Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site rduxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!rduxb!jmd From: jmd@rduxb.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: ... (and KIDS) Headbangers Message-ID: <570@rduxb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 14:23:50 EDT Article-I.D.: rduxb.570 Posted: Wed Jul 17 14:23:50 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 07:44:33 EDT References: <399@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA Lines: 58 (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.