From: vnguyen@husc10.harvard.edu (Vinh Nguyen)
Newsgroups: alt.geek,talk.bizarre,alt.licker.store,alt.newbie
Subject: Re: Charter for alt.geek
Date: 10 Oct 92 09:21:24 GMT
Reply-To: vnguyen@husc10.harvard.edu
Distribution: alt
Originator: vnguyen@husc10.harvard.edu

In article <OSA.92Oct9201654@wilbur.unh.edu>, 
osa@wilbur.unh.edu (Bart Simps.. er.. Oktay Ahiska) writes:
> 
> 		CHARTER FOR ALT>GEEK
> 		READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO POST
> 		(I MEAN IT!!!!!@!@!!@!@)
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> This is late in coming, but here it is.
 
Er, as they say, better late than ..... later ....

> Why alt.geek: Well, why not? I mean, uh, like, there are so many
> newsfroups and not one for us, geeks!1 So here it is.  
 
Hey, then there should be a newsgroup for each and everyone then!

> What is alt.geek for: It is definately not for making fun of geeks,
> since we are all geeks, and there is no point.  Instead, it's for
> instigating love and friendship (is that the right word?)
 
Yeah!  And all this needs is a dose of idealist mysticism
to serve concurrently as the new charter of alt.love (see below):

Love and friendship are man's only hope of triumphing over
solitude.  Love is, indeed, the best way of achieving this
end, for it brings the Ego in contact with the Other Self,
with another Ego in which it is truly reflected.  This is
the communion of one personality with another.. Friendship,
too, has a personalist and erotic (eek!) foundation.  The
personality and love are intimately related, for love 
transforms the Ego into a personality.  Only love can
effect that complete fusion with another being which 
transcend solitude.  (Nicolas Berdayev, Solitude and
Society).

> Who can post:  Only us, geeks. 
 
Yeah!  Geeks 're us!  Isn't that fun!

Who can read: who cares!

> What/who is a geek: That's hard to define.  Some took the easy way
> out, by saying "it's a person from Geece."  Obviously, the person who
> said that was a Nerd, who deserves no mention in this group.  Others
> say that Geeks are people who are really smart at some things, but
> desperately need a life. Yeah.. that seems more like it.
 
A life, a life, my (?) for a life!

> When to post:  Do not post during the week, and especially during the
> day.  Instead, post at night, and especially on friday and saturday
> nights.  A true geek sits at his/her (her? is there sucha thing as a
> female geek? Well, no need to be sexkist, so there) terminal when
> everybody is havingf fun.
 
In observance of that spirit this post is duly composed and sent
at @ 5:26:51 AM on this Saturday of the long Columbus Weekend,
October 10, 1992.

> What to pist:  Flames for tyiong errors, and aything, if posted
> elswhere, would get you flamed.
 
I'm sure that the pist will keep the flames down.

> What to take seriously:  Nothing.
 
And what to give frivolously: Anything!

> Why did I really do it:  I saw a great need.
 
Don't we all!

> No, I mean really, why did I do it: I was experimenting with creating
> newsgroups, the title seemed appropriate, and I wanted to.. er.. make
> the nazis mad.  And consequently, I have been told not to create new
> newsgroups, since it was Tom's job and that I was getting him mad. But
> if I told him a I wanted a group called unh.lame, what do you think he
> would say?  NEED I SAY MORE?
 
MORE! MORE!  Didn't you just say you "saw a great need" for MORE! MORE!

> And finally: to that person talking about love: I looked for alt.love.
> Still looking.  (Geeks need love too. Speaking from experience.)
 
Hey, just repost this "revised" charter (see above) to inaugurate
alt.love.  That's what is meant by shooting two birds with ....
one tome.  (Or should we make it a sacrilege to throw books around?)

> And to finish this post, here are the words of the great philosopher
> Brandi Nielsen (who called me a dork, by the way, so stay tuned for
> alt.dork):
> 
>    nerd.  no one wants to know a nerd.  dorks have friends.
>    geeks hang with their own.
 
Hmm, as only a geek would ask, what is it that with which they hang?

>    no i love dorks remember.  they make much better friends.

Ah, you mean man's best friend's.  Ah well, that's dogs, you dork,
(what's the difference)?  Eureka!  "Dorks are geeks' best friends"! (tm)

>    i think so.  dorks are not vain or stuck up.
>    they have been humbled because they are clumsy.
 
Yeah, and geeks are simply stuck in vain!
 
> Bye, now.
 
It's now or never .....

Carpe diem!  (Opps!  The day's gone!)

> --
> The opinions expressed above are my own, and not necessarily those of UNH.
>  Cute signature quote by They Might Be Giants: D, world destruction /
>   Over an overture / N, do I need / Apostrophe T, need this torture?

Vinh Nguyen
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