# Teemings #7 Now Online **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2001, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662 "2001-09-30T20:54:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/1 "2001-09-30T20:54:03Z")
Teemings #7 : “[No Alarms, No Surprises](http://www.teemings.com/issue07/index.html)” has just been posted online and frankly, I think it’s one of our best issues ever! Issue #8 should be out on December 1st and if you have items you’d like to submit, please go ahead and send them in. It’s _never_ too early. Just be aware that we have a very special edition on tap for our next issue for which the line-up has already been finalized. I think you’re really going to like what we have planned. It seems that in the past we’ve been mostly a literary zine and I’ve hinted that we’d like to broaden our nets as to what we’d like to see in the future. To give you an idea of what we’re looking for : **Artwork** : Are you an artist? A cartoonist? Photographer? We have plenty of web space, so if that’s you’re field and you’d like to see your work featured, send it on in. **Editorial** : Although we won’t publish any crackpot theory that comes down the pike, we do open our submissions to editorials on the news of the day as well. **Reviews** : While we do have a 1 to 2 month lag between submission and publication, we’d still love to see reviews of current books, movies, theatre, what-have-you. **Anything Else** : Don’t see your particular (or maybe peculiar) field of endeavour featured? Drop us a line and let us know what you have in mind. Lastly, I should quote the last paragraph in my opening editorial as it has a direct bearing on this thread : > [@](#): > > \*One feature of “Teemings” that I keep wondering if anyone has ever noticed or even cared about is the title that each issue is given. Admittedly, they’re pretty random, but they do have specific references and I keep wondering if anybody “gets” them. So, here’s the deal. I will arrange for a choice of a Straight Dope coffee mug or tee-shirt to the first person who can correctly identify the references for each of the seven issue titles we’ve published so far. Please post your answer in the thread in MPSIMS where this issue is announced. E-mailed answers will NOT be accepted. I’ll let you know who gets there first. \* Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Gomez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@Gomez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gomez)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/2 "2001-09-30T21:53:19Z")
Ooh, Ooh, I know!! I know!! This months title, “No alarms, no surprises” Is taken from the Radiohead song, No surprises. Is that enough to get me my goodies? ---
**Author:** ![Gomez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@Gomez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gomez)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/3 "2001-09-30T21:55:41Z")
Just reread the instructions. Gotta get _all_ of them ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/4 "2001-09-30T21:55:45Z")
That’s one. Gotta get all seven for the goodies, though. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/5 "2001-10-01T08:50:06Z")
Bump. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/6 "2001-10-01T11:17:03Z")
Didn’t get any of the issue title references. I feel dumb ☹ But I’ll get over it. 🙂 I enjoyed the whole issue, but in particular, I just wanted to let **Cal Meacham** know how much I enjoyed his article. Great, great stuff, **Cal**. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/7 "2001-10-01T11:26:55Z")
I’m going nuts here; four out of seven. Usually I’d shrug and let it slide, but for some reason, this is bugging me enough that I won’t sleep tonight unless I make a real try at finding out the answers. ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/8 "2001-10-01T12:59:22Z")
Okay, I think I’ve got it. 2 - “The Damned and the Pubescent”; internet trolls 3 - “Wretched Entertainment at the Sign of the Trap”; Ishmael seeking accommodation in New Bedford (Moby Dick, Herman Melville) 4 - “More Fool Me”; Genesis live album from the mid 70s 5 - “The Weird Sisters in the Year of the Big Wind”; James Joyce, Ulysses 6 - “Cage 3 - Free Show”; a partially animated film directed by James Incadenza 7 - “No Alarms, No Surprises” - Radiohead 1 - I’m just gonna take a WAG and say it’s a term applied to any literature when the writer’s too lazy ( 😉 ) to come up with something else. ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/9 "2001-10-01T13:55:35Z")
I thought #2 was a take off of “The beautiful and the damned” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, but I think the pubescent are just as damned as not. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/10 "2001-10-01T14:30:18Z")
So close, and yet … ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/11 "2001-10-01T14:34:42Z")
Damn… Now I’ve seen that message, Euty, I’m just going to have to stay awake and do more research. I thought I’d be able to go and get some sleep. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/12 "2001-10-01T15:18:52Z")
> [@](#): > > I enjoyed the whole issue, but in particular, I just wanted to let Cal Meacham know how much I enjoyed his article. Great, great stuff, Cal. Gee-- thanks, **Fenris**. I read the article again and said to myself “I gotta clean this up.” I guess and hope the ideas pulled it along over the rough writing. BTW – read **Pepper Mill’s** piece. Highly recommended! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/13 "2001-10-01T15:59:26Z")
Youch. I didn’t realize how painfully long my thingy was. I just started writing and . . . ::wonders if he should next sic poetry or more “true-life adventures” on Teemings:: ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/14 "2001-10-01T19:25:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > **Youch. I didn’t realize how painfully long my thingy was…** Sheesh. Print a guy’s writing and the next thing you know he’s bragging about how long his “thingy” is. Would that be the **Penis Mightier than the Sword**? I vote for “not-poetry.” I always dump the poetry on my lovely assistant editor, **Persephone** , and I don’t want her to crack under the strain. I just realized that this is only the second issue of _Teemings_ that doesn’t have one of my pieces in it - and Euty is saying it’s one of the best issues ever. _tears up_ Oh FINE, you brute, I can take a hint. _sobs theatrically_ ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/15 "2001-10-01T22:56:08Z")
I don’t suppose Washington Irving ever referred to “The Salmagundi Papers” as “this slim volume”? And **'pun**? Quit bragging. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/16 "2001-10-01T23:09:48Z")
> [@](#): > > I always dump the poetry on my lovely assistant editor, Persephone, and I don’t want her to crack under the strain. Don’t listen to him, folks. 😃 Yes, I usually edit the poetry, if you want to call it “editing.” I fix typos. That’s it. But I like it, really I do! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/17 "2001-10-01T23:12:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tavalla \* > **I don’t suppose Washington Irving ever referred to “The Salmagundi Papers” as “this slim volume”?** Not that I’m aware of. BTW … (just to make it more difficult) I’ll need the title of the book for #6 in order to give you full credit. ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teemings-7-now-online/84662/18 "2001-10-01T23:21:45Z")
_Infinite Jest_, David Foster Wallace.