From: quaglia@seas.smu.edu (Bruce Quaglia)
Subject: Re: Smokin' @ Showzzzzzzzz
Organization: SMU School Of Engineering and Applied Science
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 10:27:23 GMT

In article <BtB2z4.KuB@askinc.ask.COM> robert@askinc.ask.COM (Robert McMullen) writes:
>To catch people up, one eternally vigilant asshole posted up all
>about how neatly they go about trying to keep people from exercising
>their civil rights to protect his personal rights (yeah, keeping
>people from smoking in public to suit his selfish needs...).  Someone,
>questioning the methodology, responded:
>
>>>Are you for real? You've actually *done* this? And haven't gotten
>>>your lights knocked out???? I'm not a smoker, and am not particularly
>>>Cormac
>
>>Well, Yeah, I'm for real. As I mentioned before, if you are stealthy
>>they really don't know where it came from...that's what's mostly
>
>No, that means you're a fucking pussy.  If you had any balls at all
>you'd simply ask them to roach the cig/joint/whatever.  BTW, being an
>advocate of "stealthness", are you for the US building a bomber that
>can sneak in undetected and bomb you in your sleep?
>
No I advocate immediate devestating nuclear assaults on every country
and asshole <like you> that gets out of line....

>>fun about it. If you walked right up in their face and did it you
>>might as well be really confrontational and I wasn't advocating 
>
>Bzzzt!  You'd get better results by asking than through cowardice.  I 
>know, since I usually go to shows with large groups of friends, that
>I *would* find you, then do something really unpleasant to you.  
>Especially if it was my *last* cigarette.      
>
yeah, real unpleasant: you'd bleed all over me and cry real loud so that
I'd feel guilty about how I'd rearranged your face.

>>starting brawls in the aisles. As for asking people to not smoke,
>>it rarely works. Most people I know who still smoke are indignant
>>and self-righteous about their "right" to smoke in *your* face.
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>That's only happening because the fascists in CONTROL have decided
>that they're going to limit what people can do where (ie, smoking
>in restaurants, oral sex in Arizona).  I don't know of any time
>someone's claimed the "right" to blow smoke in *my* face as opposed
>to the countless times people have asked me NOT to smoke, or made 
>that god-awful, faggy little *cough, cough* right after I lit up...
>
yeah, those damn facists won't let me bring a real six-shooter in to
purge the smokers with, hence the water pistol...

>A couple questions: 
>
>Do you squirt Jerry for blowing his ungodly smoke in your precious
>little face?
>
only when he belches at me too, god I hate when he does that...

>Would you squirt-gun, say a 350-pound 1% HA biker, or do reserve your 
>cowardly antics for people smaller than you, say girls?
>
yeah, sure why not, you want me to squirt girls too? I ussually talk to
them instead, but if you insist...

>Do you not go to any indoor shows?
>
think I already said that i don't go any shows anymore, all these assholes
showed up in the mid 80's ...
>[I agree with the person who said that you can't do shit about it 
>outdoors, say at Shoreline, but they shouldn't allow it indoors, say at
>Oakland Coliseum...and I smoke!] 
>
>All I can say to help you is, if you don't like it, don't go, and save
>some tickets for those of us with minds open enough to deal with it
>(thought that's what the beauty of this scene is, anyway...).
>
oh yeah, the beauty of the "scene" is that you can smoke your cigarrettes
and know that your just savoring your "civil rights" while everybody is
choking and gagging around you- that`s really just sooo beautiful...



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