Comments on: Which is master, and which slave?

By: CGHill

CGHill — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:14:54 +0000

Flo and Eddie, originally the Phlorescent Leech and Eddie, were Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of the Turtles, who, owing to a contractual dispute with White Whale Records, could no longer use the Turtles name. (They have since regained control of the name and the records.)

By: canadienne

canadienne — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:02:46 +0000

Very funny, thanks for the link – I had never heard of Don Alvers/zo, either cigar or tweezers, or Flo and Eddie, or the Tibetan Memory trick before. That’s why I keep coming back to this blog.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:47:51 +0000

There are fleeting references to a Don Alverso (or Alverzo) cigar scattered throughout the Net, though the sort of cigar for which one might need tweezers defies description. Without actual video, here are Flo and Eddie actually performing the test, which they billed as "The Tibetan Memory Trick." The full version, which explains too much about the Sanzini Brothers, is on their LP Illegal, Immoral and Fattening.

By: canadienne

canadienne — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:24:54 +0000

The reference to Don Alverzo’s tweezers took me to Google, which took me here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Announcer%27s_test
which took me on a side trip to brass monkeys, which is relevant because we have a winter storm warning and have definitely had to bring the brass monkeys in.

(Wikipedia spelled Alverzo with a zed – that’s a little Canadianism – so I assume there are variations.)

(Edited by me to make the link work; WordPress hates the standard 7-bit apostrophe and won’t allow it, even when it’s in a link. — cgh)

By: CGHill

CGHill — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:10:51 +0000

I try to keep a pair of Don Alverso’s tweezers on hand for just such emergencies. (The standard is six pairs, but that’s above my pay grade.)

By: McGehee

McGehee — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:47:45 +0000

That Stanley link is a damn good argument for why corporations with a good reputation shouldn’t license their name like that.

As I’ve noted here before, our first cell phones were with AT&T Wireless, and our current cell phones are with AT&T Wireless, but the only reason it worked out this way is that the first AT&T Wireless was a separate company licensed to use AT&T’s name; it was acquired by Cingular before we got our second cell phones, and then Cingular was acquired by the real AT&T after that.

Of course, I was talking above about corporations with good reputations, so the second paragraph of this comment is off-topic. Never mind.

By: Mark Alger

Mark Alger — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:08:57 +0000

FWIW, I use hemostats to handle jumpers — for much the same reasons surgeons do.