Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology Path: news.cinenet.net!news.atw.earthreach.com!uwvax!news.altair.com!feeder.chicago.cic.net!news.math.psu.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news3.cac.psu.edu!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!199.172.62.14!world!ppp0a007.std.com!user From: mmcirvin@world.std.com (Matt McIrvin) Subject: Re: Trolling APDD Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr Usenet Himself) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 03:04:35 GMT References: <19970506201800.QAA26250@ladder01.news.aol.com> <3380a9ac.16438006@news.onramp.net> <5koh19$6nv$1@nnrp01.primenet.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: ppp0a007.std.com Organization: Software Tool & Die, Brookline MA X-Newsreader: MT-NewsWatcher 2.3fc3 Lines: 31 Xref: news.cinenet.net alt.religion.kibology:29188 In article <5koh19$6nv$1@nnrp01.primenet.com>, nickb@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) wrote: > Here's an interesting debate. Which social structure is the most > dangerous for long exposure: that propogated by Usenet, or that depicted > in TV's "Seinfeld"? If the characters from "Seinfeld" lived in the real world, by now they would be ostracized by all of humankind, and kept in a special isolation facility for the socially radioactive, surrounded by three feet of lead- lined windowless concrete. If they happened to escape, witnesses would run screaming and call the authorities. Even if they did not appear on TV, their names and faces would be known universally. Posters on every streetcorner would warn citizens to avoid these people and consider them human-relations poison, prone to cause social disasters fueled by unbelievably contrived coincidences, occasional bursts of baldly sociopathic behavior, and an obsession with (listed) candy and food items for use as McGuffins. One of my favorite "Seinfeld" episodes had a subplot in which George described some recent episodes in his life to somebody who was evidently a visitor from outside the "Seinfeld" universe. She thought that he was nuts or lying, because she did not understand the rules governing events in this strange and convoluted world. "Seinfeld" is the best science fiction show on TV. -- Font-o-Meter! Proportional Monospaced ^ http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/