From: paulchem@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Icarus)
Subject: Ta-Da !The Riff-Raff Arrive !! [Re: In Memoriam] -- Icarus.
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 00:17:26 GMT

In article <1992Aug23.201957.24747@cbfsb.cb.att.com> sidnag@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (siddhartha.nag) writes:
>>
>>Why don't we recruit from SCI?  Wait ... on second thought ...
>>have you seen what goes on there?  Never mind.  ;')
>
>Couldn't agree anymore. What a breath of fresh air this acua !
>At the risk of using a hackneyed rhetoric, what a *mature* bunch.
>No, but seriously it gets a little weary to carry on petty debates
>with wacko hoi polloi and their ilk.... and then there are the religious
>fundamentalists, story tellers, vikings and bigots with a birds-eye-
>view ; )
>Ooops here I go again. Let's keep this newsgroup above all of that.
>Let's have some plain old intellectual FUN and sorry to sound too elitist
>- let's keep the sci riff raff away as long as we can. 

1] 

   We are not worthy.
   ------------------

   Dont leave us in the rain and cold, 
   O mighty master !
   in the lost shepherds fold,
   O super-climbing mekaster !
   Show us just a little of that well hidden sun,
   Please let us share in your "plain old intellectual FUN",
   yes, please do !

   We are not worthy,
   We know we are not worthy,
   We know we are not worthy at all.

   Still,
   if you will,
   a word on time,
   another on space, a third of rhyme,
   an occasional treatise,
   on men and wayward mice,
   a little hebrew, a dash of basque,
   is all we backward slaves will ever ask.

   camus and kirkegaard,
   we know you look opon,
   with contemptous disregard,
   to practice your wilting wit opon.

   fischer and tal,
   are seaweed and offal.

   kafka and other angsters,
   are but smallish gangsters,
   compared to the terrible wisdom,
   that pervades your scholarly kingdom.

   miller and joyce,
   are chiller and toys.
   
   We are not worthy,
   We know we are not worthy,
   We know we are not worthy at all.
   
   Still,
   if you will,
   O light of the jellied wires,
   O right of the wisest sires,
   O wick of the brightest fires,
   O scourge of the mighty Iyers,
   allow us this smallest of mercies,
   allow us this newest of jerseys,
   let us subscribe,
   to this glorious group,
   dont us proscribe,
   from this mind-tingling soup.
   
   We are not worthy,
   We know we are not worthy,
   We know we are not worthy at all.

2] I must have missed a smiley at the end of your post, nag.
   I guess you were just kidding.

   About being elitist, I dont think it can be helped,
   after all, you are in a class of your own, without peers.
   One does, after all, rise to ones own level of incompetence.
   To use a tired cliche, what color is the sky in your world ?

[...]

3] Best wishes from the "Net-Anarchists of SCI (NASCI), 
   Flaming Homer Division." :-)

[...]

>"..And you can ring a crown of roses round your cranium"  IA

4]"..And you, sir, can climb a ten foot needle and sit on it" -- Monty Python,
											   The Apocryphal and Other Snakes.
5] Stay Cool.

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