From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #64 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 Monday, March 12 2001 Volume 06 : Number 064 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Thomas' Nortel ad in Wired ["Robin" ] Re: Alloy: Barbie donations ["Robin" ] Re: Alloy: Barbie donations [CRACKERS ] Re: Alloy: Flailing Barbies [Slarvibarglhee ] Alloy: Ich bin ein jelly doughnut [Brian Clayton ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:31:46 -0500 From: "Robin" Subject: Alloy: Thomas' Nortel ad in Wired Just a quickie, to let everyone know I've spotted Thomas' Nortel ad in Wired today at the newsstand! It looks nice on glossy stock :) I'd bee hoping my friend Ian's TDK ad would be in the same issue as Thomas' ad, but alas it wasn't to be (Ian's going to be in both Spin and Wired) I actually don't know which issues to expect Ian in, he's only told me he's dreading it, whenever it is!! Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:34:48 -0500 From: "Robin" Subject: Re: Alloy: Barbie donations Thanks for the offer Julie, I'll definitely let you know once I'm to the point of being able to practice. Hang on to those dead Barbies in the meantime (and of course Skippers and Kens if the dog had a taste for those too :) Robin T - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Sweeney" To: Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 1:15 PM Subject: Alloy: Barbie donations > > Hey Robin-- > > I have several Barbies for your tattoo practice if and when you do it, and > if you would actually want them... our former dog decapitated/ripped arms > off of three or four of my elder daughter's... talk about CREEPY... they > still have plenty of skin left, though. I know we should celebrate their > differences, but somehow I have the feeling you could bring out their true > beauty. > > Julie > who would be happy to see all of our Barbies go bye-bye ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 06:01:37 -0500 (EST) From: CRACKERS Subject: Re: Alloy: Barbie donations You know as a mild mannered stay-at-home dad by day and a beer swilling pub playing accordionist by night many people might be suprised to hear that a good portion of my day is spend playing with Barbies. My three year old daughter has been ga-ga for Barbie since she learned how to speak and since her older brother is in school during the day I'm the designated playmate (which also meant my son got an Action Man for x-mas this year just so I could maintain a little of my testosteroin during the day as I sit on the livingroom floor surrounded by Barbies and talking on such subjects as how great it is to be a princess/stewardess/rockstar). For some reason she enjoys undressing her Barbies more than she enjoys dressing them and it's inevitable that items of Barbie clothing gets lost and when she wants to dress them back up again there's at least one or two Barbies who must remain nudists. Of course I've also become quite adept at making Barbie clothes out of common household items and baby socks my daughter has long since outgrown. Three wellplaced snips of the scissors and you have a dress (and if it's a sock with a ruffled cuff you have a very fancy evening dress at that). Many is the time I've sat at the dinningroom table stitching together a dress for a Barbie, or trimming and styling one's hair and I've thought to myself, "God damn but I better get myself to a tractor pull or something or my testicles will crawl up inside me." Of course recently I've been getting a break from playing Barbies. My daughter got a toy tea set a few weeks ago so now when I'm not playing Barbies I'm having a tea party with my daughter, Princess Ballerina Kerala. CRACKERS (Malibu Stacey with a hat from hell!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:23:26 +0000 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: Flailing Barbies "M. R. Jordan" wrote: > > Actually, my friend > Lisa and I were so small-town, we didn't know at that point the tuna > connotation, and that people might think the fishy reference was in poor > taste. LOL. This reminds me of one of Mrs Thatcher's faux pas when she was in office which was reported, with pictures, in all the national newspapers. She was visiting an army unit somewhere or other and was invited to straddle the firing seat of a field gun and let the thing off. Before tugging on the lanyard to fire it, she turned to the Sergeant Major in charge of the gun and politely asked, "Will this jerk me off?" His reply is not recorded. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:45:52 +0000 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: Names for a Rock Band CRACKERS wrote: > Or the ever popular "Monkey Yogurt". > > Actually another name we've been contemplating was just simply "The > Reggies". The concept for this being Reggie from "The Archies" goes off on > a solo career and absolutely tanks it. Of course Archie Comics is just as > rabid as Mattel when it comes to their copyrights and trademarks so it > probably wouldn't be too long before we were on the receiving end of a > very nasty lawsuit. > > CRACKERS > (Which would be kinda fun from hell!!!) But think of the FREE PUBLICITY. You could be absolute crap but still make piles of dough because people would buy your work just because of the news items on CNN, NBC, ABC, BBC and The Shopping Chanel. Not that you'd BE absoute crap of course, it's just that you COULD be and still end up rich. Plenty of other people have done it. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:17:34 +0000 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: RE: Alloy-Tell Dave to keep painting Robin Thurlow wrote: > Hey Crackers, > > Thanks for the encouragement :) We've got a lead on some good > water-based body paint from a company in Australia so hopefully we can > do more work soon. It'll give me time to get toned up since I haven't > been able to have very good workouts since my bout with pneumonia four > months ago. Asthma keeps kicking in, very annoyingly. Muscle tone has > faded. But with this in mind, maybe a few coats of paint wouldn't be > such a bad idea. > AAArrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhh........... quick, Nurse, the screens, the screens ....... I DO beg your pardon, I quite lost control there for a few seconds, but the medication has kicked in now, so I should be OK for a while.. I imagine that a lot of current Alloy subscribers haven't seen the artwork in question and DOG DAMNIT, I CAN'T FIND IT NOW EITHER!!!!!! I hesitate to ask, but is it still somewhere on the web? Perhaps you shouldn't answer that. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:10:07 +0000 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: TIM and SLARV CRACKERS wrote: > > They want young guys with washboard abs and square jaws and girls with > heaving cleavage and tiny waists. > Well *I* want the latter. Where do I sign up? > It's about > cock teasing 13 year old boys so that they'll see the fresh young face of > that new female pop sensation as they experience the crimson thrill of > their first wet dream. > Blimey, you've been listening to 'The Key to Her Ferrari' again, haven't you, you naughty boy. > > > That's okay, for a second language you're not doing too bad. You should > see some of the embarassing mistakes I've made speaking in Japanese (my > second language). Like when I meant to comment on all the red soil (akai > no tsuchi) of Prince Edward Island and instead ended up commenting on all > the red vaginas (akai no chitsu). > > CRACKERS > (Do I sound bitter from hell!!!!!!) You're in great company. What did JFK call himself in Berlin? A German Sausage, wasn't it? Boy, I'd love to have been there for that. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:21:34 -0500 From: "Robin" Subject: Alloy: Dave's gallery & Fashion Emergency! Hey Slarv, Dave's gallery is at http://www.davidthurlow.com Not all of the images are up. For some reason the link to some of the earlier stuff is broken but it'll be fixed soon I hope... the ones where body painting enthusiast were writing to Dave: "Too much body, not enough paint!" Which only goes to show, you never know who you'll offend... :) We were sure to get 'enough paint' on for the Raven series that followed (these are the ones you can access) This was a preliminary attempt at working with bodypaint. Our next trial will be far more sophisticated, with better materials etc. We have to get that Australian paint before I can put together my Caroline 452 shoot for the Calendar. It'll be very appropriate for a family-oriented calendar, but I want to do a series that can be featured on Dave's Gallery page based on the Caroline theme. (Is anyone else still planning to do any images for the calendar BTW?) Which reminds me... I need to ask an opinion question of everyone here. I can't decide what kind of shoes Caroline 452 would have been wearing. Her shoes weren't showing in the video but mine will, in my version of the black-gowned Caroline. Any ideas on what I should get? Bear in mind, I need some cool dress shoes desperately anyway... so they'll be for general use as well as the costume. All I own right now are boots! One pair I like can be seen @ http://www.vixensandangels.com/assets/shoes/fr031pblk.jpg What do you think ~ are they Caroline? Thanks all for any fashion advice :) !! xxxxxx Robin T - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slarvibarglhee" > I hesitate to ask, but is it still somewhere on the web? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:29:42 -0500 From: "Robin" Subject: Re: Alloy: TIM and SLARV From: "Slarvibarglhee" > What did JFK call himself in Berlin? A German Sausage, > wasn't it? I thought he'd said: "Today, I am an umbrella." May just be a rumor though. He was trying to say "Today I am a Berliner" and got the word for umbrella all mixed up in there somehow, that's the myth anyway :) Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:25:49 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Clayton Subject: Alloy: Ich bin ein jelly doughnut On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Robin wrote: > From: "Slarvibarglhee" > > What did JFK call himself in Berlin? A German Sausage, > > wasn't it? > > I thought he'd said: "Today, I am an umbrella." > > May just be a rumor though. He was trying to say "Today I am a Berliner" > and got the word for umbrella all mixed up in there somehow, that's the myth > anyway :) Not umbrella, but jelly doughnut (or "donut" if you prefer.) This is a bit of an urban legend, and has been discussed, appropriately enough, at: http://www.urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/weekly/aa021700a.htm B "Berlin is calling me names" C ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #64 **************************