From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #274 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 Friday, October 19 2001 Volume 06 : Number 274 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: OT : Can you belive this? [Slarvibarglhee ] Re: Alloy: TMDR pic on eBay ["Keith Stansell" ] Re: Alloy: TMDR pic on eBay [Robyn Moore ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:36:43 +0100 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Alloy: OT : Can you belive this? I came across this on Ananova. If it wasn't attributed to Reuters I wouldn't believe it. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/011011/80/c8uuu.html Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:53:36 -0600 From: "Beth Meyer" Subject: Re: Alloy: OT : Can you belive this? Hi, Slarv; Yeah, it's true. CNN had an article about it as well. Apparently the Sesame Street producers are pretty outraged, not at all amused, and pursuing legal action (as if the average Bangladeshi cares about that). But I do find it surreal at the least that thousands of chanting anti-American protesters were unknowingly carrying these mass-produced signs with an angry-looking American puppet on it... - -Beth (puppet governments from hell!) Slarvibarglhee wrote: > > I came across this on Ananova. If it wasn't attributed to Reuters I wouldn't > believe it. > > http://uk.news.yahoo.com/011011/80/c8uuu.html > > Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:28:02 -0400 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: OT : Can you belive this? Slarv, thanks for the link!! I've been dying to see this poster ever since I first heard about it. The story I'd heard is that the poster campaign has to do with putting American "evil" things next to bin Laden, in an effort to allude to his vanquishing them somehow. There's another poster showing bin Laden next to a ham (which is considered 'unclean' to eat by the laws of Islam)... I can't remember the other one but it was a similarly bizarre juxtaposition. The "Bert" poster apparently came about when the poster designers were surfing the net & found one of those "Bert is Evil" sites. Perhaps not knowing it was meant to be comedic (though many of us have always had our suspicions! LOL) , they picked Bert's image to put on the poster with bin Laden as a symbol of his vanquishing yet another evil American influence. I nearly fell over laughing when I first heard about it. The resemblance factor alone..!! I still love Bert anyway though - bless his evil little soul. xxxxxx Robin T Slarvibarglhee wrote: > I came across this on Ananova. If it wasn't attributed to Reuters I wouldn't > believe it. > > http://uk.news.yahoo.com/011011/80/c8uuu.html > > Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:27:21 -0400 From: Russell Milliner Subject: Alloy: TMDR pic on eBay Has anyone seen the picture on sale on eBay. And can anyone confirm that TMDR did this on the Hyperactive tour? http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1474748650 The seller describes it below: From Thomas Dolby's 1984 Hyperactive Tour in a performance in Dallas at the Bronco Bowl. Printed from the original negative. Near mint condition. - -Russell Milliner http://www.pobox.com/~milliner ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:47:13 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: TMDR pic on eBay I'm not sure about this. It looks like Booji Boy from DEVO (scroll down on linked page to see) http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/8539/whoswho.html Either someone is confused, or Thomas was wearing Devo's stuff. - -Keith - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Milliner" To: "Alloy" Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 8:27 PM Subject: Alloy: TMDR pic on eBay > > Has anyone seen the picture on sale on eBay. And can anyone confirm > that TMDR did this on the Hyperactive tour? > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1474748650 > > The seller describes it below: > From Thomas Dolby's 1984 Hyperactive Tour in a performance in Dallas at > the Bronco Bowl. Printed from the original negative. Near mint > condition. > > -Russell Milliner > http://www.pobox.com/~milliner ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:12:38 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: TMDR pic on eBay At 20:47 2001.10.18, you appeared to say: >I'm not sure about this. It looks like Booji Boy from DEVO (scroll down on >linked page to see) > > http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/8539/whoswho.html > >Either someone is confused, or Thomas was wearing Devo's stuff. I'm with you on this one - when I first looked at that pic, I thought it was awfully DEVO-esque. I'd need confirmation from a known and trusted source before I'd wholeheartedly believe it was Thomas. Robyn M @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.wiccans.net/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #274 ***************************