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From: ndsss@ihuxx.UUCP (Al R. Zantow)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: DandD birthday and backwards masking
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Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 00:41:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 00:41:21 1984
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	Hello, just dropped by to tell you the latest threat to
the "good, moraly upstanding republican" world since the discovery
of backwards masking (you know, play a record backwards and not
only do you hear bizzare sounds, you hear devil worship and such).
It turns out that this hell sent curse is ... D&D !!!!
	At least, as reported by a local holy roller type on the
boob tube, I think he was with the PTL club or something like that.
It turns out that some kid committed suicide and it was all caused
by D&D rotting his mind.  I am not saying that suicide is a trivial
thing, but this sort of thing is not caused by playing games, but is
caused by other, more complex issues.  The kid may have used the 
game as an escape (by no means am I saying that this is the normal
reason for playing any FRP game), but this has nothing to do with
the game itself.  The crew on the tube then went on to show their
horror at discovering that the Dragon Masters Guide was, in there
eyes, advocating devil worship, human sacrifice, sin, dancing, and the
drinking of beer.  They then went on to put this in the same class of
world destroying evil as backwards masking of rock music, which
supposedly can be heard when the LP is played backwards at some
speed other than 33 RPM, while some Moron Majority type repeats 
over and over what you are supposedly hearing off the album.
	I am not trying to offend anyone, except the possibly the
people who try to ram this crap about devil worship in rock music,
games, and just about everything else (just like cancer) down
my throat every chance they get.
	I have never played the game of D&D, but I would like
to give it a try.  I think I can prevent myself from killing my
 myself or joining some devil cult just bacause I was having some fun,
but some lunatic fringe religious cult will probably use me as their
next example of a person who has strayed from the paths of
pure bull--ht.

	Sorry about the rave out, anyone care to show me the ropes ?

				Al Zantow
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