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From: wjr@frog.UUCP (STella Calvert)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: The Art of Shouting in Movies
Message-ID: <642@frog.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 12:15:11 EST
Article-I.D.: frog.642
Posted: Mon Feb 10 12:15:11 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Feb-86 03:29:15 EST
References: <122@ttidcc.UUCP> <346@frog.UUCP> <5862@fortune.UUCP>
Reply-To: wjr@x.UUCP (STella Calvert)
Organization: The Church of the Holy Starship
Lines: 28
Keywords: Rocky Horror Picture Show
Summary: probably offensive to someone who doesn't like the movie

In article <5862@fortune.UUCP> wall@fortune.UUCP (Jim Wall) writes:
>
>   Ah yes, the judicious comment at just the right time in
>a movie. The difficult part is saying something funny enough
>so that people won't get angry at you.

This is not the problem at Rocky Horror Picture Show.  The problem is
to shout something new, and have it well enough accepted that you hear
it from others in other states, other showings, etc.  Not to mention
loud enough that more than two people hear you....

It's happened to me once.  I was seeing RHPS for the nth time shortly
after the Jonestown affair hit the headlines.  When the folks
collapsed at the end of the Time Warp number, I inserted "Welcome to
Jonestown." Hearing that a year or so later, in a different theater,
made my day.

If this starts a "good things to yell at RHPS, put it in the Subject:
line.  I'm sure non-fans of the film would find it boring (boring,
boring).

				STella Calvert

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