Subject: But what are SubGeniuses, really?

From: "nu-monet v5.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Jan 9, 2003

"But what are SubGeniuses, really?"

(Asked by an older guy, a sci-fi fan.)

"You remember the Tripods?", I asked. "The sci-fi story with when the kids would come of age and the aliens would put a metal skullcap on their head to make them normal?"

"Yes."

"Well, you remember how there were some of those kids who when they put on the skullcaps went a little permanently crackers, and so they became outcasts, like hobos?"

"Yeah."

"And how some hobo guys wore non-functioning skullcaps so that everybody else would think they were one of the loony hobo types?"

"Uh-huh."

"Well, the Church of the SubGenius is kinda like that."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, we worship the Tripods."

--
"YOU BELONG TO US NOW!"
"GET DOWN WITH MY SICKNESS!!"
--Kino Beman, brand name
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From: "Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@subgenius.com>

"nu-monet v5.0" <nothing@succeeds.com> wrote...

> "But what are SubGeniuses, really?"

I remember one time in Amsterdam some guy asked Sterno that. Sterno goes "We're a humor group." The guy goes, "Oh yeah!? Tell me a joke, then!" And Sterno says, in his most sardonic, evil voice, "It's not that kind of humor."

We laffed and laffed.

--
They are mean because they are rejects from society.
--Bill Palmer on SubGenii
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From: nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com>

Yeah, well you were stoned.
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From: "nu-monet v5.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>

So Sterno actually did kill him with a butcher knife? I thought I had, er, dreamed that part.

--
"Proud and insolent youth,
prepare to meet thy doom."
-- Captain Jas. Hook

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