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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technologies Home Page
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 96 02:55:15
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- In article <4ipms1$s0b@freenet-news.carleton.ca> as543@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Don Routledge) writes:
- >
- > I have reached it regularly from freenet in Ottawa, Canada.
- > There was a warning however that the site would be down Saturday
- > March 19 (and maybe Sunday) due to power changes in their building.
-
- > I was using it only a few minutes ago.
- > I was using it a few minutes ago.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- *** New art form? ***
-
- You know, given proper marketing this kind of poem could be all the rage for
- the next decade.
-
- Here's the deal: We call it "Utilitarian Poetry", we give it an entry in the
- Jargon File and hire some critics to find similar creations and praise them in
- the major artistic publications. We share the loot^H^H^H^Hbenefits on a
- fifty-fifty basis. How's that? We'd be doing the world a big favour, honest.
-
- Expect works and reviews like:
-
- "I challenge your facts/That's just totally untrue/Why would I do such a thing?"
- --W. Gates III (1995)
-
- (here Gates denies forcing software developers to reveal their product plans to
- Microsoft. The fact that a company spokesman later admitted the allegations
- does not strip if of its emotional depth and subtle rythmic complexity)
-
- "Turn the other way/You're breaking the joint/Reverse the gizmo and turn again"
- --anonymous (1996)
-
- (the author strives to heighten our emotional involvement in today's complex
- society and the automobile repair industry in particular)
-
- "This is the second time in our history/that there has come back from Germany
- to Downing Street peace with honour/I believe it is peace in our time"
- --Neville Chamberlain (1939)
-
- (another artistic achievement that the world should never forget. Announcing in
- the last days of september 1939 that there will be no Second World War, Neville
- symbolizes the smashed hopes of those who trade in their principles to gain
- security. When future generations think of moral compromises, they will think
- of this poem. Thank you, Neville!)
-
-
- > Regards,
- > Don Routledge
-
- --
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- # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas. #
- #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... --#
- #jvermeul@wi.leidenuniv.nl \ "That bad, huh?" / Got a problem with that? #
-
- Neo-postmodernism is just totally `passe'!
-