Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!cjbiggin From: cjbiggin@watmath.UUCP (Colin Biggin) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: ... (and KIDS) Headbangers Message-ID: <15831@watmath.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 22:52:14 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.15831 Posted: Thu Jul 18 22:52:14 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jul-85 02:01:27 EDT References: <399@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA> <570@rduxb.UUCP> Reply-To: cjbiggin@watmath.UUCP (Colin Biggin) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 77 > > (Scene from Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" video.) > Waldo: Gee, mom, you know I'm not like other kids. > (Waldo kisses mom good-bye and steps onto the bus) > David Lee Roth: Sit down - Waldo! > Colin Rafferty begins by saying something intelligent and relevant to which dumb-shit replies: > > Oh no, now we have two Waldos, uh er, I mean Colins on the net. > Oh, Joey, hit a nerve have we... don't like what we say so call us names. Why don't you go twang on your out-of-tune guitar to relieve the frustration... Or go play some RATT so your woofers vibrate out of their casings... > >I'll say it's some coincidence that both of you can sound more and more like >the Waldo in the bus scene the more I read your articles. > NO NO NO NO you poor simpleton. Waldo is a geek, a wimp, a non-entity. He would not know how to speak up for himself and say something to a situation he found unacceptable. Colin (Rafferty) and I are speaking up (imagine 'Theme from Rocky' being played in background). > > Joseph M. Dakes > >P.S. I hope both of you Colins have seen the "Hot for Teacher" video I'm > referring to. I picture both of you acting that same way when on > the bus surrounded by kids wearing Metallica "Kill 'Em All" concert > shirts. I've seen the video, and I've heard the song and I own the album. Ooohhhh, I'll bet you didn't count on me actually owning an album by a pseudo-heavy- light-weight-metal band did you?? Now that you have made your 'personality' judgement of us Colins, I don't suppose that it would ever occur in your mini-microscopic mind that maybe Colin Rafferty and I are just normal, YOUNG, people who just happen to dislike younger kids who are out on the streets doing nothing but hanging around in shop-fronts sneering at passers-by. I also dislike being asked for a quarter for a cup-of-coffee by every bum on Bloor Street in Toronto. I also dislike Air Supply, Iron Maiden, cold toilet seats, black licorice, 23' x 23' maps, and a shitload of other things. Most of these don't 'appear' (<- see that Joseph, huh, huh) to threaten my existence as I calmly walk down a street. These kids 'appear' (that magical word again, Joseph) to. I am not saying they will do anything. They never have yet. But you see Joseph, when I walk down King street in K-W, there is one of me and there are several hundred of them. I do not appear threatening (at least I don't think so) but they do to me. Perhaps its just a question of numbers. More of them than me so I don't like it. Maybe I'll travel down King street one day amongst a group of young, upwardly-mobile, professional business-type, analyst- cum-manager, the-sky's-the-limit, robust, good-humored, suburban-born people and we'll all stick out our patent-leather Oxfords and stare defiantly and laugh good-humoredly at the stupid pimple-faced bunch of miscreant dead-beats... But I don't belong to such a group so I can't. Enough of this nonsense, I'm going to the Duke to suck back a couple of mugs of good English beer. Last note to Joseph... I disagree with you and I don't care, you snivelling, no-mind pile of rotting catfish ! [ PS: that was my obligatory name-calling in retaliation to his] ( one must follow the rules of 'flame'iquette ). -- cheers, Colin Biggin University of Waterloo "I woke up, read the Toronto Star, and discovered I was a 'yuppie'"