From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #214 Reply-To: rockford-files@smoe.org Sender: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk The Rockford Files Saturday, August 15 1998 Volume 01 : Number 214 Today's Filings: ----------------- HOLY SHIT! 6 hours of tennis is bad for the mind.. Oh! What a night... Tattoo, very cool little man Markustradamus! URL TONS of Bentent inside! Ethnicity, Obscenity, and Taco Bell Re: The Rockford Files V1 #213 80's Tunes and BFF Unemployed Re: The Rockford Files V1 #213 The desert; Underground Video ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 04:15:39 -0400 From: Jessica Brandt Subject: HOLY SHIT! wow, 36k of RF. i need a nap. kathy-ryn, do you feel 8-inches lighter, too? uh....i think this is turning into a Beasties mailing list! Glad i brought them up. They're in cleve-o tonight and i hafta work. sucky suck suck. HEY I DON'T LOVE IN KENT. i just go to school there. i live in macedonia, which is just smack dab inbetween cleveland and akron. Count me in as an Ohioan. ConBenShun ;) 98 should be in NC. i have a friend in Apex, which is more like near greensboro but then again i have a friend in greensboro too...:) But anyhow, if we ARE going to Chapel Hill for this thing...somebody BETTER be volunteering to carpool with me, seeing as how there's a million of us here from Ohio. Marcus, i didn't say seattle was like a desert. i believe i meant places like New Mexico and Arzona where it is like, and IS a desert. As for seattle, it's one of the top 10 places i've always wanted to visit!!! i love your city. I love you. don't hate me. i LOVE YOU MARCUS!! jess *********************************************************** I'm not just naked, I'm Naked for Jesus!!! * --+-READ THE SHRUBBERY-+-- * http://www.theshrubbery.prohosting.com --New Every Month- -Humor, Music, News and More-- *********************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 05:28:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jordan W." Subject: 6 hours of tennis is bad for the mind.. and the body. i am cramped in every single part of my body. and boy oh boy does it hurt. did anyone even know that there was a muscle in my freaking arse?? the cheek of my bum is quivering and it is a unplesent feeling. all i have to say about that is arggggggh. boy oh boy. channel surfing is cool fun. bear with a poor country boy who for the last 17 years has been stuck with 4 (count them, four) free to air channels. my satellite box rox. i get foxtel and optus cause i scammed a serviceman's pin number. giggle. Jordan is a very boring name, apparently. my sisters get cool names like jade, amber or ebony (can anyone see a theme going here?) and i get laden with jordan. actually i like it but i wanted to whinge. and it could be worse. i could be a bernard or a nigel. or a "garnet" :) Jordan means "flowing downwards" apparently. so yeah. that was meaningless. i am with you 104% on the lyrics thing matthew, but still the album as a whole is up there. i thinks it be nice to have some varitation on a cd and this one delivers. Meg, you just kick arse so fucking amazingly it hurts! first price to you. not only did you pick the quote, but you've even done the play! you kcor! by the by, who were you, cause i done a version of that play, and i feel the part of Action rawks :) anyone every bought a cd on the cover alone? and if so did you get a goodie? cos i bought a cd called Straping Young Lads today on a whim, and it is cool. if you like heavy music. and i do mean heavy. there is a "r" in arse where i come from. tom, i really like that harvey danger song. but i dunno. should i buy it? ginger, you rock so much that i'm gonna have to get off before i get seasick. anoop, may i tell you about a law that was only just repealed in Tasmania, Australia? Homosexuality was illegal and the vote to repeal the law was only just passed. like there was one vote in it or something. doncha love politics? who's line is it anyway is one of the funniest shows on television. it and good news week/end. have i posted 3 days in a row? i might have to hand in my lurker's card. oh, by the way, a prize to whoever picked the double entendre in this post. Jordan "my name has no meaning, and NO, i'm not good at basketball" Wightman "good morning" "that is two words i never want to hear in conjuction again" "Amen to that" _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:43:55 -0400 From: "Lyons, Anne" Subject: Oh! What a night... Late December 1963 > What a very special time for me > As I remember what a night! > > Oh what a night, > You know I didn't even know her name > But I was never gonna be the same > What a lady, what a night! > Hey all! (Apologies in advance for the length and lack of depth of this post!) Just trying to increase your knowledge of songs that are fun to sing. Although I have no doubt that many of you already know this song, and never fail to crank it up on the car stereo singing and grooving in the driver's seat... But I digress (from what, I don't know, but it certainly seems like I'm digressing!) Anyway... hearing the Four Seasons always sends me right back to my childhood -- I'd be doing chores with my Mum and she'd pop in the Four Seasons 8-track and we'd get so much more done as we'd groove to Frankie and his band. The other day I heard "MaryAnne" for the first time in a loooooooooooooong time in a convenience store, and I literally had to wait for the song to end before I left. Ieven succumbed to my body's desire to groove -- I must have looked like a freak. "Excuse me, miss -- but there seems to be an escaped mental patient getting funky and singing "Whoa-oa... you're big brown eyes are so full of tears... I'd do anything... Just to make it right (make it right)... Say you understand... Oh I know you can.... C'mon MaryAnne... C'mon MaryAnne... Sa-ay you can understand... My MaryAnne (maryanne maryanne maryanne)" But now I really digress! Or anneble... whatever you prefer... So here are my comments: Matthew: There truly are Blue Laws in Massachusetts -- old leftover laws from Puritan days that were never repealed. For example... you can't buy liquor on Sundays (except during the Holiday season -- they repealed part of the law). It is against the law to have extramarital intercourse (don't I sound so clinical!?!) And for those of you keeping score at home: extramarital means "outside of marriage" -- so all you people who are thinking it only applies to married folks who have affairs... think again! *grin* Anyway... one of those laws is "no oral sex -- and especially not on Sunday." OK, so I made that last part up -- but I'm sure our Puritan forefathers would have approved! But this brings me to... Anoop: (BTW, Welcome!) You mention that; "The bill prohibits the showing of human genitals, pubic area, or buttocks without a license to run an adult-related business." So here's a question: say we were to have BENcon '98 - Birmingham. And say that... Oh, I dunno... Tina spotted some firemen and decided to engage them in naughty behavior and one of them dropped trou in her hotel room... or say that Markus and Carrie decided to jacuzzi naked (for the health benefits, of course)... or say that Erik and I challenged Courtney and Matthew to "Strip My Generation"... or say that Sandi and Emily and Calvin decided to streak downtown Alabama with some of the roadies and bandmembers... Would we all get arrested for the new law? Even if some of us were in the privacy of our own cheap motel? Just curious... Carrie!: Good to see a post from ya! I can't wait until you get back to school and become a regular poster! = ) And when is your B-Day, girl? We should virtually celebrate! E: I'll play My Generation with you anytime! But I have a sneaking suspicion, Zan, that you'll make me be the one to morph into all the appliances while you inhabit the forms of people like Einstein and Bohr and Copernicus and daVinci... Em & San: Hmmmmmmmm... it looks like public sentiment is leaning toward BENcon Chapel Hill '98... I wonder if the boys *will* play any shows while they record their new one. Of course, who's to say that they'll even record in NC? Personally, I have no preference... I'm saving my frequent flier miles for whichever city we choose for the next gathering of the RF. Of course, my vote is cast for Honolulu, whenever they get around to playing there... Anyway... wherever we go, Markus will have to make sure he's not on a boat for this ConBENtion like he was last time! I believe that shall be all for now... except... I'll join the name-game thread along with The Uncomparable One, The Warrior (of Love), and Our Gift from God... Mine is the french derivitive of the Hebrew "Anna" which means "full of grace". combine that with the fact I was born on a Tuesday*... damn! No wonder I'm not too, too much of a klutz! *grin* And for anyone who cares, my middle name is Mariah and it is a Celtic derivitive from the Hebrew "Moriah" and it means "God is my Teacher". = ) See ya! - -Anne *Monday's child is fair of face Tuesday's child is full of grace Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living, But the child that is born on the Sabbath day Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay. "I felt a rush like a rolling bolt of thunder > Straining my head around and taking my body under" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:18:05 EDT From: Sandibrady@aol.com Subject: Tattoo, very cool little man I'll just have to join on the band wagon and pipe up by saying I have 3 tattoos. One just above my right ankle which is a flower reminiscent of the wonderful Brady Bunch, one of those 70s daisy things that's pink on the petals and an orange-ish yellow on the inside. I have one on my back that is actually 3, but I refer to it as one: it's a green star (star bellied sneetches) with a little Partridge Family partridge (from the beginning of the show...cartoon part) on either side. Then my most recent one is on the back of my neck close to my first vertebra and it's a neat-o looking butterfly, done in 3 separate parts (the parts are actually separated): each wing and the body. That's it for me. I should be on the road for Atlanta already, but I'm sitting here in these strange velcro rollers typing when I haven't even packed yet. Yikes. BENtent....hmmmm. Doesn't he just seem like the coolest, most down to earth guy ever? Gotta love him. San "We wouldn't want to get you pregnant." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 07:20:45 -0700 From: "Kamp, Marcus S" Subject: Markustradamus! I predicted Jon Stewart as Craiggers's replacement when that tall dork 1st announced his abandonment of the "network South Park built"!!! God, I'm cool! Markus's advice, pt. 887: Don't quote Harvey Danger lyrics on this list, or they shall be forever ingrained in my head. As I cannot stand Harvey Danger (WAY overhyped out here, seein' as it they're home town 'n' all), having "paranoia, paranoia, everybody's comin' ta get me" running through my head whilst trying to edit proprietary "Thrust Management System Interface Control" documents could result in massive aircraft accidents & I'd hate for any of you dear, sweet folk to be grotesquely mangled by a thrust-mismanaged 767 on your way to Seattle for Bumbershoot. The irony'd by too much (sometimes when we touch...that would be a much funnier/more accurate lyric, dontcha think?!). OK, so that's not really advice, but I HATE THAT FECKING SONG!!! Have a pleasant weekend, all you rawkers out there! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:03:00 -0700 From: "Kamp, Marcus S" Subject: URL For all you Rufus Wainwright fans (there are quite a few on this list, eh?!), check out this 1/2-way decent article (http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9808/13/rufus.lat/). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:03:36 EDT From: Lennonita@aol.com Subject: TONS of Bentent inside! Jordan, when my school did it, we kind of updated it, which, if Jerome Robbins had been dead then, would have made him spin in his grave. Thus my part was kind of written in for me, kind of, by taking lines from other characters. I was "Angie." It's a little hard to explain. We actually had girls in the Jets and the Sharks. Action was a cool part, played by my friend Tiffany, though I got some of her lines. Looking back, I can't decide whether or not this was a wise move on the part of the director, but it was different and at least made some sort of artistic statement, even if that statement was, "We suck." You know, I am a "Wednesday's child, full of woe"...but I'm really very happy. Go fig. Anoop, it was just a little throwaway line in GWH when the two professors are out at dinner and talking about the amazing Indian (insert quote) man who'd developed all those mathematical theories on his own. I'm sure if you're used to hearing it it wouldn't stick out but it was the first time I'd heard it and I thought it was clever. I think it's cool how you're not all wrapped up in your ethnicity like it's this huge major thing to take out on anyone who doesn't respect it or something. Did I say that right? I mean, ethnicity is a big deal, but you don't seem to be annoyingly politically correct about it. If you're on the Armchair, you'll have read those irritating and dead-end arguments about the race of Ben Folds Five fans... The whole world just needs to calm down. I am not yet a Rufus Wainwright fan but I've been hearing so much about him I may go snag whatever he's released. The stupid Tower near my house doesn't have Belle and Sebastian. Not even a little card for them indicating they just didn't have the CD. Now I have to shlep all the way down to the Strip to go to the Virgin Megastore. Rar. But we have a diner, finally...(there are no diners in Las Vegas! It's pathetic! After spending a month in New York City and on Long Island, I need my greasy dinerfood) and it's about three blocks from my house so I'm very happy. Okay, I lie. There's no Bentent. Megamoo ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:57:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Anoop Ranganath Subject: Ethnicity, Obscenity, and Taco Bell Meg - OK, I remember the line now, they were talking about Ramanajan. He read only two books in his life and produced some of the worlds greatest mathematics. I'm not too wrapped up in the fact that I'm Indian, or more importantly, not white, like a bunch of people I know, who are convinced that the only people they can trust are other Indians. It fascinates me that perfectly sane Indian people will run into some other Indian people at a grocery store, and invite them over for dinner. YOU'RE ASKING A TOTAL STRANGER TO COME INTO YOUR HOUSE!!! My parents are guilty of that too, oh well, maybe someday I will be. I guess I haven't really gotten a lot of flak for being Indian around here. I was born down in Auburn, lived there til I was three, moved to Huntsville, stayed there til I finished high school, and now I go to college in Birmingham. Since I spent the majority of my life in Huntsville, I was never really exposed to southern prejudice. Our saying is that Huntsville isn't part of the south. Huntsville was one of the fastest growing cities in the US because it houses most of NASA's research and development, Missile Command, a military base, and the largest research park for engineering in the world. Growing up, you just assumed everybody else's parents were engineers. It was quite a shock for me to go to Birmingham and find out that no one else had a dad that was an engineer. The point of all this rambling about Huntsville is that all these engineering jobs pulled in a lot of people from around the country, including a whole lot of asians, so hunstville has always been a very tolerant atmosphere. I've only had one incident where I almost became angry over something. (If it had happened more than once, I probably would have become angry, but it was just so damn amusing, that I didn't think to be upset) My friend, my brother and I were in Taco Bell. My brother was getting cold, so I gave him my jacket. I think he was about seven years old at the time. My friend (who incidentally is named Kate), took the sleeves of my jacket and tied them behind my brothers back and he was trying to get out, and we were all laughing. It was really funny. Well, these four rednecks sitting a few tables over were laughing too. Now these guys weren't from Huntsville, but from one of the small rural towns around here that consisted of farms and trailer parks. You could tell because they all wore old baseball hats, dirty wife beaters (a wife beater is just sleeveless shirt that all the wife beaters in movies always wear), and old sneakers without socks. They drove a really old red pickup truck with out of town plates and a Confederate flag in the back window. Anyway, we were sitting there playing with my brother, and one of them yelled, "Look, Gandhi's getting some from the white chick!" He meant to say it quietly, but he was laughing so hard it was pretty loud. Kate and I just looked at each other. I didn't know how I felt when that happened. Anyways, I think two of their friends were really embarassed, cause they just went out and sat in the truck, and the other two finished eating and left. Now, I'm not a violent person. And I never would have confronted them, but looking back, I wished my brother hadn't been there, cause I think it would have been kinda neat to go buy four tacos, sit down with them, give them each a taco, and ask them what they thought was so funny. Of course, that's just me looking back, what I would have actually done, I guess I'll never know. Wow, OK, now on to Anne... I don't know if it's like this in most cities in the U.S., but Huntsville, being as technically oriented as it is, has it's own newsgroups, hsv.general. Most city newsgroups I've seen aren't very active, and mostly sit and collect spam. Well, hsv.general generates about 1000 spam-free messages a day, all mostly related to Huntsville. And there's been a lot of talk about law SB607. I think phone sex is definitely illegal, it's considered importing pornography. Just about everything you said is illegal. The problem is, the law is REALLY new, so there is a LOT left up to interpretation. THE ACLU comes through Alabama quite often (this law is just one example) so they'll start taking it up higher, cause a lot of people view it as unconstitutional. I think sex toys are definitely illegal according to the new law. I'll toss up a couple of choice bits from the law here, and give you guys a link if you're bored enough to read the whole thing. Actually, it's very entertaining, it defines bestiality (sex with animals) and other terms. Part of it reads like a glossary to a sexual deviancy manual. I bet under the rules it sets forth, the law itself is obscene. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly distribute, possess with intent to distribute, or offer or agree to distribute any obscene material or any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for any thing of pecuniary value. It shall be unlawful for any business establishment or any private club to show or allow to be shown for entertainment purposes the human male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering, or the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the nipple, or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state. - ---------- http://www.legislature.state.al.us/SearchableInstruments/1998%20Regular%20Session/Bills/SB607.htm - ---------- Well, that's all for now kids. Anoop Ranganath ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:35:57 PDT From: "Starre Smith" Subject: Re: The Rockford Files V1 #213 Hi Filers! Jon: That AOL or *A-O-Hell* conversation was pretty damn funny! :) What's up everyone? Just a sec ago I was dancing to my sisters lovely remix of Bronski Beat.. Ah, 80's Nostalgia...*sigh* Can anyone suggest any other 80's songs that BFF could cover? Hmm.. I'm thinking Turning Japanese for some strange reason! *Laugh* :)Saw Basketball last night.. What a damn funny movie! "Dude, Dude, Dude!, Dude!, alright you have a point there.." I was just being goofy! I proud of the boys for the Brick nomination.. even though I kinda wish I was for another video I'm very impressed that their doing so well.. Go BFF! For Those Ya'll who are bored off your bums, I suggest going to Xena Convention! Xena Rocks! We met Callisto *Hudson Leick* in Minneapolis last week and it rocked! I hope I can make it to the one in Chicago.. maybe see BFF eventually, I feel so left out.. :( Doh well.. my life isn't all that bad.. work sucks, but I'm getting better with it.. Anyone else think BFF should make an appearance in a movie??? I could kinda see that! :) I don't know why! Just some funny bit like Jerry Cantrell did in Jerry Maguire as the Kinko's Copy guy.. :) Gotta go! Stella "Baby baby you sure like to f*!%" -Jon Spencer "I'm trying to find your eternal flower..... ummm.. Its A WEED!" - -Robert Trebor *Salmoneus on Hercules*:) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:36:11 PDT From: "Starre Smith" Subject: 80's Tunes and BFF Hi Filers! Jon: That AOL or *A-O-Hell* conversation was pretty damn funny! :) What's up everyone? Just a sec ago I was dancing to my sisters lovely remix of Bronski Beat.. Ah, 80's Nostalgia...*sigh* Can anyone suggest any other 80's songs that BFF could cover? Hmm.. I'm thinking Turning Japanese for some strange reason! *Laugh* :)Saw Basketball last night.. What a damn funny movie! "Dude, Dude, Dude!, Dude!, alright you have a point there.." I was just being goofy! I proud of the boys for the Brick nomination.. even though I kinda wish I was for another video I'm very impressed that their doing so well.. Go BFF! For Those Ya'll who are bored off your bums, I suggest going to Xena Convention! Xena Rocks! We met Callisto *Hudson Leick* in Minneapolis last week and it rocked! I hope I can make it to the one in Chicago.. maybe see BFF eventually, I feel so left out.. :( Doh well.. my life isn't all that bad.. work sucks, but I'm getting better with it.. Anyone else think BFF should make an appearance in a movie??? I could kinda see that! :) I don't know why! Just some funny bit like Jerry Cantrell did in Jerry Maguire as the Kinko's Copy guy.. :) Gotta go! Stella "Baby baby you sure like to f*!%" -Jon Spencer "I'm trying to find your eternal flower..... ummm.. Its A WEED!" - -Robert Trebor *Salmoneus on Hercules*:) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:58:18 -0700 From: "Emily Brown" Subject: Unemployed Well, I just quit my job, and it feels *so* good. So, this is what it feels like to be a *real* freelancer...neat! Yeah, this I think (San correct me if I'm wrong) is the first big step on the *Road to NC*. Looks like we are *really* going...look out Ginger! So, cool. I'm strangely calm. I'm sure the heart-seizing panic will kick in here in awhile, but as for right now, keep the drinks coming quick and easy. See 'ya! em get your free gURLmAIL at http://www.gURLmAIL.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 18:15:37 EDT From: BlueJellow@aol.com Subject: Re: The Rockford Files V1 #213 Omigosh! Too many posts!!! Please!!!! I guess I'm not helping with this, am I? Sorry!!!!!! I'm really sorry I missed Court-Nay on My Generation. Doh. She rawks me, though. Dude, chiropractors are scary!!!!! Lucy "Life is good"----Ginger Nance ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:37:59 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: The desert; Underground Video >Marcus, i didn't say seattle was like a desert. i believe i meant places >like New Mexico and Arzona where it is like, and IS a desert. As for >seattle, it's one of the top 10 places i've always wanted to visit!!! i >love your city. I love you. don't hate me. i LOVE YOU MARCUS!! Not that the desert is a bad thing.... I live in Arizona where it is like and IS a desert... Its beautiful, really. And it isn't all sand and stuff. We have mountains, and trees, and flowers, and animals, but its just unique. I think its gorgeous anyway. Come see for yourself! And Ben likes it here too; he used to play Tucson all the time... Now he goes to phoenix (bleh!) a lot... But he liked Tucson enough to film the video for Underground here! Yep, if you come to Tucson, I'll show you were it was filmed. Stacy Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba --Ben Folds Five "Fair" http://www.u.arizona.edu/~stacyf icq #7641939 ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #214 *********************************