Re: You ruined this newsgroup, you ASSHOLE!

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Nov 19, 2002 2:41 PM

In article <EZgC9.1497$4j5.872414@newssvr28.news.prodigy.com>, Drexel
Dave <drexeldave@ameritech.net> wrote:

> Is there a decently moderated subgeius web bbs somewhere?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drexel Dave - www.drexellent.com

"Moderated" is rather a nasty way to put it... no SubGenius wants to
moderate. But you might try the general more peaceful Yahoo SubG list,
which is available either on web, by email as digest or as a zillion
individual emails. I skim the most of the digests. Some of the same
folks but many different from alt.slack.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/subgenius/

Also, alt.binaries.slack is completely different from alt.slack. Most
of the people there have some other skill besides written signifying.
If you have trouble dealing with binaries for some reason, it's also
got lots of nifty link and news and web suggestions that you don't see
here.

I happened to be giving your CD another listen just now! To be honest
the first 3 songs didn't "send" me the first time through on account of
they were unexpectedly pretty and serious, which, of course, just
throws me for a loop -- but the song sung by God, "Damn Dirty Ape"
would fit perfectly with the Christian evolution songs somebody posted
last week, on Hour of Slack.

I have actually played the album several times in my office but... when
start working on geek stuff I don't actually hear anything past the
first few bars. And I have been working on geek stuff. But today I have
to prep and mail physical objects so I hope to catch up on my weirdo
musical listening.

"Space Junkie Cowboy" is also sounding like Hour of Slack stuff. But
now I have to go mail last week's Hour of Slack which, like the last
several, is basically a rerun. I'll get back to playing the new stuff
once I get just a wee bit more crap done on my immediate Pay Job.

Oh yeah, I should mention, there are a whole slew of unused
SubGenius-named newsgroups sagging vacant in cyberspace waiting for
people to take over, alt.religion.subgenius being one but there are
more exotic sounding ones like

alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bob,
alt.friday,
alt.friends.sterno,
alt.slack.sputum,
alt.slack.devo,
alt.slack.eraserhead,
alt.slak,
alt.binaries.humor.skewed

and my favorites

alt.drugs.dmt,
alt.binaries.pictures.poultry,
alt.binaries.nospam.teenfem.no-rules,
alt.tv.days-of-our-lives, and
alt.fan.keanu-reeves which actually used to have the very best stuff
of all, when Joe Newman, Sterno and Sphinx were trolling it.

There was also a web-message-board thing that Modemac set up, but my
links to it all appear to be dead.

He does however have a link to a web-based way to do the IRC chat
thang, http://www.modemac.com/irc/

and there's this:

http://members.tripod.com/stopbob/

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or email: jesus@subgenius.com
PRABOB

----------------------------------------------------------------------Re: You ruined this newsgroup, you ASSHOLE!
From: "Paul E. Jamison" <pauljmsn@infi.net>

Geoff Bronner wrote:

> In article <EZgC9.1497$4j5.872414@newssvr28.news.prodigy.com>, Drexel
> Dave <drexeldave@ameritech.net> wrote:
> >
> > Is there a decently moderated subgeius web bbs somewhere?
>
> Making someone moderate posts by subgenii sounds like work and work
> sucks away slack.
>

More to the point, what's this "decently" crap?

Paul E. Jamison

"There's more pressure on a vet to get it right.
People say 'It was God's will' when Granny dies,
but they get *angry* when they lose a cow."
- Terry Pratchett

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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

In article <191120021652069060%geoff.bronner@dartmouth.edu>, Geoff
Bronner <geoff.bronner@dartmouth.edu> wrote:

On the contrary, work IS Slack. Most people have never worked, however.
They know only toil.

Every 6 months or so I "EDIT" (very very quickly) the stuff that I save
from alt.slack, for archiving in SubSITE in the "Online Fists" for
SubGenii and humans who can't even do newsgroups, which is probably 90%
of humans and 85% of SubGenii.

It is work but it is also Slack, because I don't save the fuckwad
dipshittery, so what I'm skimming at high speed while erasing repeats
and reprints is funny as hell and occasionally even insightful. The
batch from earlier this year was recently deposited onto SubSITE. (Much
as the male frog deposits his sperm on the female's eggs.)

Having to read every post that comes in and decide whether it stays or
goes would be pretty much a full time job, wouldn't it? For a Nazi, or
a Commie? No SubGenius would care to be a censor, I wouldn't think. I
can't possibly read everything posted here myself, no way, not and have
a life, and I have more reason to give a shit about this ng than just
about anybody on account of it's indirectly linked to my paycheck. I
skim selectively based on author and subject thread. I avoid some
authors and zero in on others. If a post subject has a key word like
Dobbs, SubGenius, etc. on it, it lights up on my screen via filters. I
also try to examine anything from NEW people. I actually track the
newcomers. If they point to a website that tells their life story, I
read it. I am very interested in people who consider themselves
"SubGeniuses." What they really are, what kind of work they do, how
seriously they take the Church, etc. I have been trying for many years
to fit them into convenient little boxes, and so far have utterly
failed.

I have certain crazy individuals filtered so that I never miss their
posts, and others filtered so that I never see them. The former because
they are the funniest here, albeit inadvertently, the latter because
they're the most depressing. (Imagine if you were Walt Disney and every
day, to get the the office, you had to walk by a homeless crazy guy
shrieking, "I'm Mickey Mouse! No really, I'm the REAL Mickey Mouse! You
gotta give me a job!"*)

Anyway, if you were moderating, what would you cut? Posts that have
inflmatory racially charged words in them? Posts that are mere reprints
of some news article? Posts where the lazy fuck reprints the entire 10
page news reprint and THEN says "I agree!" at the very bottom? Posts
from assholes? (There'd be nothing left.) You see the problem.
Besides, removing the assholes doesn't stop the shit; it only adds
blood. One would have to amputate the MOUTHS to stop the shit. The
whole body would die, not just the warts and cancers. No, I fear we
must live with the warts and cancers.Perhaps freeze them off. But
simply plugging up, tying off, or cutting away assholes is only a
TEMPORARY solution to the shit build-up problem.

If we could find some way to recycle it. But that's been tried. The
real assholes already recycle everything they do, posting the same
words or phrases over and over.

* I mention this because ironically, the real-life Mickey Mouse
crazy-man was recently let go from his "job" as whipping boy in low
budget Chinese "Disney-like knock-off" cartoons. Imagine how
humiliating that must be. Not only did Walt always look away in horror,
but now the Chinese guys who were using him in their freak-show don't
even want him around. The life of a street crazy who totally believes
he's a giant three fingered mouse with white gloves... and even talks
in the squeaky voice... that's gotta be VERY sad.

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From: saint bubba <atropos@auracom.com>

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:54:58 -0500, "Rev. Ivan Stang"
<stang@subgenius.com> wrote:

> I am very interested in people who consider themselves
>"SubGeniuses." What they really are, what kind of work they do, how
>seriously they take the Church, etc. I have been trying for many years
>to fit them into convenient little boxes, and so far have utterly
>failed.

thats cause you're not cutting em up into oxo sized cubes FIRST. and
if you render down the fatty parts long enough and stretch the skin
you can turn them into the boxes themselves, which really cuts down on
the overhead.....
on the other hand, when census time came around in canada and our
house got to fill in the damn thirtyish page thing last year, i
answered other: subgenius in the religion category much to my wife's
amusement <if THAT doesnt get me on some weird communist canadian
watchlist i dont know WHAT will> but i was able to excuse it freely
because i do tend to follow the subgenius theology <or at least the
parts i damn well WANT to> in daily life and devote my life to the
attainment/theft/bribery of more slack.
hell, if you have to believe in some sort of philosophy to feel
"whole" and since nihilistic athiesm just doesnt have that KICK then
WHY NOT be a yeti? most cults WANT something from you. other than
money, anyways. id rather this saucer cult to some bunch of idiots
eating poisoned rice pudding and waiting for the wendigo....

st bubba

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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

In article <20021122152430.00377.00007302@mb-fz.aol.com>, Bobdiddley
<bobdiddley@aol.com> wrote:

> Stang said this:
> >I actually track the
> >newcomers. If they point to a website that tells their life story, I
> >read it. I am very interested in people who consider themselves
> >"SubGeniuses." What they really are, what kind of work they do, how
> >seriously they take the Church, etc. I have been trying for many years
> >to fit them into convenient little boxes, and so far have utterly
> >failed.
> >
> http://members.aol.com/Bobdiddley/index.html
>
> Long overdue for an update, but then, so many are.

Your old lady's HOT, dude! Better bird-dog that stuff, and keep that
beatnik Reverend Chris Lee at a goodly distance.

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