From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: Flashbacks are REAL? (Was: How old am I?)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 13:08:24 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

In article <ATAYLOR.92Aug12114108@gauss.nmsu.edu>, ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
|> <In article <1992Aug11.144733.2221@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
|> <   ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes: 
|> <   | <In article <1992Aug9.211612.29043@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
|> <   | <ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes: 
|> <   | <| <In article <1992Aug6.002339.2756@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (Dave Cochran) writes:
|> <   | <
|> <   | <Will I be sorry I posted this?  
|> <   | 
|> <   | 	If you are, you gotta leave peevedorf.
|> 
|> <Fat chance.  This is the second-grader telling the frustrated teacher that
|> <he has to leave the classroom.
|> 
|> 	Tsk. I merely pointed out the obvious; alt.peeves is hardly
|> 	the sort of place where one admits "I'm sorry".
|> 
|> 	Now, go and write on the chalkboard 100 times "I will read
|> 	posts before responding".

"Tsk" your own little weasly self, fella.  If *you* had read the post, you
would have seen that the question above A) does *not* say "I'm sorry" and
B) was followed immediately by my answer, "Nah".  That's what's known as
a "rhetorical" question.  As usual, your assertion has become an insertion.

|><   | 	Sounds to me like Fan Dolgerberg is some kinda
|><   | 	E-Z listening "star".....this generations answer
|><   | 	to Perry Como.
|>
|><   "This" generation's answer?  This was 17 years ago.  What part haven't you
|><   understood so far?
|> 
|> 	I don't understand why you would be posting a peeve about
|> 	some broad in a movie theater 17 years ago not knowing
|> 	who "Fan Dolgerberg" is....unless the Readers Digested
|> 	was *right* about "flashbacks".

Now wait, maybe Reader's Digest *was* right about the flashbacks, but sitting
here and reading, I can see that your phrase "this generation's answer", 
above, refers to the singer in question and not the incident that sparked all
of this, and I can also recall that this whole thing started at a concert and 
that movie theaters haven't been mentioned until just now.  I really thought 
that it was pretty bad that you didn't know anything at all about the past, 
but your grasp of the present appears to be somewhat limited, too.

OK, without looking, answer this question quickly: How far is your head 
stuck up your butt?

I didn't think you could do it.

|><   | 	Else old Dave wouldn't be so shy about expounding.
|><   | 	C'mon, Dave, turn off the Rogaine commercial,
|><   | 	chug-a-lug yer Ovaltine & tell me what a
|><   | 	Dan Donglebing is.
|>
|><   And again he posts implications on things about which he knows nothing. If
|><   there's one thing on this planet that I *don't* need to know about, it's
|><   Rogaine.  
|> 
|> 	Gotcha. Yeah, I bet that most, if not all, of Sy Sperlings
|> 	customers don't need to know about Rogaine....

Whatever.  This has nothing to do with anything.  You need to try to pick
up some better quality stuff next time you stop off at "Speciousness R Us".

|> <And Ovaltine just happens to be pretty cool stuff, if you know
|> <   how to use it.
|> 	Sure it is, just like lap comforters, PolyGrip and
|> 	trifocals....all real "cool stuff", sure.

Well, I could tell you a whole list of wonderfully kinky things that can
be accomplished with Ovaltine and PolyGrip, but you wouldn't understand
most of the words.  And I'm sure beyond any shadow of a doubt that my
definition of "lap comforter" is completely different from yours, even 
if I told you her name.

|><   | ObPeeve: people being "cutesy" about trivia.
|> 
|><   Peeve: People who are so convinced of their own intelligence and wittiness
|><   that they consider anything that they don't happen to know about to be
|><   "trivia".
|> 
|> 	What the heck ELSE would you call a "music star"
|> 	who hasn't been heard from for 17 years?

Again, if you had been paying attention, you would know that the last 
top 40 hit that Mr. Fogelberg had was in 1984.  His *first* hit was 17
years ago.  How many times do I have to go over this with you?  How long
did it take you to get through high school?  How much money do your parents
spend on tutors?  Have you tried learning things through subliminal messages
on tape while you're sleeping at night?

Let's see, Chuck Berry's last hit was in 1973, 19 years ago.  If the length
of time since they've done anything new is the sole indicator of what's 
trivial and what's not, then that makes any knowledge of Mr. Berry "trivia"
as well. Yeah, right.

No, wait.  I bet you don't know who Chuck Berry is, either, do you?  Go on
admit it.  You've already shown the entire planet your grasp of things, you
may as well go all the way.

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