Today's Topics:
Bulletstop
More on the Rapture
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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 91 10:32:17 -0400
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9108141432.AA12569@juniper>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Bulletstop
originally seen on comp.risks:
>From the NY Times
The annual Spring Comdex computer show in Atlanta earlier this month meant a
booming business for the Bulletstop, an indoor firing range in suburban
Marietta where customers can rent firearms and bullets to shoot anything they
please, as long as it is already dead and fits through the doors. The
Bulletstop gave Comdex visitors a chance to vent their frustrations by venting
PC's, printers, hard disks, monitors and manuals with lead.
Paul LaVista, the owner, said about 10 groups of high-tech types came in during
the Comdex show. "I'm not a computer whiz, but one group brought in what
looked like a hard disk and blasted it," he said. "Another bunch brought in
some kind of technical manual. The thing was enormous, about 2,000 pages.
They rented three machine guns -- an Uzi, an M3 grease gun and a Thompson --
and when they were done it looked like confetti."
"It must have been quite a show," LaVista said of Comdex. "Doctors and
computer types usually have a lot of pent-up anxiety, but these folks were
dragging when they came in. When they left they were really up. The range
looked like a computer service center after a tornado."
LaVista said PC's were popular targets year-round. "People are frustrated with
them," he said. A year ago seven or eight men carried in a giant old
Hewlett-Packard printer. "I ran an extension cord to it, and just as it
started to whirr and spit out paper, they blasted it," he said.
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Message-Id: <9108141304.AA12473@juniper>
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1991 09:04:55 EDT
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: More on the Rapture
Comments from a friend:
REGARDING CAUTION: Christian Driver...
...and the Rapture's coming soon!
I've actually seen the above bumper sticker. I thought it was kind of nice
for the driver to post this public notice. I also once read an article
discussing the woeful state of affairs which would prevail on Earth at the
moment of the rapture. Airline pilots disappearing, bus drivers whooshing
away, CPA's going to Heaven in the midst of preparing YOUR taxes. The picture
it painted for those left behind was quite dismal. It was a very practical
article, sticking to the moment of Rapture and not going off into discussions
of the Beast and Whore of Babylon and the horrors of a World Without God.
There would be so many deaths and fires and general destruction associated
with all of the Christians going away as to make one hope to be raptured off
with them. Which was the whole point, scare `em into submission. Wish I
could remember where I saw this fine gem. Probably in a comic by Moses David,
a religious comic book producer who told us the truth about Comet Kahoutek,
the Third Law of Thermodynamics, and American Pie. Where are they now?
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