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- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!Csli!zwicky
- From: zwicky@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Arnold Zwicky)
- Subject: marking soc.motss as read
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.164228.8495@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
- Followup-To: soc.motss
- Summary: warning to users
- Organization: stanford, lsa, outil, osu,...
- References: <72164@cup.portal.com> <Bzo43E.2Br@agora.rain.com> <1992Dec23.113314.5184@panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:42:28 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- in article <1992Dec23.113314.5184@panix.com> mara@panix.com (mara
- chibnik) responds to bcapps@agora.rain.com (brent capps)'s having
- admitted that
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- >>One time I was behind by *4000*
- >>messages and just had to mark them all read.
-
- by declaring that
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- >Here is clear evidence of insufficient devotion. If there were a
- >cabal it would have to address this matter.
-
- it is a little-known fact about usenet that when a user exercises
- the 'c' option for soc.motss a program automatically causes small
- amounts of anerotic pheromone to exude from the keyboard onto the
- hapless user's fingers. this pheromone makes the victim sexually
- unattractive to members of the appropriate sex(es) for up to a month;
- attempts to wash off the substance only make things worse, since
- the fatty components in soaps interact with it so as to heighten
- its effects and lengthen its effective period. (so if you've been
- silly enough to mark all of soc.motss as read, you should at least
- keep your hands dirty. this is known to medical professionals
- as the 'main sale syndrome'; through a vulgar misappehension, some
- users have taken to messing about in boats, department stores, and/or
- the northeast corner of the u.s. these actions, though harmless
- in themselves, are of no use whatsoever against anerotism.)
-
- your cabal in action.
-
- you have been WARNED.
-
- arnold (still unpacking po...err...boxes in palo alto)
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