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"The music made them do it."
by Archibald Leach of the Indianapolis Star
Indianapolis, IL Two local teens have fallen prey to the diabolical influences of deceptive and foreboding music. Radio-listeners and self-described "outsiders" Thomas Frankhauser, 16, and Ernest Detwiler, 17, were found dead yesterday after an apparent double suicide. Police are looking into the matter as the teens was known to listen to loud music on his stereo hi-fi for hours on end. Local officials say that this is just another case of music that goes "too far."
The teens were found in Detwiler's bedroom at approximately 8:45 pm last night. They was pronounced dead upon arrival at Community Hospital East. The cause is apparently from inhalation of sap from the manchineel tree, although the results of autopsy are pending.
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The manchineel tree got its name from the Spanish 'manzanilla' -- little apple.
Still, you wouldn't want to rest in the shade of a manchineel tree.
They found out the hard way that this tree -- the
manchineel tree -- was quite different from the apple trees of home.
Sailors who ate the fruit became sick. But the fruit isn't the most
dangerous part of this tree. The manchineel's deadliest poison is a
milky acid-like sap that's in the fruit, leaves and bark. Stories say
that indigenous people in the Caribbean tied victims to the trunk of a
manchineel and let the sap drip down and burn through their skin.
Meanwhile, inhabitants of the West Indies were blending the sap into
their medicines and using it to poison their arrow tips.
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Police are investigating the music, playing on a turntable in the room, as a possible motive. The music was Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov's (1844-1908) Snegurochka, a.k.a. The Snow Maiden. Born Nicolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, this composer is probably best known for his hockey game staple, Flight of the Bumble Bee. Local officials have not ruled out a possible wrongful death lawsuit against the composer. "It's a sad day when impressionable children can get their hands on this garbage." said local Elderman Tom Flarety in a rally, "In my day we listened to BÖC, Kansas and Judas Preist, and we didn't have any of these problems." Meanwhile, the hallways of Western Boon H.S. are abuzz. One unnamed senior said, "Everyone in school thinks Rimsky-Korsakov is uncool, completely derivative. His teaching methods are totally barbaric, man."
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Jeff Spoone, 17, a "collegeague" of the pair agrees that the deaths are suspect, but not for the reasons listed by the D.A.'s office. "In Snegurochka, Mizguir, the young Tatar merchant, flings himself into a lake when his beloved Snow Maiden is melted by an inopportune ray of sunlight. Tom and Ernie's deaths are closely following L'Africaine by Meyerbeer. In that, Selika inhales the deadly perfume of the manchineel tree." As for the recording, the BBC Record Review has called it "A most striking performance, beautifully modulated, elegantly phrased... very well recorded indeed."
A Footnote: the Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Live Chat is lighting up the Internet, with over 40 visits a day. Most are strangely supportive of the boys as transcripts recorded by the Star indicate [ed: It is likely that the 'login' names reported below are not the actual names of the authors].
StarReporter : How do you
feel about the youths who apparently
committed suicide after listening to the Snow Maiden?
MusicMan : Carpe diem. The boys lived life like an opera, better
to die living than to live sying i mean dying.
SlEEzEbOy : wat r u wearin?
StarReporter : Do you think that music influences young people
into doing things they may not do ordinarily?
MusicMan : When one hears the lilting tones of Mizguir "Snegurochki pechal'naja konchina I
strashnaja pogibel Mizgirja Trevozhit' nas ne mogut. Doch Moroza,
Kholodnaja Snegurochka pogibla" how can one not feel touched?
SlEEzEbOy : pruve ur real. touch urself.
SlEEzEbOy : this site sux.
source: nothing here is true, except for the part about the tree (and the chat room really exists)
Cheese rolling festival takes dangerous turn
NEAR GLOUCESTER, England
(CNN) -- The Cooper's Hill cheese rolling contest is an age-old event,
where specially-made Double Gloucester cheeses -- weighing seven pounds
and measuring a foot in diameter -- are hurled from the hilltop, to be
chased and retrieved by runners waiting below.
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But Monday's event took an unfortunate turn, leaving at least 18 people injured.
Runners are supposed to chase the cheeses to the bottom of the very steep hill, with the first one over the finish line allowed to keep the cheese as a prize.
But many participants didn't make it to the foot of the hill on foot -- they tumbled to the bottom instead.
Some 4,000 spectators turned out to watch, but they didn't escape the mayhem, either. One man who tried to dodge a bouncing cheese lost his balance and tumbled 100 feet down the hillside. He was being hospitalized with a head injury.
The winners didn't fare any better: postman Craig Carter, 21, winner of one of the four races, was left nursing a broken arm. But he took it in stride -- with a smile he said he broke his other arm when he won a race three years ago.
A special event for women had to be delayed because ambulance workers were coping with two injured contestants.
The origins of the cheese race are unclear, but it's believed to have started several hundred years ago, possibly as a pagan festival to celebrate summer.
The spectacle is held in the heart of the cheese-making region of Gloucestershire. The area is known for its smooth, golden yellow cheese encased in a natural rind, called Gloucester or double Gloucester cheese.
source: CNN
Curt contributed to this report.
Particle Man Theology
music (lyrics from the They Might Be Giants song are in the left margin, interpretations are indented with chapter and verse)
Particle Man, Particle Man,
Man, created from the dust of the earth (Genesis 1)
Doing the things a particle can,
Man, sinful by nature, pursues his own desires (Isaiah 53:6)
What's He like, it's not important
"What is man, that Thou art mindful of him?" (Psalms 8:4)
Particle Man
Is he a dot, or is he a speck
Utter insignificance of man in comparison to God
When he's underwater does he get wet?
Man's punishment for sin, precursored by the flood (Genesis 7:21-23a)
Or does the water get him instead?
God delivers Noah by the Ark (Genesis 7:23b)
Nobody knows, Particle Man.
Christ comments on the judgment of God, and refers to Noah. "No man knows the day or the hour... for as it was in the days of Noah..." (Matthew 24:36)
Triangle Man, Triangle Man
The Godhead, (Trinity) Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Triangle Man hates Particle Man
God hates sin. God, being Holy, is separated from his creation by sin, and therefore hates it. (Psalm 66:18)
They have a fight, Triangle wins
God's justice is total and righteous. (Isaiah 3:14)
Triangle Man.
Universe Man, Universe Man
Jesus, for whom and by whom everything was created, in whom all things "hold together" (John 1:1-5)
Size of the entire universe man
Ibid
Usually kind to smaller man
Christ, redeemer and Savior, compassionate to sinners (Matthew 11:29)
Universe Man
He's got a watch with a minute hand
Christ took on the form of flesh, and became God "locked" in our time.... minute by minute.
A millennium hand
Christ pictured as the Prince of Peace, who will rule for 1,000 years (1 millennium) of peace (Revelation 20:1-6)
And an eon hand
7 ages of the church established by Christ (Revelation 1 through 3)
And when they meet it's a happy land
The rapture of the church (I Thessalonians 4:13-5:11)
Powerful man, Universe Man
ref: King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. Lion of Judah.
Person Man, Person Man
Antithesis of Christ, this would be Lucifer (Satan)
Hit on the head with a frying pan
"He shall crush your head, and you shall bruise his heel" (Genesis 3:15) This curse, given by God to the serpent in the Garden of Eden, is the first time that the promise of a messiah is given. The frying pan, being both lethal and hot, might suggest hell.
Who came up with Person Man?
The question of Satan's creation, as an angel originally, but now fallen after attempting rebellion in heaven (Isaiah 14:12-20)
Lives his life in a garbage can
The epitome of evil. Filth, trash, decay, foulness, and his consequences for destroying so many (Isaiah 14:19).
Person Man
Is he depressed, or is he a mess?
Does he totally worthless?
The fallen condition of man, and the depravity of Satan combined. (Romans Chapter 1)
Who came up with Person Man?
The only time in the song that a character is twice questioned.
Degraded Man, Person Man
Assent to the fallenness of Satan.
Triangle Man, Triangle Man
God
Triangle man hates Person Man
Diametrical opposition of holiness and evil
They have a fight, Triangle wins
The power of righteousness will overcome the power of evil (Romans 8:37)
Triangle Man
God ends as ultimate victor.
The song, then, begins with God's creation and ends with the resolution of his own plan.
footnote:
John Linnel, of TMBG, said:
We pretty much write these songs and let other people figure them out. I remember one thing that
went into it was that we were watching Night of the Hunter or something on TV and somebody commented
that Robert Mitchum reminded them of a triangle. Something about his body type. He seemed like
this kind of evil triangle. That was one of the things that went into the song.
from the unofficial They Might Be Giants Site
a BoxJam moment
j'adore ce site, même si je comprends en Gnal 1 peu rien aux strips, et les d5 sont K non! avec 1 super tutorial méga Crétin
Gold medal hand washers
Mom would have been proud.
On June 15, all manner of scientists and food quality control
experts gathered at the Hilton Washington to frantically scrub their hands
with the aid of electronically timed sinks and hand-washing machines.
Afterward, their work was scrutinized by an ultraviolet detector that
revealed who did a good job and who didn't.
It was the first-ever Hand-Washing Olympics and it was the
silly centerpiece of the Food Safety Summit, a national conference on how
to protect the nation's food supply from bacteria and other hazards.
Why all the mad hand washing? Because industry experts agree
that poor hand washing is the most common route for transmission of
disease. And it's the most common cause of food-borne illness in home
kitchens. Ick!
There were other things going on besides groupwide
obsessive-compulsive behavior. Folks at the summit were exposed to new
methods is pasteurization, sterile food packaging, microbe detection and
food irradiation.
Mom would have liked all that, too.
source: The Washington Business Journal
Why are men supposed to wash their hands after urination?
Dear Cecil:
First, an (elderly) joke.
A Harvard man and a Yale man
are at the urinal. They finish and zip up. The Harvard man proceeds to the
sink to wash his hands, while the Yale man immediately makes for the exit.
The Harvard man says, "At Hah-vahd they teach us to wash our hands after we urinate."
The Yale man replies, "At
Yale they teach us not to piss on our hands."
My question: why is it
customary for males to wash their hands after urination? I never do, which
shocks and disgusts some of my guy friends. I bathe daily and wear fresh
underpants, so how does my penis get dirty? It's not like I dig a ditch
with it. However, my hands might get dirty from daily activities. Is it
not more sensible then to wash my hands before touching my clean penis? Is
posturination hand washing a throwback to the bad old days, when sex was
"dirty" and so, by extension, were sex organs? I'm serious about
this. Please advise. --Tom Sharpley, Los Angeles
Dear Tom:
Good (if elderly) joke. Common (but stupid) attitude.
Rank (but important) topic. Some facts:
1. The purpose of washing is not to get pee off your hands.
2. No amount of washing will make you clean.
3. You have to do it anyway.
I've said this before: your boxer-shorts region--from
belly button to mid-thigh--is crawling with germs known as coliform
bacteria. These bacteria originated in your intestine, and some of them
are deadly. Remember punji stakes? They were sharpened sticks that the
Vietcong concealed point up along trails and daubed with excrement. If you
stepped on one you had a good chance of contracting a fatal infection.
Similarly, an otherwise not-so-serious gunshot or knife injury could kill
you if it perforated the intestine and allowed coliform bacteria to spread
around your abdomen.
But you know this (or at least you ought to). What you
may not know is that washing will not make the coliform bacteria go away.
They're holed up in the pores of your skin and nothing short of
sandblasting--certainly not your morning shower--is going to get them out.
Showering merely gets rid of the ones that have strayed onto the surface.
The bacteria won't do much harm if they stay put, but when you urinate
your fingers come in contact with Mister P. long enough for the coliform
bacteria in your pores to hop aboard. Your fingers subsequently touch lots
of other infectible items. If you don't wash your hands with soap and
water (soap gets rid of the skin oil that the bacteria stick to) . . .
hello, Typhoid Mary.
It now dawns on you: jeez, if merely touching my
privates is enough to transmit bacteria, it doesn't matter if I pee or
not! Just so. Urine itself is actually fairly sterile. Cecil has read
reports of it being used during wartime in poor countries as--I'm not
making this up--a sort of battlefield Bactine. (U.S. doctors generally
blanch at this.) The lesson to draw from this, however, is not that you
can go forth dripping (yuck), but rather that just because you didn't pee
on your fingers doesn't mean you can skip washing up.
source: The Straight Dope
12-Jan-1996
Accidental 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' star dies
click for themeKay Miller / Star Tribune
The minute that Vivian Oliver flipped on the opening credits to the
"Mary Tyler Moore Show," she knew that the older woman standing
behind Moore with the quizzical look on her face was her mom. There Hazel
Frederick stood -- frozen in television time -- as Mary tossed her beret
into the air on Nicollet Mall.
There was no mistaking Frederick's green coat with the fur collar and
matching scarf.
But her identity was a mystery to almost everyone but family --
including Moore -- until the TV star came to the Mall of America for a
1996 book signing.
Moore invited Frederick to join her on the mall stage, where she
introduced her to the crowd of 5,000 as "my co-star."
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Frederick died Sunday at Maranatha Care Center in Brooklyn Center. She
was 91.
"We always used to call her our celebrity," Oliver said.
"How lucky can you be? Go downtown, get in front of the TV cameras
and be splashed all over the world?"
Frederick's brush with fame came in 1969. It was her day off from the
Glen Lake Sanitorium, where she worked in the kitchen. She'd been shopping
at Dayton's.
"She came out and saw all these people on Nicollet Avenue and
thought, 'What is going on?' " Oliver said. "She stood
there and watched this girl throw her hat in the air. Mary's back was to
Mom, so Mom didn't know who it was." A neighbor spotted Frederick on
the first episode and phoned Oliver, who waited a week to see the second
episode. Sure enough, there was Hazel.
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"So I called her. 'Mom! You're on Mary Tyler Moore. Watch it next
week.' Then we had to call the rest of the kids."
There were lots of them. Frederick had eight children, 24
grandchildren, 32 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.
She was born in northeast Minneapolis and was 17 when she married
Ernest Frederick, whom she had met at a dance in Walker, Minn. He had
serious asthma and later emphysema, so Hazel supported the family through
39 years of marriage -- washing clothes, selling butter to tourists and
cleaning cabins in the Ten Mile Lake area.
"She was raised by a strict German dad and a Norwegian mom," Oliver said. "That's where she got her strictness and determination. She used to wade through snow to break a path for us kids to go to school."
She was mostly self-educated, having attended school until graduating from eighth grade. When her children were growing up, she read the Saturday Evening Post and Reader's Digest cover to cover.
Ernest died in 1965. She worked right up until she had to retire at 65. Even well into her 80s, she bowled every Tuesday, hopping on the bus for the Hopkins senior citizens' bowling league, said granddaughter Carol Berg of Circle Pines.
At Maranatha Care Center, where Frederick moved in 1995, she was renowned for the speed with which she finished crossword puzzles, sometimes blurting out answers before other residents had even read the question.
One day, her granddaughter asked if she'd like to meet Mary Tyler Moore, who was coming to Minneapolis to promote her autobiography, "After All."
Driving to work earlier that day, Carol Berg heard KDWB's morning crew talking about Moore's upcoming appearance and speculating about the mystery woman behind her. Somebody said she was a librarian. Somebody else said that she was dead.
Berg called the station to say the mystery woman was very much alive; she knew because it was her grandmother. "They asked if I could bring her to the Mall of America to meet Mary Tyler Moore."
Frederick got all gussied up in a new white pantsuit, with a white lace collar, and had her hair set. There on the mall stage, in front of everyone, Moore hugged her. "This is Hazel Frederick," she announced. "My co-star." Everybody applauded. Afterward, most of the 500 people who lined up for Moore's autograph waited for the onetime mystery woman to sign theirs as well.
"She never got a big head about it," Oliver said. "I couldn't imagine how many millions of people have seen her. That show was broadcast to every state in America and around the world. Everybody wondered: Who was that lady in the background? And, of course, we all knew."
Besides Oliver, Frederick is survived by daughters Evelyn Pearson of Circle Pines, Minn., Helen Hedlund of Bemidji, Minn., Frances Ince of Longville, Minn., and Delores Daskowski of St. Charles, Ill.; and son Raymond Frederick of Garland, Texas.
A service will be held today at 1:30 p.m. at Maranatha Care Center, 5401 69th Av. N., Brooklyn Center.
source: The Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune
Thread: Cap City New Year's Eve Bash!!
To:jamesandkim@onebox.com New Year's is just around the corner!!! Miller
Lite, The
Monthly Buzz, Dynasty Getaways and North Cleveland Promotions would like to invite YOU to
join us for a New Years Eve Bash!! The Postal Square location has closed its doors for a private party. Nobody wants to
spend New Year's alone so grab your friends and come on down to Capitol City Brewery,
where everybody knows your name!!! But hurry up, tickets are selling fast!! Where: Capitol City Brewery When: Thursday, December 31, 1998 What: Open bar from 8PM to 2AM. All beer on tap, Miller Lite and MGD bottles! Rail
drinks including Jack Daniels, Absolut, Tanqueray, Bacardi and Cuervo! Wine and Champagne!
(champagne toast at midnight) Buffet from 8PM to 2AM. Heavy hors d'oeuvres including
chicken tenders, wings, quesadillas, BBQ, chicken and beef satay, pasta salads, cheese
platters, veggie & hummus platters, chips/dips, etc. Who: Miller Lite, Dynasty Getaways & North Cleveland Promotions are proud sponsors! Money: Tickets are $75/person in advance OR $85/person at the door. Dress: Semi-formal, black tie optional. (In other words, sport a look.) Questions? Send us an E-Mail at newyearsnorth@yahoo.com Please forward to anyone who might be interested, the more the merrier. Let's bring in
the New Year together! To: new year Why the hell would you have a New Year's Party at Cap City and only have bland Miller
Beers? You need not send me another message. To: jamesandkim@onebox.com Hmmmmm????? A party at Capital City Brewery.... To: new year I am amazed that I did not pick up on that nuance in your cleverly worded memo. I guess
it was the brilliant, but terse "..., draft beer," not to be confused with
Miller Draft Beers--like Miller Genuine Draft, of course. I am also a bit surprised that you called me "Jerky" being that Cap City is
"where everybody knows your name!!!" (your exclamation marks). Thanks again for the invite. I will discuss with my "Jerky" friends to whom I
have forwarded this memo (blind copies so you don't SPAM them next). Signed, To: jamesandkim@onebox.com Cap City and the New Year's Eve Staff would love to see you and all your friends there.
Sorry for not making the beer selection clear. See you soon!! To: new year It's all right about the beer selection. I
understand. I guess even junk e-mailers have pressure to put out product under a tight
deadline. They have mouths to feed, too. They're people. People like the rest of us. You know, despite some heated words, I feel
we've grown closer. It's kind of nice to have another friend I can write to. Maybe I was wrong about Cap City. Maybe I
have just been distracted by the smoky crowds and bad service. Maybe I was a little put
off by the single vegetarian entree. I am sure that everyone there is trying their best to
get to know everyone's name and that is another burden most clientele would overlook. A couple of questions about New Year's eve:
What exactly is "semi-formal, black tie optional?" I'm asking you because it
seems like everybody has their own definition of semi-formal. You know, like semi-formal
for an Atlanta débutante ball is probably a lot different than a U. of Oklahoma Kappa Sig
hay-ride semi-formal. And I thought black-tie meant a tux. Is there a kind of tuxedo that
is semi-formal? I imagine you just want to give people options. If I had to guess I would
judge what I'm wearing by the price I'm paying. Your (advertized) price is $75 per person
(looks like I missed the Dec. 18 deadline). Since we are getting to be pretty good friends
I figure you could probably let me in for the "friend" rate--you know, without
markup. Especially since I'm a vegetarian and I won't be eating any of the expensive meat
hors d'oeuvres. Don't you think there should be an English word for hors d'oeuvres? How
many people write that without going to the dictionary?
So let me know about the admission
situation. I promise I won't let the cat out of the bag. Also, I kind of wonder about the
dress code. Maybe you could tell me what you're planning on wearing, unless it's some sort
of uniform, of course! "Jerky" (ha ha, I still think
that's funny) To: jamesandkim@onebox.com Please excuse any typos, grammatical errors or misspelled words. we are in a
HurrY!!! So you are attending--Great Surprised to hear from you on X-Mas Eve. To answer your question about the dress--It's
America you can wear whatever you desire. We hope that people look presentable whether
it's is a nice suit, tux, long evening gown, short, sexy, tight dress or it is a pair of
nice pants with a shirt and tie we won't be discrimintory. However, we hope people dress
up to say the least:) The price of the event is not as costly as most New Year's Eve parties. If you know a
lot of people and you are the sole reason they choose to attend this awesome Event then we
will talk. Maybe you should get a break if you bring a lot and I mean a lot of your
friends. Hope you are having a great Holiday Season. Cheers and we look forwrd to seeing you and all of your 100 friends at Cap City--Postal
Square
To: new year I have an idea for a last minute
quick "get you out the door!" Tell everyone that Pamela Anderson is
showing up! Then if she doesn't just say she was under the weather (these are Hollyweird
terms that everyone knows). You even have my permission to send this ASCI art graphic of
Ms. Anderson attached below. I'm still not positive what I'll be doing.
I do appreciate being notified again and again of your soiree, though. My friend Ruth
wants us all to come over for a seance. I think she's half sure the world might end. Hey, if it's not a big deal do you think
you could move your party from the downtown location to the one in
Shirlington? That would
make it a whole lot easier for me to drive there and back. I've been meaning to ask that
but I kept forgetting. Thanks! (Pam Anderson attached--need to
view with a fixed-width font, but you knew that!) inspired by the
Lazlo Letters by Don
Novello
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Aficianado article.
From: new year
Subject: New Year's '99!!!
Date: 12/18/98 01:45:52 PM
From: jamesandkim@onebox.com
Subject: SPAM Re: New Year's '99!!!
Date: 12/21/98 10:46:08 AM
From: new year
Subject: SPAM Re: New Year's '99!!!
Date: 12/21/98 12:46:22 PM
I wonder what kind of beers they have on tap??????
Probably their own, Jerky!!!!
From: jamesandkim@onebox.com
Subject: SPAM Re: New Year's '99!!!
Date: 12/22/98 11:09:34 AM
former Cap City customer
From: new year
Subject: SPAM Re: New Year's '99!!!
Date: 12/22/98 3:41:16 PM
From: jamesandkim@onebox.com
Subject: SPAM Re: New Year's '99!!!
Date: 12/24/98 11:56:01 AM
From: new year
Subject: SPAM Re: New Year's '99!!!
Date: 12/24/98 1:39:01 PM
From: jamesandkim@onebox.com
Subject: SPAM Re: New Year's '99!!!
Date: 12/31/98 04:09:01 PM
The Prudential Managed
Friendship Plan
Appearing sympathetic
Chewing the fat
Dropping by
Feeling your pain
Gossiping
Hanging out
Holding your hand (up to 5 minutes per activity)*
Joshing
Kidding around
Listening to you whine
Partying
Passing the time
Patting your back
Ribbing
Sharing a meal
Shooting the breeze
Slinging the bull
Teasing
up to 15 minutes under the Premium Gold Friendship Plan
Activities that would not be pre-approved include (but are not limited to):
Bending over backwards
Drinking to excess
Giving a hoot
Going the extra mile
Lending money
Real empathy
Sexual favors
Truly caring
Using illicit drugs
A little about Shemp Howard
Smoking Peep
