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- From: Minotaur@cup.portal.com (A Frank Swilling)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: ok, let me try this again
- Message-ID: <70044@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 11:44:19 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Nov10.180920.29554@Princeton.EDU>
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- I join Greg Parkinson in giving Spencer Sun what-for:
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- >|> spencer@shine.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
-
- >|> >Yes, I am trying to change things. Yes, I am trying to exclude
- >|> >certain types of conversation from soc.motss.
-
- Stop trying, you'll save yourself from an ulcer.
-
- >|> >... what started this off was a message from John Dorrance. [...]
- >|> >>What's the stupidest/lamest/strangest song lyric you know of?
- >|> >>('I feel drunk', 'let's look for the purple banana 'til they put
- >|> >>us in the truck')
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- That's the way -- uh-huh, uh-huh -- I like it -- uh-huh,-uh-huh
- That's the way -- uh-huh, uh-huh -- I like it -- uh-huh, uh-huh
-
- >|> >IMHO, soc.motss should be for gay-related conversations. I interpret
- >|> >that to mean conversations which, in substance, are gay-related. This
- >|> >article by Mr. Dorrance does not strike me as falling into this
- >|> >category.
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- Your vote is registered. Unfortunately, no one's tallying the votes.
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- >A discussion of how Keanu Reeves being tied up and
- >assaulted by vampire maidens (or whatever) appeals
- >to you *is* gay-related, but gay people talking about
- >song lyrics is *not* gay-related.
-
- >I see - whatever interests *you* is appropriate.
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- >Greg Parkinson
-
- That's exactly right, Greg, although Spencer needs to mentally
- expand that "you" to "any GLBO person".
-
- I'm with Laura Creighton on this basic precept: I'm here, I'm queer,
- whatever flows out of my brain and on through my keyboard to soc.motss
- is ipso facto gay-related.
-
- Frank
- Minotaur@cup.portal.com
-