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Ben Wolfson
music. Discuss, with a minimum of profanity.
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When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look upon.
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Peter Willard
>Radiohead's webpage and liner notes are more interesting than their
>music. Discuss, with a minimum of profanity.
>
Radiohead makes me nostalgic for 1997. Maybe I'm thinking of Blur, though.
Sure, they're not the same at all, but I think if you put Blur and
Radiohead together, that would be a lot of guys on stage. The Chemical
Brothers, too, they should be in this band that is 1997. I have to laugh at
Matt Drudge when he says ``These kids are the Chemical Brothers'', because
that's so 1997. I wonder if Drudge said something funny about the D.C.
event.
[Context vanishes in 5...4...3...2...1...CONTEXT IS LIFTED...]
Whatever happened to that show ``Onstage at Wolftrap'', anyway?
My favorite band at the moment was on ``Austin City Limits'', locally, two
nights ago. I think they're the ``Texas Tornados''(?), but they have a song
called ``If You've Got the Dinero, I've Got the Camero''. That made me
nostalgic for the Great American Roadtrip, now thoroughly destroyed by MtV
and that Lonely Planet guy. Why travel when you can just watch Ian or the
kids in their RV do it for you?
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almost optimistic in a dangerous way.'' -Erich Hecke
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>Radiohead's webpage and liner notes are more interesting than their
>music. Discuss, with a minimum of profanity.
the radiohead webpage and liner notes are done by stanley donwood^[1].
stanley donwood is a wacky funster.
the enb.
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Stephen Tanner
> Radiohead makes me nostalgic for 1997.
Owww! Nostalgic for 1997? MY NEURONS ARE POPPING LIKE BUBBLEWRAP!
I still have stuff in my fridge from 1997.
My brane only accepts the following inputs for nostalgia:
<--begin fixed-width rambling-->
Who Nostagia setting Comments
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Small child, 3 hours ago Remember when the sun was shining and
Ronald Reagan mom gave us cookies?
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30something 15 years ago Music today sucks. I wish New Order
was still around!
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College student 35 years ago Dude, the new Woodstock was such a
bunch of sellout crap!
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Old people 50 years ago I hear Social Security is in trouble,
but I'm sure it's nothing that
Eisenhower can't handle!
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Nerds, 500 years ago Forsooth! Art thou enjoying THINE
Lord British MEAD? Zounds! I am unemployed! This
would never have happened in
ye goode olde days!
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Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go watch "Babes in Arms", starring Judy
Garland and Mickey Rooney.
And knowing is half the battle
>Radiohead's webpage and liner notes are more interesting than their
>music. Discuss, with a minimum of profanity.
Fuck, shit, damn, crap, mother-fucker!
....
Oh, shazbot! Failed again!
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Schwa Love
>
>>music. Discuss, with a minimum of profanity.
>>
>
>Sure, they're not the same at all, but I think if you put Blur and
>Radiohead together, that would be a lot of guys on stage. The Chemical
>Brothers, too, they should be in this band that is 1997. I have to laugh at
>Matt Drudge when he says ``These kids are the Chemical Brothers'', because
>that's so 1997. I wonder if Drudge said something funny about the D.C.
>event.
Radiohead makes me think more of 93-94... back in their "Creep" days.
Nostalgic for 97 though? Notice how time-frames for nostalgia get shorter and
shorter and shorter? Back in the Renaissance, nostalgia was for the times of
the ancient Greeks. Nowadays, anything older than 5 years is considered
"retro" in many circles. Pretty soon we will pine for the good ol' days of
last week when we were younger and innocent. They were different times
then... NASDAQ wasn't doing quite as bad, Elian didn't videotape his demands,
protests were mellower in the DC area... those were the days my friends.
Everything sucks now and kids today just don't get it and what's with the
music?
I'm waiting for retro-nostalgia retro-nostalgia to take off (I may have
mentioned this concept before):
[SCENE: A group of late 20/early 30-something slackers sitting around a
table]
"Hey man! Remember when we used to sit around and remember the Brady
Bunch?"
"Oh like totally! I remember doing that!"
"Hey me too! I used to sit and remember toys and commercials for stuff
too! Boy that takes me back."
-- Schwa ---
oOSCHWAOo. .oOSCHWAOo. .oOSCHWAOo. .oOSCHWAOo. . schw...@hotmail.com
"I had a bad day. I had to subvert my principles and kowtow to an id-
iot. Television makes these daily sacrifices possible. Deadens the
inner core of my being." - Matthew Slaughter - TRUST
Ben Wolfson
wrote:
>Radiohead makes me think more of 93-94... back in their "Creep" days.
>Nostalgic for 97 though? Notice how time-frames for nostalgia get shorter and
>shorter and shorter? Back in the Renaissance, nostalgia was for the times of
>the ancient Greeks. Nowadays, anything older than 5 years is considered
>"retro" in many circles. Pretty soon we will pine for the good ol' days of
>last week when we were younger and innocent.
YM "http://www.theonion.com/onion3214/usretro.html"
HTH!
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Is this going to be another episode where you have to be sodomized
with the Clue Branch before you shut up and admit you're wrong?
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Ben Wolfson
half the battle) wrote:
>Oh, shazbot! Failed again!
^^^^^^^
My brane will not function until someone reminds me of where that
comes from.
Does it have something to do with red dwarf? because that's what it
reminds me of.
Also, both of those sentences ended in prepositions. Fuck.
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Ibi nullus timet mortem
Sed pro Baccho mittunt sortem
-- Carmina Burana
Schwa Love
>wrote:
>
>>Radiohead makes me think more of 93-94... back in their "Creep" days.
>>Nostalgic for 97 though? Notice how time-frames for nostalgia get shorter and
>
>>shorter and shorter? Back in the Renaissance, nostalgia was for the times of
>>the ancient Greeks. Nowadays, anything older than 5 years is considered
>>"retro" in many circles. Pretty soon we will pine for the good ol' days of
>>last week when we were younger and innocent.
>
>YM "http://www.theonion.com/onion3214/usretro.html"
>
>HTH!
Ah. See... that was my nostalgic homage to that article. That's the ticket.
In all seriousness, I'd never seen that before. It's kind of odd though that
people get nostalgic already for the 90's pop culture, even though the 90's
didn't really have much of one... it was mostly the previous five decades
shoved in a blender and made into a day-glo flannel casserole.
Lexicon:
In the 90's when we said: We meant:
------------------------- ---------
Rave Disco
Smart Drinks Tang
Information Superhighway Ham radio
Grunge music Slow punk with a different
bass-line. Less hatred of
the external and more
hatred of the internal.
X Acid that makes you take your
clothes off for different
reasons.
Retro Happy Days
Marilyn Manson Kiss
Global Village "I'd like to buy the world a
Coke, and keep it company."
Teen angst The blues
-- Schwa ---
oOSCHWAOo. .oOSCHWAOo. .oOSCHWAOo. .oOSCHWAOo. . schw...@hotmail.com
"And I think to myself, what a wonderful world..."
(World may not actually be wonderful. Odds of wonder 1 in 7. Please
consult official rules for details.)
Peter Willard
Tanner wrote???:
>[...]
>> Radiohead makes me nostalgic for 1997.
>[...]
>
>Owww! Nostalgic for 1997? MY NEURONS ARE POPPING LIKE BUBBLEWRAP!
>
Yeh, 1997 had something going for it that 1999, nevermind 2000, just didn't
have. A certain savoir faire perhaps.
>I still have stuff in my fridge from 1997.
I'm starting to feel a little bit of nostalgia for Spring of 1999, also.
What was 1998 all about? I don't know. The 1980s may as well be the 1880s.
The 1780s, now that's a decade!
>
>My brane only accepts the following inputs for nostalgia:
>
><--begin fixed-width rambling-->
>Who Nostagia setting Comments
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--- --
>Small child, 3 hours ago Remember when the sun was shining
>and Ronald Reagan mom gave us cookies?
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--- -
I know one 4-year-old who is nostalgic for whenever the last trip to Fred
Meyer was.
>30something 15 years ago Music today sucks. I wish New
>Order
> was still around!
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
After trying to watch ``Trainwatching'' I had ``Temptation'' in my head for
a while and I said, ``No, I've never met anyone quite like you before.''
inappropriately. That means I'm, like, so old.
>--- -
>College student 35 years ago Dude, the new Woodstock was such
>a
> bunch of sellout crap!
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--- -
You don't have to be old to dispise that biscuit group. Wait, this list
isn't in the usual chronological sequence...
Alex Suter
>lot...@aol.comaol.com. (And knowing is half the battle) wrote:
>>Oh, shazbot! Failed again!
> ^^^^^^^
>
>My brane will not function until someone reminds me of where that
>comes from.
Here's another hint, "Nanoo nanoo."
Also, if you're made entirely of histamines, and you take
an anti-histamine, you get really, really, really small.
Also, I drove by the house in Boulder that was used for all
(one) of the exterior shots of where they lived.
Also, same as it ever was.
--
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"Step 2: Snorkel the animals."
Peter Willard
Schwa Love wrote???:
>And so then, in like article <8F18D42D0b...@207.211.168.82>,
>pe...@drizzle.com (Peter Willard) was all like:
>>What was Ben Wolfson thinking circa Mon, 17 Apr 2000 03:25:05 GMT???:
>>
>>>Radiohead's webpage and liner notes are more interesting than their
>>>music. Discuss, with a minimum of profanity.
>>>
>>
>>Radiohead makes me nostalgic for 1997. Maybe I'm thinking of Blur,
>>though. Sure, they're not the same at all, but I think if you put Blur
>>and Radiohead together, that would be a lot of guys on stage. The
>>Chemical Brothers, too, they should be in this band that is 1997. I
>>have to laugh at Matt Drudge when he says ``These kids are the Chemical
>>Brothers'', because that's so 1997. I wonder if Drudge said something
>>funny about the D.C. event.
>
>Radiohead makes me think more of 93-94... back in their "Creep" days.
I still like ``Karma Police'' even if it's so over.
>Nostalgic for 97 though? Notice how time-frames for nostalgia get
>shorter and shorter and shorter? Back in the Renaissance, nostalgia was
>for the times of the ancient Greeks. Nowadays, anything older than 5
>years is considered "retro" in many circles.
Five years? That's beyond all recall!
>Pretty soon we will pine
>for the good ol' days of last week when we were younger and innocent.
>They were different times then... NASDAQ wasn't doing quite as bad,
NASDAQ has definitely become more strident in its tone. It needs to mellow-
out.
>Elian didn't videotape his demands, protests were mellower in the DC
Aren't you nostalgic for the first week of the Illian/Ellian/Alien story?
>area... those were the days my friends. Everything sucks now and kids
>today just don't get it and what's with the music?
>
What music? Do they even make recordings of bands anymore? Are there any
bands these days? Sometimes it seems like the kids just make videotapes of
each other fighting or driving and that's a t.v. show to them.
>I'm waiting for retro-nostalgia retro-nostalgia to take off (I may have
>mentioned this concept before):
>
>[SCENE: A group of late 20/early 30-something slackers sitting around a
>table]
>
Will 20-year-olds always be called ``gen-x slackers'' from now on until the
end of time?
> "Hey man! Remember when we used to sit around and remember the Brady
>Bunch?"
>
> "Oh like totally! I remember doing that!"
>
> "Hey me too! I used to sit and remember toys and commercials for
> stuff
>too! Boy that takes me back."
Who, in the name of G*d, was nostalgic for ``Emergency''??? Seeing that on
the re-runs forced me to remember the cartoon version. What a strange
burden.
Peter Willard
wrote???:
>Thus spake Ben Wolfson <rumju...@home.com>:
>>lot...@aol.comaol.com. (And knowing is half the battle) wrote:
>>>Oh, shazbot! Failed again!
>> ^^^^^^^
>>
>>My brane will not function until someone reminds me of where that
>>comes from.
>
>Here's another hint, "Nanoo nanoo."
>
>Also, if you're made entirely of histamines, and you take
>an anti-histamine, you get really, really, really small.
>
>Also, I drove by the house in Boulder that was used for all
>(one) of the exterior shots of where they lived.
>
>Also, same as it ever was.
>
>
Also, I am wearing rainbow'd suspenders.
Darla
> Fuck, shit, damn, crap, mother-fucker!
You kiss your momma with that mouth, boy? Do ya?
Darla
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Greg Neill
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> In article <CEGK4.732$Mq2.1...@den-news1.rmi.net>, schw...@hotmail.com
> (Schwa Love) wrote:
>
> > Nowadays, anything older than 5 years is considered
of
> >last week when we were younger and innocent. They were different times
> >then...
>
> Zappa once talking about this. Those were the days, back when people
> remembered when Frank Zappa was reminiscing about when nostalgia was
> better than it had become.
I guess nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Beable van Polasm
pe...@drizzle.com (Peter Willard) wrote:
> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:22:14 GMT <sfm06sc...@corp.supernews.com>
> Stephen Tanner wrote???:
>
> >[...]
> >
> >Owww! Nostalgic for 1997? MY NEURONS ARE POPPING LIKE BUBBLEWRAP!
> >
> Yeh, 1997 had something going for it that 1999, nevermind 2000, just
> didn't have. A certain savoir faire perhaps.
IF YOU'LL EXCUSE THE FRENCH!!!!
> >I still have stuff in my fridge from 1997.
Well don't you think it's time you cleaned it out,
you grubby little man? I'm planning on throwing
out all the 1997 stuff from my fridge REAL SOON NOW!
> I'm starting to feel a little bit of nostalgia for Spring of 1999,
> also.
> What was 1998 all about? I don't know. The 1980s may as well be the
> 1880s. The 1780s, now that's a decade!
NO IT WASN'T! If you could COUNT UP TO ZERO you would
KNOW that the 1780's wasn't a decade AT ALL but was in
fact the last two years of one decade and the first nine
years of another decade!!!! SO STOP TROLLERISING!!!!!111
cheers
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Matt McIrvin
> Nowadays, anything older than 5 years is considered
>"retro" in many circles. Pretty soon we will pine for the good ol' days of
>last week when we were younger and innocent. They were different times
>then...
Man, I remember the day when I read about somebody reminiscing about Frank
Zappa once talking about this. Those were the days, back when people
remembered when Frank Zappa was reminiscing about when nostalgia was
better than it had become.
--
Matt McIrvin http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/
The
>Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:13:58 GMT <CEGK4.732$Mq2.1...@den-news1.rmi.net>
>Schwa Love wrote???:
>
>>table]
>>
>Will 20-year-olds always be called ``gen-x slackers'' from now on until the
>end of time?
I think it'll probably be as acceptable to refer to someone from that
generation as a "slacker" as it is to refer to the earlier generation
as a "boomer." I can imagine, in about 30 years, when the time comes
to ELECT THE PREDISENT !! and one of the candidates is from what we
called "Generation X" waaay back in the 20th century, and on "Meet the
Press" they'll say, "George H. Bush represents the slacker vote."
Wouldn't that just be riddled with irony? The slacker vote?
Still, it's a better name than "The Lost Generation."
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Ben Wolfson
[on generation x]
>Still, it's a better name than "The Lost Generation."
No it isn't. "The Lost Generation" at least implies an amount of
existential angst that "Generation X" can only dream about.
"Generation X" is either
1. A very silly superhero
1. A wu name
1. The title of a 70s porn retrospective
1. The title of a rave scene documentary
1. The title of a miniseries on plant life, after Generation IX and
before Generation XI
1. The title
Whereas "The Lost Generation" can only be one of
r. hokey set-in-the-fifties, made-in-the-seventies teeVee show
j. a moofy about Camus and Sartre, before they turned evil
r. nabisco
So clearly "The Lost Generation" wins.
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First we cook, then we chill.
-- Jordan Fox
And knowing is half the battle
>And knowing is half the battle wrote:
>
>> Fuck, shit, damn, crap, mother-fucker!
>
>
>You kiss your momma with that mouth, boy? Do ya?
No. I kiss YOUR momma with that mouth.
Ben Wolfson
half the battle) wrote:
>>From: "Darla" darl...@sprint.ca
>
>>And knowing is half the battle wrote:
>>
>>> Fuck, shit, damn, crap, mother-fucker!
>>
>>
>>You kiss your momma with that mouth, boy? Do ya?
>
>No. I kiss YOUR momma with that mouth.
BUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!1!!1!1!
You gonna take that from him, Darla?
--
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I foresee that man will each day resign himself to new abominations,
and that soon only bandits and soldiers will be left.
-- Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of the Forking Paths"
Darla
> >From: "Darla" darl...@sprint.ca
>
> >And knowing is half the battle wrote:
> >
> >> Fuck, shit, damn, crap, mother-fucker!
> >
> >
> >You kiss your momma with that mouth, boy? Do ya?
>
> No. I kiss YOUR momma with that mouth.
Oh! Well that's all right then.
Darla
--- But I'd think about some TicTacs. She died six years ago.
Peter Willard
>pe...@drizzle.com (Peter Willard) wrote:
>>Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:13:58 GMT <CEGK4.732$Mq2.1...@den-news1.rmi.net>
>>Schwa Love wrote???:
>>
>>>[SCENE: A group of late 20/early 30-something slackers sitting around
>>>a table]
>>>
>>Will 20-year-olds always be called ``gen-x slackers'' from now on until
>>the end of time?
>
>I think it'll probably be as acceptable to refer to someone from that
>generation as a "slacker" as it is to refer to the earlier generation
>as a "boomer."
I mean that there have been two or three batches of people passing through
their twenties that have been labelled with this X name, is X going to
replace the number twenty? People have t0uble with Roman numerals as it is.
When I was in the twenties ``They'' said ``slacker'', now that I'm leaving
the twenties, I've been called a ``boomer'' more than once. Which is
incredibly stupid, since I was not born in those high birth rate years, but
is it common? Is this a shorthand for ``paying off like a slot machine''? I
must look incredibly old.
Peter Willard
>On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 03:37:28 GMT, bodhi...@yifan.net (The) wrote:
>
>[on generation x]
>
>>Still, it's a better name than "The Lost Generation."
>
>No it isn't. "The Lost Generation" at least implies an amount of
>existential angst that "Generation X" can only dream about.
Dreams of...angst? OK, we all have our special dream. The problem is that
the X is undefined. The first book about ``Generation X'' was written about
the delinquency problem in the fifties, so this label just slides along and
gets stuck on whoever happens to be in their late teens/early twenties.
What's funny are younger people calling me a ``baby boomer'' because I saw
Star Wars when it was released. I really prefer numerical labels for ages,
rather than these useless, but strangely loaded terms. Renew! Renew!
Tim Serpas
>On 17 Apr 2000 15:51:53 GMT, lot...@aol.comaol.com. (And knowing is
>half the battle) wrote:
>
>>Oh, shazbot! Failed again!
> ^^^^^^^
>
>My brane will not function until someone reminds me of where that
>comes from.
Starsiege: Tribes.
>Does it have something to do with red dwarf? because that's what it
>reminds me of.
>
>Also, both of those sentences ended in prepositions. Fuck.
And that one ends with a proposition.
Wretch
Joseph Michael Bay
Hey, does anyone remember when Matt McIrvin was talking about how
he remembered the day when he read something about someone reminiscing
about Frank Zappa talking about when nostalgia was better than it had
become? That was really cool, far better than this degenerate age.
--
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Putting the "harm" in the "Molecular Pharmacology" since 1997
(Oo) Someone you love is One of Us. (oO)
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Beable van Polasm
pe...@drizzle.com (Peter Willard) wrote:
> The schreef in berichtnieuws...
>
> >pe...@drizzle.com (Peter Willard) wrote:
> >>Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:13:58 GMT
<CEGK4.732$Mq2.1...@den-news1.rmi.net>
> >>Schwa Love wrote???:
> >>
> >>>[SCENE: A group of late 20/early 30-something slackers sitting
> >>>around
> >>>a table]
> >>>
> >>Will 20-year-olds always be called ``gen-x slackers'' from now on
> >>until
> >>the end of time?
> >
> >I think it'll probably be as acceptable to refer to someone from that
> >generation as a "slacker" as it is to refer to the earlier generation
> >as a "boomer."
>
> I mean that there have been two or three batches of people passing
> through
> their twenties that have been labelled with this X name, is X going to
> replace the number twenty? People have t0uble with Roman numerals as
> it is.
Not me! But then, I LIKE COOCNUT!!!
> When I was in the twenties
I was a FLAPPER! I used to go to all those "tea shops" and
drink gin out of teacups and dance in that funny straight-
armed way.
> ``They'' said ``slacker'', now that I'm
> leaving the twenties,
D000000000000000000000000000000000000D!! You are SO OUT OF IT!
I'm in the TWENTY-FIRST CENT00RY and the THIRD MELLINIUM and
you are JUST NOW leaving the TWENTIES???? GET WITH IT D00000D!
Also, SELL ALL YOUR STOCKS AND SHARES! THERE'S GONNA BE A
CRASH! AND A DEPRESSION!
> I've been called a ``boomer'' more than once. Which is
funny because a "boomer" is another name for a nukular
missile submarine. Or a big kangaroo. SIX! WHITE! BOOMERS!
DEEDLY DEE! I'M JAKE THE PEG! DEEDLE DEEDLE DUM! WITH MY
EXTRA LEG! FNARR FNARR SNRK SNRK! Remember Rolf Harris?
THE GOODIES DO! GOOODIIIIIIIES! Goody goody yum yum!
> incredibly stupid, since I was not born in those high birth rate
> years, but is it common?
Maybe it's some sort of USAian "WE MUST LABEL EVERYBODY" thing.
In Austria, I've never actually heard anybody referred to as
a "boomer" or a "gen exer". Except on TeeVee, or as a JOKE. I do
find the USAian method of labeling people things like "Asian
American" or "African American" or "Austrian American" a bit
distrubing. In Austria, if somebody immigrates, they get called
a "FUKKEN FOREIGNER!!!" until they go down to the council chambers
one day and have their naturalisation ceremony. Then they are an
"Australian". Sure, sometimes they might get called a "wop" or a
"dago" or a "chink" or a "slope" or a "gook" or a "pommy", "yank",
"kraut", "frog", "eye-tie" or some other name. BUT THAT'S JUST
FOR FUN!!!! They don't get called an "English Australian" or
something after they get naturalised. POMMY BASTARD, yeah sure!
> Is this a shorthand for ``paying off like a slot machine''? I
> must look incredibly old.
STOPSEARCHENGINEBOMBINGME!
cheers
Beable van Paying Off Like A Slot Machine
Mark Hill
> Ben Wolfson <rumju...@home.com> wrote:
> >On 17 Apr 2000 15:51:53 GMT, lot...@aol.comaol.com. (And knowing is
> >half the battle) wrote:
> >
> >>Oh, shazbot! Failed again!
> > ^^^^^^^
> >
> >My brane will not function until someone reminds me of where that
> >comes from.
>
> Starsiege: Tribes.
yes! yes!
Roger Douglas (new Durian Recipe)
...
>What's funny are younger people calling me a ``baby boomer'' because I saw
>Star Wars when it was released. I really prefer numerical labels for ages,
>rather than these useless, but strangely loaded terms. Renew! Renew!
Hey, I saw Star Wars when it was first released, too.
Then again, I saw Forbidden Planet when it was first released.
Would that have been before or after the first episode of Dr.Who? Anyhow I
saw that too.
Also, in a robot fight Robbie the Robot would kick C3P0's ass.
--R.
Roger Douglas (new Durian Recipe)
>Matt McIrvin <mmci...@world.std.com> wrote in message
>news:mmcirvin-170...@ppp0b009.std.com...
...
>> Man, I remember the day when I read about somebody reminiscing about Frank
>> Zappa once talking about this. Those were the days, back when people
>> remembered when Frank Zappa was reminiscing about when nostalgia was
>> better than it had become.
>
>I guess nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
>
INTO THE OBVIOUS BAG, YOUNG MAN! AND DON'T COME OUT UNTIL YOU'VE CLEANED UP
THE MESS IN THERE! AND I WANT ALL THOSE GRAFFITI REMOVED!
--R.
Roger Douglas (new Durian Recipe)
>mmci...@world.std.com (Matt McIrvin) writes:
>
>>In article <CEGK4.732$Mq2.1...@den-news1.rmi.net>, schw...@hotmail.com
>>(Schwa Love) wrote:
>
>>> Nowadays, anything older than 5 years is considered
>>>"retro" in many circles. Pretty soon we will pine for the good ol' days of
>>>last week when we were younger and innocent. They were different times
>>>then...
>
>>Man, I remember the day when I read about somebody reminiscing about Frank
>>Zappa once talking about this. Those were the days, back when people
>>remembered when Frank Zappa was reminiscing about when nostalgia was
>>better than it had become.
>
>
>Hey, does anyone remember when Matt McIrvin was talking about how
>he remembered the day when he read something about someone reminiscing
>about Frank Zappa talking about when nostalgia was better than it had
>become? That was really cool, far better than this degenerate age.
Matt McIrvin ... Matt McIrvin ... name rings a bell ... was he that guy who
messed up the weather one year? No, wait, that was Ian York, wasn't it.
Or was it Gard Trask? No he was the guy had the shit fight with Jaffo.
Or was it Wednesday? No she was the lady who made the fudge brownies, wasn't
she? Or was that Lisa Pea?
What was the question?
I think I'll just have a bit of a sleep now.
--R.
Schwa Love
Yes, well so could Twiki, any remote control robot used to promote seat belt
or fire safety at mall shows for kids, RockemSockem Robots, the presidents
from Disneyland's Hall of Presidents, the flurry robot band from Showbiz
pizza, and that little wind-up robot in Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
and half of them can't even reach C3P0's ass.
Robbie could kick all their asses though because I proved it on
RetroRoboFighterII on Playstation.
-- Schwa --- I am not a nerd or a crackpot. I am a nerdpot.
Logan Shaw
Schwa Love <schw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>In hivemind manifesto amendment number <38fe68c7...@news.zipworld.com.au>, rdou...@zipworld.com.au (Roger Douglas (new Durian Recipe)) was all like:
>>Also, in a robot fight Robbie the Robot would kick C3P0's ass.
>
>Yes, well so could Twiki, any remote control robot used to promote seat belt
>or fire safety at mall shows for kids, RockemSockem Robots, the presidents
>from Disneyland's Hall of Presidents, the flurry robot band from Showbiz
>pizza, and that little wind-up robot in Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
>and half of them can't even reach C3P0's ass.
But what about Sam the Robot from Sesame Street? It would be a close
match between him and C3P0. I'm not sure whether or not it would be
advantageous in a fight to have a mouth/head made of cymbals...
- Logan
Joseph Michael Bay
>Also, in a robot fight Robbie the Robot would kick C3P0's ass.
Haw. In a robot fight AIBO would kick C3PO's ass.
Dean Lenort
> > Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:22:14 GMT <sfm06sc...@corp.supernews.com>
> > Stephen Tanner wrote???:
> > >I still have stuff in my fridge from 1997.
>
> Well don't you think it's time you cleaned it out,
> you grubby little man? I'm planning on throwing
> out all the 1997 stuff from my fridge REAL SOON NOW!
And now, A TRUE STORY TO DISGUST YOU ALL.
I decided last weekend that I'd like to have some eggs for breakfast. The
frying pan was heating up nicely and their were still five eggs from the
half dozen I'd purchased in December or January that looked to still be
good as they were still all white on the outside and expiration dates have
never meant a whole lot to me. When I went to crack that first one open
it didn't want to give so I sort of ripped a section of the egg open and
proceded to pour the green and black mess within onto the nice hot
skillet.
I'm not sure if the color or the odor was worse. And the taste? Simply
awful.
Okay, I really didn't eat 'em because even I have limits. After that
little incident I was forced to switch to cereal but I really coulda eaten
'em after all, because hey, eggs.
--
Dean Lenort dean....@att.net
"Here, have a lutefisk. ><>" - Lupus Yonderboy
Peter Willard
>In article <xQiL4.1487$wA2....@den-news1.rmi.net>,
>Schwa Love <schw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>In hivemind manifesto amendment number
>><38fe68c7...@news.zipworld.com.au>, rdou...@zipworld.com.au
>>(Roger Douglas (new Durian Recipe)) was all like:
>>>Also, in a robot fight Robbie the Robot would kick C3P0's ass.
>>
>>Yes, well so could Twiki
So could Dr. Theopolis, if you threw him hard enough.
Small quibble, but Twiki is an ``Amuquad'' (``Quad'' for short), not a
robot.
>>, any remote control robot used to promote seat
>>belt or fire safety at mall shows for kids, RockemSockem Robots, the
>>presidents from Disneyland's Hall of Presidents, the flurry robot band
>>from Showbiz pizza, and that little wind-up robot in Close Encounters
>>of the Third Kind, and half of them can't even reach C3P0's ass.
>
The more I think about this, the less sure I am, because if you mess with
threepeeoh, watch your back, cause aretoodeetoo is going to get pay-back
big-time.
I bet 3PO would be even against one TOBOR.
Roger Douglas (new Durian Recipe)
>rdou...@zipworld.com.au (Roger Douglas (new Durian Recipe)) writes:
>
>>Also, in a robot fight Robbie the Robot would kick C3P0's ass.
>
>Haw. In a robot fight AIBO would kick C3PO's ass.
More likely bite C3P0's ass.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure C3P0 even HAD an ass. Not that I tend to
pay close attention to robots' asses, you understand. Or to any part of a
robot, in fact. What do you think I am, some sort of SICKO PREVERT????
Though that Maria in Metropolis was worth a look!!
Incidentally, was C3P0 meant to represent some sort of gay stereotype? With
that pansy voice and the mincing walk and everything?
--R.
Andrew Jeanes
Stephen Tanner <dumpl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>[...]
>> Radiohead makes me nostalgic for 1997.
>[...]
>
>Owww! Nostalgic for 1997? MY NEURONS ARE POPPING LIKE BUBBLEWRAP!
>
Oh yeah? I still have posts from 1997 that I keep marking as unread.
Jay C. Jachimiak's GNSc timetravelling newsreader makes it possible.
>Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go watch "Babes in Arms", starring Judy
>Garland and Mickey Rooney.
That reminds me, please write more stories about her, Satan, an
infinite number of marbles and toilets.
Andrew "preferably in Esperanto" Jeanes
--
"Sea language would be a very terse and economical speech if the
Old Man didn't lose the advantage by padding it with unnecessary
expletives." --Robert Cushman Murphy, _Logbook for Grace_
Dean Lenort
Recipe)) beabled:
> Come to think of it, I'm not sure C3P0 even HAD an ass. Not that I tend to
> pay close attention to robots' asses, you understand. Or to any part of a
> robot, in fact. What do you think I am, some sort of SICKO PREVERT????
> Though that Maria in Metropolis was worth a look!!
Before this thread degenerates into a discussion on the relative merits of
the movie _Cherry 2000_ I'd just like to say HITLER HITLER HITLER HITLER!
Oh, and in case you missed it, HITLER!
--
Dean Lenort | Do Kibologists dream of electric dolphins,
dean....@att.net | or of inflatable sheep? -- K.
And knowing is half the battle
>
>> Come to think of it, I'm not sure C3P0 even HAD an ass. Not that I tend to
>> pay close attention to robots' asses, you understand. Or to any part of a
>> robot, in fact. What do you think I am, some sort of SICKO PREVERT????
>> Though that Maria in Metropolis was worth a look!!
>
>Before this thread degenerates into a discussion on the relative merits of
>the movie _Cherry 2000_ I'd just like to say HITLER HITLER HITLER HITLER!
>Oh, and in case you missed it, HITLER!
Hitler had a nice ass.
Louis Nick III
>Matt McIrvin ... Matt McIrvin ... name rings a bell ... was he that guy who
>messed up the weather one year? No, wait, that was Ian York, wasn't it.
>Or was it Gard Trask? No he was the guy had the shit fight with Jaffo.
>Or was it Wednesday? No she was the lady who made the fudge brownies, wasn't
>she? Or was that Lisa Pea?
>What was the question?
>I think I'll just have a bit of a sleep now.
No, no, wake right back up. It's Monday, time for your onion jelly.
You and your fantasies about fudge brownies changing the weather. Why don't
you tell us more about the war, Colonel. That'll wind you down.