Date: Tuesday, July 23, 1996  6:57pm                           Forum: Classic
From: wired child                                                Msg#: 919526
  To: ** ALL **
  Re: So, is anyone still reading these?
      (Copy by Blackthorne)

Random passing notes designed to irk as many as possible with the least
effort.

(1) Within seconds of "decloaking", I was pagebombed with "When is the
net going to be back up?". This of course assumes many things --

  (a) that I still work for Snider and have any control over these
things (and of course, one of the reasons I quit was that I had no
control even when I was there)
  (b) that Snider is dedicated to providing TCE with a smooth and tidy
Internet link (in case you haven't heard, Snider ditched TCE so as not
to sully its pristine reputation in the online community)
  (c) that I *care*. You know, when I did care, I got VERY little
appreciation for the work that I did to keep things sort of running in a
ramshackle Snider sort of fashion. Now that I don't, do you really
wonder why I snarl and bare my fangs when you assume I'm still Flunky
Boy?

This of course begs the question "why does wC still appear in red,
anyway?". Which is a good question, since in addition to doing less work
than Isaboe, I sort of work for a competitor now. Autox and/or *b may
still have plans for me as Content Boy, I dunno. But if I woke up one day
and my name wasn't in red, I wouldn't complain. Heck, maybe dark gray?

Then again, Monolith can still use me in Global Gateways ("The No-wC
BBS!") mailings as a bogeyman if I stay "red". Plus, if I weren't a TCE
staff member, Diogenes would lose another reason to detest me. Ah, the
complexities of life!

(2) Went to go see "The Sophomoric ...i mean Nutty Professor" the other
night. (Not much choice, since my wife, when presented with movie
choices, asks "Does anything blow up?". There goes most of MY choices.)
Mmm boy, fat jokes. Gotta love 'em. You know, I am really, and I mean
REALLY getting sick of being a member of the only minority that it's
acceptable to be an ass too. Do you have any idea what it's like walking
across the street and haviong frat boys yell things at you? Yes? How
about being cultured, witty, intelligent and personable and still being
treated like Dub Dubose, the Hog Farmer from Crossett everywhere you go?

And let's talk clothes, shall we? I mean, why in the HELL should
anorexics like Kate Moss be able to find things anywhere, and the other
end of the spectrum relegated to "Big Bob's Clothing Ghetto", with
outfits that cost $100 on up and made so shoddily that they fall apart
after about a month or so?

You know, if I were black, and some goddam frat boy pulled up by me
while I was walking over to the StaxStaxStax (to buy DIET COKE mind you)
and yelled "Hey nigger, going to go buy some watermelon? Hyuk hyuk
hyuk!" at the top of their lungs, I would be legally allowed to turn
their head into a watermelon with my AK.

I know, a lot of you are thinking "Heh. Dummy. If he just quit eating
like a pig, and got out and exercised his lazy butt, he'd be just like
me, or what I think I am anyway." Got some newsflashes for you.

   (a)  I'm not fat because I eat like a pig. I eat 2 meals like
everyone else. While I may sometimes "pig out", or curl up into a fetal
ball with a Doritos bag when depressed, I suspect my caloric intake
isn't that different fromany other 6'4" male.
   (b)  I'm not fat because I'm lazy. I'm lazy because it takes me twice
as much effort to walk 5 miles as it does a "normal" person. Which isn't
to say that walking 5 miles isn't beyond me either, I'd just rather not
do it, thank you.

I strongly suspect a metabolic disorder that's hereditary in nature
since my whole family was worse off than I am. Also, the last time I was
"normal weight" it was do to a meth habit. Gee. Be fat and die of a
coronary, or be skinny and die of a coronary. Gotta love these choices.

So BACK OFF.

(3) In case you haven't noticed, this BBS has been day-ud. You know,
there's lots going on. People shooting missiles at airplanes, governors
going mad and having to be drug out back and shot, presidential
elections, little things like that. Plus, the BBS itself is in some
hellish sort of limbo.

Given that, could we please talk about something besides butts??

wC
dammit