Is everything to your liking today?

From: slackREMOVE_THIS@cox.net (SPM Armory, North Annex)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Sat, May 4, 2002 10:53 AM

The weather page in my newspaper says today will be "mostly sunny and
pleasant".

Pleasant! How nice.

I don't have to go to work today. That's pleasant. One of our Linux
servers is freaking out and paging the engineering support group, but
it's not my problem. That's quite pleasant.

I dumped my Pink bitch last weekend, and she's finally stopped calling
and emailing me. That's pleasant too.

This would be a nice day to go shopping for some clothes. And some
fresh seafood. How pleasant!

So tell me, how is your day going? Can I refill your coffee?

Have a pleasant day.

--
"If you're accused falsely of the same thing three times,
that's a freebie."
- St. John Iceknife

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From: "nu-monet v4.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>

SPM Armory, North Annex wrote:
>
> The weather page in my newspaper says today will be
> "mostly sunny and pleasant".
>
> Pleasant! How nice.
>

Yep, started off things by conducting "business", without
a cop in sight. Completed a really lucrative "contract",
and got a freebie when someone with a big, fucking mouth
had a little "accident" before they could spill the beans
to, uh, nobody in particular.
Didn't even get my feet sticky or dirty, even though the
place was a mess--the walls were painted with it--and,
heh, heh, not a dropcloth in sight.
And the best part is that I can help myself to any of their
stuff I want, and they won't mind in the least little bit.

Pleasant! How nice.

--
I don't know what you're talking about.
I've never met you before in my life.
That story sounds like utter bullshit.
I wasn't there and it wasn't me.
I am *not* in denial. Shut up.
--nu-monet

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From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)

slackREMOVE_THIS@cox.net (SPM Armory, North Annex) hunched over a
computer, typing feverishly;
thunder crashed, slackREMOVE_THIS@cox.net (SPM Armory, North Annex)
laughed madly, then wrote:

>The weather page in my newspaper says today will be "mostly sunny and
>pleasant".
>
>Pleasant! How nice.
>
>I don't have to go to work today. That's pleasant. One of our Linux
>servers is freaking out and paging the engineering support group, but
>it's not my problem. That's quite pleasant.
>
>I dumped my Pink bitch last weekend, and she's finally stopped calling
>and emailing me. That's pleasant too.
>
>This would be a nice day to go shopping for some clothes. And some
>fresh seafood. How pleasant!
>
>So tell me, how is your day going? Can I refill your coffee?
>
>Have a pleasant day.

What's really kind of creepy is that somewhere they have this machine
and it has a gauge on it labelled "pleasant". On one axis, anyway,
the other then must be labelled "angst-ridden" or something.

I mean what does it actually -measure-?

And just like your Linux server which can make phone calls to your
engineering support group on it's own initiative (presumably when some
internal gauge in the server flips from "pleasant" to "angst-ridden")
these gauges don't need us, they could go on after a nuclear war when
there is no life left on earth but a few hardy cockroaches claiming
that a particular day is "pleasant". The cockroaches might not find
it "pleasant" but the machine would go on reporting that if there
-were- any humans to debate the subject they would indeed agree that
the day was "pleasant".

We seem to be obsolete in this picture. We don't have to actually
-find- the day pleasant for it to -be- pleasant. It IS pleasant.

And the day will come that the cockroaches will be looking at the
machine's report of "pleasant" and shrugging their shoulders, or
whatever it is that cockroaches shrug.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com

'So you is reddy to admitt that you knowed I am who I says I is
and that I is a good persen who showed peeple nothing but love and
infection?' (Hubie Butterman in a.b.pzb)

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