From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V3 #321 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 Monday, November 3 2003 Volume 03 : Number 321 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? [Dave Walker] Re: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? [Jenny G] [loud-fans] chatting???? [Phil Fleming ] [loud-fans] Could somebody please, please, PLEASE carve out a chat domain for loudfans, y',know, like we used to have? [] Re: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? [Stewart] Re: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? [Dave Wa] [loud-fans] final chat move (hopefully) [Jenny Grover Subject: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html I scored 79.9, which I think is on the scary end of the spectrum. -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 18:49:50 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? Dave Walker wrote: > http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html > > I scored 79.9, which I think is on the scary > end of the spectrum. > > -d.w. So, where does 93.55 put me, then? Jen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 18:07:52 -0800 (PST) From: Phil Fleming Subject: [loud-fans] chatting???? irc.stealth.net #loudfans Phil F. NP: Wig In A Box - Hedwig Tribute __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 20:51:05 -0800 (PST) From: "G. Andrew Hamlin" Subject: [loud-fans] Could somebody please, please, PLEASE carve out a chat domain for loudfans, y',know, like we used to have? irc.stealth.net seems to have died horribly. Unless I hear different, I'll be at irc.muppetlabs.com for another hour or so. We can put a man on the moon--*twelve* men on the moon, actually, but... Andy "The programming in movies, television, computers, and our stereos simluates the human imagination; it functions as an imagination prosthetic. INsofar as your high-end audio equipment means you won't produce any music yourself, won't even listen to live music, won't know what it feels like to caputre the rhythms and textures of music in your own hands and lungs, how playing music changes your relationshiop to music and changes music's relationship to the world, your stereo system is a musical wooden leg. It is, literally, a dis-ability. Worse yet, this dis-ability leaves substantial control over the 'content' of these systems in the hands of giant international entertainment corporations like Sony and BMG." (footnote) "'Stereophile' magazine regularly runs interviews with musicians and is regularly dismayed at what crummy audio rigs they have. The indifference of musicians to the high-tech world of the audiophile is the source of considerable wonderment and pain to the editors of 'Stereophile.'" - --Curtis White, from THE MIDDLE MIND: WHY AMERICANS DON'T THINK FOR THEMSELVES ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:05:09 -0500 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? At 06:49 PM 11/2/2003 -0500, Jenny Grover wrote: >Dave Walker wrote: > >> http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html >> >> I scored 79.9, which I think is on the scary >> end of the spectrum. >> >> -d.w. > > >So, where does 93.55 put me, then? Less scary than me, because I got 112 -- although as the scoring thing points out, I was born to this stuff. If you were under 20 and had basic cognitive faculties in the '80s, you knew 2/3s of this stuff just through osmosis! S ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 00:13:37 -0500 From: Dave Walker Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? On Nov 3, 2003, at 12:05 AM, Stewart Mason wrote: > Less scary than me, because I got 112 -- although as the scoring thing > points out, I was born to this stuff. If you were under 20 and had > basic > cognitive faculties in the '80s, you knew 2/3s of this stuff just > through > osmosis! They docked me 30% and called me a yuppie (?) because I was born before Woodstock. Were there score deductions or additions for being in any other age group? -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:16:17 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: [loud-fans] final chat move (hopefully) After numerous horrible failures and experiences beyond the realm of believability, we have settled, hopefully for good tonight, on irc.eskimo.com Jen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:18:48 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? Dave Walker wrote: > They docked me 30% and called me a yuppie (?) because I was born > before Woodstock. Were there score deductions or additions for > being in any other age group? They must have inflated mine for being born before the Twist, because I missed quite a few but still got an A. I don't recall what it said about my age group, though. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 21:41:14 -0800 (PST) From: Phil Fleming Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? 97.5 here. Though there was a few I really should've known right off the bat.. "but when you know what it is you're doing then you despise it" Phil F. NP: The Wildhearts - EARTH VS. THE WILDHEARTS - --- Stewart Mason wrote: > At 06:49 PM 11/2/2003 -0500, Jenny Grover wrote: > >Dave Walker wrote: > > > >> http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html > >> > >> I scored 79.9, which I think is on the scary > >> end of the spectrum. > >> > >> -d.w. > > > > > >So, where does 93.55 put me, then? > > Less scary than me, because I got 112 -- although as > the scoring thing > points out, I was born to this stuff. If you were > under 20 and had basic > cognitive faculties in the '80s, you knew 2/3s of > this stuff just through > osmosis! > > S __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 00:00:53 -0600 (GMT-06:00) From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? Jen: >So, where does 93.55 put me, then? Way behind my super-geezeriffic 140.525! Someone asked about age stuff on the quiz -- one of the "wrong answer" lines said I must have been born after 1985 because I didn't know a freakin' KISS lyric, which I have *zero* compunction about. :-) And I got this at the end: >You were probably working in a bank in the 80's. 15% handicap on the Gen Xers. >5 point bonus for telling me where you saw this. Thanks! I work in a bank now, which makes the comment mildly amusing. Do '80s bankers know all the songs or somethin'? later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 00:05:13 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? Quoting Stewart Mason : > At 06:49 PM 11/2/2003 -0500, Jenny Grover wrote: > >Dave Walker wrote: > > > >> http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html > points out, I was born to this stuff. If you were under 20 and had basic > cognitive faculties in the '80s, you knew 2/3s of this stuff just through > osmosis! Well, that depends on which of those cognitive faculties most readily accessed your memory: my problem is my usual one, that I just plain don't know a lot of song lyrics - even for songs I like a lot. As a side note: it was interesting to me how many of the listed songs were *covers* that were hits in the '80s...often of songs written in the '70s or '60s. Also: yeah, okay, so "Walk This Way" does also say "talk this way," but I could swear it *also* says "walk this way" two times in a row at least once during the record. So I demand another point. Hmmph. Also, shouldn't I get some credit for not knowing lyrics if the song's really crappy? No? Ah well... Despite all this, I do know *some* lyrics to some '80s songs. In fact, sometimes I knew them so well, I didn't even need most of my brain to recite them! In one of those moments anyone in their late teens or early twenties must have experienced at least once, one night in college two of my hometown friends came visiting and brought their friends Jack and Jim along for the fun. (Oh, and I think someone from down the hall brought his friend Mary Jane as well.) Anyway, after a long evening of all this, which also included throat-shredding vocal exercises to the "tune" of "Roxanne," insane dance moves in someone else's dorm hallway, and the usual batch of college-student drunken obnoxiousness, the inevitable aftermath made its unpleasantly unavoidable lessons in toxicology all too plain, and as the last of my brain cells stuffed their heads beneath their pillows, turned up the white noise on the TV, and generally did everything they could to avoid contact with me, I somehow was still able - as "Elephant Talk" by King Crimson played on the stereo in my dorm room, and my friends (except for Jim, Jack, and Mary Jane, who'd all been swiftly dispatched) wondered whether this would be a funny story to tell or something they'd read about in the papers the next day in small print listing my family members - to recite "I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat--" along with Adrian Belew in perfect timing. I then resumed my attempts to get to know the wastebasket a little too well. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: "am I being self-referential?" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 01:26:58 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? Miles Goosens wrote: >>You were probably working in a bank in the 80's. 15% handicap on the Gen Xers. >>5 point bonus for telling me where you saw this. Thanks! >> >> > >I work in a bank now, which makes the comment mildly amusing. Do '80s bankers know all the songs or somethin'? > > > I don't know, but that's what mine said and I never worked in a bank in my life! "bank parking lot..." Jen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 23:59:49 -0800 From: "me" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? 89 the first time around, when second-guessing myself. 96.5 when i re-inserted the ansewred i had first used, then "corrected" no adjustments for age, etc. but i DID get the extra credit... brianna great link! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Walker" To: Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 1:02 PM Subject: [loud-fans] Does My Members Only Jacket Have Enough Zippers? > http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html > > I scored 79.9, which I think is on the scary > end of the spectrum. > > -d.w. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V3 #321 *******************************