From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V2 #39 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, November 19 1998 Volume 02 : Number 039 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Misheard Lyric Revisited [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide] Re: [Re: A distinct Lack of Degrees] [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Lues] Re: Fruvous on the Brain [Chad Schrock ] Re: Comp Sci [ctyner@my-dejanews.com (Adam Tyner)] Re: The Daves i know.. ["Bridget" ] Re: The Daves i know.. ["Bridget" ] Re: Comp Sci [nicole.the.wonder.nerd.is@ana.ng.at.tmbg.org (Nicole the Wo] re:[A Distinct Lack of Degrees] [Srm9988n@aol.com] Dante & Lori & Arbie & the Drinking Song [Srm9988n@aol.com] Church of Fruvous/Satan's spawn [Srm9988n@aol.com] (off topic) What if Dr. Seuss Wrote Technical Manuals? [christi218@aol.co] Re: .....clinton countdown..... ["KatieWow" ] Re: more random fan-crossings . . . [Chad Schrock ] Re: A Chatty Bunch ["KatieWow" ] Re: A Distinct Lack of Degrees [Chad Schrock ] Re: Newspaper review of Friday Noho show [vika@ibm.net (Vika Zafrin)] Re: .....clinton countdown..... [Chad Schrock ] Re: Fruvous moment [christi218@aol.com (Christi218)] Re: (off topic) What if Dr. Seuss Wrote Technical Manuals? ["Bridget" ] Re: what a bunch of smarties!!! [Chad Schrock ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 20:19:16 -0700 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) Subject: Re: Misheard Lyric Revisited In article <36539949.8BFDAF5D@usa.net>, spideythefun-licker@usa.net says... > And, this isn't really misheard, but on Message, I always expect to hear "it's > only her love that keeps me wearing this skirt." I guess just because it > rhymes better. Oh, thank goodness. I'm not the only one. k@ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 20:25:18 -0700 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) Subject: Re: [Re: A distinct Lack of Degrees] In article <36536C8C.3408@pilot.msu.edu>, woosterc@pilot.msu.edu says... > I think we fruheads should all sign up at www.sixdegrees.com and see > just how far we can take this :) I signed up with them a year or two ago, and the only "connection" I've ever gotten out of it was someone who went to my high school many years after I did (I don't know the person at all). My ex-boyfriend (the RWS) signed himself up on Sixdegrees and tried to add me as an acquaintance, but he misspelled my name. k@ He's only known me for 13 years... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:09:27 -0500 From: Chad Schrock Subject: Re: Fruvous on the Brain McCown wrote: > > This happens to me too!!! In fact, one day I started singing > lines of songs when one of my friends would make a comment, While not singing, I was just minding my own business and walking down a hall in the office building I work in when all of the sudden I started seeing Früvous everywhere! A guy pulling a big cart that the snack people use: had this shirt on that would have ranked at least an 11 on the Murr-O-Meter. (Synthetic, garish colours, *VERY* odd pattern.) Then, just as I was laughing to myself over this, I look up and see this lady walking towards me with hair *exactly* like Jian's. (Curl, colouring, and length.) The guys must be taking the psyhic projection thing to new heights! > refuted...). My mom is an English teacher and she is always > listening to Fruvous songs and going "oooh, that was one of > our vocabulary words this week..." I just realized that maybe > they should make Fruvous cirriculum for schools (Entropy, YWGTTM, > Laika, Photosynthesis, River Valley for science; MBLABOA for Plust those science videos that they did a couple of years ago... > English; KoS, the Kids' Song, Michigan Militia for Social > Studies; PTT for philosophy...there must be tons more, but I > should be doing other things instead of thinking about this-- > although this is decidedly more fun). That would be *so* sool. We don't need phonics! We need Früvous in the schools! - -- chad at radix dot net "Well just let me remind you that the cubicle is a coffin with e-mail." --Mike Ford, Moxy Fruvous ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 03:08:30 GMT From: ctyner@my-dejanews.com (Adam Tyner) Subject: Re: Comp Sci I'm a CS major...junior at Clemson University. :-) - -Adam On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 01:21:11 GMT, caroline wrote: > >That would have to include me - took it in high school and am now taking it >in college, although since I was taught Pascal and my college (and any >business that would hire me) uses C or C++, I have to take the intro course >again. Which I don't mind all that much because it means I have at least >*one* easy course this semester... ;) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 20:32:20 -0700 From: "Bridget" Subject: Re: The Daves i know.. Josh Drury wrote in message <36532FB9.4359@cc.umanitoba.ca>... :No, I haven't heard Why Does the Sun Shine yet, actually,... Debating on :whether I should buy "Severe Tire Damage" now, or ask for it for Xmas. :Comments? : :Josh Drury :Winnipeg i LIKE 'severe tire damage'. 'why does the sun shine?' is pretty typical tmbg........ catchy/humorous lyrics. but hey, josh, christmas IS just around the corner...... (ACK!!!) over 'n' out xoxoxo bridget (o: 'He who laughs last didn't get it..........' http://www.tapetrading.com/lists/b/n/bnl_gordon@msn.com.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 20:33:56 -0700 From: "Bridget" Subject: Re: The Daves i know.. Tyler Ward wrote in message <01be133a$d3c6bac0$e0972dc7@tyler>... : :No, I haven't heard Why Does the Sun Shine yet, actually,... Debating on :>whether I should buy "Severe Tire Damage" now, or ask for it for Xmas. :>Comments? : : :I like the album a lot, but it is mostly rehashes on old songs. very cool, :and some really neat stuff you won't get anywhere else, but waiting to get :it as a gift would be the way I would go. : :Tyler Ward :Denver : except that i get SO SICK of that 'planet of the apes'......... HI TYLER!!! over 'n' out xoxoxo bridget (o: 'He who laughs last didn't get it..........' http://www.tapetrading.com/lists/b/n/bnl_gordon@msn.com.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 03:37:00 GMT From: nicole.the.wonder.nerd.is@ana.ng.at.tmbg.org (Nicole the Wonder Nerd) Subject: Re: Comp Sci On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 01:21:11 GMT, the sky opened up and caroline spake thusly: >>Anyone else here study Comp Sci? Me!!! Hurrah for computer science majors! (How odd that all the CS students that have answered so far have been women. (At least, the ones my newsfeed has picked up as of now.) Talk about a reversal of real life.) - --nicole the wonder nerd who is actually a "Computer Science and Engineering" major, and not technically "Computer Science". - -- "When your dream comes true, you're out one dream."--The Nields Visit Nicolopolis! http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~carlsonn Reply-to address is modified to escape the spammers... sorry for the inconvenience. spam trap: postmaster@localhost admin@localhost abuse@localhost root@localhost ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 03:55:57 GMT From: Srm9988n@aol.com Subject: re:[A Distinct Lack of Degrees] Melanie protests: > You been holdin' out on us? I didn't know you were "expecting" >either. Congrats and all that. Well, since I never met *any* of you until last Wednesday, it seemed kinda strange to blab ... and we can't, like, announce a due date or anything, since as far as we know this hypothetical child has not yet been conceived.... It's a very strange process emotionally, because I know I can give a home to a child who needs one, but it will be at the cost of his/her mother's life is being turned absolutely upside down sometime in the near future, in a way I would wish on no one. Somehow it seems to me that you guys will understand that conflict more than a lot of people who just spout happy platitudes without thinking of the other side of the equation. >I think you should name him/her Moxy. It's one of those trans-gender >names don't you think? I *don't* think! :) But my grandfather's name *was* Larry.... >But how are you going to explain that your last name is >9988n? It's not. that's the secret keystroke for the umlaut, on the computer I haven't bought yet.... >Can you sing Murray's parts better with a sore throat? No. But at least now I'm able to sing. :) - -- Lori "then a flashback to the dream and angels singing songs" "When I am dreaming, I don't know if I'm truly asleep or if I'm awake And when I get up, I don't know if I'm truly awake, or if I'm still dreaming" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:22:08 GMT From: Srm9988n@aol.com Subject: Dante & Lori & Arbie & the Drinking Song Arbie brought up this thread from several weeks ago, and said: >I printed it out and gave it to my 15yr >old son. He lives with his mom and sometimes it's hard to find ways to >bring these kinds of topics into the short time we have together. >Thank-you. Hey, you're welcome, Arbie. If it helped me, I figured other parents might find it useful too, and any time I can do more than simply stir up silliness around here, I'm grateful. :) The Lads are the ones who really deserve our thanks here. - -- Lori ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:09:06 GMT From: Srm9988n@aol.com Subject: Church of Fruvous/Satan's spawn KatieWow (soon to be renamed!) said: >"they sing like angels and curse like demons." it was from the baltimore >show :). No, though this one sounds pretty good too. I've been told Murray said it. At Wilmington Mike was referring to them being on the altar, and said something about angelic singing with demonic lyrics. No cursing involved. If my brain weren't such a sieve... okay, I probably wouldn't be as entertaining. - -- Lori "then a flashback to the dream and angels singing songs" "When I am dreaming, I don't know if I'm truly asleep or if I'm awake And when I get up, I don't know if I'm truly awake, or if I'm still dreaming" ------------------------------ Date: 19 Nov 1998 04:27:05 GMT From: christi218@aol.com (Christi218) Subject: (off topic) What if Dr. Seuss Wrote Technical Manuals? *looks up* I just realized what I typed and thought to myself "Um...everything seems to be 'off topic' here lately -- why did I type that?" *g* well anyway...my friend just sent this to me...and I thought that everyone would find this amusing -- since we are all geeks who love Dr. Seuss. ;-) Christine - --Chrissy_K on irc - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What if Dr Seuss Wrote Technical Manuals? If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report! If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, And the double-clicking icons put your window in the flash, And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash! If the label on your cable on the gable at your house, Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, But your packets want to tunnel to another protocol, That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse, Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang! When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk, And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary RISC, Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM, Quickly turn off your computer and be sure to tell your mom!! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:36:55 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: .....clinton countdown..... i live in baltimore. it's a good 8-10 hours. ~~kate ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:32:17 -0500 From: Chad Schrock Subject: Re: more random fan-crossings . . . petit_chou@juno.com wrote: > > Both my brother and myself are Toad lovers. (Heather raises > one hand for herself and another for her brother.) Then how are you typing? I like Toad, too. They are cool. Not cool like you know who, but still pretty cool. /raises my.......... HAND!!!!! get yer mind outta the gutter! ;) - -- chad at radix dot net "Well just let me remind you that the cubicle is a coffin with e-mail." --Mike Ford, Moxy Fruvous ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:49:52 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: A Chatty Bunch >They *are* megastars. But not in the American sense. That would >be insane! my bad :). >> BTW--has anyone seen that aiwa commerical where the guy is >> listening to "another one bites the dust" while driving a >> hearse? it's a _scream_. >Nope. It sounds hysterical, though. i think it might surpass both the denny's commerical with the disco chicken and the motorola commercial with the guy dancing to "play that funky music white boy" in the middle of the desert next to his broken down car. ~~kate ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:57:09 -0500 From: Chad Schrock Subject: Re: A Distinct Lack of Degrees Paul Mischler wrote: - -snip- > Oh yeah, you're Comp Sci! (It's obvious!) > > Anyone else here study Comp Sci? > > *** I raise my hand *** Comp Sci *AND* UNIX (Solaris & DEC & Linux) admin. Frücontent: I stuck the YWGTTM sticker on my monitor. It looks *really* cool there. - -- chad at radix dot net "Well just let me remind you that the cubicle is a coffin with e-mail." --Mike Ford, Moxy Fruvous ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:51:27 GMT From: vika@ibm.net (Vika Zafrin) Subject: Re: Newspaper review of Friday Noho show "Adam Hartfield" delighted us with: >Jess Klein, a diminutive blonde Ani DiFranco clone, opened the show and won >the audience's heart with her powerful Ani-voice and Ani-attitude. Ouch. OUCH. MHO -- she's no clone. She's got a style of her own. As much as I respect Ani. Too bad the reviewer didn't see it that way. Vika Zafrin vika@ibm.net Vika_Zafrin@Brown.edu "Lover holds you when others go, covers you with another soul, stands behind you when you stand alone and you don't explain..." -Patty Larkin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:35:08 -0500 From: Chad Schrock Subject: Re: .....clinton countdown..... Aye, who's asking whom? wrote: > > +AFs-The following is a promo from the Mohawk Valley Fruvous > Society, reminding you to submit to the will of the Clinton > shows and call the Kirkland Arts Center during business hours > at 315.859.8871 for tickets before any pangs of regret set in. Where is this place and how close is it to Baltimore???? I can't deal with any pangs right now.... > A note to you: join us+ACE- See Fruvous+ACE- Hear Jess Klein > too+ACE- See the Northampton of the Utica area+ACE- Oh, and the countdown is fair game. :) Torment all you want. I'll count some more. ;) - -- chad at radix dot net "Well just let me remind you that the cubicle is a coffin with e-mail." --Mike Ford, Moxy Fruvous ------------------------------ Date: 19 Nov 1998 04:51:23 GMT From: christi218@aol.com (Christi218) Subject: Re: Fruvous moment jennifer@mail.durham.net (Jennifer Burnett) wrote: *snip* > Can any Buffalo native tell me where > I can find a coffee on Sunday > morning? My friend would love you > forever. Well, I'm not sure if this is open on a Sunday morning...I mean....is anything open in Buffalo on the weekends -- during the day? ;-) Spot Coffee on the corner of Chippewa and Delaware. Nice hangout before *and* after a Fruvous show. Right Michelle and Jen? =) mmmmm.......steamers.........and homemade chocolate chip cookies.............mmmmmm Christine. - --Chrissy_K on irc *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Christi218@aol.com & bh108@freenet.buffalo.edu - --Diet soda? - --No thanks. FREAKED!!!!!!!!!! - --Fiddle Faddle? Elijah to Ricky - --Alright.....delicious. 1993 *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:34:58 -0700 From: "Bridget" Subject: Re: (off topic) What if Dr. Seuss Wrote Technical Manuals? Christi218 wrote in message <19981118232705.14766.00003247@ng39.aol.com>... :since we are all geeks who love Dr. Seuss. ;-) : i beg to differ........... i am a doink. (albeit a doink who ADORES dr. seuss...) ''í want to raise my geek flag higher and higher and i want to raise my geek flag and never be alone never be alonë'' over 'n' out xoxoxo bridget (o: 'He who laughs last didn't get it..........' http://www.tapetrading.com/lists/b/n/bnl_gordon@msn.com.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:49:04 -0500 From: Chad Schrock Subject: Re: A Chatty Bunch KatieWow wrote: > > i'm just thanking god that they're real posts. i've just about > given up on the BNL newsgroup; it's become flooded with posts > from people just wanting to stir up trouble by calling them > "crappy, wannabe rock-stars." at least one benefit of the > frülads not being megastars They *are* megastars. But not in the American sense. That would be insane! > is that we can discuss them without that junk. > BTW--has anyone seen that aiwa commerical where the guy is > listening to "another one bites the dust" while driving a > hearse? it's a _scream_. Nope. It sounds hysterical, though. Oh, speaking of commercials, I saw the UPS one with the black dress and all that. The designer looks an *awful* lot like Dave... > Lynne Fisher wrote in message ... > >Is everyone else having trouble keeping up with the number > >of posts here? Nah. Well, unless I don't read every night. Oh, Lori, only 61 left. > >*faint* > >The guys need to have more an more and more concerts to > >get us all out more, then we can assign one reviewer... This is a good thing! > >-lynne > >what can I say, Im tasky So, that makes you a Früminatrix? sort of? - -- chad at radix dot net "Well just let me remind you that the cubicle is a coffin with e-mail." --Mike Ford, Moxy Fruvous ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:45:25 -0500 From: Chad Schrock Subject: Re: what a bunch of smarties!!! Richard Butterworth wrote: > Josh Drury wrote: > > > Actually I did hear that King George the uh, 5th? ( I dunno, > > the last King George before Liz the second) had to change his > > name from Albert because of Queen Victoria's wishes than no > > King of England could be named Albert. > > Sounds probable. A lot of English Kings and Queens had birth > names and different `official title' names. They also have about 18 names anyway, right? > Several names are verboten; notably John and Richard, because > John and Richard III were deemed to be crap kings. John let > the side down by being voiced by Peter Eustinov in the Disney > film, and Richard III spent all his time with a pillow shoved > up the back of his tunic and walked funny. What sort of example > is that to your subjects? Plus, there was that whole 'revolting' incident in the colonies over here. I can't imagine that going down too well. > King William II's birth name was MC Rap Funkadelic, so that > had to change, King Edward II was known as Susan privately > and Henry VIII was always refered to as You Fat Lecherous > Bastard at Hampton Court. > > Its all true I tell you. It explains why the bridge crossing the Thames there is so wide. > Tinkerty tonk > Richard - -- chad at radix dot net "Well just let me remind you that the cubicle is a coffin with e-mail." --Mike Ford, Moxy Fruvous ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V2 #39 *******************************************