[boc-l] boc-l Digest, Vol 2, Issue 24

Tue Apr 26 20:11:06 EDT 2016

I'm saving all of Mumford's rants for posterity/future generations. I find
them oddly compelling, sometimes hilarious. Chris, you should just post yr
rants in your own forum/listserv/whatever.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 6:37 AM, <boc-l-request at lists.ispnet.net> wrote:

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>    1. Wunderbaum: A Gnome Named Grimble Grumble (he had a big
>       adventure) (Christian Eric Mumford)
>    2. Re: ADMIN: Annoyance or interested? (Christian Eric Mumford)
>    3. PS: Andrew Weatherall (Christian Eric Mumford)
>    4. Re: ADMIN: Annoyance or interested? (Michael Holmes)
>    5. New albums (j.hillenburg at comcast.net)
>    6. Re: ADMIN: Annoyance or interested? (Jonathan Smith)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:03:21 +0200
> From: Christian Eric Mumford <royalistradio at hotmail.com>
> To: "boc-l at lists.ispnet.net" <boc-l at lists.ispnet.net>
> Subject: [boc-l] Wunderbaum: A Gnome Named Grimble Grumble (he had a
>         big adventure)
> Message-ID: <DUB125-W8B60EDB291F56D84A0043B9620 at phx.gbl>
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>
> Mr. Rogers Neighborhood... Molasses. Pepto Bismol.
>
> Tony I owe me a Sweet Loaf.
>
> LET ME GO WILD LIKE A BLISTER IN THE SUN (VIOLENT FEMMES) (WEBB WILDER)
>
> BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE (TALKING HEADS) (GEORGIA - RAY CHARLES)
>
> Now break the shackles of slavery BELSEN MANDELA IS FREE. TUBULAR NELSON.
>
> Cape
>  Town, Soweto on Mandela Day.... oh free my pinkyfinger commie ass too, i
> wanna free from The Space Ritual Infinity shackles the Dore Mi fasol
> Latido... Desmond
> Tutu does a little dance for the freedom from slavery! All the big fat
> black Whoppie Goldberg wimmen danced Swahili folk tribal pygme dance around
> old Desmond, the Free African heartbeat of Baptism by jungle law
> Catholicism.
>
> The Boers, originally Dutch colonists as you all know,
> suppressed the black man in South Africa, a country that was outrageously
> boycotted in the 70s and 80s by US and Europe, a country where Bob Calvert
> and Freddie Mercury were born, and all Dem Dutch Colonialists shooting dem
> native jungle negras and huntin black tarbaby rawhide in the jungles and
> selling Elephant tusk
> for too long and Peter Gabriel and Bono came to the rescue. And Simple
> Minds.
>
> Webb Wilder & The Georgia Sattelites live Netfeed,
> Brothers in Arms (Army Life is killing me Crashed out, The Exploited
> Barmy Army).
>
> Money for Knopfler and Yer Dicks for Free Play yer geetar on the TNT
> (Turner Network Television)
>
>
> REGARDS FROM HAM RADIO LUXEMBURG (HAMSTER WHEEL, HAMSTER BALL, HAMSTER
> CAGE)
> Lee Ving (CAPE FEAR, Dr. Crabsticks)
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:10:45 +0200
> From: Christian Eric Mumford <royalistradio at hotmail.com>
> To: "BOC  Hawkwind Discussion List" <boc-l at lists.ispnet.net>
> Subject: Re: [boc-l] ADMIN: Annoyance or interested?
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> Thanks for concern, Ben and Ken. My Rants can be substance and sustenance.
> You are all ghouls watching a lone dark avenger go infinitely Insane yet
> keeping the thread getting more sane, The Logical Song (Supertramp). Cheers
> & Aloha mr. Ben Cohen, Mod'ern talking yes show concern, no one in Norway
> does anything but yap norwegian to me, and cus i am feeding you all my
> energy (like electricity from batteries) but no one feeds me back. Its time
> you vampires came out and said, "hey Christian, you are a great person..
> here have some recharge and log off and make Plans for Nigel".
>
> Cheers
> Barbara Streisand
> + Christian
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:01:57 -0400
> From: kruch7 at cox.net
> To: boc-l at lists.ispnet.net
> Subject: Re: [boc-l] ADMIN: Annoyance or interested?
>
> let him rant
> http://answersfromthewizard.com/http://ariochslair.com/
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Ben Cohen <ben at glaver.org> wrote:
> Folks,
>
>
>
> Mr. Mumford is, once again, up to his old tricks of a seemingly endless
>
> stream-of-consciousness set of rants. As I remarked to a friend (and the
> owner
>
> of the host servers), I'm not quite sure if it happens because he's
> started up
>
> on drugs or he's stopped taking them.
>
>
>
> In any event, I would like some input from the list community as a whole -
> are
>
> you comfortable with / welcoming of his on-going rants or shall I, once
> again,
>
> place him on moderated status (with, honestly, the expected result of my
>
> probably not letting anything from him through).
>
>
>
> Please note: 1) this is going to the list as a whole, so he's seeing this
> as
>
> well; 2) feel free to respond either privately or publicly; 3) this truly
> is
>
> an honest request for input.
>
>
>
> There is, basically, nothing else that happens on this list, so I feel
> like,
>
> on the one hand, letting him rant on isn't necessarily "bad". On the other
>
> hand, I'm pretty sure that this wasn't what most of you were looking for.
>
>
>
> And then, finally, on the gripping hand (look up "The Mote in God's Eye",
> by
>
> Larry Niven, for explanation), there's even the question of whether the
> BOC-L
>
> list should continue as a list at all. It certainly seems that, with
> nothing
>
> to discuss ... it might even be time to allow it to peacefully pass into
> the
>
> night.
>
>
>
> Please - consider the discussion now open.
>
>
>
> YnsHLM,
>
> Ben
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:15:56 +0200
> From: Christian Eric Mumford <royalistradio at hotmail.com>
> To: "boc-l at lists.ispnet.net" <boc-l at lists.ispnet.net>
> Subject: [boc-l] PS: Andrew Weatherall
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> Sun is shining here in seaside Vollen, an hour outside capital city Oslo.
>
> Rain Man
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:29:07 +0100
> From: Michael Holmes <M.Holmes at ed.ac.uk>
> To: BOC / Hawkwind Discussion List <boc-l at lists.ispnet.net>
> Subject: Re: [boc-l] ADMIN: Annoyance or interested?
> Message-ID: <571E1BA3.9050108 at ed.ac.uk>
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> On 25/04/2016 13:59, Ben Cohen wrote:
> >
> > And then, finally, on the gripping hand (look up "The Mote in God's
> Eye", by
> > Larry Niven, for explanation), there's even the question of whether the
> BOC-L
> > list should continue as a list at all. It certainly seems that, with
> nothing
> > to discuss ... it might even be time to allow it to peacefully pass into
> the
> > night.
> >
> It would of course be better if the good Mister Mumford could exercise
> more self control of his written tics, but as long as it doesn't
> degenerate into outright racism, I'm
> happy to exercise my delete button.
>
> As for the list: it sill produces spasms of interesting discussion, so
> let's not kill it yet.
>
> FoFP
>
> --
> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:35:07 +0000 (UTC)
> From: j.hillenburg at comcast.net
> To: "'BOC'" <boc-l at lists.ispnet.net>
> Subject: [boc-l] New albums
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> It's interesting how some older bands desert the studio while others
> persist recording and releasing new albums. Surely a new BOC akbun would
> sell more than a new Hawkwind studio platter, yet the former hasn't
> released a new work in ten plus years while the latter continues releasing
> new material. Opinions?
>
>
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>
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:36:31 +0800
> From: Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at gmail.com>
> To: "BOC / Hawkwind Discussion List" <boc-l at lists.ispnet.net>
> Subject: Re: [boc-l] ADMIN: Annoyance or interested?
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> His messages go into the sapm folder do it does not bother me.
>
> On 25 April 2016 at 21:01, Kenneth Ruch <kruch7 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > let him rant
> >
> >
> > http://answersfromthewizard.com/
> > http://ariochslair.com/
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Ben Cohen <ben at glaver.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >> Mr. Mumford is, once again, up to his old tricks of a seemingly endless
> >> stream-of-consciousness set of rants. As I remarked to a friend (and the
> >> owner
> >> of the host servers), I'm not quite sure if it happens because he's
> >> started up
> >> on drugs or he's stopped taking them.
> >>
> >> In any event, I would like some input from the list community as a whole
> >> - are
> >> you comfortable with / welcoming of his on-going rants or shall I, once
> >> again,
> >> place him on moderated status (with, honestly, the expected result of my
> >> probably not letting anything from him through).
> >>
> >> Please note: 1) this is going to the list as a whole, so he's seeing
> this
> >> as
> >> well; 2) feel free to respond either privately or publicly; 3) this
> truly
> >> is
> >> an honest request for input.
> >>
> >> There is, basically, nothing else that happens on this list, so I feel
> >> like,
> >> on the one hand, letting him rant on isn't necessarily "bad". On the
> other
> >> hand, I'm pretty sure that this wasn't what most of you were looking
> for.
> >>
> >> And then, finally, on the gripping hand (look up "The Mote in God's
> Eye",
> >> by
> >> Larry Niven, for explanation), there's even the question of whether the
> >> BOC-L
> >> list should continue as a list at all. It certainly seems that, with
> >> nothing
> >> to discuss ... it might even be time to allow it to peacefully pass into
> >> the
> >> night.
> >>
> >> Please - consider the discussion now open.
> >>
> >> YnsHLM,
> >> Ben
> >>
> >
> >
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