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- From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Singles
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.164903.15265@walter.cray.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 22:49:02 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.005533.11473@microsoft.com>
- Sender: jcarroll@ferris (Jeff Carroll)
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- In article <1992Nov10.005533.11473@microsoft.com>, benth@microsoft.com (Ben) writes:
- > I finally broke down and went to see 'Singles'. It was
- > a hoot. I especially liked the goofy way they dressed everyone.
- > See, Chris from Soundgarden dressed like that a couple of times
- > in 1989, unfortunately in front of a camera.
- >
- > The only people who wear long underwear under cutoffs with flannel
- > shirts around here (especially on a stage) are gomers who moved
- > to Seattle to become Rock Stars, and kids from the suburbs who don't
- > know any better. Oh yeah, and Pat Finnerty when he lived here.
- >
- > I have no joke, I just like saying 'Moved to Seattle to become
- > Rock Stars'.
-
- Say, Ben, when was the last time you were actually west of the lake?
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- Nobody wants to watch movies about Boeing engineers or Microsoft weenies,
- even if they are 60% of the population. Besides, the Bellevue police have
- standing orders to shoot flannel shirts on sight, except around BHS.
-
- And it's not as if all those rock stars moved to Seattle from New York.
-
- jkc (ex-boeing engineer)
-