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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Muzak Fact & Fiction (was Re: Short Shamful Anxiety)
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 23:02:46 GMT
- Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
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- References: <1992Nov9.163802.12219@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov10.213014.19881@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <BxItFM.3A1@encore.com>
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- In article <BxItFM.3A1@encore.com> kschnitz@encore.com (Kevin Schnitzius) writes:
- >dvacca@nyx.cs.du.edu (David Vacca) writes:
- >>One, for example, is now the concept of hearing the Beatles as Muzak.
- >
- >I really hate to bring this up but I was caught myself humming to
- >Muzak in a Publix Supermarket the other day. I stopped myself by
- >smacking a pork roast upside my head. When I recovered, I made a
- >fateful revelation: the song was "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
-
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- Fact: It is rumored that there exists a Muzak version of
- "Love Will Tear Us Apart."
-
- --
-
- Fiction:
-
- "Have you got the tape, Hep-san?"
-
- "The, uh, tape, Miyazaki-san?"
-
- "The tape, Reec-tus! The TAPE!"
-
- "Oh! The tape."
-
- "Yes, Hep-san. The tape."
-
- "Hmm... let's see here. Ah... yes. 'Soft Songs for Uncle
- Otis,' by the Sedate Violin Quartet. Movement Three. That's
- it."
-
- "NO! No, Reec-tus, that is tape we just steal! Where is new
- tape?"
-
- "Oh... oh, shit."
-
- "Why you go break in Muzak factory and no bring tape? Eh?"
-
- "Oh. Well, uh, see... well, I met this guy on the bus, right,
- and we were talking, and he said he'd never heard any John
- Zorn, right, what's it like, so I... well, you know."
-
- c
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