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(thing) by Knos (1 y) (print)   ?   I like it! Mon Apr 03 2000 at 12:55:52

A legendary demogroup on the pc platform. They produced creatively powerful demos and intros from 1994 to 1997, backed up by very good soundtracks by Dune, now brothomStates. Their productions are available on scene.org, and are working mainly under plain Dos with the gravis ultrasound soundboard.

After being inactive for 3 years, they finally came back at Assembly 2000 with their latest demo, Non stop ibiza experience

demography (still incomplete I hope)
of course it would be great to review those demos now :)

(thing) by 65535 (5.9 y) (print)   ?   I like it! Mon Apr 10 2000 at 19:36:28

Also, the taxon for that part of the visible spectrum in the range of ~580nm to ~640nm, between the named ranges of red and yellow.
Also, a rad hair colour if done well.
And, I can personally confirm that in fact OJ does go well with vodka when you're in a fix.

(thing) by neil (8.2 mon) (print)   ?   I like it! Sun Jun 18 2000 at 22:47:55

A song by 10,000 Maniacs, about Agent Orange. From the EP Human Conflict Number Five; if you're not a 10kM collector, your best bet is to get `Hope Chest', a rerelease of the material from HC#5 and Secrets of the I Ching.
Lineage closed Dissolved In its birth Tragedy Prelude a balance Is a synergy Of reason Malicious hope As techno atrocities Lapse their effects Associate these ends Their clarity Demands your revenge Please compensate Not Deny Jungle Revenge Infanticide Crosses Very thin walls Latent casualties Arrive From fatal initiation No longer recessive Genetic aliens abandoned Plain deceit In the mirage of A just one time cause We'd all changed The clocks No ladies auxiliary to kiss Their blistered cheeks Gone.

© 1990 Christian Burial Music. The recordings are (P) 1982, 1990 Elektra Entertainment, a division of AOL.

The lack of line breaks is their idea, not mine. The whole thing is set to music far too happy to have these lyrics associated with it. This is a trick not many bands can pull off. 10,000 Maniacs in the early 1980s were very good at it.

See also the R.E.M. song `Orange Crush', another song about Agent Orange.

As for rhymes, Tom Lehrer once rhymed `orange' with the first two syllables of `more enjoyable'. This is somewhat reminiscent of his:

You may think it very tragic
Not to mention other adjec-
tives to think of all the mourning they will do.

(idea) by cberube (3.1 y) (print)   ?   I like it! Tue Oct 31 2000 at 2:09:02

"Orange" has the interesting property of defining a thing (the fruit called an orange), a flavor (an orange flavored candy) and a color (the orange crayon). It may be possible that "Orange" is the only word with these three types of definitions.

(idea) by srkorn (2.2 y) (print)   ?   I like it! Tue Oct 31 2000 at 2:33:56

The English word for the fruit that we now call "orange" used to be "norange" (a cognate from the Roman-based languages). Somewhere along the line, though, a certain number of people, probably during their formative years, started mis-understanding the noun phrase "a norange", and thought that other people were saying "an orange." These people started using the word "orange", confusion spread, and eventually the fruit's official entry in the lexicon was changed. Despite what your teachers tried to tell you in elementary school about using words that aren't really words like ain't, the fact is that language is ever-evolving, even though it usually is because people are lazy and stupid.

The mis-taking of the combination of the indefinite article "a" and the first letter of a word starting in "n" for the article "an" is also responsible for the modern English words "apron" and "adder", among (probably quite a few) others.


(thing) by paranoidfish (4.6 y) (print)   ?   I like it! Wed Nov 22 2000 at 20:58:03

A company producing high quality mountain bikes in Cumbria, UK. Their cheapest bike, the steel framed Orange Clockwork retails at over 600ukp, but is worth every penny. They also manufacture Alumnium and Titanium framed bikes, and will provide virtually any combinatiuon of components on the frame that you want. They'll also supply just the frame by itself, if that's what please you. The best thing about them is that every bike is assembled by hand, unlike other brands.

With all this choice, it's not surprising they also offer a wide choice of paintwork too.

Yup, my orange is purple


(thing) by Heiwa (5.9 y) (print)   ?   I like it! Sat Jun 30 2001 at 13:54:21

Not enough people like the color orange. How many times have you heard people say "orange" as the answer to the question,"what's your favorite color?". Most people respond typically with blue or green or red. Thus, it seems that orange is an under appreciated color.

I decided to do a little research on the color orange. Here are some interesting facts found at http://www.umkc.edu/imc/orange.htm:


(thing) by dustfromamoth (5.4 mon) (print)   ?   1 C! I like it! Fri Jul 06 2001 at 13:38:57

The future is bright, the future is orange

The aforementioned slogan from the mobile phone network seems to have caught on; the colour orange seems to be the mainstay in recent visions of the future. It emerged widely during the utility fad that fashion underwent a few seasons ago, it was right there with new zippers and velcro and innovative fabrics and hoods (for the first time since the 80's really, haha); it is synonymous with sterility and minimalism, and industrialism.

You saw it in the infamous `Freestyler' by Bomfunk MC's clip, and you most certainly saw it in the Fifth Element. Set in the 23rd century, everything was orange. Bruce Willis' muscle shirts, or what seemed to be left of them, and most exquisitely, Leeloo's radical hair, the colour of which can only be described as bright f*cking orange.

I went through a phase of wearing orange eyeshadow, it was very rad at the time, until a boy (admittedly, he had a vendetta against me for breaking his best friend's heart, but oh well) asked me "What's wrong with you? Do you have rabies?"
"What?" I asked.
"Your eyes. You look violently ill".

"Oh".

Personally, orange is my favourite colour. It's the most vivacious, the fizziest, like Fanta, it's fun, it can be the tang of a mango or the subtlety of a cantalope. It's the basis of 1960's décor, it ties in with fantasic plastic, it's played down with stripes of brown, it's ugly, it's fabulous, it's there.
I concede that there is such a thing as overkill, but, a splash of orange here and there is enough to catch my eye and make me sparkle for a while.

Oranges are also, obviously, a fruit:

Citrus sinensis
ORANGE
TIAN CHEN

The fruit is ball-shaped or slightly elongated and 50-80mm in diameter. The skin is comparatively thick and firmly attached to the fruit so that it is not easy to peel.
The surface is orange in colour and covered in small oil glands. The fruit flesh is composed of about ten segments, which do not readily divide, and contain abundant juice. The flavour is sweet, or slightly acid and the flesh contains egg shaped seeds. The fruit ripens in the autumn and winter when the flesh becomes sweet or acid-sweet. It's nature is neither warm nor cold and it contains no poison. It's virtue is that it can promote a healthy stomach.
The flavour of the skin is bitter and pungent, it's nature warm. It can clear phlegm, stop coughs and make for a healthy spleen and stomach. The flavour of the seeds is bitter, their nature warm. They help reduce swelling, and stop pain.

The fruit contains carbohydrate, vitamins, calcium, phosphorous, iron, citric acid, malic acid, alkaloids, flavone glucoside, volatile oils, esters, etc.

APPLICATIONS

  1. IN THE TREATMENT OF VARIOUS ILLNESSES AND DURING CONVALESCENCE. Eat one or two fresh oranges 2-3 times a day.
  2. VITAMIN C DEFICIENCY. Take 2-3 oranges and discard the skin. Eat early in the morning and again in the evening.
  3. ACUTE THROAT INFLAMMATION; PERSISTENT COUGH; HOARSENESS; LOSS OF VOICE. Slowly sip half a cup of fresh orange juice 3 times a day.
  4. ACUTE OR CHRONIC BRONCHITIS. Take one fresh orange, including the skin, cut into 4 segments and add 15 grams of sugar. Add water then steam for half an hour then eat, including the skin. Do this both in the morning and in the evening.
  5. BREAST FEEDING PROBLEMS; BREASTS RED AND SWOLLEN; FEVER WITH AVERSION TO COLD. Take 12 grams of orange seeds and crush them. Add 30 grams of boiled water and 30 grams of rice wine and mix. Drink half of this and use cotton wool to spread the rest on the affected place.
  6. FACIAL ACNE. Take an appropriate amount of the seeds of an unripe orange, add a little water and grind into a paste. Every evening spread on the affected place before going to bed.

PREPARATIONS

  1. ORANGE JUICE. Use fresh fruit, discard the skin and wrap it in clean gauze, then squeeze to obtain the juice.
  2. DRIED ORANGE SKIN. Take the orange skins and dry them thoroughly in the sun. They may then be kept for medicinal use.
  3. PREPARATION OF SEEDS. The seeds are simply thoroughly dried in the sun.