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New quotes for Wed Feb 17
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Wed Feb 17 00:54:53 1993
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 00:54:36 -0500
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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ckclark (Calvin Clark):
This is an emergency bulletin. We've made a few necessary
alterations in the status quo. For the next few weeks there will be no
madness; no imbecile beliefs; no paralogical, prelogical or
paleological thinking. No random cruelty. For the next few weeks all
the impaired mentalities will be frozen in stasis. No attempts to get
you to believe that vast and cool intelligences come from space
regularly in circular vehicles. No runaway tales of yetis,
sasquatches, hairy shamblers of a lost species. No warnings that the
cards, the stones, the running water or the stars are against your best
efforts. This is the time known in Indonesia as ``djam karet'' ---
the hour that stretches. For the next few weeks you can breathe freely
and operate off these words by one who learned too late, by one who has
gone away, who was called Camus: ``It is not man who must be protected,
but the possibilities within him.'' You have a few weeks without
hindrance. Move quickly.
-from the ``Promontorium Sacrum,'' ``Eidolons'' by
Harlan Ellison
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dgaxiola (David G Gaxiola):
The young woman who faced them said with a wan smile,
"I knew that when I met you again, Elijah, that would be the
first word I would hear."
-- Isaac Asimov
Willows whiten, aspens quiver,
Little breezes dusk and shiver
Through the wave that runs forever
By the island in the river
Flowing down to Camelot.
Four gray walls, and four gray towers,
Overlook a space of flowers,
And the silent isle embowers
The Lady of Shalott.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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mar (Mark A. Rosenstein):
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mikeg (Jughead):
"Oh Kent, that is so unfair! And we were going to make you
King of the Winter Carnival!"
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
[in honor of Slick Willie's upcoming State of the Union speech, and
dedicated to you poor schmucks who actually bought Slick's phony
bill of goods back in November]
We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!
I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
"Won't Get Fooled Again"
THE WHO
_Who's Next_
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sekullbe (Scott E Kullberg):
"Clinton wants us to sacrifice - We should start with the politicians.
Which do you recommend - burning at the stake, an altar & knife job, or the
tried-and-true 'Plug the Volcano' method?"
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
Levi's as Levelers
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Reagan Brown, defeated for re-election in
the Democratic primary, on the desirability of having everyone wear blue
jeans: "You couldn't tell the Jews and the Texans apart. If we could
get blue jeans on everyone in the world, we would have world peace."
from No Comment
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tbc (Michele E Zavada):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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