Errors-To: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Reply-To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Sender: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Precedence: bulk From: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Subject: tmbg-list Digest #3-412 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 3, Number 412 Tuesday, 17 February 1998 Today's Topics: TMBG: tmbg-list FAQ TMBG: birthdays | brazil | MTX Re: TMBG: birthdays | brazil | MTX NON-TMBG: everything you know is wronG TMBG: (she was a) right handed flansburgh? 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Also try out the Official TMBG Website at: http://www.tmbg.com/ As always, thank you for your mind. *** ADMINISTRIVIA *** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:48:23 -0700 Subject: TMBG: birthdays | brazil | MTX Message-ID: <19980216.124829.12174.0.TMBgirl@juno.com> From: tmbgirl@juno.com (Joda: Master of Yedi) hEy HEy! >3) another in the "just curious" section: what are the john's >birthdates (with years, if availablE)? i already forgot... but if i member correctly... john linnell : June 12th, 1959 john flansburgh: may 6th, 1960 flans got married on july 14th, 1996? 97? >4) how many TMBG-listers are not in the u.S.? am i the only > one in braziL? my friend claudia lives in brazil (ribeirao preto) and she digs TMBG... she came out here last year and we decided to drive 8 hours to one of their shows in kansas... >Is anyone on the list going to the March 3 Mr T. Experience >show at Irving Plaza? >I'd like to meet some listies there, and it's basically the only > show i'm going to for awhile. nope... but i'm seeing MTX on the 22nd and lincoln (finally!) on 3/4 :) take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html ***TMBG: the david spade and chris farley of the music industry!?!!*** _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:56:43 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Gonsalves Subject: Re: TMBG: birthdays | brazil | MTX Message-ID: On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Joda: Master of Yedi wrote: > > >4) how many TMBG-listers are not in the u.S.? am i the only > > one in braziL? > > my friend claudia lives in brazil (ribeirao preto) and she digs TMBG... > she came out here last year and we decided to drive 8 hours to one of > their shows in kansas... And I grew up in Brasil, primarily in Sao Paulo, but Rio de Janeiro also. Bob Gonsalves, Pink Noise Studios http://www.pinknoiz.com/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980217031227.20872.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Charles Hodges" Subject: NON-TMBG: everything you know is wronG Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:12:27 PST i may or may not be the first to notice (or mention) this, but "weird al"'s song "everything you know is wrong," besides being a somewhat obvious (to anyone who knows the band well) reference to TMBG, it's also a reference to, of all bands, u2. i happened to watch the video for "the fly" today, and one of the many phrases that appear on signs and such is "everything you know is wronG". well, i thought i might mention iT. HW (r) aka platybuS aka enjauladO, who forgot to add this comment yesterday, but won't today, and who thinks, after reading the digest for a month, that jesus christ is a pseudonym for mike leffeR ----------------- CD listened to while writing this missivE: u2's "achtung baby" (coincidence, really, it iS!) "everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautifuL" -- they might be giantS ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-Id: <199802170331.WAA21085@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 21:31:33 -0600 From: the dark side of the moon Subject: TMBG: (she was a) right handed flansburgh? so i was watching the video compliation earlier, and noticed that during the hotel detective video, in one of the live shots, actually in several of them, they show flans playing his guitar right handed. weird eh? that along with linnell repeatedly not holding his sax, though that's just silly... anyone else notice this???? the world deserves to know.... rabidchild(.paulswan) [overwhelming colorfast] ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #3-412 ******************************