Today's Topics:
``If Party could laugh, this would have been funny.''
rocky&bullwinkle go commie...
SubG influence on Science Fiction
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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 91 09:47:16 EDT
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <9108231347.AA20890@psyche.mit.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
Oddly enough, ``Bob'' will spill luck into the laps of the Pink as well...they
genreally leap up, scalded.
Yes, they 've been brainwashed by their sit-coms (the same ones that allow _us_
to see the future) into believing that nothing can ever really change---
especially their finances. How many times has a sit-com family acquired some
unlikely form of wealth, only to lose it within thirty minutes? To the Sames,
the message is over-powering---they will never get much better (``Oh yeah,
we _like_ living in Hell---all our FRIENDS are down here.''
----OhyeahwelikelivinginHellallourFRIENDSaredownherecclesians 1:1-2) unless
they win the lottery.
In which case they _still_ won 't quit their jobs, and
brag about it on the front page.
---Success in Slack Goft Seed Shumalaya b'Shanta Faith Ministries.
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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 91 10:16:13 PDT
From: "I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused. 23-Aug-1991 1314" <callas@eris.enet.dec.com>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: ``If Party could laugh, this would have been funny.''
Article 1723
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Subject: LEAD: MOSCOW (UPI) -- The coup against Mikhail Gorbachev a prank
Date: 23 Aug 91 05:17:23 GMT
MOSCOW (UPI) -- The coup against Mikhail Gorbachev is reported late
Thursday to be a misguided prank.
The nominal leader of the abortive coup, Gennady Yanayev, reported
early this morning that the supposed coup was actually a practical joke gone
awry.
Yanayev apologized this morning saying that the ``emergency council''
``did not mean to upset the people of the Soviet Union or the people of the
world.''
In a tearful apology to Gorbachev and the media, Yanayov explained that
he and the other members of the ``emergency council'' had been reviewing
American reruns of ``The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show'' for broadcast on Soviet
television and came up with the idea of playing a prank on President Gorbachev.
``Our broadcast was never to be sent to outside media,'' explained
Yanayov. ``President Gorbachev complained about his lumbago and we think we can
make him laugh because laughter is the best medicine. We never meant to make
people hurt, we meant them to laugh, ha ha.''
Yanayov further explained that they had persuaded aides in Gorbachev's
Crimean resort to hide his jet as part of the ruse.
Unfortunately for ``the Gang of Eight'' as they are being called now,
``icompetant bureaucrats'' of the government-controlled Russian Television
network broadcasted the feed meant for Gorbachev alone to the whole of the
world, transmuting a harmless joke into an international incedent.
Yanayov explained further that he thought that orders given by
``General Badenov'' for ``Operation Fearless Leader'' would be seen for the
joke that they were.
Yanayov concluded his apology by tendering his resignation and
appealing to President Gorbachev not to hold the Communist party responsible
for the actions of the Gang of Eight. ``Rest of Party has no sense of humor,''
explained Yanayov. ``If Party could laugh, this would have been funny.''
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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 91 13:23:33 EST
From: Jesus Christ On XTC <crimson@wpi.wpi.edu>
Message-Id: <9108231723.AA23093@wpi.WPI.EDU>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: rocky&bullwinkle go commie...
