Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id WAA10358 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 11 May 2001 22:54:41 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.207] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: football and stuff (was RE: memetics of the heroine) Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 17:50:37 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F298l3tTUqp2T0apMHi00004120@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 May 2001 21:50:38.0138 (UTC) FILETIME=[6A4CD9A0:01C0DA64] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: RE: memetics of the heroine
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 09:59:20 +0100
>
> <I too suffer from chronic unread book syndrome. I saw a coffee mug
>recently
> > which said something like "so many books, so little time". I'm planning
>on
> >
> > building a machine which stops time, so that I can catch up on my
>reading
> > and then be smart. One of these days I want to compare Marlowe and
>Goethe
> > wrt the Faust theme.>
> >
> Coincidentally, this was one of the themes of a literature course I
>took. We studied Marlowe's Faust, Goethe's Faust, and also Bulgalov's 'The
>Master & Margerita', and Vaclev Havel's 'Temptation' (you know the Czech
>president playwright) also explicitly reworking Faust. I bought the first
>two and the last one but as to reading.... Oh, and the following year we
>also studied Klaus Mann's 'Mephisto', the book about an actor in Nazi
>Germany playing in Faust. Again book bought, not read- I could say in my
>defence that we were shown the award film version (we were film students
>also, so our lit lecturers tried to make links where possible), however, in
>this case I fell asleep during the screening...
>
> I think it was the pace of studying that I had trouble with. At A
>level (16-18 in school for our non-Brit colleagues), you studied one book
>or
>play for weeks, even months at a time, and then suddenly your studying one
>book or more, per week. The Faust stuff, for example was all of those
>texts
>in one week (or maybe two I forget exactly).
>
> > <The other wrestling organization WCW had a character Sting who
>appeared
> > to
> > have derive his recent persona via hybridization of Brandon Lee's "The
> > Crow"
> > and Jim Carrey's "The Mask" (Loki the Trickster himself?). Sting's
>earlier
> >
> > incarnation was more like mid 80's football star Brian ("the Boz")
> > Bosworth,
> > if one of my friends is correct.>
> >
> That rings bells- did he play for the Chicago Bears alongside the
>Fridge?
>
No, you're probably thinking of Jim McMahon (no relation to Vince that I
know of). Jim McMahon was the NFL's bad boy for a while, wearing sunglasses
and a headband. IIRC the reason he liked wearing sunglasses was beause he
had stuck a fork in his eye by accident when he was a kid.
"The Boz" played for the Seattle Seahawks. He had somewhat of a film career,
playing in a movie called "Stone Cold". Maybe that's where "Stone Cold Steve
Austin" got his monicker from... "The Boz" was a commentator for the now
defunct XFL. So was Jesse Ventura (a wrestler turned governor). I'm not
exactly playing up the best parts of Americana here...no wonder the rest of
the world turns a confused glance our way.
There's another football player named Howie Long who used to play for the
Oakland Raiders. He was probably born with a "flat-top" haircut. I guess
that's one of them late 80's/early 90's trends. Memetics of the hero?
Another Raider you don't hear so much about is Bo Jackson. He did a major
stint on commercials...Bo knows... Bo was one of the fastest running backs
I've ever seen. He also played baseball. Deon Sanders played baseball and
football too, which leads us to something "memetic" as Deon's old collecge
team (the Florida State Seminoles") was infamous for the tomahawk chop and
war chant which was also adopted by thw "Atlanta Braves" and "Kansas City
Chiefs". Maybe these team names reflect badly on Americana too, as the
adoption of stereotypes of Native Americans isn't going over as well as it
used to. There's some controversy over this, especially with teams such as
the "Washington Redskins" which have names that are quite insulting when you
think about it.
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