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- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!apollo.hp.com!netnews
- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Star Trek: Deep Space
- Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News)
- Message-ID: <C1Gpuq.LAv@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:08:49 GMT
- References: <2613.1785.uupcb@almac.co.uk>
- Nntp-Posting-Host: c.ch.apollo.hp.com
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA
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- In article <2613.1785.uupcb@almac.co.uk> andy.liddiard@almac.co.uk (Andy Liddiard) writes:
- >
- >You, nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writ
- >
- >PN/* current topics. Flattery, it seems, will get you *everywhere*
- >PN/* with the TV generation: tell them that they're intelligent and
- >PN/* that they demonstrate this by watching your "intellectually
- >PN/* stimulating" TV show and they'll tune in in droves.
- >
- >HA! 17 million Britons tune in to Cilla Black's _Blind Date_ every
- >week. This is telling them they're shit-thick morons - and they love
- >it. Nah, your theory is leaking.
-
- Either that, or to them it's flattery!
-
-
- >(Hang on, this is rec.couch.potato, right? What have you done with
- >John Winston's alt.alien.visitors? It's was here yesterday....)
-
- I put the whole thing in my kill file. Just putting Winston
- in my kill file wasn't sufficient -- I still had to read all
- the responses to his drivel. This is MY newsgroup now and
- I control the topics! Next thread: What Will Robinson and
- his robot did in Cleveland!
-
-
- ---peter
-
-