Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!harvard!seismo!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.flame Subject: Re: mod.all and net.fascism (and quotes) Message-ID: <1710@nsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 01:43:48 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.1710 Posted: Fri Oct 26 01:43:48 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Oct-84 04:30:27 EDT References: <1612@nsc.UUCP> <379@amdahl.UUCP> <1614@nsc.UUCP> <260@sdchema.UUCP> Organization: The Warlocks Cave, Castrovalva Lines: 36 > Sorry, but I have to disagree with that. Nobody can *force* adult human > beings to defend themselves; and certainly not in this context [net news]. Have you ever talked about the weather to someone when a third person was yelling in your ear about nuclear holocaust? You tend to lose your concentration after a while, especially when the third party doesn't understand the term 'shut up or I'll break your face'. I think that was what was happening in net.motts-- the volume raised to the point where nothing else could get through. > > ...Mr. Williams from DEC (I talked to the DEC people about him...) > > Thank you, sir. You saved me the trouble of finding out where that machine > was and making the phone call. *sigh* Thanks, I was getting tired of the hate mail. I hadn't realized I looked so much like my dear dead (I hope) Uncle Adolph.... > > I'd know those eyes from a million years away.... > > Do you make these up yourself, or do you crib them from various places? I'm > curious, because occassionally (as in this example) I like them a great deal. In many cases they're cribbed from something that caught my eye. Recently I was doing a series from Doonesbury to commemorate his return. With few exceptions they are chosen to say something, although it may say it to a very limited audience (I love in jokes). This one happens to be an original and is aimed at a single person-- that doesn't reduce the fact that I also think it is a beautiful line on general principles as well. I happen to really enjoy the English language, and feel sorry that I butcher it as often as I do. chuq -- From the Department of Bistromatics: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA I'd know those eyes from a million years away....