Re: Scouted: Okay to execute the evil ham and cheese sandwich?

2003-08-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/13/2003 9:47:42 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Julia Thompson wrote: > > > How do you make a sandwich such that it's "evil"? > > :) (Or should that be >:) ?) > > Use deviled ham? ;-) On French bread? Oh...sorry. That's just rude

Re: The Fastes Qheuen Alive (short story)

2003-08-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/10/2003 10:50:09 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (To me directly--thinking I might be embarrassed.) > Sorry to be pedantic, but I think you mean taut? > Hell no to having a red face I am only as smart as the spell checker. Perhaps I meant to

Re: E-Voting Expert Ousted From Elections Conference

2003-08-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/7/2003 4:11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Rickenbach took Mercuri out of the room and told her that her credentials > were being revoked. Rickenbach said that Mercuri had not filled out the > forms correctly. Mercuri protested, but was refused

Re: major power outage in the East

2003-08-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/14/2003 3:02:07 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > For all of you not on the Eastern side of the country... > Head to CNN ... > > The Niagra-Mohawk power grid is down... > A report from Manhattan is the Island is completely black... > Half of our

Re: Did you catch the noon Paul Harvey, Debbi?

2003-08-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/11/2003 7:52:32 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > William Taylor > > > > On, Tachabrun, on! > > OK, I give...couldn't find a single reference to > "Tachabrun" and none of my horse friends had any idea > either. What is

Re: Br_n: dimensions of the Streaker

2003-08-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/11/2003 1:22:26 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Okay. That was _not_ the first thing I thought of when I saw the word > "Streaker" . . . > > > > Boogity Boogity Maru > > > > -- Ronn! :) > Well of course. The ship was exposed to

Re: Be careful what you shoot at whom....

2003-08-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/14/2003 7:59:57 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Julia > > > > who believes that paintball guns belong in *controlled* environments > > Be advised, everyone, that I'm from Pittsburgh, originally. > > Nick I've often been to Pittsburgh,

Re: shoelaces, concentration

2003-08-15 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/14/2003 9:35:24 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Kevin wrote: > >>My normal footwear I leave tied all the time, just push down on the back > >>heel and step out. > > > >SO I'M NOT CRAZY! I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE! WOOHOO! > > > >(Sorry, I *always*

Fastest Qheuen Alive rewrite--longer, new ending.

2003-08-16 Thread Medievalbk
Added characters, hopefully better logic, and now with a date and made up localation. I don't know if I've gotten the Ur lisp right. I don't have my copies marked for Ur, only Hoon. Comment on this version--not the first draft. --- The human's old story about the race between

Re: insomnia

2003-08-18 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/18/2003 12:52:54 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >Time to lay in bed and stare at the ceiling for six hours > > > > > > > I know that feeling all to well... > > Hey, you've got a mind -- try to have fun with it during those times! > :) (M

Re: Fastest Qheuen Alive rewrite--longer, new ending.

2003-08-18 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/18/03 5:49:12 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Added characters, hopefully better logic, and now > with a date and made up location. Much better logical flow, and as for the ending -- how illustrative of those w

Re: Worm Week

2003-08-19 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/19/2003 9:19:24 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > New Fast-Spreading Sobig Worm Adds to 'Worm Week' The Diet of Worms occurred in the month of April, 1521 How can the celebration have been moved to August? I think I smell politics. William Taylor -

Re: Scouted: 10 ton whale leaps aboard British sailboat

2003-08-20 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/20/2003 7:51:51 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I've been to Sea World. I've seen a humpback whale. I do not think a > humpback whale will fit in Sea World very well. :) > > Julia Hey, if he buys a ticket they gotta let 'im in. William

Re: Scouted: 10 ton whale leaps aboard British sailboat

2003-08-21 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/21/2003 7:57:55 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > I've been to Sea World. I've seen a humpback whale. I do not think a > > > humpback whale will fit in Sea World very well. :) > > > > > > Julia > > > > Hey, if he buys a ticket t

Re: Scouted: Programming Language Inventor -OR- Serial Slayer

2003-08-22 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/22/2003 8:10:57 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > An aptitude test to determine whether you now the difference between > > a geek and a serial killer: > > > > http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz > > > > I got 6 out of 10. > > > > I go

Two lines missing from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

2003-08-22 Thread Medievalbk
Two lines missing from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen It finally came to the $3 theaters. Spoilers.natch. The movie took itself too seriously. When Quartermain saw the car, he should have said: "Well I'm glad to see that the great Captain Nemo is not infallible. You've put the

Re: Two lines missing from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

2003-08-22 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/22/2003 5:46:52 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > It finally came to the $3 theaters. > > > *snip* > > $3 is too much to pay. Remember though, I'm in Tucson and desperate for afternoon AC. If I had arrived a half hour earlier, I would have se

Re: Two lines missing from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

2003-08-22 Thread Medievalbk
Fish heads, week old milk in a carton on the kitchen counter, this movie, and Carrot Top running for California Governor. (Spoilers all) In a message dated 8/22/2003 9:10:28 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > And Mr. Connery replied: > > "Well. I uh. So

Re: When there are no human hands...

2004-04-24 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 4/24/2004 4:17:46 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hope this helps. > > Dan M. > Subj: Re: does time exist  It's really: Does time pass when there are no human hands left to wind the clocks? So I'm misquoting. And I know it helps no on

The last step of any journey...

2004-05-10 Thread Medievalbk
.may be the first step where you have to scrape something off of your shoe. Watching it right now. William Taylor ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Party Set for Andy Kaufman, Just in Case

2004-05-09 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/9/2004 10:33:48 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Kaufman was best known as the lovable foreign-car mechanic Latka > Gravas on the '70s TV sitcom "Taxi." > > > > xponent > I thought he could also repair American made cars? Vilyehm ___

Sah'ot invents a new form of poetry.

2004-05-09 Thread Medievalbk
Sah'ot's Poetic Form OK, I'm having fun trying to plot out a novel where there's going to be an Uplift Ceremony on Hurmuphta, and our good Dr. Brin says he's already got it all set out so that Tom and Gillian will be meeting elsewhere. So he says, "How about Sah'ot?" The civilian poet anthropo

Re: Is it hot in here?

2004-05-03 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/3/2004 7:27:56 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Dan Minette wrote: > > > >>2) There is nothing underlying physics. > > > >No turtles?! > > > > No elephants either! > > And no corks! Vilyehm ___ http://

Re: Brin - On Writing Hard SF

2004-05-03 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/3/2004 7:09:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > !" Instead > of thinking of your fans as this warm bunch of fuzzy people out there, > you're thinking of them poised to rip you apart if you make some > incredible scientific faux paux." > That's UF-fa

Re: Brin - On Writing Hard SF

2004-05-04 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/4/2004 8:07:40 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Cameras are a big faux past in SF now. > > It distracted me in a couple Piper novels this year. > > Oh, that's been over a decade for me. Tapes can be transfered at 60 speed from viewer to viewer, b

Re: Star Wars day

2004-05-04 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/4/2004 2:40:58 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Or so I was informed on another mailing list. > > May the fourth be with you! > > Julia > So, after you celebrate, what are you going to do with that kitchen sink full of mayonnaise? Vilyehm __

Re: Lion loose in Columbus Ohio

2004-05-04 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/4/2004 6:16:49 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The short of it is, someone had a pet lion that got loose. Nobody is > owning up to it, but it is the News Of The Day here in Columbus Ohio If it's an old over the hill female, best leave it in the corn

Re: Favorite bad Sci-Fi movies on DVD

2004-05-16 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/15/2004 7:07:27 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Oooh, campy-licious! How about "Battle Beyond the Stars"? John-Boy > and Roger Corman channel Lucal and Hamill. Awesomely bad, yet > enjoyable nonetheless. :) > > Jim > And the great line, "Have

Re: Favorite bad Sci-Fi movies on DVD

2004-05-16 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/16/2004 9:43:00 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Julia > > Forget Babies R Us, Toys R Us -- Insanity R Us, that's the way to go > Yes, but under theoretical rules of super string super-symmetry, there's really no such thing as a reversed R.

Re: Favorite bad Sci-Fi movies on DVD

2004-05-16 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/16/2004 12:00:14 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >R, 2! > > D, 2! > > Julia > A rather robotic answer. Never let reality interfere with a good joke, or desperate BS. William Taylor - Sticking to the joke side. ___

Re: Favorite bad Sci-Fi movies on DVD

2004-05-16 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/16/2004 2:02:27 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a d3 that's just a d6 marked twice with each number. (I collect > interesting dice.) > > Julia > > You must have a set of pigs then. In medieval style, so that if thrown correctly, you ca

Re: Email account utilization warning.

2004-05-18 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/18/2004 4:32:47 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Dear user of "Mccmedia.com" mailing system, > > Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper > >using in next > > three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your >

Re: Brin: group still active?

2004-05-20 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/20/2004 7:57:48 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The web server was just unhappy... but I believe I just fixed it. > > Nick > > Voice of the web server: What do you mean it was out? Aww come on, it was in by a mile! Are you blind? * * * *

Re: Dinosaur with a hole in its head . . .

2004-05-21 Thread Medievalbk
The new find - Suuwassea emilieae - is a sauropod, a classification of plant-eating dinosaurs with long necks and tails, small heads, and four elephant-like legs. At 50 feet long, it's a smaller cousin of better-known sauropods Diplodocus and Apatosaurus. That hole is where the saxap

Re: Uplift Fan-Fic Announcement: "The Dorrvi -- Added Information"

2004-05-25 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/25/2004 5:37:32 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've added a new Vilyehm Teighlore fan-fic story, "The > Dorrvi -- Added Information": > >http://stories.brin-l.org/dorrvi.html > > To see the original Dorrvi listing it refers to, go to > pages 1

Re: Day After Tomorrow movie [no spoilers]

2004-05-29 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/29/2004 11:33:24 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Day After Tomorrow movie [no spoilers] The spoiler was having the "Kyoto Accord can do no wrong" people outside handing out fliers. William Taylor ___ ht

Re: Day After Tomorrow movie [no spoilers]

2004-05-29 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/29/2004 1:03:49 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my town's mailing list, someone was organizing a moveon.org gathering outside the theatre showing Day After Tomorrow, to distribute anti-Bush literature. That was them. I chose to focus on the Accord

Re: Day After Tomorrow movie [no spoilers]

2004-05-30 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/30/2004 9:43:16 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > AOL 9.0 and I can't find the friggen spell check. You misspelled "friggin'". Julia You mean it isn't friggin in the riggin and friggen down the glen? Vilyehm Fox had NASCAR cut into Tot

Re: Bullying and Battering

2004-05-30 Thread Medievalbk
My brain hurts.and I don't want to be tested on it later. But oh what fun readings from them both. Two intellectual lights much much better than any old flame. William Taylor ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Bullying and Battering

2004-05-31 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/31/2004 7:20:18 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My brain hurts.and I don't want to be tested on it later. Is your brain feeling battered? :) If I say yes, are you going to throw it into the deep frier? Vilyehm

Re: Day After Tomorrow movie [WITH spoiler]

2004-05-31 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/31/2004 6:19:27 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My son and I thought it was the best comedy so far this year. Every possible disaster movie cliché was packed into the movie. My wife kept making shushing sounds at us because we were laughing out loud

Re: Condoms contain carcinogen

2004-06-02 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/2/2004 8:49:52 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, said it found the carcinogen N-Nitrosamine present in 29 of 32 types of condoms it tested in simulated conditions. Simulated cond

Re: Ronald Reagan Dies

2004-06-05 Thread Medievalbk
And did so in the half hour inbetween my logging off and then back on again. (It's too hot to do anything but book entries while sitting in front of the AC.) Not having cable, I've got ABC on. I do hope I do not hear this on TV, or in print anywhere, but I know that it will be a fact that later t

Re: Archbishop Chaput of Denver

2004-06-05 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/5/2004 8:24:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I snipped some stuff. Wouldn't that make it a jewish post instead of catholic? FX: crickets chirping. Oh wellit hasn't been a good day anyway. William Taylor ___

Re: Partisan Humor

2004-06-06 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/5/2004 10:41:57 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can pass your flatulence to the list as far as I'm concerned. At least until they invent the aromanet. -- Doug Phbbbttt maru I smell olive loaf Vilyehm ___

Re: Partisan Humor

2004-06-06 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/6/2004 7:25:25 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vilyehm wrote: I smell olive loaf He who smelt it dealt it... -- Doug Well that's a Breathed of fresh air. OK,.that opus of vague cartoon references can now be closed. Vilyehm

Crit: Opening to story: The Kidding stays in the Tytlal

2004-06-11 Thread Medievalbk
This story has been worked on and worked on and worked on. There's no point in trying to number all of the revisions. I purposefully started the action in the middle, and there really isn't any action as it is all words, words, words. I'm my own worst editor. So, for the readers of the lis

Re: To Your Scattered Plotlines Go

2004-06-13 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/13/2004 4:27:23 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Naked people running around? Wasn't Mark Twain one of the people? Wouldn't that be a good thing? Julia That depends upon WHERE he's smoking his cigar. Totally disappointed. I had hoped the "S

Re: Crit: Opening to story: The Kidding stays in the Tytlal

2004-06-13 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/13/2004 7:09:12 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry that no one was replying. I like it, but I fear that I am missing some of the elaborately set up puns. I know you mentioned the Farley's dog thing a couple of months ago--I certainly don't share

Re: Basketball

2004-06-13 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/13/2004 10:21:11 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm feeling so badly for the Lakers now that they're down 3-1 in the finals. Poor Kobe. Poor Shaq. Poor Phil. Poor L.A. -- Doug Go Pistons maru. Hell with them. On the good side, it'll just

Tytlal designed test at an Uplift Ceremony

2004-06-14 Thread Medievalbk
Tytlal designed test OK... I'm thinking of using this as a test at the Rousit Uplift Ceremony: - You are a Rousit in a party of ten Rousits. Since you can't speak, the tytlal are going to work on an equal level and only give you instructions using pantomime and hand signals. Onl

Re: Tytlal designed test at an Uplift Ceremony

2004-06-15 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/15/2004 5:28:42 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's an original answer. You have an infinite supply of towels. So fill the space between the tables with enough towels to make a bridge from one table to the other. Then slowly push all three pies

Re: Tytlal designed test at an Uplift Ceremony

2004-06-15 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/15/2004 10:05:56 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe I'm missing the rule against it, but couldn't they just stack the 3 pies on top of each other and carry them over that way? It'd be a bit messy with the casters, but less so than the pie-in-th

Re: Tytlal designed test at an Uplift Ceremony

2004-06-15 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/15/2004 7:45:33 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway, a closer reading shows that the problem is impossible: OK > > There are three cream pies on a table. ... > If any part of --the actual cream of the-- pie touches either table or the ground

Re: Tytlal designed test at an Uplift Ceremony

2004-06-15 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/15/2004 9:00:40 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Key lime every mountain. IGH! You, sir, need to be punished for that one! Did you here the ISIRTA one where the unused southern german flour mills were going to be used as kennels? The m

Re: Tytlal designed test at an Uplift Ceremony

2004-06-16 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/16/2004 4:49:09 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why not "Hands can not touch the cream nor a band from the rim of the pie to the middle." And "Cream may not touch table or ground." And that 100 percent of the cream from two of the pies must make

Re: Bradbury ticked at Moore

2004-06-21 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/21/2004 10:03:35 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Good thing he didn't subtitle it "A Fair and Balanced Look at America's Response to the Terrorist Attacks." Dave And Al Franken, Too Maru I want the tite: Michael Moore is a Big Fiat Idiom Vi

Smoking and politics in Civilization of the Five Galaxies

2004-07-27 Thread Medievalbk
One unwritten constant between Earthclan politics and politics of the Civilization of Five Galaxies seemed to be the inverse table rule. The further away from the official negotiating table, the more work actually gets done. Not counting the mulch maligned Jophur, the proverbial smoke filled r

Re: Weekly Chat Reminder --sorry Joanna

2004-07-28 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 7/28/2004 11:27:38 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six years. yada, yada... Sorry Joanna. I do books while waiting for other people to show up. It can take me 5 to 10 minutes to change

Re: Telescope help...

2004-07-29 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 7/28/2004 9:49:51 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Only if it is so big that the telescope requires you to buy a flatbed truck to move should you consider any other factor more important than aperture . . . What about which one is easier to hide in

Re: Karmic slappage (was: Phone home?)

2004-07-31 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 7/31/2004 3:10:36 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >... and I've already agreed that extremists of > all religious flavors are misogynists (or treat > women as srcond-class). Well, I know what *second-class* means, but I'm not sure what a "srcond" is!

Brin Ask Marilyn's answer was boring.

2004-08-01 Thread Medievalbk
Re AskMarilyn, Parade August 1st, 2004: A question to her: In what type of line are you when the last one in the line gets to go first. Marilyn gave the answer of a train backing out of a station. "You're in a line of railroad cars at a terminal, where a train reaches the end of its journey

Re: Back to school again

2004-08-04 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/3/2004 4:59:56 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End ? The only classic to be listed among the moderns? Who goofed? Vilyehm ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listin

Re: Hellllloooooooooo.....

2004-08-04 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/3/2004 5:00:05 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are we up or down?? It's verrry quiet here... Of course it's very quiet. I'm humming Rabbis. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Brothers of the Night Music.

2004-08-07 Thread Medievalbk
Brothers of the Night are prophesizing Saying they are right All else despising 'less they change their ways Before they kill them dead. Something that they say was so convincing Something in their smile makes you stop flinching. Something in their arms Pointed straight at your head. Brother

Re: Brothers of the Night Music.

2004-08-09 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/9/2004 5:10:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here I had saved this post for a laugh, only to find a poetic comment on my last post's theme... Debbi More Weird List Synchronicity Maru My niece is too old to throw into the sink anymore. Vilyeh

Re: Brin: Fight The Future: Encrypted Screws

2004-08-11 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/11/2004 1:58:57 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I swear, I CANNOT GET A MACHINE WITH SIMPLE BASIC IN > ORDER TO TEACH IT TO MY SON! I'm reminded of the Art Bell time travelor who had to go back in time to get an older computer to fix the Y2K pr

Re: Olympics, opening ceremony, opening number

2004-08-15 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/15/2004 2:28:01 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS: I've seen the whole show without a single break You must have a very strong bladder. And if you had to listen to NBC commemtary, you'd have to have a very strong stomach. Vilyehm __

Re: Soldering in Space

2004-08-16 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/16/2004 4:10:25 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Orbital rosin. Who knew? xponent What? You've never heard of the Rosin Cavalier? Vilyehm ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Cassini spacecraft detects 2 tiny moons orbiting Saturn

2004-08-17 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/17/2004 11:33:02 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cassini spacecraft detects 2 tiny moons orbiting Saturn Newest discoveries puts known number of satellites at 33 As a tribute to Rocky and Bullwinkle, I think they should name the last moon Boswick

Re: The Mercedes of The Vatican

2004-08-18 Thread Medievalbk
Holy water in the radiator? Vilyehm Had to do it. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: For your lunchtime reading enjoyment . . .

2004-08-18 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/18/2004 3:51:44 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not to be a pinhead, I posted a similar article a month or so ago... Debbi But were you a professional smartalack at the time? ___ http://www.mccmedia.

Re: Episodes VII, VIII, IX

2004-08-23 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/23/2004 1:59:23 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A posting on the site says, "You didn't hear this from me, but you might be curious as to why everyone at ILM just signed NDA's saying that they will not discuss Star Wars episodes 7, 8, or 9. "Since t

Make Gwydu a household word.

2004-08-28 Thread Medievalbk
G.W.Y.D.U ---It looks Welsh. But it stands for Google what you don't understand. That so called origination of the word 'quiz' was never proven. Let's get it right this time. Gwydu, everyone! When you tell someone that one of their flayrod's gone out of skew on treadle, and they

Re: JDG-Type ...Fool, this is out-of-line.

2004-08-30 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/30/2004 7:43:45 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Hobby wrote: > The Fool wrote: > > > > Let's NOT have a flamewar with the TITLES of our posts? Seconded. -- Doug This is one string I will not make a joke title about if I feel it has gone

Re: JDG-Type ...Fool, this is out-of-line.

2004-08-31 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/31/2004 6:39:01 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am curious as to what a "Jeeb-O" is? Any video footage of a Florida governor that makes him look bad and can be put on national network news, replacing a minor news story, say like a 7.0 eart

Re: Did Nixon Debate Humphrey?

2004-09-01 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 9/1/2004 1:47:35 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nope. GWYDU. (hehehe and so it quietly starts) (Google nixon humphrey debate and look at the last 2 entries on the first page of results.) Julia Vilyehm __

MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!

2004-09-08 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 9/8/2004 11:18:28 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "This message was sent automatically using cron. But even if WTG is away on holiday, at least it shows the server is still up." ___ and up and up and up an

Re: MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!

2004-09-08 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 9/8/2004 11:48:00 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LOL. Somebody is *really* desperate for more people to participate in the weekly chat sessions! - jmh William is in Edenburough, I think. ___ http://www.

Re: Why bother?

2004-09-09 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 9/9/2004 9:25:54 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After reading the whole of Brin's Uplift novels, I find myself puzzled by something: Why undertake the massive, expensive, intricate, and morally tricky process of Uplift at all? It looks good on a res

Wazoon Two Step. Start of yet another story

2004-09-11 Thread Medievalbk
Wazoon Two Step It was time to face the music. Whatever that meant. Music goes into the ear and does not land upon oneâs face. It should be time to listen to the music. Or was it time to face the sheet music? No, that does not make sense. With a piece of Earthclanâs anachronistic woo

Re: some thoughts and quotes.

2004-09-13 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 9/13/2004 4:34:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ghengiz Khan's genes appear in 8% of modern Chinese population - Khanjugate Khannubial Khansummate Why is this a surprise? Vilyehm ___ http://w

Re: Caminiti Smiles

2004-10-12 Thread Medievalbk
I'm sorry. The Arizona football Cardinals are so bad, I can't follow any conversation on any other team called the Cardinals. I'll wait for basketball season. William Taylor ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Caminiti Smiles

2004-10-12 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/12/2004 10:32:59 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh, is it contention you want, huh? Well, your mother sews socks that smell. Dan M. Are you trying to arguile her on? Vilyehm ___ http://www.mccmed

Re: Brin: The latest ripoff

2004-10-12 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/12/2004 1:19:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: . I'll be posting a Second Salvo (maybe tonight) that detailed-dissects the Neoconservative alliance. db >sigh< I can see the argument now. Some will say you're using breech loaders. Some will

Re: This World In Arms

2004-10-02 Thread Medievalbk
The trouble with the world in arms is that no one is currently selling a strong enough deodorant. ---Vilyehm Teighlore ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Wazoon Two-step after critique by our good Dr. Brin

2004-10-02 Thread Medievalbk
The very unusual happened. When I emailed Dr. Brin the start of this story, instead of the more expected one word, one sentence, or one paragraph comment, he did a critique, a full comment, with suggestions for added dialogue, and pointed out that some jokes could be too obscure even for dedic

Re: X-Prize Won!

2004-10-04 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/4/2004 3:07:25 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone note the significance of the date? Broderick Crawford Day? Vilyehm Teighlore ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Archive? Document? Huh?

2004-10-06 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/6/2004 1:36:08 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've recieved two rather strange messages from the listserve. One has Archive as subject title, the other Document. Both have no content except for an attachment that I'm not going to open and the aut

...alive, with the sound of Tytlal

2004-10-09 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/9/2004 4:31:11 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Agh... I had purified my mind in thr Rites of Phhhuz'z for 3 days to get rid of it! Now it's back... Just for that, think now about the yodel song from Sound of Music Blame Dr. Brin. _He_ asked for

Re: Quick message from D B

2004-10-09 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/9/2004 9:17:38 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Got mail from DB this morning, So did I, and in PUNishment wrote the Tytlal Yodell Song. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Quick message from D B

2004-10-09 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/9/2004 9:26:12 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And what a fine PUNishment it was, too! :) Julia The original punishment was a bunch of clippings From The Kidding Stays in the Tytlal, which is in line for a second review on Critters. Those puns we

Re: Not rocket scientists . . .

2004-10-20 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/20/2004 3:31:38 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: said Max Engel, a space industry analyst for California-based Frost & Sullivan. And part time armourer and jeweler in the SCA. ___ http://www.mccmedia.co

Re: Not rocket scientists . . .

2004-10-20 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/20/2004 5:57:33 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "We provide distinct e-clients with groundbreaking e-business strategies to aggressively and creatively e-compete in an changing economy." e-gad! ___ http:

Re: Brin: naming the beasts

2004-10-23 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/23/2004 10:42:00 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Baker wrote: > > Which is not to say that Mendel wasn't an excellent scientist; > But he wasn't. His published figures are too good to be real: they don't pass a Chi-Square test, meaning that

Re: Sick Nick update

2003-02-12 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 2/12/2003 2:38:37 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Not a patch on Sedona, AZ, > though...? So that's how the groove in Slide Rock was formed! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Oh Yeah!

2003-02-12 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 2/12/03 5:42:02 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << (1) They have to warm up to play those things properly? They have to warm the pipes up. As more warm, moist air comes into the pipes from the bag, the pipes get warmer and expand somewhat, which c

Re: Oh Yeah!

2003-02-12 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 2/12/03 6:23:21 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Hoffnung did bagpipes? >> If I remember correctly, PDQ Bach did the bit about pulling apart the bagpipes and only using the mouthpiece. Hoffnung Festival had a piece that included bagpipes and an upr

Re: Oh Yeah!

2003-02-12 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 2/12/2003 6:41:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Now, I *know* that he did that with double reeds and with trumpet > mouthpiece. And Hoffnung took the trumpet mouthpiece and stuck it on 20 feet of garden hose. That bit is on the video that I al

Re: Oh Yeah!

2003-02-12 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 2/12/2003 9:18:14 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > And Hoffnung took the trumpet mouthpiece and stuck it on 20 feet of garden > > hose. That bit is on the video that I also have. > > OK, *that* I want to hear. I don't need to see it, necessarily,

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