From: Automatic digest processor To: Recipients of SOMMS digests Subject: SOMMS Digest - 7 Jan 1999 to 8 Jan 1999 Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 2:02 AM There are 16 messages totalling 416 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. FERRIVOROUS?? (6) 2. Is this really Kim?? (2) 3. Ferrivorous 4. The best of SOMMS - Ferrivorous - 5/23/96 5. Mr. Smartypants knows all... 6. PJ (2) 7. Badmotorfinger T-Shirt 8. Badmotorfinger t-shirt 9. SOMMS CD To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:12:25 PST From: Arden SunGod Subject: Re: FERRIVOROUS?? Deek & Sommies- Ferrivorous. I had a problem with this word a while ago and decided to look it up and ask around. It's not a real word, but it is a real word. It follows all the rules of classic latin, and is actually a real word.. Kim just sort of invented it. I cant remember exactly what it means off hand though. something about firey.. Sorry I'm not more help! -Arden ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 02:13:29 -0500 From: Kim Subject: Re: FERRIVOROUS?? I thought it might have something to do with iron, as in 'pertaining to the metal iron.' The word 'ferrum' is latin for iron, so I thought that ferrivorous might by an English derivative of that word. Seems to fit with the theme of the song. -Elliott http://badmotorfinger.werd.net (I hope it's finally working again) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 01:23:44 -0600 From: Mayor McCheese Subject: Re: FERRIVOROUS?? Ferrite is either lead or mercury, I believe, so ferrivorous would mean: "having the tendancy of (the metal)". But, alas, I am a slacker and don't have time to look at a periodic table of elements to figure out which element has the symbol having to do with F that has a latin name . . . Arden SunGod wrote: > Deek & Sommies- > > Ferrivorous. I had a problem with this word a while ago and decided to > look it up and ask around. It's not a real word, but it is a real word. > It follows all the rules of classic latin, and is actually a real word.. > Kim just sort of invented it. I cant remember exactly what it means off > hand though. something about firey.. Sorry I'm not more help! > > -Arden > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- General Mail: or: Internet: ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 03:01:28 -0500 From: jenny grover Subject: FERRIVOROUS?? > What the Hell... This is not a word.. according to 3 Dictionaries...It's in > "Never the Machine forever".... Kim Thayil Wrote the Lyrics.... And according to Mr. Thayil, it means "metal eating". No, it's not a "real" word. Neither is Rhinosaur. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:35:27 -0800 From: ? Subject: Re: FERRIVOROUS?? Just looking at the word itself, it may mean iron eating. Ferric means made of iron or containing iron, and vourous is an affix that means eating. So if one wanted to make a word that meant iron eating or metal eating, then Ferrivorous would work. Tiffany On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Daniel Bolton wrote: > What the Hell... This is not a word.. according to 3 Dictionaries...It's in > "Never the Machine forever".... Kim Thayil Wrote the Lyrics....and music... > it's used here > > "I Fashion Will and Desire, Always I and I survive, Mercurial Mind the Fire, > FERRIVOROUS Direction and Drive" > > If ANYONE has a clue about this at all... please tell me.. Ok thanks... > > -Deek > P.S. I love the Song and Lyrics.. Great Beat... Almost Impossible to Replicate > Matt's beat > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 07:57:22 -0500 From: "sndgardn@shentel.net" Subject: Re: FERRIVOROUS?? I always thought it meant "iron containing". Are you guys sure it's not = a word cause I could have sworn I found the word in a dictonary. = Anyway..whatever... ~Liz:} ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 08:07:24 -0800 From: Greg Fox Subject: Is this really Kim?? I stumbled across this URL this morning. As far as i can tell, it looks like Kim on that postcard. Correct me if I am wrong though. http://home.att.net/~ro/tpa/woodstuk.htm Greg ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 08:37:01 -0800 From: Mark Miller Subject: Ferrivorous Deek, Well, from a chemical standpoint, ferri- is used to indicate iron in the plus 3 oxidation state. Maybe the -ivorous is like carnivorous. That would make it something like an iron eater. I am not really serious about this but it works with the mercurial line right before it. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:02:09 -0500 From: Jaime Gonzalez Subject: Re: Is this really Kim?? No,That man is not Kim Thayil.It's not even close. Jaime ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:01:33 -0500 From: "Steven Russell Jr." Subject: The best of SOMMS - Ferrivorous - 5/23/96 Here is a post from Mr. Perlman on 5/23/96 regarding the use of the word Ferrivorous. This should clear things up. s. ---------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Excuse Me? From: seth > Ferrivorous sounds like it means 'eats metal' like herbivorous or > carnivorous. There is no such word as 'ferrivorous' as is printed in the lyric sheet for NTMF. The closest you can get is 'ferriferous,' which Webster defines as 'containing or yielding iron.' The following is an excerpt from the Canadian radio premiere that Chris Mackenzie posted a few days ago, which actually supports the 'iron eater' theory and also alludes to the fact that maybe it was just spelled wrong when Chris wrote it down: Steve Warden: Hi welcome back, the next track we're going to play is a song called 'Never The Machine Forever,' notable for a few reasons, not the least of which is its use of a very unusual word: "ferrivorous." I asked Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron to shed some light. Matt Cameron: Uh let's see, iron eater? Is that right? Chris Cornell: I guess so. MC: And there's no known synonym for the word ferrivorous, that's Kim's whole point for using it - no (laughs). It's just a very interesting combination of words that he used on that one and Chris actually pulled it off (laughs). SW: Ferrivorous (laughs). CC: (sings annoyingly) Ferrivorous! (laughter) SW: I've never heard that one before, is Kim a real wordsmith, is he a pretty heavy reader? MC: Uh let's see, yeah I suppose, I think he used to read more than he does now. CC: Yeah, let's just put it this way: he can talk better than I can spell. > As for Mercurial... ??? I would go with Geoff's explanation of this word having to do with personality rather than mercury content. Webster says: mer.cu.ri.al \(.)m*r-'kyu.r-e--*l\ \-e--*-le-\ aj [mercury + -al] 1: of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury 2: having qualities of eloquence, ingenuity, or thievishness attributed to the god Mercury or to the influence of the planet Mercury 3: characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood 4: of, relating to, containing, or caused by mercury - mer.cu.ri.al.ly av - mer.cu.ri.al.ness n I would choose definitions 2 and 3 as being appropriate... seth ----------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 13:12:35 EST From: Charlie Mccutcheon Subject: Mr. Smartypants knows all... ferrivorous is a REAL word in REALLY BIG dictionaries, meaning 'ability to consume iron; derived from latin roots ferrous (iron) and voros (eat)'. thus, suggesting "'stronger than iron' direction and drive". however, Mr. Smartypants has an infirm grasp on latin, capitalization and spelling. we can't all be perfect. thanks;] charlie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:50:43 -0800 From: Jason Talbot Subject: PJ This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01BE3A3C.564A20E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I don't care what anyone says, Pearl Jam is a better band with our very = own Matt Cameron behind the set. 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