From: dean.lenort@worldnet.att.net (Dean Lenort) Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [alt.religion.kibology] Re: I Can't Sleep Date: 8 Nov 1997 18:15:49 GMT [Submitter's note: The humor's in the supposed tin options.] Subject: Re: I Can't Sleep From: mmcirvin@world.std.com (Matt McIrvin) Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology Samantha Wilkinson wrote: > I'm sorry, I meant for this to be more interesting anecdote, but instead > it turned into one of my sister's stories which have this huge buildup > but fizzle away when she stops speaking and you realize there was very > little point to the thing. Sam is just trying to provoke her sister into posting and describing The Forbidden Dance That Can Only Be Done To One Song By Neil Diamond. We just introduced Sam's sister to a.r.k and noticed that her responses did *not* run along the usual lines of, "What is this? Was that supposed to be a joke? I don't get it! Where's the punch line? Is this supposed to be funny or is he serious? So how does he make money on this? So he don't make no money, right? So he's a nut, right? It don't make no sense to me. Who's There Must Be Giants? They come over with all... They got the craziest things in that paper." So this bodes well. On the other hand, she has to use tin, so on her screen this post looks something like alt.religion.kibology: article 13635 Date: 2:54 PM, Mon Oct 20 1997 Author: Matt McIrvin Samantha Wilkinson wrote: > I'm sorry, I meant for this to be more interesting anecdote, but instead [M]ore, [L]ess, [N]ext, [P]revious, [J]ump to new article, [m]ail reply, [p]ost followup, [c]rosspost to all groups, mal[f]orm headers, au[t]o-generate PANTS PANTS PANTS, [u]nsubscribe, subs[C]ribe to new group, searc[H] groups, [S]kip to old article, [K]ill poster, [W]hinge about bad news feed, [B]ronx cheer, p[U]ree, [s]pay, n[e]uter, s[k]ip class, s[T]ay up all night reading alt.postmodern until you feel woozy, sp[A]m all posters, appe[n]d long space-filling menu, contrive hard-to-remem[b]er single-letter abbreviation, chu[g]-a-lug, bale [h]ay, m[i]lk cows, destro[y] Usenet as we know it, [v]ent steam, [w]alk down stairs alone or in pairs, jump up and [d]own, scream rea[l] loud