Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dataio.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!braman From: braman@dataio.UUCP (Rick Braman) Newsgroups: net.misc.coke,net.politics,net.misc Subject: Re: Coke and the Real Thing Message-ID: <702@dataio.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 04:09:21 EDT Article-I.D.: dataio.702 Posted: Fri Jul 12 04:09:21 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 01:26:39 EDT References: <814@ihlpg.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 44 Xref: linus net.misc.coke:10 net.politics:9270 net.misc:6737 > >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. -- o | " Go catch a thermal! " | | _________oOo_________ x O O x \xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxO Oxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ O O OoO uw-beaver!entropy!dataio!braman -- Usenet Rick Braman Data I/O Corp Redmond WA 206-885-5851