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- From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
- Subject: The Unbearable Shortage of Truly Weird People
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.013920.25889@igor.tamri.com>
- Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 01:39:20 GMT
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- I'm peeved because there simply aren't enough creatively weird people in
- the world.
-
- Sure, there are BDIs in cars who run over entire packs of cub scouts
- because they pounded down a six pack and drove without realizing that
- their eyes were closed. There are weird and creepy people in Milwaukee
- who kill other people and then cook them up for dinner. There are the
- people who sit at the back of the bus, muttering about how aliens talk
- to them through their shower head. And there are the people who really
- think that George Bush put LaRouche in prison because he was afraid to
- face him in a fair election.
-
- But there really aren't enough TRULY and creatively weird people out there.
- I want to see more people:
- - go on job interviews just to play with the interviewer, wearing their
- clothes inside out and carrying resumes written in purple crayon.
- - put the baby silhouette from a box of huggies up as their target at the
- range and shoot at it.
- - do Quasimodo imitations during design reviews, walking crookedly around
- the room while drooling out the words "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!"
- - walk up to a traffic cop and ask if he knows what the "wherefore" line
- from Romeo and Juliet REALLY means.
- - drive around town in a car with the license plate "EVIL 1", a black Camaro
- with tinted windows and little purple duckies stenciled on the doors
-
- I know for a fact that there are some such delightful people out there,
- making it all bearable by pointing out what a joke life really is. But
- there sure aint enough of them out there and that REALLY peeves me!
-
- ObNightmare: The fear that Dan Quayle might have been such a person who
- took weirdness to a level too high for me to appreciate.
-
- don
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- "The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first
- female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as
- succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before."
- - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
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- Don Baldwin - Software Engineer - e-mail to: donb@tamri.com
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