From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
You told me to download this stupid song, just before
X-Day, and I
didn't have time. You said it went with this poster
in a box you were
mailing to me so I should look for that box. The box
never came to my
post office.
YET, when I got to Brushwood, there waiting for me was
THE BOX you
sent. It was filled with fortune cookies with ancient
SubG homilies
andthe years-defunct Dallas PO Box printed on the fortunes.
Those were
given out as Bobbie Award supplements and then strewn
to everyone
within throwing distance. The almond cookies may or
may not have gone
to the Pot Luck Feast; they may yet surface in my unpacking.
BUT! I
was fiddling around with gear before a stage show, Two
Beans was
playing music on the speakers, and suddenly there was
that STUPID SONG
you wanted me to download! Two Beans looked like he
was pulling
something over on everybody, so I ran to the iVan, dug
for your Box
and pulled out that poster of "Rick Ashley"
(sp?) and proceeded to
hold it high and push it at all audience faces while
that stupid song
played.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we somehow managed
to "Rickroll"
the X-Day attendees successfully, against all odds and
without my
fully understanding the process.
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Subject: Re: Attn Rev. Tom Sane -- It Worked Anyway
From: Modemac <modemac@gmail.com>
Yes, "rickrolling" simply consists of tricking
your target into
listening to That Stupid Song or seeing a video of it.
It's one of
those running jokes that becomes funnier with repetition,
like "All
Your Base Are Belong To Us."
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Subject: Re: Attn Rev. Tom Sane -- It Worked Anyway
From: Pisces <KVanHall@gmail.com>
um...
(me laughs with stang)
"for some reason, pisces, they keep feeling like
they have to explain
it, like I am some old geezer who wouldnt GET IT"
- Stang, this year, at Xday talking to me
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Subject: Re: Attn Rev. Tom Sane -- It Worked Anyway
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Yes, it's true. I enjoy acting the clueless old fart
so as to provoke
well-meaning SubGenii into "explaining" the
obvious to me, just to see
what form their condescending explanation will take.
In point of fact,
almost all stupid Internet memes are bulk-emailed to
me before most of
you nerds ever hear of them, by my 78-year-old mother-in-law,
who was,
like her bud Paul Krassner, into media put-ons when
even *I* was in
diapers.
What I remain in total and blissful ignorance of is
almost all network
or cable-network tv/radio programming and "news."
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Subject: Re: Attn Rev. Tom Sane -- It Worked Anyway
From: nenslo <nenslo@hahoo.com>
There's a new show where they take teenage couples and
make them take
care of babies. That's the show. They show them doing
that. And you
are supposed to watch it.
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Subject: Re: Attn Rev. Tom Sane -- It Worked Anyway
From: Zapanaz <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl>
If it were the other way around, and the babies took
care of
teenagers, that I would watch.
--
Zapanaz
International Satanic Conspiracy
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Subject: Re: Attn Rev. Tom Sane -- It Worked Anyway
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 10:40 PM
Message-ID: <8220d503-a21b-4e1f-bd68-b5492aedff62@i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 9, 9:55 pm, "Rev. Tom Sane" <rev.tom.s...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I had envisioned something more like finding someone
who wasn't
> dressed for the fetish ball and forcibly taping
that print out on to
> them while the song played. If they were drunk
enough you could have
> taped them to a wall or a tree also.
>
> Did you actually eat those fortune cookies? Did
you know how old they
> were?
>
> Last but not least, did you meat anyone for me?
ALL of the fortune cookies were "bagged" in
public before being given
to anyone, so I doubt they were eaten UNKNOWINGLY. By
"bagged" I mean
they were teabagged, i.e., laid under sweaty balls.
In this case the
teabagging was done onstage by two huge human-sized
balls, one of
which was female (!). This likewise will be proved in
photographic
evidence.
Newbie readers think I am kidding.