HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bjornl@sics.se (Bj|rn Lisper)
Subject: Re: Movie Recommendations....
Followup-To: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
	<1992Oct7.171326.268@cbnews.cb.att.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:43:01 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.171326.268@cbnews.cb.att.com> ameyer@cbnews.cb.att.com
(Andreas Meyer) writes:
>In alt.fan.frank-zappa, <MAH76X@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com> writes:
>> Our local Blockbuster Video store has 3 or 4 Frank Zappa video tapes.  One
>> was 200 Motels, I forget the other 3.  Is there any favorites among Zappa
>> fans?

>I'm pretty sure the "Dub Room Special" is out on video now.
>It's got a version of "Inca Roads" with some great Clay-mation segments.

It's been available from BARFKO-SWILL at least since '88. Highly
recommended.

Bjorn Lisper
From: dadmun@maple.circa.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Subject: RE: Just curious...
Date: 12 Oct 92 02:08:33 GMT
Reply-To: dadmun@maple.circa.ufl.edu
Organization: University of Florida - CIRCA


In article <92281.165625JDRESNO@auvm.american.edu>, JDRESNO@auvm.american.edu (Joseph Dresnok III) writes:
>
>  I have heard and seen Phish several times.  I think that they are a fantastic
> group, in terms of musicianship, songwriting, and having fun.  Bands like
>this one don't come around often, and I'd recommend seeing them before basing
>an opinion.
>     There is also Aquarium Rescue Unit, with a slightly more jazz feel.  I'd
>also highly recommend checking those guys out.

If u want to check out Phish news  , use :   rec.music.Phish  and
ARU and other HORDE bands are available through the mail system via
Horde-request@world.std.com       - to subscribe
Horede@world.std.com        - to post to the entire net

I highly recommend Phish.  They are incredible.

Also Phish is available in digestified mail form via
Phish@fuggles.acc.virginia.edu   to post
add -request   after Phish to subscribe.

Phish has done a cover of Peaches en Regalia, but that's the only Frank

content - sorry....

Andy D.
From: ameyer@cbnews.cb.att.com (Andreas Meyer)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Subject: Re: Movie Recommendations....
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:13:26 GMT
Reply-To: ahm@hoqas2.att.com (Andreas Meyer)
Followup-To: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel NJ

In alt.fan.frank-zappa, <MAH76X@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com> writes:
> Our local Blockbuster Video store has 3 or 4 Frank Zappa video tapes.  One
> was 200 Motels, I forget the other 3.  Is there any favorites among Zappa
> fans?

I'm pretty sure the "Dub Room Special" is out on video now.
It's got a version of "Inca Roads" with some great Clay-mation segments.

Andy
-- 
    ==--
  -====---    Andreas Meyer, N2FYE                     ahm@hoqas2.att.com
  --==----    AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel NJ        ..!att!hoqas2!ahm
    ----
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:56:25 EDT
From: Joseph Dresnok III <JDRESNO@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Subject: RE: Just curious...

  I have heard and seen Phish several times.  I think that they are a fantastic
 group, in terms of musicianship, songwriting, and having fun.  Bands like
this one don't come around often, and I'd recommend seeing them before basing
an opinion.
     There is also Aquarium Rescue Unit, with a slightly more jazz feel.  I'd
also highly recommend checking those guys out.
     But I won't babble on.  Y'all want to stick to FZ I'm sure.

-joe
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
From: jepstein@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jonathan Epstein)
Subject: Re: Just curious...
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 03:08:15 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.191801.4906@panix.com> fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller) writes:
>In <Bvr7Lr.Hpv@nic.umass.edu> jepstein@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jonathan Epstein) writes:
>
>>I was just curious what people in this newsgroup think of the band PHISH.
>>They have often been compared to FZ, and for good reason.
>
>By whom?  And why?

	By myself (the original author of this thread). Not only have I
	heard/seen them do Peaches, but I strongly feel a great influence
	from Frank making its way into Phish's music, lyrics, and humor.
>
>From what I've heard of phish, they sound like just another
>neo-psychedelic, modern day grateful dead imitating, blues-rock kind of
>band.

	Have you ever heard them? I assume you haven't from this statement.
	I HIGHLY recommend that you go see these guys or ge a hold of some
	live tapes. These guys are HOT!HOT!HOT! and owe much to my surrogate
	daddy, Frank Vincent Zappa.

	They sound nothing like the Dead, and those who do not like the
	Dead miss out on a wonderful thing in Phish, because of prejudices.
	If you like Zappa, great musicianship, all mixed in with a bit of
	lightheartedness, I guarentee that you will fall in love with Phish.
	That's how it happened with me.

>What possible connection is there with Zappa?

	That's the connection, not much to it.

>-- 
>    / \      Reverend fnord                 | "King Kong died for your sins!"
>   /   \     fnord@panix.com                | 
>  / <0> \                                   | "Don't just eat a hamburger, 
> /_______\   Church of Obfuscatology, Inc.  |  eat the HELL out of it!"


- J

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|| And, as always, we hope that You Enjoy Myself during this next number.  ||
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
From: kbc@sbfexc.kemerovo.su (Brezgin Evgenij Aleksandrovich)
Subject: Help folks! Badly in need of Jim Morrison/Doors lyrics!
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:10:21 GMT
Reply-To: kbc@sbfexc.kemerovo.su
Organization: Siberian Fond Exchange
Keywords: Jim Morrison/Doors lyrics
Summary: Help folks! Badly in need of Jim Morrison/Doors lyrics!



Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
From: fox-r@hippocampus.cis.ohio-state.edu (The Guitarist From Hell)
Subject: Zappa magazine issue is out!
Organization: Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:09:59 GMT

I haven't seen anyone post about this yet, so maybe I'm the first?
The Zappa issue of Guitar/Keyboard is out!!  It must have come out in the
last few days.  It is quite a nice little magazine, all dedicate to the
man we all love and admire.

Just to give a bit of an overview:

Many pictures of FZ throughout his career including a few recent photos.

Interviews with people about FZ, many people influenced by him or people
 whom FZ respects and they respect him.  Its a bit gushy, everyone saying
 how great Zappa is (well, its true, but it gets a little boring after
 awhile). These bits include Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Ratt guitarist
 Warren De Martini, Mothers drummer Ansley Dunbar, his children, and some 
 classical composers/conductors.

There is a nice bit about Gail Zappa and how she runs Barking Pumpkin.

Interviews with FZ himself, 3 rather lengthy interviews, one of them
  coconducted by Matt Groening.

And finally, several interviews of people who work for Frank at the
  UMRK, and others (including Beverly D'Angelo who is considered a member
  of the family)

There is also a complete discography, and sheet music to two songs,
  The Girl in the Magnesium Dress and The (Unanswered) Cluster 1a.

The cover promises "lots of music", but there isn't.

Still, this magazine is well worth having!!  I was very happy to pick it
up.


Here are two little bits from the magazine (reprinted without permission 
of course :-)

From the Matt Groening interview:
"As soon as Bart Simpson is able to shave, he'll have a little
moustache and a goatee just like Zappa's"  [-- I am a big SImpsons fan,
I found this to be hysterical!]


In the introduction to the first of the FZ interviews (called The Mother
of All Interviews), the interviewer states:

"Everyone who works with Frank speaks of how he pushes limits.  We
lived what they meant.  And what an experience.  What a joy.  What an
honor to have been allowed to listen to so much.  Here then is the
condensed (!) version of the most amazing interviews I've ever been
granted by the most brilliant human I have ever faced, in the most
open household I've ever entered"

Hey, if that doesn't make you want to run right out and buy this
issue, you must be brain dead!!

Go out and buy it!  The cost is $4.95 US/canada, or 2.75 pounds u.k.


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Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence  |
	Research			| from the depths of the
The Ohio State University 		| Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
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"Star Wars won't work, its a stupid idea anyways"
    -- Star Wars Won't Work, Frank Zappa
From: dadmun@maple.circa.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Subject: re: cancertubes
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:44:55 GMT
Reply-To: dadmun@maple.circa.ufl.edu
Organization: University of Florida - CIRCA

In article <1992Oct5.155345.1@vax1.tcd.ie>, creilly@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>actually, it's prostate

Haven't we known this since last spring???

Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
From: qwa@milton.u.washington.edu (Ned Bedinger)
Subject: Re: Some notes to The Yellow Shark
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:39:01 GMT

>After two minutes of the OVERTURE, just after the YELLOW SHARK was swimming
>across the stage, ZAPPA entered the stage and an enormous applause started
>which lasted about 3 minutes !!! Nobody did expect this ! This was the first
>time i saw HIM in my life (seems i've been born too late !) and i was happy
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


I saw Frank ONCE, in my home town of Richmond, VA,  He opened with the ever-
poignant "Plastic People", and then suffered thru an interminable round of 


























jeers from the audience, cats in their best veg-o-matic voices calling for
whipping post, louie louway, and sundry melancholia that plainly put the
whole worldx of possibility (zappa in richmond) straignt to bed.  I would
affirmatively shit biscuits to see Frank appear before an audience capable
of the rhetorical and aesthetic reverence of the "Yellow Shark" recital that
you were in on.

BTW, thanks for posting.  Its been 15 years since the the RICHMOND fiasco, 
and I still can't get the image of the depredation and disrespect that I 
saw at that show out of my psyche.  I fuckin' love my zappa records and wish
like hell that he knew how much I love his bands.


uh crate pig fan.

           qwa.u.washington.edu



______________________


Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
From: jcs@ixstar.ih.att.com (John "C". Sucilla)
Subject: Re: Help folks! Badly in need of Jim Morrison/Doors lyrics!
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 10:15:47 GMT
Keywords: Jim Morrison/Doors lyrics

rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:

>take all your doors music, put it in a blender, then microwave the
>resluting mixture for 5 minutes on HIGH. serve with fresh bread, and
>garnish with beak.

You would EAT that stuff???  :-)

-- 
John "C". Sucilla,  AT&T Bell Laboratories  IX 1F-210  (708) 979-0599
jcs@ixstar.att.com
From: buzzsaw@bluemoon.rn.com (Patrick Buzby)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Subject: Re: Yellow Shark recordings
Date: 11 Oct 92 21:26:16 GMT
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])

From what I've read, recordings will be done of the Yellow Shark material, 
either directly from the concerts (not likely) or in a separate studio 
session (a la the LSO and Pierre Boulez recordings).  I eagerly await the 
release of this material.

     Pat Buzby           "Fried ice cream is a reality!"-George Clinton
     Grove City, OH      "Music is the best."-Frank Zappa
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
From: gordm@bnr.ca (Gord McLennan)
Subject: Re: test
Keywords: test
Reply-To: gordm@bnr.ca (Gord McLennan)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:45:43 GMT

RE:
>Since no one in their right mind would listen to this junk
>I'll test by posting here.


Sigh....

If you are going to do something stupid, you may as well do it for
the world to see...

This piece of inane drivel was preceeded by a comment like "I'm
telling you, my account won't let me post externally."

Apologies to Zappa and his fans.

All I can say is, on a good day I can make even Arthur Dent feel
good about himself.



Gord

My opinions only (and in a recent case not even mine)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
From: buzzsaw@bluemoon.rn.com (Patrick Buzby)
Subject: Re:Movie Recommendations...
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 18:41:51 EDT

  In my previous post on this topic, I mentioned that I'd seen Baby Snakes 
and Video From Hell.  I forgot Does Humor Belong In Music?, a live show 
from 1984 (with some interviews added), that seems to be the easiest FZ 
video to find.  Aside from a great version of "Zoot Allures," not much is 
happening in this video, unfortunately, unless you like "Bobby Brown", 
"Dinah Moe Humm", and so on, or you really want to know what the '84 band 
looked like on stage.

     Pat Buzby           "Fried ice cream is a reality!"-George Clinton
     Grove City, OH      "Music is the best."-Frank Zappa
From: marcl@os-d.isc-br.com (H. Marc Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Subject: Re: FZ/XTC connection
Keywords: Mup!
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:02:23 GMT
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, An Olivetti Company

ben@media.mit.edu (Benjamin Kline Lowengard) writes:

>...but let me digress a bit and start a different thread on this
>motif. Did Zappa turn you on to New Music? I mean, did anyone else, as I
>did go out and buy those George Duke albums after he started his
>own career? I know Jean Luc Ponty from his affiliation with Frank, as well
>as Johnny Watson,Vai, the bozzios, Chester Thompson(and his gorilla), 
>etc etc.

It recurses!  How about Patrice Rushen (jazz pianist) from the early Jean
Luc Ponty albums?
--
H. Marc Lewis                 |  Phone: (509) 927-5480
ISC-Bunker Ramo Corp.         |  e-mail: marcl@hela.ISC-BR.COM
22425 E. Appleway Ave.        |  or:  ...!uunet!isc-br!hela!marcl
Liberty Lake, WA 99019-9534   |  "Nature bats last..."
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Subject: Re: Just curious...
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:18:01 GMT
Organization: Right Bleedin' Church of Libertine Obfuscatology

In <Bvr7Lr.Hpv@nic.umass.edu> jepstein@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jonathan Epstein) writes:

>I was just curious what people in this newsgroup think of the band PHISH.
>They have often been compared to FZ, and for good reason.

By whom?  And why?

From what I've heard of phish, they sound like just another
neo-psychedelic, modern day grateful dead imitating, blues-rock kind of
band.

What possible connection is there with Zappa?
-- 
    / \      Reverend fnord                 | "King Kong died for your sins!"
   /   \     fnord@panix.com                | 
  / <0> \                                   | "Don't just eat a hamburger, 
 /_______\   Church of Obfuscatology, Inc.  |  eat the HELL out of it!"
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Subject: Re: Help folks! Badly in need of Jim Morrison/Doors lyrics!
From: bjbernstein@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:03:20 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <1992Oct14.143331.24428@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:
> you DO need help.
> 
> take all your doors music, put it in a blender, then microwave the
> resluting mixture for 5 minutes on HIGH. serve with fresh bread, and
> garnish with beak.
> 
> 

  Yes, but be sure to measure it with the chicken when you're done...


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From: cadwell@astro.psu.edu (Brian Cadwell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Subject: Brother A. West
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:35:48 GMT
Distribution: alt.fan.frank.zappa
Organization: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State University


Who is this guy? (Brother A. West, i mean) On FZ's "The Best Band
You Never Heard In Your Life," track 6 on disk 2 is called "A Few
Moments With Brother A. West." Is this a band member posing as a
right-wing fundamental wanker, or is he a real live asshole? He is
given credit for the song along with FZ, for what thats worth. The
"song" was recorded in Philadelphia, is this man known to the locals
there?

bc

"Made a mistake and I sinned. What an asshole!"
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
From: mjparisi@athena.mit.edu (Mark Parisi)
Subject: Eric Bogosian
Keywords: sessions
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:43:13 GMT

Anybody know anything about some sessions FZ reportedly cut with Eric Bogosian
(Talk Radio, Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll) some time ago?

Regarding the vocals on the CD of Sleep Dirt, Zappa always wanted vocals "Time
Is Money". I heard an interview with a singer named Genya Ravan, who talked about
her abortive attempts to sing it in the key Zappa wanted.
Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 1992 16:35:34 -0400 
From: Brian William Carroll <bc2u+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Just curious...

    I don't know about the others but I love Phish.  I've only been
listening to them for about a year though.  Lawn Boy is my favorite,
exspecially Reba and Bathtub Gin. 

 Brian Carroll
From: cadwell@rad.psu.edu (Brian Cadwell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Subject: FZ/XTC connection
Keywords: Mup!
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:38:29 GMT
Reply-To: cadwell@rad.psu.edu
Organization: Big Swifty Inc.

A bit of background first: This story was origanally posted by Toby Howard
<toby@computer-science.manchester.ac.uk> on the Chalkhills and Children
mailer (all about XTC). Toby was at an XTC convension at which this story
was related to him via video tape of an interview with an XTC band member,
Dave Gregory. The other XTC band member mentioned is Andy Partridge.


- Funny story about Frank Zappa: a few years ago Scott Thunes and Mike
  McNealy (sp?) from Zappa's band -- big XTC fans -- called Dave to
  invite him and Andy to go up to Birmingam NEC to see the Zappa gig.
  Free tickets, backstage passes, the lot. [By the way I was at that gig
  too!] Dave said the gig was great, and he and Andy went backstage,
  hoping to meet the geat Mr Z. They spotted Zappa about to get into
  his limo and Scott Thunes shouted 'Hey Frank, this is Dave and Andy from
  XTC'. Zappa replied: "Mup", climbed into his limo and split. Dave
  told this story because on the wall of his home studio he has
  a picture sent to him by a friend of Thunes. It's a portrait
  of Zappa, with a speech bubble saying 'Mup'. Underneath
  is written an explanation: 'Mup is a Californian term meaning
  'Ah, hello Dave and Andy of XTC. I have long admired XTC and
  it is a great pleasue to meet you.... etc ...'

I always new there had to be some kind of connection between my two
favorite bands. I would guess that there are more XTC fans who would
say they enjoy Zappa than the other way around.

bc
From: bradley@grip.cis.upenn.edu (John Bradley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
Subject: Re: Brother A. West
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:31:03 GMT
Distribution: alt.fan.frank.zappa
Organization: GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania

> Who is this guy? (Brother A. West, i mean) On FZ's "The Best Band
> You Never Heard In Your Life," track 6 on disk 2 is called "A Few
> Moments With Brother A. West." Is this a band member posing as a
> right-wing fundamental wanker, or is he a real live asshole? He is
> given credit for the song along with FZ, for what thats worth. The
> "song" was recorded in Philadelphia, is this man known to the locals
> there?

I saw this show.  Right before intermission, Brother West came out on stage,
and Zappa, in the interest of 'equal time' let him speak out.  (Zappa was
apparently taking some heat at that time for doing voter registration at
his shows.)

In any event, Brother West ranted for a couple of minutes, while Zappa
proceeded to make rude, digitized noises behind him.  Eventually Brother West 
left the stage, and Zappa made some disparaging comments.

Shortly thereafter (start of the second half), Zappa asked the audience 
not to kill Brother West, as it was just a joke...  Mr. West was apparently
getting severely abused in the lobby.

--jhb


Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
From: orf@skool.ssec.wisc.edu (Leigh Orf)
Subject: ZappaPhish
Keywords: phish, zappa
Reply-To: orf@scrap.ssec.wisc.edu (Leigh Orf)
Organization: Atmospheric & Oceanic & Space Sciences Dept., UW Maidson, WI
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:32:02 GMT

In <Bvr7Lr.Hpv@nic.umass.edu> jepstein@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jonathan
Epstein) writes:
>
>I was just curious what people in this newsgroup think of the band PHISH.
>They have often been compared to FZ, and for good reason.
>

Funny, I made the same observation, and it really hit home after listening
to 'split open and melt' which has that Zappa 'meltdown' sound of something
like (urk) 'Dinah-Mo-Hum'. Music-wise, there are similarities. But I only
hear the similarities between the two in a small percentage of the songs.
In general, FZ & Phish both (imo) are MUSICIANS above all and have slightly
wonderfully warped personalities that make for great fun sometimes and
serious listening other times & both often. I just hope Phish doesn't sell
out.

ObZappa: the first album I ever bought ever ever ever was Apostrophe (')
(Thankyouverymuch!). Unfortunately I lent it to a 'friend' in high school,
and haven't seen in about 10 years :^( . I bought the Ryko '/Overnite
Sensation CD and wasn't thrilled with the sound quality entirely. Anyone
with the original vinyl (Discreet Records) notice a different mix perhaps?
Not all that important really....
Newsgroups: alt.fan.piers-anthony
From: whiteley@snake.ssc.gov (James Whiteley)
Subject: Re: poll (oooh, nasty word)
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:56:18 GMT

My first book was Spell for a Chameleon(i think i spelled that write *grin*)

-- James
whiteley@slug.ssc.gov
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Saturday, 10 Oct 1992 14:23:21 EDT
From: <IO10536@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.piers-anthony
Subject: Re: Piers Trilogies and the Cluster/Tarot series.

In your list of the Apprentice books you left out Robot Adept.
...trond...
Newsgroups: alt.fan.piers-anthony
From: HADCFDWF@admin.uh.edu (Doug Finney)
Subject: Re: poll
Organization: University of Houston Administrative Computing
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:08:30 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

The first PA book I _heard of_ was A Spell for Chameleon but I didn't start
reading the Xanth books for several years

The first I actually read was Tarot (well, actually I read the split-into-
three-volumes edition, but I read them one right after the other.  Still my
favorite and highly recommended.

D.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.piers-anthony
From: nahigian@athena.mit.edu (Gabriel H Nahigian)
Subject: Re: the color of her panties
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 22:57:43 GMT

In article <1b9sc0INNg3e@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, natek@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (D Nathan King) writes:
|> Yes, I did buy this book. It isn't the greatest piece of work that he's done,
|> but it is not very far from the bottom either
|> 
|> 
|> --Kilteer
     
     This comment confuses me.  Do you mean it's not very *close* to the bottom?
I.E. did you like it or not?

Gabe (nahigian@athena.mit.edu)