Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology Path: news.cinenet.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!europa.clark.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!uucp5.uu.net!world!mmcirvin From: mmcirvin@world.std.com (Matt McIrvin) Subject: Re: Galactica '97 (was Re: I'm not racist, I'm just scared of desperate poor people) Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr Usenet Himself) Message-ID: <19970612143705415389@ppp0a023.std.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 18:37:05 GMT References: <5moajo$rbn$13@nw001.infi.net> <338b8971.7826788@news.autobahn.mb.ca> <5mtlr2$5jr@supernews.com> <33978253.1179845291@fullnews.neosoft.com> <338df0f2.21151991@news.autobahn.mb.ca> <339a59ad.1562713366@fullnews.neosoft.com> <5nef78$aba@saltmine.radix.net> <5nilh8$96b@muon.rutgers.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: ppp0a007.std.com Organization: Software Tool & Die, Brookline MA X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.2 Lines: 43 Xref: news.cinenet.net alt.religion.kibology:32629 Ben Weiner wrote: > By the time the later Star Treks > came around, the audience had given up on all that outdated > "originality" stuff - what with Ernie Kovacs having been off > the air for thirty years already - and callbacks were the order > of the day. Hey! That Nairobi Trio thing was MINE! Besides, I just got to the part of "Mason and Dixon" where Pynchon slips in a Star Trek callback (inspired, actually, by an event that happened in Leonard Nimoy's boyhood neighborhood somewhere near Kibo's former apartment) and if he can do it SO CAN ANYBODY! Something even sillier happens on the next page. Art is dead and I can do anything I want! Also it's John Linnell's birthday. So anyway, I just figured out how to make people like me nervous. Just prefix one of your sentences with the words "I'm not a racist, but." This phrase pushes a soundless Bozo Alarm button inside my skull and sometimes makes my left eyebrow go up involuntarily, in expectation of some blithely racist clause to follow. So anyone meeting me might want to slip it into conversation casually just to see the effect. "I'm not a racist, but, geez, hot enough for ya?" "I'm not a racist, but I really ought to balance my checkbook." "I'm not a racist, but I think I'll have the clams." By this time I'd be climbing the walls. Also I figured out that fortune cookie messages sound almost profound if you remove the words "IN BED" that every one of them ends with. It takes out the risque element completely and turns them into pithy little predictions and observations about life. For instance: "You will have success in your every endeavor." "Smile-- it makes people wonder what you're up to." *Spooky*, huh? -- Font-o-Meter! Proportional Monospaced ^ http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/