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Name earthquakes now!!
not likely
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 2:54:24 EDT
From: James Barker <jimthing@eden.rutgers.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 18 Apr 95 00:01:02 EDT
Message-ID: <CMM-RU.1.4.798274464.jimthing@er6.rutgers.edu>
Very important poetry thing...
My room mate Darren Baker wrote this literary masterpiece in about 10
minutes. see what you think...
Lime (Baker!)
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Shall we not not that
Then all fear has been
All shame belief and drifters
Splayed by cream laced with pins
Oh shall we not that ahh
Terror and a cough or
Terrify Macduff neath his own
Shallow ditch for splintered bone
...Lime, not that!
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What a piece of work!
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To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
From: Michael Salmond <M.Salmond@plymouth.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Plymouth
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 12:52:24 GMT
Subject:
Message-ID: <13111670C4D@cs_fs15.cs.plymouth.ac.uk>
Ok 10 scary thangs:-
10) Eighties retro.
9) Eighties retro in computer games (i.e. Sinclair/Commodore games
are cool!?)
8) Star Wars retro - c'mon it's cool but........
7) Most forms of marketing retro - whatever happened to the
"Forward lookin' 90's"?
6) Hospital Dramas (Er, or rather err um?)
5) You've managed to package and export OJ Trial 'sensations' as
news.
4) National Health waiting lists (veeery scary)
3) The UK edition of Wired.
2) Christian Fundamentalists in the UK (aka. Born Again Christians)
1) Baywatch
also people who think the all englishmen talk like Dick Van Dyke in
Mary Poppins - that scares the hell outta me.
Serious note - I'm (hopefully moving to USF in Tampa later this year -
anyone out there been or know the place? Would appreciate any info.
Yours
Mike S
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 01:48:27 -0500
Message-Id: <199504190648.BAA09424@sloth.sims.net>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
From: rbauman@sims.net
Subject: Name earthquakes now!!
On Monday of this week my town had it's very own earthquake, damage was
minor, but, when I attempted to learn more about this, I had trouble getting
info because EARTHQUAKES AREN'T NAMED! If you would be interested in a
campaign to start naming earthquakes, send me email with your suggestion for
a name for the not so great earthquake of Summerville SC on monday. I will
forward all letters and comments to the USGS and NOAA, informing them of
their lack of slack in neglecting earthquake naming. Be a part of not a
slackless lizard who doesn't care. Forward this message to all your friends
and partners in slack.
The Back Reverend Dr. Captain Rick
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Message-Id: <9504191200.AA13098@thelonious.MIT.EDU>
From: "The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo, FRC" <dryfoo@mit.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: not likely
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 08:00:18 EDT
} From: Michael Salmond <M.Salmond@plymouth.ac.uk>
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} Unrelated topic though it be......
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} Just read an art. is it true there is a 7/8pm curfew in New Orleans and
} other US cities? And if so how? I thought it was the land of the free
} etc.....
I don't know for sure, and these days cops and the politicians who hang
with them can pretty much frighten the vox populoma into doing whatever
they want, but I find this one, as they say, Hard To Believe:
Hanging Around After Dark is basically New Orleans main and only
industry, saleable commodity, and stock in trade. Despite Time
Magazines efforts to portray Seattle as a Slack Theme Park, The Big Easy
is far and away the SLACKest City in the continental USA. (Ex: the
public drinking law in NOLA? -- No glass or metal containers. Period.
If you want to stand on a street corner and sip Sterno, all the cops
will do is make sure you're doing it from a Dixie Cup.)
Except for a few bankers, the whole city has the circadian rhythms of a
Parisian hooker: up for an early breakfast of coffee and beignets by,
say, noon, hang around 'til 4, find some friends and drink and hang out
until sundown, and then get to work. New Orleans with a curfew would be
like New York City with a universal mandatory-politeness law,
unimaginable, and pointless.
Or maybe it's just a 7:00pm THROUGH 8:00pm curfew, to give them all time
after lunch to rest up for the night ahead? I don't know. Perhaps you
might quote from the aforementioned article?
your curiously,
-- dr foo
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