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Kit-Cat Club

14:48 / 01.07.03

Dread Pirate: I have always assumed that the difference between a herb and a spice is that a herb is the green or flowering part of a plant while a spice is its seed, bark or root. So coriander leaf is a herb, whereas its seed is a spice.

that

14:56 / 01.07.03

Blimey. Yeah, it was my thread. I had forgotten it even existed. D'oh.

Thank you.

Helmschmied

18:46 / 01.07.03

Probably the best site around for information on medieval swordfighting etc. is www.aemma.org They've got a pretty comprehensive page and a TON of links to other sites on the web (including me

)

Helmschmied

19:05 / 01.07.03

Ooops...I should add that Therion does have a massive links list as well.

that

19:50 / 01.07.03

Thank you, Helmschmied...and thanks, Barry.

Jub

04:26 / 02.07.03

What's the difference between flotsam and jetsam?

The Return Of Rothkoid

06:23 / 02.07.03

Flotsam refers to wreckage of a ship that's found floating in the water.
Jetsam refers to what is thrown overboard while a ship is in distress... and is found floating on the water.

So I suppose a mast floating around would be flotsam. And tea-chests full of tea floating around would be jetsam. But only if they'd been thrown off while the ship was sinking. Otherwise, they'd be flotsam.

By which I mean to say arr!

The Return Of Rothkoid

06:25 / 02.07.03

Meant to add: jetsam can be found on the beach, too, washed up. It's the jettisoning of the stuff that's important (apparently the word comes from "jetson", a syncopated version of "jettison".)

Jub

07:04 / 02.07.03

10/10 Rothkoid. Cheers.

pomegranate

13:29 / 02.07.03

wow, he really *is* a pirate.

Saint Keggers

01:55 / 03.07.03

When I run Acdsee I keep getting this error message: ACDSEE caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0177:bff9d709.

how do I fix it?

paw

03:23 / 04.07.03

what are considered to be kinickie's best songs? i could be horribly off target here but did they sing a really manic song with the chorus something like 'sugar cane candy pop'?

Saveloy

10:38 / 04.07.03

seanmcglinchey>

I reckon you're thinking of a Bis song: Kandy Pop. They were contemporaries of Kenickie, and in a similar pop vein, though much more manic and squeaky.

Here's a discography for Bis. Kandy Pop is on the 'Secret Vampire Soundtrack' ep.

Here's a Kenickie discog. I can vouch for the 'Catsuit City' ep (rougher and punkier than their later stuff, but still pop and fun) and the 'Nightlife' single. Haven't heard the rest.

Kit-Cat Club

10:55 / 04.07.03

Kandy Pop is very irritating (Secret Vampires is much better). Manda Rin, their singer/keyboard player) was also annoying in many ways, but it wasn't fair that she used to get such a slagging in the indie press purely for being a little, 'chubby' Scottish girl (she was actually tiny, of course). I hear that they got much better, but I never got round to buying their later records ('Eurodisco'? Is that right? My memory...)

Kenickie, on the other hand, were toppermost of the poppermost. 'At the Club' is great. 'Come out 2nite', 'Punka', 'How I was Made' - they're all ace. 'In Your Car' is perhaps my favourite though - 'This is heaven, I have been told (who told you?); this is heaven, I'm too young to feel so old...'

Linus Dunce

23:27 / 04.07.03

Kegboy -- it's a pretty fundamental error, I guess. It *could* have been caused by the app file(s) on the disk being somehow corrupted. If it keeps doing it, even after unplug-the-fucker restarts, I'd try a re-install of the app.

that

10:44 / 05.07.03

What's a word meaning 'that which cannot be ignored'? Like un-ignorable, if un-ignorable was a real word...

William Sack

17:18 / 06.07.03

Cholister, my first thought was 'animadvertenda' meaning "the things you must pay heed to." It doesn't exist in my dictionary though, and on balance I think it sounds really wanky. Ignore me.

My question - was it Flying Ant Day for anyone else in the UK? Do other parts of the world have a single day in a year (usually the summer) when ants take to the wing?

ONLY NICE THINGS

18:32 / 06.07.03

"Eurodisco" was a single from the "Social dancing" album, which had somne fine songs, including "Theme from Tokyo" and "Am I Loud Enough", not to mention the trip-hop-tastic "Detour", which randomly appears on the soundtrack to "Legally Blonde".

Their latest album, "Return to Central", moves further away from guitars and into keyboards and programming and also has the unexpected consequence of starting to turn them into weird synthezoid electroclashy things, with even a touch of the old glacials. This before Ladytron had hit, also. V. strange. Defintely have some interest, though.

Spatula Clarke

20:15 / 06.07.03

Re: Kenickie. Debut album At The Club remains a favourite round these parts. Robot Song's the best track there, IMO, as it's the one point on the record where they stretch themselves into a new shape, but it's all good. Nightlife's a fair indicator of the feel of the album, Sav.

The second album, Get In, wasn't a patch but still had some decent tracks. I Would Fix You and Magnatron are probably the high points. The group accused EMI of sticking their noses in and trying to force the sound in a particular direction (it's certainly true that the production doesn't fit Laverne's vocals at all) and split pretty soon after.

Lauren Laverne always makes the Lust List.

ONLY NICE THINGS

20:54 / 06.07.03

Chol - ineluctable, possibly, in terms of things you would *like* to ignore but can't. "Advertent" and "heedful" usually mean "paying attention" rather than "demanding attention", but with a clear enough context might work..not sure, though. "advertence-inducing".

There should be something derivable from "lanthano", but I'm not sure there is... alethic? Which would be something that was unforgettable, and possibly thus something that could not be ignored...sadly the brain surgeons have nicked "alethia", or we could start from there, but I'm sure a civilian meaning wouldn't be unforgivable...

waxy dan

07:37 / 07.07.03

H.I.R
Flying Ant Day? Yup, I was in Greenwich for a Big Day Out (tm), and it was like the fucking Blitz. I'm still finding their damned corpses clinging to my hair and nether regions.

that

07:42 / 07.07.03

Thanks Haus, and H.I.R.

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

07:50 / 07.07.03

On a side note, and forgive me if this has been asked before (who can be arsed reading through several hundred posts?), if it's not too much trouble, relatively speaking, has there ever been an actual, no-shit, documented, actually happened incidence of a human being actually, in real life, for real, like, levitating themselves in front of a real, impartial, honest-to-goodness audience that, like, actually believed it was happening?

Like.

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

07:51 / 07.07.03

And yes, in case you were wondering, I have drunk a shitload of Kronenbourg 1664.

Jub

08:07 / 07.07.03

Spangle, what you mean aside from the real spiritually moving and clearly genuine levitating that David Blane does?

Jub

10:08 / 07.07.03

Okay - I need help peeps.

I've somehow become responsible for our company's summer party. Have no idea where to book, as everywhere I've tried seems inappropriate (with too small or not late enough etc)

I need a private room (separate bar) in cantral (ish) London for about 100 people, for 3k. That's to include canapes and free bar all night. It's going to be on 31st July.

In the past we've been to Bed (in farrigdon), Sosho Match (in Moorgate), Tattershall Castle (embankment), Blag bar (on Kensal Rise) etc. Good fun places! which aren't too wanky, but not too divey either.

If any of you happen to know somewhere which might be suitable I'd be very grateful if you could PM me.

Thanks all!

The Return Of Rothkoid

11:58 / 07.07.03

Spangle, what you mean aside from the real spiritually moving and clearly genuine levitating that David Blane does?
And let's not forget the obviously-not-charlatan that is David Copperfield, who apparently magic-carpeted across the Grand Canyon. OR something.

Then again, as Sean Hughes said, his greatest trick was getting Claudia Schiffer to sleep with him.

pomegranate

17:02 / 09.07.03

look everybody, i need help!!!
now, i wouldn't describe myself as a pigeon hater per se. i know some people are, but i don't hate on them cos usually they stay out of my way, and i theirs, sorta.
BUT i just moved to a new place, and it's on the 3rd and top floor of the building, ok, and the pigeons are all up in my face. they sit on all the windowsills and our porch and leave their shit everywhere and i have to listen to their sort of...bleating. egggh. they fly up all of a sudden just outside the shower when i'm in it, damn near giving me a heart attack. what can i do to get rid of them, can i hang those fake owls or anything? help!

Spatula Clarke

17:12 / 09.07.03

Cement broken shards of glass into the windosills. That'll get 'em.

Heh. Hehheheh. Hehehehehehoohah. Hate pigeons.

paw

20:39 / 10.07.03

i need pictures of brown trout- if that's not possible could someone describe them to me?

We're The Great Old Ones Now

20:56 / 10.07.03

Mantis - if you were in the UK, the city would have an obligation to help you: pigeons are pests, unclean and evil, carriers of vile diseases and Weil's Disease. And, you know, dirt.

In US law - or Illinois, I suppose - I'm not sure what the deal would be.

People here tend to use little spikes, but that makes your place a bit fortified and if they fall off and hurt someone you're in biiiig trouble. Maybe windchimes? An eagle? Umm... I'll ask around.

Shrug

21:05 / 10.07.03

You could feed them rice.... but that's just horrible.

Baz Auckland

21:09 / 10.07.03

Have you ever watched the puffed up males chase the females? Hours of entertainment. Pigeons rock.

I've seen owls outside peoples windows as a pigeon deterrent, so I assume it works...

01:27 / 11.07.03

There's a drugstore near my house advertising Sinofresh. What is this dastardly-sounding product? Just out of morbid curiousity.

I've ruled out the following:

A dietary supplement made of Chinese children (because against FDA regulations)

A supplement designed to make you look like a young Chinese person (because I haven't seen a dramatic increase in the number of young Asian folk in my neighborhood)

A cleaning product designed for cleaning Chinese people, Chinese rugs, Chinese objets d'art, or perhaps china (because there are already other products which do approximately the same thing and don't have such stupid names).

Perhaps I'm deriving Sino- from the wrong root?

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:31 / 11.07.03

Google is your friend.

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