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From: jmd@rduxb.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: ... (and KIDS) Headbangers
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 14:23:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 14:23:50 1985
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(Scene from Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" video.)
Waldo:  Gee, mom, you know I'm not like other kids.
(Waldo kisses mom good-bye and steps onto the bus)
David Lee Roth:  Sit down - Waldo!

> First, let it be known that, although I am Colin, I am not the same Colin
> that posted the original article and, although I am defending him, it is not
> because of his name, but because he had a good point (although I do like his
> name).

Oh no, now we have two Waldos, uh er, I mean Colins on the net.

> >> The guys are quite another matter.  First of all, they all wear
> >> black (with white sleeve) concert shirts bearing the name of some
> >> heavy-metal band, blue jeans, a leather jacket, and they all smoke.

> What they wear is not the point, it's how they wear it.  It's not the fact
> that it's a concert shirt, but usually a dirty concert shirt.  I think he
> would feel the same way if it were a dirty Izod.
> Judging people by the clothes is asinine, but to ignore the way they wear
> them is even worse.

Where in the original article do you see Waldo#1 state dirty concert shirts?
He just said concert shirt.  Also concert shirts fade with time.  I still wear
my raggedy "Van Halen 79' Tour" shirt and I couldn't care less what people 
think of me when I wear it.

> >> 							I'm only twenty
> >> years old (Haha, i'll bet you thought i was middle-aged) and I
> >> can't stand even being on the same bus as the little cretans.
> >> They bother me, and yes, they are menacing-looking.  

> I agree with you whole-heartedly.  I am also twenty (some freak coincidence,
> eh?  (no, I'm not a freak)), and I am ashamed to be put in the same class as
> these thugs.  

I'll say it's some coincidence that both of you can sound more and more like 
the Waldo in the bus scene the more I read your articles.

> I really think that some kids just get too out of line, nowadays.  I don't
> know what to do about it, but they are giving the majority of teenagers a
> bad rep, which is not good, since I resemble a teenager very much.

The same bad rap that Headbangers have been given for years.

> >> Colin Biggin

>             Colin Rafferty { Math Department, Carnegie-Mellon University }

						Joseph M. Dakes
						AT&T Bell Laboratories
						Reading, PA
						rduxb!jmd

P.S.	I hope both of you Colins have seen the "Hot for Teacher" video I'm
	referring to.  I picture both of you acting that same way when on
	the bus surrounded by kids wearing Metallica "Kill 'Em All" concert
	shirts.