From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #311 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, November 20 1998 Volume 01 : Number 311 Today's Filings: ----------------- experimental error my arse! Spence is just cresent fresh! Katie Who? post .... Nothing that you are required to care about... Stuff where are you gonna go without me now? immature teenagers-soon-to-be-no-more-unite! about to listen time #2, and other stuff A general invite CLAYTON ARISES!!! [none] joining in the fun that damn thing's faster than a 3 peckered owl! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 01:27:07 -0800 (PST) From: "Jordan W." Subject: experimental error my arse! ok, so it's assessment day in physics, various parts of my body are dripping, don't ask, and i'm not feeling good. feeling bad. but i got the freaking refractive index of crown glass correct to 5 significant figures. boooooooooo-freaking-yeeeeeeeeahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! gosh-darn, that feels good. "music is crap, aliens told us so" i love custard. phone number? hmm.... i really don't think that anyone is gonna call international for me. if you really want to talk to me that bad, i guess you can ask... dan, my love life is starting to seem remotely interesting again... stay tuned. i might be back yet.. icq!!! i love icq!!! my number, and i expect at least 20 auth requests tommorow, is #5491073. i need to improve my list, people, so i want you to talk to me! 'specially you, dan, man who never replyed to my auth request. :( don't you like me anymore. dan, i am vomiting. don't hit me again. please? oh yeah, have you been drinking heavily? i feel like i have the mother of all hangover. party hopping would be good, but the main problems is that there is at least 150 km between these parties. but, for you guys, i'll make a effort. i am this close to school captain. laugh? i nearly did. i've gotta have an interview with the principal. i already have my acception speech written.. "i'd like to thank all my friends, all you people who voted for me, and a bunch of lunitics that live on the other side of the atlantic. hail eris!" anything that means i get mail, fl, is cool by me! i'm down with that! yes!!! and what do you mean i won't be at spence's party? i mean, what's a $3000 plane ticket between friend. if each of you guys gave about $5 a week, i could come over and freeload all winter! i like this idea. it has merit.... but actually, spence, can i drink by proxy? because, i might just be able to get someone to your par-tey, in all seriousness. more on that later.. oh. a downer. well, katie, thanks for the props, but i must divulge that i truly do love the rf, and don't ever see me leaving it by choice. maybe being dragged of the mailing list by erik, eric, and matthew's millitia (pure evil, someone told me :) but never leaving it. period. where would i be, without the witty repartee? and i love erik lyons*. mammoth props go to the man with the lack of self preservation. oh yeah! what the hell is this pit..? and my cat cleaning itself is amazing! i never knew my cat could stretch like that. i'm 17, noone loves me, i love reading and posting drivel (like you didn't know that..), i have amazing faith in erik's right to be the most fearless leader i've ever met (he's got a kid, 'nuff said) and my sister wonders when i'm going to move to the good ol' u.s. of a. to become "one of those cultist weirdos". i love cricket, meg, and if you really want to learn how to play, make it to spence's party and i'll teach you. you see, i'm the true blue aussie ocker. i know these strange things. dan, when do i get to learn the handshake? it's nice to see all of the usual suspects in one issue. keep up this fop-induced post frenzy! i'll be home all day tommorrow, so if some strange character called tuo2 barges onto irc tomorrow, take cover. have a great friday, and i love all of you. shan is cool. Jordan "Knoxville or bust, at least by spencer's party" Wightman *in that special, non-threating way that i have down pat. you see, i love you guys :) _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:19:37 -0500 From: shirak@umich.edu Subject: Spence is just cresent fresh! Spence, I just want to say, I LOVE YOU, MAN!!!! Seriously, my e-mail's been poopy as of late (and poopy IS a technical term.) If you sent anything to me, I might not have gotten it. I might just have to make a Hotmail account or something. Ugh. Anyway, I am also still among the FoP-deprived, a situation I hope to remedy today. Plus, I found out one of my ex-girlfriends is coming to the show, which is a good thing 'cause it's the one I miss. Sure, she tore my heart out just like all the rest, but she was the only one to try and put it back, and you have to recognize stuff like that. ;) Anyway, I'm going back to the coal mines. Laters all! ERIC ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:23:34 -0800 From: "Kamp, Marcus S" Subject: Katie Who? I'm not on the cool list?! Anne's not on the cool list?! E's not on the cool list?! Eric's not on the cool list?! Spencer's not on the cool list?! What I wanna know is...WHO IN THE HELL STARTED THIS DAMNED LIST?!?!?! It sure as hell wasn't Katie! She can go watch her mom clean herself. (You should hear what my roommate's cat thought of that comment...it's fecking hilarious.) Well, @ least this list gave her jack info, as that appears to be all she wants to do. I'm not better than her because I'm in my late twenties, I'm better than her AND I'm in my late twenties. Anyone who agrees w/her can take a flying leap into the pit as well. That's all I hafta say about that. Sorry for lurking so quietly these days. I'm currently pretending to be 4 brilliant editors here @ Boeing's Model Airplane Glue Factory & Horse Cemetery, instead of my usual role as 1 slacking editor. 12-hour days & 7-day weeks don't leave much time for repeat posting jack drivel. CD is mere weeks away. Stay tuned for updates... Marcus Kamp TS Documentation Marcus.Kamp@PSS.Boeing.com 425.957.5122 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:02:53 -0800 (PST) From: Katie Subject: post .... only when posted to. therefore: Markus: I was talking about WUStL. For undergrad, I don't think it's particularly well known in some places. UW on the other hand, being a state school, doesn't really surprise anyone with its existence simply because how many states don't have sstate schools? and Dan, if we _have_ a younger sister, can we leave you her number? On the topic of Christmas/"Honica", etc., I too am a big holiday nut. I guess that's why I was voted "House Food - fruitcake" in college. How about a poll of favorite holiday albums? I sadly, own none, but would love to hear recommendations. Oh, and, this is the last year that Garth Brooks' Christmas album will be sold. (Sorry, living in San Antonio with a coutry music freak roommate, one hears things like this. She watched Garth Brooks Double LIve last night on NBC...) Speaking of "Regional" south Texas music, my Spanish teacher in high school said she taught Selena. My first thought was, why was Selena taking high school Spanish? Anyone ever heard of "Chicken John and his WOnder dog Dammit" I thought not. Well, tonight we're off to see them and their "punk rock circus." One last question (damn I'm full of them) - anybody ever had a friend say, "no that concert's too expensive, and that's a shitty venue, I don't want to go", only to come back two days later and tell you they bought a ticket to that concert to go with another friend who had an extra, totally forgetting they had turned you down or even talked to you about it? Grrr. I'm not sure that San Antonio has _heard_ of da boyz, let alone FoP, despite the fact they gave a show here in Feb/March... I must go back to my "operations" which are "generating math exceptions." - --katie (the non-dissatisfied, in-her-20's, but living in San Antonio so how can she _really_ be better than most people, let alone everyone? one) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:34:44 -0500 From: "Lyons, Anne" Subject: Nothing that you are required to care about... Hey y'all! Apologies for the lenght, but I've been out sick the past few days -- and now I'm back. I'm still sick though... so maybe I'll leave early. Not that you care... So here's some stuff you might care about: Spencer is back! And he published his phone number! Yay! Now, Spec, if you start getting random 900 charges on your bill... don't look at me, dude! Well, actually, you can look at me... but it was actually my mom who went on a charging spree. See... she reads the fjord, too. You should see what she says about all of you... in fact, we conversificate about all of you all the time... except, of course, when she is on the phone calling her "boyfriends" and the psychic hotline. So, Spencer... thanks for the number to use for that! Oops, and I almost forgot... I was Courtney Love for Halloween. But I couldn't compete with the other person in Salem who went as La Love... some 6'4" football player guy. Too funny! Other random notes: Kristin: Bummer about your outing with your Dad! But -- Dads understand. Especially special ones like it sounds like your Dad is. Besides... he is probably so proud of you for taking your job so seriously that it doesn't matter that you'll need to reschedule! Meg: LOL at your Barcode story! Sometimes organizations are just so clueless, aren't they? Dan: Maybe your friend finally noticed how distinguished you looked with your not-so-newly broken nose. Maybe the swelling has just now gone down completely? Anyway... look at it this way... at least you haven't already had a child when someone asks you when the baby is due!* Stacy: I nominate you for the position of queen of typing... if you win, you will have to type or anyone attmpting to submit a drunken post... Meg/Jordan: I caught an episode of Monty Python the other night. I laughed MAO at John Cleese announcing a cricket match that was so utterly exciting (after 6 hours of play, it was still naught-naught). The best part was when the batsman (I think that's what you call him) had to be taken away as he was frozen in position and they replaced him with a sofa. Sandi/Emily/Calvin: Where is the Triumvirate? Please Ms.'s, post, man! Sandi had a nice spate of posting recently -- don't let it dry up! It's like H to me! Well, maybe not quite like that... Markus: Don't worry -- we're ALL waiting with baited breath** for Deadly Faerie Tales! Just let us know when it's available! Spencer: Let me know what time your wine & cheese shindig is happening, and I will be there in my Xena outfit ready to tussle... Courtney: Man-o-man. Can I just say that your life is ever-so-much more interesting than mine? So jealous. = ) Sifl & Ollie: I am so happy that they are on at 7:30 nowadays. Whatever time they were on before was much too late for an old person like me! And finally, let me go Spencerifical on ya: 1.) I have to agree with Spencer. I also had no control over when I was born (and come to think of it, neither did my parents, as they *are* Catholics...). But you could try to talk to them about it. That is, if you can catch my mom between her 900 number calls... So I must admit that I am 28. Or I might be 12. Or 53. Or a dog. On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog. Or maybe they can tell when you are a dog and they just haven't told me how to figure it out. No one tells me anything. 2.) And I always thought Katie WAS in her late twenties! I thought her e-mail address was a nod to the wonderful world of the Care Bears! But she's not. Dude. No one tells me anything. 3.) Wait just a minute... wait just a cotton-pickin' minute***! Now... I thought FL stood for FEARFUL Leader! Damn. No one tells me anything. 4.) Dude... When were people marking this list with straight parallel lines? Did I miss that too? Yeah, you got it! No one ever freaking tells me anything! 5.) Where did you get your tickets to the catlicking, Spencer? Are they more expensive than Stones tix? Damn. I didn't even know they had gone on sale! Would somebody please tell me something? 6.) For the record... I don't think I'm better'n anybody. Well, actually, I take that back. I do think I'm better than Matthew. But only because I actually am. And no one has ever told me otherwise... so... there you go. OK. C'est tout pour moi! Which reminds me. I dreamed last night that I was in France and I was attempting to speak french. I wasn't hellaciously bad. Which I was happy about in my dream world as I haven't tried to speak French fluently since 1989. But I was only 9 then... really, I swear... I'm *so* not in my late twenties... really. Later! - -Anne * Which did not happen to me, but *did* happen to my cousin who had a beautiful 1 month old boy at the time! ** OK, so what the hell does this expression mean? Are we baiting our breath to catch something? Or is "baited" another way of saying "fetid" -- are we so anxious fo something that we neglect our dental hygene? I need to know! *** And what's up with a cotton pickin' minute anyway? Is it longer than a corn growin' minute? Shorter than a typin' to a mailing list minute? What gives? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:47:38 -0500 From: Carrie Subject: Stuff Tom mentioned Car Talk. What a cool freakin' show! I didn't listen to radio in Cleveland before, but my boyfriend is an announcer at 90.3 WCPN, the local NPR affiliate, so every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning, we wake up to Car Talk before I go to class. Very enjoyable program... So tomorrow Jonathan and I leave for Chicago. Ahh! Should be exciting. Last time I was in Chicago, I spent the entire time under the influence of, alternately, caffeine and alcohol. *wink* My ICQ# is 5085261. I ordered Fear of Pop. Should come in a few days. I'll judge it then. Speaking of BFF MP3's, I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but I have pretty much everything you could want, all the B-sides, some great live tracks, etc. Wow. Sad to hear such venom from Katie. Sure, I'll admit I scan posts if they don't grab my attention, but I realize most of mine are scanned by most of you too. If BFF were playing a bunch of shows or something, we'd have more BFF stuff to discuss. I'm not on the Cool List. Oh no. Guess I'll go end it all. :-) Meg -- I agree. Washington U. in St.L. is really cool. I loved it. However, they are infamously stingy with financial aid, as are U. of Chicago and Northwestern. Great schools that give out money like cheap candy to good students are Case Western Reserve (where I am), and Wake Forest (theirs is a little harder to get, but bigger bucks). To anyone needing advice for college applications, feel free to write me. I visited like 15 schools and applied to nine, searched colleges for four years before app. time senior year, so if you have a school in mind, I may be able to give you some dirt. Some BFF converts of mine who live down the hall bought three fish. Their names are Ben, Robert, and Darren. They won't explain the joke to anyone who doesn't get it. I am in my late teens and I love it. Nineteen... the age of irresistibility... Marcus, however, has just five days to go before he turns the big two-nine. Everyone be sure to send him some denture glue. I think I'm going to go get a ginger ale. - -carrie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:07:33 -0800 From: flames on the side of my face Subject: where are you gonna go without me now? I have 24 days left to be an immature teenager. I turn the big 2-0 on December 12th. make a note of it; I expect presents. Ginger turns 21 on December 4th. go Sagittaruses! i forget who it was who got a USC application, but I had almost forgotten about those barcodes. i had a big stack of those my senior year and i used the extras and just stuck them on random things. but at USC, you ARE just a number. but they do give shitloads of financial aid. and let me tell you, my grades are pretty mediocre-to-average. but let me tell you, some very interesting things happen at USC. Last night in my Hitchcock class we screened a brand new print of Psycho, and Hitch's daughter Pat came in and did a Q&A session. She was SO nice. and who knew that Hitch's favourite movie was Smokey and the Bandit? that revelation caused Dr. Drew casper to hold his head in his hands. she also brought the entire class wristwatches with the Hitchcock silhouette on them. She was also very gracious about Gus' remake of Psycho. She said that her father would have been flattered and the only problem she had with it was that it was shot in colour. anyway, after class i hightailed it over to the Troubadour to see Built To Spill. we got there just in time to catch the end of Caustic Resin's opening set. i was pretty much unimpressed with them. i think they're one of those bands that doesn't get that grunge is dead. BTS came out and played a good and LOUD set. wow. i think it was the loudest show i've been to in a REALLY long time. i mean, swing shows aren't exactly ear splitting. nor are swedish pop bands. After the show I finally met the label rep, Julie, whom I'd been talking to over the phone for weeks on end. she hooked us up with Loft passes and we hung out with the band a bit and they were really nice. and with my tickets, i got a Warner Bros. envelope that had an advance casette of songs from the new BTS album (Keep It Like a Secret, due out in January) and an iron on BTS transfer. swag rules. then i got an email from my dad this morning that he was working with some professor at USC, who happened to be up in Portland for some reason, and this guy's son works at Rhino Records and may be able to hook me up with a job. so yay. oh, i checked the website, and no word on when Rufus Wainwright is going to be on Sessions. but Elvis and Burt are on this week! and since we're giving out phone numbers, mine is 213.764.9041 ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "How was the movie?" "I don't remember." "Atta boy!" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 17:10:03 -0600 From: "Thomas Kluis" Subject: immature teenagers-soon-to-be-no-more-unite! My birthday is one week from today (a turkey baby!). I will turn 20 as well. SO much for Katie's venom about late 20somethings. saggitari (?) unite! tk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:31:07 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: about to listen time #2, and other stuff >Spencer is back! And he published his phone number! Yay! Now, Spec, if you wow, Spence, you started a *thing*! everyone is posting phone numbers! >Stacy: I nominate you for the position of queen of typing... if you win, you >will have to type or anyone attmpting to submit a drunken post... I dont know how I got this title... I mean, really, I make a lot of typos... you should see when me and my best friend (she moved to New Jersey, and I am still in AZ, WAAAAAAAAA!!!! I miss her!) are on AIM together. Neither of us EVER hit the backspace. It's hilarious. And drunk... my goodness, I've done plenty of drunk typing in my life, and I have to repeat myself soooo many times!! I'll do a drunk post the next time I come home drunk. I dunno, I guess I am a fast typer. Its funny though, I never thought of myself as a fast typer, and I am constantly amazed when I think a sentnse, and it ends up on the screen without me having to think about it or even look at the screen. I used to be able to type fast enough to keep up with any given BFF song, but I dunno if I can still do that. And... After Friends is on, I plan on listening to Fop time #2. THink it will be as good second time around? Stacy Day comes I wake, I wake with a hard heartache I go down to your place We sit and chat about New York... --Rufus Wainwright "Danny Boy" http://www.u.arizona.edu/~stacyf icq #7641939 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 21:21:27 EST From: Lennonita@aol.com Subject: A general invite ...for ICQ chat. I had a nice chat with Tom and Clayton and Stacy last night...it was cool. Anytime (generally) you're up for chat, I'll accept! Flames on the side of my face wrote: Ginger turns 21 on December 4th. go Sagittaruses! Meg turns 18 on December 3rd. Again, go Sags! Court-nay and Tom included! (And anybody else I don't know about) Stacy got a new quote! Go Rufus! This post is chock full of exclamation points! Meg! "He'll be history's first ever Torah-thumper." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:58:50 EST From: Eriklyons1@aol.com Subject: CLAYTON ARISES!!! Actually, Clayton posted from an address that isn't jiggy with the RF list, so I am posting it for him. Remember my friends, you must post from an address that you receive your RF from. Thanks again. And since I am drunk tonight, thanks to all who decided to stick up for our RF family. I was pretty upset about the whole thing and you guys were really nice. It meant more to me than you will know. As for Katie, she will live on, as will we. I never had a bad word for her before, and I sure as hell am not going to start now. And know, a post from Clayton >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From: ctsmith@nodata.org oh man i need to stop lurking, delurk! go Sagittaruses! dec. 20th i turn 16. Watch out im tearing up the streets!! Meg, Tom, and Stacy are awesome. they are fun to talk to. ICQ # 2752098 add add add add it on your list! Spencer!!!! whats up? oh ya and i need to finish that mix tape for you. it should rock supreme with my new cds. i hope at least. Katie needs to grow up. FL you rule supreme. katie decides to make her cool list and bash FL while she leaves then maybe she doesnt need to be here. That wasnt cute and was very far from cool. ugh i have a 6 to 8 page research paper due tueday and i havent done JACK. this should be fun fun fun see you guys later. Clayton ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 23:20:10 -0400 (EDT) From: KDEMCAK@WELLESLEY.EDU Subject: [none] 'lo all -- Well, I am glad I am a KatY rather than a KatIE, because otherwise I'd be sad that people were saying mean things about me. Whatever. I know y'all rock and you know y'all rock. I turn 21 January 4. So mark your calendars now for the big bash. Despite my misadventures with the folks at Sam Goody, I managed to find Fear of Pop yesterday; filed under Ben Folds Five, it was, but I was glad I thought to look there. Love it, love it, love it! I really like Fear of Pop and I Paid My Money based off my first listening, but we shall see what sticks out next time I play it. I am sure that FL is having a celebratory beer tonight over the naming of Sammy Sosa as MVP; I am about to have one myself--root root root for the Cubbies and all that. I am ICQ #11633189 cheers, Katy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 23:38:04 -0500 (EST) From: Ginger Nance Subject: joining in the fun Hmm. Since everybody and their mom seems to have ICQ, I downloaded it too. My # is 23791446. I think I accidentally deleted everyone else's. Doh! Ginger Nance ginger_nance@unc.edu http://www.unc.edu/~gnance ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 23:58:40 From: "Hannah Kuhlmann" Subject: that damn thing's faster than a 3 peckered owl! alright, so I haven't posted in like a year, but I got FOP today, and I think that's reason enough. If I were Robert Sledge, I would be peeing my pants with joy at this whole Rubber Sled thing. But I have 2 questions: 1) does the little groove in the first section sound like Fun Lovin' Criminals to anyone else? 2) Who else special ordered FOP from Cheapo in Minneapolis (Dinkytown?) Tom? was it you? alright, back to writing my frigging paper now. - -Hannah _________________________________________ http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/1094/ Hannah Kuhlmann - kuhl0025@tc.umn.edu _________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #311 *********************************