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- From: pierpont@snax.enet.dec.com (Howard Pierpont)
- Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.graffiti,alt.geek
- Subject: Re: New newsgroup proposal - alt.quotations
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.192238.15997@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 19:23:47 GMT
- References: <BzADnv.HFL@world.std.com>
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- In article <BzADnv.HFL@world.std.com>, mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur) writes...
- > [I have consulted with the original poster of this idea, Chua Hak Lien, and
- >got permission to post this. Thanks for the idea, Chua.]
- >
- > Proposal for a new alt.group - alt.quotations (name is open for debate.)
- >
- > PURPOSE: for quotations, quips, .sig lines, witticisms, and discussions
- >of all of the above.
- >
- > VOTES:
- >
- > Please send Yes votes, No votes, and suggestions for the name
- >(alt.quotations is my pick) to my address:
- >
- > mgm@world.std.com
- >
- > WHY A NEWSGROUP?
- >
- > I think there's quite a bit of interest. We see quotations all over,
- >particularly in .sigs. When this was first mentioned in alt.config,
- >there were 8 responses in one day.
- >
- > WHY AN "alt" GROUP?
- >
- > I'm not THAT sure about the interest, and this topic will have a very
- >large "fluff factor." If it works out as an alt group, perhaps a "talk"
- >or other USENET group will come of it.
- >
- > WHAT IS A QUOTATION?
- >
- > I'm sure there are all sorts of smart-aleck answers to that question,
- >but here are some examples of what *I* would use the group for:
- >
- >"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and
- >as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
- > --Albert Einstein
- >
- >"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds
- >the universe together...."
- > -- Carl Zwanzig
- >
- >"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it
- >every six months."
- > -- Oscar Wilde
- >
- >"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting
- > on people."
- > -- W.C. Fields
- >
- >"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear
- >question."
- > -- Albert Camus
- >
- >"Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk."
- > -- Andy Gibb
- >
- >"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full
- > house and four people died."
- > -- Stephen Wright
- >
- >I think you get the idea. If you reply to this message in e-mail to make
- >your vote, PLEASE don't quote this entire message (I may like quotations,
- >but not THAT kind.) I'd rather not receive 300 copies of this message in
- >my mailbox.
- >
- > Thanks.
- >--
- >~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
- >
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