,387,700,000 --Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 13:33:34 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time At 12:38 PM 2/6/2002 -0600, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: >And Janet, remember: "b-follows-acious is so a word!" (that was an >injoke...) What, are we following Lady Box Johnson rules? later, Miles, who didn't get the first in-joke ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 19:58:25 +0000 From: "O Geier" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] [NS] Valentine's songs <> Let's see, 'Queen of Hearts' by Juice Newton and 'Two of Hearts' by Stacy Q. Does that help?? Also, Tiffany is set to pose in Playboy. Now I can find out if the carpet matches the drapes. Support anti-Spam legislation. Join the fight http://www.cauce.org/ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:41:37 -0500 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time John Swartzentruber pointed out that Google doesn't link "validators" to dictionary.com, which is obviously stupid, but the rules are the rules. The next-best score I've been able to come up with is "caramelize latency", for 5,989,320,000. ----- Original Message ----- From: glenn mcdonald To: Michael Mitton Cc: FORGET SCOTT MILLER! Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:31 pm Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time Well, "oregano validators" is 11,965,800,000. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Mitton Cc: FORGET SCOTT MILLER! Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:14 pm Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time sex depeople 49,300,000 * 89 = 4,387,700,000 --Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:45:19 -0800 From: Tim_Walters@digidesign.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time "metastasis shofar" weighs in at 7,644,000,000. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 15:52:01 -0500 From: "John Swartzentruber" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:41:37 -0500, glenn mcdonald wrote: >John Swartzentruber pointed out that Google doesn't link "validators" to >dictionary.com, which is obviously stupid, but the rules are the rules. The >next-best score I've been able to come up with is "caramelize latency", for >5,989,320,000. I'd like to propose a further rule: the words must be visible within the hit article. glenn's example passes this rule, but Michael's "sex depeople" does not because, although depeople might be a word, it is not used as a word in the article. It is actually found in a URL and is an abbreviated name for delaware people. I figure since I quit playing early, I should waste my time making up new rules. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: glenn mcdonald > To: Michael Mitton > Cc: FORGET SCOTT MILLER! > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:31 pm > Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time > > > Well, "oregano validators" is 11,965,800,000. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael Mitton > Cc: FORGET SCOTT MILLER! > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:14 pm > Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time > > > sex depeople > > 49,300,000 * 89 = 4,387,700,000 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:54:06 -0500 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time braising latency: 8,610,600,000 ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim_Walters@digidesign.com To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:45 pm Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time "metastasis shofar" weighs in at 7,644,000,000. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:53:27 -0700 From: "Roger Winston" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time ingraham rosicrucians (And yes, "ingraham" is underlined. Apparently it's a town in Illinois.) Latre. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:47:45 -0600 From: "Keegstra, Russell" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time algebra dominatrices 63,581,000,000 I must stop this now. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:11:50 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Aaron Mandel wrote: > That said, sure, someone could do it. Someone could flood Fenway Park with > battery acid, too, but until they do so, baseball is still a game. And afterwards, it's *fun and games*. - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::Watson! Something's afoot...and it's on the end of my leg:: __Hemlock Stones__ np: Flotilla s/t ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:13:43 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Miles Goosens wrote: > At 12:38 PM 2/6/2002 -0600, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > >And Janet, remember: "b-follows-acious is so a word!" (that was an > >injoke...) > > What, are we following Lady Box Johnson rules? No: the Box Elder rules. - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey, only making things worse J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::Being young, carefree, having your whole life ahead of you, ::dancing the night away to celebrate... ::oh, and the untimely death of Jackson Pollock. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:10:08 -0800 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] [NS] Valentine's songs >Also, Tiffany is set to pose in Playboy. Now I can find out if the >carpet matches the drapes. Oh sure, but if you really want to give the lady a hand, buy her new album! The critics rave, interestingly enough. www.tiffanymusic.com Actually, it's..."rdu"? Andy "Our country may be young, but it nonetheless predates television." - --Pamela Paul, from THE STARTER MARRIAGE AND THE FUTURE OF MATRIMONY ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 18:15:36 -0500 From: Janet Ingraham Dwyer Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time At 01:53 PM 02/06/2002 -0700, Roger Winston wrote: >ingraham rosicrucians > >(And yes, "ingraham" is underlined. Apparently it's a town in Illinois.) > >Latre. --Rog Damnation. I'd even been playing with "Rosicrucian(s)" earlier today, trying to combine something related to Rosicrucianism with something related to delpeted uranium, and so forth. I did find one nice whack that way - "Mauritanian Rosicrucians." It's worth a paltry 1,480,900,000, though. Knew about that IL town, but I haven't gone to claim it yet. Powerwash Leviticus, janet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:37:56 -0800 From: Tim_Walters@digidesign.com Subject: RE: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time Peloponnesian blowjob: 88,750,000,000 Neener. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:45:29 -0500 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time > algebra dominatrices ... 63,581,000,000 Nice. I was following this same impulse earlier, but I couldn't figure out how to reduce the amount of fellatio and sodomy I was getting. Dominatrices solve that problem nicely, leading me to: "routing dominatrices", for 72,816,000,000. glenn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 18:14:15 -0700 From: Roger Winston Subject: RE: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time At Wednesday 2/6/2002 04:37 PM -0800, Tim_Walters@digidesign.com wrote: >Peloponnesian blowjob: 88,750,000,000 Tim, that doesn't work for me. I get "no matches" with that combination. Cheater! reprimanded epididymitis: 1,686,700,000 (I know, pretty low...) Latre. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:18:30 -0500 From: "John Sharples" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] take the lombardi trophy to the stop-n-shop >On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Dennis McGreevy wrote: > >> it's his presence. He [Jojo] is consistently the single most charismatic live >> performer I've ever seen. He's hard to beat, but I think I have to say the most consistently charismatic live performer I've know of is Ed Hamell, who plays out as Hamell on Trial. In fact, I'd say you can skip his records, just go see him live if you ever get the chance. Not only are his raps amazing but you've never heard a single acoustic guitar sound as astonishingly *huge* as the way his sounds. Last time I saw him he opened with a cover of "Kick Out the Jams" that actually rocked harder than the version Blue Oyster Cult was doing in '78 and could give MC5 a run for their money. Ed also tells jokes better than anyone I know. I can also vouch for his *consistency* as I've been seeing Ed perform continuously since I first saw him with his Syracuse band The Works in 1983 through to his latest NYC-area gig this past October, and he only seems to get better with age. Shut up and play something, shut up and say something, JS ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:21:46 -0800 From: Tim_Walters@digidesign.com Subject: RE: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time >Tim, that doesn't work for me. I get "no matches" with that >combination. So do I, now. But I swear it worked before--I even double-checked it. The web changeth in front of our eyes! "Manichaean blackjack" still works, but it's a measly 17,176,000,000. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 21:57:38 -0400 From: John F Butland Subject: Re: [loud-fans] turducken fershmucken At 02:13 PM 02-02-06 -0500, Michael Bowen wrote: >I knew all this turducken stuff sounded familiar. > >Here's a description the World's Largest Meal, which comes from an old copy >of the Guinness Book of World Records: > >The largest item on any menu in the world is probably the roast camel, >sometimes served at Bedouin wedding feasts. The camel is stuffed with a >sheep's carcass, which is stuffed with chickens, which are stuffed with >fish, which are stuffed with eggs. > A recipe for same can be found at: http://www.tiac.net/users/cri/camel.html And for the unadventurous, there's always the following, which is where I found the link to the camel surprise. http://fp.thesalmons.org/lynn/turducken.html best, jfb John F Butland O- butland@nbnet.nb.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 21:35:29 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: RE: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, glenn mcdonald wrote: > Nice. I was following this same impulse earlier, but I couldn't figure > out how to reduce the amount of fellatio and sodomy I was getting. Now here's a man with too little to complain about. - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::Solipsism is its own reward:: __Crow T. Robot__ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 20:44:59 -0700 From: Stewart Mason Subject: RE: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time At 07:45 PM 2/6/02 -0500, glenn mcdonald wrote: >Nice. I was following this same impulse earlier, but I couldn't figure >out how to reduce the amount of fellatio and sodomy I was getting. Barmy cornholing -- 16,525,000 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:12:07 -0600 From: "Keegstra, Russell" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time Me: >algebra dominatrices ... 63,581,000,000 glenn: >routing dominatrices ... 72,816,000,000 Tim: >Peloponnesian blowjob ... 88,750,000,000 I think it's instructive that "blowjob" gets more hits than either "algebra" or "routing". ...and Tim's is back on the air at Google, I don't know where it went. Russ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 00:34:55 -0500 From: Overall_Julianne@isus.emc.com Subject: RE: [loud-fans] For word freaks with spare time > From: Stewart Mason [mailto:flamingo@rt66.com] > At 07:45 PM 2/6/02 -0500, glenn mcdonald wrote: > >Nice. I was following this same impulse earlier, but I > couldn't figure > >out how to reduce the amount of fellatio and sodomy I was getting. > > Barmy cornholing -- 16,525,000 I've just re-subscribed and the first message I read is quite alarming. Are you guys morphing into some new kind of list? Much Love (or something), -julianne I was distracted for a moment and, wham!, my loud-fan e-mail stopped. I have no idea why. I've missed you all, though. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 01:01:21 -0500 (EST) From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: [loud-fans] Talk of the Nation on NPR Anyone feel like calling in to suggest, say, Big Star leading to Game Theory/Loud Family? Thursday, Feb. 7 - 12:00 Noon Pacific/3:00 P.M. Eastern Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan (Hour Two) Your Top 25 Picks for the Most Influential Bands in Rock History. Rolling Stone does it, Spin does it, now Talk of the Nation is doing it. Join Neal Conan on the next Talk of the Nation for YOUR top 25 picks for the most influential bands in rock history. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 02:22:59 -0500 From: Overall_Julianne@isus.emc.com Subject: [loud-fans] I'm usually late for parties and this is no exception Hey! I'm glad to hear that so many folks have re-subscribed (lorrie and ana!!!) Like Rog, I'm as right-handed as can be. Like Dan Schmidt, I have an inability to visualize. Like Scott Miller, I have a BSEE Like John Cooper, I can "hear" music in my head. In fact, I could sing both the 1968 Cool Whip jingle ["Cool whip, yum yum yum yum yum. Comes whipped, yum yum yum yum yum" and the 1968 ford Mustang jingle ["Mustang, Mustang, '68"] Actually, my recollection has merged them together, sort of like one commercial after the other. Okay, here's my info in the format I gleaned from escribe. Name : Julianne Overall Birthdate : August 19, 1958 Birthplace : Vancouver, WA Marital Status : happy and single Children : Melanie 9, Justin 25 Grandchildren: Winter 3 Pets: Two cats. Beetle, who thinks he's a puppy, and Smoke ,who thinks she's a squirrel. Have lived in : Louisiana for 5 years as a child, the rest in the pacific northwest Occupation : Software Consultant for a hardware company. Vision: Near-sighted with astigmatism. I've worn glasses since I was 9. I got contacts at 24. Religion: Spirituality only - born-again Pagan Education: BS in electrical engineering (although I much prefer physics and calculus) Facial Hair : I prefer clean shaven faces on men. Handedness : I'm very much a right-hander, in fact everyone in my family is, except my son who is very left-handed, Heard of Loud Family : I missed the Aimee Mann show in Portland where they opened, but my 'wasband' went. He brought me home P&B&R&T and I was hooked. Met loudfans?: Yep. Quite a few in San Francisco and Boston (and Roger, CO) Favorite Loud-Fan Meeting Moment: That's easy: eyebrow critiquing with glenn Had the Loud Family as guests: Twice - once when they played in Portland in 1998 and again in 2000. Favourite Album (this week) : Plants & Birds & Rocks & Things and Electro-Shock Blues by the eels ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #59 ******************************