From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #126 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 Saturday, May 19 2001 Volume 06 : Number 126 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Try this if you have Microsoft Word............ ["Tim Hudson" ] Alloy: Happy Victoria Day (OT) ["Ian Gifford" ] Re: Alloy: Hoopy Froods (was Thong Morning Doldrums Robots) [Slarvibarglh] Re: Alloy: Thong Morning Doldrums Robots [Russell Milliner ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 08:18:20 +0000 From: "Tim Hudson" Subject: Alloy: Try this if you have Microsoft Word............ Greetings, Something silly for you to try.. If you type the words Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson in Microsoft Word. Ok you can tell this is going to be really silly already. And select each word in turn, with the cursor and then press the shift button down And then press the F7 button down at the same time as the shift button - - to get the thesuarus You'll be amazed..! .and nearly as bored as I am I got " Thong Morning Doldrums Robot" At least now I know what TMDR really stands for ! Meanwhile Robin Thurlow comes out as "Robot Thus" while Lissu is " List" and Paul Bailey is "Paunch Bait". "She Blinded me with science" comes out as 'Shear sightless by body of knowledge' I expect the Microsoft Thesauraus file is the same all over but I would be interested to see if there are any regional variations! Rather chillingly I looked up one of my favourate tracks and found the Thesaurus interpreted it thus: I love you Goodbye = ( Ice commitment young good-bye). Maybe there are some other strange 'Thesaurussed' titles too? I know this doesn't bring much of quality to the list its just a bit of fun. Tim Hudson (Timber Hue) - -- Tim Hudson tim_hudson@zdnetonebox.com - email ___________________________________________________________________ To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 20:43:33 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Alloy: Thong Morning Doldrums Robots LOL! Thanks Tim, just about spat my drink all over my PowerBook (do you have /any/ idea what it feels like to choke Jack Daniels & coke out through your nostrils!? Aw hell, you're a hoopy frood* you'd know. ;-) Even though I'm an IT Manager in a mainly Windows-inflicted company (biggotted? Moi??) I thankfully have the luxury of being mainly Microsoft product free, yet despite common doctrine, still quite happily doing all the computer stuff I need/want to and able to read & write Microsoft formatted documents on a Mac. (concession for other IT folk in our audience, don't get me wrong, each to their own'n'all. I have a fairly decent respect for NT 4 workstation & server, though my home is Mac only. Just don't get me started on 2000... ;-) That said, I wandered over to the nearest PC at work and tried these. People looked at me strangely when I was chortling & giggling away. Maybe MicroSerfs are not quite the Borg drones I thought they were. ;-) Reminds me of a version of Office where you could look up childcare in the thesaurus and it would come back with one answer: kidnapping. I'm sure the serfs responsible for that easter egg were promptly reassimilated... cheers, Paunch. (what am I, an /CHiPs/ character?!) [delivered by Microsoft Entourage, a component of Microsoft Office 2001:Mac - - okay, so the Macintosh Business Unit of Microsoft kicks ass - credit where credit's due...but they're still Mac industry people capable of independent thought, they can be saved and put to good use in a free company! :-)] This message powered by Ice Commitment Young Good-bye/Thong Doldrums off (no synonyms) and Contrary To Accepted Belief. "Akin to at what time we shawl a Datsun" * - Douglas Adams, good sir, God bless, thank you for expanding our minds, giving us all a hearty laugh, teaching us to not take ourselves, life, the universe and everything, too seriously. May you be remembered fondly, appreciated, and gleefully [re]discovered anew by many for many years to come. This mere fan hopes and believes you will. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:02:29 -0400 From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" Subject: Re: Alloy: Professor Thinky - ----- Original Message ----- > So did they show the finished shampoo commercial at the end of the episode, > or were you left to imagine it? Yeah it was at the end of the episode. Originally that other rock star Gator was supposed to do the commercial but after they cleaned up his image (removed wig and make-up and discovered he was just a balding middle-aged guy with a beer-gut) they realized that he wouldn't work for the commercial. So they brought in Thomas as "Professor Thinky" to explain in the commercial how shampoo cleans your hair. At the end the manager guy asks "What about your 'scientific integrity'?" And Thomas scoffs at him and says something like "Hey, it was two million dollars." Of course now that we know Thomas's price the Alloy Question Of The Day is... "What would you pay Thomas 2 million dollars to do for/to you?" Oh and there was a line at the end where the "airhead" his manager assigned to Thomas as a sidekick said to the manager "You know he's not all that good looking." The manager said something like "He's smart. When you've got brains you don't have to be good looking." And the "airhead" replied with pride, "Well, I wouldn't know anything about that." I knew that Robin would get into a knock-down drag-out cat-fight with the "airhead" for besmirching Thomas's "boyish good looks". And I knew that I would want to be there... watching with a video-camera. Crackers (Nothing says "SPROING!" like a cat-fight from hell!!!!!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:08:58 -0400 From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" Subject: Re: Alloy: Try this if you have Microsoft Word............ - ----- Original Message ----- > I got " Thong Morning Doldrums Robot" You know... "Doldrum's Robot" would make a killer band name. Now I wish the surviving members of "I Love My Shih'Tzu" hadn't already chosen a new band name (which is "Big Fake Heart Attack" btw). Yes, Shih'Tzu is gone... saddly, between babies, careers, and the curse of Yoko Ono the poor little Shih'Tzu didn't stand a chance. Crackers (euthenised for your protection from hell!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:39:12 -0400 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: Professor Thinky crackers wrote: > So they brought in Thomas as "Professor Thinky" to explain in the commercial > how shampoo cleans your hair. I'd love to see this. Thomas is brilliant at doing commercials, he also did a beautiful one in "Rockula" advertizing Stanley's Death Park. That can always get me to laugh, even on the worst possible day. Maybe we can ask the Big Sound site to feature the shampoo commercial by itself, as a downloadable file! > Of course now that we know Thomas's price the Alloy Question Of The Day > is... > > "What would you pay Thomas 2 million dollars to do for/to you?" Or in my case, what would I pay Thomas 2 million dollars to just relax for a few hours, and let me do for him? I have a distinct feeling he'd have me dust all the wires in his studio or something similar... just to keep me distracted :) My brocade corset and net skirts would get all dusty... but if he *really* wanted me to do it... hey, anything for Thomas. > I knew that Robin would get into a knock-down drag-out cat-fight with the > "airhead" for besmirching Thomas's "boyish good looks". A little light fencing might be more my style. The kid glove & "I challenge you to a duel!" thing... you know. Though it wouldn't look as good in a vat of chocolate pudding, probably? heeeheeeheee. xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:59:03 -0400 From: "Ian Gifford" Subject: Alloy: Happy Victoria Day (OT) Hi all... In Canada (and maybe the UK??) we celebrate the Birthday of Queen Victoria. Most people don't seem to know why or care why I guess and so it's generally known as the "May Two-Four" weekend. SO HAPPY MAY 2 4 to all. I will be going away to Hamilton tonight and most likely meet with Crackers in the early afternoon on Saturday. I am excited as hell I found a space to put my tunes for the play so anyone interested may check out the mixes that I have finished so far at http://ca.briefcase.yahoo.com/folkie4 Cracker's contribution is not quite done yet so I will post that later when it is up at the site. Be well and enjoy the weekend all. Peace, Ian _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 00:03:03 +0100 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: Hoopy Froods (was Thong Morning Doldrums Robots) Paul Baily wrote: > LOL! > > Thanks Tim, just about spat my drink all over my PowerBook (do you have > /any/ idea what it feels like to choke Jack Daniels & coke out through your > nostrils!? Aw hell, you're a hoopy frood* you'd know. ;-) > [snipped] > * - Douglas Adams, good sir, God bless, thank you for expanding our minds, > giving us all a hearty laugh, teaching us to not take ourselves, life, the > universe and everything, too seriously. May you be remembered fondly, > appreciated, and gleefully [re]discovered anew by many for many years to > come. This mere fan hopes and believes you will. My friends, In the midst of the bad news, there is good. Douglas will live forever through The Guide. Yes, it EXISTS. I, too, was shocked to hear of Douglas' death, and decided to have a look at his old website at The Digital Village, which I hadn't visited for yonks. Well, it turned out that it's closed down ... but there was a pointer to another site and this one is the genuine HitchHiker's Guide To The Galaxy. It seems that this was an idea before its time (as anyone who really knows where their towel is could have told you) and the BBC have decided that now we're in the age of the internet there's no reason why there shouldn't be a real HHGTTG. Although hosted by the Beeb, it's run by Guide Researchers i.e. anyone with internet access who wants to sign up and submit something an item. There appear to be thousands of Researchers already (though most seem to be from, and reporting on, The Earth) and anyone can sign up. I did a couple of days ago and have already posted a couple of items. You'll find my entries under my Researcher alias, which is Slarvibarglhee, of course. If you'd like to participate, or just browse The Guide, please visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/ Slarv This contribution powered by Ashlandi Bol from Ozric Tentacles' 'Hidden Step.' ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:11:44 -0400 From: Russell Milliner Subject: Re: Alloy: Thong Morning Doldrums Robots This fun with the MS Thesaurus made me remember of the many name generators on the net. Like White Trash Name Generator http://www.dailyradar.com/features/directhit_feature_page_2028_1.html Russell Milliner -> Stonewall-Bob Ray Hobbs Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson -> Stinky-Bobby Wayne Jackson Porn Star Name Generator http://members.tripod.com/~Carter_Phillips/name.html Russell Milliner -> Wee Willy Peters Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson -> Bobby Vegas So what's your name? - -Russ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 22:58:27 -0400 From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" Subject: Re: Alloy: Thong Morning Doldrums Robots - ----- Original Message ----- > Porn Star Name Generator > Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson -> Bobby Vegas Bobby Vegas... I used to play Piano Lounge under that name. Crackers (And here's a little something for the ladies from hell!!) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 14:59:56 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Re: Alloy: Thong Morning Doldrums Robots Too cool Russell! > Like White Trash Name Generator > http://www.dailyradar.com/features/directhit_feature_page_2028_1.html > Russell Milliner -> Stonewall-Bob Ray Hobbs > Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson -> Stinky-Bobby Wayne Jackson Paul Baily -> Big-Joe Junior Culp or if I try it with the spelling everybody else thinks I should be using, I get... Paul Bailey -> Big-Otis Joe Bob Culp Either way it's telling me I need to lose weight... > Porn Star Name Generator > http://members.tripod.com/~Carter_Phillips/name.html > Russell Milliner -> Wee Willy Peters > Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson -> Bobby Vegas Paul Baily -> Manley Sparks Hey that sounds mighty familiar, have we hit this page before?? P. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 15:03:37 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Alloy: [OT] Thunderbirds Since I'm a bit of an insomniac these days, I find myself wandering about the apartment and occasionally firing up the TV to see what's on at obscure timeslots. Usually it's just evangelists and home shopping (to our US-based friends, hey look I know we inflicted Neighbours and Home and Away on the rest of the world, but couldn't you have kept these two 'treasures' within your fair country!? :-) Anyways, today at 6am I flicked through the channels and found that one of the commercial channels is re-running the entire Thunderbirds series (woohoo!) For some obscure reason after watching the episode (and marvelling at what a great effort it was for, what, 1964?), I started thinking of what scenes might have ended up on the cutting room floor... [warning, PG 13, and may contain unintentional subconscious plagiarism: I could have read something like this in the years past but honestly don't remember.] Scene: Tin-Tin and Alan Tracy bedroom liason ALAN: Tin-Tin! You're so...you're so... TIN-TIN: They're all plastic, and they're all mine baby. - ------ Scene: Outside Mr. Parker's bedroom door PARKER: I'm sorry m'lady, I don't think I can do this with no strings attached... - ------- Scene: Somewhere on International Rescue island. SCOTT: You've been drinking again, haven't you Brains! Dad isn't going to like that. BRAINS: F.A.R.K. Mister Tracy... - -------- I know. I need therapy. Paul. This message powered by Gorecki (Instrumental Mix)/Lamb. " " ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #126 ***************************