WE MAOISTS DO.
* We take responsibility for J. V. Stalin's
excessive executions in the Soviet Union.
* We take responsibility for Chinese founder Mao
Zedong's mistakes in the Great Leap in China
(1958-1960).
* We take responsibility for the unjust sufferings
of thousands of people in Cultural Revolution in
China (1966-1976), also led by Mao Zedong.
We'd rather have responsibility for the bad side of
revolution than have responsibility for the
injustices of the established order. Write and
find out why.
What we at MIM can't stand is the people who think
they have no responsibility for anything in this
world -- e.g. Trotskyists, anarchists, pacifists,
Christians seeking the after-life -- all people
using pretty words to criticize real-world
revolutionaries taking real-world action.
9/27/91
Maoist Internationalist Movement
PO Box 3576
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-3576
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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 18:04:16 EDT
From: Salamander~ <majcher@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Message-Id: <9206172204.AA13937@lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu>
To: mt@media.mit.edu
Cc: anarchy-list@cwi.nl, subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9206172101.AA06080@mahler.media.mit.edu>
Subject: Mao II: omlette making in theory and practice
In message <9206172101.AA06080@mahler.media.mit.edu>,
Michael Travers <mt@media.mit.edu> wrote:
:>From a local poster:
:
: TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS.
:
: WE MAOISTS DO.
:
:* We take responsibility for J. V. Stalin's
:excessive executions in the Soviet Union.
:
:* We take responsibility for Chinese founder Mao
:Zedong's mistakes in the Great Leap in China
:(1958-1960).
:
:* We take responsibility for the unjust sufferings
:of thousands of people in Cultural Revolution in
:China (1966-1976), also led by Mao Zedong.
:
These people sound stupid to me. Unless they were there and
lending a hand in perpetrating whatever wrongs were done, it sounds
like a case of the 'guilty liberal' syndrome to me.
Salamander~
majcher@acsu.buffalo.edu
Rev. M @P.O. Box 156 The meek shall inherit the earth,
Amherst, NY 14226 and the wise keep moving on...
Voice: (716) 834-1648
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Today's Topics:
Art for Slack's Sake
SUBSCRIBE
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From: "Michael J. Tuciarone" <tooch@auspex.com>
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Subject: Art for Slack's Sake
Thank you for the pretty pictures. I couldn't make out the dobbshead
in the compressed GIF file though. Do you think I have a kernel bug?
Here's a copy of my /unix; please take a look and let me know...
^A^C^A^G^@^N@^@^@^B^L(^@^@M-^[M-(^@^@M-cM- M-x^@@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^PM-^@^D M-!H^@^@^A^@^@^@^A^@^@^@M-!H^@^@M-(^P"^A^PM-^@^DM-^SM-,^P ^GM-!H^@^@M-'P^@^@^PM-^BM-$M-^MM-,^P ^GM-!H^@^@M-(^P
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^^GM-!H^@^@M-(^P"^PM-^@^DsM-,^P ^GM-!H^@^@M-(^P...
--the [rather irritable this morning] Rightmost Right Most Rev. Touche Irony
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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 92 13:50:17 EST
From: "random @ccess" <KAMOODY@ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: SUBSCRIBE
To: SUBGENIUS@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Message-ID: <9206181450.aa16892@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
HOW DO I subscribe?
r.@.
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subs in albany?
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 02:40:17 -0400
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From: Todd_Kaufmann@junin.mt.cs.cmu.edu
like, the CON'll be flying me to albany/schenectady/troy area for a couple
weeks to try to get me to do work.
When I'm not 9-5, is there any slack in the area?
thanks, you'll have fun too.
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Capital District Tri-Cities Slack
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From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu
Message-Id: <9206201918.AA02150@thelonious.MIT.EDU>
To: Todd_Kaufmann@junin.mt.cs.cmu.edu
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Subject: Capital District Tri-Cities Slack
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 92 15:18:08 EDT
} Subgenius Digest Sat, 20 Jun 92 Volume 3 : Issue 104
} From: Todd_Kaufmann@junin.mt.cs.cmu.edu
}
} like, the CON'll be flying me to albany/schenectady/troy area for a couple
} weeks to try to get me to do work.
}
} When I'm not 9-5, is there any slack in the area?
If it's the TRUE Slack you're after, then forget about trying to find
local Wannabobbies and go for the real thing.
JACKSON'S GARDENS, in Schenectady, on the Union College campus, is a
small hidden spot of surpassing slackitude. Drop by after work, sit
down under a tree by the legendary "brook that bounds", and slack out
like the Buddha did. If it's a warm night, you might as well sleep
there.
Although there are several holy landmarks within, that you will probably
not find without a native guide, including:
the Party Bush (an evergreen within whose branches a
medium-sized orgy could hide from prying eyes), and
The Crotch of the Universe Tree (the one true vagomphalos
where Heaven meets Earth, where legend says that Dobbs
himself passed a nightly vigil before turning down a job
with GE)
you will still find the place refreshing beyond expectations.
Also, there is in downtown Schenectady an actual authentic local Head
Shop, run by actual and authentic local Hippies. Due to actual and
authentic local laws, they are allowed to sell you any paraphenalia you
want, unless you say "froP" within the store, or otherwise indicate what
you actually and authentically want to do with the "any paraphenalia you
want" in which case they can't. Best bet is to point and gesture and
smile and hold up money.
There are many cool folks in the area, but you'll probably only find
them if you're not looking for them.
Have fun.
-- dr foo
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Subgenius Digest Mon, 22 Jun 92 Volume 3 : Issue 106
Today's Topics:
Just say NOGA
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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 92 12:48:00 -0700
From: J R Bob Dobbs <jrdobbs@u.washington.edu>
Message-Id: <9206211948.AA02581@milton.u.washington.edu>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Just say NOGA
"GOP poised to urge ban on abortion. Conservative platform would also denounce
homosexuality, yoga"
Headline, Seattle Times, 19 June 1992
Let me get this straight...yoga leads to homosexuality and therefore abortion,
right?
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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 00:05:16 EDT
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Subgenius Digest Tue, 23 Jun 92 Volume 3 : Issue 107
Today's Topics:
the Electric Grinch?
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To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: the Electric Grinch?
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 18:23:54 +0200
From: weikart@prl.dec.com
> like, the CON'll be flying me to albany/schenectady/troy area for a couple
> weeks to try to get me to do work.
>
> When I'm not 9-5, is there any slack in the area?
Try the "Electric Grinch" bar, a general piss-take of General Electric. Lots of
murals of stressed robots trying to make a buck, tee-shirts with the special
"Electric Grinch" (derived from the GE) logo, etc. Tons of slack.
Attention, however: that was over 10 years ago (summer of '79 or '80). Let me
know whether or not it still exists, ok?
-Chris
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Subgenius Digest Wed, 24 Jun 92 Volume 3 : Issue 108
Today's Topics:
Hyundai X-sell
Most Slackful Story Ever Told
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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 11:23:01 -0400
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9206231523.AA11536@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Hyundai X-sell
>From "Roundel" (BMW Car Club of America publication), May 1992:
Call this number for information on our recall, Hyundai told Excel owners in a
letter. Hyundai had set up a toll-free 800-number. The letter mistakenly
printed a 900-prefix, sending owners to a pay-per-call sex hotline.
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Message-Id: <9206231647.AA08549@thelonious.MIT.EDU>
From: "The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo" <dryfoo@athena.mit.edu>
To: mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu, roadkill@athena.mit.edu, jabie@mit.mit.edu,
subg@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Most Slackful Story Ever Told
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 12:47:04 EDT
This Friday night on MIT's campus! Based on the NASTIEST FUNNIEST book
I ever read:
THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN
Fri. Jun 26
9:00pm
Room 10-250
Wealthy zillionaire Guy Grand gets his jollies by "making it hot for
them".
Be there. Bring me a chili dog.
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 00:02:27 EDT
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Today's Topics:
I didn't write this
What Foo said
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From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu
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To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: I didn't write this
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 16:41:59 EDT
Subject: Warning! Virus Alert!
-----> M A J O R V I R U S A L E R T <-----
* George Bush Virus - Doesn't do anything, but you can't get rid of it
until November.
* Ted Kennedy Virus - Crashes your computer but denies it ever happened.
* Warren Commission Virus - Won't allow you to open your files for
75 years.
* Jerry Brown Virus - Blanks your screen and begins flashing an 800 number.
* David Duke Virus - Makes your screen go completely white.
* Congress Virus - Overdraws your disk space.
* Paul Tsongas Virus - Pops up on Dec. 25 and says "I'm Not Santa Claus".
* Pat Buchanan Virus - Shifts all output to the extreme right of the
screen.
* Dan Quayle Virus - Forces your computer to play "PGA TOUR" from 10am
to 4pm 6 days a week.
* Bill Clinton Virus - This virus mutates from region to region. We're
not exactly sure what it does.
* Richard Nixon Virus - aka the "Tricky Dick Virus" you can wipe it out,
but it always makes a comeback.
* H. Ross Perot Virus - same as the Jerry Brown virus, only nicer fonts
are used, and it appears to have had a lot more money put into its
development.
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From: Bill Marrs <bill@atria.com>
Message-Id: <9206241341.AA12238@wayforward>
Subject: What Foo said
To: subg@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 9:41:05 EDT
> THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN
> Fri. Jun 26
> 9:00pm
> Room 10-250
Yes, Yes! Come see Peter Sellers and Ringo Star fuck the minds of many a
poor, unsuspecting, bio-survival ticket grabbing, dupe of the conspiracy.
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Today's Topics:
Most Slackful Story Ever Told
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From: "Richard L. Rosen" <rlr@panix.com>
Message-Id: <9206250419.AA18869@panix.com>
Subject: Most Slackful Story Ever Told
To: mc.lcs.mit.edu!Subgenius@uu.psi.com
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 0:19:54 EDT
In the immortal words of Dr Y. Foo...
> This Friday night on MIT's campus! Based on the NASTIEST FUNNIEST book
> I ever read:
>
> THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN
> Fri. Jun 26
> 9:00pm
> Room 10-250
>
> Wealthy zillionaire Guy Grand gets his jollies by "making it hot for
> them".
>
> Be there. Bring me a chili dog.
I vaguely recall that John Cleese and Graham Chapman either appear in this
movie or worked on the screenplay. (I am in the process of unpacking from
moving, or packing from unmoving, so my plethora of python paraphenalia is
unavailable.) I've never seen the flick m'self, but I've been told the
pool scene (whence Badfinger's song "Come and Get It" actually written by
the then dead Paul McCartney) is something to see...
-- "It's not an idea for a film, it's my actual life!" Rich Rosen rlr@panix.com------------------------------
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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 22:28:10 EDT From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu> Message-Id: <9206270228.AA03908@psyche.mit.edu> To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject:
....and the movie [``The Magic Christian''] is better than the book.
John Cleese and Graham Chapman appear (separately) in it.
Sir Guy Grand probably _was_ J.R. Dobbs for awhile, at least.
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From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu Message-Id: <9206261419.AA28230@thelonious.MIT.EDU> To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Most Slackful Story Ever Told Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 10:19:01 EDT
} Subgenius Digest Fri, 26 Jun 92 Volume 3 : Issue 110 } From: "Richard L. Rosen" <rlr@panix.com> } Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 0:19:54 EDT } } > THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN } > Fri. Jun 26 } > 9:00pm } > Room 10-250 } > } > Wealthy zillionaire Guy Grand gets his jollies by "making it hot for } > them". }... } the pool scene (whence Badfinger's song "Come and Get It" actually } written by the then dead Paul McCartney) is something to see...
Oh Sweeeet Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzissssssssssss!!!
THAT song is from THAT movie?! From THAT scene?!? If it's the one I'm thinking of from the book. ("This will make it hot for them!") Oh Lordy, that gives a whole new meaning to the song!
"If you want it, here it is, come and get it! But you better hurry 'cause it's goin' fast!" Hee hee hee! Perfect! Perfect!
-- dr foo
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From: "Richard L. Rosen" <rlr@panix.com> Message-Id: <9206271600.AA02304@panix.com> Subject: To: The Subgenius Mailing List <subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 92 12:00:00 EDT
In the immortal words of rlr... > In the immortal words of Automatic Subgenius Digestifier... > > } Subgenius Digest Fri, 26 Jun 92 Volume 3 : Issue 110 > > } From: "Richard L. Rosen" <rlr@panix.com>
etc.
Please ignore my previous send, especially the D6v part. This was intended solely for the eyes and nose of Dr. Foo, and was not intended for general absumption. (Hand over your face in Vulcan nose grip---"Forgehhhhht...").
(Whew!)
-- You bozo, you fucked up!!!------------------------------
From: "Richard L. Rosen" <rlr@panix.com> Message-Id: <9206271532.AA01768@panix.com> Subject: To: mc.lcs.mit.edu!Subgenius@uu.psi.com Date: Sat, 27 Jun 92 11:32:47 EDT
In the immortal words of Automatic Subgenius Digestifier... > > } Subgenius Digest Fri, 26 Jun 92 Volume 3 : Issue 110 > } From: "Richard L. Rosen" <rlr@panix.com> > } > } the pool scene (whence Badfinger's song "Come and Get It" actually > } written by the then dead Paul McCartney) is something to see... > > Oh Sweeeet Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzissssssssssss!!! > > THAT song is from THAT movie?! From THAT scene?!? If it's the one I'm > thinking of from the book. ("This will make it hot for them!") Oh > Lordy, that gives a whole new meaning to the song! > > "If you want it, here it is, come and get it! But you better hurry > 'cause it's goin' fast!" Hee hee hee! Perfect! Perfect!
This is how it was explained to me. Remember, I haven't seen the movie, but yes, the song is definitely from the film, and yes (almost definitely) it is used in the "pool scene" (described to me but as yet unseen, I didn't want to spoil it...) Dammit, my parents had the book (in two bookcases of odd books they "inherited" from Dad's ex-business partner) but wouldn't know what it was if it hit them, and now it's gone! I've got to see the movie now.
-- "It's not an idea for a film, it's my actual life!" Rich Rosen rlr@panix.com------------------------------
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Today's Topics: Montreal Slack ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 12:22:32 EDT From: Jean Barsha <jean@etgie1> Subject: Montreal Slack To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Message-id: <9206291622.AA00238@etgie1.alcan>
[This message was composed by Jean-Alain Le Borgne on Jean Barsha's account (jean@etg.int.alcan.ca), please answer with e-mail with something like ATTN: JALB in the header.]
I'm in Montreal until july 11th. I would like to meet some subgenii here, to discover what the local slack feels like. I'd be very grateful and will return the favor if you ever come in Paris. I am, after all, a minister of the cult. Besides e-mail you may try (514) 284.3634 room 505.
ThanX and praise ``Bob''. [jalb] Fortune Of The Hour: "Buy more, and be happy" (THX 1138)
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Today's Topics: Producers for Bob, or Kill Me quote of the day ----------------------------------------------------------------------
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Producers for Bob, or Kill Me Reply-to: ingria@bbn.com Date: Mon, 6 Jul 92 18:59:59 EDT From: ingria@bbn.com Message-ID: <9207061905.aa14046@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Just picked up a new CD, which seems to be by Producers for Bob, with the title ``Bob's Media Ecology'' (although it could be the other way around). (It seems to also have a sub-title: ``Hand Signals for the Blind''.) It is definitely a slackful little item, including pieces with the titles
Bob's Auditory Imagination Ba Ba Ba Ba Bobby Banker Bob Bob's Historical Decorum Shopping Is A Military Operation Bob's Theme The Xists Have Landed (a Buck Naked tune) Masturbation: The Thinking Man's Television
etc.
It mixes music with what seem to be excerts from a subgenius radio show, in a most cunning manner, suggestive of various Subgeniacal media assaults. It is produced by DOVentertainment Inc. and invites requests for a free catalogue by writing to
2 Bloor St W. #100--159 Toronto, Ontario Canada M4W 3E2 Tel: (416)-766-9612 FAX: (416)-766-1041
It also offers 3 casettes from Bob's ``mammoth radio show''. Does anybody know if this is the general Subgenius radio show or a special local Toronto production. (And, if so, when does it appear, so that I may absorb its wisdom on my next trip to Toronto.)
-30- Bob
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From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu Message-Id: <9207061335.AA26312@thelonious.MIT.EDU> To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: quote of the day Date: Mon, 06 Jul 92 09:35:05 EDT
------- Forwarded Message Organization: Serious Cybernetics, Inc. From: tai!ben@clout.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman)
quote of the day 7/4/92 5:41
Peter Norton asked an IBM executive if he had tried to install OS/2 on his computer. The executive said: "I don't have a computer, I have a secretary."
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Subgenius Digest Wed, 8 Jul 92 Volume 3 : Issue 115
Today's Topics: ``bob''s media ecology... quote of the day ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 92 18:28:04 PDT From: Chuck Shepherd <cshepherd@igc.org> Message-Id: <9207080128.AA12481@cdp.igc.org> To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Cc: 1553@compuserve.com
WEIRDNUZ.232 (News of the Weird, July 17, 1992) by Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story
* Princeton University finally granted Milton Babbitt's doctoral degree in mathematics in January--46 years after it rejected his dissertation (on the mathematics of the 12-tone musical system of modern composers). The university recently concluded that, at the time, Babbitt's work was so advanced that no one at Princeton understood it. In the ensuing 46 years, Babbitt won a Pulitzer Prize and developed the first electronic synthesizer. [Syracuse Herald-Journal-American, 2-16- 92]
Medical Science from Hell
* Researchers in Connecticut, writing in the February Hospital and Community Psychiatry, reported that patients in psychiatric wards who constantly watched MTV suffered psychological deterioration. Signs of deterioration were increased hallucinations, belligerence, and hostility toward staff (especially female staff). When MTV was banned, patients' frequency of aggressiveness was reduced. [Hospital and Community Psychiatry, February 1992]
* A physician at Johns Hopkins medical school reported in April that a 21-year-old college student suffers from a condition ("phantosmia") that causes her to emit a foul odor so overpowering that she cannot eat or engage in ordinary school activities because she cannot concentrate. [The Johns Hopkins Magazine, April 1992]
* According to a panel of physicians at a medical convention in Chicago in February, human error by hospital doctors and staff accounts for 200,000 deaths a year in the U. S. (though half of those would die, anyway, of the ailments that sent them to the hospital). One doctor estimated that 3.7% of patients suffer a disabling injury, or worse, during a hospital stay, and over one million suffer some kind of accidental injury. Errors in prescription medicines lead the list. [Columbus Dispatch, Feb92]
* The Niagara County, N. Y., sheriff's office reported in March that a 38-year-old man from Wheatfield, N. Y., had been taken to DeGraff Memorial Hospital suffering from the effects of a do-it-yourself castration performed with clamps, a scalpel, and a local anesthetic. He said he needed to reduce his sex drive. [Tonawanda News, 3-2-92]
* Researchers at Merck Sharp & Dohme pharmaceutical house, seeking a powerful blood coagulant, are studying a "provocative and interesting" new substance: vampire-bat saliva. Preliminary research on rabbits showed the saliva to be several times more effective than the next-best substance. [Modern Medicine, October 1991]
Chutzpah
* Last year, after Galaxy Cheese Company's factory in New Castle, Pa., burned to the ground, the owner relocated to Orlando, Fla., taking along 23 employees but leaving dozens of others behind. Recently, Northwood, another cheese company, moved to New Castle and hired many of the laid-off Galaxy workers. Galaxy then notified those left behind that it would take legal action against them because the former workers were still covered by their promise to Galaxy not to work for any other cheese company in New Castle for two years after "leaving" Galaxy. [L. A. Daily News-Scripps Howard, Jun92]
* Joe Chagra filed in April for readmission to the Texas State Bar. He faces long odds. Chagra resigned from the Bar in 1983, just in time to avoid being disciplined, after he had been found guilty of conspiracy in the death of the federal judge who was scheduled to hear a drug charge against Chagra's brother. [San Francisco Recorder, 4-27-92]
* A keynote speaker at a November international lung cancer conference in Melbourne, Australia, reported that as many as a fourth of the 1,200 delegates were smoking during breaks in the program. [Oakland Tribune- AP, 11-15-91]
* In April, the daily Nashville Tennessean newspaper disclosed that Domino's pizza dealers in the area had a policy of refusing to deliver pizzas to certain predominantly-black neighborhoods. As the weekly Nashville Scene newspaper reported two weeks later, the Tennessean, itself, has a policy of discouraging home delivery subscriptions of the paper to the very same areas. [Editor & Publisher, 5-2-92]
* In May, Peru billed the U. S. for $20,000, which it says were the costs it incurred in cleaning up the remains of a U. S. Air Force plane that crashed in the country and for medical bills for the injured crew. The plane, an unarmed U. S. drug surveillance plane, was shot down by Peruvian air force fighter jets. One crewman was killed, and four were wounded. [[Missourian, 5-15-92]]
Creme de la Weird
* Judith Ward, 43, was released on bail in London in May, 18 years after she was jailed for a deadly bus bombing on behalf of the Irish Republican Army. She had confessed to the bombing, but British prosecutors now believe she merely had a vivid imagination and fantasized her involvement with the IRA. Upon her release, she said she could not understand why she had confessed: "I was out of my head." [New York Times, 5- 12-92]
Least Competent Person
* The Ring magazine reported that boxer Daniel Caruso, moments before the bell to begin his New York City Golden Gloves fight in January, tried to psyche himself up by using the method employed by former champion Marvin Hagler: pounding his gloves into his face. Caruso broke his own nose, forcing cancellation of the fight. [The Ring, May 1992]
The Diminishing Value of Life
* Willie R. Love was charged in May with the stabbing death of apartment-house neighbor Karen Jaster, 39, in Madison, Wis. The two had been feuding over each other's loud music, and Jaster had kept her stereo on full blast for 36 straight hours to annoy Love. [Washington Times, 5-20-92]
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 92 08:50:22 PDT From: jprovo@gnu.ai.mit.edu Message-Id: <9207071550.AA06251@wombat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: ``bob''s media ecology...
From: ingria@bbn.com > >Just picked up a new CD, which seems to be by Producers for Bob, with >the title ``Bob's Media Ecology'' (although it could be the other way >around). (It seems to also have a sub-title: ``Hand Signals for the >Blind''.) It is definitely a slackful little item, including pieces >with the titles
As I think I mentioned when we first got it, the Most Slackful Station in the eastern mass. area [WICN, 90.5 FM in worcester] had this as soon as it came out. Good stuff. Listen, request, write letters of support for the late-nite weirdness so the npr-swilling, jazz-choked Daytime People at this community radio station with a decent range will not be asinine to Us [the Night Folk].
Rev Dkr Nick LaRG0, ASC
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To: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu CC: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu In-Reply-To: <9207061335.AA26312@thelonious.MIT.EDU> Subject: quote of the day Reply-to: ingria@bbn.com Date: Tue, 7 Jul 92 13:18:41 EDT From: ingria@bbn.com Message-ID: <9207071319.aa05258@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu Date: Mon, 06 Jul 92 09:35:05 EDT
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quote of the day 7/4/92 5:41
Peter Norton asked an IBM executive if he had tried to install OS/2 on his computer. The executive said: "I don't have a computer, I have a secretary."
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So, the big question is, did Norton ask the obvious follow-up: ``In that case, have you ever tried to install OS/2 on your secretary?'' (Is this an infringement of slack?)
-30- Bob
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Subgenius Digest Thu, 9 Jul 92 Volume 3 : Issue 116
Today's Topics: "Bob" in ROM ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message-Id: <9207081624.AA15929@media-lab.mit.edu> To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: "Bob" in ROM Date: Wed, 08 Jul 92 12:24:21 -0400 From: Michael Travers <mt@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
From: Bruce_Martin (Bruce Martin) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 92 09:18:34 -0700 To: lono_engineering Subject: a "Bob" sighting
[ A friend of mine works at NCD, and as a gag, put a hack in their screen saver program. Every few seconds, it will briefly flash a picture of J.R. Bob Dobbs on the screen. This hack made it into productions ROMS (don't ask how), and customers are now starting to see it. bkm ]
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Date: 03 Jul 92 15:27:43 PST From: kierant@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Kieran Turner) To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Wow, Bob, wow! Organization: University of Sussex at Brighton Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Just wondering...
On our network here at Sussex we have a group of NCD 14 xterms linked to a Sun4. When using X I set "xset s noblank" to get the jumping xlogo as the screensaver. A few weeks ago I got a shock as, in the corner of my eye, I thought I saw the "Bob" bitmap (a man's face with a pipe, as used in the game SpyVsBob) come up at about 100x100 size, instead of an X. Naturally everybody here laughed at me. Then John saw it too. And gradually, as we sat watching, and Bob appeared a few times an hour, (YES! We're THAT sad here! ;) more people started to believe me.
(Admittedly one or two people looked suspiciously at the air conditioning vents to see what we were on...)
On checking the system log, (SETUP key on an NCD n101 keyboard), I saw that whenenver it happened, in amongst all the "opened font" entries, was the text "Wow, Bob, wow!"
So, what I wanna know is who the hell, presumably at NCD, or MIT maybe, put this in? And WHERE, come to that, is it? The only places I can even locate the Bob icon are in /etc/faces, and the SpyVsBob source...
- - -- Confuzed&Confuddled --
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Subgenius Digest Fri, 10 Jul 92 Volume 3 : Issue 117
Today's Topics: News SpyVsBob Unsolicited rants in the mail ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message-Id: <18597.9207090821@sol.sees.bangor.ac.uk> Subject: News To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Date: Thu, 9 Jul 92 9:22:43 BST Organisation: SEES, Univ College of N Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 1UT, UK From: The Land of Confusion <graham@sees.bangor.ac.uk>
