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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: The Decline and Fall of net.misc
Message-ID: <1124@vax2.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 19:09:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 19:09:05 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Jul-84 01:03:34 EDT
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Tell me, my son (daughter (I believe in ERA, too!)), do you remember the
glory days of net.misc?  When the silliness of a thousand wombats and
tailgaters and castrated Dondis did fill the ether like dead flies in a wind
tunnel.  Yea, but I do, and I say, verily, net.misc doth presently shine
like a stagnant pool, and it remindeth one much of Love Canal during the
tourist season.  Once it flourished as the last abode of the absurd, lacking
only the hateful spite that pollutes net.flame, but preserving a mood of
suspended insanity.  And now?  The land abounds with scavenging hacks from
net.politics who have nothing better to do than write Time/Life Inc.
letters-to-the-editor, and requests for paths to far-away sites.  What hath
become of the zanies?  Will they thunder out of the black hills, riding
giant yellow chipmunks and screaming immortal lines like "Satanist
marsupials, take note!" and "G'day, Bruce!" and "Yabba-dabba-doo!".

Well? Will they?  I hope so, because my Imperious English filter is running
low on alkaline batteries....

		"...in an iron coffin, with spikes on the inside!"

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
					John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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