From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Ah, judgement - thou art fled to brutish beasts....
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:56:15 GMT
Reply-To: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
Organization: Heurikon Corporation, Madison, WI

It's the end of the term and young Baggett is really feeling the strain:

>You guys just kill me.  Why don't you all get together and beat up some
>freshmen again?  We'll all be REAL IMPRESSED to see you grind those
>defenseless Rush weenies under your heels again!  Better yet, run a
>vote to change the name of YOUR group to rec.music.misc.high-school.bullies.
>It would be SO much more appropriate.

Yipes. He's primed, he's charged, the nose cone is packed with testosterone
and....phut phut phut. At least you managed to avoid the vague forays
into homophobia (cf "kiss kiss") this time out. Seriously,
Dave - I think you'll do much better for yourself if you could manage to
appear with something *positive* for a change. We all know you're very
sensitive and very angry and that you seem to derive some strength from
parading yourself as one of the persecuted, but talk to us about music
a little bit. I'll be the first to admit that engaging in the periodic
exchange of pleasantries with a young Rush fanatic new to the net *has*
rather assumed the position of "seasonal sport", but hey - The well armed
Rush weenie should be able to put the matter to flight simply by putting
together a concise and well-reasoned compilation of Rush's best work.
Perhaps in the interests of avoiding needless conflict, appeals to 
Objectivism as support for objective greatness *could* be soft-pedalled,
given the low trading price of Ayn Rand's stock in the non-net world
where many of us live. So far, all we've seen from you looks pretty
dull-witted, with the exception of your rapier-like wit.

>Even better, brag about the breadth of your musical knowledge!  We're
>in such awe!

But Dave - think of it this way. The defender of Rush who's actually
*heard* something outside of their teensy circle of light might, rather
than bragging, be actually listened to. We don't know anything about you
other than the paucity of your epidermis. Those nasty men who take you
so seriously as to beat up on you are and have been here for a while. We
*know* more about them than their abilities vis-a-vis invective. Would
it be safe to presume that in your condition of heightened sensitivity
that *any* mention of something you've not read or heard of would be
considered a "brag?" Better take that MIT media lab thang off your 
sigline, or you'll look pretty silly bragging in later life, as I 
imagine you will. Be careful what you despise - you tend to become them
with less effort than you think. 

So let's hear *your* Top Ten, son. It doesn't have to be a top and it
doesn't have to be a ten. You got any command options besides "sarcasm"
and "invective?"

Oh, and have a nice day.
--
The law moves quickly in the rain/and chokes the world with memorials./The
courts accept the lowest superstition/into evidence. And we embrace quickly in
the rain,/conceiving a hale infant with hands to wrinkle/the bedsheets toward
it, wave by trough by wave./Gregory Taylor/Heurikon /Madison, WI/608-828-3385
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