Today's Topics:
All set to sing for 430,000 peace-keeping troops
Letters to Lucasfilm Games
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Date: 14 Jan 91 13:08:08 EST
From: MTG@csi.compuserve.com
Subject: All set to sing for 430,000 peace-keeping troops
To: SUBGENIUS@mc.lcs.mit.edu
In preparation for my radio show tomorrow (January 15th), I wrote a
small folk song for the upcoming [potential, haha] US-Iraq War. I ended
up writing this brief Subgenoid rewrite to the tune of "Oh, Susannah":
While Walking through the desert,
A canister they did lob.
Permission came from Allah,
But I survived with Bob.
Chorus: Oh, them gasses,
They're sure to make you wheeze,
But soon they'll eat right through you, and you'll
Look like old swiss cheese.
Where Allah could not help my foes there
Bob's love helped our men. We were
All encased in gelatin and
Sold to IBM.
[Chorus]
I've escaped now from my Jell-O mold, and I
Thank Bob through and through. Without
Bob I'd look like an extra from
Nightmare on Elm Street 2.
[Chorus]
[End]
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 91 10:53:40 est
From: Eric Haines <eye!erich@uu.psi.com>
Subject: Letters to Lucasfilm Games
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
I recently received "The Adventurer", an advertising newspaper for Lucasfilm
Games. Here's a note in the Letters column:
I am returning "Zak McKracken [and the Alien Mindbenders]" because I
find it quite unsuitable. The excellent game playability and graphics
further compound the real problem: the game is saturated with New
Age/Satanism teachings and concepts, including Eastern religions,
meditation, magic, out-of-body experiences, mindlinking with animals,
teleportation, mental telepathy, and mind control by aliens.
I not only find these false teachings objectionable, but consider the
immersing of them in humor and presenting them as a game very
dangerous.
Rev. Merwin Updyke, Altoona, PA
Reply: But have you tried playing it backward? - Ed.
Nice to see some commercial company not suck up to guys like this.
-- Eric Haines, 157th Incarnation of the Inexorable World Egg
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 91 13:15:45 CST
From: Pink <prince@pebbles.tcs.uh.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 91 19:17:29 PST
From: "Michael J. Tuciarone" <tooch@mongoose.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Another life tragically cut short by drugs
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
>From the San Jose Mercury News, 1/8/91:
SHEEP DEATHS BLAMED ON LSD FROM FUNGUS
said he has seen about 50 of his ewes poisoned by the
fungus called ergot, out of about 900 sheep on his land. Dr.
Ok, children. ergot <> LSD. LSD is made from ergot, but it's more complicated
a process than we can expect from most sheep...unless they had divine insight.
Typical American "Anti-Drug Crusade" worship.
Drugs are the new american relgion-- and faked massive cocaine busts are
the sacrement. How many times is the DEA going to confiscate the same cocaine?
The ergot fungus
grows on rye grains and rye grass, which is used extensively on
pastures in Marin and Sonoma. Ergot poisoning causes sheep to
become disoriented, allowing them to fall to their deaths off
steep hills or into ditches or ponds.
Amazingly! Facts! Ergot IS a poision..... LSD's toxicity, however, is so low
that you can't OD. (but you can REALLY confuse yourself!)
I take it the sheep stand on the edge of a cliff, bleat "I can fly!"
and over they go. What a waste.
No, this is a result of the aptly named ANGEL dust... it lets you "fly".
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