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From: braman@dataio.UUCP (Rick Braman)
Newsgroups: net.misc.coke,net.politics,net.misc
Subject: Re: Coke and the Real Thing
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 04:09:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 04:09:21 1985
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> >OK folks, now that ALL of you have assumed you were the ONLY
> >ones who heard the old Coke is coming back, and just HAD to
> >tell the WHOLE WORLD (who undoubtedly knew already anyway),
> >you can stop patting yourselves on the back.
> >
> >WE ALREADY KNOW!
> >WE ALREADY KNOW!
> >WE ALREADY KNOW!
> >WE ALREADY KNOW!
> >
> >So shut up already.
> ----------------------------------------------
> This week 7 Black South Africans were killed by the Apartheid regime.
> The media took scant notice. The most massive air bombardment in the
> history of the Western Hemisphere continued in El Salvador as US supplied
> planes and bombs attacked people in zones of rebel control. The media
> took absolutely no notice. Congress just authorized CIA funding to
> overthrow the governments of Angola and Nicaragua. Barely a word on the
> net.  But the media and those who control the public consciousness
> go to town over the reformulation of a soft-drink. 
> And, alas, we are taken in, and pretend to care about such nonsense. 
> 
> As in Roman times,
> give them circuses to distract them. 
> 
> I mourn for my country.
>              ihnp4!ihlpg!berman

AMEN!  I couldn't agree more.

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