From: Artemia Salina <y2k@sheayright.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 26, 2004
From: SubGStang1 (subgstang1@aol.com)
Subject: Re: I Sent $$, and Nothing Happened!
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: 1994-10-28
> Incidentally, I have a question. How does one get
those little ">" symbols
> to appear at every line-break of text copied from
someone else's letter? I
> have been putting them in manually and I know there
must be some command I
> don't know.
> Rev. Ivan "Knows Everything But That"
Stang
AND:
From: SubGStang1 (subgstang1@aol.com)
Subject: Re: I Sent $$, and Nothing Happened!
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: 1994-10-26
> arf11@merhaba.cc.columbia.edu (Adam Robert Fields) writes:
>> I think Rev. Stang monitors this group and
only sends the stuff out to
>> people who manage to find it and complain...
> No, I didn't monitor this group until today. We
have always answered any
> complaints THAT GOT TO US (by mail or phone, until
now).
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From: "nu-monet v6.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>
> From: SubGStang1 (subgstang1@aol.com)
> Subject: Re: I Sent $$, and Nothing Happened!
> Newsgroups: alt.slack
> Date: 1994-10-28 20:25:04 PST
>
> > Incidentally, I have a question. How does
one
> > get those little ">" symbols
to appear at every
> > line-break of text copied from someone else's
letter?
Just like him to miss THE BIG PICTURE.
The question is not "how?", but "what?", as in
'what do those little ">" symbols MEAN, anyway?'
And he's YET to ask that question. Perhaps he
still doesn't know the *real* answer. And maybe
we shouldn't tell him.
"Bob", would he be pissed off if he found
out,
and after all these years, too.
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com>
nu-monet v6.0 <nothing@succeeds.com> wrote:
If I remember correctly (big if), that was followed
by a long thread
about how the > marks are raised and harvested on
farms in South
America, and that the Church only uses >s from companies
who pay their
>-pickers fair wages for their labor.
Ah, America Online... those were the days... and to
this day, I think
AOL newsgroup area STILL doesn't offer those little
extra tweaks like
the >-marks.
And to think, nowadays I know how to program my software
to replace
those >s with tiny Dobbshead animations, or toilet-flush-sounds,
and I
wouldn't even have to read the instructions to do it.
There is a slightly funny story behind my AOL account,
and that is that
I STILL HAD IT until 4 months ago, AND THEY NEVER BILLED
ME IN ALL THAT
TIME. (4 months ago someone at AOL must have been purging
old free
accounts, and suddenly the freebie ended.) FOR TEN YEARS,
my AOL
account has been used, unbilled, by my two kids, whoever
was their
boyfriend or girlfriend at the time, my current mother-in-law,
my
ex-wife, and even Dr. Legume for a little while.
AOL made my account free around 1995, when some idiotic
youths working
there decided there was going to be an "AOL SubGenius
"Show" or special
area that was to be co-hosted by me and... TRACI LORDS!
I wonder if
Traci got a free account too. Anyway, as always happens
when executive
youths get big ideas about SubGenius, the time came
when they had to
actually go to their BOSS with the idea of "a section
of AOL that
utterly denigrates and trashes all the most beloved
religions of
mankind in the name of "Bob"" -- and
suddenly there was nothing more
being said about it.
I had already been through that routine a dozen times
with Suit-Pinks
in NYC, so I was merely happy to get the free account.
William Barker, of Schwa fame, had NOT been through
that a dozen times,
and when the Suit-Pinks at MTV told him there was going
to be a Schwa
show and he would have total creative control and a
salary of $50,000 a
year, he believed them, and then was heartbroken when
it all turned out
to be another Pink Boy office fantasy dreamed up by
ninnies over
cocktails at the bar near the office.
Showbiz Pinks talk real big when they get "Bob"
on the brain. For about
a week. Then that time comes to tell the boss, and suddenly
they're all
silent and sheepish and vanished.
--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath
of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
PRABOB
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From: Joe Cosby <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl>
There's the answers to numonet's "Fill in the blanks
theology" quiz
somewhere
"Bob" _________ most, those who He
_________, except for those He
__________.
I think the trick is, they're SUPPOSED to be blank.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.com/
Show me that your footglands are bigger, metaphysically
speaking, than my
WHOLE BODY.
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From: ridetheory@yahoo.com (ignatz topolino)
"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com>
wrote in message news:<260420041010030918%stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com>...
> There is a slightly funny story behind my AOL account,
and that is that
> I STILL HAD IT until 4 months ago, AND THEY NEVER
BILLED ME IN ALL THAT
> TIME. (4 months ago someone at AOL must have been
purging old free
> accounts, and suddenly the freebie ended.) FOR
TEN YEARS, my AOL
> account has been used, unbilled, by my two kids,
whoever was their
> boyfriend or girlfriend at the time, my current
mother-in-law, my
> ex-wife, and even Dr. Legume for a little while.
I have an even slightly less funny story about the time
I bought a
copy of Netscape (at a store -- those were the days)
for something
like $20, with a $10 rebate. Then they sent me five
or six MORE
rebate checks. I have remained loyal to Netscape, and
now Mozilla,
ever since.
iggy
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From: bobdiddley@aol.com (Robert Q. Diddley)
Stang wrote:
>Ah, America Online... those were the days... and
to this day, I think
>AOL newsgroup area STILL doesn't offer those little
extra tweaks like
>the >-marks.
You mean like this?
=========================================================
"Beware the unexpected."
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From: Joe Cosby <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl>
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:30:29 -0400, Artemia Salina
<y2k@sheayright.com> wrote:
>From: SubGStang1 (subgstang1@aol.com)
>Subject: Re: I Sent $$, and Nothing Happened!
>Newsgroups: alt.slack
>Date: 1994-10-28 20:25:04 PST
>
>> Incidentally, I have a question. How does one
get those little ">" symbols
>> to appear at every line-break of text copied
from someone else's letter? I
>> have been putting them in manually and I know
there must be some command I
>> don't know.
bwaha
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.com/
It is not a lack of love,
but a lack of friendship
that makes unhappy marriages.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com>
Joe Cosby wrote:
> bwaha
arf11@merhaba.cc.columbia.edu (Adam Robert Fields)
WHERE IS HE NOW?
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From: Joe Cosby <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl>
Joe Cosby <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl> wrote:
>bwaha
I suppose I shouldn't laugh though.
My very first usenet post touched off a flame war that
lead to death
threats and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police being
called in and
visiting one of the people involved.
After that, I was hooked.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.com/
"I used to not like my mole. But I think once
I lived with it and accepted it, I think that
helped me accept myself."
-- Cindy Crawford
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From: Unclaimed Mysteries <theletter_k_andthenumeral_4_doh@unclaimedmysteries.net>
Artemia Salina wrote in part:
I've GOT to get a more up-to-date news service.
--
It Came From C. L. Smith's Unclaimed Mysteries.
http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net
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