From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #166 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, May 9 2002 Volume 02 : Number 166 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Like I Care... ["O Geier" ] [loud-fans] Attn: Jason & the Scorchers fans [Miles Goosens ] [loud-fans] Two favorite recent purchases [Carolyn Dorsey Subject: [loud-fans] Like I Care... That Will Ferrell is leaving Saturday Night Live. Why is he being praised as such a great mimic of W? It's passable at best, but unfunny-'Strategery' made me smirk only slightly. He'll be the next Tim Kazurinsky, with one failed vehicle after another, while 'Run Ronnie Run' remains in limbo. My fear is they'll pillage Mad TV and get Will Sasso and Michael McDonald, stick them with the lame ass writers who take it for granted that everybody in America buys every hit record, sees every hit movie and watches the Real World and Survivor non stop, and drop their pop culture 'in-jokes' like bombs on Dresden, and wonder why the press continues to lambaste them repeatedly. That's just my opinion, I may be wrong. Support anti-Spam legislation. Join the fight http://www.cauce.org/ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 10:01:32 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: [loud-fans] Attn: Jason & the Scorchers fans Drummer Perry Baggs (sometimes punk-ized to "Bagz") has left the Scorchers to pursue a solo career. Perry wrote several of the Scorchers' best songs, and was one of the most energetic drummers you'll ever see. Perry says that he's hooked the Scorchers up with "a great drummer" to take his place, but as Tommy Womack said this morning, "there is no drummer to take his place." Damn. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:19:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: [loud-fans] apropos of nothing Okay, so I'm watching TV last night, and a commercial for some lipstick comes on. At one point, the editors did this little trick in which the tube of lipstick appeared to materialize in a haze a diamond-y sparkles. At this point, someone in the legal dept. must have advised the producers that consumers might sue if, in fact, *their* tube of lipstick failed to perform in this Star Trekky way, so a little notice appeared in the lower right corner of the screen, indicating that this was a SPECIAL EFFECT. It's always good to know just what intelligence level such ads assume on the part of their consumers. - --Jeff, who is not, in fact, resident inside your computer producing these messages. They are a SPECIAL EFFECT. Jeffrey Norman, Posemodernist University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dept. of Mumblish & Competitive Obliterature http://www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ np: The Negro Problem _Post Minstrel Syndrome_ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 10:54:11 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] apropos of nothing At 10:19 AM 5/8/2002 -0500, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: >Okay, so I'm watching TV last night, and a commercial for some lipstick >comes on. At one point, the editors did this little trick in which the >tube of lipstick appeared to materialize in a haze a diamond-y sparkles. > >At this point, someone in the legal dept. must have advised the producers >that consumers might sue if, in fact, *their* tube of lipstick failed to >perform in this Star Trekky way, so a little notice appeared in the lower >right corner of the screen, indicating that this was a SPECIAL EFFECT. > >It's always good to know just what intelligence level such ads assume on >the part of their consumers. My favorite is (maybe "was" -- it's been a long time since I had one) on the box of Oscar Mayer's "Lunchables." The "Lunchable" concept is a packaging-intensive "lunch-in-a-box," with little separate compartments for each component: for example, small slices of ham in one, slices of cheese in another, and Ritz crackers in a third, with a cookie-type thing thrown in for dessert. The cover depicted the assembled product -- to continue the above example, cracker on the bottom, ham in the middle, and cheese on top -- but had a fine print disclaimer: "Serving suggestion only." Were people really thinking "I'd like to eat all the cheese in one go, but I can't, because the box shows it cheese-ham-cracker?" Did they think that the FBI would get them if they put the cracker in the middle? I can actually sorta see the lipstick commercial's disclaimer, but this one? later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 12:33:40 +0000 From: Chris Burns Subject: Re: [loud-fans] apropos of nothing Ah, yes. "Lunchables." MOM: "Here kids, lunch is ready! Bobby, you eat yours over the sink. Susie, you're over the garbage can." Do they come with a box/bag of "drink?" Miles Goosens wrote: > At 10:19 AM 5/8/2002 -0500, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > >Okay, so I'm watching TV last night, and a commercial for some lipstick > >comes on. At one point, the editors did this little trick in which the > >tube of lipstick appeared to materialize in a haze a diamond-y sparkles. > > > >At this point, someone in the legal dept. must have advised the producers > >that consumers might sue if, in fact, *their* tube of lipstick failed to > >perform in this Star Trekky way, so a little notice appeared in the lower > >right corner of the screen, indicating that this was a SPECIAL EFFECT. > > > >It's always good to know just what intelligence level such ads assume on > >the part of their consumers. > > My favorite is (maybe "was" -- it's been a long time since I had one) on > the box of Oscar Mayer's "Lunchables." The "Lunchable" concept is a > packaging-intensive "lunch-in-a-box," with little separate compartments for > each component: for example, small slices of ham in one, slices of cheese > in another, and Ritz crackers in a third, with a cookie-type thing thrown > in for dessert. > > The cover depicted the assembled product -- to continue the above example, > cracker on the bottom, ham in the middle, and cheese on top -- but had a > fine print disclaimer: "Serving suggestion only." > > Were people really thinking "I'd like to eat all the cheese in one go, but > I can't, because the box shows it cheese-ham-cracker?" Did they think that > the FBI would get them if they put the cracker in the middle? I can > actually sorta see the lipstick commercial's disclaimer, but this one? > > later, > > Miles - -- Chris Burns Gravity Hill Media, Inc. 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How incredibly short sighted and stupid it is to try to shut down internet broadcasters with exhorbitant fees. Why charge so much? They should be happy that music outside the mainstream is played on the internet. How the hell else is anyone going to hear it? Goodness knows it's not on the radio. The recording industry could work more cooperatively with internet broadcasters. I agree that artists should get their cut but why demand so much to shut down the small people. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #166 *******************************