Bob Retrospective
Scott Dorsey
for frost.bob.2. Some people are having trouble convincing the people
with whom they are in relationships to attend. So, in an attempt to
remind people about the fun that has been had at such events, I hereby
post a summary of the discussion following the bob here:
]Subject: Re: east.bob
]Date: 17 Feb 1993 02:12:07 GMT
]Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc., Billerica, MA.
]Lines: 15
]
]In article 1lr4g7...@rave.larc.nasa.gov, klu...@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
]>In article <1993Feb14.2...@nwnexus.WA.COM> l...@halcyon.com (jeff carroll) writes:
]>>person who drove farthest: Gerald
]>
]>And we do have pity upon him.
]
]Well, maybe a little, but I was all ready to accept the award (Boston,
]actually slighly norther) and all of a sudden there was Gerald coming
]through the door.
]
]I think I may have made his girlfriend nervous, so it's okay.
]
]-Tom Hopkins <hop...@turbo.east.sun.com>
]From: o...@wilbur.unh.edu (Bart Simps.. er.. Oktay Ahiska)
]Subject: Re: I didn't go. So shoot me.
]Date: 16 Feb 93 20:37:53
]Organization: Springfield Elementary School
]Lines: 33
]X-Advertisement: Use Emacs
]Comments: If you think eduaction is expensive, try ignorance.
]
]Picasso-puss <an...@canetoad.UUCP> writes:
]
]= the bob sounded fun.
][etc]
]= the weather sucked.
]
]Incidentally, I decided to go, and did so at the very last minute. I
]was supposed to meet Diana on friday, and go to VA on saturday with
]her and her friends. She's in New Heaven, about 4 hrs from me. For
]various reasons, I couldn't leave till around 9pm which would be ok on
]a normal day, but it was snowing real bad, up here. Oh well. I was
]crazy, and I thought the road (I-95!!) would be fine. I drove for
]about 35 miles, when the conditions seemed to improve, and the snow
]turned to rain (but freezing rain as I later found out.) I sped up a
]bit, and was doing 45 or 50 mph, when all of a sudden, I started
]seeing the opposite lane in front of me, and the ditch that was on the
]right was now on my back, getting closer and closer. I said "there you
]go... you're no longer a car-crash virgin" to myself. But it turned
]out that I spoke too early, as there were no other cars around, and
]there was a lot of snow by the side of the road. I hit the snow, and
]stopped right before the ditch. I got out of my car, cited my favorite
]prayer, and interpreted this as a sign that while it's ok to be crazy,
]it's definitely not ok to be stupid. I tried for about 10 minutes to
]break free of the snow, and when I finally did, went back home.
]
]But shit. I would have liked to come.
]
]Next time on Shoot Me: My Valentine's Day Adventures. (NOT!)
]
]--
]...so the whole story is completely untrue... big hoax! ha ha ha....
]From: SEN...@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
]Subject: Um, Q-Tips (shamelessly, no less)
]Message-ID: <16B7712FF...@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
]Organization: Yale University
]Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 21:36:55 EST
]Lines: 7
]
]At the Bob, three people (including myself) confessed that we liked sticking
]Q-Tips into our ears and pulling them out with a nice gooey smear of wax. We
]had Q-Tips bestowed upon us for our joy. I still have mine; not for
]sentimental reasons, but because I haven't yet gotten around to throwing it
]out.
]
]Diana
]From: JON...@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
]Subject: Re: Things which people forgot to take home after the Bob
]Organization: Yale University
]Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 00:41:30 EST
]Lines: 18
]
]In article <1lm3nf...@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
]klu...@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
]
]>
]>1. A coat
]>2. A guitar
]>3. A hat
]>4. Two rosewood percussion instruments
]>5. A Pente/Go board
]>6. Gooley
]>
]>--scott
]#6 has been taken care of, he now lays dreamily in my daughters crib, awaiting
]his next squirt of breastmilk. Sarah
]From: n...@birch.CS.Berkeley.EDU (posting for morrisas)
]Subject: Bobbing in Virginia
]Date: 17 Feb 93 17:54:52
]Organization: /home/auspex/h/bair/nj/.organization
]Lines: 86
]
]True things about our weekend in Virginia:
]
]First off, get the record straight in the distance-travelled-
]to-get-to-the-BOB-dicksize-war: nj and I, hailing from Berkeley,
]California, travelled the farthest.
]
]AJD sent a cool game that was admired by all, but which we were
]not organized enough to play.
]
]Virginia has many Pancake houses and steakeries. Didn't
]see any Cambodian restaurants or Taquerias, tho'.
]
]There were many guitars, but I think Paul's sky blue guitar
]wins.
]
]In Virginia, they have no drought, and you can waste water.
]
]Yong-Mi is too cool to live in her darling black Audrey Hepburn
]hat.
]
]Virginia has extraordinary signs. We saw such
]wonders as "Massaponax" (surely some ailment related
]to anthrax), "Ni River" (where all the knights hang out),
]"Road Boring" (well, actually, we thought they were being
]a bit self denegrating), Dumfries (hey, what do you
]expect from potatoes?), and Gallows Road, where I want to
]die someday.
]
]Richh looks hot in his leather jacket.
]
]Don't ever try to rent a car with cash instead of credit.
]
]I like Zvi a lot.
]
]Dominus looks smashing as a red bearded Trotsky.
]
]Williamsburg and Jamestown have restored late 1700's towns
]complete with regalia and craftsmen shops. JoeBob Sherman
]sez, check it out.
]
]nj and I slept with Gypsy. Beg as you might, no gifs will be
]posted.
]
]The snowplows in DC sure do good work. Driving was no problem.
]
]Jem gives great eye-roll.
]
]I think the squeegee gelatinous suck packs shaped like little
]guitars were definitely produced at X industries, despite the
]mysterious Asian lettering on the side.
]
]Talking and singing in the back room with everyone was
]worth the airfare. The only reason the door was shut was so
]we could play different music from the guitars in the front
]room. There is no Cabal (TM).
]
]Rob Dobson abandoned us early in the evening to go see Clinton
]play.
]
]The seltzer was bright green.
]
]Jon Vail cooked burgers in a welding mask.
]
]Paul Lord, Chris Adams, StarCap'n Ra, Jenny the English Major,
]Zed, Tom Boutell, Gerald Oskoboiny, and Morgan are all utterly splendid
]individuals.
]
]Scott has bright orange batons that moan eerily.
]
]Markian gives great hugs and brews extraordinary stout.
]
]Everyone who showed up from the alt.non.sequiter crew were
]very pretty humans.
]
]Kibo, along with Christopher Lloyd, is actually a toon
]disguised as a person.
]
]And Scott Dorsey was brave and kind indeed to host so
]large and late an affair in his home. It was wonderful,
]and I'm very pleased we were given the opportunity.
]
]Thank you, Sir!
]
]--
]nj, posting for Morr...@Autodesk.com. i thought it was all about ice cream.
]From: ad...@isis.cshl.org (Chris Adams)
]Subject: bob-bob-bobbin' along
]Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
]Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 04:41:56 GMT
]Lines: 37
]
]I wasn't going to post one of these,
]but what the hell...
]
]
]
]Things that I liked:
]nearly everyone
]gooleybrew
]yong-mi's hat
]scott's generosity
]playing silly road-games
] on the trip home
]the back room
]
]
]
]Things that were actually bizarre:
]
]gooley shooting up
]the weird edible plastic guitars
]kibo
]that thing I ate that no one would
] identify
]
]
]
]Things I didn't care for:
]
]blowing over $100 in one weekend
]the worst pancake restaurant I've
] ever patronized
]that thing I ate that no one would
] identify
]
]From: pl...@hub.cs.jmu.edu (Paul Lord)
]Subject: Re: east.bob
]Date: 17 Feb 1993 23:17:54 -0600
]Organization: James Madison University
]Lines: 32
]
]In article <1lr4g7...@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge wrote:
]: In article <1993Feb14.2...@nwnexus.WA.COM> l...@halcyon.com (jeff carroll) writes:
]: >youngest person in attendance, as far as we could tell: plord's grilfriend
]
]: Actually, my girlfriend may have been younger. She was hiding out in the
]: bedroom trying to avoid all the wierd people, though. Oskoboiny's also
]: looked to be close to the jailbait range.
]
]Whoa, whoa, before this gets any further, everybody remember to
]M-x-replace "plord's grilfriend" "morgan". Sheesh.
]
]To settle any outstanding wagers, Morgan is, as of this posting, 20 years,
]one month, six weeks, and a few minutes old, and counting. Please adjust
]for your timezone.
]
]: >oldest technology at Scott's house: hibachi
]: Our engineers have finally perfected fire. We are currently working on
]: another project called the "wheel" but don't believe it to be marketable
]: and will soon be dropping development work.
]
]Somewhere in the middle of my battles with this "fire" thing and the
]personalized slabs of Hamlet's dear departed bovine buddy, I managed to miss
]entirely the fact that kibo was in attendance, dammit. Who else did I
]manage to miss getting introduced to?
]
]Hey, Kibo! I was the guy in the purple shirt with the hair. Maybe next time.
]
]Paul
]--
]In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
]From: ki...@wam.umd.edu (Yong-Mi Kim)
]Subject: z-bob, z-bob
]Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
]Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 06:27:16 GMT
]Lines: 16
]
]Among the many fine individuals I met at east.bob were two
]fellows named Zed and Zvi.
]
]So after I got back I kept muttering to myself "Zed, Zvi,"
]"Zvi, Zed." You see, there being no "Z" sounds of either
]kind in Korean, I found those names took conscious effort
]from my part to pronounce correctly. Rather perverse,
]really, the way I kept mustering up my concentration to
]get those "Z" sounds right. And then, it came.
]"Wait a minute - 'Z-ed' and 'Z-vi.' They're both Unix
]editors."
]
]
]yong-mi
]Zvi claims I have cursed his bookbag
]From: b...@ultisol.gsfc.nasa.gov (MAC)
]Subject: Re: Things which people forgot to take home after the Bob
]Organization: NASA/GSFC code 923
]Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 16:15:30 GMT
]Lines: 18
]
]In article <16B789C6...@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> JON...@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes:
]>In article <1lm3nf...@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
]>klu...@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
]>
]>>
]>>1. A coat
]>>2. A guitar
]>>3. A hat
]>>4. Two rosewood percussion instruments
]>>5. A Pente/Go board
]>>6. Gooley
]>>
]>>--scott
]>#6 has been taken care of, he now lays dreamily in my daughters crib, awaiting
]>his next squirt of breastmilk. Sarah
]>
]
]Ga Ga Gooley
]From: clif...@netcom.com (Pope Clifton)
]Subject: Re: bob-bob-bobbin' along
]Organization: Inst. for Epistemological Pathology
]X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
]Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 19:47:53 GMT
]Lines: 21
]
]Chris Adams (ad...@isis.cshl.org) wrote:
]
]: Things that were actually bizarre:
]
]: that thing I ate that no one would
]: identify
]
]
]
]: Things I didn't care for:
]
]: that thing I ate that no one would
]: identify
]
] 100 quatloos says that was my li hing mui.
] -- Clifton
]
]--
]clif...@netcom.com Home: +1 808 521 9073 Work: +1 808 625 3234
]Clifton Royston, Pope of the Church of the Subgenius in Paradise
]"Well now I don't know about that. I'm a skeptic." -- John_-_Winston
]From: hop...@nemesis.East.Sun.COM (Tom Hopkins)
]Subject: Re: east.bob
]Date: 19 Feb 1993 03:00:42 GMT
]Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc., Billerica, MA.
]Lines: 17
]
]In article AA2...@hub.cs.jmu.edu, pl...@hub.cs.jmu.edu (Paul Lord) writes:
]>
]>Somewhere in the middle of my battles with this "fire" thing and the
]>personalized slabs of Hamlet's dear departed bovine buddy, I managed to miss
]>entirely the fact that kibo was in attendance, dammit. Who else did I
]>manage to miss getting introduced to?
]
]I was there. I was the one that xame in with Kibo without the beard.
]I spent a lot of time in the back room not sharing needles with
]Gooley.
]
]>Hey, Kibo! I was the guy in the purple shirt with the hair. Maybe next time.
]
]And a nice shirt it was, too.
]
]-Tom Hopkins <hop...@turbo.east.sun.com>
]Oskoboiny?
]From: ger...@torolab.vnet.ibm.com (Gerald Oskoboiny)
]Subject: short shameful confession (was Re: upcoming holidays)
]Date: 19 Feb 93 02:56:03 GMT
]Organization: Ministry of Noises
]Lines: 9
]
]l...@halcyon.com (jeff carroll) writes:
]
]>jkc (facing away from the White House)
]>
]
]On my trip to the bob, I took 3 pictures of the White House[tm], one with
]my car parked in front of it.
]
]Gerald, world traveller
]From: ger...@torolab.vnet.ibm.com (Gerald Oskoboiny)
]Subject: Re: short shameful confession (was Re: upcoming holidays)
]Date: 19 Feb 93 03:03:46 GMT
]Organization: Ministry of Noises
]Lines: 13
]
]ger...@torolab.vnet.ibm.com (Gerald Oskoboiny) writes:
]
]>l...@halcyon.com (jeff carroll) writes:
]>
]>>jkc (facing away from the White House)
]>
]>On my trip to the bob, I took 3 pictures of the White House[tm], one with
]>my car parked in front of it.
]
]I forgot to mention, the shameful part of this is that I wasted film on
]monuments, yet I didn't get a single picture of Kibo or gooley.
]
]Gerald
]From: j...@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
]Subject: Re: bob-bob-bobbin' along
]Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
]Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 03:48:13 GMT
]Lines: 17
]
]In article <C2Mnp...@phage.cshl.org> ad...@isis.cshl.org (Chris Adams) writes:
]>
]>Things that were actually bizarre:
]>
]>that thing I ate that no one would
]> identify
]>
]>Things I didn't care for:
]>
]>that thing I ate that no one would
]> identify
]
] I told you at the time, that you shouldn't open your lips for just
]anything that some stranger wanted to shove in...
]
]"Building bodies 12 different ways"
]jem.
]From: va...@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
]Subject: Re: east.bob
]Summary: If you see two copies of this then postnews fucked the bishop again.
]Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
]Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 01:41:39 GMT
]Lines: 87
]
]So my account starts two weeks early when I was in discussion with
]Oktay about who and how to go. I opted for the plane becuase I didn't
]want to roadtrip by myself. I didn't know anyone else from Boston was
]going. After I make the plane reservations I start getting discrete
]inquiries if this bob thing was real and was I going. Yes and yes.
]
]The day arrives, after a large icky snow/ice storm so I call the
]airline and get no useful information about delays. Then I call the
]Logan ATIS find that runway operations are running fine. Ok, I dig
]the Lapine mobile out and away we go. Now, is Yong-mi going to be
]there to meet us in Richmond?
]
]Hanging at the airport and some dude is crashed on the couch behind
]me. He rambles on about how is a Vietnam vet with two tours and a
]silver cross but now he is a Surfer from Florida. Man, he hates all
]the rednecks and gets hassled because of his long hair. Ahhh, I see,
]he thinks I'm one of his type.
]
]Anyway, His old man is dying and he came back to watch. His old man
]beat him as a kid so he ran away to California at 14. "Got any joints
]on you?" he asks. I should have said "Just the ones between the
]bones". Instead I told him I would be stupid to carry that shit on
]the plane with all the cops around at airports. He nods knowingly.
]
]Yong-mi appears and we're off to the Captain John Smith Motor Lodge.
]"Who is John Smith?" I ask, pointing to the portrait behind the clerk.
]I thought maybe that was the most common name on the register from
]people who rent a room by the hour. But no, he was some yahoo
]explorer in that area, swimming over from England and killing Indians
]with his bare teeth or something.
]
]Walking to our room and someone across the parking lot is waving from
]a window. Starcap'n'ra. I wave back.
]
]Off to Scott's to get the scoop. About three people there already and
]we end up staying. I meet Gooley. Cool. I meet other people. Some
]of them know my name. Cool.
]
]Well, afternoon turned to evening turned to the following morning.
]The happenings are now the stuff of legends so I won't go into it in
]detail again. Just a few observations:
]
]
] * RICHH is least like I would have expected.
]
] * Gooley is most like I expected.
]
] * More women than I expected, including the a.n.s women from Yale.
] They seemed to worship Gooley. Gooley seemed used to such things.
]
] * Best musician was Gypsy. However, all the musical selections were
] disappointingly mainstream. (Morgan feigned interest with my
] rendition of Syd Barrett's Octopus but fortunately I was
] interrupted before before I could prove that I didn't know more
] than the beginning)
]
] * I met at least two people in my kill file. I let them out yesterday.
]
] * My pony-tail, though reaching just past my shoulders, is woefully
] inadequate in this crowd.
]
] * I have no snapshots of Zed, Burr or kludge while he is looking at
] the camera. I have two and in both of them he was frobbing some
] technology.
]
] * JTEM and Paul Lord and Kibo seem to be most photogenic.
]
] * Gooley shooting up was the most bizarre thing that was done.
]
] * I have no impression in my mind after talking to mr x over the phone
] but I found cj to be very pleasant.
]
] * nj was the sharpest and most bizarrely dressed.
]
] * surrounded by all of kludges artifacts of technology I found none
] that I secretly lusted after or wanted to frob with myself.
]
] * no one talked about krill.
]
] * many people made snide remarks about carasso.
]
] * I had an awkward converstaion with someone about breast milk.
]
]jv
]From: ope...@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Waldby)
]Subject: I want you .... to want me
]Date: 19 Feb 1993 05:22:30 GMT
]Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
]Lines: 17
]
]Well what more can one say?
]
]That bob thing sounds like it was pretty
]cool. Wish I coulda been there, cause I had
]pretty bad gas. I don't play a guitar or
]cook fine cuisine, but I always have been
]good at blowing fuses. Maybe next time.
]
]Maybe next time we can schedule it here
]in Terre Haute, the city of luxuries.
]It's so great that on weekends people
]drive up and down the main street. That
]might give you a hint of the sights to
]be seen.
]
]--
]ope...@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
]From: j...@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods)
]Subject: Re: bob-bob-bobbin' along
]Date: 19 Feb 93 04:18:18 GMT
]Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us
]Lines: 11
]
]In <C2o62...@phage.cshl.org> bou...@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell) writes:
]>In article <1m0sm8...@rave.larc.nasa.gov> klu...@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
]>>In article <1993Feb18.1...@netcom.com> clif...@netcom.com (Pope Clifton) writes:
]>>> 100 quatloos says that was my li hing mui.
]>>I couldn't get a single person to try the li hing mui. I think that after
]>>the candies shaped like guitars, they were weirded out.
]>Amazing that nobody took refuge from the strange and wonderful in
]>my whole wheat bread. Alas.
]
]It was probably the roots and leaves sticking out of the whole wheat bread
]that scared them off.
]From: JON...@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
]Subject: Re: youngest person in attendance
]Organization: Yale University
]Date: Fri, 19 Feb 93 02:17:43 EST
]Lines: 28
]
]In article <1lr4g7...@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge wrote:
]: In article <1993Feb14.2...@nwnexus.WA.COM> l...@halcyon.com (jeff carroll) writes:
]: >youngest person in attendance, as far as we could tell: plord's grilfriend
]
]: Actually, my girlfriend may have been younger. She was hiding out in the
]: bedroom trying to avoid all the wierd people, though. Oskoboiny's also
]: looked to be close to the jailbait range.
]
]Whoa, whoa, before this gets any further, everybody remember to
]M-x-replace "plord's grilfriend" "morgan". Sheesh.
]
]To settle any outstanding wagers, Morgan is, as of this posting, 20 years,
]one month, six weeks, and a few minutes old, and counting. Please adjust
]for your timezone.
] I managed to miss
]entirely the fact that kibo was in attendance, dammit. Who else did I
]manage to miss getting introduced to?
]
]Hey, Kibo! I was the guy in the purple shirt with the hair. Maybe next time.
]
]Paul
]
]Well, I think all of you are wrong about the youngest person in attendance.
]Diana and I were driven to Virginia by an eighteen year, eight month and about
]a week old person. She was that girl who didn't say much and looked like she
]might beat someone up. Leather jacket, smoked a lot, glasses, 5'11"."Alexis"
]Also, re Kibo, Diana should be granting a gif of him shortly. Sarah
]From: a...@oit.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano)
]Subject: Re: bob-bob-bobbin' along
]Date: 20 Feb 1993 01:52:33 GMT
]Organization: finchhaus
]Lines: 18
]
]>In <C2o62...@phage.cshl.org> bou...@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell) writes:
]>>In article <1m0sm8...@rave.larc.nasa.gov> klu...@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
]>>>In article <1993Feb18.1...@netcom.com> clif...@netcom.com (Pope Clifton) writes:
]>>>> 100 quatloos says that was my li hing mui.
]>>>I couldn't get a single person to try the li hing mui. I think that after
]>>>the candies shaped like guitars, they were weirded out.
]>>Amazing that nobody took refuge from the strange and wonderful in
]>>my whole wheat bread. Alas.
]
]I take it from lack of mention that the pony keg of 1979 Thomas Hardy's
]Ale failed to arrive.
]
]Now i'll have to put a tracer on it. Sigh.
]
]AjD
]--
] a...@oit.itd.umich.edu
]"You'll never find happiness as a human being, kid." -- Suehiro Maruo
]From: dde...@itchy.dsd.es.com (Dave DeBry)
]Subject: Thoughts: East Coast BoB group GIF
]Battle-Cry: Spoon!
]Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
]Aka: (Zorkian) Grue
]Date: 20 Feb 93 06:33:03 GMT
]Lines: 38
]
]
] If JTEM straightens out her head, starcap'n'ra's nose will
]become firmly implanted in her ear.
]
] Gooley is pouring some drink (most likely something flammable)
]all over kludge. Evidently Morissa is protective of kludge, because
]she's just about to shoot Gooley in the chin.
]
] Rob Dobson is missing his chin; evidently Morissa has already
]shot him.
]
] MJD's head is bigger than the guitar which is wedged in KIBO's
]back. He doesn't seem to mind, though... probably because he and Zvi
]are feeling up Gerald's girlfriend. (Did I forget to mention that MJD
]is gnawing on Jeff Carroll's arm? Could it be love?)
]
] Tom ("We'll Leave The Light On For You") Boutell is munching
]on the missing half of Diana's face.
]
] nj brought one hell of a vibrator to the party. High tech
]ain't what it used to be.
]
] Morgan has watched too many nature shows on PBS lately, and
]has taken to the baboon's habit of picking ticks out of Rocker's hair.
]
] Way too many of these people think they are on a U2 album cover.
]
] Like Athena springing from Zeus' head, Paul Lord works his way
]out of the cocoon we know as Gypsy.
]
]
]Enough of that...
]
]--
]Dave ddebry@ debry@ \
]DeBry dsd. peruvian. | "She had a voice so husky it could have pulled
] es. cs.utah. | a dog sled."
] com edu /
]From: va...@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
]Subject: Re: bob-bob-bobbin' along
]Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
]Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 22:38:01 GMT
]Lines: 22
]
]In article <C2o62...@phage.cshl.org> bou...@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell) writes:
]
] In article <1m0sm8...@rave.larc.nasa.gov> klu...@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
] >In article <1993Feb18.1...@netcom.com> clif...@netcom.com (Pope Clifton) writes:
] >> 100 quatloos says that was my li hing mui.
] >> -- Clifton
] >I couldn't get a single person to try the li hing mui. I think that after
] >the candies shaped like guitars, they were weirded out.
] >--scott
]
] Amazing that nobody took refuge from the strange and wonderful in
] my whole wheat bread. Alas.
]
]well, I could have said something about the crowd being a very
]whitebread cracker sort of groupo. but I did try a piece and it was
]ok but I prefer softer bread right out of the oven, maybe with honey
]and butter... mmmmmm.
]
]I did have a gooley bagel fresh from the oven. that was good.
]From: be...@microsoft.com (BENth)
]Subject: RE: nausea
]Message-ID: <1993Feb19....@microsoft.com>
]Date: 19 Feb 93 19:48:30 GMT
]Organization: The Slow Club
]Lines: 11
]
]Gerald writes:
]>I noticed that everyone at the bob had an accent except for
]me. And maybe Jeff Carroll, but he's from Seattle.
]
]That's correct, Gerald. We have no accents in Seattle.
]Unless you go ten miles in any direction from the center
]of the city and talk to someone wearing a baseball cap.
]
]BENth
]From: zgil...@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Zvi Gilbert)
]Subject: My Trip to the Bob
]Date: 20 Feb 1993 17:33:36 -0500
]Organization: crystallized time
]Lines: 31
]
]BobTrip: pt. 1
]
]So going down wasn't so bad [1]; the weather was terrible, but once
]I was safely ensconced on the train with my two cheddar-cheese-with-
]jalapenos-and-mustard sandwiches and my two litres^H^H^H^H^H^H
]quarts [2] of gingerale (I'm an addict) and my Sunchips and my Reese's
]peanut butter cups, I was happy. I read half of LeGuin's _Malafrena_.
]The weather was terrible, and there was one heart-stopping moment
]when the power gave out and I thought I was going to miss my connection.
]Luckily, the lights came back on. All hail Discordia. Then I changed
]trains at New York. On the second train, I was looking for MjD and
]Gooley, 'cause scott had said that they would me on the same train as me.
]So after every major stop, I would put down my LeGuin (or my syntax book,
]dull, dull) and wander through the train, seeing if I could guess which
]person was Gooley. I thought it was this one guy with glasses, very
]tall, reading a Young Miss magazine, but I asked him and it wasn't.
]
]At the station, I called scott's, and MjD, nj and Morrissa came to pick me up.
]nj and Morrissa were their wonderful selves, and MjD, grinning evilly, said
]"Now am I supposed to hate you?" He then offered me a flask (a real, chemical
]flask) full of some unidentifiable liquid, and I politely declined. [3]
]
]The trip back was considerably more surreal.
]
]------
][1] As the bishop said to the actress.
][2] Writing for an American (mostly) audience. Oops.
][3] For some reason, he wasn't wearing shoes. I don't know why.
]
]--Zvi
]zgil...@titan.ucs.umass.edu
]From: zgil...@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Zvi Gilbert)
]Subject: My Trip from the Bob
]Date: 20 Feb 1993 17:48:18 -0500
]Organization: crystallized time
]Lines: 39
]
]BobTrip: pt. 2
]
]So after a few hours with Gerald and his grilfriend, they very kindly
]drove us to the train station. (Ever sat in the back seet of a Firebird with
]a large duffle bag on your lap? Not fun.) RICHH and I made it to the
]train. Reading material: RICHH: _A Confederacy of Dunces_ , Zvi: _The
]Chalk Giants_, though neither of us read anything. Instead, we talked for
]six hours straight. I learned more than I wanted to know about alt.sex.bondage,
]Karen, Howard and Josh. RICHH tried to put the moves on this 18 year old
]freshman, heartbreakingly pretty in crushed green velvet pants (RICHH knows
]crushed velvet). During the trip we managed to 1) break up a marriage (read
]RICHH's story), 2) really piss off the woman tending the snack bar (actually,
]it was RICHH's fault; he stole the chips), 3) get three dumb jocks riled at
]us by laughing at their remedial vocabulary words [1], and 4) meet the woman
]who is going to solve the AIDS crisis and birth control in one fell swoop.
]
]RICHH got off at Philly [2]. I continued on to NYC, and arrived there at ten of
]eleven pm. I had no place to stay, and I sent a silent prayer that casa
]canetoad would be there to pick me up at the station. No dice. I wandered
]around Manhattan for a few minutes, looking for a cheap hotel where I could
]lay my weary head, tired, hungry (they closed the damn snack bar again),
]and with almost no money in my pocket. It was kind of scary.
]
]I then fortuitously came upon the Port Authority Bus Station. No lie;
]I really didn't know that I would find it there. All hail Discordia.
]On the spot, I decided to go home that very night, and get a refund of the
]train ticket later. I had five minutes to catch the last bus back to UMASS,
]and I was sixty cents short on the ticket. The woman behind the counter
]begrudgingly spotted me the money (it was Valentine's Day, after all),
]and I traveled for four more hours before I made it home at 3:10 am.
]
]------
][1] Such tough words as "facetious" and "ironic."
][2] Heh.
]
]--Zvi
]zgil...@titan.ucs.umass.edu
]From: la...@canetoad.UUCP (Larne Pekowsky)
]Subject: the BOB
]Distribution: world
]Date: 21 Feb 93 16:33:16 EDT
]Organization: The Satellite of Love
]Lines: 21
]
]I knew, before last weekend, that if I didn't go to the BOB I'd be missing
]the party of the aeon. I knew last Saturday, as I huddled under the covers,
]that I was missing the patry of the aeon. And now everyone who was there
]is taking every chance to remind me that I missed the party of the aeon.
]
]I have one hope left, small though it may be. Please, someone tell me I
]was there. Of course, I would have to be a few years older than I am
]now. I know that no one's been able to build a working time machine
]in only a few years, but then no one's had the added incentive of a
]missed BOB.
]
]Maybe the reason no one has mentioned my presence is just because my
]older self asked everyone not to. Maybe I will be concerned about the
]possible paradoxes of letting myself know I will be sucessful before I
]start.
]
]But I say screw the me-yet-to-come. If that guy had any sense he would
]have been there the first time around.
]
]--
]...uunet!canetoad!larne canetoad!la...@uunet.uu.net
]From: r...@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Starcap'n Ra)
]Subject: Re: the BOB
]Organization: t.b
]Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 18:28:30 GMT
]Lines: 21
]
]la...@canetoad.UUCP (Larne Pekowsky) writes:
]> I knew, before last weekend, that if I didn't go to the BOB I'd be missing
]> the party of the aeon. I knew last Saturday, as I huddled under the covers,
]> that I was missing the patry of the aeon. And now everyone who was there
]> is taking every chance to remind me that I missed the party of the aeon.
]
] Well that's not really the case. The BOB was
]by no stretch of the imagination the party of the
]aeon, nor did it pretend to be: For while parties
]and BOBs have a lot in common, they are not one
]and the same.
]
] You did, however, miss a very nice BOB, which
]might have been even a bit nicer (hard as that
]might be to conceive) had the mysterious canetoads
]made their BOB debut.
]
]--Starcap'n Ra, {ames,gatech,husc6,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!kennedy
] Virginia is {allegra,decvax,ihnp4,oddjob}--^
] for BOB ^---------------The Wrong Choice
] internet: ken...@asuvax.asu.edu
]From: ger...@torolab.vnet.ibm.com (Gerald Oskoboiny)
]Subject: Re: My Trip from the Bob
]Originator: gerald@gerald
]Date: 22 Feb 93 22:12:42 GMT
]Organization: Ministry of Noises
]Lines: 11
]
]zgil...@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Zvi Gilbert) writes:
]
]>BobTrip: pt. 2
]>
]>So after a few hours with Gerald and his grilfriend, they very kindly
]>drove us to the train station. (Ever sat in the back seet of a Firebird with
]>a large duffle bag on your lap? Not fun.)
]
]It's a Camaro. And I don't see why you had to bring so much duffel with you.
]
]Guido
]From: n...@birch.CS.Berkeley.EDU (posting for morrisas)
]Subject: Yes, that's right, rub it in.
]Date: 25 Feb 93 22:57:37 GMT
]Organization: /home/auspex/h/bair/nj/.organization
]Lines: 19
]
]I've been receiving a lot of comments from all you good
]scouts out there that, in fact, my picture does not look
]like Kibo. Oh, you are all so observant. Oh, you are
]all such superior specimens. Fine, right, I forgot the beard.
]Sue me. You people forget that this is an artist's interpretation,
]an expression of Kibo's inner self, the slamming impact
]that his visage made on my psyche as I met him, briefly, adrift in
]a sea of other cool beings, while I was confused, jetlagged,
]and far, far from home.
]
]And all I remembered were THOSE EYESSSSS! and THAT GRINNN!
]
]And it was nj's idea to post the thing anyway.
]All complaints forwarded to the return counter at Macy's.
]
]You're welcome.
]
]--
]n...@cs.Berkeley.EDU, posting for Morr...@Autodesk.COM. no warranties e. or i.
]From: va...@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
]Subject: Re: EAST COAST BOB GROUP PORTRAIT (Part 0 of 5)
]Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
]Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 21:05:04 GMT
]Lines: 18
]
]In article <MJD.93Fe...@saul.cis.upenn.edu> m...@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Lexicographer from Outer Space") writes:
]
] I was going to write annotations, but all the annotations I thought of
] turned out to be
]
] (***) does not look neaarly this nerdy in person.
]
]Does it really say that?
]
] for every (***) in the picture, except Kibo and the kludge-o-scope, and
]
] Sarah is not actually bald.
]
]Her hair is where the rest of Zvi's non-fez hat is.
]From: r...@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Starcap'n Ra)
]Subject: Re: Bob Tapes
]Organization: t.b
]Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 00:20:55 GMT
]Lines: 29
]
]klu...@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
]> The final edit of the Bob tape is on the way to the duplicators...
]>
]> If you called into the bob party, you'll probably not be on the tape,
]> although the speed regulation may be screwed up since someone bumped
]> against the feed interlock switch on the tape deck while Mr. X was calling.
]
] What do you mean probably? If the final editing
]is done, surely you know precisely what is and isn't
]on the tape, and whether or not the speed is fucked
]up.
]
] And furthermore, the very nature of you and your
]gadget-filled house that made the possibility of the
]existence of the tape so chillingly realistic in the
]first place would also serve to make the idea of your
]sending the tape out to be duplicated ridiculous.
]Surely you easily have the knowhow and means to
]duplicate the tape yourself at home.
]
] Very careless, Mr. Dorsey.
]
] He's bluffing, folks. There is no tape. Stop
]payment on your extortion checks.
]
]--Starcap'n Ra {ames,gatech,husc6,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!kennedy
] {allegra,decvax,ihnp4,oddjob}--^
] ^---------------The Wrong Choice
] internet: ken...@asuvax.asu.edu
]From: va...@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
]Subject: KLUDGE CS-073
]Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
]Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 15:41:35 GMT
]Lines: 12
]
]
]I got my tape yesterday and boy, was I impressed. It was worth all
]the money I didn't pay for it. Lying on my bed with ice on my knees
]with the BoB tape playing over simulated surround sound I realized I
]should have spent more time in the Back Room sharing needles.
]
]Excellent job, Scott. Although I was a bit disappointed in the
]surprise ending.
]
]Oh, and for those that might feel slighted in the liner notes, they
]were taken from the list of those in the picture so Zed and a couple
]others were not on film. So sorry.
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
Elspeth
all at once.
Now look, please:
- I can't come alone. I can't! It's not allowed. I make 'bad' decisions.
- Chris can't come. It's important.
- That leaves Katie, and she wants to go to Aruba or Rio and run around
naked. -I- wanna go to Aruba or Rio and run around naked. I like running
around naked. I'm naked right now! I sleep naked and no ubi sub ubo (or
whatever it is). It's how I was raised. I'm serious. Ever heard of Glen
Eden? We had a trailer there. You don't want to hear about it. So you
have to convince Katie! Convince her. a) She doesn't read t.b (except
for the occasional thing I thrust popply pinkly before her); b) she
doesn't do nerdsholm or any of that. -I- go there if either everybody's
busy and/or it's between things. You know what impresses her? The
library. Can't stay away from it! We read to each other all the time.
And for some reason, she likes hanging around with me. I don't know why?
Ask her? She likes the songs or something. <giggle> It's cold in Quebec
in February. I'll go if she goes. But she doesn't -know- anybody. Heck,
-I- don't know anybody. Soemtimes I get to wanting to write to some
people, but after a while they stop writing back. (I'm not everybody's
cup of tea anyway.) Lots of people don't like me. You can tell. I can
tell. I'm good at telling. and not telling and I think I've said enough
so bye. maybe it's better this way. see what happens.
in my tree
Dawn Whiteside
>- That leaves Katie, and she wants to go to Aruba or Rio and run around
>naked. -I- wanna go to Aruba or Rio and run around naked. I like running
>around naked.
I seem to recall people removing various articles of clothing
and cavorting around in front of large crowds last time I was
in vieux-Quebec in fevrier. You'll fit right in.
>-I- don't know anybody.
Not knowing anybody as a human with flesh didn't stop me from
displaying my trampolining-in-miniskirt-and-thong bravado and
appreciating some very fine barleywine at my first such event.
Admittedly that was in Bezerkely and I was younger then.
Just don't come and then keep to yourself. I foolishly brought
normals to my last gathering of the clans and, while I did have
some enjoyment out of the event, I spent so much time with them
I had precious little time enjoying the company of the people I
had come to be with.
--d
don't drink the caribou
Kate McDonnell
Dorsey) wrote:
> SOME people have been holding off on making plans and final decisions
> for frost.bob.2.
And they're silly. Global warming will soon
make ice and snow a rare commodity, a sight
only seen on arctic expeditions or from
cruise ships in the Ross Sea.
Catch the sight of water in allotropic forms!
Come to frost.bob!
http://hilaire.soo.com/~kate/fbII/
k
"grand-dad's talking about ice canoes again"
"pour him another one"
Scott Dorsey
>Elspeth complained:
>>- That leaves Katie, and she wants to go to Aruba or Rio and run around
>>naked. -I- wanna go to Aruba or Rio and run around naked. I like running
>>around naked.
>
>I seem to recall people removing various articles of clothing
>and cavorting around in front of large crowds last time I was
>in vieux-Quebec in fevrier. You'll fit right in.
Now, I would like to take this opportunity to say that this sounds like
a very bad idea to me. While I am strongly in favour of naked cavorting
whenever possible, it would seem to me that doing so in Quebec in
February would be apt to make one's bippy go numb. I don't know if I
speak for the entire newsgroup here, but I neither wish this to happen
to my own bippy, nor for those of Elsie and her friend Katie.
Dawn's bippy may have become immured to this sort of treatment; I saw
her in January in Boston wearing a light T-shirt while I bundled up
in several sweaters.
But, Elsie, you should know that even of this sort of activity is
precluded by the possibility of bippy numbness, you should know that
this is a group of people among whom that sort of activity is encouraged.
>>-I- don't know anybody.
>
>Not knowing anybody as a human with flesh didn't stop me from
>displaying my trampolining-in-miniskirt-and-thong bravado and
>appreciating some very fine barleywine at my first such event.
>Admittedly that was in Bezerkely and I was younger then.
I am terribly, terribly sorry I missed this event, I assure you. But
by the same token, the whole point of a bob is to meet people in person
and discover who they really are. Some of them are just like you'd
picture them from seeing them online. Others are totally different
(sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad way). Some people whom you
can't really picture online turn out to be fascinating people in person.
Some of them bounce on a trampoline in a miniskirt and thong. Others
turn out to be Carasso.
>don't drink the caribou
Higgledy-Piggledy,
Sadly Dawn Whiteside
Attended a bob
Towing family all through.
At least she did not
Suffer digestive penalties
As could take place
If one drinks Caribou.
--scott
not_...@my-deja.com
Kate McDonnell <km...@dsuper.net> wrote:
> In article <90k6po$mpf$1...@panix3.panix.com>, klu...@panix.com (Scott
> Dorsey) wrote:
>
> > SOME people have been holding off on making plans and final
decisions
> > for frost.bob.2.
>
> And they're silly. Global warming will soon
> make ice and snow a rare commodity, a sight
> only seen on arctic expeditions or from
> cruise ships in the Ross Sea.
>
> Catch the sight of water in allotropic forms!
> Come to frost.bob!
>
> http://hilaire.soo.com/~kate/fbII/
>
> k
Bob? The wife's (tm) ex?
No, no, no one wants to go there.
And why would anyone want to go to Canaduh this time of year?
Even the locals hit the Dixie highway for the yearly snowbird migration.
Where you really want to go is:
http://www.subgenius.com/
Now THAT's Bob.
Not_Lloyd
-the other one missed FTSD and probably got eaten by feral pigs
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
Elspeth
>> I like running around naked.
> Elsie . . you should know that this is a
> group of people among whom that sort
> of activity is encouraged.
Yes, so I've heard, which is part of the problem, sort of.
See, there's this one groop of people who, knowing fully well why I'm in
there, vehemently red flag any activity that will 'encourage' me; and
there's another set of individuals, usually of a religious persuasion
(one wore a collar), each of whom would wave a crozier in blessing over
me and intone in all seriousness, 'yea verily verily here is an angel of
sex.' In fact, the ardor of the latter laity (fueled, my therapist will
tell me, by my own sekrit delusions, and vice versa) tends to louden the
red-alert bells in the former groop, and since I am certified a bona
fide nut, we have a deal:
I hafta be honest and tell about stuff (I try really really hard . .
but); then, they will listen and render opinions on matters. Finally, I
have to seriously consider those opinions and tell them honestly what I
think.
I went to groop last night. They gave the frost.bob2 idea a rather cool
reception, and Katie, (whom I met in that groop, btw), seems not to be
warming to it either.
After the usual inconclusive debate, the bottom-line point submitted for
my consideration was that Katie and the groop care about me and want to
keep me safe, whereas the t.b people (in groop, it became 'tv people' a
long time ago) are simply curious about me in a novelty kind of a way. I
haven't been -able- to go very deeply into my 'condition' in here; my
behavior would be unpredictable, and I could get in trouble.
'Remember trouble?' one asked.
There are others in here who get in trouble sometimes. How much fun is
that?
So . . we'll have to see. As I said, it's pretty much up to Katie. She
works, and it'd be her vacation too so please don't put a lot of
pressure on me. I don't want to make you sad. I'm sorry. I want to go
and hope I can, but if I can't, then I apologize.
> bippy
Have a happy bippy!
love,
Elsie
---
scribble dibble dicky diddle
inky dinky pinky poink
in my tree
Hardrock Llewynyth
write in this Year of Our Lord Fri, 08 Dec 2000 10:21:23 GMT:
>"down to where it stops by itself" (bonus score for
>identifying the source of that line). that point,
Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair, shinin' steamin' gleamin'
flaxen-waxen.
Gimme down to there hair, shoulder length or longer! Hear baby there
mama, everywhere daddy daddy.
Hair! (hair, hair hair)
Blow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my hair.
Hardrock, whose hair doesn't want to go past mid-back
--
Episkopos Hardrock Llewynyth GAC, AGSF(ret) hard...@speakeasy.org
http://www.speakeasy.org/~hardrock/
My mind has become animated.
Ace Lightning
>>"down to where it stops by itself" (bonus score for
>>identifying the source of that line). that point,
>Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair, shinin' steamin' gleamin'
>flaxen-waxen.
>Gimme down to there hair, shoulder length or longer! Hear baby there
>mama, everywhere daddy daddy.
>Hair! (hair, hair hair)
>Blow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my hair.
you're not old enough to know that song!
(i have an acquaintance who was actually in the cast
of the original Broadway production. there was one
big production number where random members of the
cast would take their clothes off; this was considered
incredibly shocking and avant-garde.)
>Hardrock, whose hair doesn't want to go past mid-back
isn't that frustrating?!
Matt Marchese
> you're not old enough to know that song!
SSC: When I was ten, I played the Cowsills version of Hair incessantly.
Even now, I can still hear young Susie Cowsill chirply yelling out, "and
Spaghettied!"
Please shoot me now.
--
Matt Marchese
"I've been havin' this nightmare......a real swinger of a
nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate)
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Ace Lightning
>>you're not old enough to know that song!
>SSC: When I was ten, I played the Cowsills version of Hair incessantly.
>Even now, I can still hear young Susie Cowsill chirply yelling out, "and
>Spaghettied!"
>Please shoot me now.
naah, *you're* old enough to remember the song.
Hardrock isn't.
then, of course, there's the Fifth Dimension's rendition
of "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In"...
Sean T Barrett
>Ace Lightning wrote:
>
>> you're not old enough to know that song!
>
>SSC: When I was ten, I played the Cowsills version of Hair incessantly.
>Even now, I can still hear young Susie Cowsill chirply yelling out, "and
>Spaghettied!"
I have no clue what you're talking about. Trying to imagine it
did lead me to come up with
"This is the dawning of the age of Spaghetti-Os"
buzzard
Alan Scott
> Ace Lightning wrote:
>> you're not old enough to know that song!
> SSC: When I was ten, I played the Cowsills version of Hair incessantly.
> Even now, I can still hear young Susie Cowsill chirply yelling out, "and
> Spaghettied!"
> Please shoot me now.
You'll have to get in line. I *still own* the Cowsills' version of
_Hair_, and I'm substantially older than ten. (Though it *has* been
awhile since I've played it, even for its effect on others.)
Eerily-appropriate random .sig quote:
--
Alan P. Scott..................http://www.pacifier.com/~ascott/apshome.htm
"What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act?"
--Martin Mull, regarding the "decaffeinization of America", on _The Late
Show_ with David Letterman
Matthew Marchese
>
> You'll have to get in line. I *still own* the Cowsills' version of
> _Hair_, and I'm substantially older than ten.
Ok Scott, you win. I'm not sure what you win, but you win. I must admit that
when it came to holding onto my childhood vinyl, I was rather feckless. I'm
still kicking myself for getting rid of that copy of "Mae West Sings the
Beatles". I don't even wanna talk about the intrinsic value of all the comic
books I tossed in a teenage religious frenzy.
> (Though it *has* been awhile since I've played it, even for its effect on
> others.)
When I want to rid myself of unwanted guests or suss out the hepability of
strangers, I find that a quick spin of Brian Eno's "Fat Lady of Limbourg" or
anything by Yma Sumac quickly sorts the wheat from the chaff.
--
Matt Marchese
ma...@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/mattm_americas/
Service Publications and Training, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
"If there's no ear then there's no sound if there's no tree
then there's no ground" -Imperial Teen
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Laurence Doering
Matthew Marchese <ma...@sgi.com> wrote:
>Alan Scott wrote:
>
>>
>> You'll have to get in line. I *still own* the Cowsills' version of
>> _Hair_, and I'm substantially older than ten.
>
>Ok Scott, you win. I'm not sure what you win, but you win. I must admit that
>when it came to holding onto my childhood vinyl, I was rather feckless. I'm
>still kicking myself for getting rid of that copy of "Mae West Sings the
>Beatles". I don't even wanna talk about the intrinsic value of all the comic
>books I tossed in a teenage religious frenzy.
My mother still has a vinyl copy of the original German production
of _Hair_ (titled _Haare_, of course) bought in Berlin in 1970.
I need to borrow it from her and burn it on CD.
>> (Though it *has* been awhile since I've played it, even for its effect on
>> others.)
>
>When I want to rid myself of unwanted guests or suss out the hepability of
>strangers, I find that a quick spin of Brian Eno's "Fat Lady of Limbourg" or
>anything by Yma Sumac quickly sorts the wheat from the chaff.
Nina Hagen.
ljd
Matthew Marchese
>
> I need to borrow it from her and burn it on CD.
Bitte.
> >When I want to rid myself of unwanted guests or suss out the hepability of
> >strangers, I find that a quick spin of Brian Eno's "Fat Lady of Limbourg" or
> >anything by Yma Sumac quickly sorts the wheat from the chaff.
>
> Nina Hagen.
Make sure to show them a picture of Nina in her leather and marital-aid regalia
so they get the full effect.
This morning I've been listening to Lord Sitar's version of "I Can See For
Miles." I've already received several puzzled/horrified looks from cow-orkers
passing by my office.
--
Matt
Matthew Skala
Laurence Doering <l...@mail.bcpl.net> wrote:
>My mother still has a vinyl copy of the original German production
>of _Hair_ (titled _Haare_, of course) bought in Berlin in 1970.
>
>I need to borrow it from her and burn it on CD.
I'm working on my list of arguments for convincing my Dad to let me borrow
his vinyl to CDify. The collection includes some version of _Hair_ which
I can only assume from the description must be the fabled "Cowsills
version" you folks speak of; I have the audio memorized but never paid any
attention to the album cover.
I'll have to buy a turntable before I can start this project, though, and
some decent speakers. I did a blind listening test of MP3 encoders for
the Linux club, and on the one hand it was really interesting. My most
significant result was that Ogg Vorbis is definitely *not* ready for prime
time yet. At 128kbps it ranked in the middle of the 128kbps MP3 encoders,
and at 256kbps it ranked... in the middle of the 128kbps MP3 encoders.
Sorry. For ideological reasons I would really have liked for it to do
better, but I'm sure of my result. Anyway, the down side of doing the
test is that it appears to have permanently increased the sensitivity of
my ears, so I can't listen to 128kbps files anymore without *noticing*.
Buying a turntable is going to be a project in and of itself because
although I can't afford to spend thousands on it, I can afford to spend a
few hundred, and the only new turntables I found in a day of poking
through the big electronics stores are cheapo bottom-of-the-line
ones. I'll have to go to a more "serious", less "consumer" source. I
know that pro-quality new turntables are still made, for the DJ performer
market if nothing else, but I have the feeling that the optimizations for
that market aren't appropriate for what I want to do.
--
Matthew Skala
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca :CVECAT DELENDA EST
http://www.islandnet.com/~mskala/
Gary Heston
[ ... ]
>Buying a turntable is going to be a project in and of itself because
>although I can't afford to spend thousands on it, I can afford to spend a
>few hundred, and the only new turntables I found in a day of poking
>through the big electronics stores are cheapo bottom-of-the-line
>ones. I'll have to go to a more "serious", less "consumer" source. I
>know that pro-quality new turntables are still made, for the DJ performer
>market if nothing else, but I have the feeling that the optimizations for
>that market aren't appropriate for what I want to do.
Try checking pawn shops. Bound to be someone who pawned a good turntable
when their disco operation folded. Or, check with repair places for one
that was abandoned; you can usually get those for the price of the repair
work.
Gary
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This item has been intercepted by the Echelon Project. So have all
of yours....
James Waldby
...
> Buying a turntable is going to be a project in and of itself because
> although I can't afford to spend thousands on it, I can afford to spend a
> few hundred, and the only new turntables I found in a day of poking
> through the big electronics stores are cheapo bottom-of-the-line
> ones.
> Matthew Skala
Some good turntables occasionally show up on ebay, eg
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=491850633
which afaik ending up getting sold at not too much more
than the closing bid , which didn't meet reserve.
-jiw
----------------------
"Computer reel tapes, VCR tapes, and audio tapes last about as
long as a Chevy or a poodle." -- ccgreg (gkj)
James Waldby
It occurs to me now you were boycotting ebay for some reason?
-jiw
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Linux since 1993!" - Viro
Scott Dorsey
>Alan Scott wrote:
>
>> You'll have to get in line. I *still own* the Cowsills' version of
>> _Hair_, and I'm substantially older than ten.
>
>Ok Scott, you win. I'm not sure what you win, but you win. I must admit that
>when it came to holding onto my childhood vinyl, I was rather feckless. I'm
>still kicking myself for getting rid of that copy of "Mae West Sings the
>Beatles". I don't even wanna talk about the intrinsic value of all the comic
>books I tossed in a teenage religious frenzy.
Sadly, I also have the original Cowsills four-sider with this on it. I
will send it to you if you really want it.
It is.... well, let us just say that it's not one of the better covers of
that song.
--scott
Matt Marchese
> Sadly, I also have the original Cowsills four-sider with this on it. I
> will send it to you if you really want it.
Only if you'll agree to take Joyce's copy of Eric Carmen and the Strawberries
first LP in exchange.
--
Matt (Go All the Way)Marchese
David James Polewka
>Buying a turntable is going to be a project in and of itself because
>although I can't afford to spend thousands on it, I can afford to spend a
>few hundred,
www.garage-a-records.com -- anagrams
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1. Aww, George Orr's macaw CD.
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Scott Dorsey
>some decent speakers. I did a blind listening test of MP3 encoders for
>the Linux club, and on the one hand it was really interesting. My most
I have, in the closet, a couple extra AR turntables. They probably need
new belts and lighter tonearms, but they won't cog like the cheap direct
drive DJ turntables. The arms they come with are very heavy and will
work with a Grado DJ-100 cartridge but not with anything much better,
and you can't adjust the pivot height so you can't use a fineline cartridge.
Don't forget that you will also need a good preamp, better converters than
the usual crappy soundcard, and probably a record vacuum.
>Buying a turntable is going to be a project in and of itself because
>although I can't afford to spend thousands on it, I can afford to spend a
>few hundred, and the only new turntables I found in a day of poking
>through the big electronics stores are cheapo bottom-of-the-line
>ones. I'll have to go to a more "serious", less "consumer" source. I
>know that pro-quality new turntables are still made, for the DJ performer
>market if nothing else, but I have the feeling that the optimizations for
>that market aren't appropriate for what I want to do.
Stop going to junk places and look for something like a used AR or Rega.
You want a belt-drive turntable with a reasonably heavy platter and a
reasonably light arm.
--scott
david parsons
Scott Dorsey <klu...@panix.com> wrote:
>SOME people have been holding off on making plans and final decisions
>for frost.bob.2. Some people are having trouble convincing the people
>with whom they are in relationships to attend.
Alas, the handy-dandy website says:
Babies
The Carnaval de Québec is conceived as a
family event, but I'm going to recommend that
people not bring babies or toddlers to frost.bob II.
The recombinant DNA experiment I'm collaborating on these days does
still qualify as A Baby, so this may count as an insurmountable
opportunity.
____
david parsons \bi/ And my fellow researcher doesn't like cold and snow.
\/ Sigh.
Hardrock Llewynyth
>you're not old enough to know that song!
I was born at the wrong time. Or rather, bits of me were. I'ver
always been more fond of things before or after my time. My own era
hasn't interested me much. Then again, my own era was mostly glam
metal and MIchael J. Fox movies.
>>Hardrock, whose hair doesn't want to go past mid-back
>
>isn't that frustrating?!
Unbelievably.
Hardrock
Ace Lightning
>>you're not old enough to know that song!
>I was born at the wrong time. Or rather, bits of me were. I'ver
>always been more fond of things before or after my time. My own era
>hasn't interested me much. Then again, my own era was mostly glam
>metal and MIchael J. Fox movies.
i came of age in the era of "girl groups", Motown, and
the First British Invasion. my mental song files go back
to before my birth, though, since both my parents were
the sort to sing pop songs from *their* youth while
they worked or drove.
i'd really love to know what the Next Big Thing in
music is going to be, except i'm afraid it'll be
some permutation of (c)rap.
>>>Hardrock, whose hair doesn't want to go past mid-back
>>isn't that frustrating?!
>Unbelievably.
i know a woman, possibly ten years older than i am, who
has long braids down to her ankles - and obviously her
hair is even longer when it's unbraided. i asked her how
she got it to grow so long, and showed her that mine just
won't go any further than just above my waist in back.
and she told me her secret:
about once a week, or once every other week, take a packet
of plain unflavored gelatin (the best-known brand name in
the US is Knox). mix it into a cupful of cold water until
it's thoroughly moistened, then microwave it till the water
is hot and the gelatin dissolves. let it cool if necessary.
shampoo your hair very thoroughly, getting all oil and dirt
out of it. then apply the dissolved gelatin to it, working
the liquid through all of your hair. leave it there for a
little while, then shampoo one more time and rinse very
thoroughly. finish and dry as usual.
i've only been doing this for six weeks, so i can't really
say whether there's any change. but plain gelatin is pretty
cheap, and it doesn't seem to be doing any harm, at least.
astri
<acelig...@monmouth.com> wrote:
>i know a woman, possibly ten years older than i am, who
>has long braids down to her ankles - and obviously her
>hair is even longer when it's unbraided. i asked her how
>she got it to grow so long, and showed her that mine just
>won't go any further than just above my waist in back.
her secret is probably her genetics. the voodoo she does with gelatin
probably doesn't make a whole lot of difference. hair doesn't really
stop growing. it just reaches a point where the strands are weak
enough that they break off, so it looks like it's stopped growing.
when I let my hair grow, it's below my waist in about 3 years, and I
can sit on it in about 6 years. I've never let it grow beyond that
(eventually, I get tired of having to wash and brush all that, so I
chop it off), but I suspect it would keep going.
I had short hair when I met C. his is halfway down his back. that's
really as far as it goes. I grew mine out so it was longer than his.
that took about 2 or 3 years. mine's short again--I'd proven my
point, but didn't have to keep rubbing it in.
astri
some people got it, some people don't.
Ace Lightning
>>i know a woman, possibly ten years older than i am, who
>>has long braids down to her ankles - and obviously her
>>hair is even longer when it's unbraided. i asked her how
>>she got it to grow so long, and showed her that mine just
>>won't go any further than just above my waist in back.
>her secret is probably her genetics. the voodoo she does with gelatin
>probably doesn't make a whole lot of difference. hair doesn't really
>stop growing. it just reaches a point where the strands are weak
>enough that they break off, so it looks like it's stopped growing.
that's the idea behind the gelatin - it is similar enough
to the protein that hair is made of that some of it binds
to the strand, strengthening it so that it doesn't break off
as soon.
of course, the fact that the distance from her head to her
ankles is about 9 in/23 cm less than it is for me also might
be a factor.
>when I let my hair grow, it's below my waist in about 3 years, and I
>can sit on it in about 6 years. I've never let it grow beyond that
>(eventually, I get tired of having to wash and brush all that, so I
>chop it off), but I suspect it would keep going.
>I had short hair when I met C. his is halfway down his back. that's
>really as far as it goes. I grew mine out so it was longer than his.
>that took about 2 or 3 years. mine's short again--I'd proven my
>point, but didn't have to keep rubbing it in.
my 21-year-old son has hair like mine, and he never gets it
cut either. his breaks off shorter, though, because he washes
it every day, and because he drives a Jeep.
Starcap'n Ra
> that's the idea behind the gelatin - it is similar enough
> to the protein that hair is made of that some of it binds
> to the strand, strengthening it so that it doesn't break off
> as soon.
Ah, a new nightclub strategy:
She: "I can't seem to grow my hair as long as I'd like."
Me: "Starcap'n Ra at your service. I hear protein helps,
perhaps I can be of modest help."
--Starcap'n Ra {ames,gatech,husc6,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!ra
{allegra,decvax,ihnp4,oddjob}--^
^---------------The Wrong Choice
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Ace Lightning
>>that's the idea behind the gelatin - it is similar enough
>>to the protein that hair is made of that some of it binds
>>to the strand, strengthening it so that it doesn't break off
>>as soon.
>Ah, a new nightclub strategy:
>She: "I can't seem to grow my hair as long as I'd like."
>Me: "Starcap'n Ra at your service. I hear protein helps,
>perhaps I can be of modest help."
only if your spoo is made out of boiled-down cow hooves...
astri
as the hair grows. and then there's the...um...fragrance to think
about...
astri
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:15:54 GMT, r...@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Starcap'n Ra)
wrote:
Blair P. Houghton
>Starcap'n Ra wrote:
>>Me: "Starcap'n Ra at your service. I hear protein helps,
>>perhaps I can be of modest help."
>
>only if your spoo is made out of boiled-down cow hooves...
Ah. So you've eaten at Der Wienerschnitzel.
--Blair
"'Pretzel Bun' is just a term of endearment."
Ace Lightning
>>>Me: "Starcap'n Ra at your service. I hear protein helps,
>>>perhaps I can be of modest help."
>>only if your spoo is made out of boiled-down cow hooves...
>Ah. So you've eaten at Der Wienerschnitzel.
i wouldn't dream of it.
but vegetarians, and Jews who keep kosher, don't eat
ordinary gelatin - whether it's the plain kind i was
referring to using as a hair rinse, or Jell-O(tm).
you don't think they just throw away the hooves when
they butcher a cow, do you? (they don't throw very much
away... but maybe it winds up in that same Wienerschnitzel.)
not_...@my-deja.com
> but applying it a teaspoonful at a time becomes less and less useful
> as the hair grows. and then there's the...um...fragrance to think
> about...
I must add my part:
A man with a healthy prostrate can apply a tablespoonful to the root of
the problem.
Not_Lloyd
-part here, part there; repeat application as needed
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Diamanda Galás.
rone
some review noted she "uses her voice as a weapon"...
feels like a lucern hammer to me
--
I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
Kent Paul Dolan
xanthian, realizing that as hearing degrades with age, quite possibly _both_
ends of Yma Sumac's vocal range are now beyond my ability to enjoy.