From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V5 #84 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 Saturday, April 2 2005 Volume 05 : Number 084 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Prithee, a favor [zoom@muppetlabs.com] Re: [loud-fans] Prithee, a favor [Tim Walters ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:55:28 -0800 (PST) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Prithee, a favor > This is the first time I've ever got national airplay (not counting thirty > seconds on Dr. Demento that I didn't find out about until afterward), and > it would be cool to have a souvenir. Thirty seconds on Dr. Demento? Tell us more! When? What? I knew a guy in college who arrived from his home in Guam stocked up with tapes of the Demento show. Turned out he had a recording of our friend Edward calling in to request "The Trouble With Klingons"--broadcast a couple years before Edward and the tape-maker met! Anybody else heard Death Cab for Cutie doing "World Shut Your Mouth"? Andy Dispatcher: Sheriff's department, how can I help you? Woman: Yeah, I'm over here . . . I'm over here at Burger King right here in San Clemente.* Dispatcher: Uh-huh. Woman: Um, no, not San Clemente; I'm sorry, I live in San Clemente. I'm in Laguna Niguel, I think, that's where I'm at. Dispatcher: Uh-huh. Woman: I'm at a drive-through right now. Dispatcher: Uh-huh. Woman: I went . . . I ordered my food three times. They're mopping the floor inside, and I understand they're busy . . . they're not even busy, okay, I've been the only car here. I asked them four different times to make me a Western Barbeque Burger. Okay, they keep giving me a hamburger with lettuce, tomato, and cheese, onions, and I said, "I'm not leaving . . ." Dispatcher: Uh-huh. Woman: I want a Western Burger because I just got my kids from Tae Kwon Do, they're hungry, I'm on my way home, and I live in San Clemente. Dispatcher: Uh-huh. Woman: Okay . . . she said, she gave me another hamburger; it's wrong. I said four times, I said, "I want it to go. Can you go out and park in front?" I said, "No, I want my hamburger right." So then the . . . the lady came to the manager. She . . . well whoever she is, she came up and she said, um, she said, um, "Do you want your money back?" And I said, "No, I want my hamburger. My kids are hungry and I have to jump on that toll freeway." I said, "I am not leaving this spot," and I said, "I will call the police," because I want my Western Burger done right! Now is that so hard? Dispatcher: Okay, what exactly is it you want us to do for you? Woman: I . . . send an officer down here. I . . . I want them to make me . . . Dispatcher: Ma'am, we're not gonna go down there and enforce your Western Bacon Cheeseburger. Woman: What am I supposed to do? Dispatcher: This is . . . this is between you and the manager. We're not gonna go and enforce how to make a hamburger; that's not a criminal issue. There's . . . there's nothing criminal there. Woman: So I just stand here . . . so I just sit here and [block]? Dispatcher: You . . . you need to calmly and rationally speak to the manager and figure out what to do between you. Woman: She did come up, and I said, "Can I please have my Western Burger?" She . . . she said, "I'm not dealing with it," and she walked away. Because they're mopping the floor, and it's also the fact that they don't want to . . . they don't want to go through there . . . and . . . and . . . Dispatcher: Ma'am, then I suggest you get your money back and go somewhere else. This is . . . this is not a criminal issue. We can't go out there and make them make you a cheeseburger the way you want it. Woman: Well . . . that is . . . that . . . you're supposed to be here to protect me. Dispatcher: Well, what are we protecting you from, a wrong cheeseburger? Woman: No . . . Dispatcher: Is this like . . . is this a harmful cheeseburger or something? I don't understand what you want us to do. Woman: Just come down here. I'm not . . . I'm not leaving. Dispatcher: No ma'am, I'm not sending the deputies down there over a cheeseburger. You need to go in there and act like an adult and either get your money back or go home. Woman: She is not acting like an adult herself! I'm sitting here in my car; I just want them to make my kids a . . . a Western Burger. Dispatcher: Ma'am, this is what I suggest: I suggest you get your money back from the manager and you go on your way home. Woman: Okay. Dispatcher: Okay? Bye-bye. [--transcript of a conversation between a 911 dispatcher, and, apparently, a mom with a car full of kids; from http://www.snopes.com/crime/cops/burger.asp ] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:08:09 -0800 From: Tim Walters Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Prithee, a favor On Apr 1, 2005, at 7:55 AM, zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote: > Thirty seconds on Dr. Demento? Tell us more! When? What? Slaw, "The Nine Warning Signs Of Christmas," sometime around Christmas 2002. http://www.doubtfulpalace.com/artists/Slaw ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:01:00 EST From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Prithee, a favor In a message dated 4/1/05 11:11:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, walters@doubtfulpalace.com writes: Slaw What a great name! That's the word that I personally think is the most ridiculous word in the English language. Many years back, as an inside joke with my best friend I'd use the word all over the parts of speech like in the Smurfs..."That's so slaw." "He really slawed me off." "You slaw me." "What the slaw are you talking about?" etc. A truly great name for a musical group. - --Mark np: a certain ep by a certain group with a name related to flowers that I'm technically not supposed to have yet, but have played like, 40 times in the past two weeks ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:27:11 -0600 From: Jeff Subject: [loud-fans] Fwd: Guardian scoop -- prog not dead! By coincidence, what was in my car CD player immediately before I read this? Yes, Yes! - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christopher Gross Matthew Weber (given his remarks a week or so back) might particularly enjoy this quote: More rock and pop features The first coming of prog was defined by a batch of English bands with a set of shared tastes and values. As Bill Bruford, the original drummer with Yes, points out: "Half the main protagonists had come from the church - a lot of organists and choirboys. Chris Squire from Yes sang in a choir. The Rick Wakemans and Keith Emersons were organists. So the church had quite a lot to do with it. There wasn't a note of jazz in it. Completely white. Completely pertaining to south-eastern, middle-class nice boys like myself. The classical influence came from the fact that classical was the only music being taught in school." - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 17:46:43 EST From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] If you could hook me up... Listening to the latest Magnapop made me want to listen to their first record, and upon looking for it, discovered it ISN'T ON MY SHELF (the one on Caroline from 1992 I think). I've discovered this album is rare, and so I'm screwed. I can't believe I'd ever part with this album. Did I leave it at the radio station by accident after a show? Maird. If anyone would be so kind as to let me have a burn of yours, or, if you wanted to even sell yours, I'm interested. For a burn, I'll make it worth your while and cover the postage and cost of the CD-R. I can burn something for you in return. - --Mark np The Sixth Great Lake UP THE COUNTRY ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 18:47:27 -0800 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: [loud-fans] RIP Mitch Hedberg I was hoping it was an April Fool's joke, but it appears that he really = is dead. I guess he had a heart problem and a taste for drugs and = alcohol probably did it. Such a shame--he was really hilarious! B Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.8.3 - Release Date: 3/25/2005 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 23:03:29 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Curley Subject: Fwd: [loud-fans] more ted leo This is great! I sang Suspect Device with Ted on stage at last year's SXSW in Austin...my first (and probably last) time on stage. Mike jer fairall wrote: From: "jer fairall" Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 00:01:56 -0500 To: loud-fans@smoe.org Subject: [loud-fans] more ted leo In addition to the astoundingly excellent Kelly Clarkson cover that was discussed here last week, Ted Leo also now has an iTunes-excluse EP called SHARKBITE SESSIONS, featuring a cover of "Suspect Device" Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V5 #84 ******************************