Path: netnews.upenn.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rpi!gatech!enterpoop.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!usenet From: tbsc@volcano.tbsc.ORG (talk.bizarre Steering Committee) Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,news.answers,talk.answers Subject: Welcome to talk.bizarre! (Monthly Posting) Message-ID: Date: 24 Feb 93 06:02:53 GMT Expires: 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT Reply-To: mlegare@wetware.com (BoBteCh) Followup-To: talk.bizarre Distribution: world,elsewhere Organization: talk.bizarre Steering Committee (TINC) Lines: 41 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Xref: netnews.upenn.edu talk.bizarre:140440 news.answers:6287 talk.answers:9 NNTP-Posting-Host: pit-manager.mit.edu X-Last-Updated: 1993/02/24 X-Mr-Attribution: Matthew Paul Legare X-Orig-Sender: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Seth the Lard) X-Organization: sulphur & oxygen Archive-name: talk-bizarre welcome to talk.bizarre. this is a funny place, you know? for instance, about half the people here pretend to hate this newsgroup. i mean REALLY hate it. or at least, hate what it's become, when in fact it's not changed in nature since before the great renaming when it was net.bizarre, or maybe alt.suicide.holiday. i can't remember because i wasn't on here back then. anyway, that's about half of the people. there are a few people who figure that by being the biggest assholes they can possibly be, they are making a name for themselves and a space for them in society. oddly enough, this has worked for at least one such person, who is treated with grudging respect (not to say contempt) by many of what i will call "group 1", the people i talked about in the last paragraph. there are people here who treat this newsgroup like a coctail party, somewhere to be clever and interesting. some of these people make one think that they are hideously inept at attending coctail parties by their behavior here. some of the "group 1" people are of this subset, and sometimes i like to entertain myself by imagining them to be the ones all in black smoking foreign cigarettes and bitching about how dead this party is. then there's the other group, which i will call "the other group". these people write, and write well. damn well. the kind of well that prompts one to wonder if there isn't a market for it, and why these people aren't hideously rich and famous yet. these people post rarely (a helluva lot less frequently than the rest), but their posts are worth the crap one has to put up with to get there. a good summation of talk.bizarre is thus: like anything, a good activity, if you don't mind the people you have to put up with to participate. kinda like life, really.