HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Quaint customs (was Solipsism and Don. Or "How Don made ...)
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: National Association of Organizations
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:39:12 GMT


In article <C18rnp.4sK@news.iastate.edu>, z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Cereal Killer) writes:
[dan and dac are still at it - it goes into the wastebasket]
        This brings to mind a hick tradition, the County Fair. 
        You know, contests, exhibitions, carnivals, and the like. 
        Little old ladies entering their apple pies and
        embroidery into the contests, and spending the next ten
        years bragging about that blue ribbon (or bitching about
        how Thelma Lou must have blown the judge beforehand).
        Kids walking lambs, bunnies, or calves around a ring
        while some guy with a beer gut and his truck's license
        plate on his belt watches. In the evenings, there's the
        tractor pulls, the horse team pulls, the demolition
        derby, and the rodeo. All in all, fun to watch but a
        waste of time to prepare for.

Ah, yes, we have 'em in Cally Sunifornia, what with this state being heavily
into agriculture - fruits-n-nutz and all that. I grew up in the Sacramento
area when the surroundings were still rural. Me Da had a feed store about 20
miles northeast of downtown in a little unincorporated village called
Carmichael. Every year we'd field a booth at both the Sacramento County fair
and the State fair and exhibit the latest in haberdashery and utility. Both
meself and me sister'd get to participate, demonstrating various and sundry
goodies. For us it was always a lot of work to prepare but enough fun to make
up for the stress. Sacramento's County fair isn't so rural any more, though
(ObPeeve), but other counties like Yolo still put on a traditional fair.

San Francisco's county fair, OTOH, has:

	The Fog Calling Contest
	The Waitering Contest
	The Parking Place Finding Contest
	The Urban Scarecrow Contest

and sundry other ultra-urban activities. Of all the fairs in the state that
I've attended, San Francisco's has the best food!

        One traditional game is the "Catch the Greased Pig"
        contest.  You take a pig, roughly 50lbs or so of
        four-hoof drive traction, and coat him with grease.  I
        don't know if it's Crisco or ninety-weight, but it's
        grease. Then you turn him loose in a yard and have fifty
        kids try to catch him.

There's a ranch a bit south of San Jose, Coyote Ranch, that hosts group
picnics now, as the ranchin' bidniz is kinda flat 'round hereabouts lately.
The main event of picnic day is the pig scramble. The owner calls all the
youngsters on the grounds over to a corral near the entrance to the ranch.
Then he releases some piglets into the corral and lets his dawg work 'em,
herding 'em into a pen at the end of the corral. When the canine skills
exhibition is over he lines the kinder up at one end of the corral, releases
the swinelets, and lets the kids at 'em. The goal is to TOUCH all the pigs,
not to GRAB 'em. It's a definite !peeve.
From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Would someone PLEASE give Don a mogodon!
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:08:31 GMT
 <1993Jan20.212546.9367@igor.tamri.com>
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00

In article <1993Jan20.212546.9367@igor.tamri.com>, Don Baldwin writes:

> {Further wanking deleted to save the net money.}

Stay tuned for the next exciting episode, where Don finds a key
other than F, and is thrust into an insanely harsh Email war.

Peeve: "It is hot, damned hot!"

Dac
"All care, no reprehensibility"
--
From: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Traffic Peeves
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:31:11 GMT
Reply-To: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.


Peeve: Not Going To See The Boyz.


Carol, next time you go to get tix, call me first!

JZ
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong)
Subject: Another "I'm getting old" peeve
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:31:14 GMT


I'll be 38 next month.  Which is as good as 39, which is really
just like 40.

Crap.

-- 
Dave Bushong, Wang Laboratories, Inc.   Amateur Radio Callsign KZ1O
Project Leader, OCR products            kz1o@n0ary.#noca.ca.na
Internet: dbushong@wang.com
From: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (Claudio.Terrorist)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Traffic Peeves
Date: 28 Jan 93 07:50:05 GMT
Reply-To: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (Claudio.Terrorist)
Organization: 10^23 cubic metres of fluffy dust

The Antipope writes:

[ the M1 - only 8 hours, and he calls it a "traffic jam" ]

If you want a *real* traffic jam, choose a Friday night before
a Bank holiday weekend. Then leave from London on the M4 at about
5pm. Try to get to South Wales. The record to date has been 120
miles (yes, 120) of solid traffic jam.

 
--
Claudio.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.
dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.dot.
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From: jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (james.w.lacey)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Another Rain Peeve
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:30:59 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <1jkfb2INN55m@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
>
>
>Why is it that every time a car stalls at an intersection in the rain, 
>blocking a lane of traffic and creating a traffic jam, it's a Chrysler
>product?
>

They test them indoors?  My friend's mid-sixties Dodge had
the same problem, and this was 25 year ago.  I guess they
like the same design.

Peeve:  Consumer Reports evaluation of cars show several (6 or 8)
years of history by model by major system of each car.  Often,
one model will have 5 or more years of worse than average (black dot)
ratings on a given system (like fuel system or electrical system).

Dont these companies keep quality metrics?!?  If the fuel systems
are crapping out left and right, shouldnt it be time to
redesign the fuel system?  (Or is it easier to let the problem
ride and blame the unions/competition/imports/govt regs.?)


-- 
     Jim Lacey  --  my own opinions    
     email:  att!cbnewsl!jlacey  or  jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com
     D'ou venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous?
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,soc.singles
From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Subject: Re: More Things Learned at the Exploratorium
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 19:11:27 GMT

In <1993Jan28.051903.23784@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:

>:      Don't you mean "mentally retarded"?  Are you turning into a PC
>: nut now?

>Now, now, now - you, too, could be hit by a car tomorrow, or have a stroke,
>(CVA for the medical folks out there), or a heart attack and have your brain
>deprived of oxygen for 5+ minutes or so, and you would be mentally
>indistinguishable from those you so callously call "mentally retarded".

Now, now!  He said "mentally retarded" in a very KIND tone of voice!
  -Bill
From: potler@umbc.edu (Laura Potler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Upper Respiratory, USA
Date: 24 Jan 1993 20:53:17 -0500
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
NNTP-Posting-Host: umbc4.umbc.edu

In article <1993Jan24.191809.11830@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
>  don "mucous factory" baldwin

can we call you m.f. for short?

-l "for the elimination of unnecessary verbiage" p
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From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: More Gun Control
Keywords: look at the vein in his temple throb
Date: 21 Jan 93 14:23:18 GMT
Organization: russ at home in Albuquerque New Mexico

In article <1993Jan21.063620.28230@netcom.com> geoffm@netcom.com (Geoff Miller) writes:
>In article <1jko2vINNpoe@umbc4.umbc.edu> potler@umbc.edu (Laura Potler) writes:
>>peeve: people that can only think in numbers.
>
>628940!  3634951129 49475 55 892245467 6309568 485836 474747 -- 8947367,
>64 4487653 9499.  737 64037828, 4947238474 (362547 45834 2236), 4785032
>3825153408967 38730.  :^P  33562 58906, 4836, 394850 3955699!  4862...

42.

-- Russ "I am a man, not a number" Kepler

>
>
>
>75066 "1000101" 628859
>
>
>-- 
>
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>629472410985                    + + + + + + + +                7467214305523
>5384027345211093457             + + + + + + + +                89335411893
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-- 
Russ Kepler, posting from home   russ@bbx.basis.com, bbxrbk!russ@bbx.basis.com
"It's better to be quotable than to be honest" - Tom Stoppard
From: banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Rush Myth #930
Date: 25 Jan 1993 16:42:49 GMT
Organization: FizzBall Racing
NNTP-Posting-Host: abingdon

In article <21710@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez012344@chip.ucdavis.edu writes:
>        As I watched Limbaugh's television audience blow two "applause 'n' 
>smile" cues I got a good laugh at the demographics as the camera panned across 
>the audience
>        Male. White-bread.
>        Goofy white-bread.
>        Goofy glasses, goofy hair-cuts.
>        Dateless men.
>        Womenless men.

It sounds like a whole audience of Geoff Millers.

Well, except for the glasses.  The only glasses Geoff wears are a pair
of very expensive sunglasses.

>        Women who look like goofy white-bread men.

I once saw a femalre janitor that looked just like Geoff.  Right down
to the size ten flight boot.

Scary, scary stuff.

andy
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
"The only sports are auto racing and bull fighting, all the rest are games."

						--Ernest Hemingway
From: mzraly@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael S Zraly)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Inauguration Parade Coverage (Was: Statistical bullshit)
Date: 21 Jan 93 04:54:26 GMT
Organization: UMass/Boston

ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
>obPeeve: talking head "journalism"....the less I see of it, the
>	 more I despise it.

When I woke up this afternoon around 3pm (3rd shift, you know) I turned
on the television to see the three networks covering the Inauguration
Parade.  It was rather amusing to see Dan Blather(*) on CBS and Bryant
Mumble(*) on NBC covering it like it was Somalia or something.  You'd
think they could lighten up for a parade.  They had the talking heads
and everything.

ABC at least treated it for what it was: a chance for a bunch of people
to collectively say "Hi Mom" on TV for three nanoseconds.

Peeve:	Slept through the swearing-in ceremony, didn't get to watch
	George's face as Clinton got his job.

ObHuh:	What the hell was (forget which network) doing with Gerald
	Ford's son as a commentator?

*: newscaster types (for you US-TV-impaired types)

-- 
Mike Zraly		THERE'S ONLY ONE GOOD SOLUTION,
mzraly@cs.umb.edu	AND THAT'S BULLDOZERS AT 30 PACES
			-- headline in Wall Street Journal, 3 Dec 1992
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Lurkers out of the closet (was KidZ ... )
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: WollyWorld Land of Horror
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:37:19 GMT


In article <1993Jan28.034629.5393@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu
 (Bill Berbenich) writes:
-- In <1993Jan28.000234.20695@twg.com> cauhape@twg.com (Jeff Cauhape x7147)
--  writes:
--                                             ^^^^^^^
-- [doesn't matter]
-- 
-- Aiieeeee!!!
-- 
-- They are reproducing faster than Dullhousians!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-- 
-- Run for your lives!
--   -Bill

Jeff's the cross DonBoy and I must bear. Fortunately he's down the hall a bit
(besides being around the bend and over the hill) and is out of our hair at
least part of the time.

We're catching up with the Sun bunch. Wait until a yet unnamed local lurker
comes out. Then we'll be ready to take on the Eduni Vicars' Tea Partians
From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: TV Peeves    was Re: Traffic Peeves
Keywords: prolly hunnerd bleedin' friggin 'em
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:30:11 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
>	I suspect these are the same people who sit for hours
>	in front of the TV, bitching about how rotten all
>	the shows are....

Peeve:  My 27" Magnavox every_feature_known_to_man_or_technician_5_years_ago
   television seems to have packed it in.

But that's not what bugs me.  What bugs me is noticing, when I don't have
a TV to turn to, how often I *want* to.   DAMN!  I'm a bleedin' vidiot!
Since my layoff on the first of the year, I've probably watched two hunnerd
friggin hours of CNN and become a _news_ junkie.

For years, the TV was great - I'd watch "the Next Generation" with the
stereo rigged in for surround sound, and occasionally check out the
Playboy Channel, and maybe watch Letterman at midnight.

Then, too many hours at home and it probably took me a week to get
sucked into the habit.  And that's prolly why it blew now, too.
64 cable channels, and it's still a wasteland.


!Peeve: never broke down to watching "soap opera"

Oh well, still gotta get it fixed, maybe I can kick the habit while it's in
the shop.  I can tape Star Trek and watch it on my roommate's, later.

RelatedPeeve:  Letterman's gonna move to an earlier timeslot.  I once recorded
a couple of shows and watched 'em in the evening.  That shit's *only* funny
to a brain that's stayed up past midnight.  It's great then, but I doubt
it will translate.

!peeve: misspelling "probably" and several other words for the hellofit


	Bob O'Bob
--
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: More Gun Control
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:47:14 GMT
Reply-To: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: FizzBall Racing
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com


dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:

>Guns don't kill people.  Fuckheads kill people.  Fuckheads with guns.

"Guns don't kill people.  People with penises kill people."

				        -- Jenny Gutbezahl

Geoff


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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
Subject: Re: More Gun Control
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:21:39 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard

curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:

>there are two reasons why people commit crimes:
>
>(1) because it's fun.
>and (2) because it pays.

Certainly those reasons are true, but there not the only reasons.  The guy
who is on an $85 per day coke habit (or whatever), is going to get those
85 bucks no matter what it takes, and it's usually crime.

-Dave
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-)
Subject: Re: Inauguration Parade Coverage (Was: Statistical bullshit)
Organization: OFSA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:48:07 GMT


this is for peeves, right?

I HATE this political bullshit. Probably scheduled right over my
favorite shows....waitaminnit..I don't HAVE any favorite shows. Well,
if I did they would. Screw it, who cares? Inaugurations are like
football games, completely worthless displays.
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Heinlein.
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:18:39 GMT
Organization: russ at home in Albuquerque New Mexico

In article <1k3sd1INN33j@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
>Dac wants to avoid an unnecessary flamewar?  What kind of bizarre
>alternate universe have I stumbled into?
>
>Geoff "Menin Gott!" Miller

Who the hell are you?

-- Russ "net.nice.guy" Kepler
-- 
Russ Kepler, posting from home   russ@bbx.basis.com, bbxrbk!russ@bbx.basis.com
"It's better to be quotable than to be honest" - Tom Stoppard
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Orientals . . .
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 02:27:03 GMT

In article <ATAYLOR.93Jan20215359@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
writes:
><Well, maybe you have a point.  Whatever one may think of the merits of
><government mind control, there is one thing which is unequivocally true: it
><works.
>
>	Only superficially. The Soviets spilled literally oceans
>	of blood and of ink to create the "New Soviet Man", a 	
>	creature that would live the Communist ideal. 
>
>	After 70 years, the result seems to be a sullen mass of
>	workers and peasants, a handful of technical "brain workers"
>	and scientists, a glaze of criminal "aristocrats": in short,
>	a society remarkably similar to that under the Czars.

Or like Oakland, CA.

>	It peeves me that Don cannot seem to notice that the same
>	folks who like this mind control jazz also want to take his
>	guns away....could there be a connection, there?

Sure I see a connection.  I also see a conection between a lot of the
people who oppose gay rights bills and the fundamentalist christians.
I see a connection between people on the anti-PC bandwagon and people
with a racist agenda.  I see a connection between Kuwait's status as
an oil-producing state and Bush's willingness to help it out.

You can't help but notice these things...


><    "Pessimism, n.  A philosophy forced on the convictions of the observer by
><     the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope
><     and his unsightly smile."   - Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_
>
>	Hmmm? How could Bierce have ever met a Clinton supporter?

Hey, Reagan/Bush had their chance to fuck things up in this country; now
it's the other side's turn...

     don

Peeve:  Politics.  About as pleasant as taking a dump and just as palatable.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Adages (was Literary peeves  )
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Pest Control Society
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:03:32 GMT


In article <1993Jan28.003353.15802@netcom.com>, geoffm@netcom.com (Geoff Miller) writes:
	Peeve:  So many books, so little time. 
--
How about "So many BDIs, so little ammo"?
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: My trip out West (long)
Date: 25 Jan 93 01:59:16 GMT
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

In article <zOrls*p01@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au
(Andrew Clayton) writes:
>"Her nipples went 'spung'."
>                     Number of the Beast.
>                     Robert A. Heinlein.

Whoah Dac, you're scaring me now.

Gun control politics are one things but, if you were to say you liked the
later (after 1973, excluding "Friday")  Heinlein, you'd REALLY scare me.
He had some good stuff to say early on but most of what he wrote after
"Time Enough for Love" was the confused gibberish of a trepanized, horny
old man.  Probably under the influence of animal tranquilizers.

Peeve:  Waiting all those years for "Number of the Beast" to come out in
1980 (?) and being so horribly disappointed.

    don
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Pets (was Fleetwood Mac, Go Own Your Way!)
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:33:12 GMT
Organization: The Autodesk Menagerie - Housecat Division

In article <1993Jan24.192101.11913@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
>
>Oh well.  What about Christie McVie?  She seems smarter than Stevie anyway
>and doesn't seem to want people to think she's a Welsh witch...
>

Um, excuse me, but what is wrong with being a Welsh witch?

Harumph. Harumph.

Er
--
Great apes are ok. It's the mediocre apes and the baboons and especially
the lemurs that are trouble.
 	-Henry Troup (alt.folklore.urban)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Re: Upper Respiratory, USA
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Lungz-Iz-Us
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:48:02 GMT


In article <1993Jan23.044417.17771@netcom.com>, geoffm@netcom.com (Not Of This Earth) writes:

|>Getcha one of those grabber things for when you drop the U-jointed twig
|>down inside the exhaust manifold.  Stick it down your throat, grab onto
|>the Mother Of All Lungers, and pull it out.  Then mail it to Jenny G, just
|>so's she knows we're still thinking about her out San Francisco way.

You lose. That Grabbit needs a gallon bucket onnit, ta bail the bilge (pump
seens ta be down). If I did get the Lung out, I'd send it ta Jennyb instead
so she could compare it ta her local specimen.
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: More Gun Control
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:29:12 GMT
Organization: The Autodesk Menagerie - Housecat Division

In article <Ikoms*N11@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
>
>Guns don't kill people.  Fuckheads kill people.  Fuckheads with guns.



Lizzie Borden took an axe,
gave her mother fourty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
she gave her father fourty-one.

--
Great apes are ok. It's the mediocre apes and the baboons and especially
the lemurs that are trouble.
 	-Henry Troup (alt.folklore.urban)
From: su.ac.yelekreb.pintac@erd (A Tribute To Our Friends on Airstrip One)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: My trip out West (long)
Date: 26 Jan 93 00:28:10 GMT

banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:

>(Andrew Clayton) writes:

>>I'll cogitate upon the ethical correctness of mentioning
>>vibrators.

>Get with it, Dac.  There's nothing wrong with *mentioning* vibrators.
>Whether it's ethical to *eat* vibrators is the debate.

So long as you don't chip your teeth, it doesn't matter.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
Subject: Re: Memories (was Traffic Peeves)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:37:11 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard

> nolan@twg.com writes:


>The time - May, 67. The place, Laguna Seca. The incident: LOTS of drivers
>losing it in the neighborhood of turn 2. The reason: a blonde in a miniskirt
>sitting on the hill between 1 and 2. Actually she wasn't wearing undies...

Oh, good grief!  They'd spin out for *that*?  At PIR my eyes are so busy
looking at the track, the mirrors, the (damn) temp gauge, and the flags, I
wouldn't notice if naked beauties were placed at 20-foot intervals.

sheesh!

-Dave
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rush@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Brian Rush )
Subject: Re: Rush Myth #930
Organization: UCLA Dept of Astronomy
Date: 25 Jan 93 08:26:57 PST

In article <21710@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez012344@chip.ucdavis.edu writes:
>Rush Myth #930: His Audience is Individualistic, Attractive and Diverse
>
>        As I watched Limbaugh's television audience blow two "applause 'n' 
>smile" cues I got a good laugh at the demographics as the camera panned across 
>the audience, who were trying to sneak looks at the monitors to see if they 
>could see themselves (in the fashion of drunk football fans at large arenas and 
>religious fundamentalists at large churches).
Support that one why don't you with even a shred of evidence (oh, I'm
sorry to use the E-word with a liberal.)
>        Male. White-bread.
>        Goofy white-bread.
>        Goofy glasses, goofy hair-cuts.
>        Dateless men.
>        Womenless men.
>        Women who look like goofy white-bread men.
These are incredibly racist (even if they were true) words.  Would you
thus dare conclude that Dan is a racist?  Of course not, because it is
intrinsic to the definition of the word racist that a liberal can't be
one.
>
>Dan
>----
>who will watch more, now that Dan Quayle isn't available to the camera