From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #42 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 Sunday, February 18 2001 Volume 06 : Number 042 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: TMDR mentioned in 'cassingles' article [Sean Carolan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:51:51 -0500 From: Sean Carolan Subject: Re: Alloy: TMDR mentioned in 'cassingles' article Folks, Now, y'know, The Onion is entirely fictional. However. Methinks they knew a *little* too much about the subject matter for it to be complete hooey. My guess is at least one person at the Onion, or someone they know, etc. etc., has a big pile of cassingles from the era, and that they grafted a Simpsons-esque "comic book guy" persona whose monomania for that media would inspire a knowing chuckle. (Sorry, but I always thought cassingles were virtually useless and completely disposable, owing to cheap construction and cruddy packaging.) Even better: I'd bet they were talking at an editorial meeting about cassingles, and how fragile/cheap/disposable they were. Inevitably, someone said "I wonder if there's any on eBay?" and when they actually found a pile of them they realized they'd struck comedy gold. They might even have noticed a lot of them being offered by one guy...and wouldn't it be funny if that was a real person named "Larry Harroway"? In fact, I wonder... (...stops to checks eBay, finds a pile of cassingles, and continues when he stops giggling sufficiently to continue...) I didn't find Larry Harroway, nor did I find anything by Thomas, but I found about forty-six cassingles, often touted as "EXTREMELY RARE!!!"...heh! There's a rare canadian promo-only pressing of Hall & Oates' "Everything Your Heart Desires"! An Australian pressing of Icehouse's "Crazy" (with four mixes!) Here's an example of the breathless prose for (wait for it) a collection of ELEVEN MADONNA CASSINGLES!!: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1410141749 The mind boggles... - -HubCity At 11:28 PM 2/16/01 -0500, you wrote: > >Thomas has just forwarded me something I thought everyone here would love! >visit: > >http://www.theonion.com/onion3705/collection_of_cassingles.html > >to read the article. > >Larry Harroway rules - and so does his passion for cassingles. > >xxxxx >Robin T >harboring her own passion for photographs and interviews :) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:26:45 -0500 From: "Robin" Subject: Re: Alloy: TMDR mentioned in 'cassingles' article What I really love is their t-shirts: http://store.theonion.com/cgi-bin/onion_store.pl?page=clothing.html&cart_id= 1505862.27134 The moon landing one (in B&W) is my favorite.. says what we're all thinking when something incredible happens. Honesty in journalism & all that, LOL! xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:47:48 -0700 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: TMDR mentioned in 'cassingles' article The sad thing is that I started reading the cassingle article without realizing it was from The Onion and thought it was serious. I was thinking, man this guy really likes his cassingles. I love the Onion. They are available here in Denver with all the other free weekly papers and it takes about as long to read as my light rail ride home from work. Occasionally I see real headlines in the daily paper and think - That looks like an Onion headline. - -Keith - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin" To: Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 11:26 AM Subject: Re: Alloy: TMDR mentioned in 'cassingles' article > > What I really love is their t-shirts: > > http://store.theonion.com/cgi-bin/onion_store.pl?page=clothing.html&cart_id= > 1505862.27134 > > The moon landing one (in B&W) is my favorite.. says what we're all thinking > when something incredible happens. Honesty in journalism & all that, LOL! > > xxxxx > Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 09:59:58 -0500 From: "M. R. Jordan" Subject: Re: Alloy: TMDR mentioned in 'cassingles' article Robin, I'm glad Our Fearless Leader reads The Onion - for my money the best source of news on the Internet! I read the cassingles story at work on Wednesday and just about died laughing! The Onion rocks - last week they had an editorial about my home town - "I Can't Find the Gay District in Moline" - which several friends felt compelled to forward to me. :-) You know the guys from The Onion are making the move from Madison, Wisconsin to NYC. I hope they don't lose their perverse midwestern sense of humor in the big city! Cheers, Melissa - -- Melissa R. Jordan Director, Compass Rose Consulting International (http://www.askcrc.com) Owner/Artist, Compass Rose Studios (http://www.crstudios.com) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:41:03 -0500 From: "M. R. Jordan" Subject: Re: Alloy: TMDR mentioned in 'cassingles' article Sean Carolan wrote: > Folks, > > Now, y'know, The Onion is entirely fictional. > But you can really mess with people who have a stunted sense of humor by sending them articles from it. I have a dear, dear friend whose very religious cousin sent out a pretty intense (to me, hilarious, in a kinda scary way) e-mail message to a zillion people about Harry Potter books being, basically, the gateway to damnation - said cousin's source of factual information: The Onion. There had been an article titled something like, "Harry Potter Books Causing Increase in Satanism Among Children." Somebody sent it to this guy, and he thought it was for real! Oh... my... god... is all I can say about that. > Methinks they knew a *little* too much about the subject matter for it to > be complete hooey. My guess is at least one person at the Onion, or > someone they know, etc. etc., has a big pile of cassingles from the era, > and that they grafted a Simpsons-esque "comic book guy" persona whose > monomania for that media would inspire a knowing chuckle. -- I think there's just enough truth in most Onion articles to either make you laugh with embarrassment because you see a bit of yourself or someone you know or make you cringe for the same reasons! Case in point: (and keep in mind when I say this that I did grow up in a very small town in the 70's/80's) - a few months ago, I admitted to a friend that, if REO Speedwagon, Styx, Journey, and Cheap Trick all played a gig together, I'd love to go - it would be a hoot! (Go ahead and laugh, but remember - we *barely* heard She Blinded Me With Science on the radio in Moline!) Sure enough, the next morning - as god is my witness - - The Onion featured some infographic about "dumb stadium shows we're paying good money to see" (or something close to that) - and what did it say? REO/Styx/Journey/Cheap Trick. These guys must all be mid-30-ish and slightly younger, and I swear I know the people they're writing about! Cheers, Melissa - -- Melissa R. Jordan Director, Compass Rose Consulting International (http://www.askcrc.com) Owner/Artist, Compass Rose Studios (http://www.crstudios.com) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 00:15:33 -0500 From: "Robin" Subject: Alloy: Birthday wishes It's after midnight here, so I can now officially wish our dear Slarvi a very Happy Birthday!! Hope you're having a wonderful time celebrating :) xxxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #42 **************************