[3887] in Central_America
New quotes for Sat Nov 30
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sat Nov 30 01:29:53 1991
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 91 01:29:16 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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balamac (Brian A. LaMacchia):
Restore jinx's .plan file to Central_America!
This file is modified daily so that it will appear every day in
Central_America, a discuss meeting which collects all .plan files on
Athena which have changed in the past 24 hours. This process will
continue until jinx's .plan file is added back into the CA database.
To date, five people have been removed from the CA database
because those who read CA didn't like having to see repetitive .plan
files day after day. They are:
boomer, dom, dhbernst, jinx, wslee
They were removed because they would not change their .plan files to
conform to the desires of the readers of CA.
Failure to see this file in Central_America means that I too have been
removed from the CA database against my will.
[ Mail forwards to bal@zurich.ai.mit.edu. Finger -l there. ]
Written on Fri Nov 29 07:00:01 EST 1991
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beerud (Beerud D Sheth):
Try finger beerud@ai.mit.edu
I normally work on the AI Lab machines.
Of course, all mail from here does get forwarded to @ai so it doesn't
really matter which mail address you use.
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hash (Nagaraja R Harshadeep):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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jdell (John Day Ellithorpe):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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kjc (Kjirste Carlson):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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sethf (Seth Finkelstein):
<continued from yesterday, due to the CA 10000 character limit>
And they all moved away from me on the bench there, with the hairy eyeball and
all kinds of mean, nasty things, till I said, "And creatin' a nuisance."
And they all came back, shook my hand and we had a great time on the bench
talkin' about crime, mother-stabbin', father-rapin', --all kinds of groovy
things that we was talkin' about on the bench, and everything was fine.
We was smokin' cigarettes and all kinds of things, until the sergeant came
over, had some paper in his hand, held it up and said:
"KIDTHISPIECEOFPAPERSGOTFORTYSEVENWORDSTHIRTYSEVENSENTENCESFIFTYEIGHT
WORDSWEWANTTOKNOWTHEDETAILSOFTHECRIMETHETIMEOFTHECRIMEANDANYOTHER
KINDOFTHINGYOUGOTOSAYPERTAININGTOANDABOUTTHECRIMEWEWANTTOKNOWTHE
ARRESTINGOFFICERSNAMEANDANYOTHERTHINGYOUGOTTOSAY--"
And he talked for forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said.
But we had fun fillin' out the forms and playin' with the pencils on the
bench there. I filled out the Massacre with the four-part harmony.
Wrote it down there just like it was and everything was fine. And I put down
my pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there--on the other side
--in the middle of the other side--
Away from everything else on the other side--in parentheses-capital letters--
quoted-read the following words: "Kid, have you rehabilitated yourself?"
I went over to the sergeant. I said, "Sergeant, you got a lot of God-dammed
gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself! I mean--I mean-- that you send--
I'm sittin' here on the bench--
I mean I'm sittin' here on the Group W bench, 'cause you want to know if I'm
moral enought to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after
bein' a litterbug."
He looked at me and said, "Kid, we don't like your kind! We're gonna send your
fingerprints off to Washington." And, friends, somewhere in Washington,
enshrined in some folder, is a study in black and white of my fingerprints.
And the only reason I'm singin' you the song now is 'cause you may know
somebody in a similar situation. Or YOU may be in a similar situation, and
if you're in a situation like that, there's only one thing you can do:
Walk into the shrink whenever you are, just walk in, say, "Shrink--
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant."
--and walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it, they may
think he's really sick and they won't take him.
And if two people do it--in harmony--they may thing they're both FAGGOTS and
they won't take either of them. And if THREE people do it! Can you imagine
three people walkin' in, singin' a bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and walkin'
out? They might think it's an ORGANIZATION!
And can you imagine FIFTY people a day? I said FIFTY people a day--walkin' in
singin' a bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and walkin' out? Friends, they may think
it's a MOVEMENT, and that's what it is:
THE ALICE'S RESTAURANT ANTI-MASSACRE MOVEMENT!--
and all you gotta do to join is to sing it the next time it comes around on the
guitar. With feelin':
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant, exceptin' Alice,
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant;
Walk right in, it's around the back, just a half a mile from the railroad
track;
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.
typed by
Steven Sietz 2/23/85
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therese (Therese):
One day in a nuclear age
they may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
But deadly for twelve thousand years is
carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
- Sting
Dream of the Blue Turtles
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