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Subject: Welcome to talk.bizarre!  (Monthly Posting)
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Date: 17 Jun 92 15:00:14 GMT
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    [ Note: Since the Biannual Bonehead, a longtime talk.bizarre
      tradition (his avatar is named `John Ampe' this time around)
      manifested this month, I thought it would be a good time to haul
      this old chestnut out of mothballs.  Note that I did not write it.
      -StL ]

In article <4610@inco.UUCP>, csu@alembic.acs.com (Big Dave Mack) writes:
  THIS is why there is a talk.bizarre, and why it is worth keeping.
  I suggest that every time someone suggests trashing t.b, we should
  post this gem as justification for keeping it.

In article <20676@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> nj@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (i) writes:
  me?  morbid?  i'm not morbid.  i'm never morbid.  why, i believe in
  the beauty of a precious, sweet-smelling flower.  i'm not morbid.  how
  dare you call me morbid?  i believe in young love.  i believe in
  everlasting life!  i believe in the healing power of crystals!  you
  call me morbid?  i think it's morning in america!  i believe david
  duke wants to stop the terrible, widespread oppression of true whites
  by blacks and jews!  jesus christ is a CLOSE, PERSONAL SAVIOR of mine
  and i love LEO BUSCAGLIA!  i am not morbid!  crack ISN'T making the
  city of san francisco go bankrupt!  green springtime MEADOWS!  verdant
  PLAINS of GRAZING DEER!  i have visions of PLAYING OTTERS!  i am NOT
  morbid, dammit; i LOVE LIFE and i let it SHOW!  we DON'T have to DUCK
  when the SHIT hits the FAN!  barry manilow!  i think EVERYTHING is
  BEAUTIFUL and EVERYTHING is FINE and EVERYONE is essentially GOOD
  inside so FUCK YOU because THIS IS THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS and
  if you DON'T LIKE IT you can FUCKING go live somewhere ELSE, asswipe.

  and it wasn't a fucking POEM, anyway.

     By the Holy Claws of Klortho the Magnificent, this IS a fine morning!
talk.bizarre Steering Committee                           tbsc@volcano.tbsc.org