Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL

26 Aug 97 - 04:54 PM (#11277)
Subject: Lyr Add: MAX (HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL)
From: Peter T.

One of the saddest notes I have ever read in a thread was Max's admission that while he could do ever so much for us folk, he would give it all up to be able to write a good song. In lieu of that, some small comfort perhaps in his very own personal song about MAX!

MAX (to the tune of "You Gotta Have Heart")

You gotta have Max,
stacks and stacks and stacks of Max
Max's the man that if you've got a new site
He'll soon put it right for you:
Yes , you gotta have Max.

If you want to have your threads cut (doowadoo)
made to measure or from racks,
who's the cybernetic tailor --
No one else but Uncle Max!

(Max D. Spiegel's
something regal)

It began with a song
But before it went on long,
He'd got things sorted by size
By genre and by colour of eyes --
Yes, you gotta have Max.

If you want to sort ascending (doowadoo)
If you want to sort by date
If you want to sort by birth sign
All you gotta do is wait —

(If it's illegal,
Its not Spiegel)

He'll give you your choice
Pink for girls and blue for boice,
If you ask for some technological leap
He'll work on it while you sleep --
Our Amnesiac Max.

Max is always plotting something (doowadoo)
To expand his little realm,
It's a bit like having Ahab
Or Captain Nemo at the helm —

(Hey ma'am or hey sir, wanna get yourself a tracer?)

You gotta have Max
He sorts by values or by facts,
And if you think there's something old DT needs,
Whistles or bells or beads --
Send your message to Max!

If you want your body searched (doowadoo)
Reputation unbesmirched;
Or you seek a private lookie --
Buy our Max's magic cookie!

(Max Vobiscum, not Nabiscum!)

Indestructible Max
should come convenient in six-packs,
Or thanks to Madame Tussaud
He should be enshrined in wax —

INDISPENSIBLE MAX.

Yours, Peter

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26 Aug 97 - 05:04 PM (#11279)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Sheye

Here we go: down on one knee, hat to the heart, cane held high! This is good, Peter!

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26 Aug 97 - 05:17 PM (#11280)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Bert

OH! I love it.

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26 Aug 97 - 05:30 PM (#11282)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Bill D

wonderful, Peter...have a cookie..

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26 Aug 97 - 06:50 PM (#11289)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: rechal

Oh, Peter..."blue for boice"? You frighten me. :)

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26 Aug 97 - 08:55 PM (#11299)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Sharon

Love the song, but more significant, It's so well deserved. Max, we all love you. We mention it and nest moroning you've done it. We do appreciate your efforts to please all of us!

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26 Aug 97 - 10:46 PM (#11302)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Bob Landry

Peter, you gotta record this one.

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27 Aug 97 - 09:51 AM (#11308)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Peter T.

Whoops, it should be "Insomniac" not "Amnesiac Max" -- I always get those mixed up, especially late at night. Yours, Peter (Or Animaniac?)

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27 Aug 97 - 10:04 AM (#11312)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Peter T.

By the way Bill D., thanks for the cookie (Max Vobiscum). Very flashy. Yours, Peter

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28 Aug 97 - 11:39 AM (#11367)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: dani

If you want your body searched (doowadoo) Reputation unbesmirched?!?

Peter, that is beautiful. I will be singing that for some time to come. Dani

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28 Aug 97 - 02:47 PM (#11388)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: dick greenhaus

To be followed, I guess, with that fine old shantey: Away, O-reo!

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28 Aug 97 - 06:12 PM (#11417)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Bill D

Dick...I know this is not the place to practice newly learned tricks....but that one deserves this....

Ok...I promise to be good....

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28 Aug 97 - 07:00 PM (#11429)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Bill D

well...maybe I'll be good...I am now talking to Max...live..in the new chat room...and he says graphics are not a problem, as long as they are not abused..*grin*

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29 Aug 97 - 07:02 AM (#11477)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: dwditty

All we gotta do is get Ethel Merman to sing it. Great job to both Peter and Max.

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29 Aug 97 - 09:50 AM (#11484)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Peter T.

Dear Bill, You might explain to the uncognoscenti how you do that....(is it a Java applet?) Yours, Peter

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29 Aug 97 - 11:11 AM (#11487)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Bill D

Peter...since this is an 'HTML' page,(which makes those line breaks necessary in song postings), that means it will take the address of some graphis online somewhere, go get it, and put the resulting graphic here. (no, you can't post a picture you have on your hard disk, at least not directly)
...All I did was search the net for a little picture of a cookie--copy the URL, and paste it into a little HTML formula which this page reads: Like this---

[IMG SRC="url"]text[/A]
...where you really type <&> instead of [&].
Iactually don't even type it, I have a little collection of these in my 'cardfile', and I just paste the template in and then erase the part that says "url" and paste in the address for the graphic.The word 'text' can be use to identify the graphic, if you want--just replace IT with various words, and they will appear beside the picture..or, you can just not use the word and eliminate it entirely so the final thing berore you hit 'submit' looks like this

(edited out)

only, I replaced the : with a ;, so it wouldn't actually work...hope this helps...Max seemed to be pretty open to the judicious use of whatever helps make this a free, happy and useful place..so... (edited out)

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29 Aug 97 - 11:20 AM (#11488)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Bill D

ooops, it tried to work anyway..guess I should have left those little square brackets in...(there is some way to show the <> without them working, but I dont know that yet...you can do the thing of viewing the 'source'. meaning the raw page, to see what I actually submitted...in Netscape, it's under 'View' at the top of the page. This is new stuff for me, it makes me

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29 Aug 97 - 03:12 PM (#11500)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Peter T.

Dear Bill, thanks, I knew roughly what you were doing, but (a) I was wondering if you had somehow put your graphic onto the Mudcat Server for retrieval; and (b) I misconstrued the loading pattern -- I thought you had put one of those motion thingies (to be technical) in. Thanks for the clarifying. It is pretty neat -- the only real problem is that it slows down the loading time. It does raise the prospect of posting graphic versions of the proposed T-shirt logo, etc. in one of these threads, rather than somewhere else. Thanks again. Yours, Peter

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29 Aug 97 - 06:44 PM (#11511)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Bill D

hmmmm..those were pretty small graphics....I didn't notice any slow-down at all...I think that,even though Max says HIS end can handle it, we should take it easy on the graphics for just that reason...in-line graphics force EVERYONE to view them, and some have slower connections than others.(I remember when I had an old 386 pc and a 14400 modem...it took FOREVER to get some stuff!)...

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29 Aug 97 - 07:09 PM (#11514)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Dale Rose

It is easy enough to avoid graphics. Under Options, go down and see that Auto Load Images is not checked. Then you will speed things up considerably. If you want all the images on a particular page to show, click on the Images button. If you want just certain ones to show, then click on their symbol individually. Whatever you click will then come on every time you visit that page until you empty your cache, or it starts deleting things to make room for new ones. A few sites can hardly be negotiated without their image maps/links, but most can.

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01 Sep 97 - 12:05 PM (#11617)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Bill D

well, Max posted those pictures of the tee-shirt designs & my machine loaded 'em up like it didn't even notice...I am curious to know if anyone really has trouble with the speed with which graphics load...Dale is correct about what you can do....when I had a slow machine, I just turned graphics off until there was something I wanted to take time to see..

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01 Sep 97 - 04:43 PM (#11630)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Joe Offer

Well, Bill, your crumbling cookie on this thread doesn't load for me any more. I got it when you first posted it, and I really liked it. I think the graphics Max puts in load very quickly, but graphics that are loaded from other Websites may load a lot slower. It took a long time for this particular page here to load for me - and a couple of the graphics didn't load at all.
But the graphics are fun, and I think that those of you who are bale to post 'em should keep it up - with moderation, I suppose.
-Joe Offer-

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01 Sep 97 - 07:55 PM (#11637)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Bill D

Joe...I figured it out....that picture always lives on the original page..and if that server is down or slow, it just wont load...this page has to ask for it each time someone opens this thread...The Oreo cookie seems to be on a more dependable machine...so that is what we deal with--we are at the mercy of whatever machine/server/homepage hosts the graphic we try to post here...another reason to be careful...

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04 Sep 97 - 04:56 PM (#11829)
Subject: RE: Song: HOMAGE TO MAX D. SPIEGEL
From: Joe Offer

Does that fix it?

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