"Mick Fournier" wrote in message
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I am hoping some enterprising movie producer will one day take the RGO
historical record and turn it into a movie. I would then write to Keanu
Reeves and ask (ie beg) him to play my character.



Mick,



I have read some sparkling ideas from you in the past - but this one has to
be the cherry. 'RGO The Movie'. Of course, there could only be one choice of
director - John Waters. I know you only suggest M. Reeves to play your good
self for his dynamic acting range alone and not due to any idolatry vanity
on your behalf, but I must suggest that Divine would be the one and only
choice to take your character, and run with it over the finishing line.



As soon as I can afford to top up the credit on my mobile phone, I will call
my agent; Fatty M. Arbuckle to discuss the matter. Let's get this show
rolling.



Best, Matthew

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:31:12 -0500, "Mick Fournier"
wrote:
And so as you (and others) will say, that is all history now. RGO is a
well-oiled level playing field today free of demigods and very uniformly
"give and take" with the wonderful inherited wisdom of orchid growing. Plus
I would venture to say that RGO might be one of the top ten most
civilized/enjoyable newsgroups on the Usenet today.

Mick


Mick -
I was hoping that seeing you on meant your site was back up. How
is the move going? When can we enjoy you photo gallery again?
SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php

Now we have
web-logs, wiki-wiki pages, orchid web forums, and the whole bit.

Rob,

What on earth is a wiki-wiki page?

One of the people I miss is Jeff Kirby who was doing plant physiology at UC
Davis and hating Davis with a passion. Got his degree and moved back east
somewhere. (anywhere east of the Sierras is 'back east' to us Californians.)
I often wonder whatever happened to him.

K Barrett

Sue,

The move of the flasking lab is going fairly well. My new flask room has
great southern exposure and the bottles will no longer suffer (for full
spectrum light) under fluorescent bulbs. A great many of the blue species
cattleyas have progressed well over the last 6 months and I will be
featuring them in the catalog once I re-open the website in early to mid
February. Moving 5100 flasks has been an extremely difficult task...
surprisingly only one bottle got broken in transit. I find that loss of
only one flask to be an amazing stroke of good luck.

The HBI photos are still viewable using the backdoor:
http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/f...ks/hbipix.html

Mick
HBI, Producers of Fine Orchids in Flask
www.OrchidFlask.com
==========================



"Susan Erickson" wrote in message
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:31:12 -0500, "Mick Fournier"
wrote:
And so as you (and others) will say, that is all history now. RGO is a
well-oiled level playing field today free of demigods and very uniformly
"give and take" with the wonderful inherited wisdom of orchid growing.
Plus
I would venture to say that RGO might be one of the top ten most
civilized/enjoyable newsgroups on the Usenet today.

Mick


Mick -
I was hoping that seeing you on meant your site was back up. How
is the move going? When can we enjoy you photo gallery again?
SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php

Matt,

I was thinking Quentin Tarantino and something along the lines of Reservoir
Dogs... and Uma Thurman as Good Denise. Bad Denise would be Halle Berry.

Mick

Mick Fournier wrote:


I am hoping some enterprising movie producer will one day take the RGO
historical record and turn it into a movie. I would then write to Keanu
Reeves and ask (ie beg) him to play my character.

civilized/enjoyable newsgroups on the Usenet today.

Mick


Unfortunately, Vincent Price, the perfect person to portray me, has
passed on.

Tennis,

Hmmm, that is a pity. Is there no stunt double we could ask to fill in for
Vincent Price?

Mick

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:14:35 -0500, "Mick Fournier"
wrote:

Sue,

The move of the flasking lab is going fairly well. My new flask room has
great southern exposure and the bottles will no longer suffer (for full
spectrum light) under fluorescent bulbs. A great many of the blue species
cattleyas have progressed well over the last 6 months and I will be
featuring them in the catalog once I re-open the website in early to mid
February. Moving 5100 flasks has been an extremely difficult task...
surprisingly only one bottle got broken in transit. I find that loss of
only one flask to be an amazing stroke of good luck.

The HBI photos are still viewable using the backdoor:
http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/f...ks/hbipix.html

Mick
HBI, Producers of Fine Orchids in Flask
www.OrchidFlask.com
==========================


Congratulations. One flask, while a great loss, is less than
could have been predicted. I am glad to hear the move is going
well.

Thank you for the back door. I enjoy your Neofinetia falcata
crosses. Is there a reason that you have hesitated to name such
a lovely flower as you have with Neofinetia falcata "Icy Fingers"
AM/AOS x V. Sally Roth? It looks so substantial for a Neofinetia
cross.
SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php

Sue,

I hate using two negatives in the same sentence, but I find I can not
construct the following sentence without them.

I don't have a reason for not naming Neofinetia falcata "Icy Fingers" AM/AOS
x V Sally Roth.

Mick

Mick Fournier wrote:

And so as you (and others) will say, that is all history now. RGO is a
well-oiled level playing field today free of demigods and very uniformly
"give and take" with the wonderful inherited wisdom of orchid growing. Plus



I cannot express the images that went through my mind with the
phrase 'well-oiled level playing field'. *grin* Perhaps I need a
shower. I agree that this is a pretty darned civilized newsgroup.

Rob

--
Rob's Rules: http://www.msu.edu/~halgren
1) There is always room for one more orchid
2) There is always room for two more orchids
2a. See rule 1
3) When one has insufficient credit to purchase
more orchids, obtain more credit

Chris Ridge wrote:

Now we have
web-logs, wiki-wiki pages, orchid web forums, and the whole bit.



Rob,

What on earth is a wiki-wiki page?



Maybe that technology has been replaced now too. A PHP thing. I
haven't had time to play with it, and maybe I missed the boat...

http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/


Rob

--
Rob's Rules: http://www.msu.edu/~halgren
1) There is always room for one more orchid
2) There is always room for two more orchids
2a. See rule 1
3) When one has insufficient credit to purchase
more orchids, obtain more credit

Rob spaketh thusly:

Aren't many 'old timers' still posting. Aaron Hicks posts
sometimes. And a few more.

I don't remember precisely when I joined, but I know it was in
1994.

Usenet as a whole has had its ups and downs. It's still a good way
to communicate without taking up a lot of bandwidth. It has been said that
Usenet is the greatest accumulation of wisdom ever created, but then again
there are people who probably say that about the tabloids.

Don't reply to the address in the header. Spam trap.

-AJHicks
Chandler, AZ

Rob,

Ah yes... now I also see the well-oiled playing field. Reminds me of my
college days and a couple of frat parties we threw.

Mick