Subject: Re: SLACKLAND!

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Feb 19, 2003 12:27 PM
Message-ID: <190220031227551093%stang@subgenius.com>

In article <bY-dnfUqq4Wb_c-jXTWcoQ@lmi.net>, ICEKNIFE
<icNOekSPAMnife@lmi.net> wrote:

> How do you build an actual physical community (a town, if you like)
> dedicated to SLACK?
>
> If you answer that Las Vegas already is, then you're a pink, please
> die quietly, alone, in the woods.
>
>

Oh, we fiddle with that every year at Brushwood, but somebody always
gets hurt. Apparently not everyone has uniform ideas about Slack, so a
week at a time is about all most SubGenii can stand of other SubGenii.
Thus the promise of the Personal Escape Vessels being potentially
planet-sized, for privacy, and also armored against attack by other
SubGenii.

There ARE SubGenii who built their own "second homes" at Brushwood,
more or less permanent installations. They are all fantastical and
wondrous and hilarious in design, as well as comfortable, but they are
also BARRICADED. Dr. Dark's compound, Tranquility Base, Ed Strange's
Fortress of Solitude; Pater Nostril lives there all summer; rival cult
leader Anomie (also a dues paying SubGenius) has a whole fairy sex
cabin somewhere back in those woods. Anomie has a MOAT. Pater's is
camouflaged, hidden. Ed has "zappers," Chas has electrified spikes, and
Dr. Dark's has a "special" latrine.

So, there are SubGenii who are experimenting with both Dobbsneyworld
AND dying quietly, alone, in the woods, simultaneously. Dying quietly,
alone, in their own elaborate Dobbsneyworld in the woods. Well, alone
except for those damn cave man DRUMS THAT NEVER EVER STOP out there.

The Church Abusement Park as Mobile Floating Crap Game has worked okay
for 20 years now. And, I'm not sure that every SubGenius TELLS every
other SubGenius about it, every time they hold a Couchstock or secret
Dokstock.

*I've" noticed how they all suddenly SHUT UP, and this PREGNANT SILENCE
falls over the room, the instant I sneak up and suddenly ENTER.

--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
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Subject: Re: SLACKLAND!
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

In article <Xns932BF2C044676cometofatcontrolleri@202.20.93.13>,
Cardboard Box <fatcontroller@come.to> wrote:

> Some time between the hours of March 10th and Friday, "Rev. Ivan Stang"
> <stang@subgenius.com> committed the following:
>
> > Thus the promise of the Personal Escape Vessels being potentially
> > planet-sized, for privacy, and also armored against attack by other
> > SubGenii.
>
> Really? I heard that the "Escape Vessels" one sees in this universe are
> actually just mobile portals to very small customised universes, like 0.02
> light years across or some such. Of course it all depends on what you and
> MWOWM can come up with.
>
> Build Your Own Universe, anyone?

Damn it, Rocknar! You blew our cover! The brochures have already been
printed and they all say it's ACTUAL PLANETS. We don't want to confuse
the customers. Imagine if there's a panic at the last moment.

Good to hear from you incidentally.

--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
A subsidiary of:
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. / P.O. Box 204206, Austin, TX 78720-4206
Dobbs-Approved Authorized Commercial Outreach of The Church of the SubGenius
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com
For SubGenius Biz & Orders: call toll free to 1-888-669-2323
or email: jesus@subgenius.com
PRABOB

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Subject: Re: SLACKLAND!
From: Cardboard Box <fatcontroller@come.to>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Fri, Feb 28, 2003 4:17 AM
Message-ID: <Xns9330E2B84FECFcometofatcontrolleri@202.20.93.13>

Some time between the hours of March 10th and Friday, "Rev. Ivan Stang"
<stang@subgenius.com> committed the following:

> Damn it, Rocknar! You blew our cover! The brochures have already been
> printed and they all say it's ACTUAL PLANETS. We don't want to confuse
> the customers. Imagine if there's a panic at the last moment.

Well, it's hairsplitting. Sure, they're custom universes, but they do come
with one or two planets, a sun and moon as standard. Or so I'm told.

The universe-building drawcard is aimed at serious power users, but
apparently it won't be traded on until the manuals are ready.

---
Rev. Cardboard Box, a legend in his own mind (while he had one)
E Motel (emotel.keenspace.com)
Tactical Nuclear Bubblebath (tacnukebubblebath.tripod.com)
Curator of the Unofficial Guide to Elf Life
(tacnukebubblebath.tripod.com/el/)
"The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all
learned." - from comp.os.linux.misc

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Subject: Re: SLACKLAND!
From: bobdiddley@aol.com (Bobdiddley)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Mon, Feb 24, 2003 6:03 PM
Message-ID: <20030224180357.14768.00000106@mb-cc.aol.com>

sharon:
>I know I'm prolly gonna regret asking, but *why* was someone dragging
>the World's Largest Shovel around, and *why* did they need to make two
>bigger World's Largest Shovels?

I guess you've never heard Paradise by John Prine? In westKy, there were two
ways to make money - mine coal, or make moonshine for those who did. "The mine,
or 'shine, or head it on down the line". They stripmine coal there - one of the
most devastating things pinks have ever thought to do to the Earth (so far).
Mr. Peabody had a coal mine in Muhlenberg County that was hauling the black out
of town at such a rate, they needed a larger shovel to fill the Euclid trucks
that dump it on the trains and coal barges. The shovel I saw (and the subject
of Prine's song) was large enough to park four pickup trucks in the bucket. Oh,
and when the coal was gone, Mr. Peabody left town with all the money. Now they
can run lunar/martian landing exercises on the remaining heaps of lifeless
soil.

But SLACKLAND it is, indeedy!

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