Highlights of the past week

[johnfowles]

Highlights of the past week
The undoubted highlight of the past week was the news that Gord had appeared on stage at the Mariposa festival in the town they call Orillia and at least one Newsgroup poster/reader was there to report on what it was like. He commented "He blew the entire audience halfway to Penetanguishene." this in turn led to a lively discussion on how to pronounce that name scroll down the full thread that started at http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl2921739482d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=EPwIc.6%24IWC1.5%40news04.bloor.is.net.cable. rogers.com
However it is said that a picture is worth a thousand words
And the ability to display pitures on corfid was used to good efect in the topic there at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002399.html
another corfid highlight was the continuing effort by Bruna/silverheels to get a Brit Gathering off the ground now more likely to be next year
I had the bright idea of devising a suitable logo for this as a rallying point and after the usual turbid education process I managed to get Bru to post her selection at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002301.html
I am nearly done drafting a tutorial on displaying pix on corfid which I will then highlight in next week's posting here
well that's it for the past week's highlights
Oh yes each Friday I have been posting a reminder about the Friday chat session to a topic/thread that I called
"Chat extraordinary general meeting" at corfid:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002271.html
and the title "extraordinary general meeting" on the Newsgroup starting at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=tvednQfVJY6lIT7d4p2dnA%40garden.net
I appreciate that it's the time when many are away but only two joined me last Friday
and Doug "plumguru" Kirk claimed to have had access problems, even though he had himself supplied me with a link to an MAC equivalent to mIRC
but notwithstandimng the above I will go to
the room this evening at 9PM EST http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/chat




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[brink]

Sorry I have been missing the chatroom. I like going there and you have worked so hard, hopefully I will be getting some help at work and be able to be home earlier and be able to join in. Thanks for the updates though it's like reading a weekly review!

[johnfowles]

New Newsgroup threads were much as found here on corfid but a newcomer Alan Cassaro asked
"Who Wrote Farewell to Nova Scotia?" http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=40FD0F2B .4C755740%40worldnet.att.net (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=40FD0F2B.4C755740%40worldnet.att.net)
I had sincerely hoped to highlight that by taking a fair bit of trouble and time writing a tutorial on the not necessarily straightforward technique for displaying pictures here on corfid,I would encourage more fans to try their hand at this to the advantage of every reader of both corfid and the Newsgroup. But despite posting a thread on the Newsgroup and starting topics on all three corfid forums to date only one brave soul who uses the nom-de-plume "stationmaster" has done anything (displaying a great pic of Gord with Aengus Finnan)
As a reminder
my tutorial is at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000109.html
I realise that not everybody has a web site to upload their own pix to
although I will address that situation soon with a guide to finding suitable absolutely free web sites but I did try to stress that you can display any picture that you find that takes your fancy I even wrote a page to give some ideas at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/pictureideas.htm
So how about it folks??
Surely Brink you could display a colorful Colorado picture??
Rona could you not find a pic of a signpost showing the way to San Jose??(I know groan!!)
Martin/12 as an art director how about your favorite old master??
Kilgore a nice pic of the Canadian Rockies perhaps
Minstrel man what does the Hamilton Centre/Center look like?? Inside and/or outside
Walter stoneborder show us a mighty Saguaro (Soh hwarr-owe) or is it sah-WAR-oh.??
I could go on but that is a fair selection for starters
so let's be having you ALL!!!
On a brighter note; last Friday's chat was much better attended (eight) so I guess it is worth continuing.However I understand that it is likely that any MAC chatters are unable to succeed in getting in every time I will remind them that I had added a page re MAC IRC clients (since the otherwise preferred method of accessing the chat channel mIRC is not available for these fine machines please visit my chat room speal
this is at:- http://johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/chat/MAClients.htm
and includes a link to a supposedly freeware MAC program:-
"conversation" which is described at http://www.macnn.com/news/20775
this was a small 212KB download from http://www.conversation.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Download/Conversation.dmg
where *.dmg seems to be a unique MAC file format that I know zilch about.
Furthermore that download link no longer seems to be functional,
However a tad of googling revealed a mirror site:- http://allmacintosh.mirror.ac.uk/preview/350531.html
from which I could download a useless (to my PC)
file of 1.5MB named conversationosx.sit


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[brink]

I shall truly try John.

[Minstrel Man]

Hi John,
Listen, I'd love to help. Here's what you said:

What does the Hamilton Centre/Center look like?? Inside and/or outside

What are you referring to exactly? I'd love to comply. I'll borrow a digital camera.

Awaiting your reply.

[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by Minstrel Man:
Hi John,
Listen, I'd love to help. Here's what you said:

What does the Hamilton Centre/Center look like?? Inside and/or outside

What are you referring to exactly? I'd love to comply. I'll borrow a digital camera.

Awaiting your reply.



HI Minstrel Man
You seem to have missed my point
This was that you can display any picture that is already on a web site somewhere(anywhere)
without recourse to your own pictures or a digital camera
then I gave some examples/ideas in my page:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/pictureideas.htm
and selected you as a potential tester due to your location in Hamilton,Ontario where Gord himself heavily hinted that he hoped the Centre would to be the venue later this year for his return to public performing with a benefit concert for the Hospital staff who saved his life in 2002. I had therefore visited the site of the
http://www.hecfi.on.ca/images/hecfi_title.gif
at:-
http://www.hecfi.on.ca
http://www.hecfi.on.ca/images/HECFI_top_nav.jpg
and found the address of a suitable exterior picture
http://www.hecfi.on.ca/images/fade01.jpg
If you now go there you will find a choice of interior pics and can learn how to display one here.OK??

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[johnfowles]

Again there was a single obvious common highlight on the two principle message boards.
Several posts revealed the discovery that Gord would be appearing on Canadian Idol next month.I had two "lowlights" during the past week:-
In common with at least two other Gordfans Bruna Zanelli in England and Laurel Hoover from Vancouver WA (are you reading this Ron Jones in Vancouver BC??) I am being plagued with what might be the annoying atack by some sort of ad-ware. Although a scan by the freeware Ad-aware program(me) detected and then deleted some 57 suspect files I still get an objectionable search site by some perverse outfit operating from outhost.info constantly insinuating itself as my Internet Explorer Home page.And another equally unxwelcome outfit going by the name of casinopallazo repeatedly places an unwanted connecting link "on-line show" on my desktop. On top of that once I do connect I am constantly disconected requiring a reboot because another dial-upo connection allegedly is using MY modem".I sispect that this might or might not be connected with a spurious "phantom" connection calling itself "700104" that keeps being setup in the My Computer dial-up networking folder which would try to connect to a stupid phone number 12345!! However as I have several other silly issues with my laptop I will sometime give in and carry out a full system recovery which means saving imoportant files; reloading a stack of drivers and favo(u)rite program(me)s. I have promised myself that this time once all is hunky-dory I'll make an updated and complete recovery back-up CD-R.
My second lowlight concerns the ignoring of my well-intentioned campaign to get more fans "certified" in displaying pictures on the corfid Discussion Forum. Despite in my highlights last week trying again to encourage regulars on the Newsgroup to try their hand at this potentially most useful technique the result is zilch.
In particular I singled out the following:-
"so how about it Derek (a nice pic of Palo Alto),
Peter Treloar (an outback photo perhaps),
David Bradford isn't there anything beautiful in Sweden other than your wife and their furniture??
Cathy (the beauty of Northern Maine under snow perhaps)
Charlene (Beautiful downtown Whitby perhaps)
Kimberley a view of the ocean at the end of the road perhaps"
No response from any Newsgroupers even though the thread degenerated into a basic discussion on Derek's state of mind(lessness) to which two of the above contributed.
the thread also produced a fascinating glimpse into those far off AOL chat sessions.
So far other than the usually challenged Charlene to whom I awarded a certificate a long time ago now as far as i can see not one Newsgroup regular has made even an unsuccessful attempt at this.
Surely not everybody cannot be simultaneously on vacation???
I therefore declare that this past week saw no other highlights on the Newsgroup
Indeed last Sunday the 25th not a single new post was made.
But at least one relative newbie on corfid the above-mentioned Laurel Hoover qualified brilliantly by showing a picture of Gord with that Dylan fellow thus joining champion displayer the "statiomaster who entertained us with pix of the now-famous Lake. Also in this topic at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002423.html
was a link I reproduced to a fascinating topic on Gord's late lamented pet Yellow canary Lyle (you just gotta Love-it!!) and his fate acording to Al the Watchman which just might have been that Gord...
"ended up eating this same canary on a canoe trip down the Chiniguntha during the 80's"
see:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002016.html
In yet another surreal topic Al had claimed to have rescued Gord from his canoe on the Chiniguntha which I discovered was itself in fact a tributary of the mighty Chimichunga

Another corfid highlight was the revelation by the pugilistic poster previously known as DMD3 that he was actually pacifically named "Douglas McArthur Dowdy 3"
In another topic the ever alert Annie from Auburn NY beat me to report on an interesting article giving the "real Harry Tracy story":- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002439.html
Bruna/silverheels tried again to rekindle interest in GordfestUk 2005:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002301.html
Well that's it for this week now to try to get a long enough connection to post this!!
H yes I'll be in the chat room again this evening at 9 pm EST at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/chat
and hope to see more than the 5 who attended last Friday
John Fowles




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[Auburn Annie]

John - sorry to hear about your computer woes. We were invaded by several worms in our older computer this past week. I'd run Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad-Aware, Norton Antivirus etc. It continued so I ran them all again in safe mode, cleaned out whatever I could find in the registry that didn't belong there, and tried system restore, too. Unfortunately system restore failed - the computer went down as it finished restoring. Recovery was not successful, so we sent it out to our local Computer Doc. It was a mess and needed a complete reformatting of the hard drive and reinstallation of Windows XP; she did save most of the data files (music, documents - though I have those saved elsewhere - and our "keepers" mail.) It comes home on Monday, with additional security software. The problems likely came from one of the kids linking to something their friends send, in spite of me telling them for the umpteenth time not to download anything or click on links or open attachments.

[jj]

http://a1.cpimg.com/image/2B/6C/37342251-f872-00800060-.jpg

[charlene]

we have a castle in town...it is now private girls school-18 grand a year tuition.
http://www.town.whitby.on.ca/images/trafalgar2.jpg

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[LSH]

Ooops. Didn't quite get your pic in Char. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif Try again, I'd like to see that castle!

[johnfowles]

Newsgroup Highlights
go to http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com
As with corfid much talk surrounded the revelation that Gord would be at Peterborough this very evening
Nobody from the NG except Charlene has yet dared to display any pictures over here
although I have e-mailed detailed text ready for posting to both David from Orillia/Sweden and the California Kid
My posting of the thread
"Lightfoot Odds & Ends and Wayne Francis"
drew a few responses but as yet nothing from Mr Francis himself even though I e-mailed a copy of my posting to him. Like Florian he keeps in the background it seems
A dutch person named Lisa or Gerard tried to interest anyone with a penchant for foreign tongues, but it was nearly all double Dutch to me!!
Bill (jusrean) resurrected an old topic on the french translation of "nous vivons ensemble"
OK that is a smattering of things I encourage you to peruse at the Newsgroup and hopefully inspire some corfidites to register with Google groups and post over there.
Now chat. Last week I finally had complete failure to get connected with my laptop. After many hours watching the stupid scandisk blue screen I now have Windows 98 reinstalled and connection restored.
I believe only my wife Susan and Bill Hall chatted last Friday,
I hope to see a few tonight especially from the great Northwest area at 9 pm EST at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/chat
John Fowles




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[johnfowles]

There was really nothing of great import on the Newsgroup this past week except for one fellow Brit who said in a rather uncalled for comment on my posting about corfid ghighlights last week
"A wonderful advertisement for someplace call Corfid.

Just wondering John why those of us who use a proper usenet newgroup called
alt.music.lightfoot would wish to use this corfid"
I cannot give you the URL as for some reason although I was able to read the original using Outlook Express and two free Newsreaders when my OE was out of action
and silverheels alerted me to it on saturday morning when she saw it on the AOL Newsreader
it has never even after 6 days appeared on the Newsgroup as viewed via Google Groups which happens occasionally.
Now I realise that there are many Lightheads who enjoy both boards and those who for various reasons choose to ignore one or the other so I am not trying to insist that they patronise the other board.
But my intention is purely to try to ensure that Newsgroupers do not miss out on topics here at corfid
and vice versa (for those who like their vice versa of course)
In the same vein I have fairly recently discovered the interesting Small Talk Forum here.
This often provides some much needed light relief such as a link I gave to
an article linked from a Windows XP newsletter which described important research into "squirrel fishing" by pair of dedicated nutcases at Harvard University see:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000401.html
As a change this week I think I know a number of very touching threads on the Newsgroup so in quiet moments as now I'll fish out their URLs.First as we begin to joyfully anticipate the strong possibility of another chance for a convention at Massey Hall Toronto
http://www.morrissey-solo.com/tour/1997/images/massey-outside.jpg
Here is an account by one good friend of her experiences at the first one in November 1999.
I hope dj this does not embarrass you too much:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=0221c012.a91a4f9e%40usw-ex0101-002.remarq.com
OK finally the chat advert
Last week's chat in adition to the debut of Laurel (LSH) attracted a further 4 fans including I was most pleased to see Laurel's
near neighbour the honourable chat room founder Rik Stevens. I now see that they are possibly only about 10 miles apart (in my mind it was more like 200 but I now see that they actually live in cities on opposite banks of the Columbia River. You learn something new every day!!
I'm sorry but this evening I rather doubt that Susan and I will make it to the chat room as we plan to watch the Athens Olympics
opening ceremony which is on NBC from 8pm till 12 (obviously not live)(we'l try tpo drop in sometime) but anyone who can go to the room at 9pm EST, can click
on my new easier to remember (notlong) link at:- http://lightfootchat.notlong.com


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[johnfowles]

Highlights of the Newsgroup
As with this Forum most activity and posting has been concerned with the lead up to Wednesday night's Canadian Idol show devoted to Gordon's songs.
I previously omitted to highlight a most interesting revelation (in an earlier thread on Gord's singing "Farewell To Nova scotia") about the provenence and background to the great La Cave Cleveland 1965 bootleg and the two Koala albums that that recording spawned. See http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=40FE8FB1.586C274D%40worldnet.att.net In subsequent correspondence with the writer Alan Cassaro I have learnt that he is a native of that city (he and Al Watchman should get together?) and also performed at La cave and moreover like me and Matthew Bullis is a Buddy Holly fan.
I have been far from idle myself this week sorting out further silly problems on my computers. in fact none of my 3 are currently able to fire up properly so I may well not be able to attend tonight's chat at http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com at 9pm EST although i think Susan intends tio be in the room.Last week I took a little time off from watching the Olympic's opening to check the chat room but only saw one fleeting guest who only said "Hi John" and promptly scarpered

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[johnfowles]

The chat room last friday as I anticipated was, possibly due to the
Olympic's opening ceremony (shown here as a recording at the US East Coast
prime time starting at 8pm EST) poorly attended by just me and Rik Stevans
I'll be there later at 9pm EST at:- http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com


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[johnfowles]

Newsgroup highlights from the past week
the news of Massey 2005 was embelished by a reference to Wayne's site which under "news "
says
"If Lightfoot's recovery continues as hoped, he plans to do a benefit concert at Hamilton Place in Hamilton, ON, with proceeds going to the McMaster Medical Center, the hospital where Lightfoot has received his life
saving treatment. At present, November 28 and 29 are under consideration, with the Good Brothers as opening act. More details
as they become available"
Derek (zippo) Kidd starterd a thread on a Martin guitar advert on the back cover of the October issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine at:-

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=of f&selm=WZuYc.13221%242D3.3808%40newssvr27.news.prodi gy.com (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=WZuYc.13221%242D3.3808%40newssvr27.news.prodi gy.com)
but since Derek eschews the ability to display pictures here we cannot see this ad
"zippo"??
yes for those who have never seen it this is his account of a theory that gave him that nickname as well as Bruna's "goofy" of course and my own "Neddy" since Derek is also that rare animal an American Goon Show fan thanks to his English mother
Go enjoy the read at:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&sel m=20010125090051.04196.00001029%40ng-cm1.aol.com (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=20010125090051.04196.00001029%40ng-cm1.aol.com)
For any reader her who does not usually look at the small talk forum I started a techie topic on portrait mode LCD monitor
orientation:-
"Thinking Outside The Bun" at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000417.html
We had a merry band of six chatting last Friday
and hope to see more this evening including a promised appearance by the the newly internet active Gaby (I had telephoned her during the week and threatened to give her an alarm call at 2AM (GMT) if she did not turn up!!
So guys and dolls this evening at 9PM EST at http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
let's be seein' ya

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[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by johnfowles:
"zippo"??
yes for those who have never seen it this is his account of a theory that gave him that nickname as well as Bruna's "goofy" of course and my own "Neddy" since Derek is also that rare animal an American Goon Show fan thanks to his English mother
Go enjoy the read at:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&sel m=20010125090051.04196.00001029%40ng-cm1.aol.com (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=20010125090051.04196.00001029%40ng-cm1.aol.com)

I hqave just clicked on that "zippo" link and now have tears in my eyes . So if you do not yet know the story do yourself a
favo(u)r and read it it is pricelees


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[Auburn Annie]

Mwuahahahahaha snort snerk giggle sigh....

Okay. I'm back.

Thanks for the repost, John. I'd read it a while ago but it's still funny.

[stationmaster]

Hey, I just listened to Cabaret and that's the first time I heard that beer can open. I guess I'm not as acoustic as I thought!
http://www.animationlibrary.com/Animation11/Creatures_and_Cartoons/Cartoons_Simpsons/Duff_beer.gif

[superiorsings]

so, ummm, how do you say Penetanguishene??

[djb]

pen uh tang gwi (hard g; short i) sheen

[johnfowles]

Newsgroup highlights w/e 10 September
or lack of same can be best summed up by the fact that so far there has only been a single mention (by Charlene) of the announcement about tickets for the Hamilton concerts.However the NG remnains a wonderful storehouse of research opinions and memories try this link:-
a reaction to the last Massey extravaganza by the ever ebullient (my word for today folks)
Derek "zippo" Kidd:-
T%oronto Recap Part 1:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&sel m=20010528181039.07480.00001633%40nso-cf.aol.com (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=20010528181039.07480.00001633%40nso-cf.aol.com)
and Part 2:- http://groups. google.com/groups?q=toronto+recap&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=alt.music.lightfoot&safe=off&selm=20010528181036.07480.00001632%40nso-cf.aol.com&rnum=2 (http://groups.google.com/groups?q=toronto+recap&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=alt.music.lightfoot&safe=off&selm=20010528181036.07480.00001632%40nso-cf.aol.com&rnum=2)
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regarding the chat room
After a few lean weeks a great crowd of 12 attended last Friday(including two ladies who arrived rather late (after Gaby had retired to her bed at
around 5 am GMT)
On another topic the Watchman opined
"I wonder if the chat room would have a bigger attendance if it were held like on a Wednesday instead of Friday at 9 pm?
I don't know anybody who is home at 9 pm on a Friday night. West coast members it would be 6 pm for them.
Well Al the Friday session is now a long established time although in its heyday (1999) we also used to meet on Tuesday
evenings and later we started "BritChat" on Sunday afternoons to suit those in the UK who unlike me needed their beauty sleep
on Friday evenings. Nowadays one of the more regular chatters is ex-Australian convict catmanron who has to drag himself away
from houesehold chores and/or the Gee Gees on Saturday mornings so for him any other weeknight is just not on.
I agree the present timing is certainly unfortunate for those on the West Coast.But there is no way to stop the earth rotating as far as I am aware, so it is inevitable that not everybody can be accomodated.
I am organising it and as I am on the East Coast the details will stay the same.
So unless there is a howl of protest the chat will continue on Friday Evenings at 9 PM EST at:- http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
One smaal point about the chat room sign in procedure.Every week at least one chatter arrives under the default nickname "dilexnet-Guest_xxx and receives a barrage of requests to change to a more usual nickname.
This occurs when using the IRC server (dilexnet's) own free applet as linked from my site pages:-
B2 Dilexnet link
the solution is elegantly simple and easier than retrospectively changing it. The applet sign-in screen has a box
surprise surprise !!
entitled "nickname":-
http://www.dilex.notlong.com
just overtype your desired nick thus:-
http://www.glightfoot.notlong.com
I trust he says with heavy irony that is straightforward enough??

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[Gaby]

I agree with Al, here! (First and last time.) http://www.corfid.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
Obviously I can’t expect you to change the time to suit me (and other Europeans/Antipodeans.). However, a lot of people do go out on a Friday night.
It’s 10.30pm now (5.30pm EST) and I’m just getting ready to go out.
I’ve eaten, sorted my daughter out with clubbing money, paid for her taxi home and now Mum and Dad can let rip!!! (Well, Mum can. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif)
By the time I get home, you lot are just thinking about going out for the night.
Can anyone work out the optimal time for our chatroom? (Assuming, of course, that anyone in NA wants to talk to the very few of us abroad.)
Frankly, you North Americans can talk whenever you want so, if you could adjust your hours to include us lot at a sensible time, that would be fantastic. I do also realise that it would be unreasonable of me to ask you to do this.


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[charlene]

I don't know about anyone else but I'm ready for bed by 11-12 on Friday night...I'm not much of a "going-out" person anyway and if I'm not at glass class I'm working on glass at home or spending time with my daughter watching a movie/t.v. on Friday nights.
Even here the "night-scene" starts late - not just for the young'uns either! people going out for dinner at 10 and later....then staying out until 3-4 a.m.! i imagine they must sleep all of saturdays daylight hours away!
lol
I don't have enuf hours in the day as it is to do all I have to do!
The Friday night choice and time seems to work for the majority of folks who do frequent the chat-room and most nights people sign off around 11-12. Can you Brits work up a CHAT amongst yourselves maybe? Just a thought! I know any other weeknight doesn't work for me and most Saturday and Sundays during the day I am doing a million things and accomplishing nothing! lol or so it seems. it is quite a conundrum issn't it?
hmmmm...
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif
Char
although I did stay on-line longer than usual last Friday because you were on Gaby!
lol
and you never did call Bru to wake her and get her chatting!
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif

[TheWatchman]

Makes sense John. "Opine"? For a minute I thought I was entering the "No Spin Zone". http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by Gaby:
[B]I Frankly, you North Americans can talk whenever you want so, if you could adjust your hours to include us lot at a sensible time, that would be fantastic. I do also realise that it would be unreasonable of me to ask you to do this.
{/B]
Well said Gaby but there really is no solution at least being an early Saturday time for you you do not have to rise for work that day as far as I Know. But.... the chat room is always open so (and as I suggested to you before by email there is absolutely nothing to stop you or another Brit from organising a "BritChat" session at any other time. (we had a 2PM GMT Sunday britchat back in 1999 which worked well when North Americans could join in on a Sunday morning
Think about it
Meanwhile:-
Newsgroup Highlights w/e 17 September 2004
As has been depressingly similar on the Newsgroup for some time there has again been little of consequence. Indeed there was so little comment about the upcoming celebration in Hamilton that I felt obliged to somewhat cheekily ask "Maybe only corfid readers are going???" this brought several responses including this from Gaby
'My friends think I'm mad, travelling 3,5000 (sic) miles to see a man they've
never heard of.. {More fool them!)
Apparently, you're all pervs and I will be dragged into the sordid
underworld of international trafficking!!!!"
Actually G-baby you'll find it is not quite that far despite the continental drift and all that!! Just ask your glorious
leader Tony!!
So again I'll give you a link to another old thread on the Newsgroup.
This is one that I started after I received my Songbook box set in 1999 and one that I am particularly fond of because it degenerated into a discussion on the good old British Pound sign (£).

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=7miqnc %244s3%241%40news4.svr.pol.co.uk (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=7miqnc%244s3%241%40news4.svr.pol.co.uk)
Hopefully more Newsgroupers found thir way here for their reading where the usual activity continues unabated
Last Friday eight chatted including regular (catman) Ron in Melbourne and David (Bardford)in Sweden making a very welcome first visit fresh from his successful picture displaying exploits her.
So again this evening at:-

http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com at:-

9 PM East Coast time or
2 AM GMT in Blighty
6PM on the West Coast or
10 PM in Newfoundland (Wendy where ARE you???) or
6AM in Sweden,France,Holland or Finland or
11 AM tomorrow nmorning in Melbourne
which is 1 PM in New Zealand.
Yes Ron Jenkins from the South Island once responded to a real time email invite to chat


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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

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[SilverHeels]

quote:
and you never did call Bru to wake her and get her chatting!
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif[/B]

She knows better than try that! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
But you know, I used to stay up for the chat getting to bed around 5am. That's only works if you dont have to get up in the morning. Besides, I am frequently working late into the night and just dont have the energy to get into 'Chat'. Even us 39-ers have to get some sleep sometimes http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif

[djb]

quote:Originally posted by johnfowles:

So again this evening at:-
http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com at:-
9 PM East Coast time or
6AM in Sweden,France,Holland or Finland or


It's actually 3am in Sweden, Holland, and France, and 4am in Finland.

Dunno if I can make it this time round. I truly enjoyed it last week, but the time is awkward. If I am awake I shall be there, but no promises.

David

[johnfowles]

Newsgroup Highlights w/e 24 september
There has been minimal activity on the Newsgroup this past week, so nothing much to report on
unless you are vitally interested in knowing where Derek (Zippo) Kidd will be streaking
next or are a devotee of that other great canadian singer (no not Kalen the Porter I mean Montrealer Leonard Cohen)
so I'll content myself br referring you to an earlier
"The Watchman's Gone" NG thread started by Cathy at"- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=3B23B05E.7D2847FE %40gwi.net (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=3B23B05E.7D2847FE%40gwi.net)
Also a nice explanation by no less than our Florian on the NG about "That Same Old Obsession"
at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=FWBz3.1522%242h5.4784%40news.chello.at&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26selm%3DFWBz3%20.1 522
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OK now the commercial:-
ten happy chatters last Friday
including at least one who omitted to enter his desired nickname before
coming in
This evening at 9PM EST and assorted times for non-US attendees at:- http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com

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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot



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[johnfowles]

Yet again little to read on the Newsgroup except for guitar fanatics
I have however been severely taken to task over there for my continual ranting and
mention of corfid. But I know which one I enjoy the most!
we were not many in number in the chat room last week but do drop in tonight 9 PM EST at http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
(sorry if I am getting boring on these chat reminders also!!)

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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[johnfowles]

Newsgroup Highlights w/e 15 October 2004
Once again I am unable to recommend any new threads for you to look at so have found another old thread to give you something to think about!
one fan back in 1999 had the gall to ask "I've always wondered what the words were in the background of the break in 'Talking in your Sleep'"
the thread started at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=7qutqb%24k1e%241%40nnrp1.deja .com (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=7qutqb%24k1e%241%40nnrp1.deja.com)
OK it's Friday reminder time again
Last Friday saw a good crowd of 8
iocluding the renowned corfid member bjb from Alberta
initials that she insisted stood for
"Bonnie June Babelicious" Personally I don't buy that but Bonnie she now is (at least until after Hamilton!)
We also welcomed back into our orbit corfid member Gary Sprang a.k.a "sputnik"
So tonight again at 9pm EST at:- http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
John
Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites??
Is there another word for synonym??




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[bjb]

(at least until after Hamilton!)

John, how could you! The person you mentioned, who wishes to remain ANONYMOUS, is sending her ugly stepsister to Hamilton, so please be careful of her fragile ego and oh yes, no pictures please.

[jj]

awe, bb, you're sweet as pie, eskimo pie, edmonton eskie pie http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

but jut in case i'll mark your parcel 'Fragile, do NOT break!' http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif

be patient, i'm slow, just ask lsh, char, bru, john, etc, lol

[johnfowles]

Newsgroup highlights week ending October 23rd
OK at the considerable risk of receiving further opprobrium I will start by saying again that not much has stirred of
abiding interest over there this past week
It probably needs the stimulation of the upcoming Hamilton jollifications to get the creative writing juices flowing again!
So I again I have delved into back postings and in view of some speculation regarding if and when Massey will take place
next year with an update on Wayne's site now overdue after he deleted the May dates
I refound a nice posting about Massey 1998 by "glutomodo" (Andy Thompson) now in Wyoming I believe (his family home is in
Fort Collins, Colorado) So I was at one time hoping that brink could arrange a Gathering someswhere in Colo(u)rado since there are several fans in that area,including colorado sue from here and Susan and my good friend from the 1999 chat room sessions Sue Bloo(mer)
andy's posting is at the thread starting at:-

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=1998050806303 900.CAA12283%40ladder01.news.aol.com (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=1998050806303900.CAA12283%40ladder01.news.aol .com)
Note that in giving the URL of any old Newsgroup threads I always go to the very first posting and click on the "view this article only" link to get the shortest URL: once open there is then another link to for example "Complete Thread (5 articles)"
Here on corfid the ever lengthening topic "Picture that Song" has now attracted just over 900 replies and looks set to continue past the 1000 mark even though the Torontonian who dreamt this up is showing the first signs of tiredness:-

http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002499.html
it has been a frequently frustrating fanciful frolic of fecundity often awfully funny and IMHO worth keeping an eye on from time to time It has however revealed two problems:-
1,. the corfid sytem of allocating web page titles means that although the index shows the most recently posted-to topics in date order with the date and time of the most recent posting it is only after you open that you discover just how many pages now constitute the topic so you then need to reclick on the latest page number in the case of this topic there are now all of 19 pages and the latest is at:-

http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002499-19.html
2.as one fellow 56k user commented:-
"I don't have time to go through 16 or 17 pages especially when they take forever to load"
Of course each page is full of graphics but I find the loading time is not a problem probably but not conclusively because
once viewed any one page will together with any images thereupon be stored in one of the Windows folder's "cache" sub-folders
Amongst other items that some here might have overlooked was my discovery of free (albeit short-time) file hosting site at:-

http://www.upload4free.com
which I and Jimmy Jones used to good effect on the Test forum at:-

http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000122.html
And this very day thoroughly confused Bee ZeD
at:-

http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002690.html
OK Tonight I should be around for a longer time in the chat room than I was able to last Friday an evening most notable
for the apparent and silent (non-typing) attendance by someone using the nickname silver_heels which next morning Bruna
insisted was a troll as she was in dreamland!
So Australia tomorrow morning Karen you're on and yes there has never been any other chat room organised from corfid only a
short lived attempt to use the voice capabilities of a Yahoo Group's chat room where we used to hear (notdogman)ron's
measured Victorian drawl!!
So 9 pm EST again at:-

http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
John Fowles
I've mixed up my gloves," Tom said intermittently

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[stationmaster]

quote:Originally posted by johnfowles:
Here on corfid the ever lengthening topic "Picture that Song" has now attracted just over 900 replies and looks set to continue past the 1000 mark even though the Torontonian who dreamt this up is showing the first signs of tiredness. It has been a frequently frustrating fanciful frolic of fecundity often awfully funny and IMHO worth keeping an eye on from time to time

Thanks for the plug Sir John Fowles!
I am not tired of the topic but I do get tired when I stay up too late! http://www.smilieland.com/graphics/tired.gif

[johnfowles]

Newsgroup Highlights week Ending 29 October 2004
The erudite Ed Mullen reported back on the fruits of some recent googling at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=hOednRf4s6KnABzcRVn-2w%40comcast.com
He also managed to rediscover on his hard drive alternative wreck lyrics which were archived at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=36564ED0.8D4264F4%40csi.com
Other than that you had to be a guitar geek to get much out of the NG this past week
so there remains the commercial
only a few braved the chatroom last Friday
so tonight at 9 PM at:- http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
David Bradford over in Sweden has said he'll try to attend as he is working
night shift tonight]
John Fowles
If a hairdresser loses the tools of his trade does he become discombobulated??

[johnfowles]

Newsgroup Highlights week ending November 4th 2004
For once one of the guitar threads proved rewarding reading as it contained much humo(u)r
regarding the continuing saga of the use (or misuse) of Ed Mullen's American Express credit
card this time Ed has had the final word by aasking plaintively
"If you all could hold off on any purchases for about 30 days I'd really
appreciate it. I need some new underwear"!
the thread asks
Guitars under $1000? Is there any such animal?
And starts at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=10odk1ip7s09t01%40corp.supernews.com
Doug (Plumguru) Kirk delved into his archives for his report on his
First Trip To MAssey Hall at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=20041102183102.06323.00000024%40mb-m16.aol.com
and is now trying to coordinate attendance at next April's Ceritos CA concert see the thread underway at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=20041104234239.07662.00000119%40mb-m01.aol.com
I hope everybodty is reasding the great monthly commrentaries nmby the Newsgrouop foundert Wayne Francis
the current one has interesting comments on last Friday's great Hamilton broadcast go to:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/comnov04.htm
and now for my weekly chat room commercial:-

A fine group of 8 chatted last week
But apparently David bradford working late in Sweden found entry to the chat
room blocked and the Java applets would not load.
Just a thought David has your administrator disabled Java for security
reasons??
We'll try again this evening at the usual time 9pm EST
and place:-

http:www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
John Fowles
Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

[violet Blue Horse]

Eh, I rarelly check the newsgroup. I had no idea Cerritos tickets went on sale Monday. Thanks for the heads up.

[djb]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by johnfowles:
[B]A fine group of 8 chatted last week
But apparently David bradford working late in Sweden found entry to the chat
room blocked and the Java applets would not load.
Just a thought David has your administrator disabled Java for security
reasons??

Java was enabled, and I have admin privileges. I can also chat with msn and the like, but couldn't get through to you. Oh well, perhaps sometime from home if I am ever awake for any reason at 3am!

[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by djb:
[QUOTE]Java was enabled, and I have admin privileges.
See below David it may well be that your work machine has WindowsXP SP2 (Service Pack 2) installed and that has no Java Virtual Machine!!
Newsgroup highlights week ending November 12th 2004
As I just said in my companion Newsgroup advert
"I'll be brief this week as I have two other pressing projects to complete before meeting up
with some Lightheads at the tribute concert in Wayne NJ on Sunday"
I have liitle to draw your attention to on the NG this past week
Char replied at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=MESid.4758%24Gm6.4231%40newsread3.news.atl.ea rthlink.net
to a thread about an amusing article entitled
"The Unhappy States of America. Re: Your application for
adoption by Canada"
which I thought was too overtly political to post here so I started a small talk topic at:-
Oops looks like our moderator has deleted it as it ain't there anymore!!
In another thread Valerie brought me up to date on the forthcoming problem with trying to use Java applets on web sites see:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=yIKdndH-88kFzhHcRVn-rg%40comcast.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26group%3Dalt.music.light foot%26safe%3Doff%26selm%3DyIKd ndH-88kFzhHcRVn-rg%2540comcast.com
That is my companion corfid Highlights thread and I ended today's posting by saying:-
"Valerie really spoilt my week by warning of potential WindowsXP Internet Explorer Java problems because my chat room largely
depends on one of two Java applets for access by those punters unwilling to sort out installing the recommended mIRC chat room
clientprogram(mme).
although I did recently successfully open the other Java applet on my own web site a beautiful working Java powered Pocket
watch at:-
http://www.pocketwatch.notlong.com
on several probably pre-SR2 equipped WindowsXP machines at my local college
Also I wonder how that affects MACs??
Anyway as the erudite Ed Mullen pointed out there are ways around this problem but for now anyone wishing to chat this
evening at 9 PM EST please go to:- http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com" (http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com)
John Fowles

[charlene]

see you on Sunday Sir John!

[johnfowles]

F you had visited the Newsgroup alt.music.lightfoot at:- http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com
this past week you would have found that discussion had been hijacked by the daily haranging and regaling of a soap opera
of the marital affairs of the Bipolar Kentuckian Douglas Crowe (or his alter ego "Cap'n Fishlips") with a troll making a few
quite uncalled for stoopid comments in an "unmagnificent" outpouring.
Last Friday 7 came into the chat room including two of our lady bikers
(Lori and Brink)
There will be another seesion this evening at 9PM EST and we would love to see a few fresh faces so how about it Sheryl and BillW??
Full details are on my web site at:-
http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
Note that when that page loads you will be asked to accept the download (actually from my own site) of a small Java Applet
(which is the program(me) that contains the basic chat room format)
Alternatively the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) server I am using (dilexnet.net) also has an applet and there is a link to theirs
on my page. However I have been asked for a simple link to the dilexnet applet for those in a hurry and who do not wish to use the superior
chat client mIRC.So if that is the way you intend to access the chat room please click the following easy-to-remember link:-
http://chatlink.notlong.com
You should then be presented with a sign in screen
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/dilexnet.jpg
.Simply type your preferred nicknmame over where it says
"DilexNET-Guest-number" and then press the "chat!" button and after the applet loads
click the "Gordon Lightfoot" button to join us
If you omit to enter your desired nickname (as Bill Hall regularly does) you will find that you face a barrage of calls to change it from the default "DilexNET-Guest-number"
which is then a simple matter of typing
/nick then a space then the nick you wish to appear as. In fact much hilarity not to say confusion reigns when in light-hearted mood chatters change their nicks willy-nilly
John Fowles

[johnfowles]

Firstly my apologies.
In the last minute rush to get ready for our automobile expedition to Hamilton I ran out of time to prepare a highlights/chat advert last Friday,
Oh well
Newsgroup highlights week ending December 3rd 2004
I was somewhat astounded to read a new topic on this forum started by our recent newcomer Sheryl who "was just cruising the 'net and found" alt.music.lightfoot despite the fact that she must have read this topic in which I highlight that august site every week several times since she discovered corfid!!
As far as interesting NG threads go this past week there were rather fewer new ones about Hamilton than arose here but I see that Char like myself has taken to posting her topics and other Lightfoot ephemera and interesting topics that arise on corfid on the Newsgroup.The trouble is that this will often produce a slew of responses by Newsgroupers that you have to visit alt.music.lighghtfoot to read.
A prime case in point is the thread there that Char started on "Gord Got It Done"
which is essentially the same as her topic here but the replies have concentrated more on her literary prowess the thread started at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=NfSdnfK1c6ACjDLcRVn-ug%40ro gers.com (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=NfSdnfK1c6ACjDLcRVn-ug%40rogers.com)
When it was suggested that she should take up writing as a career after being told that she was "pretty awesome with words too!"
Char finally said "perhaps one day I'll give it a go..." ????
I had the pleasure at Hamilton of meeting the legendary one time member of Gord's "entourage" Richard Harison
whose picture appears in colo(u)r in the Gord's Gold 1 LP gatefold cover and in Black and White in the GG1 CD booklet:-

http://johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/richard.jpg

Of course he now looks somewhat older and greyer/grayer (don't we all!!!) but stil recognisable from that picture Jenney also spoke to Richard (who regularly posts to the NG go to :-
http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com and put his name into the search box to find
interesting tidbits he has contributed there)
I was also able to get him together with Lynne Ackerman for the first time in many years (Lynne featured in the Macleans magazine article that Char so competently displayed here recently and Lynne goes back to the "Tronno" Riverboat days with Gordon)
See Richard's posting in which he was kind enough to say "Nice to meet you at Hamilton last night!" it is at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=IO9rd.13997%24 kI6.924677%40news20.bellglobal.com (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=IO9rd.13997%24kI6.924677%40news20.bellglobal. com)
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Chat Room Advert:-
We dropped into the chat room for a few minutes last Friday (we had intended to rise early on Saturday in order to be able
to spend time in Niagra on the way to Hamilton but left rather later than planned but we still saw all we wanted to of the
fabulous falls in sunny weather albeit with the great wettening spray from the Horseshoe Falls.
No doubt a few will appear this evening at 9pm EST to discuss the two concerts: everybody (especially newcomers) is/are welcome
just click the following link then overwrite your required nickname http://www.chatlink.notlong.com
John Fowles


[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited December 03, 2004).]

[johnfowles]

Newsgroup highlights week ending 10 december 2004
It is very tempting to say that there has been a ghostly silence on the NG this past week
The latest news is the fact as I had discovered the beta version of Google groups has now supplanted the original slow version
and both of my short links now end up on the improved version:- http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com and http://www.newsgroup2.notlong.com
Ithe most important improvrement is that whereas before for some completely illogical reason after you posted a message or
reply you were told that it would take 3-9 hours before it appeared and it did which was simply ridiculous. Now it says that
your posting will appear "momentarily" and it does within as few seconds or minutes.
Three other things I spotted
1.The search box that on the old version you had to check the search alt.music.lightfoot box tgo avoid searching every group
has been replaced by a pair of boxes one to "search (all) groups' the other a more sensible specific "search this group"
2. there is now choice of "Sort by date of first message" or "Sort by date of most recent message"
3 If you click on a new "about this group" link
you get a set of statistices on "Last month's top posters" and "All time top posters"
plus a yahoo style archive listing by month and year starting at August 1995 so the oldest threads from Waynes initiation of
the group in 1994 have vanished
4. on the same page is a pair of useful links to either "new topics" or "new messages"
One feature I cannot get to function is "my groups"
when I click the relevant link I find:-
"All my groups

You are not a member of any groups. You can locate a group by searching or browsing the directory below.
You can then join groups that interest you by clicking the "Join this Group" link. "
And this was despite the fact that I had already I thought joined and had been posting so I searched for lightfoot then found
a subscribe link to alt.music.lightfoot and now all is fine strange
anmongst the plethora of ghostly threads that have appeared
you'd be hard pressed to find anything else worthwhile to read
Of the ghost stories be sure to read the thread subject
"cathy's cane story" at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/msg/58e07c106c82fd16
where on December the 8th Bruna (silverheels) Zanelli- that's Zanelli with a ZED
revealed that she could not bring herself to say "boo" to a ghost!!
all this grew out of an earlier thread concerning an ebay auction of a peculiar grilled cheese sandwich leading Douglas Crowe
to find a ghost up for auction!!
see http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/msg/1fbc81fd400d15e5?dmode=source
all in all a slow news week or as Roger Guinn eloquently put it
"We in this group are definitely living in the past. I mean, here it is
nearly Christmas, and we are breaking out the Haloween stories...


Slow news day? Whatever--it's entertaining, anyway!
"Procrastinators, unite! Tomorrow."
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and finally my weekly advert
an encouraging onumber dropped in for a chat last Friday
and some dicussion took place about our experiences in Hamilton earlier in the week. Golly two weeks ago we were preparing to
venture to the great white North!!
so this evening at the usual time 9pm EST and place http://www.chatlink.notlong.com
John Fowles

[johnfowles]

sorry but I have no time to review Newsgroup for highlights this week but go there if you
have an excessive interest in the gee gees (Ghosts and Guitars)
usual all accessing link:- http://www.newsgroup2.notlong.com
chat this evening as usual at 9 pm EST at http://www.chatlink.notlong.com

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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[johnfowles]

Recent Newsgroup Highlights
The combination of two successive festive family Fridays with their attendant parties and preparations left no time to attempt
my usual weekly reviews. so a lot of water has flown under the bridge since I last troubled you. I hope by now that a few of
the more adventurous corfidians have made their way to http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com
nd read the latest postings there.
OK now the chat advert
This evening at the usual time 9pm EST and place:- http://www.chatlink.notlong.com
thanks
John Fowles

[Sheryl Klein]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by johnfowles:
I was somewhat astounded to read a new topic on this forum started by our recent newcomer Sheryl who "was just cruising the 'net and found" alt.music.lightfoot despite the fact that she must have read this topic in which I highlight that august site every week several times since she discovered corfid!! [ snip]

Gee, thanks, John! I feel really good now! Actually, some topics I merely "scan" rather than read.

[This message has been edited by Sheryl Klein (edited January 07, 2005).]

[johnfowles]

The Newsgroup last week bubbled on as usual
Apologies for last week's chat both Susan and I dropped off and although I went into the
room when I woke up at about 11 there was nobody in there so if anybody did turn up they
probably got tired of waiting.
I'll try harder this evening at 9 pm EST
at http://www.chatlink.notlong.com
John Fowles
oxymora
divorce court
death benefit
open secret

[Sheryl Klein]

I went in using the mIRC and sat for two hours. No one showed. I left at 8:00 p.m. P.S.T. A few days later, Brink told me that she and several others *were* in there (at the time I was!) and they kept getting booted. We met up later and discovered I was, apparently, in the "wrong" room. I have no idea how that happened, it seemed to be the correct room. I followed all your instructions. Oh, well... I'll just have to stick to the original system.

[johnfowles]

Newsgroup highlights week ending 21st January 2005
Char's parallel Newsgroup posting on the first Hugh's room concert drew a spirited response including a contribution by one
time Lightfoot entourage member Richard Harrison (see his Gord's Gold picture in my December 3rd posting above) who described Red Shea and Gord's habit of "boiling" their
guitar strings see the thread beginning at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/msg/53d16e47c4a6baef
A good number chatted last Friday including Sheryl who managed to tame mIRC
and appeared in the correct room this time
To clarify matters I'll shortly add a couple of screen shots to my chat room page to define what you will see on screen
depending on whether you used mIRC or the simpler browser /Java Applet method
(catman)Ron contrived twice to appear in triplicate
Erica regaled us with how she was one of the "prancing ponies" when she was a little girl of 8
Tonight we'll try again at 9 PM EST at:- http://www.chatlink.notlong.com
John Fowles
do stairs go up or down??

[johnfowles]

Newsgroup highlights week ending 28 January 2005
Having been asked by silverheels during the week how else she could access the NG as her usual
AOL link was proving troublesome I was not too surprised to see a new thread subject
"OT: "AOL shutting down newsgroups" at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/msg/991e29df58edd568
which might be useful to anyone here who usually accesses the Newsgroup using their AOL facility. Personally I believe that
now Google have got rid of their stupid 3 to 9 hours required before a posting is visible then google grouops is the way to
go:- http://www/newsgroup2.notlong.com of course.
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The chat room last Friday was bustling
somebody recently had a problem with mIRC
so this week I'll give the simplest link that uses a Java applet:- http://chatlink.notlong.com
and the link to my main chat room page on my site:- http://johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/chat/
from where you will find a link to my tutorial page on getting and
configuring mIRC
Once you have downloaded then installed mIRC this link will magically
open mIRC and configure it all in one fell swoop*
using this link:-
irc://irc.dilexnet.net:6667/gordonlightfootch
OK 9PM EST this evening when we can begin detailed planning for gman's August18h barbecue!!
John fowles
*what on earth is a fell swoop anyway??
is there any other kind??

[Auburn Annie]

Originally posted by johnfowles:

*what on earth is a fell swoop anyway??
is there any other kind??

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Here's one answer from "The Straight Dope":

My late grandmother often used the phrase "one fell swoop" to indicate doing many things at once. What is a fell swoop? And how did this phrase get into our everyday vernacular? --KS

SDSTAFF Ken replies:

Fell, from Old English, means awful, terrible or horrible. The word's stem can also be seen in "felon," which now is mostly used to mean someone who has been convicted of a felony (a serious crime), but which formerly meant one who is terrible, horrible or awful in behavior. The "swoop" is an onomotopoeia, indicating a fast movement. All together, "one fell swoop" means a swift, horrible blow.

Shakespeare, originator of so many English catchphrases, may have dreamed up this one too. It appears in "Macbeth": "What! all my pretty chickens and their dam/At one fell swoop?" (act IV, scene 3) laments Macduff, upon learning his wife and children have been killed by Macbeth. This appears to be the earliest recorded use of the phrase, although it may have been in common usage before Shakespeare wrote it down.

It's interesting that "one fell swoop," which originally had such a dire connotation, is now a mild term meaning "all at once." A similar fate has befallen the expression "fey charm." Few people know that "fey" is an old Scottish term meaning (a) fated to die soon, or (b) full of the sense of approaching death (these definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary). So if you say someone has a certain fey charm, you're saying he or she exerts that morbid fascination associated with imminent death.

--SDSTAFF Ken
Straight Dope Science Advisory Board

[Comment on this answer.]

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[johnfowles]

Newsgroup Highlights week ending 4 February 2005
quiet week over there as usual. Luckily two Newsgroupers celebrated their 39th birthday which created something to read about at least
Bill Mulrooney usefully highlighted the sale of tickets for the Northampton Mass concert on October 20th and it is to be hoped that the box office have not sold the front row centre seats to too many fans!!
Wayne Francis had the latest tour details on his site very quickly and uploaded his February "commentary" in a very timely fashion
see the "News" page at:- http://www.lightfoot.ca/news.htm
I wanted to try to append something to my own very first Newsgroup posting in November 1997 (a reply to Jenney) at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/msg/30e78e8b091a03c9
but as there was no reply link on that old page it would not have worked

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Those of us chatting regularly would appreciate a few new chattering typists
9PM EST tonight and every Friday at http://www.chatlink.notlong.com
John Fowles
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of the English language,in which your house can simultaneously burn up and burn down, in which you fill a form by filling out a form,in which you add up a column of figures by adding them down and in which your alarm clock goes off by going on, and where you must chop a tree down before chopping it up. need I say more??
copyright Richard Lederer

[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited February 04, 2005).]

[SilverHeels]

quote:Originally posted by johnfowles:
Newsgroup Highlights week ending 4 February 2005
quiet week over there as usual. Luckily two Newsgroupers celebrated their 39th birthday which created something to read about at least


And I missed YOUR greetings, Sir John, my fellow Brit! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif

[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by SilverHeels:
And I missed YOUR greetings, Sir John, my fellow Brit! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif


Very sorry Bru dear I must have got distracted

Newsgroup highlights week ending 11 february 2004
An interesting discussion centered around the rare recording by Gord that was included in the Bob Dylan film Renaldo and Clara Gord's rendering of Bob's wistful "Ballad in Plain D" I managed to rediscover the web site from which I had long ago downloaded a tiny real Media File that plays for all of one minute 38 seconds
I think this is included on one of the rare Dylan albums that no doubt jovesjki has is the recording by Gord on that the any longer??
for those of a curious disposition the link is:- http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/2909/realaudio.html
scroll down to find:-
OTHER ARTISTS:


Gordon Lightfoot:
Ballad In Plain D
(191KB)
The chat room was busier than usual last Friday and we were joined by a silent chatter who resounded in the nick or real name of "setty"; however he or she was obviously totally confused by the rabid exchanges taking place and I do not believe uttered/typed a single dicky bird (word) although (and I do not recall how I knew) I recorded that he or she came from Queens NYC. If setty you are reading this please come back and tell us something about yourself
so folks tonight it will be at 9PM EST at:- http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
John Fowles
Have you heard the one about the woman who asked a taxi driver where she could get scrod "I did not know that the verb had a past tense" muttered the cabbie
copyright Richard Lederer

[joveski]

i have a LK remastered version of it... 1.38 is all that circulates

[LSH]

John, I'll forgive you calling us rabid in a roundabout way since you shared that very poignant piece of music from the past. it's sweet. thank you.

[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by LSH:
John, I'll forgive you calling us rabid in a roundabout way since you shared that very poignant piece of music from the past. it's sweet. thank you.

You are very welcome Laurel

Newsgroup highlights week ending 18 February 2005
Our new friend Max from Italy struck gold with his second Newsgroup thread posting
challenging with yet another appeal to list "Gord's TOP 10 songs" Note 10 (only) starting at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/msg/9fb287edbc3249c3
last friday the regulars had a good session incuding Bill triumphantly exclaiming that at very long last he was using mIRC.
I was much struck by a report on NBC News last night about the burgeoning use of acronyms by today's youth in Instant Messenging. Well beyond our usual LOL/ROFLMAO/my own favo(u)rite ROTFLAWMP: Rolling On the Floor Laughing And Wetting My Pants, and the more prosaic brb and even GGP "gotta go P" so this evening I shall be asking Bill if he is NIFOC "Naked In Front Of Computer" and suggesting to Laurel that she could GYPO "Get Your Panties Off" . Noting that neither need worry about POS "Parent Over Shoulder" (unless of course
Laurel your mother decides to call round in person instead of hogging your attention by telephone!!)
I will be checking these matters this evening at 9 pm at:- http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
Cheers
John Fowles
What's another word for thesaurus?
good "one-liner" jokes in the "Why Ask Why" section at:- http://www.tech-sol.net/humor/one-liner.htm


[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited February 18, 2005).]

[LSH]

well, john, sorry I missed it. nothing I like better than bill NIFOC.
I'll definitely be catching up with all of you next friday.

[Borderstone]

Seeing as how my PC is busted at home and I a naturist,it's been awhile since I was NIFOC! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/redface.gif

I think the library would frown on that!
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif

B.M. L! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/cool.gif C!

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"A knight of the road,going back to a place where he might get warm." ;) - Borderstone

[johnfowles]

Newsgroup highlights week ending 11 March 2005 a current thread asks
"Which Lightfoot Songs Had To "Grow On You"?"
which has had a subject title change and is now comparing the merits of old fashioned analog vinyl vis a vis CDs
starting at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/msg/ba02bf6b47a4e272
as always I give the URL of the first posting to see the complete thread to date simply click on "show options" then select "view thread"
apparently Geoff Kulawick of Linus Entertainment (who with Nanci famously posted here last year announced that "Chum Television International
(CTI) and Linus Entertainment today announced" a deal to exploit CTI's
Library of music programmes leading to speculation that a DVD could be released of Gord's famed 1999 Chum/Much More Music's Intimate and Interactive or was it Interactive and Intimate? program(me).So perhaps if Geoff or Nanci still read this forum they might like to comment?
NG thread at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/msg/c72781d217f8728c
Our newcomer from Italy Max started a thread
"Gord's TOP 10 songs " at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/msg/9fb287edbc3249c3

Now for the commercial break
Every Friday we hold a Chat room session at 9PM eST
I have given previously provided various links and methods for getting
in and it is pleasing to see that several more chatters have seen the
light and as strongly recommended installed the mIRC chat "client"
John Fowles

[johnfowles]

Newsgroup highlights week ending March 18th 2005
Janice posted her appeal for information on Massey Hall attendees (only just over two months to go!!) on the Newsgroup so several replies are to be expexcted from Lightheads who eschew this forum. her original posting is at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/msg/35a45d6416631e26
To flesh out my weekly Newsgroup report from now on I am going to post a link found almost at random by searching the group
To start off here is a nice long thread "Favorite Concert Songs " originally started by Cathy using a then-recent corfid topic:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/msg/d2bfd1892d29162e
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regarding the chat room it is gratifying to find that more and more of the regulars are now using mIRC and thanks to Sheryl for alerting me to a strangely different Java applet security warning. As very often a chatter does not appear to know if he/she came in via mIRC or not I
will this afternoon rewrite my chat room page to define in better detail what you should expect to see
But whatever just click on my easy to remember link http://lightfootchat.notlong.com
To attend this evening's session at 9 PM EST
before I forget I just perused my old corfid chat room topic:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001182.html
Which made entertaining reading and reminded me how many chatters have not been seen in the room for a very long time
John Fowles

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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[johnfowles]

Newsgroup highlights week wending March 25th 2005
Not a lot to draw your atention to sorry to say
I would have given a random link to an old Newsgroup thread on a Lightfoot song but google group's usually most useful "search this group" facility as per the search box so named at the top of the page seems to have forgotten its manners and now you get the results from a full web search not the same thing at all dammit.
Fortunately the "advanced search" feature is still behaving itself so I was able to pick a random song title "Let It Ride" and
pull up a listing of the many Newsgroup threads referring to that epic song I have chosen a 2002 thread discusing the East Of Midnight album which started at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.lightfoot/msg/d9195aeafef709c5
OK
I have yet to rewrite my chat room tutorial at:- http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
Last week I tried to make screenshots of each distinct method of getting into the room so that chatters could tell when in the room which method they used to get in as often I find they do not know
I.E.
mIRC and the two Java applet/browser ways the JWIRC applet on my own site or
the IRC server (dilexnet) applet but could not get in using the latter on Firiday evening so I emailed my contact at dilexnet and in his reply he confirmed that they had had a problem Friday night
Just one more reason to get mIRC.
I was pleased to see that nearly everybody who attended last week has now installed mIRC
Anyway the regulars wil be a'chatting again this evening at 9 pm EST
John Fowles
Happy Easter to all you bunnies out there