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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: HATE HATE HATE HATE...
Message-ID: <1413@shark.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Jun-85 01:30:07 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  2 01:30:07 1985
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Reply-To: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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In article <515@ucsfcgl.UUCP> arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>>>>> (Lord Frith)
>>>>> No what I hate?
>>>>(Mike Parker)
>>>>No what I hate?
>>>(Stephen Hutchison)
>>>My name is Steve.  I'm a software evaluator.
>>(Jan Steinman)
>>My name is Jan.  I'm a ski patrolman.
>
>My name is Ken.  Know what I hate?  I hate people not knowing what a
>newsgroup is about before they post to it.  The newsgroup net.wobegon
>is not for you to be wobegon in; it is for discussion of the radio show
>"Prarie Home Companion", which is centered around Lake Wobegon, Minn.
>Please take this newsgroup OUT of your header.
>
>		Ken Arnold
>
>P.S.  One other thing I hate is people saying "no" when they mean
>"know".  I mean, if you're going to get snotty about other peoples'
>behavior...

Oh my.  Well, it took me a week and two batches of powermilk bisquits
(my, they're tasty!) to get up the courage to do this letter, and even
so, I might not have been able to do it except for Garrison telling us
all about how really shy people have to compensate by doing just the
thing they are most afraid of, and then some.  So, even though Ken has
me quakeing in fear, Here I go anyway.

Ken, I hope that you find time soon to LISTEN to an edition of that fine
radio program "A Prarie Home Companion" on your local Public Radio station.
If you do, you might hear the good folks doing an advertisement making
gentle mock of the recent "Grape Nuts" advertisements, for a cereal
called "Raw Bits!"...  When I saw the articles from Frith and Parker both
of them complaining about these Cereal ads, something really out of my
normally shy and retiring personality took hold of me, and I just had to
do a "Raw Bits!" takeoff.  Now, Jan, being a ski patrol volunteer, just
HAS to know about "Raw Bits!" from going after the many skiiers who are
arrogant enough to eat that cereal, and she doubtless has gone through
many a pan of Powdermilk Bisquits up there in the small but cozy Ski Patrol
cabin on Mount Hood, working up the strength to go out and rescue those
arrogant skiiers who just a hair too arrogant, because they weren't quite
good enough, and she'd be just too shy to face them in such an embarrassing
situation except for the tasty brown and white flaky wonders on which we
have all come to rely for the strength to do what has to be done.

So, Ken, I know how hard this is on you, and I really hope that the shame
of having spoken up mistakenly isn't too much to take.  Unfortunately it
isn't enough to qualify you to for Raw Bits! but if you keep up I'm sure
you can come up with some way to convince the review panel.

Hutch  (The TRULY arrogant eat Raw Bits! with Ahua brand Hot Sauce instead
	of milk.  I once tried it and it was several days before I could
	bring myself to speak to the my boss, as I was feeling far too
	obnoxious to lower myself.  But after that wore off, I was so shy
	that I could barely look in the mirror without several of those
	good ol Powdermilk Bisquits from the brown bag with the greasy
	black spots that are the assurance of freshness.)