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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Thu Jul 14 03:09:58 1994
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 03:08:33 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
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gsstark (Greg Stark):
``The cigarette manufacturers fiercely denied accusations that their
advertisements are targetted at impressionable and insecure adolescents.
They insisted their advertisements are targetted at impressionable and
insecure people of all ages.''
-- Heard in the closing credits of _Prisoners_Of_Gravity_
A public tv program about sci fi stuff, it shows on
TVOntario (cable 35 in Montreal) at 11:30pm Thursdays.
And believe it or not they have a net address:
prisoners_of_gravity@tvo.org
I'm working on getting transcripts available online,
Unfortunately, it's cancelled, sigh.
``We have a bit of a problem here.''
-- The motto of the benefit concert for
The Rwanda Relief Committee of Toronto
``I'm a firm believer that no one should get hurt on a set,
I've been very fortunate, I haven't gotten hurt yet.''
-- Actor Brandon Lee
five days before being killed in a
freak accident involving a defective blank
``No More Peony Envy!''
-- From a flyer distributed by a gardener here.
``In a stunning display of `beating swords into ploughshares,' a major
company announced that they would stop making firearms and heavy weapons for
the US military. They said they would instead concentrate on making firearms
and heavy weapons for the US citizenry.''
-- Heard in the closing credits of _Prisoners_Of_Gravity_.
``My friends, each of you is a single cell in the great body of the state. Let
each and every cell rejoice! For today we celebrate the first glorious
anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for
the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology, where each worker
may bloom secure from the pests of very contradictory truths. Our unification
of thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are
one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk
themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall
prevail. ''
-- Microsoft, err I mean Big Brother / Big Blue
in the 1984 Macintosh commercial.
``Wouldn't the sentence `I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish
and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer
if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and
and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and
and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?''
``Emacs is not an editor. Emacs is a way of thinking about the world, and
as such is a way of thinking about editors. The process of editing is Emacs,
but Emacs is more than the process of editing. When you ask what Emacs does,
you are asking a question with no answer, because Emacs doesn't do, it is
done to. Emacs just is. ... I hope this makes things clearer.''
-- Scott Dorsey (kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov)
in newsgroup alt.religion.emacs
All, right here's mine...
Geek code:
GCS/M -d+ p@ c++(++++) !l u++ e+ m(-) s-/+ n@ h*(+)(++) f? !g w@ t++(@) r++ y?
MIT address:
69 Chestnust St.
Cambridge...
Montreal Address:
642 Belmont Ave.
Westmount, Qc, CANADA
H3Y 2W2
email to gsstark@mit.edu will be probably be read.
email to gsstark@cs.mcgill.ca will be read
email to gsstark@acaps.cs.mcgill.ca will be read
email to gs_star@concordia.ca will probably be bounced.
email to bbe9@musicb.mcgill.ca will however be ignored
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sgw (stephen g. wadlow):
Time it was,
And what a time it was,
It was...
A time of innocence,
A time of confidences.
Long ago...it must be...
I have a photograph.
Preserve your memories;
They're all that's left of you.
"Bookends"
by Simon and Garfunkal
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 09:07:38 -0400
From: keithfrank@dow.com (R. Keith Frank)
Subject: A-B ads
Teddy Winstead, winstead%brauerei@cs.tulane.edu asks...
>Does anyone know if the AHA made a statement to Budweiser in regards
>to their Bud Light ad? I realize that there may be some conflict
>here, since the AHA is part of the Ass. of Brewer's, which undoubtedly
>includes the evil Bud ones, but does anyone else think that something
>should be said?
I agree that something should be said. For those HBDer's who haven't
heard the A-B ad in question, allow me to briefly outline it. It basically
goes as follows:
1st guy says, "Hey, try this pumpernickel stout. I brewed it myself."
2nd guy says, "What's that chunk floating in there?"
1st guy says, "Oh just try it. I saved this last bottle just for you."
2nd guy says, "Oh that's ok, I'll just have this Bud Light. You drink
the stout."
The commercial leaves you with the impression that both guys want the
Bud Light.
I recently heard this on a Houston radio station. I wrote a letter to
August Busch III in which I told him that it pleased me that we humble
homebrewers were perceived as such a threat that A-B felt they had to
spend their advertising dollars attacking us. I haven't received a reply
and really don't look for one.
I also wrote a short skit for a local radio station. 101 KLOL in Houston
does a skit every weekday morning @7:25am called Uncle Waldo. They solicit
scripts over the air and there are established characters you must use in
the skits. I submitted this one.
* Uncle Waldo, Homebrewer type person. *
________________________________________________________________________
* Act 1, Scene 1 *
Uncle Waldo is sitting back listening to his stereo, enjoying a nice
frosty mug of his latest batch of homebrew.
* Act 1, Scene 2 *
Big Bruno shows up and asks... "Hey Uncle Waldo, what's that you're
drinking?"
UW: "Oh, this is a mug of my latest batch of homebrewed beer. Would
you like to try one?"
BB: "Oh no thanks. I'm very loyal to my beer, Buttwiper. You would'nt
happen to have a Buttwiper would you ? There's nothing more refreshing
than an ice cold Buttwiper."
UW: "Well no, but I've got something that TASTES JUST LIKE IT. Let me
get you a mug."
UW leaves the room.
* Act 2, Scene 1 *
UW returns with a frosted mug of golden, yellow liquid for BB.
UW: "There you are Big Bruno."
BB takes a sip, then says... "Wow, that's great! That tastes just
like my Buttwiper!"
BB gulps the rest of the mug and smacks his lips and says... "You
would'nt happen to have another one of those would you Uncle Waldo?
I can't believe how much it tastes just like my good ol' Buttwiper!
You actually made that yourself ?"
UW: "Yeah, I sure did."
BB: "What do you call it ?"
UW: "Urine-ator."
BB: "Urine-ator ?"
UW: "Yeah, let me drink a couple more of my homebrews and I'll have
the head pressure to *dispense* another pint for you."
_____________________________________________________________________
Mark DeWeese
President, Brew Bayou
Brazosport Area Homebrewers Club
c/o keithfrank@dow.com
"O parlez-nous a` boire, non pas de mariage..."
From a well know tune of the Balfa Brother's repertoire.
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