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 #7-7 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 7, Number 7 Sunday, 7 June 1998 Today's Topics: Non-TMBG: A surly voice on the telephone can convince you you're a fool ;) TMBG: TMBG Spy Chicken TMBG: The land of the home, and the home of the cheese TMBG: tmbg amb TMBG: bye for now Re: TMBG: Soldiers to meet Them TMBG: Re: Fun To Steal + tiny TMBG dream TMBG: THE MAN sighting... Re: TMBG: THE MAN sighting... TMBG: Brian Dewan Re: TMBG: Brian Dewan TMBG:STD TMBG: Old Where Your Eyes Don't Go Interp/The Truman Show Re: TMBG: Old Where Your Eyes Don't Go Interp/The Truman Show TMBG: Re: TMBG club at WWU? Re: TMBG: THE MAN sighting... TMBG: Non-tmbg : Candy Butchers album Re: TMBG: Soldiers to meet Them Re: TMBG:STD TMBG: an odd brian dewen song... Administrivia: If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing send mail to tmbg-digest-request@tmbg.org for instructions on how to be automatically removed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors. --------------------------------------------------------------------- tmbg-list is digested with Digest 3.5b (John Relph ). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-Id: <199806061435.KAA23044@elvis.vnet.net> From: "Could be an Illusion" Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 10:36:02 -0500 Subject: Non-TMBG: A surly voice on the telephone can convince you you're a fool ;) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 5 Jun 1998 22:26:56 EDT, KdsInThHal@aol.com wrote: >yes i think we're all jumping on this topic because there's nothing else to >jump on. :} i don't mean anything harsh by any of my posts.. Hey, we could all go jump on that TMBG Spy Giant Chicken! :) Or... [Carl jumps on his bed for a while] Well, that was fun... mmmmm, coffee! :d Actually, I thought the phone call thing was sorta funny. Also sorta sad and limp, though -- I mean, he didn't even ask if the refrigerator was running! [fictional call] "Hello, Diamond Dan? Your phone number's up on the Internet for all to see! Isn't that cool? By the way, have you seen the giant chicken?" [fictional *click*] Now back to your little sister peeking at the screen to see what you're reading, =] Carl Hudkins + Tape list available at =--> http://users.vnet.net/chud/ [y ] [t =] "No, John Flansburgh is not here, nor was he meant to be here." [h ] [e =] --Mysterious Voice on the telephone [r -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Would you send mail without an envelope? iQCVAwUBNXlTzr5BFpotHh45AQEWQQQAvCm8KOdhXmslEiBi9WiWDblUJclBa1Hx kP7P7gHMv69/U6ELTDYRwejiceGc1W17J2xsN6YmReNgFe+475FGATjTZOWOJVaR V3ApUwnoL3SBnxxpVR55NhRZYYmgeXjrzAN62tXU9N1dyaIzg13Ca/0yT+zvLAxb 4NFR6bB+77w= =KIe0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ Message-ID: <35796F95.C4C2CBFF@ibm.net> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 12:34:30 -0400 From: Robyn Miller Subject: TMBG: TMBG Spy Chicken Could be an Illusion wrote: > "Hello, Diamond Dan? Your phone number's up on the Internet for all > to see! Isn't that cool? By the way, have you seen the giant chicken?" Heeeeey! Let's not make fun of the TMBG Spy Chicken! I resides in my town... well... the ACTUAL un-altered chicken is in my town (Marietta, GA), but it's really referred to as "the Big Chicken" says "Kentucky Fried Chicken" on the side. Just thought I'd mention that. The Big Chicken rocks. And without it, all of us Mariettians wouldn't be able to give directions anymore. ;) "How do I get to Walton High School?" "Oh... let's see... just follow this road, make a left at the Big Chicken, and it's two lights down." -Robyn (the Big Chicken lover) Miller- ------------------------------ Message-ID: <007401bd917a$ee391d40$de321ed1@refund.rcn.nmt.edu> From: "Refund" Subject: TMBG: The land of the home, and the home of the cheese Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 12:42:58 -0600 All I have to say is: what have I done? I should have known that if I relayed that information, it would be used improperly. I should have at least deleted the phone number from it. I apologize, I thought irrationally. Signed, Nick Wolf, TMBG Ambassador to the state of New Mexico. And whoever said there's nothing new under the sun never thought much about individuals, but he's dead anyway. The Refreshments -- Down Together. P.S. Visit www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/5550/ The first Julie Plug tribute page in HISTORY!!! :0) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <35799E9D.E0D1FC07@home.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 12:55:14 -0700 From: NICHOLAS JANSSEN Organization: @Home Network Subject: TMBG: tmbg amb Does anyone have a "They Might Be Giants Ate My Balls" page? Nick ------------------------------ Message-ID: <3579B093.C3A3DC76@concentric.net> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 16:11:47 -0500 From: Anastasia hunt Organization: BFE Productions Subject: TMBG: bye for now I'm temporarily unsubbing for now. I don't have time to read anything because of my work schedule and I'm leaving for a teo-week trip on the 13th. I won't be back til July. Love you guys,' Anastasia ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 16:29:07 -0700 (PDT) From: leonard helfgott Subject: Re: TMBG: Soldiers to meet Them Message-ID: As a person growing up around Western Wash. U. I can say that they don't have a TMBG fan club, however, they are trying to start one. Jon ------------------------------ From: mr.train@juno.com Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 19:32:10 -0400 Subject: TMBG: Re: Fun To Steal + tiny TMBG dream Message-ID: <19980606.193211.4750.0.Mr.Train@juno.com> I just got It's Fun To Steal in the mail today so I thought I'd add my 2 sense. I think that it kicks Unsupervised's ass! I love the scratching that DJ ***** does! It is FUNKY! I lvoe the stuff that Double Dong does too... I've never seen them in concert... but I hear they suck... I'm not into the poopoo-peepee humor either... One thing I am disappointed at is that Plen-T Pak is listed as a rapper... but I don't hear a rap any where in extra krispy! Damn! oh well... I think this album is great! I also had a wierd dream last night... one part of it was I was driving in my car and I stopped at a stop light and I saw the person's shirt next to me and it said "DVD Might Be Giant" and it was written on skulls... weird. Tim, Mr. Lovemaker, heartbreaker, number 1 Miscellaneous Tim AKA TMB(do)G AKA Tambo (IRC) AKA Mr.Train (OML) Favorite TMBG song update: N/A Last CD purchase: Lo, Our Much Praised Yet Not Altogether Satisfactory Lady - Refreshments Favorite mainstream song: One Week - Barenaked Ladies _____________________________________________________________________ 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] ------------------------------ From: Happyfroot@aol.com Message-ID: <82b75df2.3579e958@aol.com> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 21:13:59 EDT Subject: TMBG: THE MAN sighting... Ok, maybe someone's mentioned this before, but this time it creeped me out. I was visiting the Yahoo! search engine & actually was searching for any new TMBG pages to pop up. After searching, I hit back on my browser & for a brief second on the Visa ad, the Man from WDTSS? pops up in the ad...I was frightened....definitely frightened... jason "I'm Afraid of Americans" glastetter ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980606212146.006a4804@mail.clemson.edu> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 21:21:46 -0400 From: Adam Tyner Subject: Re: TMBG: THE MAN sighting... Here's the URL to the Visa image with The Man: http://us.yimg.com/promotions/visa3/hp_visa1.gif -Adam At 09:13 PM 6/6/98 EDT, Happyfroot@aol.com wrote: >Ok, maybe someone's mentioned this before, but this time it creeped me out. I >was visiting the Yahoo! search engine & actually was searching for any new >TMBG pages to pop up. After searching, I hit back on my browser & for a brief >second on the Visa ad, the Man from WDTSS? pops up in the ad...I was >frightened....definitely frightened... > >jason "I'm Afraid of Americans" glastetter > > /=---------------- http://www.he-man.org/ctyner/ ----------------=\ http://www.awod.com/gallery/rwav/ctyner/ The home of He-Man, "Weird Al", Yoo-hoo, Killer Tomatoes, and more! Demented music list admin O- MiSTie #67,326 ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 20:14:45 -0600 Subject: TMBG: Brian Dewan Message-ID: <19980606.201451.3166.4.TMBgirl@juno.com> Did anyone happen to attend any one of these Brian Dewan shows? happen to record them? :) 6/6/98 The Edison Historical Site in West Orange NJ Recording on Thomas Edison's ancient wax cylinder appparatus(?) Call for reservations and directions: 973-736-0550 extension 42 11:00, 12:30 and 2:00. take it easy, JOrdaN [AKA Joda: Yedi Master] http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html :::Crazy 'Joda,' Nicotine, And Her Red Jet Air Balloon::: _____________________________________________________________________ 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] ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980606221828.006ab168@mail.clemson.edu> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 22:18:28 -0400 From: Adam Tyner Subject: Re: TMBG: Brian Dewan At 08:14 PM 6/6/98 -0600, tmbgirl@juno.com wrote: >Did anyone happen to attend any one of these Brian Dewan shows? happen >to record them? :) TDK, Rabid Child, and someone else from the Musings Board not only recorded it...they recorded a song WITH Brian! :) /=---------------- http://www.he-man.org/ctyner/ ----------------=\ http://www.awod.com/gallery/rwav/ctyner/ The home of He-Man, "Weird Al", Yoo-hoo, Killer Tomatoes, and more! Demented music list admin O- MiSTie #67,326 ------------------------------ From: gray42@juno.com Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 21:56:54 -0400 Subject: TMBG:STD Message-ID: <19980606.220510.3470.0.gray42@juno.com> Severe Tire Damage Sexually Transmitted Disease anything else STD stands for? Mysterio Gal (fellow Subgenius & Happy Mutant) " Have I been there? I live there! I made The School, I am The School! Anything that goes on there, they tell me first, I'm the boss, I control what goes on in the whole place. If you want to take a piss, you gotta ask me first." --Pitts ICQ# 9585405 MST3K#88182 gray42@juno.com http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/4871 _____________________________________________________________________ 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] ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980606224105.0080dab0@mail.csrlink.net> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 22:41:05 -0400 From: Dylan Flipse Subject: TMBG: Old Where Your Eyes Don't Go Interp/The Truman Show After MUCH searching to figure out how solipsism was spelled, and then a little more searching, I finally found this post. I'd remember the post, cause I always thought that solipsism was pretty cool, even got into some heavy discussion about it with my friend Neil. (Who was wearing a dress last night, but that's mostly unrelated.) Anywho, here's Jim's Where Your Eyes Don't Go interp. >Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 15:13:20 -0600 (MDT) >From: J Kuemmerle >Subject: Re: TMBG: interps >Message-ID: > >On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Kirsten Brodbeck pontificated: > >> Maybe.. I never thought of "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" as being >> that specific. I *do* think it's one of the most paranoia-inducing songs >> I've ever heard. I mean, for all you know, there *could* be a filthy >> scarecrow following you around, and you just can't see it.. ;) > >i see your point! kinda reminds me of solipsism -- the idea that you >can't ever actually *prove* that there isn't a filthy scarecrow waving his >long stick arms and doing a parody of each unconcious thing you do waiting >where your eyes don't go, because anything you'd do to prove it would >depend upon a perception, and perception is notably prone to be mistaken. >(the acid-takers in that other thread only perceived that the walls were >melting, when they probably weren't, really.) for all i know, i could >just be a brain in a vat being fed external stimuli to make me *think* >that i was living this life... hence, solipsists (who are pretty few and >far between -- living with that big a distrust of your perceptions is no >easy business) are forced into a pretty complete agnosticism. that is, >they can't prove *anything*, so they don't believe anything. a lot of >philosophers were frustrated by the fact that the idea couldn't be either >proven or disproven, and basically hoped everybody would ignore it and go >away. but every kid (i guess, or maybe i was just weird) has fantasies >about the world stopping in one direction when you turn your head the >other way, so i don't think the idea's going anywhere soon. (if you've >ever read _understanding_comics_ by scott mccloud, you know what i'm >talking about! if you haven't, you should. now. i mean it.) > >-jim kuemmerle, who thinks maybe the list stops running when he's logged >off of his e-mail account... > >j.kuemmerle@m.cc.utah.edu >http://www.geocities.com/soho/gallery/4668/ And then I tie it into current events- I saw the Truman Show today. Even when I was watching prevues for it, earlier, I'd thought back to solipsism, which I only knew of because of that post. And then, I was soooo happy when I read the Time magazine article that mentioned it, cause that gave me the spelling. Anywho, it's a great movie. Time (http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980601/index.html) talked about the feeling you'll have when you walk outta the theater, and they were EXACTLY right. I was driving home, I have a more or less straight road to be on, facing west, and it was about 6:30. There was this sky that was a perfect blue, and rows of clouds perpendicular to the road, with the sun reflecting off their near-edges. Looked like a painting. Felt like, hell, how do I know I'm not Truman? It bothered me, but at the same time felt great, especially for all of those of us who just KNOW something sinister is going on, but never quite had a name for it. Oh, yah, use Infoseek or HotBot or something to search for solipsism, you'll find some darned interesting materials. Dylan "Hell, how do I know I'm not Mike Leffel?" Flipse Dylan Flipse...one of them. - dflipse@csrlink.net Dylan's page is at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9909/ for now. I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed -They Might Be Giants, the coolest thing this side of Zaphod Beeblebrox. ------------------------------ Message-Id: Date: Sat, 6 Jun 98 23:00 EDT From: kbrodbec@remcen.ehhs.cmich.edu (Kirsten Brodbeck) Subject: Re: TMBG: Old Where Your Eyes Don't Go Interp/The Truman Show It bothered me, but at the same time felt >great, especially for all of those of us who just KNOW something sinister >is going on, but never quite had a name for it. Like the earth is really just a giant computer paid for by mice? ;) Sorry, just reminded me of that bit from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Arthur Dent: "All my life I've had this strange, unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, something sinister - and no one would tell me what it was." Slartibartfast: "Oh, no. That's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe has that." Kirsten -- `'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`' "I have a great imaginary world, but, um, sometimes I need things to happen for real." - Ally McBeal Kirsten Brodbeck AKA Crow kbrodbec@remcen.ehhs.cmich.edu ------------------------------ Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980606032130.0071e150@pop.cwru.edu> Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 20:21:30 -0700 From: SpiderEyes Subject: TMBG: Re: TMBG club at WWU? >As a person growing up around Western Wash. U. I can say that they don't >have a TMBG fan club, however, they are trying to start one. Any comments then on why their page (http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~tmbgspy/) states that they were formally recognized as an Associated Students club in spring '96, and being dated 96-98, last updated 6/5/98, implies a continuing existence since that point? (Since the AS page doesn't list recognized organizations, presumably due to summer, we can't check there.) - the now curious SpiderEyes ------------------- Exquisite dead guy Rotating in his display case Exquisite dead guy Swear I saw his mouth move ------------------------------ Message-ID: <357A08F4.EAC9F130@ix.netcom.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 23:28:52 -0400 From: Mike Subject: Re: TMBG: THE MAN sighting... I thought we discussed this before, but isn't the man just the universal symbol for.... err... well... the universal cartoon for THE MAN? Heehee, he's just everywhere (-: Head of the Church of Jish Mikeman Adam Tyner wrote: > > Here's the URL to the Visa image with The Man: > > http://us.yimg.com/promotions/visa3/hp_visa1.gif > > -Adam > > At 09:13 PM 6/6/98 EDT, Happyfroot@aol.com wrote: > >Ok, maybe someone's mentioned this before, but this time it creeped me out. I > >was visiting the Yahoo! search engine & actually was searching for any new > >TMBG pages to pop up. After searching, I hit back on my browser & for a brief > >second on the Visa ad, the Man from WDTSS? pops up in the ad...I was > >frightened....definitely frightened... > > > >jason "I'm Afraid of Americans" glastetter > > > > > /=---------------- http://www.he-man.org/ctyner/ ----------------=\ > http://www.awod.com/gallery/rwav/ctyner/ > The home of He-Man, "Weird Al", Yoo-hoo, Killer Tomatoes, and more! > Demented music list admin O- MiSTie #67,326 ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 21:12:20 -0600 Subject: TMBG: Non-tmbg : Candy Butchers album Message-ID: <19980606.214345.3166.5.TMBgirl@juno.com> Hey HEy! sorry for the surge of NON-tmbg related posts (or at least the surge of SEMI-tmbg related posts)... anyways, if you have a copy of the Candy Butchers album (that never really was) could you please e-mail me? take it easy, JOrdaN [AKA Joda: Yedi Master] http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html :::Crazy 'Joda,' Nicotine, And Her Red Jet Air Balloon::: _____________________________________________________________________ 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] ------------------------------ Message-ID: <357A16F9.8BA@geocities.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 21:28:41 -0700 From: Vladimir Drakul Subject: Re: TMBG: Soldiers to meet Them > As a person growing up around Western Wash. U. I can say that they don't > have a TMBG fan club, however, they are trying to start one. > Jon Aha, but they DO! Try http://www.wwu.edu/~tmbgspy and have fun! -- Vladimir Drakul -- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/7343/ ******************************************************************* "Is everything normal now?" "And crawling on the "Well, he hasn't got planet's face... some religious mania, and he's called the Human Race. not running around in a Lost in time, and lost circle spouting Gilbert in space... and Sullivan, so I guess ...and meaning." he's normal." ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980607010937.006b7c24@glasscity.net> Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 01:09:37 -0400 From: Kelley Ketchmark Subject: Re: TMBG:STD At 09:56 PM 6/6/98 -0400, you wrote: >Severe Tire Damage >Sexually Transmitted Disease >anything else STD stands for? In German-speaking countries, Std. stands for Stunde, which is "hour". My friend who came to visit me in Switzerland asked why the signs on the streets said "2 Std." (Two-hour parking) I assured him we weren't passing out sexually transmitted diseases in sets of two...well, it depended on what part of town you were in. Kelley (who is new on this list but loving all this TMBG info...and then some) ------------------------------ From: BrthrJuan@aol.com Message-ID: <6a85abc7.357a27ab@aol.com> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 01:39:54 EDT Subject: TMBG: an odd brian dewen song... i was in a local cd store today (compact disk world - shameless plug) and i was jokingly looking through some odd cds where upon i came across the "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" soundtrack cd. on it i noticed is a song by Brian Dewen. the song is called "The Violin". not sure if anyone has heard this song, but it makes buying this cd all worth while. although it was used, and i got it for $1.99 anyway. just writing to say that this song is incredible. if you do come across this cd, well, if it is pretty cheap as well...buy it. it surprised me a lot. aaron ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #7-7 ****************************