From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #295 Reply-To: ammf@smoe.org Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, August 14 1998 Volume 01 : Number 295 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Books for Frutripping? [ourhamster@aol.com (OurHamster)] Re: Return to the Danforth? [ourhamster@aol.com (OurHamster)] Re: IRC chat night... [ourhamster@aol.com (OurHamster)] SneakPeek summary for alt.music.moxy-fruvous for 8/14/1998 [sneakpeek@tal] Re: Fruvous License Plates [Loren Becker ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 14 Aug 1998 04:14:55 GMT From: ourhamster@aol.com (OurHamster) Subject: Re: Books for Frutripping? >Yes - please don't read while driving!! > >-Zard One of my ex-GFs lived in Indiana and went to college in South Carolina. She would read whole books on her drives! One more thing to add to the "List of Things I'll Never Do" - --Novac "There are two rules for success in life: 1) Don't tell everything you know;" -- Tom Magliozzi ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 1998 04:23:16 GMT From: ourhamster@aol.com (OurHamster) Subject: Re: Return to the Danforth? >Cam you little twerp! I swear you are the most anti-social Fruhead I know. >It's going to be my mission at FruConII to hunt you down and put a face to >the name. No, Cam is "unsocial"...I couldn't find him, not according to his self-description... I prefer to be considered "anti-social", though I only am at certain times, really... - --Novac "There are two rules for success in life: 1) Don't tell everything you know;" -- Tom Magliozzi ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 1998 04:19:34 GMT From: ourhamster@aol.com (OurHamster) Subject: Re: IRC chat night... >Well, people are around a lot actually. There are around 15 people at peaks >on non-Wednesdays now which is cool. Really, there are enough people on so that we don't need to "set up" a specific night & time...just come on in during the evenings and there should be people around. Now, if there were only one or two people EVERY night, *then* we'd need to set something up... >You'll find people use lotsa >servers. AOL people are on washington.dc.us.undernet.org, so sometimes >if there's predominantly AOL people on, it's fastest there. I usually >use newyork.ny.undernet.org myself... Umm...I use NY, but I usually connect via "Random Undernet server"... - --Novac "There are two rules for success in life: 1) Don't tell everything you know;" -- Tom Magliozzi ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:44:00 GMT From: sneakpeek@talkway.com Subject: SneakPeek summary for alt.music.moxy-fruvous for 8/14/1998 This message summarizes the most popular threads in this newsgroup. ________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: Re: Halloween Lodging *** Loren Becker: ... i may too be in search of somewhere to crash though i shoud have an easy time coming up with it. see _that_ would have been an advantage to going to smith... but the real point of this post was that the days inn, which is easy walking distance from both the bus stop, if that is your preferred mode of ... *** DALevy: ... Perhaps their renovation is now complete, but last december, the Days Inn was considerably more expensive and less pleasant than a really nice motor lodge down the street (where the lower room rate also included local phone calls, ... *** Gorbitron: ... Don't know if Zard can, but I can tell you it is the Northampton Inn (not to be confused with Hotel Northampton) Gordon, whose search for a house has been more difficult than he imagined it ... ________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: Re: Fruvous License Plates *** ZardSnod: ... I just thought of a way to get around that, if your state allows 8 letters (do any?). You could do "FRUEVOUS", which is actually the correct way to reflect an umlaut (adding an "e" after the vowel), if you can't write the umlaut. ... *** OurHamster: ... Well, I don't know if that'd be *more* accurate...*cough* Or, you could get "ALT0252" because that's how you type one on the puter. *** Jason A. Reiser: ... /me coughs and clears his throat That should be ALT0220 for a proper *capital* letter. Sorry, I couldn't help myself. ... ________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: Books for Frutripping? *** aeves: I was thinking about this the other night during an IRC discussion about the upcoming shows in Northampton. ... *** Aditu525: ... Aahhhhh. A person after my own heart!!! To this i must add Tad Wiiliams (his Memeory, Sorrow, Thorn trilogy is my all time fav!!), Terry Goodkind, Anne Logston, Anne McAffrey, Brian Jaques, and Mercades Lackey. Robert Jordans's ... *** OurHamster: ... Truly, all you reall need. ... My senior year of high school, I had the lead in Witness For the Prosecution This last trip, I had a book of Ogden Nash's poetry, a book on ethics, one of ________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: IRC chat night... *** ZardSnod: Back when #moxyfruvous Chat was young (in the days when they were filming "Quest for Fire"), we had a specified time and day of the week when folks would really try to show up, if they were only going to show up every now and then. ... *** Starfox: ... 8pm Eastern time I'm assuming. :) Also, can anyone point me to a good Undernet server that carries the irc channel? Danke. Starfox "But someone has my nick on irc, dagnabit! :)" *** Chad Maloney: ... Well, people are around a lot actually. There are around 15 people at peaks on non-Wednesdays now which is cool. But yeah, eastern time. And all undernet servers should have #MoxyFruvous. You'll find people use lotsa ... ________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: Frequently Asked Questions (version 3, 8/13/98) *** Colleen Campbell: Okee, guys. Here it is, the long-promised, brand-spanking-new FAQ. Please keep in mind that this is the product of one person's labor and therefore one person's opinions, biases, errors, and omissions (as *** Geenius at Wrok: ... Well, I HOPE this doesn't constitute prying ... but I've wondered from time to time whether the band actually knew someone who died of alcohol poisoning. Last show I went to, when they performed "Drinking Song," Jian *** Dot0926: ... i always thought that jian was the author of the drinking song, (untill ceecee's updated faq's showed me the light, thanks cee!), because he sings it with such clear cut emotion ( aka, looks like he's about to cry). i dont know ... ________________________________________________________________________ Talkway, Inc. http://www.talkway.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:32:24 GMT From: Loren Becker Subject: Re: Fruvous License Plates OurHamster wrote: > We all realize that you'd have to use a lowercase ü in order to have it fit on > a plate. > > (That's the best defense I could come up with?) Ah, but we also all realize the there are no lower case letters on license plates, right? loren. Sorry, I just had to throw that in there... ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #295 ********************************************