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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re[cap]: Most Bitter Attack on A Good Man
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Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 23:56:50 EDT
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Keywords: Jansic Family-Room Incident, Kate Bush, Infatuation, Groupie

> Does *anybody* in most of these newsgroups know, or care, what this
> exchange is all about?

Oh, my, I am not sure if you mean this, or if it is a rhetorical question.
I will answer it as if it was'nt.

In net.music, there is a person named Doug or "nessus" who is grossly
infatuated with a musician named Kate Bush.  He likes her so much that
every 2 or 3 days, he writes kilobytes of commentary on how wonderful she
is, eventhough she hasn't released a new record in 5 years (he keeps
talking about her record from 5 years ago, "The Dreaming").  Kate has
many fans in net.music, and there is currently some debate over Kate's
merits, since many incorrectly claim she was "the first" to use a
Fairlight CMI, something a heretic named "Jody" challenged, just before
revealing she was not a man, she was a woman.

Well, one day someone named Hugh Jansic came along and said, "my brother
used to sleep with her, and she's not so hot."  He then told a long,
terrifying story of how she did cruel things, ending up with buying his
parents house as a present but then running into it with her car.

This made Doug very angry, and he called Hugh a "parody".  This, in turn,
made the notorious satirist, "Palith," complain, because he said Hugh
Jansic wasn't any parody at all, he was a real person, and now he was mad
and wouldn't share his Big Memory Unix** code with them, and this was
endangering their academic progress.

Well, that's where the story got into net.singles; you know the rest.  I
answered your question mostly so it wouldn't degenerate into the sort of
defamatory misrepresentation of facts that occurred against John Williams
in net.flame recently.

But, as you can see, the above doesn't have beans to do with net.singles,
except in the "Friends of Mr. Cairo" sense.

However, I do think Palith is a literary figure commensurate with Mr. Dooley,
and I wish I had written him myself!*  But saying "beans" has made me hungry,
so I will end my story here.  [It is not, however, an "amateur" story,
at least, so I feel safe in writing it.]

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*But then, I also wish I had coined the phrase "Okra Cola," my nominee for
the most hilarious thing to have happened in Usenet this year.

**Unix is a trademark of AT&T Information Systems.
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