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- From: banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: If there's someone missing in your life - FAQ 'em!
- Message-ID: <lgfh11INN7kd@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:54:09 GMT
- References: <28150@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <28150@castle.ed.ac.uk> fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:
- >Announcing - the great alt.peeves faq competition.
- >
- >Clearly there are people missing from the faq file. Some have been
-
- Not just people, but questions, too:
-
- Q: Why on earth would there be any need for an faq on alt.peeves?
-
- A: Because some people who frequent the group think quite highly of
- themselves and want to embed themselves in the cique they perceive to
- exist. By constructing an faq, stroking the people they look up to
- and damning the people they loath, they can forget that fact they have
- no "friends" unless they're reading news.
-
- Q: Who is the intended audience of an faq?
-
- A: The intended audience is the writer and those who fancy themselves
- in the clique with the writer. It's a vehicle to quell the
- insecurities of those who feel they don't belong unless they have
- their tongues firmly jammed up the bungholes of their betters.
-
- Q: Well then, are you saying the addle-minded faq writers do so just
- to see their name in print and gain allies?
-
- A: Exactly.
-
- drew
- banta@abingdon.sun.com
- --
- ".....what I was encouraging women to do is to
- get a life, not necessarily a career. I think
- a career is a poor substitute for a life."
- -- Germaine Greer
-