HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: williamf@umbc5.umbc.edu (TheBigBopper)
Newsgroups: cso.freshmen,alt.slack,alt.cascades,alt.stupidity,alt.politics.kibo
Subject: Re: Gored by steers (was Re: bored to tears)
Keywords: cascade in subject line
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:02:39 GMT
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County

In article <T9ocsB1w165w@lost.cojones.com> sysadmin@lost.cojones.com ('Bart' Prentice) writes:
>mrl28033@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael R Linksvayer) writes:
>>genghis@uiuc.edu (Tim Elliott) writes:
>>>jlindqui@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Nell Carter's Pool Boy) writes:
>>>>ffujita@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Frank Fujita) writes:
>>>>>el27166@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (This Space for Rent) writes:
>>>>>>jlindqui@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (A Conrad Bain Wanna-Be) writes:
>>>>>>>mrl28033@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael R Linksvayer) writes:
>>>>>>>>genghis@uiuc.edu (Tim Elliott) writes:
>>>>>>>>>usenet@inesc.pt (USENET News System) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>a-feygin@uiuc.edu (Alexander Feygin) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>jlindqui@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (A Conrad Bain Wanna-Be) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>el27166@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (This Space for Rent) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>feygin@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Alexander Feygin) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>mrl28033@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael R Linksvayer) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>a-feygin@uiuc.edu (Alexander Feygin) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>genghis@uiuc.edu (Tim Elliott) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>or we could start our very own cascade....
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>or we could dart our very own blockade
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>or we should snort our very good cocaine.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>or we should abort our very last chess game.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>or we could subvert her hairy friend's chest mane.
>>>>>>>>>>>>or we could insert our merry head sans brain
>>>>>>>>>>>or we might revert and finally go insane
>>>>>>>>>>Or u could just wank in the lane...
>>>>>>>>>Thor just fell down the clogg'd drain.
>>>>>>>>Or just chill and slog through the pain.
>>>>>>>More busts swell and pull on my chain.
>>>>>>Whores lust for blonde balls on great danes.
>>>>>Profs scoff at cso.freshmen's porn fame.
>>>>Come off it, it's really just a game.
>>>Come to think of it, DOS is really lame.
>>Shun pinks, ROSS is fair game.
>Flush this cascade down the drain.
Republicans are dogs with no shame.
From: richter@hardy.u.washington.edu (Josef Richter)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: SchizoSlack Forever Underwater
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:13:32 GMT
Reply-To: richter@u.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle





       ---        WEIRD ENCOUNTERS OF VARIED TYPES        ---
                                  
               Latest Update From SchizoSlack Central
                      Tape Transcript #0999 





        And lemme tell you this, o ye chosen ones, ye children of
the YETI -- yeah, lemme tell you this: the CON is here today, here
now, and it's planning to be HERE TO STAY.  Now, you can LAUGH at
that thought, but FACT IS, most of you are *pathetic*!  What are
*you* doing to stop the CON?  What have *you* *done* *today* to
break the rule of the NORMALS?  HUH?  HUH?  HUH?  WHAT HAVE *YOU*
*DONE* TO *WIPE* THE *PINKS* FROM THE *+FACE+* OF THE *+PLANET+*?
What are you doing, doing right now?  You're absorbing SLACK, and
that's GOOD.  But SLACK in and of itself is JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH for
the PLANETARY DOMINATION, fuck that, the UNIVERSAL and OMNIPRESENT
DOMINATION that the *SUPERIOR* SUBGENIUS RACE *DESERVES*!  And
believe me now, children of the LORD, when I tell you that we don't
JUST deserve that domination -- it is our DESTINY!  You, my friend
-- yes, YOU -- were BORN to LORD OVER and PLAY *GOD* TO those
inferior NORMALS which RIGHT NOW, EVEN AS WE SPEAK dominate and
control your life.  *WHAT* could be more unfair?  *WHAT* travestry
of NATURE could TOP THIS? *+WHAT+*???????
        Can't think of anything?  Well, I'll TELL you WHAT could be
WORSE!  It would be WORSE if those organizations, perhaps those
RELIGIONS, whose DIVINE PURPOSE is/was to help ESTABLISH *WEIRDO*
*CONTROL*, were under ATTACK, you heard me right ATTACK, by
quote-happy smug in-jokey pathetic LOSERS with nothing better to do
with their PRECIOUS TIME.  And you know why that's worse?  BECAUSE
IT'S TRUE.  You heard me -- it's TRUE!!!  *TRUE*!!!!!
*+TRUE+*!!!!!!!!!!   
        Yes, those ORGANIZATIONS AND RELIGIONS are being ASSAULTED
by GEEKS and WHINERS and SHITHEADS, JELLY-LIKE *BLOBS* OF PITIFUL
PSYCHICK *OOZE* CAPABLE OF NOTHING MORE THAN THE ENDLESS RECITATION
OF TIRED SLOGANS AND CONSTIPATED IN-JOKES!!!  YOU HEARD ME RIGHT!!!
THESE...  *THINGS* EXIST, PERHAPS EVEN *IN* *YOUR* *OWN* *HOUSE*!
EVEN IN YOUR OWN *MIND*!!!!!
        
        WHO'S TO BE TRUSTED? 
        WHO'S TO BE BELIEVED?
        WHO DESERVES YOUR HARD-EARNED CASH $? 
        
        I'd tell you that *I* DO, but if you haven't already
SUSPECTED *ME* of PINKNESS and NORMALITY beyond belief, you cannot
be saved. So who *IS* to be trusted? 

        HA! 
        
        Figure it out for YOURSELF, fucking PINK BOY!
From: Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Re: N-Man #4: DEDICATED TO TOM DENNIS
Date: 15 Oct 92 09:37:19 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

(sigh) It's not that I'm knocking the practice of asking for $20 and
generally being Subgenius in nature.

But it's hardly the same when 90% of the people use it as a knee-jerk
reaction to anything.  I mean, they don't even include an _address_.  How
slackful is that?  How is anyone supposed to send money when you don't leave
an address?  Just "send me $20 to prove I'm a Subgenius, even though it can't
happen for several reasons, it'll make me feel un-pink and happy for a few
minutes"

Just call me Mr. Earnest.
Or kill me.

Oh, and if anyone wants to know the CORRECT way to ask other people for $20
on the Net and ACTUALLY COLLECT THE SUM, just send $20 to:

Jeremy "Mr. Earnest" Reimer
#204, 3611 W. 16th Ave.
Vancouver, BC
CANADA <- maybe now you'll realize the reason for the British spelling
V0N 1V0 <- we have much more interesting postal (scuse me, zip) codes here

Actually, if you want, you can address it to the Director of Reimertronics.
Yeah, that's what appeared in my junk-mailbox the other day.  Seems companies
love to spend their own money sending me their product info, when it's just a
company I made up in order to get free info.

Saw one guy on TV who outdoes me by a factor of a trillion.  Collects all the
free junk mail he can.  Uses it to heat his home.  Now _that's_ slack.



--
Jeremy_Reimer@ |"Anti-ninjas were the most feared assassins in the world.
mindlink.bc.ca | Instead of appearing out of thin air, throwing metal stars
---------------| and messing around with bo staffs and numchuks they simply
aka THE JAGUAR!| shot people and then drove everyone mad with pointless
---------------| conspiracy theories for years afterwards."
Stealth Sig#42 |  --From "N-Man #3"
Newsgroups: alt.slack
From: gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven)
Subject: Re: I-359E
Reply-To: gak@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:09:46 GMT

In article 18790@newshub.sdsu.edu, cs107028@pandora.sdsu.edu (Charles Herbig) writes:
>Keith Lofstrom (keithl@klic.rain.com) wrote:
>=> Therefore, I have just formed the: 
>=> 
>=>Institute of Eager Early Earnest Earsplitting Earthen Earthmoving Earthquaking
>=> 
>       [A rather large section of Webster's dictionary deleted]
>
>=> until you pass out!  You will never be mistaken for a Pink again!  Join
>=> now, before all the best splinter groups are taken.  
>=> 
>=> I-359E - the largest professional organization (name) in the universe!
>
>BEWARE! Here there be PINKNESS!

Not necessarily.

>Old Pinky here thinks that by opening a dictionary and copying all kinds of
>words, he can decieve the Slackful, and thereby, suck the slack from your souls.

Submitted for your excremeditation:

Keith's Pinkness cannot be determined until he receives or fails to
receive membership fees for his organization.  A true SubGenius will
revel in the wealth he receives from the Pinks who join his little
club, for the Act of Receiving Something for Nothing does in fact
determine the amount, volume, bulk, and viscosity of the Slack he
usurps.

On the other hand, he didn't mention a price.

---
Richard Stueven        gak@wrs.com         attmail!gakhaus!gak        107/H/3&4

        I'm always more outspoken after a few pints of Guinness.
                - Mrs. E. Slocombe

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From: hlow@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Handel Low)
Subject: Re: Slack a la carte
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 22:00:49 EDT

In article <1992Sep29.222150.16245@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:
>
>it is everywhere. it is there in the elevator you take instead of walking
>upstairs, there in the extra packets of nutra sweet you steal from denny's
>to take home and feed to your roaches, it is in the tree which changes colors
>and loses its leaves three weeks before the rest of them, and its in the faces
>of dazed students you see wandering around lost.
>



it's society's fault


handel "society must pay" low
From: popec@unkaphaed.UUCP (William C. Barwell)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Re: $tangsellout sell out
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 08:27:43 GMT
Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy

Mitchell.Porter@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Mitchell Porter) writes:

> 
> Reading an archive of alt.slack posts from 1989 there were a few mentions 
> of Ivan Stang `selling out'. Can anyone tell me what this refers to?
> 
> --
>    The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
>      North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
>         Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
>            internet:  bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80

MTV contacted the Church Of The Subgenius and gave them some bucks to do 
an "Art Minute".  This was a Butt-kicking Church Of The Subgenius TV 
Commercial that played on MTV for some weeks.  Some "Bobbies" became 
resentful and accused Stang of selling out by putting "commercials" on 
TV.  Silly Gits!  "Bob" WANTS us to sell out!  This was the Genius of the 
Subgenius!  To put together a cult so wierd that we couldn't possibly 
sell out and then doing so anyway!  Of course, Stang really sold out in 
1982 when Mcgraw-Hill commissioned him to edit the 'Book Of The 
Subgenius'.  These smellyu little bobbies were a decade to late with 
their little tantrums.

Pope Charles  Subgenius Pope Of Houston      Kill the bobbies
                                             But only when we've
                                             drained 'em dry 7 
                                             and sucked their wallets.

--
popec@unkaphaed.UUCP (William C. Barwell)
Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, (713) 943-2728 in Houston, Texas
1200/2400/9600/14400 v.32bis/v.42bis
From: Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Thought for the day
Date: 16 Oct 92 10:07:33 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

You know those new Euro-demos for the PC, the ones that turn a 33Mhz machine
into a capable copy of the 7Mhz Amiga through blood, sweat, and funky
programming?

It occurred to me that life, that is, life as we know it, is really just a
demo.

Hit ESC to continue...


--
Jeremy_Reimer@ |"Anti-ninjas were the most feared assassins in the world.
mindlink.bc.ca | Instead of appearing out of thin air, throwing metal stars
---------------| and messing around with bo staffs and numchuks they simply
aka THE JAGUAR!| shot people and then drove everyone mad with pointless
---------------| conspiracy theories for years afterwards."
Stealth Sig#42 |  --From "N-Man #3"
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From: dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis)
Subject: Re: N-Man #3: MORE FUN THAN A BARREL FULL OF CASCADES!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:51:55 GMT

In <16300@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer) writes:

>> Thomas A. Dennis writes:
>>
>> Msg-ID: <Bvx542.I67@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
>> Posted: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 18:38:2
>>
>> Org.  : University of Illinois at Urbana
>>
>> I finally, to my great relief, figured out the "n" in N-Man: I simply press
>> the
>> n on my keyboard, and I can leap past this inane pap altogether.
>>
>> Yours for the annihilation of clueless Pinx(c1992 TomCorp Ltd., all rights
>> reserved) who post crap on alt.slack that has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CHURCH
>> OF
>> THE SUBGENIUS OR EVEN THE MOST IMPROBABLE DERIVATION THEREOF,
>>
>> --
[my glorious sig deleted]

>Tough.  Alt.slack is the new home of N-Man (and yes, if your cranial mass is
>less than that of a bee's excrement, it can stand for the n-key) and that's
>just the way it is.

>N-Fans are multiplying like rabbits.  Multiplying the way YOU wished you
>could if you had the nerve to.

>By attacking N-Man for lack of slack, you have lost all yours.  Those with
>higher intelligences can see the connection between a non-standard superhero
>and the Church of the SubGenius.  Those who can't are doomed to repeat "send
>$20 or kill me" a thousand times and think they have really produced
>something worthwhile.  Enjoy your net.masturbation.

[sad attempt at a clever sig deleted]
>--

Well, heck, "Jaguar", no need to flame; after all, I wasn't attacking you
personally--I was urging for the obliteration of EVERYONE LIKE YOU.  Take
comfort in the knowledge that there are at least a few others that will
follow you, whimpering, into the Void.

Now, then.  Since you are correct in one solitary assertion--that I cannot, in
fact, stop you from posting to alt.slack--I may as well recognize those truly
slackful superheroes and their creators, that you and your Nothing/Nebbish/
Nerd/Nonentity-Man may cringe and snivel in the face of true greatness:

The Jammer (Bernie E. Mireault)
Flaming Carrot (Bob Burden)
Buddy Bradley (Peter Bagge)
The Badger (Mike Baron)
All of the Watchmen, except for Ozymandias (Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons)
V (Alan Moore)
Jesus Christ (Chester Brown)

Can't think of any others... more news as it is revealed to me.

--

Tom Dennis                    |  I looked into the abyss,
dennis@alexia.uiuc.edu        |    and the abyss looked into me--
tadg0614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu     |      and we both winked.
From: Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Re: N-Man #3: MORE FUN THAN A BARREL FULL OF CASCADES!
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:28:06 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

> Thomas A. Dennis writes:
>
> Msg-ID: <Bvx542.I67@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
> Posted: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 18:38:2
>
> Org.  : University of Illinois at Urbana
>
> I finally, to my great relief, figured out the "n" in N-Man: I simply press
> the
> n on my keyboard, and I can leap past this inane pap altogether.
>
> Yours for the annihilation of clueless Pinx(c1992 TomCorp Ltd., all rights
> reserved) who post crap on alt.slack that has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CHURCH
> OF
> THE SUBGENIUS OR EVEN THE MOST IMPROBABLE DERIVATION THEREOF,
>
> --
>
> Tom Dennis                    |  I looked into the abyss,
> dennis@alexia.uiuc.edu        |    and the abyss looked into me--
> tadg0614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu     |      and we both winked.


Tough.  Alt.slack is the new home of N-Man (and yes, if your cranial mass is
less than that of a bee's excrement, it can stand for the n-key) and that's
just the way it is.

N-Fans are multiplying like rabbits.  Multiplying the way YOU wished you
could if you had the nerve to.

By attacking N-Man for lack of slack, you have lost all yours.  Those with
higher intelligences can see the connection between a non-standard superhero
and the Church of the SubGenius.  Those who can't are doomed to repeat "send
$20 or kill me" a thousand times and think they have really produced
something worthwhile.  Enjoy your net.masturbation.


--
Jeremy_Reimer@ |"We have no deaf people in this country--'hearing impaired'
mindlink.bc.ca | We have no blind people in this country--'partially sighted'
---------------| or 'visually impaired'  And we have no stupid people,
aka THE JAGUAR!| everybody has a 'learning disorder'..."
---------------|
Stealth Sig#99 |    -- George Carlin

Newsgroups: alt.slack
From: reh@odin.icd.ab.com (Scrap Iron Hodge (Steve DiSalvo?))
Subject: bob gifs/bmps/jpgs/...
Organization: Throw everything in a manila folder and forget it
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:23:12 GMT

  I'm in dire need of a decent digitized image of BoB.  Could someone point
me at an FTP site or BBS?  

Thanks very much

--
++++  Bob Hodge  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++   I looking for Jim Meerbot!  If you know him, please e-mail me!         ++
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich)
Subject: Re: bob gifs/bmps/jpgs/...
Organization: Computer Science Department, Penn State University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:45:14 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.172312.7356@icd.ab.com> reh@odin.icd.ab.com (Scrap Iron Hodge (Steve DiSalvo?)) writes:
Scrap>   I'm in dire need of a decent digitized image of BoB.  Could someone point
Scrap> me at an FTP site or BBS?  

Scrap> Thanks very much

What exactly are you looking for?  I have a B+W Dobbs-head and also a color
version snarfed off of the fron cover of the Book of the SugGenius.

--
Dan Ehrlich - Sr. Systems Programmer - Penn State Computer Science
"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of
 realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited
 by the risk of displeasure." - Kingman Brewster
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From: richter@hardy.u.washington.edu (Josef Richter)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: SchizoSlack Forever Underwater
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:40:30 GMT
Reply-To: richter@u.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle





         ---        DIVINE SUFFERING STILL HURTS        ---
                                  
               Latest Update From SchizoSlack Central
                      Tape Transcript #0023 



        Brothers and sisters and little *babies* locked in the
dresser-drawers of a CRUEL and HOSTILE world: REJOICE, yea,
*REJOICE*, for THY TIME HATH COME!!!!!  You can *feel* it, feel it
in the VERY AIR WE BREATHE...  the time o' the LORD is drawin'
close; and when I say "close", I don't mean oh, yeah, you can see
it... 

        THE TIME OF THE LORD IS IMPINGING ON MY PERSONAL SPACE!!!!
        THE ALIEN INVASION IS *IN* *MY* *UNDERWEAR*!!!!
              
        Yes, brothers'n'sisters, it's THAT CLOSE!  It's closer 'n
the stamp on a box o' severed heads mailed to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
"HEAD"QUARTERS!  It's closer 'n the *fleas* in an anchorman's
toupee!  *BROTHERS* and *SISTERS*, the TIME of the LORD is closer
than the *holy* *boot* that covers the FOOT GLAND of the LORD DOBBS
ALMIGHTY!!!!!!  PRAISE "BOB", ALL YE FAITHFUL!!!  PRAISE HIM *NOW*!!
LET THAT MONEY *FLY*!!!
        All over the world, the slaves o' the CON are casting off
their chains, AND REPLACING THEM WITH NEXT SEASON'S *FASHION*
*STYLES*!  Does this mean anything!  NO!  It happens every year!
But it's CHANGE, b0bdammit, and CHANGE IS WHAT WE'VE COME TO "TALK"
ABOUT TODAY!  Yes, CHANGE!  And not only CHANGE -- but BILLS, too!
BILLS of LARGE sizes!  and CHECKS!  checks that are BLANK, just
waiting for the hand o' DOBBS...

        YOU, TOO, CAN BE A BLANK CHECK BEFORE THE PEN OF "BOB"!
        AND WHEN THAT PEN WRITES, IT'S *PERMANENT*!
        CAN YOU SAY *PERMANENT* INK, CAN YOU SAY *FOREVER*?
        
        Because the WORD of Dobbs is PERMANENT, brothers 'n sisters
-- because it *WILL* LAST, LAST RIGHT UP UNTIL THE DAY IT CHANGES!
YES! YAAAAA! YES! 
        What can I say?  What can I *tell* you?  No *words* can
express the GLORY; no *words* can express the TERROR; no *words* can
tell you that it is NECESSARY and ESSENTIAL to SEND MONEY TO FURTHER
THE CAUSE, THAT YOUR *VERY* *LIFE* *DEPENDS* ON YOUR *OPEN*
*WALLET*...  no, no words can express, can tell, can SHOW YOU THE
GLORY OF THE LIVING SAINT OF SALES, THE IMMORTAL AND EVERLASTING
THING OF THINGS, THE ALMIGHTY SLACKMEISTER...  and you know his
name, brothers and sisters, *you* know his *name*. 

             *SCREAM NOW, OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE*
From: Rod_Rombauer@neonate.amiga.atl.ga.us (Rod Rombauer)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Re: Kaskade Challenge II
Date: 14 Oct 92 15:55:25 GMT
Organization: The Village BBS

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can do your damn pink caskades... but keep them the HELL out of
alt.slack! This place is NOT for you SCUM-SUCKING BRAINLESS DUPES!

Kill me, or Ill kill you!

Bob, I fucking HATE normals... and CONFORMISTS... and FOLLOWERS...

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
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From: west@uncavx.unca.edu
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Re: A SubGenius in Peanuts!
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:03:26 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
Nntp-Posting-User: west

In article <39161@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:
> So I was leafing through a book of Peanuts cartoons because of this
> thread over in rec.arts.animation and rec.arts.comics.strips . . .
> anyway, here's Peppermint Patty, from a 1967 strip:
> 
> Patty: "You know why I believe your story about the "Great Pumpkin"?
> Because I'm very superstitious, that's why! The more impossible
> something is, the more I believe it! That's the way I am!"
> 
> Linus: "You think the "Great Pumpkin" story is impossible?"
> 
> Patty: "Oh, it's impossible all right . . . it's impossible, stupid
> and ridiculous . . . BUT I BELIEVE IT!!"
> 
> 
> Now, aside from the denial of reality and
> latching-onto-a-preposterous-story aspect (both clearly SubGenius
> traits, even if they _do_ screw up vi's wordwrap), note that the
> "Great Pumpkin" is always in quotes.
> 
> So _that's_ what "Bob" was doing in the '60s!
> 
>  -Paul "Monty" Ashley
>    (The strip is in both _It's a Long Way to Tipperary_ (large-size
> book) and _You'll Flip, Charlie Brown_ (small book, probably
> out-of-print))
> -- 
> "Am I a drunken loon? Whoo! Whoo!"        | pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
>      -- David Letterman                   |  [Not a UCSD employee]

This is the same argument Soren Kierkegaard makes for Xtianity...
From: kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:44:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Please Help
Organization: HP Western Response Center
Newsgroups: alt.slack

Oops! My apologies for posting my previous "Please Help" survey to this
group. It was an honest mistake and won't happen again.

Kingsley
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From: dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis)
Subject: Re: Fortune cookies
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:03:51 GMT

In <660fwwcp506@tfsquad.mn.org> 11-7470@wwiv.tfsquad.mn.org (Morty #11 @7470 
[SubGenius]) writes:

>[Regarding]: Re: What is this group all about?
>[From User]: ornoth#wonky.UUCP (David A. Liscomb) #284 @506
>[Recipient]: No Reply Necessary.

>Taking a cue from Rush Limbaugh, I've decided any message in a fortune cookie 
>is infinitely better by adding the words "in bed" at the end.  To wit: 
quoting 
>the last message with my addition, we come up with "If you had your life to 
>live over again, you'd need more money -in bed-."


This is a variation of the old grade-school game of adding "in your pants" 
to the end of any simple sentence.  Give it a shot...

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Tom Dennis                    |  I looked into the abyss,
dennis@alexia.uiuc.edu        |    and the abyss looked into me--
tadg0614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu     |      and we both winked.