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Eminem Rules

10 May 01 - 02:26 PM (#459747)
Subject: Eminem Rules
From: GUEST

what is all this crapola about old timy music and forein music. Lets talk about some real modurn music is their any eminem fans in here.


10 May 01 - 02:40 PM (#459758)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

I like the peanut ones. But the blue ones are just WRONG!


10 May 01 - 02:45 PM (#459765)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: jeffp

How about the new crispy ones, MM?


10 May 01 - 02:49 PM (#459768)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

oh heck, can't really even call them eminems!


10 May 01 - 02:51 PM (#459772)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

I prefer Smarties. But then, I'm a Canuck. Haven't had any in over thirty years, but I remember that the empty box could be used like a Kazoo (sp ?).


10 May 01 - 02:52 PM (#459774)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Pseudolus

Personally, I stopped buying them, half of mine were W's so I threw 'em out....

Frank


10 May 01 - 02:53 PM (#459775)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: jeffp

You must be talking of a different sort of Smarties than I remember, gnu. The ones we get around here are colored sugar tablets that come in a roll bound up in cellophane. What are yours like?

jeffp


10 May 01 - 02:58 PM (#459777)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

I only like the green ones...


10 May 01 - 02:59 PM (#459779)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Kim C

Oh man, I love Smarties! And SweeTarts. I like imminnemms once in awhile, with peanutz. Smarties rule, though.


10 May 01 - 02:59 PM (#459781)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: GUEST

No you guys have it wrong. i'm talking about the great rapper eminem not the candy things. dont you know nothing about the curent music seen.


10 May 01 - 03:00 PM (#459782)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Pseudolus

Let's not forget Reese's Pieces....love those.......but I'm old timey, what do I know?

Frank


10 May 01 - 03:01 PM (#459783)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Pseudolus

Eminem's don't come in rappers, they come in a bag.....sheesh!!!

Frank


10 May 01 - 03:02 PM (#459785)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

Well, I guess they were Eminem's but they definitely would melt in your hand. They're little candy covered chocolates. Not only could yoy play that Kazoo, but you could play along to the jingle....

When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last ?

Do you suck them very slowly, or crunch them very fast ?

etc.......


10 May 01 - 03:03 PM (#459786)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: catspaw49

Dammit Pseudolus....You got MY other half!!! I've been saving my W's forever until I found the other half and now you've thrown them out!!! What a bummer.........

Spaw


10 May 01 - 03:04 PM (#459789)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

you can get them in boxes too, though.

The ones we used to use for Kazoos were the boxes from Good 'n Plenty.

Choo choo Charlie was an Engineer!


10 May 01 - 03:06 PM (#459791)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: GUEST

cant you moerons read english. I'm talking about music not godam candies.


10 May 01 - 03:06 PM (#459792)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

.....

Eat that candy coated choclate, but tell me when I ask.

When you eat your smarties, do you eat the red ones last ?

Wow, took me a few minutes. Had reboot a couple of times and clean up a few bad sectors in my archives to pull that out !


10 May 01 - 03:08 PM (#459794)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Amergin

my favourite eminems are the peanut butter ones.....


10 May 01 - 03:09 PM (#459799)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Pseudolus

Ever since I started eating smarties, I've never spelled moron, "moeron", maybe you should try 'em.....

Good thread guest! Really doing wonders for my afternoon sweet tooth!!

Frank


10 May 01 - 03:14 PM (#459803)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

Moeron ? I used to say "**** 'em if they can't take a joke". I now would like to expand that to read, "**** 'em'n'em if they can't take a joke".


10 May 01 - 03:15 PM (#459806)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: GUEST

if you cockbites want to discus candy go to a candy webpage. i am here for a seryous discusion not bullshit.


10 May 01 - 03:16 PM (#459808)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

Remember when they got rid of the red ones because of red dye # 2?


10 May 01 - 03:19 PM (#459809)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: jeffp

Charlie says, "Love my Good 'n' Plenty!"
Charlie says, "Really rings a bell!"
Charlie says, "Love my Good 'n' Plenty!
"Don't know any other candy that I love so well."

There. Musical content. Happy now?

jeffp


10 May 01 - 03:19 PM (#459811)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Nemesis

The ones in a tube were best - bit like a prepubescent sinking a "yard of ale" - with the added frisson of seriously choking to death.


10 May 01 - 03:20 PM (#459814)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

Guest - I think you can take our opinion of eminem from our comments. Personally I have far more respect for the candy - even green, despite the fact she dresses like a hooker.


10 May 01 - 03:20 PM (#459816)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Wavestar

Chickens don't like M&Ms. Really. They are confused by them. Besides, they have no teeth. Now there's a serious philosophical discussion... Do chickens have lips?

-J


10 May 01 - 03:21 PM (#459818)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

WHAT ? You mean, when I enter my second childhood and start to crave sweets again, there'll be no red ones to save for last ? What the heck have I been working so hard for all these years ?


10 May 01 - 03:22 PM (#459819)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Pseudolus

Sorry Spaw, after all of teh Bushwacked threads I figured the last thing anyone would want woubd be some Dubya & Dubya's.....my bad.....

Frank

P.S. btw, Are there Eminem Rules? I just eat them randomly, I don't need no stinken rules....!!!


10 May 01 - 03:23 PM (#459821)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Clinton Hammond

This place is a gass!

LOL!!


10 May 01 - 03:24 PM (#459822)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

Chickens... some, but I'm not going... oops.


10 May 01 - 03:28 PM (#459828)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

Clinton.... I wasn't going to mention this, but seein' as how you are here....

Subject: oh Canada!!! From: ClintonHammond Date: 19-Apr-01 - 04:41 PM Shop: One Day Canada Rules!!!

So, what do Canadians have to be proud of?

1. Smarties

2. Crispy Crunch & Coffee Crisp

...............


10 May 01 - 03:29 PM (#459829)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

gnu - I'll say it for you. Of course. But not at the end you're thinking of.

Of course there are eminem rules.

1)discard the blue ones. (this replaces the old - Save the tan ones for last)

2) eat the most numerous first, until equal in number to the second most numerous.

3) if two colours are equal in number - alternate colours


10 May 01 - 03:29 PM (#459830)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Amergin

Oh Gnu they brought the red ones back several years ago...where you been?


10 May 01 - 03:30 PM (#459831)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

Go for the blue, gnu. Red is done. I've never thought the green ones looked like hookers, but will be thinking about that as I eat em from now on...


10 May 01 - 03:30 PM (#459832)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Pseudolus

Alright, there are too many rules......Canada rules, Eminem Rules, and smarties rule.....Is there a book I can follow??????

Frank


10 May 01 - 03:31 PM (#459833)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

I meant M&M's!!!!!


10 May 01 - 03:31 PM (#459834)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Nemesis

Chickens' lips - don't get me started - heard a great joke the other day about it, but you had to have been there..

"What fits like a sock on a chicken's lip?" (You supply the answer...)

My chickens LOVED M&Ms - or maybe they just enjoyed the confusion?

Turquoise M&Ms - they are real scary!


10 May 01 - 03:32 PM (#459836)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Clinton Hammond

I just eat my eminems by the handfull and screw 'the rules'!

LOL!!


10 May 01 - 03:33 PM (#459838)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

I told ya, I haven't eaten any sweets in over thirty years. Now, I don't count lemon (sans the crappy topping), apple, or strawberry-rhubarb pie. Well, I do count them, but by the inches around my waist.


10 May 01 - 03:33 PM (#459839)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

Of course. take your pick from the ones listed below:

a) The Book of Mormon

b) The Koran

c) The Golden Bough

d) The Book of Shadows

e) Emily Post's Guide To Ettiquette

f) The Kama Sutra


10 May 01 - 03:41 PM (#459847)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

MMario, you forgot the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy....


10 May 01 - 03:42 PM (#459848)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

Chickens eat Eminems ? Is THAT what GUEST meant by cockbites ? Maybe it's a new candy ? Kids ! New candies, dress, music.


10 May 01 - 03:42 PM (#459849)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Dave the Gnome

Shouldn't that be the book of Moermon, double-m?

In the UK M&M's used to be called 'Treats' - peanut or chocolate variety. They said the change was to standardise the names across the Atlantic. I reckon they changed them when they heard the joke about a man who used to put sweets up his bum. When asked why he said it felt a treat.

The less said about that the better I guess....

So? Other products with changed names. Marathons became Snickers. Oil of Ulay became Oil of Olay. Any 'other direction' changes? We need to know these things!

Cheers

DtG


10 May 01 - 03:44 PM (#459852)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

I thought it was Oil of Ol' Lady.


10 May 01 - 03:44 PM (#459853)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Nemesis

g) Tibetan Book of the Dead?


10 May 01 - 03:45 PM (#459854)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Ruthie A

Teeheehee, this is great fun. I should really be doing science revision, but this is so much more fun. And now I have chocolate cravings. DAMN. Ruthie


10 May 01 - 03:47 PM (#459858)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: SeanM

*storms into middle of conversation, starts posting sign stating "DO NOT FEED TROLLS"*

*Stops, listens to conversation*

*Winces, giggles, then rolls around laughing*

*Gets up, removes sign, wanders off*

M


10 May 01 - 03:48 PM (#459859)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Nemesis

Other unintentional International blunders, like the makers of state-the-art domestic appliances called Smeg!


10 May 01 - 03:53 PM (#459860)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

Well, that's it ! I'm off to the Shopper's at the corner for some dry roasted peanuts for the Rugby match tonight... and a raft Smarties ! Don't let any of them uppity teenieboppers use my rockin chair while I'm off the porch.


10 May 01 - 03:54 PM (#459861)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Mooh

If chickens don't have teeth, then what the hell's a cockbite? I'm confused (yeah, yeah, what else is new...)...My dog really likes the chocolate eminems, though the peanut ones'll do in a pinch...they both help her hyperactivity. I too have never seen them in rappers though, is that a U.S. thing...we spell rapper "wrapper" this side of the border...


10 May 01 - 03:54 PM (#459862)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: jeffp

**Crackle**

One Adam-twelve, One Adam-twelve, see the man. Threadjacking in progress. One Adam-twelve, handle code three.

**Crackle......buzz.....snort**


10 May 01 - 03:58 PM (#459864)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Burke

Blue eminem's? Have I forgotten something or is this something new since the last time I had any. The last time I had a bag of eminem's was... I forget! I am loosing my mind.

I always saved to brown ones for last. Or maybe I ate them first. I liked 'em best anyway.


10 May 01 - 04:01 PM (#459869)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

You saved the tan ones for last too? I thought I was the only one! I loved the tan ones!

No food should be blue. That's just wrong.

We have a cow-orker here that collects Green stuff. Mugs, plush dolls, little statuette thingees. I got her a little car at a thrift shop once which was driven by Green. So what if she dresses like a hooker, as long as she melts in your mouth and not in your hand?

Alex


10 May 01 - 04:03 PM (#459873)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

Someone once mentioned Brittany Spears dressing like a hooker...


10 May 01 - 04:04 PM (#459874)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

not only did we always save the tan ones for last (they were RARE; but they were negotiable currency in our household. You could get daily chores done by others for a single tan eminem.


10 May 01 - 04:04 PM (#459876)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: SeanM

Ummm... MT...

"Cow-orker"?

Are you sure you shouldn't have been over in the D & D thread with that one?

M


10 May 01 - 04:06 PM (#459879)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

You put your hyphens where you want them, I'll put my hyphens where I want mine.

Alex


10 May 01 - 04:11 PM (#459889)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

She dressed like a hooker, but preferred to work the cows?


10 May 01 - 04:12 PM (#459891)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

MMario -- I was an only child so I couldn't barter tan eminems for anything. I just liked the color. And the fact it was rare.

Speaking of rappers have you noticed the newer ones are a lot harder to tear? The earlier ones were just paper but the newer ones have some sort of polymer layer, and only tear in one direction. Very obnoxious.

Alex


10 May 01 - 04:12 PM (#459892)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Clinton Hammond

UB ed, you say "dressed like a hooker" like it's a bad thing???


10 May 01 - 04:14 PM (#459896)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Lonesome EJ

Dude, Em is great an all but he talks about women like their nothing which is SO not true * raises head and winks* but i thin that stan song truly had some meaning ~Giz Lejs daughter


10 May 01 - 04:14 PM (#459897)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

Wait till you have daughters, Clinton.

alex


10 May 01 - 04:17 PM (#459899)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

No, actually I was more concerned about the cow aspect...


10 May 01 - 04:19 PM (#459902)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Pseudolus

Not much worse than a Cow dressed like a hooker....then you got a heifer-hooker!!!! who needs that.....other than a lonesome Bull.......

Frank


10 May 01 - 04:27 PM (#459905)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: catspaw49

The tan ones are awful! What's the matter with you people? I LIKE the blues......I mean they ain't no reds or nothin' but they eat mighty fine. The tan ones are like 3-D representations of farts.....

Spaw


10 May 01 - 04:32 PM (#459908)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

So why does the Song Challenge issue a Cleigh BLUE FUME Award? hmmmm?


10 May 01 - 04:32 PM (#459910)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

And Elvis gave us "Blue Christmas"


10 May 01 - 04:39 PM (#459916)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

Yeah, but Elvis also gave us "In the Ghetto."


10 May 01 - 04:42 PM (#459922)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

Only you, Spaw, would link eminems with farts.

BLUE FOOD IS FOR ARTIFICIAL PEOPLE!

Alex


10 May 01 - 04:48 PM (#459925)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Kim C

GUEST, you are very late on the ball. We had a philosophical and lively discussion about Eminem, which I started, back when he performed on the Grammys or whatever it was, and caused a huge fuss. Does anyone know the blue clicky for that?

Alex, blueberries are blue. And about to be in season! Yahooooo!!! Man, I love fresh blueberries. One day at the grocery we got a carton and I had eaten nearly the whole thing before we got home. We only live 2 miles from the grocery.

I never sorted my imminemms or my Smarties by color. Does that make me a freak?


10 May 01 - 04:51 PM (#459927)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

Blueberries are by and large purple. They're bluish on the outside. But that's only skin-deep.

Alex


10 May 01 - 04:51 PM (#459928)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

no - blueberries are a purple-black on the outside and red on the inside - except some are greenish on the inside. but they aren't blue. Blueish-purple sometimes, but not BLUE


10 May 01 - 04:53 PM (#459931)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

Mmario, you need to get around more. We have blueberries here that are BLUE on the outside. But just the outside.

alex


10 May 01 - 05:00 PM (#459936)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

Nope - it's an optical illusion. touch it and it goes away. *grin* actually it is called "bloom" and isn't even skin deep. it is a very thin layer on top of the skin of the fruit. but under that, nope, the stuff isn't blue. Some plums have a blue bloom as well - but same thing - it actually wipes off; and if the fruit is handled much at all before cunsumption, let alone cooked, it won't be blue. According to the nutrition courses I took there is no naturally occuring blue food.

Leastwise that's what they taught me at that place I'm still paying for 25 years later.


10 May 01 - 05:02 PM (#459938)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

I thought it was some substance on the skin like dust. Blue dust. Like grape "must", only on blueberries. I know some colours are optical illusions. Some bird feathers, if you put them in a blender, end up being a different colour, because it's a refraction illusion. I dind't think blueberry dust was that way. I admit I could be wrong.

Alex


10 May 01 - 05:04 PM (#459940)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

Do a search on Google for "What makes blueberries blue" -- it's a PIGMENT, anthocyanin. A blue pigment. Also makes some flowers blue.

Alex


10 May 01 - 05:06 PM (#459943)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

two items the professor said were always brought up to refute that statement - one was blueberries - which I have explained above - the other item would be scallops - because of their pretty blue eyes. But the actual reason there is no blue food is that virtualy all the (non-mineral) "blue" seen in nature is NOT due to pigment - but rather refraction, reflection, scattering, etc and the substances are actually of another color.


10 May 01 - 05:15 PM (#459950)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Kim C

Well, okay, but they don't call em PURPLEberries, or ONLYBLUEONTHEOUTSIDEberries! ;-) For that matter, blackberries aren't really black, either.

What do you two have against blue food, anyhow? I always liked those red white and blue popsicles that turn your tongue all manner of funny colors.

Besides, I think the Crispy Blue Imminnemm on the commercials is kinda cute. Especially when he grabs the yellow one's tongue.


10 May 01 - 05:15 PM (#459951)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

Alex, why are you putting birdies in the blender?


10 May 01 - 05:21 PM (#459953)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

Feathers, UB Ed.


10 May 01 - 05:22 PM (#459954)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: SINSULL

Aren't any of you disturbed by the fact that the TV M&Ms have taken to eating each other? I can't decide whether it's cannibalism or incest.


10 May 01 - 05:25 PM (#459956)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

Oh, OK. That certainly clears things up for me! I'm generally putting Meyers Rum and coco lopez in a blender (lots of ice; lots of rum) with about 6 oz of pineapple juice. But to each his own.

Ed


10 May 01 - 05:29 PM (#459960)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

If I had done that in a high school chemistry class, UB Ed, I think I might have gotten in big trouble. Can't be sure, of course.

Alex


10 May 01 - 05:35 PM (#459966)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Stevangelist

You guys rule. I have never seen a better, more unified stance against the commercial BS they call "gangsta" rap than this. It Reminds me of imagining two old guys on a porch somewhere...

"My grandson likes Eminem"

"Eminem? too hard for my dentures. Like 'em, though."

"Bit'O Honey's are better, anyway."

Like I said, well done, ye stalwarts of the UFA (United Folk Alliance)

May The Road Rose To Meet You,

Stevangelist


10 May 01 - 05:41 PM (#459969)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Noreen

Kim C, just for you, and GUEST, and for completeness...Eminem carrier of folk torch?

We used to collect the circular plastic tops from Smarties tubes - they had a letter inside each one and you could make words from them... if you ate enough Smarties... :0)

Noreen


10 May 01 - 05:45 PM (#459976)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Bert

Talking of co-workers or cow-orkers. There is a VERY prominent Mudcatter (I will refrain from naming him) who is a computer technician and he refers to his co-workers as co-techs. It's great when he says it out loud.


10 May 01 - 05:50 PM (#459978)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Dave the Gnome

Oooohhhmmmm-ennnnnnnn-oooohhhmmmnnnn

(tibetan rap)


10 May 01 - 06:03 PM (#459991)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Lonesome EJ

Get seryous you moerons! Eminem mouths in yer Max, not in yer Hanzell.


10 May 01 - 06:07 PM (#459992)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Homeless

MMario - You do understand why green dresses like a hooker, don't you? Heck, even school kids know what green eminems do to ya.

if blueberries aren't blue, and blackberries aren't black, what color aren't raspberries?

Does anyone remember the mint eminems they put out (quite) a few years ago called Royals? Those had all of todays variations beat, hands down.

Never seen rules for eating eminems (other than save the green ones for your girlfriend), but I have seen a contest...

----- ----- ----- ----- -----

Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels.

Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.

I have found that, in general, a couple colors appear to be tougher, but until I am able to confirm my initial results, I cannot disclose which colors these are. My results are quite consistent with respect to the new blue M&Ms which appear to be genetically inferior, and I hypothesize that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theatre of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.

Occasionally I will get a mutation--a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment.

When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ, 17840-1503 USA, along with a 3"x5" card reading, "Please use this M&M for breeding purposes."

This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free half-pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this "grant money." I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion. There can be only one.

-----

Just a personal note--in my opinion, the assumptions underlying this experiment have not been thought out adequately. Is it ethically--or edibly--desirable to breed into this experimental model the single "hard coat" trait? What about selecting for higher chocolate content? Or less runnyness of exterior dyes when the candies are placed on top of ice cream sundaes?


10 May 01 - 06:10 PM (#459996)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Clinton Hammond

MT... not gonna happen.. I have no desire to breed at all... and even if it did, who am I to dictate to my kid how to dress... especially in this day and age...


10 May 01 - 06:12 PM (#459997)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: GUEST

well i think eminem is a bit twisted but he does hav a less harsh side-the only m+m u should eat r the brown 1's cos they r more chocolately than the rest but u should just eat reeses wot-is-its dorrie xxx


10 May 01 - 06:33 PM (#460010)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: catspaw49

Sinsull asked:

Aren't any of you disturbed by the fact that the TV M&Ms have taken to eating each other? I can't decide whether it's cannibalism or incest.

Well Sins, I think its all a matter of what parts are being eaten and by whom. This brings up the point also being pursued here, and that is, how do you tell the sex of an M&M? Surely the M and the M do not mean that they are all male or we would have run out many years ago. I think this may explain the problem encountered by Frank and I above. Some of them are W&W (women/female) and others are M&M (man/male). This probably holds true for all the colors except tan which, being 3-D farts, are sexless.

Spaw


10 May 01 - 06:55 PM (#460019)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Diva

i like Minstels.......they are a perfect study aid.


10 May 01 - 06:56 PM (#460020)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Burke

I have been researching the topic under discussion here & have come to realize that I have not only missed knowing about Blue eminem's; but I am have been sadly unaware of many devices that would surely make my life much happier.

In the spirit of a good librarian i must share some with you: I have to own this
I need this so I know what to buy: M&M's Around the World
This actually looks interesting: The Emperors of Chocolate


10 May 01 - 07:01 PM (#460025)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Mark Cohen

Red blueberries are yellow when they're green. (At least that's true in the Olympic mountains, home of the Olympic marmot, which is better than the vegemot.)

How come nobody mentioned that all eminems are really WHITE?? Just suck on 'em for a while and you'll see. (There, that oughta shake up the MTV contingent....)
Or the best thing to do with them, which is to toss one up in the air and open your mouth wide. This is guaranteed to make your dentist, or Dr. Heimlich, very happy.

Aloha,
Mark


10 May 01 - 07:07 PM (#460031)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Noreen

Not fair! I'm feeling chocolatey now and there's not a crumb of it in the house... Anyone got any going spare? Even blue eminems would do...


10 May 01 - 07:09 PM (#460033)
Subject: RE: c Rules
From: Brakn

Eminem?

It could be worse.
Oasis or Val Doonican!


10 May 01 - 07:18 PM (#460038)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Homeless

How about 21 more colors?


10 May 01 - 10:39 PM (#460125)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: GUEST,Caitrin @ home

Actually, when you get down to it, the colors we see are just reflections of light. In fact, things are every color except the one they look like. For instance, the eminems you think are red are actually reflecting red light and absorbing every other wavelength. *grins* And that's been your lighting designer moment for the day.


10 May 01 - 11:41 PM (#460158)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Mark Cohen

Sounds like a definitional question to me, Caitrin. Kind of like, If a husband says something in the forest with no one around, is he still wrong? Well, not exactly like that...besides, I'm not going to be a husband much longer, so I can be right as much as I want.

Aloha,
Mark


10 May 01 - 11:52 PM (#460166)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Big Mick

I told y'all this worked better than arguin' with these folks!! You are all brilliant........I love this thread!!!

Mick


11 May 01 - 02:22 AM (#460235)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Chip2447

This thread is, on so many levels WRONG....
However, I kinda dig a little wrong. Thanks for the laffs folks. You guys have made my day. Cow-orkers and co-techs...
I did think that I would be able to slide one M&M joke into this thread, but alas, all the ones I had thought of were used...

Chip2447


11 May 01 - 02:36 AM (#460243)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: SeanM

Wow... and now I can try to totally hijack it in another direction, thanks to Caitrin!

Caitrin! You do lighting design?

VERY cool!

We've had some questions about lighting around here, and I do have a somewhat serious question that I don't think really merits it's own thread...

What would you (Heck, or any 'catter) recommend for a personal lighting setup? I'm talking a group of around 5-7, mostly static on stage, and hopefully portable within a minivan. Requirements would probably have to include stands to set up on...

I'm not actually looking to buy, I'm just curious for future reference, and here looked like as good a place as any...

M


11 May 01 - 02:44 AM (#460245)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Bugsy

OK you guys, you've teased poor old GUEST Enough.

Now let's get down to discussing the Singer "Eminem".

I think he's a real "Smartie".

What do you think.

CHeers

Bugsy


11 May 01 - 03:10 AM (#460252)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Ebbie

Could be- but I'm not familiar with 'smarties'. I do like eminems, though- should go get some. But I've heard that some are not good or at least not respectable and I want to be able to take mine home and I can't if I don't choose the right one(s). And the right one for me is folky. Verstehen sie? Bitte? :-)

Ebbie


11 May 01 - 03:21 AM (#460254)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Amergin

Ok, I have a quick questions...if huckleberries are not huckle coloured....what colour are they then?


11 May 01 - 03:29 AM (#460256)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: SeanM

Now don't go opening that keg of fish...

Why are Boysenberries not Boysen colored? Strawberries straw colored? Oranges called oranges, but lemons not called yellows?

And I don't know if I've yet figured out the cow connection. Maybe it has to do with the whelks.

Heck, if I can't make it serious (yet not on the original topic), I might as well be silly.

Bartender, mine'll be anything alcoholic.

M


11 May 01 - 05:53 AM (#460297)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

Now I remember why I haven't eaten sweets in over thirty years... pimples ! Great. A forty-four year old man going to do an inspection on a million dollar building for a millionaire client and looking like a fourteen year old. G** damn Smarties.


11 May 01 - 10:16 AM (#460400)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

Fantastic research from Burke and Homeless!

Sinsull asked about the cannibalism. I hadn't seen that commercial yet, but it does seem quite disturbing. How do they go about it? Is it one big cartoon-style gulp or are individual bites involved? Do they chew?

I'm less concerned over Spaw's sexual issue. My view is they are cartoon representations and the artists have taken some liberties. I mean, Donald Duck never wears pants; I can't recall if the M&M guys/gals/its do, but Don's a guy for crying out loud. Does Daisey wear pants or does she have a little skirt thing going? And Micky only has pants.


11 May 01 - 10:32 AM (#460409)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Matt_R

Good God, I knew it couldn't go too long without insulting Oasis! You know I love Oasis and own almost every single thing they've ever put out, and sing all of it, but to put Eminem on a higher level than them? That's just sick.

--Matt (listening to Ben Folds Five, Bernard Butler, Badly Drawn Boy, and Stereophonics)

Member, AMEE (All Music Except Eminem) Coalition


11 May 01 - 10:46 AM (#460428)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Kim C

Now, here in the South, one of the favorite candies is a GooGoo bar. I don't think there's any relation to the GooGoo Dolls, whom I happen to like.

Seems to me that most candies used to come in larger packages/portions. I had a GooGoo the other day and it just seemed So Much Smaller than they used to be. Same with donuts.

I took an IQ test and my score was something like 117 which isn't genius but is supposed to be above average. If I eat more Smarties can I get into Mensa?


11 May 01 - 10:54 AM (#460439)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Matt_R

Hmmmm Kim...I never seen any GooGoo bars here in NC...

But you know what's cool? Eating Nerds, you know...those hard-as-hell candies that are shaped like fruit? If you eat one, and then take a swig of Mountain Dew, you get this AWESOME taste in your mouth. Kind of a synergism of flavors. Try it!


11 May 01 - 11:33 AM (#460466)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

You know if we take the shell-coating thing in the direction that Homeless is suggesting, within a very few generations we will come to the point where eminems are 100% coating and 0% chocolate. Which will sort of defeat the purpose of their being the chocolate that melts in your mouth and not in your hand. And they'll probably break your teeth, as well.

I think that, instead of going for overall hardness, the breeding program should go for a specificed amount of hardness, and any more or less hardness would be bred out. This should be based on a scientifically derived determination of the optimum coating-to-chocolate ratio. Just enough coating to keep it from melting, or from breaking just when you pick it up, yet not so much coating that the chocolate flavor (such as it is, of course) is overwhelmed. Eventually, as the result of our new and improved breeding programme, the entire herd would be of roughly the same hardness.

Alex


11 May 01 - 11:39 AM (#460469)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

Alex, good thought, but how would you determine how hard is hard enough? I would assume this would be subjective, but would like the opinions of others.

Random surveys of a statistically significant population could yeild a mean, but would it truely be meaningful?

How hard must it be to be optimal?


11 May 01 - 11:56 AM (#460475)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Amergin

That is an interesting thought Sean.....but then are oranges really orange?


11 May 01 - 12:00 PM (#460479)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

Alex - if you are going to go into the breeding of eminems, please use the correct terms. One does not have a herd of eminems - the correct collective is either "bag" or "rapper"


11 May 01 - 12:09 PM (#460485)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Snuffy

A mean but not necessarily meaningful eminem? I think you got it one UB Ed!

I think we'd probably call it a "wrapper", but can see why you Yanks wouldn't want the dubya. But what would one of our English Rapper Sword Dance teams have to do with it, Mario?

Wassail! V


11 May 01 - 12:44 PM (#460528)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: SINSULL

Bites with teeth marks - really gross. They all go after the crunchy M&M.


11 May 01 - 12:53 PM (#460535)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: GUEST,Caitrin

I'm just a junior lighting/sound designer, I'm afraid...still learning. Also, most of the stuff I've worked with is theatre, not mobile setups. So I can't help a -whole- lot with your question. What I -can- say is to go with something very versatile and get a flexible lighting tech. If you're going to be taking stuff on the road, you're not going to be able to create the same look everywhere; you've got to have crew and equipment that can adapt to a lot of different places. Lighting trees are good to have--they'll allow you to hang in places where you can't hang overhead. As for what instruments to use, a lot depends on what you can afford. I'm personally fond of Source 4 pars and leekos. ETC's Intellibeams are really nifty, but mondo expensive and probably more technology than you need. *grins* Actually, they're more technology than anybody but, say, Mick Jagger needs. But they're neat.


11 May 01 - 01:00 PM (#460539)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

Yes, for the time being e Yanks are boycotting all instances of the letter dubya. It makes it hard to understand some ords, but e feel it's orth it. Hy? Ho better to sho our opposition to the policies of George . Bush?

E shall overcome!

-Alex


11 May 01 - 01:15 PM (#460547)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: harpmolly

Onderfully himsical, you ascally abbit!

Mollyog


11 May 01 - 01:40 PM (#460562)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

The "crunchy" one is actually an alien masquarading as an eminem - that's why the others go after him They instinctivly know that something about "it" isn't right


11 May 01 - 02:02 PM (#460570)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: UB Ed

Bite Marks! What next, throw him in a blender?


11 May 01 - 03:14 PM (#460597)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Little Hawk

It's SMARTIES all the way! O Canada! Yes, Smarties! From the people who brought you Rezdan and bogus Red Rose Tea advertising. Only moerons eat M & M 's and anyway, they are funded by the CIA. Betcha didn't know that, eh? Down with eminems! Up with Smarties!

- LH


11 May 01 - 03:45 PM (#460618)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

What, exactly, are Smarties? We're glad you Canadians mostly keep to your side of the 54th, but if you're going to talk about your stuff, you should at least hand out Canadian-English-English-Canadian dictionaries so we know what you're talking about.


11 May 01 - 04:06 PM (#460633)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Mark Cohen

I just realized that nobody's mentioned Hershey-ets, those eminem wannabes that have FIVE letters instead of just one. As a graduate of the Hershey Medical Center, Penn State's medical school located in Chocolate Town, USA, I'm disappointed. (For my birthday when I was a first year student, one of my friends drove all the way to Harrisburg to get me a Nestle's Crunch bar. For some reason you couldn't find them in Hershey...)

Aloha,
Mark


11 May 01 - 04:14 PM (#460639)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: MMario

I drive through Hershey a couple times a year on my way to the PA ren-faire. That town smells SO good...


11 May 01 - 04:17 PM (#460643)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Snuffy

US expansionism Alex? I always thought it was the 49th. There can only be about 12 Canadians north of the 54th.


11 May 01 - 04:19 PM (#460645)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Ebbie

'ascally abbit'! M&Marvelous, Alex and M&Mollifog!


11 May 01 - 04:24 PM (#460646)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: mousethief

Geography was never my strong point. Y'all must like us if you all want to live in the 1/3 of your country within 100 miles of ours.

Alex


11 May 01 - 07:57 PM (#460758)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: harpmolly

Ebbie,

Last year a boy I had a mild crush on nicknamed me "Mollywog." It stuck. The crush has long since worn off, but the nickname remains. :D Along with mollificent, of course *grin*

I just wish me mam would stop calling me "Molyester." Puhleeeze, mum, couldn't you find a *natural* fiber to nick me with?

Sigh.

By the way, while I'm here...this thread ROCKS. :)

M&Moll


11 May 01 - 08:24 PM (#460767)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Amergin

that sounds nice, Mollyester....


11 May 01 - 09:25 PM (#460801)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: GUEST,petr

one thing about smarties up until recently they made sure they didnt use any peanut products for people with allergies to peanuts (they were the last candy that offered that) and now they no longer do. Im not allergic or anything but its kind of sad that those who are cant take that chance anymore. Petr


12 May 01 - 04:28 PM (#461103)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

Alex... we live along the border because, firstly, it's warmer, what with all the hot air that blows our way from the south, and, second, because we are covertly massing up for the invasion, which usually takes place beginning in late fall of every year.... when the hot air turns to winter air and the grass is definitely greener on the other side of the fence.

Oh, and that cross border shopping doesn't hurt, either.

Someone clicky a number two, eh ? This Canuck is too lazy to look it up after thirteen straight hours of report writing.


12 May 01 - 06:48 PM (#461165)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Ebbie

Besides, if the major towns of Canada weren't clustered close to the border, USers (pun intended) wouldn't be able to slip across for their own shopping. Here in Juneau many Alaskans regularly head for Whitehorse and Atlin for our own nefarious purposes- music, cabins, X-country skiing...

Mollywoggie, mollificent harks of munificent, magnificent, beneficent and all that good stuff. Can't hurt.

Ebbie


18 Feb 07 - 04:33 PM (#1971879)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Ebbie

"Please use this M&M for breeding purposes" That is a great punchline for an as-yet-unwritten joke.

Thanks for the lightheartedness of this thread. I love to sit here laughing- but my dog and my cat get alarmed.


18 Feb 07 - 09:41 PM (#1972136)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

Hehehehehe. I love it. This is one of my all-time favourite threads because of what Mick said about the troll that started it abnd the 'Cats that finished it.....

Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Big Mick - PM
Date: 10 May 01 - 11:52 PM

I told y'all this worked better than arguin' with these folks!! You are all brilliant........I love this thread!!!

Mick

So sad that, over the years, I and some others lost our cools and didn't pay attention to Mick and the clones when the trolls got viscious. Not that I want any "do-overs"!!!! Hehehehehe.

Thanks for the reminder, Ebbie.


19 Feb 07 - 10:10 AM (#1972473)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Pseudolus

Ahhhhh, the good ol days!


19 Feb 07 - 12:26 PM (#1972594)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: GUEST,Canadienne

especially for you gnu


19 Feb 07 - 12:46 PM (#1972619)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Ebbie

What? Are there no BLACK eminems?


30 Jun 07 - 08:19 PM (#2091243)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu

I just watched him and Elton John on the Grammy's vid on that there You Tube thang. The lad has talent. Amazing poet. I am impressed.

But, hey, it's a folk and blues music site, eh?

Oh. Yeah. Right. Sorry.


30 Jun 07 - 11:40 PM (#2091349)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: GUEST,muchacha

Eminem sux


30 Jun 07 - 11:50 PM (#2091353)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker

eminem..???

i think i remember him from the old days..

aint he a granpa now..???


and them beastie boys..

they'm all in bathchairs on the front lawn of a hipppity hoppity
old folks retirement disco house music home..


01 Jul 07 - 03:27 AM (#2091403)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: Backwoodsman

Hey up pfr - we all grow old, even you! :-) :-)
There's some good tunes played on old fiddles - ask Mrs. Backwoodsman, my junior by 28 years. LOL!


01 Jul 07 - 04:03 AM (#2091421)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: goatfell

How can you say that rappers or people the read poetry out with a peice of rhythm music behind them singers, they don't sing they talk and it's boring, because one poem(song) sounds like every other poem(Song).

I remeber years ago my nephew put on a rapper's record and I sat and listened to it, and I thought after a while that's a long poem, so I got up walked over to the record player and found out that the neddle had nearly finished the first side.

Rap 'music' is shit but those to their own.


01 Jul 07 - 05:01 AM (#2091437)
Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: goatfell

I just can't stand peanuts, not that they cause me any problems or anything, it's just the taste that's all