From: slaac@yahoo.com (Rev. Lemuel Atom)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2001 1:33 PM
Your wallet, that is. As bonehead idealist/activist,
I urge all of
you to support Buy Nothing Day on Friday, November 23
(the day after
Thanksgiving). Help choke the Conspiracy's moneylifeline
for just one
day by not spending anything. Simple. Just lay in
a supply of Night
Train on Thanksgiving and spend the next day drunk and
away from
retail outlets, the Home Shopping Network, etc. Better
yet, you can
copy and post the cool Adbusters flyers, harass shoppers
in the name
of Dobbs, etc. For much more eloquent and persuasive
arguments, info,
etc., see http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/
RLA
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Subject: Re: Put That Back In Your Pants!
From: "Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@home.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2001 4:54 PM
Message-ID: <xaDG7.77595$pb4.40088384@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>
Well now, last year, or really any time in the last
eight years, this might
have been a pretty good idea, but don't you think that
perhaps this year it
might be a good idea to skip buy-nothing day? Consumer
spending is down
what, twenty or so points as it is, and while that might
be good news to
those concerned about our gluttony as a country, this
rapid fall means
people are losing their jobs left and right, which means
a lot of unhappy
children this Christmas.
> RLA
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Subject: Re: Put That Back In Your Pants!
From: "Rev. Squid Kid" <ask@ma.ultranet.com>
>
Yes, I quite agree. In fact, I would take it a step
further and institute
"Buy-Something-You-Really-Don't-Need Day".
Go all out and pick up that pair
of glow-in-the-dark noseplugs you've been dreaming about.
Or splurge and
purchase two-hundred gallons of stale mayonnaise. Live
a little!
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Subject: Re: Put That Back In Your Pants!
From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>
>
Now, now kids! *I* know of a way that *both* of you
can get what you
want and still make *everybody* happy.
Take that money that you were going to spend on silly
consumer electronics,
unhealthy and fattening holiday food, tasteless novelty
gifts and other
junk and clutter that would just take up space--AND
SEND THAT MONEY TO
THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS!
I can just see Jesus now, on Xmas morning, as he opens
box after box
of brightly-decorated gifts, and instead of useless
t-shirts and ties,
and the 500th novelty tobacco pipe from somebody who
thinks that he is
the first guy who ever thought of that idea, he just
finds box after box
filled to the brim with happy, joyous, ever-lovin' Xmas
MONEY!
Can't you just see the little tears of joy welling up
in Jesus' eyes?
For Jesus knows that this is money that won't be spent
supporting those
evil, money grubbing giant globalist-internationalist
corporate monsters;
it won't be used to fund the murder of innocent women
and children in
dubious foreign adventures and wars; it won't be used
to pollute the
earth and enslave its children; and it won't be used
to torture and
slaughter animals that are raised in inhumane conditions.
And in that moment, when Jesus' sweet tears fall down
to the ground,
all the little SubGenius children around the world will
spontaneously
break into a little song. And the beautiful sound of
their innocent
little voices ringing out will tell the whole world
how "Bob" loves
all his little children, and all the paid-up mommies
and daddies who
have sent in even more than $30 to the Church than they
owe, just to
show him how very Slackful their lives have become.
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"No one is safe." -- nu-monet
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