TMBG collides with another orb of coolness...
Superfly
Joshua Nite wrote >
>"That was They Might Be Giants, with "The Nightgown of the Sullen
>Moon."
This is VERY cool. I am going to make sure when I start writing again I'm
going to include TMBG in my stuff so that when I get published some little
geek will be sitting there listening to their Giants and reading whatever it
is I've written and they will freak out and tell their friends and post it
on a.m.tmbg, and I'll see it and know I have fans because I'll still be
lurking here.
REALLY!! I swear. I *am* in fact going to do this, I'm not just being a
smartass...
~~Trisha, who misses Caitlin...
Joshua Nite
I've been reading Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" comic books (Graphic Novels,
sorry), and enjoying them immensely. And when I got to the trade
paperback "A Game of You," I found the following dialog. One of the
characters was listening to the radio...
"That was They Might Be Giants, with "The Nightgown of the Sullen
Moon."
Not only a reference to aTMBG, but a reference to an obscure B-side.
And not only that, but Neil Gaiman uses his powerful imagination to
imagine a world in which TMBG gets played on the radio.
I thought it was pretty damn cool.
JoshuA T.
Christopher M. Stangl
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Joshua Nite wrote:
> Neil Gaiman uses his powerful imagination to
> imagine a world in which TMBG gets played on the radio.
That IS a fantasy world.
> I thought it was pretty damn cool.
Someone's compiling these comic book references to TMBG, I
trust... right? So far we have the creators of "Sandman" and "Tank Girl"
as definite Giants fans...
-Chris Stangl, Jet Girl
Joey Odorisio
>Someone's compiling these comic book references to TMBG, I
>trust... right? So far we have the creators of "Sandman" and "Tank
Girl"
>as definite Giants fans...
Well, in an issue of Impulse last year, Bart had a TMBG poster in
his room, although I would think someone with such a short attention span
as young Mr. Allen to be unable to listened to anything but 2 min. or
less Ramones-style pop-punk songs.
Oh yeah, a famous TMBG comics reference: years ago, in a Peter
David written X-Factor, it began with a song that it said was by the man
on the T-shirt I`m wearing right now, "Weird Al" Yankovic, with a parody
of Particle Man called Multiple Man (who was a member of X-Factor). My
brother has the issue upstairs, but if I remember correctly, the lyrics
were roughly "Multiple
Man, Multiple Man, doing the things a multiple can.."
- JOEY ODORISIO rgj...@prodigy.com
"I`m not scared...I`m outta here."-R.E.M.,Electrolite
Dave Van Domelen
In article <6kk1hc$2c8q$1...@newssvr04-int.news.prodigy.com>,
Joey Odorisio <RGJ...@prodigy.com> wrote:
> Well, in an issue of Impulse last year, Bart had a TMBG poster in
>his room, although I would think someone with such a short attention span
>as young Mr. Allen to be unable to listened to anything but 2 min. or
>less Ramones-style pop-punk songs.
Fingertips is right up Impulse's street, then. Although the pace of
most of the bits is a tad slow. I think he'd like the more rockin' songs,
though, like Birdhouse, Don't Let's Start or the metal version of WDTSS.
Dave Van Domelen, hears TMBG on the radio fairly often, but then again,
it's the station that sponsors Their yearly Newport concert....
Joey Odorisio
>> Well, in an issue of Impulse last year, Bart had a TMBG poster in
>>his room, although I would think someone with such a short attention
span
>>as young Mr. Allen to be unable to listened to anything but 2 min. or
>>less Ramones-style pop-punk songs.
> Fingertips is right up Impulse's street, then. Although the pace
of
>most of the bits is a tad slow. I think he'd like the more rockin'
songs,
>though, like Birdhouse, Don't Let's Start or the metal version of WDTSS.
Heh, I`ll have to find which issue that poster was in.
On a slight tangent, there`s a Ben Folds Five song title referenced
in the newest Sporting News. An item about the Mariners and Orioles, I
believe, was titled "Battle of Who Could Care Less."
Plaguerat2
>>
>>> Neil Gaiman uses his powerful imagination to
>
>Don't forget bestselling author Terry Pratchett...
>
>
these too statements would make my favorite book in the world; good omens by
both above authors jsut about the coolest thing in the entire world.. which it
is.. imagine the hitchhikers guide to armageddon
-flood
now in the 6 disk changer
2 Skinnny J's - Super Mercado
Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in my backyard
The Clash - London Calling
Slackers - Redlight
Civ - Set your goals
Op Ivy - Unreleased Energy
Joey Odorisio
>The complete lyrics are -
>Multiple Man, Multiple Man
>Doin' The Things A Multiple Can
>What's He Like
>It's Not Important
>Multiple Man
>Is A Lot
>Or Is He Alone
>A Super-Clown Or A Super- Clone
>His Own Beginning
>And His Own End
>His Own Best Friend
>Multiple Man
>That was my first issue of X-Factor (issue 73) and I've stuck...
Thank you. I think I own 1 issue of X-Factor, the 30th anniversery
hologram one.
SpiderEyes
>aw, that doesn't take much imagination. :) i hear 'em all the time on the
>radio. saturday night it was "ana ng", last night it was a live version of
>"particle man" from last time They did an interview here.
Where do you live and what station do you listen to? (As I dearly hope
you're in the Northwest, Ohio, or DC area, but I'm sure you'll turn out to
be in NYC or something.)
- SpiderEyes
--------------
It was simply decorated, furnished with things made out of cushions and also
a stereo set with speakers which would have impressed the guys who put up
Stonehenge.
- Douglas Adams
KdsInThHal
> but Neil Gaiman uses his powerful imagination to
>imagine a world in which TMBG gets played on the radio.
aw, that doesn't take much imagination. :) i hear 'em all the time on the
radio. saturday night it was "ana ng", last night it was a live version of
"particle man" from last time They did an interview here.
. . . . . . .
*sarah
linne...@tmbg.org
http://lava.home.ml.org
"Whenever I make a fool out of myself, I always feel better if I can blame it
on the research." ~Ally McBeal
KdsInThHal
> if I remember correctly, the lyrics were roughly "Multiple
>Man, Multiple Man, doing the things a multiple can.."
Well, that *could* be a TMBG parody, but sadly it's more likely to be a
spiderman parody.
I'd never heard the old spiderman theme until after particle man and moxy's
spiderman song. pretty amusing..
Plaguerat2
maybe particle man is just a cheap parody of the ol' spiderman theme song...
spider man spider man... friendly neighborhood spiderman!!
KdsInThHal
>Where do you live and what station do you listen to? (As I dearly hope
>you're in the Northwest, Ohio, or DC area, but I'm sure you'll turn out to
>be in NYC or something.)
Rochester NY. :) and it's 90.5 fm (WBER).. don't be too sad though, if you
really want to listen, you can listen on your computer via realaudio.
http://wber.monroe.edu ..they play a LOT of korn but the last few days when
i've been listening it's been virtually korn free. :) overnight dj's are
usually the best, unless it's just dead air. :{
VoVat
Plaguerat2 wrote:
>maybe particle man is just a cheap parody of the ol' spiderman theme
>song...
>spider man spider man... friendly neighborhood spiderman!!
I'm fairly sure that it REFERENCES the Spider-Man theme. That doesn't mean
that it's "just a cheap parody," though. TMBG songs frequently make references
to other songs. Would you consider "Your Own Worst Enemy" to be a "cheap
parody" of "Precious And Few"? What about "The Guitar"? Is that just a "cheap
parody" of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"? And even if they were parodies (which is
something that I'm not adverse to, mind you), I don't think they are "cheap."
Nathan Mulac DeHoff
Temporarily on AOL, but you can also reach me at:
Dinne...@tmbg.org
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/
"We can't be silent, because they might be giants, and what are we going to do
unless they are?"
Joey Odorisio
>> if I remember correctly, the lyrics were roughly "Multiple
>>Man, Multiple Man, doing the things a multiple can.."
>Well, that *could* be a TMBG parody, but sadly it's more likely to be a
>spiderman parody.
But in the issue, it specifically said, "a parody of They Might Be
Giants` Particle Man."
Joey Odorisio
>now in the 6 disk changer
>2 Skinnny J's - Super Mercado
>Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in my backyard
>The Clash - London Calling
>Slackers - Redlight
>Civ - Set your goals
>Op Ivy - Unreleased Energy
A question: although there are some very cool bands listed there,
do you always have the same CDs in the 6 disk changer? :)
vwto...@yahoo.com
In article <6l191g$2hh8$1...@newssvr04-int.news.prodigy.com>,
I was wondering the same thing about the cds. except I love Big Lizard and if
I had it on cd instead of LP I probably woul'n't change it either.
"Driving down a winding road, stepping on the gas." Dead Milkmen
miked
>
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Plaguerat2
>
> A question: although there are some very cool bands listed there,
>do you always have the same CDs in the 6 disk changer? :)
im not usually home .. so the cd player gets neglected for weeks at a time.. so
yes theyre always the same damn disks
-flood
Joey Odorisio
>> Thank you. I think I own 1 issue of X-Factor, the 30th anniversery
>>hologram one.
>I'm not sure I'm familiar with it, is it seperate or part of the
numbered
>series?
Part of the series. It`s from that year when every X-book had 1
hologram cover, like X-Men #25 and Wolverine #75 (where he lost the
adamantium). In fact, I`ll run upstairs to check the #. <running> X-
Factor #92.
Plaguerat2
>One of the world's only Changeling GMs.
ive never played a straight one genre'd white wolf game... but ive only seen
one person ever be a changling... and they were eaten by a very large
cthulhu-ian type elder god who wasn't too happy with them...
SpiderEyes
>ive never played a straight one genre'd white wolf game... but ive only
seen
>one person ever be a changling... and they were eaten by a very large
>cthulhu-ian type elder god who wasn't too happy with them...
In a particularly odd vampire campaign, we visited the faerie realm and
turned into changeling types- my nos became a sluagh, which made life
interesting to say the least. And when we finally got home a pooka followed
us.
Just more random comments from SpiderEyes
--------------------
Where was I? I forgot
The point that I was making
I said if I was smart that I would
Save up for a piece of string
and a rock to wind the string around
Emble
>>maybe particle man is just a cheap parody of the ol' spiderman theme
>spider man spider man... friendly neighborhood spiderman!!<BR>
>-flood<BR>
<BR>
It makes excellent use of the spider man theme song as does <BR>
TMBG's eponymous track later on on Flood, where the spider <BR>
man theme is played as an instrumental. I can just see Spidey <BR>
swinging along as the announcer says, "Hang on TIGHTER!" <BR>
<BR>
Or something.
Shoseph
SpiderEyes wrote:
> In a particularly odd vampire campaign, we visited the faerie realm and
> turned into changeling types- my nos became a sluagh, which made life
> interesting to say the least. And when we finally got home a pooka followed
> us.
>
> Just more random comments from SpiderEyes
Hey, I think vampires, with the exceptions of Malkavians, are too banal to
get into the Dreaming. I think they'd have to be enchanted, lest you want to
earn the wrath of the Dreaming in the form of storms and such to push the banal
one out. Wait, shouldn't this discussion be in alt.games.whitewolf? Wow, we
are really off-topic.....wait, I can change that. Hmmm, I think there would be
a shit load of glamour at a TMBG concert. God, changelings having epiphanies
all over the place. Plus, I think They are a great band for all those
Pooka-types out there.
-Shoseph, who needs to organize another game session with his friends soon.
--
"I can no longer sit back and allow communist indoctrination, communist
subversion and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurity all of
our precious bodily fluids."
-Sterling Hayden, in "Doctor Strangelove"
Jason DePasquale
Superfly wrote in message <6klkh3$950$1...@ussenterprise.ufp.org>...
>~~Trisha, who misses Caitlin...
>
>
I may have asked this before, but what happened to Caitlin? Her
disappearance occurred during one of those hazy nebulous periods when I
neglected to check in here as often as I should of...
Oh, and for the record, I really really liked The Sandman. Too bad it's
gone...
Yours,
Jason
Jason DePasquale
vwto...@yahoo.com wrote in message <6l1gue$akq$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>I was wondering the same thing about the cds. except I love Big Lizard and
if
>I had it on cd instead of LP I probably woul'n't change it either.
>
>"Driving down a winding road, stepping on the gas." Dead Milkmen
>miked
>>
For what it's worth, Dave Blood of the Dead Milkmen is a graduate student
here at Indiana University. When I was younger, the only music I ever heard
was the 50's/60's stuff my parents used to listen to. (Including healthy
doses of The Beatles) After that, my sister got the first Violent Femmes
record and Big Lizard in my Backyard, which became staples in my 6th grade
musical diet and sent me on the musical path I tread today. It was quite a
switch, and fortunately, I didn't suffer through a phase in life during
which I liked any of the metal bands (or later, the rappers) that all of my
peer seemed to have gotten in to...
Just to keep on topic, TMBG is a major landmark on the aforementioned
journey...
Yours,
Jason
Superfly
Jason DePasquale wrote
>I may have asked this before, but what happened to Caitlin? Her
>disappearance occurred during one of those hazy nebulous periods when I
>neglected to check in here as often as I should of...
should HAVE..its should HAVE..not should OF.
(sorry, pet peeve)
~~Trisha
Superfly
Jason DePasquale wrote
>Dammit... I hate that as well. Slap me down anytime you like. (I'm guessing
>that I don't know you well enough to try and pass that off as an
>innuendo...)
Oh gee, neither does anyone else and I'm just inundated with innuendos, so
go right ahead, innuendo away!!
:-)
I've got a great sense of humor, I can take it!
>See you at the Grammar Rodeo.............
tee heee..speaking of innuendo
...never mind.
~~Trisha, TMBG Porn Queen Cowgirl Extraordinaire!
Zig me
>>~~Trisha, who misses Caitlin...
Caitlin's gone?!?! Where'd she go? This sucks.
-ZIG (me)
...simply speechless right now.
Knudsen546
>"I can no longer sit back and allow communist indoctrination, communist
>subversion and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurity all
>of
>our precious bodily fluids."
>-Sterling Hayden, in "Doctor Strangelove"
heh heh
-----------------------------------------------
"Ads up in the subway are the work of someone
trying to please their boss.
And though the guys a pig we all know what he wants
Is just to please somebody else."
"The extreme always makes an impression."
Joey Odorisio
>> Part of the series. It`s from that year when every X-book had 1
>>hologram cover, like X-Men #25 and Wolverine #75 (where he lost the
>>adamantium). In fact, I`ll run upstairs to check the #. <running> X-
>>Factor #92.
Yeah, that`s the storyline`s name. Havok is on the hologram, I
believe.
Joey Odorisio
>>>~~Trisha, who misses Caitlin...
>Caitlin's gone?!?! Where'd she go? This sucks.
> -ZIG (me)
Hey, Zig`s back!!
Caitlin`s parents took away her online access for an unknown amount
of time. We`re all hopin` she`ll be back any day now.
Jason DePasquale
Superfly wrote in message <6l8bk6$n0j$1...@ussenterprise.ufp.org>...
>should HAVE..its should HAVE..not should OF.
>(sorry, pet peeve)
>~~Trisha
>
>
Dammit... I hate that as well. Slap me down anytime you like. (I'm guessing
that I don't know you well enough to try and pass that off as an
innuendo...)
The errors that irk me to no end:
The mixing up of 'to', 'too', and (in hopelessly remedial cases) 'two'....
Also: 'There', 'they're', and 'their'....
See you at the Grammar Rodeo.............
Jason
Zig me
>>>>~~Trisha, who misses Caitlin...
>>Caitlin's gone?!?! Where'd she go? This sucks.
>> -ZIG (me)
>
> Hey, Zig`s back!!
>
> Caitlin`s parents took away her online access for an unknown amount
>of time. We`re all hopin` she`ll be back any day now.
Yeppers, I am back. I'm sure you've all missed me. (Sarcasm.)
As per Caitlin's departure: I hate parents that do things like that. Glad I'm
20 and don't have to deal with that sort of crap anymore....well, at least for
9 months out of the year. ;^)
-ZIG (me)
...simply speechless right now.
At least Phil's with other comedy greats now: Belushi, G. Chapman, Radner,
Kaufman, and many more.
Joshua Nite
>Dammit... I hate that as well. Slap me down anytime you like. (I'm guessing
>that I don't know you well enough to try and pass that off as an
>innuendo...)
>The errors that irk me to no end:
>The mixing up of 'to', 'too', and (in hopelessly remedial cases) 'two'....
>Also: 'There', 'they're', and 'their'....
I hate the abuse of the apostrophe. ESPECIALLY "its" and "it's."
Even in nationally published magazines I'm reading stuff like "the
bird was sitting in it's nest."
And then there's the need to use 's for a plural: We Serve
Margarita's!
Enough to make a literate man weep.
Kaylum
In article <199806051902...@ladder03.news.aol.com>, zi...@aol.com
(Zig me) writes:
>Yeppers, I am back. I'm sure you've all missed me. (Sarcasm.)
Well, I did! Welcome back, Zig!! Where ya been?
Kay
Superfly
Joey Odorisio wrote
> "Cowgirl"? Are you going down to cowtown?
>
Dammit, I live in Cowtown.
They have cow conventions here...the cows stand around the salt lick and
gossip...
tee hee.
The cows are taking over the world, and the turkeys are their henchmen.
really.
you gotta believe me.
they're alien beings...and I've been abducted..and...well..never mind
~~Trisha
Superfly
austin luminais wrote
>that was so unfunny it makes me want to shit.
>
oh, and like what you said was roll on the floor hilarious...
rrrrrr
~~Trisha
Zig me
>Welcome back, Zig!! Where ya been?
>
>Kay
Well, I'm back home in the house o' hell for the summer. I finally reset up my
computer here and slowly went through all the back posts. Now I'm back from
lurking to posting again, just to annoy you all. :^) (Well, some of you don't
mind my postings too much.) Anyhow, what's been going on here as of late? We
still just waiting for August for Severe Tire (or Tyre if you're from
elsewhere) Damage to come out? Just curious.
Joey Odorisio
>>See you at the Grammar Rodeo.............
Grammar Rodeo? I wanna go to the world`s fair!
>tee heee..speaking of innuendo
>....never mind.
>~~Trisha, TMBG Porn Queen Cowgirl Extraordinaire!
"Cowgirl"? Are you going down to cowtown?
- JOEY ODORISIO rgj...@prodigy.com
"And it happened at sea, see? C for Catwoman!" - Robin, Batman:The Movie
Joey Odorisio
>Yeppers, I am back. I'm sure you've all missed me. (Sarcasm.)
Hey, I was wondering where you went.
>As per Caitlin's departure: I hate parents that do things like that.
Glad I'm
>20 and don't have to deal with that sort of crap anymore....well, at
least for
>9 months out of the year. ;^)
:)
>At least Phil's with other comedy greats now: Belushi, G. Chapman,
Radner,
>Kaufman, and many more.
:,(
- JOEY ODORISIO rgj...@prodigy.com
"Hello, my name is Susan. I want to poke out your eyes and make love to
your skull." - Phil Hartman as Susan on Sprockets on SNL
Shoseph
Terry Hill wrote:
> on 04 Jun 98, Shoseph wrote...
> > Hey, I think vampires, with the exceptions of Malkavians, are too banal to
> >get into the Dreaming. I think they'd have to be enchanted, lest you want to
> >earn the wrath of the Dreaming in the form of storms and such to push the banal
> >one out.
>
> Absoultely, although perhaps these were particularly unbanal Vampires?
I guess so.... I just loved it when I read the rules from Dreams and Nightmares
about chimerical death in the Dreaming. Mortals get put into one of the Umbrae.
And wraiths, Garou, and mages fall into the appropriate Umbra, but as for
vampires..heh heh. They get tossed into the Shadowlands, where they "often find
waiting for them a large number of wraiths who wish to discuss the method of their
demise."
> > Wait, shouldn't this discussion be in alt.games.whitewolf?
>
> Not really; at least here no one tries to turn any changeling debate into
> 'Changeling is shit'.
Ain't it true, ain't it true... I unsubscribed for a.g.whitewolf because there
were too few discussions on Changeling, and actually, there were better
conversations on the mush I play in. Plus way too many posts to wade through.
> TMBG. Those crazy, crazy Eshu...
Eshu? Hey that seems pretty right. Though I prefer to see them as really good
Dreamers.
> >
> >-Shoseph, who needs to organize another game session with his friends soon.
>
> Ricochet, who will welcome Shoseph into his game any time
Cool, but that's okay. I think I'm playing next saturday. Yeah!
-Shoseph
--
"I just closed my eyes again,
climbed aboard the Dream Weaver's train.
Help me to get away from my worries of the day
help me forget today's pain."
-Gary Wright, "Dream Weaver"
Shoseph
austin luminais wrote:
> On 6 Jun 1998, Joey Odorisio wrote:
>
> > >~~Trisha, TMBG Porn Queen Cowgirl Extraordinaire!
> >
> > "Cowgirl"? Are you going down to cowtown?
>
> that was so unfunny it makes me want to shit.
Hey, that's great. Do you want to market it as a laxative? Call it
Austin's Cowtown ExLax? You seem pretty keen on this subject, so I'll
leave it up to you.
-Shoseph, who thinks Austin is a pretty funny guy. Yeah. (But Joey did
have a cool line from a cool song.)
--
"I would not live in the world you offer. It has neither sun, nor moon,
nor air to breath. It has no faith... no love... no honor."
-Sir Walter Scott, in "Ivanhoe"
SpiderEyes
>>In a particularly odd vampire campaign, we visited the faerie realm and
>>turned into changeling types- my nos became a sluagh, which made life
>>interesting to say the least. And when we finally got home a pooka
followed
>>us.
>
My character was a programmer. (She worked for Microsoft; some of her more
inspired code resulted in Win95 being so "buggy.") There were no computers
in the Dreaming, and she couldn't deal with it.
>As a Sluagh, you'd look a hell of a lot better than you did as a Nosferatu.
Yeah, but I lost my Obfuscate ability.
>Why did the Pooka follow you?
He was friends with a Malkavian on our side. ie, our GM was a sadist.
- SpiderEyes
---------------------
I'm going to die if you touch me one more time
Well I guess that I'm going to die no matter what
Superfly
Joey Odorisio wrote >
> Hey, where`s Chris?
I was wondering this myself. I miss him, cuz as you all know, I'm madly in
love with him...
(joking, joking)
I *was* wondering..I miss our verbal sparring, our fun banter...hmm...
anyway..yes I am a mer-woman...
~~Trisha
Superfly
ALeigh992 wrote
>He doesn't usually post on weekends. At least not that I remember. Okay,
this
>is pretty sad when I know the posting habits of most of the people on this
>ng...<g>
that *is* so horrible!!
~~Trisha
Superfly
Zig me wrote
>I'm sure Chris'll be back soon enough. We all come back sooner or later.
This
>NG is a vacuum. :^)
Indeed it is.
~~Trisha
Joey Odorisio
>> "Cowgirl"? Are you going down to cowtown?
>They have cow conventions here...the cows stand around the salt lick
and
>gossip...
>tee hee.
>The cows are taking over the world, and the turkeys are their henchmen.
>really.
>you gotta believe me.
>they're alien beings...and I've been abducted..and...well..never mind
Wow, Trisha lives beneath the ocean! I didn`t know there were
turkeys and aliens there.
Hey, where`s Chris?
- JOEY ODORISIO rgj...@prodigy.com
"In April, we all sang a duet....with Tina Turner." - Flans, `85 Radio
Thank You
ALeigh992
> Hey, where`s Chris?
>
>- JOEY ODORISIO
He doesn't usually post on weekends. At least not that I remember. Okay, this
is pretty sad when I know the posting habits of most of the people on this
ng...<g>
Aleigh
Currently resides at: http://i.am/not_your_broom
"Damn John Jay! Damn everyone who won't damn John Jay! Damn
everyone who won't sit up all night Damning John Jay!"~painted on
a fence in 1785
Superfly
Christopher M. Stangl wrote
> I had a pet peeve. I think it was a stray, because it was just
>wandering around the streets. I took it home, and Mom said I could keep
>it (Pop said it would be a good way for me to learn some responsibility).
>I fed it breakfast cereal and grapefruits, and took it for walks every
>day... but I looked in its basket one day, and she was just sitting there,
>not moving. Mom flushed it down the toilet, while my father recited a
>passage from "Pale Fire". It was very moving.
You're incorrigible, you know that?
~~Trisha
Superfly
Christopher M. Stangl wrote >
> Darlin', it's better down where it's wetter.
well..gee..that can be taken quite a few ways...
> Sorry. Had a busy weekend. Looked for a new house to live in.
any luck?
>Discovered that I LIKE grapefruit, and have been mislead for multiple
>decades (why does the juice they sell in stores taste gross, while
>grapefruits actually taste good? What the hell?).
grapefruit is yummy, as long as you don't sprinkle tons of sugar on it and
eat it that way, which is nasty..gotta enjoy the tartness just as nature
intended, dammit.
> Tried to look confident in front of
>a girl person I like (just ended up offering her some PEZ, arguing
>about the rules on calling "shotgun" before riding in a car, and telling
>her she had really clean fingernails... it didn't work as well as I'd
>hoped).
What exactly are the rules of shotgun? I'm usually the driver, or its just
Amy & I so naturally I get shotgun. But I've always wondered what the exact
rules are, in case I need them.
Sorry to hear the chick thing didn't work out as well as you'd hoped!! Keep
trying...how can a girl resist your *charm* and *wit*? and *pez*?
Climbed some fire escapes and trees. Tried to get invited to high
>school graduation parties (failed. I think I creep high schoolers out).
Hmmm...I didn't get invited to any, either, and I'm actually friends with
high-schoolers (well, ex-high-schoolers now, as of Friday)
this is what I get for being almost 23.
>Ate a piece of cherry lattice pie, and one of Key lime. I'm back now.
WE MISSED YOU!!
Better not leave again, dammit!
~~Trisha
Superfly
Shoseph wrote
>
> Did you sprinkle sugar on it? That usually does lots for the taste.
The
>juice I don't care for, but oh, grapefruit halves for breakfast; heaven on
>earth, baby!
ewwww...nasty!! No sugar!! no!! yukky.
>
> Darn I only have one, and it's a "Taz" one. I think I need to get some
>refills. Have you ever seen the automatic PEZ dispenser? It looks like
the
>spinning part on an old rotary phone. I know that this kinda ruins the PEZ
>dispenser concept, but I think it's supposed to shoot out the PEZ. That'll
>be kinda cool, considering that in the middle of school, you could shoot
>colorful bits of candy at people.
I have an Easter Bunny, a Santa, a Gonzo, An evil looking Jack-O-Lantern, a
lamb, ummm...and a heart...
>
>-Shoseph, who likes cheesecake. Or oreo cream.
CHEESECAKE!!! CHHHEEESSEECAKKKEE!!! CCCCHHHHHEEEESEECAKKKEE!!
yum.
~~Trisha
Superfly
Joey Odorisio wrote in message
<6lh4t6$c96$1...@newssvr04-int.news.prodigy.com>...
>>> Hey, where`s Chris?
>>Sorry. Had a busy weekend. Looked for a new house to live in.
>
> You shouldn`t have to apologize for not coming to the NG because you
>had real-life things to do.
yeah..we just fly off the handle and forget that PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAVE REAL
LIVES. horrid, and scary, it is.
~~Trisha, Chris Stangl Groupie
Superfly
Joey Odorisio wrote
> Heheh...he`s back now, so we can go back to worrying about Caitlin.
yeah, I'm in love with her too.
>
> A cowgirl, mer-woman, porn queen...what a gal! :)
and..I can hokey-pokey with the best of 'em.
don't underestimate the power of a Trish.
~~Trisha
Superfly
Christopher M. Stangl wrote
> Anyhow, my sisters and I have used the following rules for years
>(many of them specific to our household, of course):
<snip snip>
I am saving these rules..this is by far one of the funniest things you've
ever posted, Chris! I love it!!
~~Trisha
Zig me
I'm sure Chris'll be back soon enough. We all come back sooner or later. This
NG is a vacuum. :^)
-ZIG (me)
...simply speechless right now.
At least Phil's with other comedy greats now: Belushi, G. Chapman, Radner,
Kaufman, and many more.
Christopher M. Stangl
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Superfly wrote:
> (sorry, pet peeve)
> ~~Trisha
I had a pet peeve. I think it was a stray, because it was just
wandering around the streets. I took it home, and Mom said I could keep
it (Pop said it would be a good way for me to learn some responsibility).
I fed it breakfast cereal and grapefruits, and took it for walks every
day... but I looked in its basket one day, and she was just sitting there,
not moving. Mom flushed it down the toilet, while my father recited a
passage from "Pale Fire". It was very moving.
-Chris Stangl
Christopher M. Stangl
On 7 Jun 1998, Joey Odorisio wrote:
> Wow, Trisha lives beneath the ocean! I didn`t know there were
> turkeys and aliens there.
Darlin', it's better down where it's wetter.
> Hey, where`s Chris?
> - JOEY ODORISIO
Sorry. Had a busy weekend. Looked for a new house to live in.
Discovered that I LIKE grapefruit, and have been mislead for multiple
decades (why does the juice they sell in stores taste gross, while
grapefruits actually taste good? What the hell?). Sorted my "X-Files"
tapes. Bought some PEZ dispensers (nothing special- my favorite toy
store got in some new Disney dispensers, and some French ones of
Asterisk characters). Wrote a poem. Tried to look confident in front of
a girl person I like (just ended up offering her some PEZ, arguing
about the rules on calling "shotgun" before riding in a car, and telling
her she had really clean fingernails... it didn't work as well as I'd
hoped). Climbed some fire escapes and trees. Tried to get invited to high
school graduation parties (failed. I think I creep high schoolers out).
Ate a piece of cherry lattice pie, and one of Key lime. I'm back now.
-Chris Stangl
Joey Odorisio
>> Hey, where`s Chris?
>I was wondering this myself. I miss him, cuz as you all know, I'm madly
in
>love with him...
>(joking, joking)
Heheh...he`s back now, so we can go back to worrying about Caitlin.
>I *was* wondering..I miss our verbal sparring, our fun banter...hmm...
>anyway..yes I am a mer-woman...
A cowgirl, mer-woman, porn queen...what a gal! :)
- JOEY ODORISIO rgj...@prodigy.com
"I move across a room with a heart full of gloom, I`m stronger than you
think." - R.E.M., Bittersweet Me
Joey Odorisio
>> Hey, where`s Chris?
>Sorry. Had a busy weekend. Looked for a new house to live in.
You shouldn`t have to apologize for not coming to the NG because you
had real-life things to do.
>hoped). Climbed some fire escapes and trees. Tried to get invited to
high
>school graduation parties (failed. I think I creep high schoolers out).
And now, I link things in recent posts together: my friend with the
Fleetwood Mac tatoo, we went to his girlfriend`s HS graduation party,
where we watched..Pee-Wee`s Big Adventure!
Oh, and I listened to the TMBG Rarities tape that Aliegh sent me, and
it`s great!
- JOEY ODORISIO rgj...@prodigy.com
"La la la la la Pennsylvania." - John Linnell, Pennsylvania
vwto...@yahoo.com
In article <Pine.A41.3.95.980608...@yellow.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
"Christopher M. Stangl" <cst...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Sorry. Had a busy weekend. Tried to look confident in front of
> a girl person I like (just ended up offering her some PEZ, arguing
> -Chris Stangl
>
>
What did you decide on rules for shotgun. I always go by the fact that you can
only call it if the car is in sight first and no calling it before you leave
the house.
Mike
who found his daffy duck dispenser last week:)
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Shoseph
Christopher M. Stangl wrote:
> On 7 Jun 1998, Joey Odorisio wrote:
> > Hey, where`s Chris?
>
> Sorry. Had a busy weekend. Looked for a new house to live in.
> Discovered that I LIKE grapefruit, and have been mislead for multiple
> decades (why does the juice they sell in stores taste gross, while
> grapefruits actually taste good? What the hell?).
Did you sprinkle sugar on it? That usually does lots for the taste. The
juice I don't care for, but oh, grapefruit halves for breakfast; heaven on
earth, baby!
> Sorted my "X-Files"
> tapes. Bought some PEZ dispensers (nothing special- my favorite toy
> store got in some new Disney dispensers, and some French ones of
> Asterisk characters).
Darn I only have one, and it's a "Taz" one. I think I need to get some
refills. Have you ever seen the automatic PEZ dispenser? It looks like the
spinning part on an old rotary phone. I know that this kinda ruins the PEZ
dispenser concept, but I think it's supposed to shoot out the PEZ. That'll
be kinda cool, considering that in the middle of school, you could shoot
colorful bits of candy at people.
> Wrote a poem.
Cool, post it up. I'd like to read what you wrote.
> Tried to look confident in front of a girl person I like (just ended up
> offering her some PEZ, arguing
> about the rules on calling "shotgun" before riding in a car, and telling
> her she had really clean fingernails... it didn't work as well as I'd
> hoped).
Damn, that sucks. I would think that the PEZ and the really clean
fingernails part would win her over. I'd actually like it if a girl told me
that I had really clean fingernails (I'm not mistaking you for a girl Chris,
just reversing the sexes in the situation). Kinda odd, but it's actually a
nice compliment. Tee hee.
> Climbed some fire escapes and trees.
Darn, no fire escapes around where I live. Only trees and cellular phone
towers. My friend climbed a cellular phone tower once and hung up a couple
of our old pairs of jeans as flags. They were up there for a couple of
months too. I believe that I will attempt to climb the tower too, since he
actually only got up halfway, before getting very tired.
> Tried to get invited to high
> school graduation parties (failed. I think I creep high schoolers out).
Damn, I'd want you to come to all of our parties over here. Not many
people have the tendency to creep me out, unless they're wielding sharp
objects threateningly.
> Ate a piece of cherry lattice pie, and one of Key lime. I'm back now.
> -Chris Stangl
Hey, pie!
-Shoseph, who likes cheesecake. Or oreo cream.
--
"When I was ten, my mother put this painting of a chihuahua with big scary
eyes up in my bedroom
and I begged her to take it down.
"She said she couldn't...or the devil clown under my bed would kill her.
".........."
-from Max Cannon's "Red Meat" comic strip
Christopher M. Stangl
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998 vwto...@yahoo.com wrote:
> "Christopher M. Stangl" <cst...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry. Had a busy weekend. Tried to look confident in front of
> > a girl person I like (just ended up offering her some PEZ, arguing
> > about the rules on calling "shotgun" before riding in a car, .......
> > -Chris Stangl
>
> What did you decide on rules for shotgun. I always go by the fact that you can
> only call it if the car is in sight first and no calling it before you leave
> the house.
We didn't decide anything. She just walked up to the car in
question and stood by the passenger side. I yelled "SHOTGUN", to get her
to move. She wouldn't, and said something like "What, are you going to
shove me out of the way?"... So I shoved her out of the way. The driver
refused to unlock the door, and we both ended up sitting in the
backseat... which was, naturally my intention the entire time...
Anyhow, my sisters and I have used the following rules for years
(many of them specific to our household, of course):
1) No calling "shotgun" while inside the house.
2) "Shotgun" can be called the precise second when the driver's entire
body is outdoors.
3) "Shotgun" cannot be called in advance: the driver must be outside for
the specific trip in question (i.e., no fair saying "I have
shotgun next time").
4) Cheaters get a punch in the arm.
5) If you're a little kid, and you use crying or tell on the big kids
because they always get shotgun, and Mom lets you ride up front,
even though you didn't actually call "shotgun", you get a smack on the
back of the head when Mom isn't looking.
6) Remember, Dad doesn't honor your claim, if you do cute variations (i.e.
the time Cathie called "I have the shooting gun!", and I yelled
"Shotgun", guess who got to ride shotgun?). Mom does like
variations.
7) Letting someone ride shotgun, out of the goodness of your heart, is one
of the greatest gifts a sibling can give to another.
8) If you gotta puke, the person up front must forfeit the shotgun
position, because the back windows don't roll down as well as the
front ones.
9) It is cool to pretend you have a shotgun, and are riding on a
stagecoach, while riding shotgun. You are seriously encouraged to
sing the theme song from "Bonanza", and yell cowboy noises out the
window, until Mom tells you to stop. The people in the backseat
may pretend they are stagecoach passengers, and address the driver
as "Driver" and complain that the horses are too slow and smell
bad... until Mom tells you to stop.
10) Taking turns is for geekers.
-Chris Stangl
Shoseph
Superfly wrote:
> Shoseph wrote
> >
> > Did you sprinkle sugar on it? That usually does lots for the taste.
> >The juice I don't care for, but oh, grapefruit halves for breakfast; heaven
> on
> >earth, baby!
>
> ewwww...nasty!! No sugar!! no!! yukky.
Hey! Come on now, I know that MY opinion is better than YOURS! Now go eat
poop and like it if you want. And blah blah blah... sticks up your ass.... blah
blah blah.... paranoid paranoid everybody's coming to get me.... blah blah
blah.... everyone hates me and flames me for no reason.... blah blah blah...
> > Darn I only have one, and it's a "Taz" one. I think I need to get some
> >refills. Have you ever seen the automatic PEZ dispenser? It looks like
> >the spinning part on an old rotary phone. I know that this kinda ruins the
> PEZ
> >dispenser concept, but I think it's supposed to shoot out the PEZ. That'll
> >be kinda cool, considering that in the middle of school, you could shoot
> >colorful bits of candy at people.
>
> I have an Easter Bunny, a Santa, a Gonzo, An evil looking Jack-O-Lantern, a
> lamb, ummm...and a heart...
Heart? That's kinda cool.... was that from Valentine's or something?
> >-Shoseph, who likes cheesecake. Or oreo cream.
>
> CHEESECAKE!!! CHHHEEESSEECAKKKEE!!! CCCCHHHHHEEEESEECAKKKEE!!
> yum.
> ~~Trisha
Yeah, cheese cake.... with crumb stuff on top and strawberries or
cherries.
-Shoseph, who is contemplating life and all its mysteries while listening to his
new Loreena McKennitt album.
--
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
-Lao Tzu (570-490 BC)
Superfly
Shoseph wrote
> Hey! Come on now, I know that MY opinion is better than YOURS! Now go
eat
>poop and like it if you want. And blah blah blah... sticks up your ass....
blah
>blah blah.... paranoid paranoid everybody's coming to get me.... blah blah
>blah.... everyone hates me and flames me for no reason.... blah blah
blah...
josh? Is that you?
> Heart? That's kinda cool.... was that from Valentine's or something?
yes indeedy..
> Yeah, cheese cake.... with crumb stuff on top and strawberries or
>cherries.
yum yum
~~Trisha
Superfly
Joey Odorisio wrote
>>don't underestimate the power of a Trish.
>
> I never shall again.
good.
~~Trisha
Joey Odorisio
> Darn I only have one, and it's a "Taz" one. I think I need to get
some
>refills. Have you ever seen the automatic PEZ dispenser? It looks like
the
>spinning part on an old rotary phone. I know that this kinda ruins the
PEZ
>dispenser concept, but I think it's supposed to shoot out the PEZ.
That'll
>be kinda cool, considering that in the middle of school, you could
shoot
>colorful bits of candy at people.
My friend Dave had one of those automatic ones. I have a Yoda PEZ
dispenser prominantly in my room, and a Chewbacca one sitting on the
counter in the kitchen. And there`s a C3-PO one around here too. Yet, I
don`t even like PEZ.
- JOEY ODORISIO rgj...@prodigy.com
"You have absolute power, yes." - Michael, E.T.
Joey Odorisio
>I am saving these rules..this is by far one of the funniest things
you've
>ever posted, Chris! I love it!!
As am I, especially since my friends and I are going on a car trip
this weekend. I wish it was to the Tibetan Feedom Concert, but alas, it
is not..
- JOEY ODORISIO rgj...@prodigy.com
"Let me tell you a little story about a man named Shhh!." - Dr. Evil
Joey Odorisio
>> Heheh...he`s back now, so we can go back to worrying about Caitlin.
>yeah, I'm in love with her too.
You and everyone else. :)
>> A cowgirl, mer-woman, porn queen...what a gal! :)
>and..I can hokey-pokey with the best of 'em.
>don't underestimate the power of a Trish.
I never shall again.
- JOEY ODORISIO rgj...@prodigy.com
"Ah, The Smiths make me poop." - me, a few minutes ago
Christopher M. Stangl
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Superfly wrote:
> Joey Odorisio wrote >
> > Hey, where`s Chris?
>
> I was wondering this myself. I miss him, cuz as you all know, I'm madly in
> love with him...
> (joking, joking)
What do you mean "Joking"?
I have to go make myself dead now.
> I *was* wondering..I miss our verbal sparring, our fun banter...hmm...
> anyway..yes I am a mer-woman...
> ~~Trisha
Damn! You don't look like Mer-Man from "Masters of the Universe",
do you?! That guy was some scary shit!
-Chris Stangl, who thinks it looks like Mer-Man's sword is
made of a big corn-cob, even though it's supposed to be
corral. It looks like a big yellow corn! Like "Hey,
He-Man! I'm gonna hit you with my ear of baby sweet corn!
It's all buttered up! You're not gonna get all this greasy
butter outta BattleCat's fur!", and then He-Man goes "Ha!
I'm ALREADY SOAKED in butter! That's why I glisten so, in
the sunlight! Look at my pecs!"
Wait, that cheered me up. Forget about the dead thing.
Christopher M. Stangl
On 7 Jun 1998, ALeigh992 wrote:
> > Hey, where`s Chris?
> >- JOEY ODORISIO
>
> He doesn't usually post on weekends. At least not that I remember. Okay, this
> is pretty sad when I know the posting habits of most of the people on this
> ng...<g>
> Aleigh
I thought "Pretty Sad" started when one becomes a Newgroup
Regular. You're thinking of "Really Sad". Many of us have also passed the
"Very Sad" stage (wherein you save such large back-catalogues of people's
posts for later use that you run out of space), and ascended into
"Disturbingly Sad", during which you can not only tell who posted
something based entirely on sentence structure, but have
artists'-conception portraits of every newsgroup member adorning your
wall (I drew Paul feeding a rabbit! In soothing pastel tones).
-Chris Stangl
Christopher M. Stangl
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Superfly wrote:
> > Christopher M. Stangl wrote
> > I had a pet peeve. I think it was a stray, because it was just
> >wandering around the streets. I took it home, and Mom said I could keep
> >it (Pop said it would be a good way for me to learn some responsibility).
> >I fed it breakfast cereal and grapefruits, and took it for walks every
> >day... but I looked in its basket one day, and she was just sitting there,
> >not moving. Mom flushed it down the toilet, while my father recited a
> >passage from "Pale Fire". It was very moving.
>
> You're incorrigible, you know that?
> ~~Trisha
An' full of a delicious jelly!
-Chris Stangl
Christopher M. Stangl
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Superfly wrote:
> Christopher M. Stangl wrote
>
So can I.
> > Sorry. Had a busy weekend. Looked for a new house to live in.
>
> any luck?
No. One place with a deck, thirty-five foot ceilings, velvet
drapes, and a fireplace (and two fine little cats!)... but two smoking
roommates. I am not very kind in reguards to either smoking or roommates,
and prefer a life devoid of either one.
> Sorry to hear the chick thing didn't work out as well as you'd hoped!! Keep
> trying...how can a girl resist your *charm* and *wit*? and *pez*?
She took an orange Pez, too, so that must count for something. And
she complimented the tasteful dispenser (elephant. Keychain size. I
still need the Uncle Sam keychain...).
Today she was working at the library, and she says something like
"Can I help you find something", and so I go "No, Jane, I just thought I'd
stand by the Young Adult books and bother you until you're really
uncomfortable", so she's like "Okay", and I'm all "Naw, I just wanted to
look at these Francesca Lia Block books... wait! Judy Blume, check it out!
Remember 'Are You There, God, it's Me, Margaret?'? Seems to me like Block
is the punk Blume...", and she goes "I think I should read 'Blubber
again", so of course I'm going "Yeah, they really stuck it to that fat
girl. I mean, I knew the pain of being a fat girl, so of course it really
struck home", and she laughs, sure, but then I'd been awake for twenty six
hours or something, and hadn't eaten in ten, and there were too many
lights, and I don't know what happened next. Seriously... I had a nice
conversation, and managed to walk home somehow, but... it's all a blur.
> >Ate a piece of cherry lattice pie, and one of Key lime. I'm back now.
>
> WE MISSED YOU!!
> Better not leave again, dammit!
It was, for two days! I've sustained much longer absences than two
days...
Why do I tell you people things like this?
-Chris Stangl
Christopher M. Stangl
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Superfly wrote:
> Shoseph wrote
> >
> > Did you sprinkle sugar on it? That usually does lots for the taste.
> >The juice I don't care for, but oh, grapefruit halves for breakfast;
> >heaven on earth, baby!
>
> ewwww...nasty!! No sugar!! no!! yukky.
Sugar will make you dead.
Honey is about as good for you as sugar, of course, and I put
honey on things, but somehow I feel better about the honey, because it
comes out of bees (and I like bees).
> > Darn I only have one, and it's a "Taz" one. I think I need to get some
> >refills. Have you ever seen the automatic PEZ dispenser? It looks like
> the
> >spinning part on an old rotary phone. I know that this kinda ruins the PEZ
> >dispenser concept, but I think it's supposed to shoot out the PEZ. That'll
> >be kinda cool, considering that in the middle of school, you could shoot
> >colorful bits of candy at people.
>
> I have an Easter Bunny,
My favorite of the Easter dispensers is the stupid chick coming
out of a shell, wearing a little top-hat. The toy-store man talked me
into buying a couple of them (a blue-egg one, and a green-egg one).
> a Santa,
The all-time best-seller! I've got five, myself. I expect another
in my stocking this Christmas, too.
> a Gonzo,
I'm pretty pleased with the accuracy of the Muppet series. The
Fozzie dispenser is especially good.
> An evil looking Jack-O-Lantern,
My second-favorite Halloween dispenser, right after Mr. Skull.
> a lamb,
Another cute Easter design... but it's no Top Hat Chicken!
> ummm...and a heart...
Aww. The pissy thing about the Valentine dispenser is the lack of
feet, which means the bastard don't stand up very well (BAD design
choice, especially for such a top-heavy dispenser...)
> >-Shoseph, who likes cheesecake. Or oreo cream.
>
> CHEESECAKE!!! CHHHEEESSEECAKKKEE!!! CCCCHHHHHEEEESEECAKKKEE!!
> yum.
> ~~Trisha
Lemon Pez pie!
Yum.
-Chris Stangl, more than a little psyched about the new
release of the Psychedelic Eye Pez dispenser...
SpiderEyes
> -Chris Stangl, who thinks it looks like Mer-Man's sword is
> made of a big corn-cob, even though it's supposed to be
> corral. It looks like a big yellow corn! Like "Hey,
> He-Man! I'm gonna hit you with my ear of baby sweet corn!
> It's all buttered up! You're not gonna get all this greasy
> butter outta BattleCat's fur!", and then He-Man goes "Ha!
> I'm ALREADY SOAKED in butter! That's why I glisten so, in
> the sunlight! Look at my pecs!"
Have you read the Dilbert sequence where he gets into a food fight with an
executive and accidentally kills him with an ear of corn? He gets arrested
for a salt and buttering.
- SpiderEyes
-----------------
I sprang into action like a cheetah on a trampoline!
- Dilbert
SpiderEyes
>artists'-conception portraits of every newsgroup member adorning your
>wall (I drew Paul feeding a rabbit! In soothing pastel tones).
You do realize, now you'll have to tell us all what we look like...
- SpiderEyes
---------------
She had black hair
Like ravens crawling over her shoulders
All the way down
- Morphine
Superfly
Christopher M. Stangl wrote
> What do you mean "Joking"?
> I have to go make myself dead now.
well I don't want you to think I'm too attached to you, ya know?
Fine, I'll admit it, I love you Chris.
There, you happy? (dammit)
> Damn! You don't look like Mer-Man from "Masters of the Universe",
>do you?! That guy was some scary shit!
Oh stop. You know what I look like.
I'm scarier.
> -Chris Stangl, who thinks it looks like Mer-Man's sword is
> made of a big corn-cob, even though it's supposed to be
> corral. It looks like a big yellow corn! Like "Hey,
> He-Man! I'm gonna hit you with my ear of baby sweet corn!
> It's all buttered up! You're not gonna get all this greasy
> butter outta BattleCat's fur!", and then He-Man goes "Ha!
> I'm ALREADY SOAKED in butter! That's why I glisten so, in
> the sunlight! Look at my pecs!"
> Wait, that cheered me up. Forget about the dead thing.
>
ha ha..this was quite funny.
~~Trisha
Superfly
Christopher M. Stangl wrote
>(I drew Paul feeding a rabbit! In soothing pastel tones).
and how did you draw me? Or do I wanna even know?
~~Trisha
Superfly
Christopher M. Stangl wrote
> An' full of a delicious jelly!
I won't even tell you what this made me think of.
~~Trisha
Superfly
Christopher M. Stangl wrote
>
> So can I.
hmm..we'll have to see about that one.
> No. One place with a deck, thirty-five foot ceilings, velvet
>drapes, and a fireplace (and two fine little cats!)... but two smoking
>roommates. I am not very kind in reguards to either smoking or roommates,
>and prefer a life devoid of either one.
roommates and smoking *do* suck.
> She took an orange Pez, too, so that must count for something. And
>she complimented the tasteful dispenser (elephant. Keychain size. I
>still need the Uncle Sam keychain...).
I don't like orange pez. I like grape.
>
> It was, for two days! I've sustained much longer absences than two
>days... I haven't been on since yesterday afternoon and there were like
187 msgs waiting for me. arg. I can't be gone that long!
> Why do I tell you people things like this?
cuz you love us.
~~Trisha
Superfly
Christopher M. Stangl wrote
> My second-favorite Halloween dispenser, right after Mr. Skull.
I have Mr. Skull too, now that I think about it. Of course, you wanna guess
who these really belong to?
>
> Aww. The pissy thing about the Valentine dispenser is the lack of
>feet, which means the bastard don't stand up very well (BAD design
>choice, especially for such a top-heavy dispenser...)
You are *so* right. I had noticed this.
> Lemon Pez pie!
???
How would that work?
~~Trisha
Carlyn
Christopher M. Stangl wrote:
<about a bunch of PEZ dispensers>
Here's something interesting...I've got a Creature from the Black Lagoon
dispenser (ca. 1960?), which belonged to my mother as a teenager. An
heirloom PEZ dispenser...Woo-hoo! (Unfortunately one of his
ears/gills/fins (?) has broken off.)
CN
--
"Cheers...Thanks a lot."
Yer Pal Paul
Christopher M. Stangl <cst...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote in article
<Pine.A41.3.95.980609...@green.weeg.uiowa.edu>...
> "Disturbingly Sad", during which you can not only tell who posted
> something based entirely on sentence structure, but have
> artists'-conception portraits of every newsgroup member adorning your
> wall (I drew Paul feeding a rabbit! In soothing pastel tones).
Very intuitive of you Christopher. The bunny's name was Clem, Clem
Kadiddlehopper. Pale yellow fur with small dark eyes. I was feeding him
to Spike, Spike the Bunny Wabbit Eater, my Rottweiler.
And you know something else? I just noticed that those guys rowing around
in the make-shift boats on the Flood cover look as though they're having
WAY too much fun! I mean, ITS A FLIPPIN" NATURAL DISASTER YOU MORONS. Try
not to be having such a grand time of it!
Struggling against the FLOOD of off-topic posts (heh).
--
Yer Pal Paul
Not back on that old Time is Money kick, still on it.
Carlyn
Yer Pal Paul wrote:
> And you know something else? I just noticed that those guys rowing around
> in the make-shift boats on the Flood cover look as though they're having
> WAY too much fun! I mean, ITS A FLIPPIN" NATURAL DISASTER YOU MORONS. Try
> not to be having such a grand time of it!
>
> Struggling against the FLOOD of off-topic posts (heh).
>
> --
> Yer Pal Paul
> Not back on that old Time is Money kick, still on it.
Apparently that photo was taken during the worst flood ever in my
hometown. (Well, damn near the whole state flooded, so it may not have
been my *town*...but, you get the point.) Anyway, around here, we have
fun with natural disasters...They're so frequent that if we got all
worked up about them, we'd be in a very depressed state (ouch).
Tornadoes, floods, flash floods, killer wind and thunderstorms...even
the occasional earth tremor from a fault line several hundred miles
away...We laugh at it all! We spit in the face of danger! HAHAHAHAHA!
Joey Odorisio
>Damn! You don't look like Mer-Man from "Masters of the Universe",
>do you?! That guy was some scary shit!
I`ve been able to do Mer-Man`s voice since kindergarden.
>-Chris Stangl, who thinks it looks like Mer-Man's sword is
>made of a big corn-cob, even though it's supposed to be
>corral. It looks like a big yellow corn! Like "Hey,
>He-Man! I'm gonna hit you with my ear of baby sweet corn!
>It's all buttered up! You're not gonna get all this greasy
>butter outta BattleCat's fur!", and then He-Man goes "Ha!
>I'm ALREADY SOAKED in butter! That's why I glisten so, in
>the sunlight! Look at my pecs!"
>Wait, that cheered me up. Forget about the dead thing.
Heheh...every time I think you can`t scare me, you do. I`ve ALWAYS
said Mer-Man`s sword was a corn cob, I never even thought or realized it
was supposed to be coral. I always called it a corn cob sword.
- JOEY ODORISIO rgj...@prodigy.com
..I can`t remember a specific quote from the Masters of the Universe
movie, but many people forget Courtney Cox was in it.
Christopher M. Stangl
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Superfly wrote:
> yeah..we just fly off the handle and forget that PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAVE REAL
> LIVES.
I guess you could call it that.
I don't personally differentiate between "real world" and "'net
world"... Posting here is one of the things I do in my real life, and it
has a degree of importance in that life... I miss the activity when I
don't post here, and I DO realize you guys are real people... this IS real
life.
> horrid, and scary, it is.
The real world is horrid and scary indeed. And that is beautiful.
> ~~Trisha, Chris Stangl Groupie
THAT is what makes it all worthwhile.
-Chris Stangl, Chris Stangl Groupie
Christopher M. Stangl
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Shoseph wrote:
> Christopher M. Stangl wrote:
>
> > Bought some PEZ dispensers (nothing special- my favorite toy
> > store got in some new Disney dispensers, and some French ones of
> > Asterisk characters).
>
> Darn I only have one, and it's a "Taz" one. I think I need to get some
> refills.
Lemon, strawberry and peppermint are my favorites. Grape is my
least favorite, though it's fine too... It's just not as exciting as the
others.
> Have you ever seen the automatic PEZ dispenser? It looks like the
> spinning part on an old rotary phone. I know that this kinda ruins the PEZ
> dispenser concept, but I think it's supposed to shoot out the PEZ. That'll
> be kinda cool, considering that in the middle of school, you could shoot
> colorful bits of candy at people.
Even weirder, in the '50s they marketed Pez Space Guns, which
looked like these bad-ass rayguns. Very cool. They also had Pez Candy
Shooters, which looked like regular handguns (though in colors like pink
and yellow). Also cool.
> Damn, that sucks. I would think that the PEZ and the really clean
> fingernails part would win her over. I'd actually like it if a girl told me
> that I had really clean fingernails
> (I'm not mistaking you for a girl Chris, just reversing the sexes in the
> situation).
I really don't mind being mistaken for a girl.
> Kinda odd, but it's actually a nice compliment. Tee hee.
One of the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me was "oh my GOD.
Your EARS! I've never seen ears like that! They're so CLEAN! Oh my god,
they're like they're perfect ears made out of wax, they just SHINE, and
they're so CLEAN!" I've had people tell me I've got the cleanest
fingernails they've ever seen before, too. It is, indeed, a wonderful
compliment.
> > Tried to get invited to high
> > school graduation parties (failed. I think I creep high schoolers out).
>
> Damn, I'd want you to come to all of our parties over here.
I KILL a party. I am the WORST curse a party can imagine. Fun
stops the second I walk in the door. Everybody starts looking at each
other uncomfortably, and wondering if it's too soon to leave.
> Not many people have the tendency to creep me out, unless they're
> wielding sharp objects threateningly.
Yeah, well, I do that sometimes.
> > Ate a piece of cherry lattice pie, and one of Key lime. I'm back now.
> > -Chris Stangl
>
> Hey, pie!
Hey pie yourself.
-Chris Stangl
Dagny
>>The real world is horrid and scary indeed. And that is beautiful
Bunk.
Shoseph
Terry Hill wrote:
> on 06 Jun 98, Shoseph wrote...
> >
> >> > Wait, shouldn't this discussion be in alt.games.whitewolf?
> >>
> >> Not really; at least here no one tries to turn any changeling debate into
> >> 'Changeling is shit'.
> >
> > Ain't it true, ain't it true... I unsubscribed for a.g.whitewolf because
> there
> >were too few discussions on Changeling, and actually, there were better
> >conversations on the mush I play in. Plus way too many posts to wade through.
>
> I'm still there, but it can get annoying, what with the immense amount of
> traffic in new Wereraces and the existence of Jess Heinig. There was a
> Changeling: great or crap, debate recently, which I think we won.
Yeah, like Werecow: The Mooing, that was utterly useful. (Whoops, almost said
"udderly." I'm sure I would have been thrown to the wolves... hey I took a line from
a TMBG song, cool!)
Is Jess Heinig the Kindred of the East developer? What's up about his posts?
I saw the Changeling: great or crap thread, but decided not to post because
those people that think it sucks, just don't understand. They'll never get it, and
would rather "kill kill kill!", than actually role play.
> >> TMBG. Those crazy, crazy Eshu...
> >
> > Eshu? Hey that seems pretty right. Though I prefer to see them as really
> good
> >Dreamers.
>
> And the Spiralling Shape? I've always linked that song to the life of a
> Changeling, especially he last verse.
What is the last verse? I don't have that song memorized, and my FS cd is in my
car right now and I'm too lazy to run downstairs, run out into the rain, unlock my
car, and get into the glove compartment.
> Just did some more Mage. Very cool. I think my character may join the
> Verbena...
Yeah baby, witchcraft! Non-banal mages!
-Shoseph, who has a banality of 6, and maybe a glamour of 1.
--
"I just closed my eyes again,
climbed aboard the Dream Weaver's train.
Help me to get away from my worries of the day
help me forget today's pain."
-Gary Wright, "Dream Weaver"
Shoseph
Christopher M. Stangl wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Shoseph wrote:
>
> > Christopher M. Stangl wrote:
> <<snipped stuff about Pez>>
> Lemon, strawberry and peppermint are my favorites. Grape is my
> least favorite, though it's fine too... It's just not as exciting as the
> others.
They have peppermint? Cool!
<<talked about the automatic PEZ dispenser
> Even weirder, in the '50s they marketed Pez Space Guns, which
> looked like these bad-ass rayguns. Very cool. They also had Pez Candy
> Shooters, which looked like regular handguns (though in colors like pink
> and yellow). Also cool.
Wow, they need to bring those back.
> > Damn, that sucks. I would think that the PEZ and the really clean
> > fingernails part would win her over. I'd actually like it if a girl told me
> > that I had really clean fingernails
> > (I'm not mistaking you for a girl Chris, just reversing the sexes in the
> > situation).
>
> I really don't mind being mistaken for a girl.
Which means that you often are?
> > Kinda odd, but it's actually a nice compliment. Tee hee.
>
> One of the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me was "oh my GOD.
> Your EARS! I've never seen ears like that! They're so CLEAN! Oh my god,
> they're like they're perfect ears made out of wax, they just SHINE, and
> they're so CLEAN!" I've had people tell me I've got the cleanest
> fingernails they've ever seen before, too. It is, indeed, a wonderful
> compliment.
A girl I like told me I head awesome never ending dark brown eyes. Normally
I'm complimented on my hair, but this just won me over.
> > > Tried to get invited to high
> > > school graduation parties (failed. I think I creep high schoolers out).
> >
> > Damn, I'd want you to come to all of our parties over here.
>
> I KILL a party. I am the WORST curse a party can imagine. Fun
> stops the second I walk in the door. Everybody starts looking at each
> other uncomfortably, and wondering if it's too soon to leave.
Why? Do you have three arms? Or do you come to parties naked?
> > Not many people have the tendency to creep me out, unless they're
> > wielding sharp objects threateningly.
>
> Yeah, well, I do that sometimes.
What kind of sharp objects?
> > > Ate a piece of cherry lattice pie, and one of Key lime. I'm back now.
> > > -Chris Stangl
> >
> > Hey, pie!
>
> Hey pie yourself.
> -Chris Stangl
I was trying to go back to the sexual preference thing and pie. But oh well.
-Shoseph
--
"Gamera doesn't mean to step on people. He's just lonely. Even turtles get
lonely sometimes."
-unnamed boy, in "Gamera, The Invincible"
shoshanna
> uncomfortable", so she's like "Okay", and I'm all "Naw, I just wanted to
> look at these Francesca Lia Block books...
O Francesca, I sing your praises
Although I didn't like "Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys" too much
Please forgive me for not getting around to reading two of your books yet
What have I been thinking?
I will go to the bookstore tommorrow.
The End.
I met her a few years ago at a book signing. Yay me. :)
Shoshanna
--
***********
http://www2.ucsc.edu/~slove
Superfly
Christopher M. Stangl wrote >
> I guess you could call it that.
> I don't personally differentiate between "real world" and "'net
>world"... Posting here is one of the things I do in my real life, and it
>has a degree of importance in that life... I miss the activity when I
>don't post here, and I DO realize you guys are real people... this IS real
>life.
>
You know, that is how I feel..but then I am responsible and rational about
my internet use.
I don't spend a zillion hours online. I *do* lose quite a bit of sleep
staying up late posting and reading the newsgroup, but I also manage to
raise my three year old, hold down two jobs, pay my bills, and have a
semi-satisfying social life.
and I was never trying to insinuate that any of you were not real people.
You're all dear friends of mine. I'd be upset without you, and I can't go
more than a day without checking on here..even if I don't have time to read
all the posts or respond to all of them.
>
> The real world is horrid and scary indeed. And that is beautiful.
not always. I've been soooo stressed lately.
>
> THAT is what makes it all worthwhile.
> -Chris Stangl, Chris Stangl Groupie
>
I need to have some Trisha Groupies!!!! someone? anyone? taking applications
over here.
~~Trisha
Superfly
Shoseph wrote >
> Hey! I think that if you are raising a three year old, holding two
jobs,
>and still trying to live your life; you deserve a groupie! Plus, you have
a
>cool nose stud and you listen to TMBG! And you like Pez and cheesecake and
>books and movies! Oh and you live in the northwest! You rule, you rule
more
>than... Hank, the angry drunken dwarf! And you'd be in a close tie with
the
>Johns, but the Johns are almost god-like in their own way. You are goddess
like
>in your own way, so maybe you're just in a separate, but equal category
aside
>from Linnell and Flansie. Uh, yeah.
this post made me feel all squooshy inside. thank you. you've made my day.
>
>-Shoseph, a hopeful Trisha groupie.
>
Hopeful? you've got the thing down to a fine art, I think.
~~trisha
PS..I'm saving this post..talk about an ego-booster!
Dagny
>>and get into the glove compartment
great. now everytime i see YOU i'm gonna see you in the glove box.
what's up with that?
? : (
Shoseph
Superfly wrote:
> I need to have some Trisha Groupies!!!! someone? anyone? taking applications
> over here.
> ~~Trisha
Hey! I think that if you are raising a three year old, holding two jobs,
and still trying to live your life; you deserve a groupie! Plus, you have a
cool nose stud and you listen to TMBG! And you like Pez and cheesecake and
books and movies! Oh and you live in the northwest! You rule, you rule more
than... Hank, the angry drunken dwarf! And you'd be in a close tie with the
Johns, but the Johns are almost god-like in their own way. You are goddess like
in your own way, so maybe you're just in a separate, but equal category aside
from Linnell and Flansie. Uh, yeah.
-Shoseph, a hopeful Trisha groupie.
--
"I can no longer sit back and allow communist indoctrination, communist
subversion and the
international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious
bodily fluids."
-Sterling Hayden, in "Doctor Strangelove"
Joey Odorisio
>I need to have some Trisha Groupies!!!! someone? anyone? taking
>applications over here.
I`ll be a Trisha Groupie! :) I`ve visited your web page multiple
times, is that enough of a credential?
- JOEY ODORISIO rgj...@prodigy.com
"You`ve been sad for a while. Why not smile?" - R.E.M., Why Not Smile
Joey Odorisio
>> An' full of a delicious jelly!
>I won't even tell you what this made me think of.
Santa Claus` belly?
- JOEY ODORISIO rgj...@prodigy.com
"Eat Papa, eat! No one wants a skinny Santa." - Mrs. Claus, Rudolph the
Red-Nosed Reindeer
Superfly
Joey Odorisio wrote >
> I`ll be a Trisha Groupie! :) I`ve visited your web page multiple
>times, is that enough of a credential?
Of course..I hereby christen you the second trisha groupie.
I appreciate all this love and attention. Lately I feel like I need it.
:-)
~~Trisha
Christopher M. Stangl
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, SpiderEyes wrote:
> >artists'-conception portraits of every newsgroup member adorning your
> >wall (I drew Paul feeding a rabbit! In soothing pastel tones).
>
> You do realize, now you'll have to tell us all what we look like...
> - SpiderEyes
I drew you in a lush rendition of the Venus De Milo, cloaked in
cobwebs, and perched atop a large black widow. It's very striking.
-Chris Stangl
Christopher M. Stangl
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Superfly wrote:
> Christopher M. Stangl wrote
>
> I won't even tell you what this made me think of.
It was SUPPOSED to make you think of donuts.
-Chris Stangl