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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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*
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
.may be the first step where you have to scrape something off of your
shoe.
Watching it right now.
William Taylor
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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.
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
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Sticking to the joke side.
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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
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
>
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?
* * * *
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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In a message dated 8/3/2004 5:00:05 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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Are we up or down?? It's verrry quiet here...
Of course it's very quiet. I'm humming Rabbis.
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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
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
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
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
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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
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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
Holy water in the radiator?
Vilyehm
Had to do it.
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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?
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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
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
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
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
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
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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."
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and up and up and up an
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.
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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
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
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
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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
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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
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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
The trouble with the world in arms is that no one is currently selling a
strong enough deodorant.
---Vilyehm Teighlore
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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
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
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In a message dated 10/6/2004 1:36:08 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
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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
In a message dated 10/9/2004 4:31:11 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
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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
In a message dated 10/9/2004 9:17:38 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
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Got mail from DB this morning,
So did I, and in PUNishment wrote the Tytlal Yodell Song.
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In a message dated 10/9/2004 9:26:12 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
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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
In a message dated 10/20/2004 3:31:38 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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said Max Engel, a space industry analyst for California-based Frost &
Sullivan.
And part time armourer and jeweler in the SCA.
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In a message dated 10/20/2004 5:57:33 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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"We provide distinct e-clients
with groundbreaking e-business strategies to aggressively and creatively
e-compete in an changing economy."
e-gad!
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In a message dated 10/23/2004 10:42:00 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
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Richard Baker wrote:
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> Which is not to say that Mendel wasn't an excellent scientist;
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But he wasn't. His published figures are too good to be real:
they don't pass a Chi-Square test, meaning that
In a message dated 2/12/2003 2:38:37 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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> Not a patch on Sedona, AZ,
> though...?
So that's how the groove in Slide Rock was formed!
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In a message dated 2/12/03 5:42:02 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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<< (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
In a message dated 2/12/03 6:23:21 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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<< 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
In a message dated 2/12/2003 6:41:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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> 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
In a message dated 2/12/2003 9:18:14 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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> > 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.
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> OK, *that* I want to hear. I don't need to see it, necessarily,
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