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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Stupidity
Message-ID: <4057@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 22:45:01 EST
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>> [Me] What kind of STUPID JERK compiles such useless, boring trivia as the
>> playing times of 7" singles!  Or song titles that do not appear in the
>> song!  Geez, you'd have to have had a lobotomy to be interested in such
>> dreck!

> [Seth Jackson] This must be a joke, right? I mean, only a real JERK
> would call somebody else a jerk because he has different interests.

I will admit that I was being a jerk.  But I might as well act as a jerk
-- after all I've already been decreed publicly a "stupid" "jerk" and
"idiot" by Richard Jeffreys (the person conducting these inane, useless,
boring, trivia surveys) for being interested in two-way messages!

> Finally, the examples you cited are NOT what was requested. The
> question was what HIT songs don't have the title in the song.

Well, I'll be a jerk some more and suggest you learn how to read.
Here's the pertinent section from jcjeff's silly request:

> 2) Must have been from either a) a top fifty single (US or UK).
>		   	     or b) a best selling album (US or UK).

The meaning of "best selling" album is not necessarily clear, but all of
the songs I listed are certainly from albums that at one time were in
the Top 50 selling albums in either the US or UK.  (Perhaps the Roy
Harper album wasn't, but I suspect it was, as people tell me that Roy
Harper is quite popular these days in England.)

> [Richard Jeffreys] I like trivia of all sorts, but music trivia
> happens to be my favourite.

Well, I hope you get better!

> [Richard Jeffreys] I don't see why Doug Alan thinks that one would
> need to have a lobotomy to be interested in trivia.

Considering that there's a whole world of art and science and philosophy
to experience, it seems like an incredible waste of time.  But what do I
know?  I'm just a "stupid" "jerk" and "idiot" who finds things like
two-way messages interesting.

> [Richard Jeffreys] If this is the case, there must be an awful amount
> of people queuing up for their lobotomy, before they go to the store
> to purchase "Trivial Pursuit".

You won't get any argument from me about that.

> The original posting for the poll requested twice that the replies should be 
> sent to a path other than the path that posted the article. In a brief
> followup article, people were asked NOT to send replies to the net. 

You didn't say "pretty please", though.

> After pointing out how stupid doing a particular poll is, Doug Alan then 
> contributes to it! It makes me wonder...

My point was that since I could think of dozens of songs that off of the
top of head that satisfied the request, it couldn't be a very
interesting survey.  It's usually considered good style to support an
argument with examples, so I did.

> a) When did Doug Alan have his lobotomy ?

Never for Ever.

> b) Does he know which planet he is on ?

I'm living in my own private Idaho!

> 2. He suggests that he would like to conduct a poll himself, but he then
>    asks people not to post the replies to the net, but for the replies to be
>    sent to me, because he seems SURE that I would be interested enough to
>    compile a list of them. I am not.

Awwww!  Come on!  A list of all song titles that begin with the word
"The" would be at least as interesting as the playing times of 7"
singles over 4 mintues long!  Pretty please!  And you said you like
trivia!  Foo!  You're just a charlatan!

> 3. I seem to think that Doug Alan's actions are a prime case of stupidity,
>    and more typical of the actions of a jerk, than the actions of many people
>    who post articles genuinely looking for information and/or trivia.

Sorry, I can't help it!  All this listening to albums backwards has
warped my mind!  But at least I know what has caused my problems.  What
has caused yours?

> I'm bitten by the Rock and Roll disease;

Oh, that explains it!  Well thank goodness I haven't caught that yet!

			"I'll meet you on the dark side of the Moon"

			Doug Alan
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