Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang" Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:26:54 -0500
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I have been changing all the main Membership Pack documents to reflect
our change of address. I had already done so using scissors and glue on
paper but I just finished redoing them electronically. I'm not POSTING
the whole MEMBERSHIP PACK but I am posting some of the key parts that
are either made to be freebies that you reproduce for local
mysteriizing purposes or else are so reproduced elsewhere that this is
just another handy reproduction.
The Brag of the SubGenius
"Here's What A Few Others Have to Say" aka the testimonials sheet --
legal-size, 2-sided
Anti-SubGenius "Stomp Out Bob" flyer
Salvation or Destruction?
These are high-quality jpegs made at 250 dpi which means that although
they're slightly large files (650 kb or so) they will make a decent
non-blocky print on paper.
Old-school b&w, of course!
****************** from a.b.s.
"HERE'S WHAT" TESTIMONIALS
This like the pamphlet #1 was done in 1979 with the idea that we would
print up zillions of them real cheap and then leave them around in
places like laundromats and bars.
But printing was a bit more costly than we expected so mainly it became
a Membership pack item that we hoped people would xerox at the office.
My scanner does not handle anything larger than 8.5 x 11 inches. And
it's not a great new scanner. I had to mess with the levels and
contrast like crazy to mke these things look even remotely like the
originals. I guess the better way would be to OCR them and do a whole
new layout from scratch.
The text for this and all our most basic stuff was done on a
typesetting machine at "D Magazine" in Dallas on the same single night
in 1979 that I furtively typeset Pamphlet #1 and ALL of the main
membership documents (Excuse, Doktorate etc.) plus the Ad Sheets and a
lot of bumper stickers.
It was my first (and pretty much last )time on a typesetting machine,
and I have never learned how to touch-type, in fact I still use only
three fingers, but I did all that in one night, honest to Gobbs.
WITHOUT speed. I was only 26. I had been a father for about 3 months.
That combination CAN give you super-powers -- if it doesn't kill you.
The original bits of most of the Membership Pack were actually
handwritten written in a hospital room while I was recovering from an
operation! In red ink on typing paper.
THE BRAG OF THE SUBGENIUS
This was written so long ago that I didn't even have a real name yet,
only my human name. It was probably 1978, we just didn't print it until
1980. It was turned into a very strange short film by The Bolex
Brothers in Bristol, England. (Retitled "Day of the SubGenius".)
Brother Cleve Dunkan and Pope Sternodox have both "performed" it. Come
to think of it so does Senator Thompson Spec of The Amino Acids. It's
the most satirized, copied, ripped-off, remutated and re-used of
SubGenius rants.
STOMP OUT BOB
This is something that was printed in an old issue of Rip Off Comix, or
Furry Freak Brothers, or something, whipped up mainly by St. Palmer
Vreedeez of The Lies Foundation although I might actually have written
some of it. Back in those days we had to generate our own
anti-SubGenius propaganda. Other SubGenii had not yet started doing
that.
I changed the address on this (and all these flyers) to the new one but
it originally had the Dallas Sacred PO box as the place to send
donations to.
Many SubGenii DID place this in Christian bookstores, etc; the earnest
bookstore employees would then xerox it THEMSELVES to make sure
customers got the word about this dangerous cult.
I can't imagine that anybody could take this that seriously, but
apparently plenty of people did.
We get $1 for the Stomp Out Bob booklet that this mentions about once a
year, and send back a Pamphlet #1.
This page IS the " stomp out Bob" booklet!
SALVATION, OR DESTRUCTION?
Drawn by John Hagen-Brenner from a stick-figure diagram by Philo and
me.
Secret Service agents actually came to my house in 1981 to ask me about
this and other stuff a patriot had shown them in a Stark Fist, in the
LA airport.
A week later it would published in PEOPLE magazine in a glowing (!)
review of Book of the SubGenius. yes, People magazine.
This is really the only page that's good to color.
--
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.
(4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected, Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
Dobbs-Approved Authorized Commercial Outreach of The Church of the SubGenius
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB
Correspondent:: Pope Phil Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:03:37 +0000 (UTC)
Rev. Ivan Stang wrote:
> I have been changing all the main Membership Pack documents to reflect
> our change of address. I had already done so using scissors and glue on
> paper but I just finished redoing them electronically. I'm not POSTING
> the whole MEMBERSHIP PACK but I am posting some of the key parts that
> are either made to be freebies that you reproduce for local
> mysteriizing purposes or else are so reproduced elsewhere that this is
> just another handy reproduction.
>
> The Brag of the SubGenius
> "Here's What A Few Others Have to Say" aka the testimonials sheet --
> legal-size, 2-sided
> Anti-SubGenius "Stomp Out Bob" flyer
> Salvation or Destruction?
>
> These are high-quality jpegs made at 250 dpi which means that although
> they're slightly large files (650 kb or so) they will make a decent
> non-blocky print on paper.
>
> Old-school b&w, of course!
>
> ****************** from a.b.s.
>
> "HERE'S WHAT" TESTIMONIALS
>
> This like the pamphlet #1 was done in 1979 with the idea that we would
> print up zillions of them real cheap and then leave them around in
> places like laundromats and bars.
>
> But printing was a bit more costly than we expected so mainly it became
> a Membership pack item that we hoped people would xerox at the office.
>
> My scanner does not handle anything larger than 8.5 x 11 inches. And
> it's not a great new scanner. I had to mess with the levels and
> contrast like crazy to mke these things look even remotely like the
> originals. I guess the better way would be to OCR them and do a whole
> new layout from scratch.
>
> The text for this and all our most basic stuff was done on a
> typesetting machine at "D Magazine" in Dallas on the same single night
> in 1979 that I furtively typeset Pamphlet #1 and ALL of the main
> membership documents (Excuse, Doktorate etc.) plus the Ad Sheets and a
> lot of bumper stickers.
>
> It was my first (and pretty much last )time on a typesetting machine,
> and I have never learned how to touch-type, in fact I still use only
> three fingers, but I did all that in one night, honest to Gobbs.
> WITHOUT speed. I was only 26. I had been a father for about 3 months.
> That combination CAN give you super-powers -- if it doesn't kill you.
>
> The original bits of most of the Membership Pack were actually
> handwritten written in a hospital room while I was recovering from an
> operation! In red ink on typing paper.
>
>
> THE BRAG OF THE SUBGENIUS
>
> This was written so long ago that I didn't even have a real name yet,
> only my human name. It was probably 1978, we just didn't print it until
> 1980. It was turned into a very strange short film by The Bolex
> Brothers in Bristol, England. (Retitled "Day of the SubGenius".)
> Brother Cleve Dunkan and Pope Sternodox have both "performed" it. Come
> to think of it so does Senator Thompson Spec of The Amino Acids. It's
> the most satirized, copied, ripped-off, remutated and re-used of
> SubGenius rants.
>
>
> STOMP OUT BOB
>
> This is something that was printed in an old issue of Rip Off Comix, or
> Furry Freak Brothers, or something, whipped up mainly by St. Palmer
> Vreedeez of The Lies Foundation although I might actually have written
> some of it. Back in those days we had to generate our own
> anti-SubGenius propaganda. Other SubGenii had not yet started doing
> that.
>
> I changed the address on this (and all these flyers) to the new one but
> it originally had the Dallas Sacred PO box as the place to send
> donations to.
>
> Many SubGenii DID place this in Christian bookstores, etc; the earnest
> bookstore employees would then xerox it THEMSELVES to make sure
> customers got the word about this dangerous cult.
>
> I can't imagine that anybody could take this that seriously, but
> apparently plenty of people did.
>
> We get $1 for the Stomp Out Bob booklet that this mentions about once a
> year, and send back a Pamphlet #1.
>
> This page IS the " stomp out Bob" booklet!
>
>
> SALVATION, OR DESTRUCTION?
>
> Drawn by John Hagen-Brenner from a stick-figure diagram by Philo and
> me.
>
> Secret Service agents actually came to my house in 1981 to ask me about
> this and other stuff a patriot had shown them in a Stark Fist, in the
> LA airport.
>
> A week later it would published in PEOPLE magazine in a glowing (!)
> review of Book of the SubGenius. yes, People magazine.
>
> This is really the only page that's good to color.
>
Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang" Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:07:56 -0500
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In article , Pope Phil
wrote:
> for those who don't get a reliable a.b.s feed, try the alt.binaries.slack
> archive:
> http://burner1.usenet-replayer.com/cgi/content/archive?scan=alt.binaries.slack
>
I never heard of that and just tried it and EWWWWWWW. So slow it
basically didn't work... for me, anyway, and I'm on a good DSL line.
Another way to get a reliable a.b.s. feed is to pay a $10/month usenet
service like Giganews. That's good for way more downloading than most
people will ever want to do. Most HONEST, LAW-ABIDING people.
I pay $25 a month.
That said, most of the good artwork on a.b.s. eventually makes it onto
the SubSITE vault and most of the good audio makes it on to Hour of
Slack, both of which are easily accessible via browser. Hour of Slack
is on many browsers in various formats -- download, streaming, etc.
It's just so much KEENER when you get directly from the arteest off
a.b.s. Also the timely humor is more timely that way.
--
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.
(4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected, Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
Dobbs-Approved Authorized Commercial Outreach of The Church of the SubGenius
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB
Correspondent:: Pope Phil Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:16:30 +0000 (UTC)
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odd. I find it fairly quick (I'm on 1 Meg broadband), and it isn't /much/ slower than getting
binaries from my Usenet feed... with the advantage that the whole file is available from there,
whereas I often miss bits of multi-part postings.
It also has the advantage that the binaries are available for much longer than off my newsgroup
server, AND its available to our more mobile pals (like Pope Black) who get most of their access
through internet cafes.
anyway, how did you like BRASS EYE?
Rev. Ivan Stang wrote:
> In article , Pope Phil
> wrote:
>
>
>>for those who don't get a reliable a.b.s feed, try the alt.binaries.slack
>>archive:
>>http://burner1.usenet-replayer.com/cgi/content/archive?scan=alt.binaries.slack
>>
>
>
> I never heard of that and just tried it and EWWWWWWW. So slow it
> basically didn't work... for me, anyway, and I'm on a good DSL line.
>
> Another way to get a reliable a.b.s. feed is to pay a $10/month usenet
> service like Giganews. That's good for way more downloading than most
> people will ever want to do. Most HONEST, LAW-ABIDING people.
>
> I pay $25 a month.
>
> That said, most of the good artwork on a.b.s. eventually makes it onto
> the SubSITE vault and most of the good audio makes it on to Hour of
> Slack, both of which are easily accessible via browser. Hour of Slack
> is on many browsers in various formats -- download, streaming, etc.
>
> It's just so much KEENER when you get directly from the arteest off
> a.b.s. Also the timely humor is more timely that way.
>
Correspondent:: Pope Phil Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:35:35 +0000 (UTC)
Pope Phil wrote:
> for those who don't get a reliable a.b.s feed, try the
> alt.binaries.slack archive:
> http://burner1.usenet-replayer.com/cgi/content/archive?scan=alt.binaries.slack
>
>
> Rev. Ivan Stang wrote:
>
>> I have been changing all the main Membership Pack documents to reflect
>> our change of address. I had already done so using scissors and glue on
>> paper but I just finished redoing them electronically. I'm not POSTING
>> the whole MEMBERSHIP PACK but I am posting some of the key parts that
>> are either made to be freebies that you reproduce for local
>> mysteriizing purposes or else are so reproduced elsewhere that this is
>> just another handy reproduction.
>>
>> The Brag of the SubGenius
>> "Here's What A Few Others Have to Say" aka the testimonials sheet --
>> legal-size, 2-sided
>> Anti-SubGenius "Stomp Out Bob" flyer
>> Salvation or Destruction?
>>
>> These are high-quality jpegs made at 250 dpi which means that although
>> they're slightly large files (650 kb or so) they will make a decent
>> non-blocky print on paper.
>>
>> Old-school b&w, of course!
>>
>> ****************** from a.b.s.
>>
>> "HERE'S WHAT" TESTIMONIALS
>>
>> This like the pamphlet #1 was done in 1979 with the idea that we would
>> print up zillions of them real cheap and then leave them around in
>> places like laundromats and bars.
>> But printing was a bit more costly than we expected so mainly it became
>> a Membership pack item that we hoped people would xerox at the office.
>>
>> My scanner does not handle anything larger than 8.5 x 11 inches. And
>> it's not a great new scanner. I had to mess with the levels and
>> contrast like crazy to mke these things look even remotely like the
>> originals. I guess the better way would be to OCR them and do a whole
>> new layout from scratch.
>> The text for this and all our most basic stuff was done on a
>> typesetting machine at "D Magazine" in Dallas on the same single night
>> in 1979 that I furtively typeset Pamphlet #1 and ALL of the main
>> membership documents (Excuse, Doktorate etc.) plus the Ad Sheets and a
>> lot of bumper stickers.
>>
>> It was my first (and pretty much last )time on a typesetting machine,
>> and I have never learned how to touch-type, in fact I still use only
>> three fingers, but I did all that in one night, honest to Gobbs.
>> WITHOUT speed. I was only 26. I had been a father for about 3 months.
>> That combination CAN give you super-powers -- if it doesn't kill you.
>>
>> The original bits of most of the Membership Pack were actually
>> handwritten written in a hospital room while I was recovering from an
>> operation! In red ink on typing paper.
>>
>>
>> THE BRAG OF THE SUBGENIUS
>>
>> This was written so long ago that I didn't even have a real name yet,
>> only my human name. It was probably 1978, we just didn't print it until
>> 1980. It was turned into a very strange short film by The Bolex
>> Brothers in Bristol, England. (Retitled "Day of the SubGenius".)
>> Brother Cleve Dunkan and Pope Sternodox have both "performed" it. Come
>> to think of it so does Senator Thompson Spec of The Amino Acids. It's
>> the most satirized, copied, ripped-off, remutated and re-used of
>> SubGenius rants.
>>
>> STOMP OUT BOB
>>
>> This is something that was printed in an old issue of Rip Off Comix, or
>> Furry Freak Brothers, or something, whipped up mainly by St. Palmer
>> Vreedeez of The Lies Foundation although I might actually have written
>> some of it. Back in those days we had to generate our own
>> anti-SubGenius propaganda. Other SubGenii had not yet started doing
>> that.
>>
>> I changed the address on this (and all these flyers) to the new one but
>> it originally had the Dallas Sacred PO box as the place to send
>> donations to.
>>
>> Many SubGenii DID place this in Christian bookstores, etc; the earnest
>> bookstore employees would then xerox it THEMSELVES to make sure
>> customers got the word about this dangerous cult.
>>
>> I can't imagine that anybody could take this that seriously, but
>> apparently plenty of people did.
>>
>> We get $1 for the Stomp Out Bob booklet that this mentions about once a
>> year, and send back a Pamphlet #1.
>>
>> This page IS the " stomp out Bob" booklet!
>>
>>
>> SALVATION, OR DESTRUCTION?
>>
>> Drawn by John Hagen-Brenner from a stick-figure diagram by Philo and
>> me.
>> Secret Service agents actually came to my house in 1981 to ask me about
>> this and other stuff a patriot had shown them in a Stark Fist, in the
>> LA airport.
>>
>> A week later it would published in PEOPLE magazine in a glowing (!)
>> review of Book of the SubGenius. yes, People magazine.
>>
>> This is really the only page that's good to color.
>>