Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!pesnta!phri!timeinc!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re[cap]: Most Bitter Attack on A Good Man Message-ID: <1197@peora.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 23:56:50 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1197 Posted: Sat Jun 29 23:56:50 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 02:44:14 EDT References: <1079@princeton.UUCP> <4488@mit-eddie.UUCP> <675@lsuc.UUCP> <249@tove.UUCP> <15466@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 50 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.] -------------- *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. -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642