From: nik@csunb0.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (Nik Silver)
Subject: Re: Wanted! Name of kids prog!!
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Distribution: scs
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:15:31 GMT
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In article <1992Jul28.093316.9224@ctr.columbia.edu>,
daniel@csunb0.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow) writes:
>Ahhh.... how are the mighty fallen...
>
>In alt.comedy.british article <1992Jul27.213036.29636@ctr.columbia.edu>,
>nik@csunb0.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (Nik Silver) writes:
>> [unpleasantly verbose .sig removed]
>
>Ohh Nik... how did it go? Something like...
>
>Stage 1:
> [...]
>Stage 2:
> [...]
>Stage 3:
>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>There... ever so much better, Nik.
>
>-- 
>Dan "Whaddya mean bait?" Crow
>daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk

First of all (as if I really care anyway) you've got to use what's in the .sig
in the first place, if you want to trash-compact it. That .sig of mine didn't
have any top and bottom delimiters and you can't just add them of your own
accord. So, No Dan, it didn't go 'Something like...'

Second of all, I really don't care, anyway. The mighty have not fallen, they
have reached even greater heights. Yes, it's true that I was just a computer
geek once, searching for a purpose like everyone else. And it's true that I
was easily led at that time --- dammit, anyone would be; I was vulnerable ---
and when Rodw said to me: 'Hey, check out alt.fan.warlord. That's where all the
guys hang out,' I was taken in. Of course I wanted to be 'one of the guys', and
when I got there I thought, Hey! What a bunch of groovy boys'n'girls they are.
But times change, people change, haircuts change, and soon I was spending
longer and longer hours in front of my VDU, searching ever harder for one more
hideous .sig, trying increasingly more perverted angles on a flame to get that
high once more. Eventually I realised what I was doing and I dragged myself off
to a clinic, leaving some poor cleaner to come by hours later and wonder how
a headless chicken came to be lying on the office floor.

Friends, it isn't too late for you, either. Get out now while you can, I urge
you. Free yourselves. Enjoy yourselves. Create that enormous .sig you always
wanted, and don't be afraid to express yourself. Shout out, at the top of
your voice: I AM NOT A WARLORD, I AM A HUMAN BEING! HALLELUJAH!

-- 
Nik Silver                 "The Lord is like a dishwasher, and we are like some
nik@scs.leeds.ac.uk         dirty plates. Only it is God's love which washes
                            us, not water, and God is an omnipresent all-seeing
                            force, not a timesaving household appliance."
                                        --- Monsignor Treeb Lopez, On The Hour
--
Nik Silver                     "We are all flowers growing in God's garden
nik@scs.leeds.ac.uk             And that is why he spreads the shit around."
                                                                --- David Byrne
--
Nik Silver                          "Sex without love is an empty exprience."
nik@scs.leeds.ac.uk                   "Yes, but as empty experiences go,
                                       it's one of the best."
                                            --- from Woody Allen's Love and War
--
Nik Silver                     "You the owner of this place?"
nik@scs.leeds.ac.uk              "Yep. I'm Red"
                               "Why d'they call you Red?"
                                 "It's short for Redwood. My surname's Wood."
                               "What's your first name?"
                                 "Bill."
                                                         --- from Midnight Run
--
Nik Silver                          "Now, give me the gatekey."
nik@scs.leeds.ac.uk                   "What gatekey?"
                                    "Fezzick, tear off his arms."
                                      "Oh, you mean this gatekey."
                                                   --- from The Princess Bride

There. That should keep you busy for a while.

ps: Fezzick is a character in The Princess Bride, played by Andre the Giant.
At first he is set against the hero, Westley, but eventually they become
friends.

pps: The rest of the sentence is '...the person who wrote all *that* looked
anything like *that*.' You shouldn't have asked.

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