From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V4 #118 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Tuesday, April 20 1999 Volume 04 : Number 118 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Alloy: hello again! ["Ulfstedt, Louise" ] Alloy: Beatnik news [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Congratulations Kate!! [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: hello again! [Kathleen Truelove ] Re: Alloy: wedding incidents [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: hello again! [CJMark@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:37:13 +0300 From: "Ulfstedt, Louise" Subject: RE: Alloy: hello again! Looking at the date this mail was sent, I think the following is in order! CONGRATULATIONS KATE & KATE HUBBY! Here's wishing you a long and happy married life,.. And as someone said when we got hitched, "May the roof of your house never fall in, and may you never fall out!" ALl the best, Lissu :-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Kathleen Truelove [SMTP:Kathleen.McClelland@online.disney.com] > Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 6:20 PM > To: alloy@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Alloy: hello again! > > > To all Alloyites, > Well folks it's one day till my wedding! That song 'Going to the chapel, > and > I'm, gonna get married' has been on my mind all this week. I'm lovestruck > and > have the wedding fever. We both say the big I DO tomorrow. Can't wait, but > am a > little nervous, excited and just a weee bit scared. This is quite a big > step for > me. Wish you all a fantastic weekend. Just want to also say to Dolby, if > it > wasn't for my fiance's and my total admiration for you great music we > might > not've gotten together. You are the King! May I say most likely even > better then > Elvis. You Go Thomas!!! LOL. > > Pax Aye, > Kate;-) > > Charles E. Kemp wrote: > > > And the prodigal son returneth! > > > > I just returned from my week and a half in Maine, and as promised I have > > re-subscribed, although I will only be around thru sunday. Then it's on > > to Pittsburgh and then Charlotte before returning home once again. > > > > A few observations... > > > > Maine is almost a copy of southern Indiana...only much much colder. > > > > living in motel rooms is very boring. my next purchase is going to be a > > laptop so that I can hopefully subscribe full time again just so that I > > have *something* to do. > > > > This message powered by Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing > > > > ****** Charles E. Kemp ****** cekemp@netcom.com ****** (812) 597-5950 > ****** > > Just for the sake of it make sure you're always frowning, it shows the > > world that you've got substance and depth. - Neil Tennant > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:34:49 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Beatnik news Beatnik moves forward yet again and Thomas is to give a demo, this time at the National Assiociation of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas... Robin T Beatnik Plans to Serve High Quality Music Libraries Direct to the Avid Desktop Revolutionizes the Auditioning and Licensing Process for Professional Video Production NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS CONVENTION (NAB) LAS VEGAS, April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Beatnik Inc., provider of interactive audio technology and sound libraries on the Internet, announced today that they are planning to link Beatnik's comprehensive music and sound libraries to Avid Technology Inc's editing platform via Avid's new OMM (Open Media Management) framework. This capability will enable an Avid user to directly browse Beatnik's e-commerce web site for a vast collection of high-quality music and sound libraries, perform real-time auditions, and immediately secure temporary or full usage licenses -- all without leaving the desktop of the AVID application. Professional videographers and film producers will have a fast and easy way to license and integrate music into their productions, making delays in selecting and licensing music a thing of the past. OMM enabled Avid editing products are expected to be released in Q3 1999. Beatnik founder Thomas Dolby Robertson will be demonstrating this link between the AVID desktop and the Internet for the first time at the NAB show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Demonstrations of the capability will also be conducted at the AVID and FirstCom booths. "Seamless access to Beatnik's libraries via AVID's OMM framework speeds the workflow process and provides music and sound content to a broader user base," said Lorraine Hariton, president and CEO, Beatnik, Inc. "This will allow us to deliver the power of sound via the web into the hands of the world's media editors and producers." "The direct integration of rich content from catalogs such as Beatnik's into AVID production tools is a great use of the web to help shorten the production cycle for our customers," said Ed McDermid, OMM product manager, Avid Technology, Inc. "Auditioning and adding top music content into video projects is now simply a matter of dragging and dropping files from a web browser into the AVID Clip Bin." Beatnik.com will provide rapid search, licensing and e-commerce services to an expanding community of video editors and web producers using digital editing tools. This process traditionally has involved sifting through multiple brochures, calling 800 numbers, overnight mailing CDs from coast to coast, and faxing usage forms to the publisher. "Finding the right music for my productions is a pain, and then you have to deal with licensing issues," said David Hoffman, award winning documentary film director and long-time Avid user. "The ability to select and license high quality music in minutes versus weeks, will allow me to deliver an even higher quality product in a shorter time period." Beatnik, Inc. is the exclusive online reseller of several top music production catalogues including FirstCom, Chappell, Gotham, One Music, Hollywood and Access Music. These are sublicensed from top production music publisher FirstCom Music as a result of a recently announced strategic joint venture between the two companies. (See related press release about relationship between FirstCom and Beatnik, Inc.) FirstCom is a subsidiary of Zomba Enterprises, Inc., which is the music publishing arm of the Zomba Group of Companies, the world's largest independent music conglomerate. "FirstCom's extensive libraries coupled to Beatnik's online e-commerce site will provide a one-stop-shop for AVID users to enhance their productions with high-quality, royalty-free music and sound," said Zomba CFO Brian Roberts, "Producers increasingly view the web as a new broadcast medium in its own right. We believe this is the future of synchronized audio." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:52:20 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Congratulations Kate!! In a message dated 4/19/99 5:41:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Lissu writes: :: CONGRATULATIONS KATE & KATE HUBBY! Here's wishing you a long and happy married life,.. And as someone said when we got hitched, "May the roof of your house never fall in, and may you never fall out!" :: Wonderful advice which I enthusiastically second :) !! Many congratulations on your new life together! I'm sure the ceremony was just beautiful, maybe you could slip us a picture or two? Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:50:02 -0700 From: Kathleen Truelove Subject: Re: Alloy: hello again! Thanks!!! I'm still in a daze from everything. Had to work today but am in good spirits. At our reception we played Dolby's song 'Beauty of a Dream' as the song for us to dance to as husband and wife. It was impressive. We had a Celtic/Jewish wedding complete with a Rabbi and a Druid Priest. Maybe I'll send a picture or two of the wedding when we get them developed. Pax Aye, Kate:-) Ulfstedt, Louise wrote: > Looking at the date this mail was sent, I think the following is in order! > > CONGRATULATIONS KATE & KATE HUBBY! > > Here's wishing you a long and happy married life,.. > And as someone said when we got hitched, > > "May the roof of your house never fall in, and may you never fall out!" > > ALl the best, > > Lissu :-) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kathleen Truelove [SMTP:Kathleen.McClelland@online.disney.com] > > Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 6:20 PM > > To: alloy@smoe.org > > Subject: Re: Alloy: hello again! > > > > > > To all Alloyites, > > Well folks it's one day till my wedding! That song 'Going to the chapel, > > and > > I'm, gonna get married' has been on my mind all this week. I'm lovestruck > > and > > have the wedding fever. We both say the big I DO tomorrow. Can't wait, but > > am a > > little nervous, excited and just a weee bit scared. This is quite a big > > step for > > me. Wish you all a fantastic weekend. Just want to also say to Dolby, if > > it > > wasn't for my fiance's and my total admiration for you great music we > > might > > not've gotten together. You are the King! May I say most likely even > > better then > > Elvis. You Go Thomas!!! LOL. > > > > Pax Aye, > > Kate;-) > > > > Charles E. Kemp wrote: > > > > > And the prodigal son returneth! > > > > > > I just returned from my week and a half in Maine, and as promised I have > > > re-subscribed, although I will only be around thru sunday. Then it's on > > > to Pittsburgh and then Charlotte before returning home once again. > > > > > > A few observations... > > > > > > Maine is almost a copy of southern Indiana...only much much colder. > > > > > > living in motel rooms is very boring. my next purchase is going to be a > > > laptop so that I can hopefully subscribe full time again just so that I > > > have *something* to do. > > > > > > This message powered by Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing > > > > > > ****** Charles E. Kemp ****** cekemp@netcom.com ****** (812) 597-5950 > > ****** > > > Just for the sake of it make sure you're always frowning, it shows the > > > world that you've got substance and depth. - Neil Tennant > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:51:58 -0400 From: "Beth Meyer" Subject: RE: Alloy: Congratulations Kate!! Hi, folks; Indeed, best wishes and all happiness to you, Kate, in your marriage! Of course, what we will really want to know, once you return from your honeymoon, is what funny thing went wrong in the ceremony. Every wedding has to have at least one funny faux pas. Ours had at least two. The first was when we made the mistake of having the ushers lighting the candles as part of the ceremony at the very beginning (rather than getting them lit ahead of time), while my brother-in-law played a trumpet voluntary. The problem was, the candles wouldn't stay lit, so the ushers were fumbling around for what seemed like *forever*. The rest of us are all in the back of the church saying, "what the sam hill is going ON up there," while my poor brother-in-law, whose lip was busted up in a car accident a year or two before, is starting to miss notes. It was starting to sound like a trumpet involuntary by the time they finally finished and the ceremony could proceed. However, the funniest moment was the cake-cutting. Mark had not insisted on too many things about the ceremony, but he had insisted on a fountain in the cake. That was just something he always wanted. So there was this big cake with a fountain, along with a little round cake beside it. It just so happened that the caterer was out of the room when we decided it was time to cut the cake. So we pose for the camera with the knife on top of the big round layer at the bottom of the big cake. After the photos are snapped, we push the knife through. We feel this hard, brittle texture and hear a crunching sound. We keep slicing all the way through, wondering what kind of wedding cake is *crunchy*. Just then, the caterer comes running in from the kitchen shouting, "No!" Turns out that the little round cake was what we were supposed to cut, and we were actually slicing through a styrofoam base that lent sturdiness to the cake with the fountain. So, in our wedding album, there are pictures of us cutting the cake twice... Cheers, Beth Beth Meyer bethmeyer@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:45:53 -0700 From: Kathleen Truelove Subject: Re: Alloy: Congratulations Kate!! Beth, Well, for one thing my wedding ring got misplaced before the ceremony somehow. Needless to say, this caused quite a stir. My husband would not have any other ring to go on my finger. The ring just could not be found. He finally consented to his grandmother's ring which luckily fit my ring finger nicely. That was truly something borrowed to complete the tradition of something borrowed, something new and something blue. It was such a fiasco!! We were supposed to take pictures at 4:30pm. Ended up taking them around 5:30. The wedding was supposed to start at 6:30. Ended starting at around 7:00. The help we ordered didn't always know what to do. My sister-in-law ended taking charge of the hired help. At least the ceremony itself was very good. Made all the craziness worth it! Pax Aye, Kate;-) Beth Meyer wrote: > Hi, folks; > > Indeed, best wishes and all happiness to you, Kate, in your marriage! > > Of course, what we will really want to know, once you return from your > honeymoon, is what funny thing went wrong in the ceremony. Every wedding > has to have at least one funny faux pas. Ours had at least two. The first > was when we made the mistake of having the ushers lighting the candles as > part of the ceremony at the very beginning (rather than getting them lit > ahead of time), while my brother-in-law played a trumpet voluntary. The > problem was, the candles wouldn't stay lit, so the ushers were fumbling > around for what seemed like *forever*. The rest of us are all in the back > of the church saying, "what the sam hill is going ON up there," while my > poor brother-in-law, whose lip was busted up in a car accident a year or two > before, is starting to miss notes. It was starting to sound like a trumpet > involuntary by the time they finally finished and the ceremony could > proceed. > > However, the funniest moment was the cake-cutting. Mark had not insisted on > too many things about the ceremony, but he had insisted on a fountain in the > cake. That was just something he always wanted. So there was this big cake > with a fountain, along with a little round cake beside it. It just so > happened that the caterer was out of the room when we decided it was time to > cut the cake. So we pose for the camera with the knife on top of the big > round layer at the bottom of the big cake. After the photos are snapped, we > push the knife through. We feel this hard, brittle texture and hear a > crunching sound. We keep slicing all the way through, wondering what kind > of wedding cake is *crunchy*. Just then, the caterer comes running in from > the kitchen shouting, "No!" Turns out that the little round cake was what > we were supposed to cut, and we were actually slicing through a styrofoam > base that lent sturdiness to the cake with the fountain. So, in our wedding > album, there are pictures of us cutting the cake twice... > > Cheers, > Beth > > Beth Meyer > bethmeyer@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:09:01 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Good God, more Beatnik news More news from our favorite Beatniks! Congratulations once again to Thomas, Lorraine Hariton, and all the staff at Beatnik Inc for accomplishing all of these impressive things I've been reading about lately. Treat yourselves to something nice, and send me the bill! Robin T Beatnik Inc. Brings FirstCom's Vast Music Library to the Web Interactive Audio and Production Music Leaders Team to Offer One-Stop-Shop For Developers, Producers LAS VEGAS, National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB), April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Beatnik Inc., the interactive audio leader and creator of Beatnik technology, announced today that through its recent strategic joint venture with Zomba Music Publishing, it has signed an agreement with FirstCom Music, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, FirstCom's extensive library of musical cues will be available for quick and easy licensing online from the Beatnik Web site. This strategic relationship strengthens Beatnik's commitment to delivering copyright protected music easily over the Internet offering the flexibility to incorporate sound and music effortlessly into Web and video productions. "Web site authors and sound engineers can now browse through a huge selection of categories, search specific genres of music, license and download tracks right from their desktop," said Lorraine Hariton, CEO of Beatnik Inc. "With Beatnik's 'click and drag' support in a variety of Web and video authoring tools such as Macromedia's Dreamweaver and Director, NetObjects' Fusion and the Avid Desktop, creating dynamic interactive multimedia projects has never been easier." "The Beatnik/FirstCom agreement will form the largest production music library available on the Web," said Cecelia M. Garr, President and CEO of FirstCom Music. "Our integration with Beatnik's technology provides instantaneous access to search, audition and license music in any digital format at the click of a mouse giving users the creative license to transform Web sites into truly interactive showpieces. The agreement with Beatnik will broaden our reach to the Web and video communities." The FirstCom Music Library has the most comprehensive musical selection worldwide with more than 20,000 copyright licenses including signature FirstCom Catalogs: FirstCom Music Library; Chappel Recorded Music Library; Hollywood Music Library; Gotham Music Library and Access Music Library. FirstCom's music catalogs will now be offered online providing a one-stop-shop for Web professionals and amateurs to enhance their creative products with high quality, copyright-protected, interactive music and sound. The FirstCom Music alliance complements Beatnik's recent relationship with Zomba Music Publishing, Netscape Communications, Macromedia, NetObjects and long time relationships with WebTV Networks, Inc., NCI and Sun Microsystems. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:28:08 +0100 From: "I T Admin @ Govt Office North West" Subject: RE: Alloy: hello again! Dear me, lost my manners AGAIN :( Congratulations Kate, though I don't know if you're there to read them right now. You made no mention of a honeymoon, but it's possible you're sunning yourselves on some tropical beach while I sit here in rainy Manchester. Either way, very best wishes Slarvibarglhee At 12:37 19/04/99 +0300, Lissu wrote: > >Looking at the date this mail was sent, I think the following is in order! > >CONGRATULATIONS KATE & KATE HUBBY! > >Here's wishing you a long and happy married life,.. >And as someone said when we got hitched, > >"May the roof of your house never fall in, and may you never fall out!" > >ALl the best, > >Lissu :-) > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kathleen Truelove [SMTP:Kathleen.McClelland@online.disney.com] >> Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 6:20 PM >> To: alloy@smoe.org >> Subject: Re: Alloy: hello again! >> >> >> To all Alloyites, >> Well folks it's one day till my wedding! That song 'Going to the chapel, >> and >> I'm, gonna get married' has been on my mind all this week. I'm lovestruck >> and >> have the wedding fever. We both say the big I DO tomorrow. Can't wait, but >> am a >> little nervous, excited and just a weee bit scared. This is quite a big >> step for >> me. Wish you all a fantastic weekend. Just want to also say to Dolby, if >> it >> wasn't for my fiance's and my total admiration for you great music we >> might >> not've gotten together. You are the King! May I say most likely even >> better then >> Elvis. You Go Thomas!!! LOL. >> >> Pax Aye, >> Kate;-) >> >> Charles E. Kemp wrote: >> >> > And the prodigal son returneth! >> > >> > I just returned from my week and a half in Maine, and as promised I have >> > re-subscribed, although I will only be around thru sunday. Then it's on >> > to Pittsburgh and then Charlotte before returning home once again. >> > >> > A few observations... >> > >> > Maine is almost a copy of southern Indiana...only much much colder. >> > >> > living in motel rooms is very boring. my next purchase is going to be a >> > laptop so that I can hopefully subscribe full time again just so that I >> > have *something* to do. >> > >> > This message powered by Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing >> > >> > ****** Charles E. Kemp ****** cekemp@netcom.com ****** (812) 597-5950 >> ****** >> > Just for the sake of it make sure you're always frowning, it shows the >> > world that you've got substance and depth. - Neil Tennant >> >> > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:52:25 -0700 From: Kathleen Truelove Subject: Re: Alloy: hello again! Slarv, Actually I'm at work in a daze. Can't concentrate on anything right now except how wonderful the wedding was. We do plan on going on a two week honeymoon in Scotland later this year. Have to get enough money saved up and a good travel plan. We spent our wedding night in a hotel across the street from Disneyland and went to Knott's Berry Farm the next day (which was yesterday). I'm a bit sunburnt right now. Been puttin the Aloe Vera on thick. To be honest, I'm not sure I'd want to sunbathe on a tropical beach. I'd rather visit my ancestoral lands in Scotland then in America. Pax Aye, Kate;-) I T Admin @ Govt Office North West wrote: > Dear me, > > lost my manners AGAIN :( > > Congratulations Kate, though I don't know if you're there to read them right > now. You made no mention of a honeymoon, but it's possible you're sunning > yourselves on some tropical beach while I sit here in rainy Manchester. > Either way, very best wishes > > Slarvibarglhee > > At 12:37 19/04/99 +0300, Lissu wrote: > > > >Looking at the date this mail was sent, I think the following is in order! > > > >CONGRATULATIONS KATE & KATE HUBBY! > > > >Here's wishing you a long and happy married life,.. > >And as someone said when we got hitched, > > > >"May the roof of your house never fall in, and may you never fall out!" > > > >ALl the best, > > > >Lissu :-) > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Kathleen Truelove [SMTP:Kathleen.McClelland@online.disney.com] > >> Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 6:20 PM > >> To: alloy@smoe.org > >> Subject: Re: Alloy: hello again! > >> > >> > >> To all Alloyites, > >> Well folks it's one day till my wedding! That song 'Going to the chapel, > >> and > >> I'm, gonna get married' has been on my mind all this week. I'm lovestruck > >> and > >> have the wedding fever. We both say the big I DO tomorrow. Can't wait, but > >> am a > >> little nervous, excited and just a weee bit scared. This is quite a big > >> step for > >> me. Wish you all a fantastic weekend. Just want to also say to Dolby, if > >> it > >> wasn't for my fiance's and my total admiration for you great music we > >> might > >> not've gotten together. You are the King! May I say most likely even > >> better then > >> Elvis. You Go Thomas!!! LOL. > >> > >> Pax Aye, > >> Kate;-) > >> > >> Charles E. Kemp wrote: > >> > >> > And the prodigal son returneth! > >> > > >> > I just returned from my week and a half in Maine, and as promised I have > >> > re-subscribed, although I will only be around thru sunday. Then it's on > >> > to Pittsburgh and then Charlotte before returning home once again. > >> > > >> > A few observations... > >> > > >> > Maine is almost a copy of southern Indiana...only much much colder. > >> > > >> > living in motel rooms is very boring. my next purchase is going to be a > >> > laptop so that I can hopefully subscribe full time again just so that I > >> > have *something* to do. > >> > > >> > This message powered by Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing > >> > > >> > ****** Charles E. Kemp ****** cekemp@netcom.com ****** (812) 597-5950 > >> ****** > >> > Just for the sake of it make sure you're always frowning, it shows the > >> > world that you've got substance and depth. - Neil Tennant > >> > >> > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:28:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Re: Alloy: Congratulations Kate!! In article <371B6BD1.E3824C60@online.disney.com>, you wrote: >Beth, > Well, for one thing my wedding ring got misplaced before the ceremony somehow. >Needless to say, this caused quite a stir. My husband would not have any other >ring to go on my finger. The ring just could not be found. He finally consented >to his grandmother's ring which luckily fit my ring finger nicely. That was >truly something borrowed to complete the tradition of something borrowed, >something new and something blue. It was such a fiasco!! ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ Kekkon no tame ni omedetou gozaimasu! Congratulations! On the subject of wedding fiascos. My wife and my wedding went along just fine. A friend of my wife volunteered to be the photographer. He borrowed my camera and was using his brand new light metre (why I don't know since the metre built into my camera is perfectly accurate). He was running around taking measurements and striking all the photographer poses. When we got the pictures back we discovered that the shots were beautifully set up, but they were all horribly underexposed. He failed to set the filmspeed on his lightmetre to the ASA of the film. @#$@#!!! Beena was in tears. There was one shot that was absolutely beautiful and by some fluke was perfectly exposed. To make up for his blunder her friend took the negative and said he would make us an 8x10 framed print from it. He ended up losing the negative. Beena hasn't spoken to him since (over 11 years now). Luckily modern technology being what it is I can scan the photo and print it out any size I wish. I've also painstakingly corrected the exposure on the some of the prints as best as possible with my computer. Yepper, my scanner and colour printer are two of my best computer purchases ever. Speaking of which, I've got a lot of photo work to complete this week on my computer. CRACKERS (Easier than the darkroom from hell!!) - -- Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan * http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base * * http://www.angelfire.com/ma/hozervideo/index.html | Hozer Video Games * Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:52:02 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: wedding incidents On thinking of it, at first I couldn't remember any fiascos at my wedding, but then I remembered one that *would* have been one if I hadn't caught it in time... It was the cake. Because I'm allergic to egg whites (and this is the kind of allergy that would actually kill me if I am not careful) I specifically ordered a cake with butter-based frosting rather than the whipped up egg whites they often use on wedding cakes. Of course, I ordered it in the colors of my wedding, tiny pink roses on an ivory background. When I saw the cake at the reception, I noticed the colors were not correct - but I didn't want to cause a stir over something as relatively inconsequential as the colors of the flowers on the cake. It never even occured to me that they'd sent the wrong cake altogether, I was too busy being occupied with other things, and the cake was lovely nevertheless. When I took my first big bite of the cake (the one that my husband shoved into my mouth in front of everyone) I could immediately tell there were most definitely eggs in the frosting because of the tingling sensation followed rapidly by swelling! I excused myself as casually as possible and went to the ladies room where I rinsed my mouth out thoroughly with cold water for about twenty minutes. This could have been a disaster of the first order... yet again I didn't want to disrupt the wedding by raising hell about it during the reception. Afterward though, I did call the bakery to point out their almost deadly mistake. Robin T post near-death experience # 9 or # 10 ! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 01:03:22 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: hello again! Congrats to Kate and your new husband.. Great taste on your music selection.. too! Mark ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V4 #118 ***************************