Level 42 Digest for Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

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Topics for Wednesday, January 25, 2006

    1.  Re: Link request - giandof @ libero.it
    2.  1 bit, 2bits, 3 bits....more? - Doug White
    3.  Richard West is my hero....and Trash cut in two? - Doug White
    4.  Caddyshack - Andrew Goodwin

1. Re: Link request
From:	giandof @ libero.it <giandof @ libero.it>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:40:31 +0100	[top]
> 5. link request > Recently, someone posted a link to a group photo of (among others) Mike > Lindup and a very portly Phil Gould. Could whoever posted this send it in > again? > > Thanks, > > Chris L. Hi Chris! I don't know if it's me. . . but here's my image with Mike and Phil: http://www.midnightphotos.co.uk/userimages/full/7/3444.jpg shoot in Milan, november 2005. Regards, Giando PS. And I'm the tall one in the middle, right side of Mike. :-)

2. 1 bit, 2bits, 3 bits....more?
From:	Doug White <bigdp @ stanford.edu>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:22:42 -0800	[top]
Hiya folks, First of all I would like to give a shout out to all the nifty people who have replied to emails or just written out of the blue to me of late. Carl of Carl & Laurel (and forevernow.com) sent me a nice email saying hi (I love that by the way, it makes the reading of all the past digests that much more worthwhile), Sharmin Hall, YCB's manager, letting me know that there's music to download and a gig upcoming in the UK, if only I had the cash on hand to fly halfway around the world to see the gig (sigh), but the sentiment is very much appreciated, Zak Nilsson, whom I sent an email and he replied back to the email as well as the posting about YCB (thanks for that Sharmin) and then recently I've also conversed with Tom the Fool (heh) and Mike the Pom (the ball is in his court at the mo). Thanks one and all for your emails! Now on to the other bit.... I actually decided on waiting to send this email over night and I am still perturbed. Granted I ought not to get all 'het' up about something that happened 5 years ago....but the whole stupid 2 bits vs 2 cents rant that Fred the 2 bit bassist went on not once but twice(!!!) and separated by months of digests is just ridiculous. The whole sermonizing and superior holier than thou I will teach how to speak better english AND how to use apostrophes properly just set me off. I know that AG will occasionally upbraid someone on their improper use of the language but it is almost always in the broader context of nailing them in a humorous way for something they've written. I remember when Fred was a newbie, and went on his 2 bit vs 2 cents rant and actually told Lolita that her use of the language was improper, my jaw hit the floor. This IS an informal gathering of people and while I will admit to some hackles rising when I read something like Persuit instead of Pursuit, I have no inclination to get online and start screaming about it. However, lecturing people that 2 cents is a nonexistent term and in reality people should be using the correct usage of 2 bits because of some damn broken coin back in the day (whatever century that day was) is so utterly preposterous and beyond the pale that I can't even begin to adequately express my outrage at the sheer arrogance. There's more to say about this but there's really no point to harping too much on events of 5 years past. Fred, if you're still out there and reading, I hope you've gotten over yourself and moved on. There's nothing more annoying than someone who decides to lecture others in an informal setting about things that have nothing to do with the subject....ummm, maybe I ought to shut up now..... Hmmm, digest related item.....I am really like the Live at the Jazz Cafe CD, even if I am having trouble with the first track. Since it is new I am wondering a little bit if it is a built in problem or luck of the draw. It isn't something I have to have rectified, although I am pondering sending Mark an email (or whomever does the production) alerting them to a potential problem. Carl? Morgan? got any suggestions related to this? Ok, I am relaxed now..... Doug

3. Richard West is my hero....and Trash cut in two?
From:	Doug White <bigdp @ stanford.edu>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:36:53 -0800	[top]
think this may be my last email to the digest today (heh): I'm reading the Dec 18th digest in which our good Mr West is going OFF on Fred the Bassist for his pedantic remarks concerning some of our Dutch firneds having some fun with the election disaster 2000. Mr West, if you're still reading, you are my new hero...your remarks are right on! I wish I could type as well when I am all heated up from someone's ignorant remarks. In this case our self appointed brainiac Ferd has some of his 'facts' completely skewed or in some cases completely made up. Why doesn't that surprise me? Anyways, it was good to read Mr West's remarks, which so far as I've read in my slog through the back issues of the digest is the BEST reply to Mr Ferd that I've seen. And now I've read that someone actually sent Mr King a Trash CD cut in two? All because people are besides themselves over some off the cuff remark he made about seeing people at the Bar? AND people are considering selling their entire collections because of it? Uh yeah, I am speaking as if this is all current, but have people taken complete leave of their senses? Tearing down websites, selling off all related music, getting rid of artifacts all because of this? Good God, I hope some of these people came to their senses! But, then when it comes to the people we've put on a pedestal it can be a long hard fall when we discover how much like us our hero is. Um.....have I said how much I like Da Lata album Serious? Toodles, Doug

4. Caddyshack
From:	Andrew Goodwin <thenightfly83 @ yahoo.co.uk>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:34:26 +0000 (GMT)	[top]
> 2. USED JAYDEE > From: Winston Walker > > p.s. AG, let it go..i dont think you are the funnesit person on the digest, but i dont dwell on it much I can't let it go. The only thing that gives me a reason to get up each morning is the thought that I might be deemed The Funniest Person by the entire membership of a diminishing forum of apathetic admirers of a largely insignificant 80s band. First being voted Third Most Entertaining on the Wang Chung Digest, now this. I can't take much more ignominy. AG ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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