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On "God(s)" - 7/25/2004 2:48:30 AM

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This is a humble attempt to redirect what seems like a promising line of off-topic discussion from numerous threads, but most immediately, Freaks and Geeks

which Lady Angelika redirected from another hijacked thread, in order to discuss the prevalence of Geekiness among bdsm folks. That thread was then hijacked to discuss geeky subjects themselves.

<pauses and fidgets a bit from embarrassment> I've really enjoyed learning about everyone's non-bdsm passions, et al. As Ayn Rand already has an independent thread, i thought i might venture another open thread for all the many personal deities out there waiting for tribute. So here is a place to continue gushing and swooning over Douglas Adams, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Kurt Vonnegut, the many crews of the Enterprise, and <drumroll> Felix Domesticus, as well as any other "Gods".

Certified First Aid personnel provided, so swoon away.

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RE: On "God(s)" - 7/25/2004 5:51:03 AM

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Felix Domesticus

Without looking it up, is that Felix Unger or a house cat?

Douglas Adams juxtaposition of the normal with the absurd was funny.

You forgot Raymond Chandler and Larry Niven. (OK, Chandler was just me, but somebody will recognize Niven.)

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It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that je ne sais pas. - Peter Schickele, aka PDQ Bach

Wow a quadruple negative (assuming ne...pas is two) that uses colloquial English and a foreign expression. I doubt even Peter Schickle knows what it means. (He would probably feel that is a compliment.)

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RE: On "God(s)" - 7/25/2004 10:20:34 AM

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oh my - the last time I heard anything by/about PDQ Bach was in high school band when we played one of his numbers in the spring concert

thanks for the trip down memory lane

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RE: On "God(s)" - 7/26/2004 10:24:13 AM

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ORIGINAL: iwillserveu

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Felix Domesticus

Without looking it up, is that Felix Unger or a house cat?

Original intention was house cat.

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It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that je ne sais pas. - Peter Schickele, aka PDQ Bach

Wow a quadruple negative (assuming ne...pas is two) that uses colloquial English and a foreign expression. I doubt even Peter Schickle knows what it means. (He would probably feel that is a compliment.)

Ooops.... Trust me to get my French sayings wrong. <corrects error> I think the Schickele line ends with "je ne sais quoi", but if you told him about the quadruple negative, he just might want to use it instead.

I also blundered and forgot to add Tolkien to the list of previously mentioned luminaries.

Along those lines, i would like to nominate Phil Ochs, Queen, Tom Lehrer, the Monty Python crew and TH White.

My personal pantheon veers a bit to the oldy moldy side though.... What the heck-- JS Bach, Mahler, Tolstoy, Lao Tze, Sse Ma Chian, (whole regiment of ancient Chinese poets), Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Dostoyevsky, Aristotle, blah blah blah.....

O yes, and, of course, Grey-Eyed Pallas Athena the Wise. (d'oh!)

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RE: On "God(s)" - 7/26/2004 10:25:05 AM

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oh my - the last time I heard anything by/about PDQ Bach was in high school band when we played one of his numbers in the spring concert

thanks for the trip down memory lane

The pleasure is all mine.

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RE: On "God(s)" - 7/26/2004 11:39:50 AM

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rosa,

Speaking of Vonnegut, have you ever read Kilgore Trout's Venus on the Halfshell?

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RE: On "God(s)" - 7/26/2004 3:41:33 PM

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Smiles.. well as far as music goes.. Anything by Mozart, Dvorak, Todd Rundgren, Steve Hillage, Brian Eno, Ian Hunter, Gong..
But the one I bow down to most would be the brilliance of Stephane Grapelli.
Hmm.. song I most want played at my funeral... Songs to Aging Children

As for books... I would have to add to the collection.. Another Roadside Attraction and Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus Trilogy. Stephen Kings Dark Towers were loads of fun also.. Vonnegut is still God though..

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RE: On "God(s)" - 7/27/2004 3:07:03 AM

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Speaking of Vonnegut, have you ever read Kilgore Trout's Venus on the Halfshell?

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Hi January,

No, have you? I have heard confusing stories of the authorship and all the fuss, but have no idea what the actual book is about....

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RE: On "God(s)" - 7/27/2004 6:30:01 PM

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Hi secret kisses,

Yeah, I read Trout's book about 25 years ago. I still have it around in a box somewhere. As I recall, it was an SF book along the lines of Adams: smart-assed, borderline obscene, but funny. What I most enjoyed was a character in the book who was a science fiction writer (Kilgore Trout's Kligore Trout). Hilarious plot snippets were sprinkled throughout.

It's possible I remember it wrong, though.

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