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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Thu Aug 26 05:37:22 1993
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 05:36:32 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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daveh (David Hau):
DAVE'S PLAN: (In Dave's Ideal World)
8/93: Return to MIT.
12/93: Graduate.
1/94-8/94: Software engineering job.
9/94: Start medical school at Johns Hopkins.
6/98: Graduate.
7/98-6/02: Medical internship.
7/02: Become a REAL doctor.
7/02-?: Get married, get a house, have some kids, get an 80n86
PC (n large), start eating properly, work out
regularly to avoid becoming like Patrick Winston, ...,
and live happily ever after.
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hch (Hernando Cortina):
Uh-oh -- WHY am I suddenly thinking of a VENERABLE religious leader
frolicking on a FORT LAUDERDALE weekend?
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mskeynes (Michael S Keynes):
Seattle or Bust!
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
"Victories over words are cheap.
They are also unworthy of the
so-called advocates who pursue
them."
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sao (Andy Oakland):
From Musician, Dec. 1992, by J. D. Considine.
As reprinted in The Utne Reader, March/April, 1993.
Remember the scene in Wayne's World, where Wayne, about to buy
the guitar of his dreams, begins to pick Jimmy Page's most famous
arpeggio and is interrupted in mid-strum by the salesclerk, who points
to a sign on the wall reading "No Stairway to Heaven"?
Pure fantasy, right?
Wrong. Though there may not be a sign on the wall, there is a
"No Stairway" policy at the Sam Ash store in White Plains, New York.
"There's no 'Stairway to Heaven,' no Poison songs, no 'Smoke on the
Water,'" explains guitar salesman Rob Knippel. "The keyboard players
can't play 'Jump.' No keyboardist who plays a Van Halen tune is
allowed in the store."
Seem a little touchy, do they? Well, you would be, too, if you had to hear
the same half-dozen songs butchered over and over, day in and day out.
"It's not that you get sick of it," avers Knippel, sounding, frankly, sick
of it. "It's hard to say. We know a lot of these kids, and we'll rap with
them or whatever. The first time they'll play this song, it'll be like,
'Can't play that song.' 'Why not?' 'You can't.' 'Why not?'
'Because we don't like that song.'"
Part of the problem, argues Ralph Perucci, a former Sam Ash salesman
who now reps for Paul Reed Smith guitars, is that none of these kids
knows an entire song. Instead, what they'd wank away on would be a
jumble of bits, what PRS general manager Mike Dealy describes as
"House of the Rising Smoke on the Stairway to Freebird."
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
A Word to the Wise
Former Under Secretary of State George C. McGhee, writing in the
Foreign Service Journal: "I believe, with a few exceptions, that
Foreign Service officers have a genuine desire to help our companies.
Those who take an indifferent or superior attitude will not, I believe,
accede to higher posts.... Let's all get down to multinational
business."
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