HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: procrastination
Date: 13 Nov 1992 01:46:18 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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In article <BxMKvL.8q3@acsu.buffalo.edu> hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu (DOG BASEBALL!!!) writes:
>
>	arrgh, I have a paper to type due at 10am tomorrow (friday the 13th)
>and the book on which it is based, an ancient chinese novel called _The Dream
>of the Red Chamber__, is approximately 5-600 pages long.  I can't start, I try
>and try but I can't.  this paper is 20% of the grade, yet I can't get it

Ahh... the Hung Lou Meng.  Go ahead and read it.  It's pretty good once you
get through the first half, and you really only need to know a couple thousand
characters to get the gist of it.  It's fairly dense, though.  Make sure you
know the characters for the various sex acts or you'll miss half of it.
It's a classic.

Spoiler below:

Pao Yu becomes a hermit.  But don't tell anyone.
--scott
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.magnus.and.ketil
From: magnus@brisk.ii.uib.no (Magnus Alvestad)
Subject: -> Soul
Keywords: soul, war, yggdrasil, MasPar
Reply-To: magnus@ii.uib.no
Organization: UVBS -> SFK/T-DSA / SOPS - HOS / RNoN
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 04:53:23 GMT


-> the darkness of the soul another procession goes forth to explore,
catalogize and seek for fenomenon unknown to women and mice, the plans
have been laid, the economic possiblities of the expedition have been
examined - everything is ready, born today, for tomorrow - we really
do live and believe in care for and lift the future from its rest in
pieces of new wood - eldritch like the city walls far to the north,
dark as the caves in a piece of cheese; avanti, avanti - the battle
cry of numerous legions gone forth, marched part our hiding place,
behind a tree, tall, wide, the yggdrasil; we are safe beneath its
branches, we can rest - recover - wait for the messenger to arrive
with his tidings of war, the general general has marched also, this is
no skirmish at the borders, this is what the cannons and their crews
were made for, this is the goal we all walk thorugh at the moment of
our passing away, do not be disappointed.
From: lordSnooty@cup.portal.com (Andrew - Palfreyman)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: short shameful confession
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 92 22:29:57 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <1d6918INN9kg@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov3.214129.5738@wixer.cactus.org>
  <Nov04.061835.29023@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>

sometimes i feel like a sperm in zero-G
						--@lS
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From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: death of condor
Date: 11 Nov 1992 07:23:31 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley CS Dept.
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In article <1992Nov11.060131.1592@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>In article <oeybmKi00iV0A1DIlI@andrew.cmu.edu> Ruth Kline <rk30+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>Just heard on the way to work that one of the released California condors
>>was found dead of alcohol poisoning. It had drunk from a puddle of
>>automotive coolant left in a recreation yard.
>
>At least he won't overheat in the summer.

Presumably you can fill in the "LIKE POTATOE HA HA" yourself.

In fact, why don't you?  Why should we limit ourselves to making
fun of other peoples' lame posts?  Why not cast our eyes inward?

As the Bible says, judge not, lest you be judged - but if you've
already BEEN judged, well, isn't this a loophole?  A technicality?
Like double jeopardy?

Or are there any loopholes in the eyes of God?  Who of ye can walk
up to the throne of Peter and say "Look, man, he didn't have a
fucking WARRANT, I mean SHIT, so fuckin' LAY OFF already, eh?"
Yea?  Does He have to read you the Miranda?  If He gets pissed
and goes for the rubber hoses, can you sue?  And how would you
prove it, anyhow?  To whom?

It has always surprised me how calm Christians manage to remain
in the face of these terrible cosmological conundrums.

c
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From: jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods)
Subject: Re: i say kill bush
Followup-To: misc.test,ta1k.bizarre
Keywords: die
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:42:51 GMT

In MISC.TEST,talk.bizarre m_lehoul@oz.plymouth.edu
(Michael L. Le Hosehead) writes:
>In article <1992Nov5.063938.11566@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> pfinerty@nyx.cs.du.edu (big daddy hate box) writes:
>>i want bush's head on a pike stuck in my front lawn. fucker. i hate that
>>man more than anyone i don't know personally. i want quayle to be pres for
>>a couple of weeks and then we kill him and let foley do it for a while.
>>then we kill him too and give it to baker. yeah, i say we take the
>>opportunity to really fuck with D.C. 
>If this is indicative of Clinton supporters, this nation's in worse
>shape than I thought.

If this is indicative of Bush supporters, then I'm not at all surprised.
Enjoy the fan mail.

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
Subject: Re: ssc
Originator: jcarroll@ferris
Keywords: how can you have nostalgia for something you didn't live through? GX
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:12:20 CST


In article <1de6f0INN89k@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
> In article <1992Nov6.071732.14934@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
> >zgilbert@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Zvi Gilbert) writes:
> >
> >>Curtis, we are MUCH cooler than the hippies ever were.  We do body-piercing.
> >
> >Ogawd, body piercing is sooooooo passe.  It was branding for awhile,
> >but now it's POKING YOUR EYES OUT WITH A SHARPENED A-440 TUNING FORK.
> 
> Is that like an A-450 tuning fork?
> --scott

Remind me not to play your piano.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton)
Subject: Re: 1:21 12:24
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:43:38 GMT

In <1992Nov11.082643.4804@wetware.com> mlegare@wetware.com (Dr. Robert (BoB) Tech) writes:

>dubious talent. i'm an actor, possibly one of only six actors
>on this net.  at least on this newsgroup.  1:24.  time becomes

Should I?

What the hell.

"I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV"

-- 
ben
fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Government is sanctioned violence.
From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Have you lamented a Ford lately?
Date: 14 Nov 92 05:02:01 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

Scott Dorsey:
|A friend of mine bought a 1982 Escort.  For those of you who don't know, th
|Escort has an engine designed and constructed by Renault....

You can stop right there.

You don't have to go any further at all.

Now I know why I shall never buy one.

mr HEINOUS
has one of them wacky ALUMINUM engines
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: larryh@cabezon.uucp (Larry Huntley)
Subject: Re: Unknown Legend
Organization: Logic Modeling Inc of Beaverton Oregon
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:34:22 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.183412.24749@mail.cornell.edu> John Austin <jea1@Cornell.edu> writes:
>She used to work in a diner
>Never saw a woman look finer
>I used to order just to watch her float across the floor
>She grew up in a small town
>Never put her roots down
>Daddy always kept movin' so she did too
>
>Somewhere on a desert highway
>She rides a Harley-Davidson
>Her long blonde hair flyin' in the wind
>She's been runnin' half her life
>The chrome and steel she rides
>Collidin' with the very air she breathes
>The air she breathes
>
    There she sits a-smokin'
    Reefer in her mouth
    Hair hangin' Northward
    As she travels South
    Dirty, on her Harley
    But her nails are clean
    Super-powered, de-flowered
    Over eighteen Irene...


    "Motorcycle Irene"  Lyrics by Moby Grape, Copyright sometime in the
    late 60s (first album, I think.) 

-- 
         (larryh@lmc.com)         |         --TALK.BIZARRE-- 
     Logic Modeling Corporation   |      The Suppurating Abcess
          Beaverton,  OR          | of the INTERNET - Dr. Donald Wildmon
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,talk.politics.misc,alt.peeves
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: Uniform Medal Clarificaitons
Followup-To: alt.sex,soc.singles 
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:56:50 GMT

rigler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Killing Pace) writes:
] 
] Here are some examples:
] 
]     Black Marketeering Medal
] 
] -= Rigler =-       (Which of these would adorn your right breast, rp?)


EXCUSE ME you KowTowingLeftistLeaningPigDogOfKommunism!

that is the

	FreeMarketEntrepenurialDefense Medal

Just because You BoneHeadsOfRegressiveEconomicsTheories
LOST the cold war is NO EXCUSE for being INSULTING!!!!

ciao
drieux

ps: No more appropriate illustration of the effectiveness
of a Free Market System can be found, but that exists
on board US Navy ships.

	The market will establish that a Roll of Toilet Paper
	Clearly Has More Value than a ToyOssifer 'middie' on
	their midshipperson cruise.





-- 
Modern Day Problems:
Hickory, Dickory, Dock - Three Mice Ran up a Clock
The Clock Struct one, 
and the Other Two will be Upgraded In the Next Release.
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From: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.cesium,alt.non.sequitur
Subject: Re: My Favorite Molecule (or, Short Shameful Addiction)
Date: 7 Nov 1992 06:33:42 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) says:
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>>My favorite molcule:
>>   C H  N O
>>    8 10 4 2
>Hey?  What's this doing in alt.cesium?  There's no cesium here.  Don't tell
>me you're another one of those organic folks.  Yechh.

 kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov -- (@=t)
***************************************
   alt.cesium's vandals grok grog!
***************************************

-- 
=======================
"Endeavor to persevere"
=======================
From: grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Blood Clot Boy)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Short Shamefull Blossom
Date: 12 Nov 1992 06:51:09 GMT
Organization: The International House of Secretions
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1992Nov11.222438.26805@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> dan@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Allard) writes:
*Watched more than 10 seconds of Blossom before changing channel

Oh sure, rub it in.


Mark "A 5 iron" Lippert
From: echeverr@scf.usc.edu (Malicious Cr/Hacker)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Demented thoughts
Date: 6 Nov 1992 19:37:42 -0800
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5150
i hope bruce becker or john palmer aren't reading this
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: why I love SGI
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:16:16 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <schnitzi.721417007@eola.cs.ucf.edu> schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius) writes:
>dlwilson@fenix.encore.com (David L Wilson) writes:
>
>>Well, if by "slunk" you mean shutting down all facilities, laying off
>>most of the local workers and transferring corporate headquarters to
>>Florida, then yes, you could say Encore slunk out of Massachusetts.
>
>>Encore's doing fine, thank you, supplying 88000-based multiprocessors to
>>anyone who wants one.  One nice thing about that is there is no shortage
>>of computing power.  I have an 8 processor mini, with 1M of cache, 128M
>>of memory and a 1.2gig disk to call my own.  Mine, all mine!!  
>
>Great.  Yet another DiskSizeWar.  How many nudie GIFs can that hold?
>I'm sure my brother can tell you.

When Encore first started up, it seemed like they were going to produce a
revolutionary product.  A number of people that I know went to work there.
Then Encore decided to move to a low-wages, low-taxes state, and left a lot
of people out of work.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
From: tomf@gte.com (Tom Fawcett)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: 100 words
Date: 7 Nov 92 19:34:41 GMT
Organization: /usr1/tomf/.organization


He came to our guesthouse six weeks ago, tanned, fit, healthy.  
Since then he had profoundly deteriorated.  Pale drawn skin, sallow
complexion.  Thinner hair even?  Hard to remember, his emaciated
appearance so permanent now.

Some days he wouldn't come back until late at night.  He said he spent
his days at the Aquarium, in Harvard Square, at the Arboretum, walking
around the North End.  Six weeks doing this?  We were suspicious but
he paid in cash, always on time.  We didn't pry.

One evening my wife and I were drinking wine on the porch when he
returned.  We invited him to join us, and eventually alcohol and
curiosity got the better of me.  With a conspiratorial grin I asked him
what a Southern boy was doing way up north.  He whispered short
answers in his light Virginia accent, his voice having diminished with
the rest of him.

Drugs?   He smiled, no, nothing illegal.   
Getting over a divorce?   No.
Cancer?  AIDS?   No, I'm not ill.

Something medical, must be.  Look at yourself.  Something's draining you.

"Blood," he replied.

What, a blood disease?  Leukemia?

"No.  Very rare blood."

Rare?  You're donating blood?

He looked at me with pale green eyes.  "Selling.  A working vacation.
Business with pleasure."
--
 
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: mlegare@wetware.com (The Steel General's Batsman)
Subject: Re: highway riding
Organization: Cappo Ferra 6
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 04:05:07 GMT

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

] mlegare@wetware.com (The Steel General's Batsman) writes.  o how he does.
] 
] in the interests of proper entomology
] or however the heck you spell it
] i should point out
] that a Steel General would not
] be caught dead in possession of a batsman
] unless he were to be coaching a cricket squad.
] 
] it is entirely possible
] that he would have one
] or a number of
] batmen
] but that is neither here nor there and does not enter into it at all.
] 
] c



you misinterperet.

i am covered in grey fur and have leathery wings.

silly man.

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods)
Subject: Re: Clinton won; maybe (was Gloat)
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:25:32 GMT

In FUCKING TALK.BIZARRE, SOME WHINING LOSER NAMED mcrosby@nyx.cs.du.edu
(Matthew Crosby) writes:
>>In article <BxF1G7.7L@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM> jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods) writes:
>>>No, they have a point.  57% DID vote against Clinton.  64% DID vote against
>>>Bush.  And a stunning 81% voted against Perot.  The CLEAR and LOGICAL answer
>>>is that the American people want NO ONE to be President.
>That is kind of weird mathematics!  Just because someone votes for someone does
>not necissarily mean they are voting against someone else!  Now if 81% had
>written "Go stick your head up a pig!" on their ballot, then possibly that can
>be construed as voting agains.

Go stick your head up a pig.

You may consider that a vote against [your choice] (a) your ever posting to
talk.bizarre again, (b) your ever reproducing, or (c) your ever breathing
again [pick two].
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc,test,alt.net.personalities
From: longleye@aztec.swindon.rtsg.mot.com (Edward Longley)
Subject: Re: My postbag this morning
Reply-To: longleye@aztec.swindon.rtsg.mot.com (Edward Longley)
Organization: Motorola Ltd., European Cellular Infrastructure Division
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 13:06:55 GMT


Is the blonde in the C&A catalogue the one with the small tatoo
of a swift on her shoulder? If so, I want her phone number!!
Regards,
        Ed 

Edward Longley
Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Division
Swindon. England.
Tel. : 0793 545303
Mail : longleye@aztec.swindon.rtsg.mot.com

Weinberg's Second Law:
        If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs,
        then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy
        civilization.

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: The Rounds
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:29:45 GMT


<John Perry gave me my first 5-word challenge(ooh, the excitement!)

micturate
paroxysm
syzygy
fascicle
crural>


Nurse Aurel Ortega made the rounds of the ward.  This was always her least
favourite part of the day, and she tried to get it over with as soon as
possible.

"Patient #1: Gay Sanborn," she wrote.  Mrs. Sanborn was in her 70s, and had
once again managed to kick her bedpan onto the floor.  No doubt her clothes
were once more soaked in her own urine.  "Patient's micturation seems to be of
her standard reliability," she wrote on her pad.

"Patient #2: Zandra Abetti," she wrote.  Ms. Abetti seemed to be a hysteric,
and, as usual, erupted into paroxysms of laughter when Aurel stopped before
her bed.  "Patient's awareness of surroundings is undulled as usual," she
wrote.

"Patient #3: Burleigh Erdman," she wrote.  According to her sheet, Mr. Erdman
was recovering from neurosurgery to his crural nerve fascicle.  That would
explain the repeated twitching in his leg, twisting his face into a continuous
grimace of pain.  "Patient's recovery from surgery seems to be on track," she
wrote.

The rest of the patients were their usual comatose selves.  She had long since
discovered seventeen different ways of writing "Patient's status remains
unchanged", and used them at random to alleviate her boredom.

Finally the onerous task was completed, and Aurel sat and consuted her almanac
to see if her calculations had been correct.  Yes, they had.  It was indeed
syzygy tonight, at 7:43 CST.  She would be off work by then.  That left her
all day to decided which one of her patients would be honored enough to join
her at the ceremony.  Zandra was certainly the most active, but that wasn't
necessarily a plus.  No, Mrs. Sanborn would be better.  No living relatives,
and a staff that was heartily sick of sponging her off every morning.  It
would be a positive blessing.

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"It's not my fault.  The orchestra has disappeared."
   ---Hector Berlioz
Current Album--U2:October
Current Read--John Irving:The World According To Garp
From: tomf@gte.com (Tom Fawcett)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: the wonks are in: what do they read for fun?
Date: 10 Nov 92 13:24:03 GMT
Reply-To: tomf@gte.com
Organization: No Free Lunch, Inc.


I recall why I no longer read rec.arts.books: it reminds me endlessly of thin
smiles and constipation.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: carasso@Turing.ORG (Roger Carasso)
Subject: Re: Pig farts...
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:57:37 GMT

in rec.pets.cats,rec.pets william@chopin.udel.edu (Wild William) writes:
)
)I know, a gross subject, but how do I keep my pig from perpetual farting?

100 TIMES HIT HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A BASEBALL BAT.
GARNISH WITH HOOVES.


carasso,
been there
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell)
Subject: CJ'S FOUR WORD CHALLENGE
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:24:11 GMT

In article <s7b6k9k@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
>---
>cj@sgi.com writes:
>	Fucking Princeton Mensa Wank
>

"I'm not certain why you have to bring rotary engines into everything,"
Dr. James said, stretching langourously on the purple futon, the color of
which is irrelevant. "There we are, going along beautifully, doing
the traditional internal-combustion in-out in-out, 'fucking' as it
were, and all of a sudden you start talking about Mazdas. Wankel
rotary engines my ass." He stretched langourously again, as if
maliciously intending to force a dull repetition on the part of the
author. "If I weren't up for tenure at Princeton I'd never do this."
With that he slid his tongue down the dean's transmission.

-T

-- 
Tom Boutell, boutell@cshl.org

Clausthaler is the best non - alcoholic beer in the known universe.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: I met the devil the other day...
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:06:23 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Keywords: anything i feel like doing to you is alright...

In article <1992Nov11.164245.5018@wam.umd.edu> that guy over there writes:
>In article <40386@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> cs199aa@sdcc5.ucsd.edu (Mark Fletcher)  
>writes:
>> 
>> Well, I guess I really did it last night. For Halloween, I dressed
>> as a Nerd. So, naturally, I looked for other Nerds at the parties I
>> attended. I saw a guy in a red suit with a bow-tie. So, I thinks to
>> myself, "Hey, a Fellow Nerd." So, I start the universal Nerd-call to
>> this person, "Nerd! Nerd! Nerd!" He turns to me just as he's putting
>> his Satan mask back on. Opps! I just called the Devil a *NERD*!
>> Anybody have any experience with these sorts of things? 
>
>
>
>	I got an erector set.
>	show off
>	throw a towel over it
>	do some pushups, pablo, it'll go away.

Quoting Firesign Theatre without an attribution is high treason in this
froup.

You must be disemboweled.

>		HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHeatherrrrrrrrrrrrr

Using a vibrator while typing is not recommended.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson)
Subject: There was a time...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:18:21 GMT

When pork chops cost a nickel, and I ate a lot of pizza.

Scotty AJ
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Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.arts.books
From: mbur@nyx.cs.du.edu (MAC)
Subject: Re: the wonks are in: what do they read for fun?
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,misc.test,rec.arts.books
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 01:50:08 GMT

In article <9NOV199214084414@rigel.tamu.edu> spb0457@rigel.tamu.edu (SubGenius) writes:
>Fiona Webster writes...
>>Have you noticed?  The popular press is indulging their feature
>>writers by proclaiming _ad_nauseum_ the "cultural shift" attendant on
>>Bill Clinton's victory, yet while there are ample references to
>>changing iconography within pop music, movies, and television, I've
>>seen very little on the subject of books.
>
>[deletia]
>
>>In the meantime, I'm glad to hear I'm in with the Clinton crowd <thin
>>smile> as a reader of detective novels.  Which authors are supposed to
>>be _au_courant_--does anyone know?  James Lee Burke, perhaps?
>>Lawrence Block?  Bill Pronzini?  Andrew Vachss?
>>                                        --bemused and befuddled,
>>                                             but enormously relieved,
>>                                                       Fiona
>
>+-------------------------------------SubG-------------------------------------+
>I'm not quite hep to all this "cultural" techtonics that the popular media is

Rictus?!?