From: milliken@athena.cs.uga.edu (Brewmeister)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: One line bio (cont.)
Date: 25 Jul 92 20:54:39 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <7884@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto, a.k.a. sho-boat) writes:
>Folks, this is going to be long and drawn out.  Sorry about
>the mess.
 
So why bother?

>
>milliken@athena.cs.uga.edu (Brewmeister) writes:
>>Uh, Sho: A couple of remarks are in order here.
>>1.  The correct spelling is listen, not "lissen".
>>2.  Addressing me as "honey", combined with the Freudian slip "butt", provide
>>    ample evidence of your latent homosexuality.
>
>Lissen is actualy spelt "listen"?  Excuse me wile I lookit
>up in my dicktionairy.  <flip, flip, flip>  Yup.  Your write!
>Gosh.  I guess I should work on my speling.  Sorry, about
>that, honey butt.

You mean it was an intentional mis-spelling intended to convey sarcasm?  Thanks
for clearing that up for me Sho!
>
>>>but glad you managed to post this orgasmatronic bit of
>>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Here we have an interesting word.  Even as well read as I am, I have never
>>run across this particular adjective before. 
>
>Hmmm... I guess I shouldn't have chosen to match wits with
>one so well read as yourself.  Why don't you post a list of
>all the books that you've read recently.  I'm sure the gang
>would just ADORE it.  Gosh, they may even WORSHIP you for it!

1.  What "gang"?
2.  There is not enough bandwidth to post the titles of all the books I've read,    even if I were inclined to do so.  Plus, you'd accuse me of trying to play
    'literary one-upsmanship', and I don't know if I could handle it.

>
>Really, though, dear... I'm surprised you haven't come
>across this neologism before, what with your extensive
>reading and all.  You yourself said it was an interesting
>word.  Leave it at that.  Enjoy it.
>
>>>One of these days when you're sleeping with your teddy [...]
>>You plagerized this little bit of witlessness from a bad ninja movie.  
>
>Plagerized?  You see, honey, this is one of the reasons why
>we don't do spelling flames around here.  Everyone, even
>those who are as well read as yourself, makes mistakes.
>They are hardly interesting.  Even worse, you may be flaming
>someone who has, for reasons you don't seem to be able to
>grasp, chosen to use a phonetic spelling. 
>
>[now, back to musical one-upsmanship]
>>Trust ME.  I'm from Athens, GA if you weren't observant enough to look.  Ever
>>heard of Athens, GA Sho?  It's where numerous quality bands started out.  I
>>was listening to R.E.M., the B-52's, and numerous other now famous bands, years
>>before you ever heard of them.  They got their start playing in local nightclubslike the 40 Watt Club.  I was hearing these bands play when you were still in
>>junior high school.  
>
>This is exactly the kind of tripe I was hoping we could
>avoid.  In retrospect, it was probably stupid for me to have

   I know what you wanted to avoid, but I had a bad day at the office and then
   got to read your rambling.  On that note, my White Album is better than your
   Thirwell, nya nya...

>said anything.  I should have let you rag on Eno and spout
>off about Jello Biafra without batting an eye, hoping that

   You may rest assured, that if I ever do decide to engage in what you call
   "musical one-upsmanship", Jello Biafra will not be my source or inspiration.

  
>others wouldn't follow suit.  Be that as it may, my
>intentions were to avoid this kind of "I know more about
>music than you do" bullshit.  It's happened before, and all
>we manage to find out is:
>
>  a) musical tastes differ (I think Thirwell is amazing,
>     while I find Mr. Biafra pompous and overrated.  You
>     probably feel the opposite.)
>  b) people on the net are willing to get sucked into these
>     dick size wars.

Here, we find basis for agreement, Sho.  (Yes, I'm serious)  Musical tastes do
differ, and even if I do say "My Zeppelin is better than your Eno", it doesn't
necessarily hold true for anybody but me.  Despite my earlier obnoxious comment,I don't even know who the hell Thirwell is.  Is he/she:
	Rock?
	Jazz?
	Classical?
	Other?
Recommend a title, hell.  Since, in our current environment of censorship, it's
getting hard to find Biafra and Zappa, and a few others I've been looking for   for a while, I'll blow a few bucks and broaden my horizons.  (Yes, I AM being 
serious).  What's Thirwell's best work?

You know, in the first couple of posts, of yours I read, you did come off as
obnoxious and semi-illiterate.    The last one made me realize that you are
pretty bright, and have a much better command of the language than I gave you
credit for.  In my follow-up, I only intended to point out that my intention in
my original post was not to "brag about my musical tastes".  I have some of
everything from rock (late '50s to mid '70s well represented with some '80s
thrown in to keep the teenyboppers happy) to jazz with some classical thrown in
(keeps the neighbors guessing).  In other words, I have something to please just
about everybody, and something to offend just about everybody.
   
The only musical genres not represented in my collection are:
1. Opera of any kind.  (It traumatizes my cat)
2. Country western of any kind. (It makes me vomit)
3. Eno
4. Slim Whitman

There.  Now we know what I listen to, and anyone who does want to play musical
one-upsmanship can rag on me all they want.  Fair enough?


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