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- From: fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton)
- Subject: Re: I was once in love with a beautiful ice cream cone...
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:40:43 GMT
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- In <1h2h3tINNon8@chnews.intel.com> bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
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- ON A WORKABLE STRATEGY FOR PARSING THIS POST:
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- >Why not simply announce a conscious intention to revive the
- >word "groovy," and let us get on with our lives.
-
- PUSH
- > --Blair
- > "I peg more utter geeks that way."
- POP
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- >P.S. Apparently, all the Spring-fashion shows
- PUSH
- >(which happen in Fall, of economic course)
- POP
- >this year in Europe feature a "hippy-dippy-chic" motif, to quote one Italian
- >fag designer
- PUSH
- (note to the putatively ironic: if he WASN'T
- >an Italian *fag* designer, he WOULDN'T be allowed in the
- >dressing room with Linda Evangelista and Cindy Crawford and
- >Claudia Schiffer,
- PUSH
- >and that hot, black babe
- PUSH
- (*not* Iman, who's tout-le-out since the Star Trek episode)
- POP
- >from the George Michael video
- PUSH
- (the one that doesn't feature his butt, except as it's implied by his face).
- POP
- POP
- >so don't even THINK of expressing your
- >envious dismay at the state of Modern Fashion).
- POP
- >The word "groovy" may come back, therefore, but through the usual
- >channels of overreaching wannabes
- PUSH
- >(in Fr., "le Bourgeoisie")
- POP
- >and social fear, rather than some democratic
- PUSH
- >(or faux leaderly)
- POP
- >requiem.
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- --
- ben
- fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- dominate the subversive paradigm
-