From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V3 #325 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Thursday, December 27 2001 Volume 03 : Number 325 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: Re: Re: oppositeview-digest V3 #323 ["Reid and Susan Gardner" Subject: OV: Re: Re: oppositeview-digest V3 #323 ----- Original Message ----- From: Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 5:14 AM Subject: OV: Re: oppositeview-digest V3 #323 > ....All in jest Tony, both clubs are having good seasons, let's enjoy the rest of > it and think how much less fun we've have without banter and rivalry - I feel > sorry for those who don't have, or get, the passion that comes with being a > football fan or other sports. > Best Wishes > Nige Absolutely right. Do you know you sound exactly like some people I know, going on about their favorite teams waay over here on this side of the pond? Personally baseball is the only sport I really understand & for many years I was as enthusiastic as you... sad thing is, tho, I found that I had to distance myself from the sport because it hurt too much watching them come so close to winning but fall short sometimes.... And baseball is these days primarily a business so when the Braves management ruthlessly & methodically traded off the players I was so fond of after 1991 successes with no sense of team continuity or individual player loyalty (and some of said players demanded outrageous paychecks that among other things caused the cost of seeing a simple afternoon baseball game to absolutely skyrocket) I have become a distant fan. Enjoy your enthusiasm before it gets spoiled by businessmen. TTFN Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 17:55:10 -0500 From: "Reid and Susan Gardner" Subject: OV: Re: no del content/unfortunately, you can go home again/Merry Christmas OV'ers - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosemary Lucas" > Everything went great until it was time for the grand unveiling of the plum > pudding. The zabione and the hard sauce were ready to go in beautiful > silver serving bowls. My grandmother's serving dish was ready on the > counter. Then the 2 fatal errors occurred.... > ...By the time I got the thing to the table, it resembled a > smoldering cow patty with a couple of crispy holly leaves sticking out of it and > was soaking/floating in most of a bottle of the good Cap'n Morgan. It > tasted great, though ROTFLMAO!!!! My family is right now tromping down the stairs to the office to see why I'm laughing so hard!! Wonderful story. Listen, tho, if you ever get in the mood to do that roast goose with chestnuts menu again let me know and I'd love to be sitting at the table... TTFN Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:34:47 -0500 From: "Reid and Susan Gardner" Subject: OV: a review of Justin's Christmas song I'm not sure if someone already mentioned this, but there is an insightful review of Del Amitri's Christmas song at http://news.scotsman.com Here's a bit: Months and pages of stunt cooks, panto gardeners, sofa royalty, flatpack pop groups, egomaniacal punters and famous dress-wearers had Currie on his knees. "There isn't any pop culture that exists any more," he rails. "It's just turned to mush. Or toothpaste. Whether it was The Beatles or punk rock, it used to be about scaring people. I've not turned into an old bore who thinks all music is rubbish, but mass entertainment isn't exactly entertaining any more." And so it came to pass that, having followed the peely-wally stars in the skies above perfidious Britain, then reminding himself of the wise words of author Gray and social diarist Morrissey, Currie arrived at a new song: Celebrity Christmas. "Shaggy will go shopping with the cast of Cold Feet ... Travis and Cerys will duet and prance like tits around some makeshift set ." Round up some celebs, ponder the ability of the festive season to bring out the desperate in people, bang in a tootling keyboard backing, and before you can say "bah humbug", you have yourself a cracking little song that captures the craven vacuity which hovers at the heart of our celebrity-obsessed anti-culture. Pukka, as Jamie Oliver might lisp. And the scotsman.com site is the source for a certain haggis story that circulated here not long ago, I might add. TTFN Susan ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V3 #325 **********************************