From: ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis)
Subject: Re: CREATION OF ALT.FAN.HOWARD-STERN.FARTMAN
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:11:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.114510.2736@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
>ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis) writes:
>
> >>Newsgroup for the discussion of the upcoming Howard Stern 
> >>Movie: "The Adventures of Fartman."
>
> >boy, won't you feel stupid if the move comes out and it's not 
> >called "the adventures of fartman" after all...
>
>Ha!  Funny...  Just how "stupid" will YOU be feeling when it comes out?
no i won't actually.  i'm not proposing a newsgroup be formed under the
presumption that the movie will be released under that name.  i don't
doubt that *a* movie will be released.

i think a separate newsgroup dedicated to stern is shaky and i agree with one
of the posters who said that there is just not enough discussion about stern
to make proliferating subgroups a good idea.  secondly, the fartman newsgroup
is presumably dedicated to discussions about a movie that is probably a year
from being released.  what exactly are you planning to talke about between now
and then?

>
> >how about:
> >	alt.fan.joe&howard
>
>If you are *still* saying this after last night, then how about:  
>
>--->    alt.get.a.clue !
you've obviously got none to give here (clues, that is) so maybe you *do*
need a special news group.  i personally am clueless as to why last
night is so significant relative to the proposed newsgroup.  since you
apparently have no clue about the fact that the proposal was a spoof on
the original proposal of stern subgroups, let me clarify - it was.

your point, however, maybe to say that last night proved beyond all shadow
of a doubt that stern's show is far superior to joe's.  i doubt that you
have ever seen the show so you probably don't know what you're talking
about if that's the case.  i was planning to call joe next time he has
a viewer call-in show and ask him what he thought of howard stern.  it's
kind of hard to get through sometimes, however, and since joe is showing
reruns from the past season for the next couple of months it might be a
while before he has another one.  joe does read viewer mail on the front
end of his shows so if you want to write him on captain janks related
themes and joe reads the letter on the air i'll tell you what he said.
the address:

this week in joe's basement
suite 230
1448 east 52nd street
chicago il 60615

>
>It was the WORST.  Really stupid and boring.  The costume looked moronic.
>
i thought that some of the other 'superheros' (in particular "oldman" whose power
was that he could get into movie theaters at half price) was funny.  i also thought
that part about fartman barbequing a chicken strictly on the force of his flatulence
was funny.  and i thought that the takeoff on the batman show (which displayed words
like *pow*, and *zap* on the screen when punches were thrown) while fartman was
showing his powers was clever, and funny.  maybe these points were too subtle for
you.  tsk, tsk.

>
>And "everything" else he does is somehow terrible?  
>Is that supposed to make even ANY sense?
>
actually, i never said that "everything" else in the show was terrible.  what i
did say was that there were some funny sketches, but that the entire hour was
not funny end to end.  where i differ in my view of stern is that while i think
he's funny, intelligent, and talented (certainly more so than most radio personalities)
i *don't* view him as god, as some readers of this newsgroup do.  for instance, i
thought that his last letterman appearance was pretty good and apparently letterman
thought so because it appeared that he extended the discussion for an extra segment.
on the tonight show appearance he came across like a geek in my opinion, his
insert-your-favorite-celebrity-name insults were starting to get a bit redundant, and
i felt that leno scored on him with some funny comeback lines that even had stern
laughing.  the one that immediately comes to mind is when (i think) stern said to
ann-marie johnson that she probably would not be coming back to the tonight show
any time soon and leno replied that she would probably be on a lot sooner than he
would showing stupid fartman clips.

>
>FORTUNATELY on his MTV appearance, Fartman looked very GOOD.
>The movie would already seem to be off on the right track.
>
based on a costume i don't think you're in a position to
know anything about the status of the movie.


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