I recently took a box of books down to the bookstore and swapped
them for enough credit to get the mac edition of the Internet Starter Kit
to try to figure out what the hell I'm doing here.
Imagine the sound I made when I found the Mighty Visage of guess
who on page 291. Reproducing the Status Window from Worldlink, an
offline mail/news/ftp software/server package, the author, Adam Engst
says,"I especially like the Misc Information field with the icon of J.R.
'Bob' Dobbs of the Church of the Subgenius since it cycles between the
time and date, disk usage, memory usage, and Bob saying 'Hi There.'"
For more information about Worldlink contact InterCon (yes,
that's right, InterCon) at sales@intercon.com
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Subject: Re: ANOTHER SIGHTING
From: SubGStang1@aol.com
OH GOD will it NEVER END?? Doesn't Dobbs even CARE when his TRADEMARKED
PORTRAIT is USED by these UNKNOWING GLORPS?? And the worst of it is, I
swear to Grobbs, just today I got the InterCon SALES PACKAGE as a result of
my ongoing search for the perfect E-Z cheap net access!!
If I had a penny for every... oh well. I guess we can either dilly-dally
with minor legal hassles or JUST KEEP FORGING ON AHEAD!!
Although maybe this is all for the best... last week, my daughter
(pronounced "DAFTER") introduced me to one of her junior high friends who
was hot to buy lots of cheap "Bob" stuff. This kid loved "Bob". I'm not
sure why; I seriously doubt if my daughter had anything to do with it. You
know how these kids are -- they see Dobbs on a skateboard and suddenly he's
the coolest thing in the world. Anyway, the lad bought $3 in bumper
stickers and buttons direct from me.
The good part: THIS week, she says, the kid came up to her and said, "Hey,
I found your dad's "Bob" book in a store, did you know that what "Bob" is
doing is BLASPHEMOUS??" This innocent 13 year old was SHOCKED to find that
this ShorDurPerSav of his, that he thought was so "cool" WAS ALSO THE
ENEMY OF HIS VERY GOD!!!
And THAT is the GREAT SIDE-EFFECT of the "fad" aspect of Dobbs. The day may
yet come when suddenly, due probably to some quirk of luck and celebrity,
EVERY DUMBASS PINK IN AMERICA suddenly sports a Dobbs bumper sticker and a
Dobbs T-shirt -- and THEN, WEEKS INTO THE FAD, they find out what he's
REALLY ABOUT!!! One envisions them RIPPING the T-shirts off as if they were
AFLAME and SCRUBBING THEMSELVES LIKE LADY MACBETH!!! AHHH YES -- and by
then we've ALREADY GOT THEIR MONEY!!! THAT would be a SWEET SUBHARVEST...
have to do it before '98, though.
Stang
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