From: Veeramany.Sthanumurthy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Veeramany Sthanumurthy)
Subject: Curious Fixation & Logic (was: Sholay was original...not!)
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 04:36:27 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.023758.24289@news2.cis.umn.edu> crick@tsp.med.umn.edu (Ed Crick (CD)) writes:
>To Sthan, Nath, Sumitro, and all the rest of you who staunchly defend the 
>so-called genuine nature of this obvious imitation:  Get a clue.

In addition to being consistently obtuse this continuing masquerade
is getting curiouser by the minute in view of the dialectic employed
by the apparently distraught being perpetrating it. Evidence of lurking 
for considerable periods of time is from the horse's mouth itself and 
as such is quite suspect. Repeated references to obscure entities are 
used to subvert any attempt at a meaningful discussion. The rather loud
protestations which followed the diagnosis of mental disorders and the
exhibition of paranoid tendencies as evident in the grouping of individuals
presenting widely varying perspectives leads one to believe an underlying
instability in the creature.

>Before you give me the patriotic rhetoric of the Indian bandits, of Hindi
>movies, and of how Shakespeare was actually from Bombay, go rent "The
>Magnificient Seven," or "The Seven Samurai."

Further evidence of an inability to separate the obviously factual from
the almost equally obviously facetious. The rather inordinate attempts to
inject appropriate terminology so as not to be ignored outright, result
in strange malapropisms. What is surprising is the ostrich-chick-like 
tendency to shy away from the realities - ah maybe there is the rub -
reality still persists.

>                                   Since all of you have seen
>"Sholay" 20 or 30 times each on video, I assume you have VCRs 
>Some of you have jumped on the Columbus-bashing, anti-Western bandwagon by 
>citing Native-killing in the one or two movies you saw a brief portion of
>while you were lying on the couch, flipping through the channels, and doing
>your Eastern blots for garam masala.  You may be shocked when you don't
>see the US cavalry in this movie.  You may also be disappointed when, in the
>heat of a gun battle, Yul Brenner does NOT stop shooting and start lip-
>synching to Kishore Kumar's voice.  Nevertheless you will soon understand, if
>you are capable, the movies from which "Sholay" was Xeroxed.  

Finally some reasonable hyperbole followed by the stereotypical non
sequiturs (of course I am repeating myself), some redundant cliches,
overuse of the rather limited (considering the avowed liberal 
tendency) artificially constructed ethnic slurs and ultimately the
grudging admission of some possibility of intelligence in the third 
world cretins.

>Most of you bypassed the citation of "Satanic Verses," wherein Rushdie
>writes that all Hindi-movie actors are obligated to do a remake of "The Mag. 7."FYI, you are allowed to own that book in the US.  

A curiously repetitive refrain possibly indicative of rather limited
exposure to the subject at hand or could this possibly be it - 
enlightenment brought on by old age?

>
>Now go do some of the background research before instinctively hitting
>shift-F and soiling the screen with your groundless (and mindless) responses.
>
>Ed

As I have already characterized the tendency underlying this last 
sentence I will stop here.

Sthan.
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