Xref: utzoo alt.rock-n-roll.metal:413 alt.flame:14216 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!dianeh From: dianeh@gryphon.COM (Diane Holt) Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal,alt.flame Subject: Re: Best METAL group an oxymoron Summary: (Like, fershur...) Message-ID: <24842@gryphon.COM> Date: 16 Jan 90 22:43:56 GMT References: <1990Jan11.065239.6785@agate.berkeley.edu> <33081@cci632.UUCP> <24759@gryphon.COM> Reply-To: dianeh@binky.UUCP (Diane Holt) Organization: In Spirit -- Binky, Inc. Lines: 72 In the referenced article js8q+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Joseph Swick, Jr.) writes: >I wasn't gonna add to all this, but I just gotta. Do ya'? Do ya' gotta really? >1) If Gene W. Smith meant what he said, then the idiocy > speaks for itself. Interesting ... I always thought idiocy spoke for itself regardless of what Gene Ward Smith did or didn't mean by whatever he does or doesn't say. Hey -- I could be wrong... >2) If he truly meant it as a joke or provocation, or whatever the heck, >then it was far less than a mature thing to do. Gosh darn and shucky-beans, it sure was. >At first I thought, "Uh, oh, everybody's fallen for this lame ruse". Then >it hit me, No...they are in the right to strike back. And why did people >strike back? Because they expect SINCERITY on the network. Well, nnn-o, I don't think that was quite what it was... They struck back because they got so threatened by someone else bad-mouthing their choice in music -- they got de--fen-sive. I mean, really, if you stop and think about it, why should they care two bits whether some guy they don't even know who lives up in Berkeley and who's only ever even been seen by two other people anyway likes or doesn't like that ridiculously named music, Heavy Metal? Would you have given a shit whether he liked Country&Western? Nah -- you'd have applauded his sentiments, right-on-duded it right and left. What a bunch on insecure, safety-in-numbers defensive little whiners. ("Crank it *up*, duuude -- we are *Heav-ay*!" ) >When I see opinions I consider stupid or moronic, I at least want to believe >that the person who said it believes it. Oh, I agree -- reassures me right up. No problem. >What Mr. Smith has done is to create an air of distrust, >not a good thing on any network or network bboard. Nice abuse of >trust, dude. Ruhlly. Righteous abuse. Like, guy, Geeeene -- what are you, like, totally bogus or what? I mean, like get ruhl, Gene -- come on', dude -- get a guitar and some lip-gloss and, like, get with the program, okay? >The united stand against the post only served to fuel the fire of the love >these metalheads have of Heavy Metal! Right. Safety in numbers. Didn't I say that already? >PS - I have no time for elitists like this, we're all small potatoes in >God's eyes. Boy, am I ever out of it -- I thought we were all just eyes in God's potatoe. Duh. Diane Holt (dianeh@binky.UUCP) "Now is tomorrow's yesterday." --Cosmic California Proverb