From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #241 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 Friday, September 11 1998 Volume 01 : Number 241 Today's Filings: ----------------- ah, but so am i.. Na na na na na NA! Swing low sweet cherry... road sign lovers unite!!! FW: This page is too great First day, dammit dammit An Older and Wiser Fjord. Re: The Rockford Files V1 #240 cards and stupid MA people "who's your favorite new kid?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 02:16:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jordan W." Subject: ah, but so am i.. how are you people? because i am just fine and dandy. my life is pleasant, i have a party to go to, and i have a girl to go with. thanking you court, all i can say is it worked. :) and so, hey, spence, all i know is that it can happen. who wouldn't want our sandi as a employee. im sure she would be mammothy concenchous. jess, i really enjoyed your post to the ma. what can i say, except that you rock. and so does the shrub. go read it people! anne, i just saw clerks again this weekend. it kicks twelve shades of shit. commonwealth games people! watch us aussies win 100 gold medals. the cricket has already started and we beat canada. by 40 overs. plus the us open final could be an all aussie affair, with philopoussis and rafter in the semis, and on opposite sides of the draw. i got my exam timetable today. i have 5 2 1/2 hour tests. and 4 2 hour tests. jeepers. goodbye, mine friends Jordan _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:33:24 EDT From: Sandibrady@aol.com Subject: Na na na na na NA! Okay, that was my ode to Jump, Little Children....I love that song "Not Today". Onward...So I'm not meeting my new roomie to hand over buttloads of cash and get my keys and shit until 4pm and rather than loading up my car with all my shit and trying to find something to occupy me for 6 hours (it's a little after 10am now), I decided to just pay for ONE more night at this damn hotel and lounge around. I can move some shit over tonight if I feel like it and the rest tomorrow. I tell ya', living in hotels has got to go. WAY too expensive....especially for what you get. And you wind up eating one meal a day IF even....because you don't want to spend the money on eating out every night. At any rate, I move into my new place this evening/tomorrow. He sounded thrilled that I am willing to give him cash for rent and a check for the deposit. "Cash" is a word that most people like I suppose. 2 boy roommates. Jeepers. We're not in Kansas anymore Toto. So good ol' Anne remembers my Belle and Sebastain praise long ago on the MA, ay? Yippie. I feel like turning into one of those assholes who says, "Just so you know, I was listening to them way back when, before they were popular." ha. Actually I started listening to them quite a while back, but it's not worth bragging about because I was told that I would love them by a certain major dork who we all know and love. Well, some of us know him and most of us love him, with me possibly the only exception. At any rate... Erik, I will have Christy email you about joining the list. :) She said that she got some email back after trying to join saying it was full...which I found rather strange. But I'll let her know. Thanks for the speedy reply. :) And before I go, I have to say one thing about my new place: no furniture yet (gotta find some of that inflatable shit at WalMart or something) but alls I gots to say is: walking distance to Cat's Cradle. Rock on! And one more thing: no lease. I start work on Monday, so this week might be the most you guys have seen of me in a long time, but it might be short lived...much to your delight! :P munchin' on dry cereal.... Sandi PS. If you guys ever get out here, you HAVE to stop at Mama Dip's for some good southern food. I got chicken and dumplings, black-eyed peas, and mashed potatoes yesterday and it was soooooo good. Although I think it's still with me.... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:51:45 -0400 From: "Lyons, Anne" Subject: Swing low sweet cherry... Yeah it's awful You're ripe... for the picking It's so awful You have your youth... don't waste your money Yeah it's awful I was punk... now I'm just stupid I'm so awful Hey all! Just getting rid of another Fix of Loooooove. And they rock me (dare I say it?) right on down to a nub. I mean, who else can pull off a bastardization of "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" (as a pop song, no less!) and have the audacity to call it "the answering song to Teen Spirit" that addresses the selling out of the grunge movement? Love & company just make me giggle. But hot damn, Celebrity Skin is a good album! As is XO and The Boy with the Arab Strap! I am lovin' my new CD purchases, even if it does make me seem just a tad bit schizophrenic. Just a tad, I say... just a tad. And btw, I *do* know how to spell "Belle" -- my fingers were just a bit off yesterday is all! Sandi: Hey you! Good to hear that you have plenty of employment opps to choose from! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Em as well! Road signs: You know what? I notice them all the time, too... HUMP is a good one! I think my personal favorite is one on I-95 here in Mass... only in this f'd up state would you see a gigantic sign that has a diagram of what the roads are going to do up ahead (three roads are converging, so there are three exits coming up -- one off to the left and one to the right that then splits into two -- one of which u-turns around and passes under 95). It always makes me laugh when I think of out of state people trying to understand all the squiggles as they race by it at 80 mph! Another favorite of mine is "Moose Crossing - Next 85 Miles" -- I just like the picture of the moose. And did anyone else have the neighborhood "Caution" signs that included a picture of a little girl in a 50's era Sunday dress falling down? It was a classic in my hometown... E: Here I be! Carrie & Hannah: How are classes going??? Write us! We miss you! Scott: No need to feel intimidated -- you are an RF fixture! Your posts can be as short and sweet as you'd like them to be! = ) Grammar tip of the day: If you are shocked and chagrined... you are 'appalled', not 'uphauled' as I recently read in an e-mail. And no, I'm not kidding. Ginger: I'm still LMAO at the person who wanted to discuss how cool it would be if Ben were a dad! Personally, I think it would be cooler if Ben started dating Courtney Love and sired a child upon her (and no, I have no idea why that phrase came to my fingertips!). Just imagine... Ben could walk around in a drug-induced stupor... Darren could get into shouting matches with Axl... Robert could nail himself after tossing his bass in the air... and then they could all go merrily to the VHI Fashion Awards! Look Ma! Some Bentent! And on that note... I will depart. - -Anne Oh well -- how 'bout I leave ya with one last lyric from Hole's "Awful": "Oh just shut up you're only sixteen..." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:50:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Ginger Nance Subject: road sign lovers unite!!! Wow, I feel so much better about my fascination with road signs. It's nice to know I'm not alone. Here are some more of my favorites: "Let 'em work. Let 'em live." --seen throughout NC and SC (as if I'd really planned on running over lots of roadside workers!) Oh goodness. I remember being really amused by the seatbelt signs in Georgia, but I can't remember the slogan. Scott, do you remember it? I am completely in love with Jump, Little Children and B&S. Sigh. I'm going to see Jump again on Saturday, to revel in their greatness. I really hope they'll play for our Homecoming! And their bassist is just the nicest guy ever. Anyone in the South who has Record Exchanges--Johnny said they're going to have an article in the Music Monitor next month and might even be the cover boys. That's where he got his nifty chicken mask from--the photo shoot in Raleigh. Oh wait, Sandi's the only person who saw the chicken mask. Nevermind. And Anne--the really sad part is that people are responding to the Ben/dad qeustion. To borrow from SI, I think that's this week's sign that the apocalypse is upon us! Ginger :) Ginger Nance ginger_nance@unc.edu http://www.unc.edu/~gnance ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:13 -0700 From: "Kamp, Marcus S" Subject: FW: This page is too great Had to share this url w/y'all, seein' as we've a hearty UK & Aussie contingent in our otherwise Yank folds: > For any questions you might have had about British vs. American > English usage... > > http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dgl3djb/ukus/ukus_frames.html > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:35:41 -0400 From: Dan Cohen Subject: First day, dammit dammit Yeah, it's like that. John, I envy the hell out of you, asbestos boy. Every other school in the Syracuse area is closed due to the storm and power outages except us. We suck so bad. Yep, it was my first day back from a long summer. Met all my friends again, etc. My friend Stupid Tricia looks like Dharma, or at least Dharma after a nasty run-in with Edward Scissorhands. But she's Stupid Tricia, so it's OK. It doesn't help that my friend Katrina, who looks confusingly like Tricia, also cut her hair off. Katrina took to wearing sunglasses and a floppy hat at lunch so we couldn't confuse them. Heh. My friend Rob has become a gay male model, I guess. In his latest image change to impress girls, he came to school wearing a leather bomber jacket a la Samuel L. Jackson, a black t-shirt, and...DRESS PANTS!?!?! He looks like a refugee from the mid 80s. Heh. I may have to drop chemistry to fit Performing Arts into my schedule. God, I want out of that class. My chem teacher, Mr. Head, is a windbag and the rest of the class is stupid. I'm going to request a change tomorrow. I also have set my roving eyes upon a certain female. She's a German exchange student named Julia who sits in front of me in French class. We got to talking about the storm and such and she actually laughed when I was trading insults with the teacher, which is normal behavior for me since Mme. Gordon and I are very good friends. She seems quiet, but I think she's just shy. She only came here Saturday. I gave her the Dan Cohen Look though, which is my standard "Hello, ladies" smile and eyebrow twitch combo. Surprisingly, she's a lot cuter than the Swedish exchange student, who's also in my French class. Sigh...she has the best eyes I've ever seen. I really hope I can get to know her better. I'm looking at Homecoming in October as a target date. I know that makes me seem like a character in "In the Company of Men", but since I now have Aaron Eckhart-style hair, I guess I'm allowed. She's a cool girl though. I only hope she likes decent music. Hehe...I just realized that I'm basing my relationship decisions with a girl I hardly know on her musical preferences...how silly of me. She'd better not be one of those punk rock girls, though. I wouldn't want a bunch of neo-Nazis named Heinrich to come to my door with bats and chains one night. She doesn't look like a punk rock girl, anyway. OK. Enough about Julia, my lady love:) Still on B&S joygasm mode...listened to it again today...it still works! This US/UK thing is hilarious. I love the swear words, many of which I actually use in normal conversation ("Bloody wanker!", I might say as I stub my toe) Snogging to Take That....how cool is that page? OK. School be over and I be going to take my ass a nap, yo. Nighty-night...or afternoony-afternoon or whatever, ~Dan p.s. Julia is from Hannover and she says it in the cutest German way. "Ahn-o-vah". She speaks damn good English though...I'll shut up now. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:51:46 CDT From: "Fearless Leader" Subject: An Older and Wiser Fjord. Our own LaRubia, AgentZ, or more commonly referred to as frozen-gummy-worm-grrl, celebrates a Birthday, TODAY, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1998. Now, yours fearlessly was _supposed_ to get a card from her on his bday and she just straight-up forgot. And she even had my address, so I don't even wanna hear it ___talk to the hand motion___ But, being the UPstanding listserv manager, who loves all his fjords, I step up to the fjordian plate and zing in a fastball... PLEASE JOIN ME IN WISHING *CHARTER MEMBER* CARRIE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope you get some. - -FL ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:58:10 +0100 From: Jay Reddick Subject: Re: The Rockford Files V1 #240 Hi all, Anne: I still read the MA...well, read is a strong word. Skim, groan about, ignore most of is more like it. But I still have TONS of respect for Frank for starting it, and this list likely would not exist without it! Plus, it brought me to you guys! Speaking of which.... Christy! Where are you, girl? I miss hearing from you...much to talk about. And now, it's time to get flamed. Went to Borders yesterday to get B&S, based solely on recommendations from here. And they didn't have the new one out of the boxes yet. OK, so because I turn into a pile of jelly whenever I go in Borders ("here, take my Visa! I must leave buying SOMEthing!") I bought an older one. And I wasn't t-terribly impressed. I don't know, perhaps it'll grow on me, or is the new one that much better? Or are my expectations just too darn high? Oh....Mark McGwire kicks my arse. Glad to see the record go, though it created a hell night at work at the newspaper. Ah well, at least it's over. Anyway, time to go watch my alma mater try and compete at football...those of you not getting the digest, look for me on ESPN! :) Take care, Jay - -- To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. -- Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:47:04 EDT From: Vwbugn5890@aol.com Subject: cards and stupid MA people FL-- don't diss the cards too much, i'm from around st. louis. although i can't say i really care about baseball all that much, still gotta root for the home team, right? Ginger-- just wanted to let you know i am that oh so stupid girl that asked what if ben's g'f hadn't gotten an abortion. i didn't ask what people would do if he was, i just asked a hypothetical question. i am sorry my questions don't amount to the level of intelligence you'd like them to. i am only a junior in high school, and i'm sorry if you don't think i'm smart enough to be "allowed out into society". it was an honest question, i just wondered what everyone though about it, i am very sorry! shan "We're not making it an issue"~ben folds ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:49:31 EDT From: F2G2@aol.com Subject: "who's your favorite new kid?" "call me joey. call me jordan....." markus: many thanks for the recommendations....... haven't gotten bio ritmo yet, but i intend to. and that panthalassa you mentioned. (is it jazz fusion or methany-like?) you mentioned t monk, in amongst the many jazz groups......you might like bill holman's orchestra. they do an amazing t monk cover album, with a lime twist. quite nice. i had 2 of the miles you mentioned, 'kind of blue' and 'birth of cool.' Coltrane is tough, through and through. and kudos for the mention of blakey......i've got a couple of his, including him w/the aforementioned t. mmw, baby. makes me randy....... i'd also like to hear this sinforosa i hear so much about...... we here in the land of cleve got your ratboy second baseman. what do you think of david bell? spencer: you will note, i used capital lettering. do you think our government will get around to legalizing hemp or dancing around the interngate first? if we get more republicans in office it'll never happen......... jordan: you boys should be able to love whomever you wish. it is the nineties. why even in the fifties, we all had the uncle with the cats and the houseboy. you know, the art teacher? indeed, i do fence. it is an amazing aerobic and anaerobic excercise. and there is a diff't edge to it, something that you probably wouldn't get from tennis, nor even baseball. anne: i'll give you $5 if you tear into some abba for us. or maybe even 'twin falls.' ari: royal crown revue......tickets? where is their tour currently at?(i've been listening vehemently to them lately.) ever seen big rude jake? shan: do you have a vw? katie: that was a strange sensory mix. the clashing images of onyx and kriss kross and belle and sebastian. very mtv. do you think we could arrange a huge combo tour? perhaps pharcyde, tortoise, supergrass and wu-tang or it's various off-shoots? e: i'm a lesbian too! don't bash the redbirds. let them have their mcglory, because that's all they've got this year...... sure, i'm an advocate of mcgwire, too, but now that it's happened, don't you feel a sort of letdown? (at 8.27 i felt like i did after the last world series. and 95's.....and anne did after that tragic bosox loss in.......i want to say, 86? 88?) ginger: what if ben's girlfriend hadn't had an abortion? would brick be an upbeat ditty? maybe mr. jesse could have a strange, smashmouth-esque sort of popularity........we're onto something here....... matthew says, "nay, nay on the crowd surfers. evil, impolite people full of bad mojo......" the ma: our militant little return was maliciously humorous, but i don't think this is a grouping of people who can be categorized as having an unconditional, almost stereotyped dislike of the kids on the armchair. i met people i liked there; all the people that anne listed were originally armchair kids. (additionally, there were interesting people there when we all hopped back 'over the pond' for a few.....) perhaps that fact, plus our obviously wry humor gave the impression of rf vs. ma. but it's not that simple...... i believe i speak for all the people above when i say that we're here because we share a common interest, plus many others interests. simple, yes? we don't necessarily always agree, but we do agree to generally get along, which is probably the fact that seperates the lists. well, and the fact that we're all genuinely more sexy here. matthew cds in the vw. mr buckley elliot smith royal crown revue arlo guthrie bf5 'nbp' ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #241 *********************************