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- From: barrett@cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Let us sing a new song... hallelujah! (was Re: I wish Marc would etc)
- Date: 8 Aug 1993 04:34:26 GMT
-
- In article <CBDF3F.80B@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- > You are the ones who are encouraging me. By the way you religiously
- >worship the Amiga, and refuse to accept...
-
- "But Your Honor! She was wearing those provocative clothes, so it's
- really HER fault!!!"
-
- Poor Marc. Because we insist on being so clueless, he's forced
- to post over and over, preventing him from having an actual life. <sniff>
- Makes me weepy just thinking about it.
-
- But he's right about worshipping the Amiga religiously. Personally,
- I have a fifty-meter-high fire-burning altar in my backyard, and I perform
- daily ritual sacrifices to the gods Ur-Ving and Hae-Nee, proclaiming their
- awesome majesty. Once a week, the local Amiga group comes over and we all
- set our nostril hairs aflame and ride around in our "Only Amiga" go-karts.
-
- >It has been shown over and over again that the Amiga is inferior....
- >But you just REFUSE to accept it.
-
- My gosh... HE'S RIGHT!!! And all these years, somehow I missed it.
- Yes, I've been doing serious work on Amigas for six years now, and somehow I
- never noticed the zillions of problems that plague Marc's nightmares. Well,
- I guess I'll just have to trade in my Amigas now. Maybe I'll buy some
- baseball cards instead. Or become a monk. Or maybe become a monk baseball
- player. Just call me Brother Homer....
-
- (I still think Marc is going to make a great politician someday.
- Notice the phrase "it has been shown." Notice that it really means,
- "I have said repeatedly." Isn't the passive voice FUN??? :-) Remove
- the nouns and you have *instant* authority!!)
-
- >The day everyone accepts that the Amiga is dead and stops being so damn
- >heavily in denial over it, is the day I will stop posting to the Amiga
- >newsgroups.
-
- Oooh, I just LOVE a man with a MISSION!! He's so SEXY!!! Does he
- wear a colorful COSTUME with a big red "MB" emblazoned on the chest, as
- he seeks out wrongthinkers and bravely SETS THEM STRAIGHT?? Hmmm... this
- is a good idea for a song, don't you think???
-
- (Sung to the tune of "Brave Sir Robin" from the movie "Monty Python
- and the Holy Grail")
-
- Bravely brave Marc Barrett
- Came forth from Iowa.
- He was not afraid to flame,
- No, brave Marc Barrett!
- He was not at all afraid to tell all of us we're wrong!
- Brave, brave, brave, brave Marc Barrett!
-
- He was not in the least bit scared to predict Amiga's death.
- Nor the death of CDTV, and the Video Toaster!
- He'll post and post until poor Commodore is burned away,
- And its product line demolished, brave Marc Barrett!
- When Ramsey's dead, and Denise is gone,
- And Agnus bleeding and Portia cracked
- And Paula exploded and Gary melted
- Oh, then......
-
- Brave Marc will run away.
- Bravely run away away.
- When Commodore is finally dead
- He'll bravely leave and go to bed.
- Yes Brave Sir Marc will turn about
- And no more garbage he will spout.
- Bravely taking to his feat
- He'll beat a very brave retreat!
- Bravest of the brave... Marc Barrett!!!
-
- Hey, what prize do you win when you're done? The Holy Grail?
- The admiration of the masses? (Hint: if you think it's the latter,
- then you might want to consider a different quest....)
-
- Dan
- (related... NOT)
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