Today's Topics:
Slackful Assembly Required
The Nachman of Bratzlav
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From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu
Message-Id: <9309061750.AA25121@thelonious.MIT.EDU>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: Rex Black <rex@iquery.iqsc.com>
Subject:
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 93 13:50:12 EDT
} Date: Fri, 3 Sep 93 10:24:37 CDT
} From: Rex Black <rex@iquery.iqsc.com>
} Subject: department of redundancy department...
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} > From: "The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo" <dryfoo@athena.mit.edu>
} > } The story told of a man masturbating with a belt sander...
}
} Is this the same Reverend who flamed so righteously against the person
} who (re?)posted the story about the Toronto lawyer? Is hypocrisy the
} highest form of slack?
Yes.
And yes.
After all, remember that Hypocrisy is one worn, scorned, scorched, and
sinful generation's way of passing along high ideals to the next, even
though they themselves are unable to live up to them.
The trick, I think, is, that on one hand we have a story that I haven't
seen in maybe 5 years or so, gruesome in the extreme, and worthy of
being passed on to future generations.
On the other, more previous hand, we had a tale told by an idiot, full
of sound and fury, with my formatting and own unique new Subject line,
being reposted to the Digest _immediately_ after its first appearance,
signifying a niche-y figger dinger. The difference is obvious to them
whose eyes are connected up to the rest of their processing circuits.
love and sloppy kisses,
-- dr foo
P.S. On the third hand, did you hear the one about the Toronto lawyer
who got his torts caught in a belt sander?
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Date: Mon, 6 Sep 93 09:44:41 -0400
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9309061344.AA28160@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Slackful Assembly Required
[from Desperado #10101, subscription requests to
desperado-request@covert.enet.dec.com]
The latest issue of Consumer Reports had this gem, under the heading:
"Easier Said Than Done"
But the real eye-opener comes from Japanese manufacturer Yamaha. While
perusing the assembly instructions for his new "Electric Grande" keyboard,
a reader found a diagram showing assorted pieces of hardware and labeled
with a single Anglo-Saxon word of instruction. We can't repeat the
instruction in this family magazine, but we believe the company meant
"screw."
and here's corroborating evidence (so it's not just an urban legend) from:
Mark Wright
Speech, Vision and Robotics Group
Cambridge University Engineering Department
Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England CB2 1PZ
Tel: +44-223-332754 Fax:+44-223-332662
EMail: mww@eng.cam.ac.uk
A little while back someone in our lab put a section from an instruction
manual for a Japanese electronic organ on the notice board.
There was one of those exploded diagrams which shows you how to put the thing
together. On part of this there was a screw, two brackets and a nut with a
dotted line between the screw and the nut. To make sure the instructions
where quite clear the Japanese/English translator had thoughfully added a
single assembly instruction next to the dotted line...."f2k".
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1993 23:27:51 EDT
From: soap@ufcc.ufl.edu
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Message-ID: <00972295.E98B48C0.24635@ufcc.ufl.edu>
Subject: The Nachman of Bratzlav
A son left his father and sojourned in many lands for many
days. When it was time, he came to his father and boasted that he
had learned a great skill, to make hanging candelabrum. He
commanded his father to gather all the masters of this art and he
would show them his genius in their craft. And so his father gathered
all the craftsmen so that they could see the son's greatness and what
he had accomplished during all the time that he had lived among
strangers.
The son took out one of the candelabrum that he had made,
and they found it very ugly. His father went to them and asked them
to tell him the truth, so they were forced to tell him that the candelabrum
was indeed very ugly. But the son continued to boast: 'Truly what you
have seen is the genius of my skill But the father informed him that
none of them found it beautiful.
The son responded: 'Nevertheless, thus I have revealed my
greatness, for I have shown to all of them their shortcomings. For
in this candelabrum are to be found the shortcomings of every artisan
found here. Didn't you see that each one found this part of the
candelabrum ugly, but another part very beautiful? While one found,
on the contrary, this part to be ugly, his colleague found it marvelously
beautiful. And so it was for all of them: what was bad according to this
one was, on the contrary, beautiful according to his colleague. For I
constructed this candelabrum solely from their shortcomings, to show
all of them that they were not perfect, that each of them has a shortcoming. For what was beautiful in the eyes of one, was a shortcoming in the other's eyes.
But in truth I can make it as it should be.
Does anyone have any input on how what the author meant by this?
Just curious,
Sofia Krkljus Soap@ufcc.ufl.edu
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