Why does it hurt when ISP?Originally Posted by flowerking
Why does it hurt when ISP?
I was doing a contract at Nortel in 1994 and was using the comp.database... structure for help when I discovered alt.music.progressive. I started hanging out there and on to r.m.p and then I followed the herd/flock over here.
Think of a book as a vase, and a movie as the stained-glass window that the filmmaker has made out of the pieces after he’s smashed it with a hammer.
-- Russell Banks (paraphrased)
Bring back BABYSMASH!
rec.music.progressive is still there, but it looks like it's mostly used by promoters who want to make sure they don't miss out on a chance to possibly move some tickets or product.
Here's one of his greatest hits:I'M ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAS TO HAVE SOUND HAPPENING ALWAYS OR I GO NUTS
AND END UP COVERED AFTER A HARD NIGHT IN A HOSPITAL ISSUE TOWEL BEING TALKED
DOWN IN THE SPECIAL MASHBANG WARD SHUDDERING AS I SCREAM DAMN YOU UNDER MY
BREATH CALLING OUT "LAP TOP I NEED YOUR PISS HOLE.
Doh!
Good one!
I was on rec.music.progressive back in the day. I was probably more active in some of the Yahoogroups though. The old Kansas list People Of The Southwind was what got it all started for me. Then the ProgAndOther list got started from POTSW and I was very active on that too. Once progressivears came along though all of the other ones eventually went by the wayside.
No way there were Lap Tops back then. He was a prophet!
I was on that Kansas list for a bit. And of course the Marillion Freaks list for years!
I did then and I still do. Never had any problem with it.
That Kansas list was really what started everything for me on the Internet. I have people I met there that later became good friends in real life, and are still friends today. I probably would have never discovered that progressive rock still existed without POTSW. My first foray to ProgDay in 1997 was a direct result of being in that group too.
MY GOD YOU GUYS HAVE SHAGGED THATCHER I KNOW IT,JESUS CHRIST YOU ARE ALL
FULLY DIOLATED EMERSON NOB THUMB ROLLERS.
Google really has ruined usenet searchability, but here's another one I dug up.
I got on usenet around 1990, maybe? I was on a few of the newsgroups, a.m.p, then r.m.p. I was on rec.audio.pro quite a bit; there was good info for those into music production. A lot of biggies and equipment manufacturers hung out there. I *think* I used the same name throughout all of that, but I can't really remember. There was a bunch of music.makers groups for various instruments that I dropped into every now'n'then, too.
I had a terminal for a while, modem'd into my Sun station at work, and I'd surf usenet at night sometimes. Maybe it was before 1990? Heck, I don't remember.
Gnish-gnosh borble wiff, shlauuffin oople tirk.
AS FOR WHATEVER IT WAS THAT THAT GUY SAID WELL ALL I CAN SAY IS DRINK
MY MAN MILK, IT'S FRESH DESPITE IT'S MUSKY SENT , A LOVELY BREW OF
FISH EGG'S AND ARMOND TASTE, HMMMMMMM, SUCK MY MAN TROUSER RATTLER
UNTIL THAT VENON BITES YER BUM AND RECTUS DAMN NEAR KILLEDU'S RUMP.
OHHH MY LITTLE RATTLE IS HUMMING BABY, GIMME YA BIG FAT MILK THUMPING
CREAM HOLE SPURTLER NIPPLE OF DECIET AND LOVING JOURNEY FOOD.
^^^ It's been bothering me where I know that quote from, but I just remembered, it was in a Hallmark card I saw once.
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Well, Hallmark just copied it from Omar Khayyam.
LOL! They have a whole line of Man Milk cards, don't they?
I'd like to think we've come so far from those dark days, but then ...
Think of a book as a vase, and a movie as the stained-glass window that the filmmaker has made out of the pieces after he’s smashed it with a hammer.
-- Russell Banks (paraphrased)
I dunno. The IBM 2521 ThinkPad came out in 1992, which was about the same time I started haunting A.M.P. That's only 24 years ago. I took a C Programming course in 1994, but I'd been using mainframe computers since at least 1979.
No wait, I bought my first PC clone in 1989, and I had an Amstrad CP/M word processor for at least a year before that. I don't recall it having a modem though. So I've been online since 1989 or 1990. When did A.M.P. launch?
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The great thing about r.m.p was the fighting. Some great flamewars.
Mongrel dog soils actor's feet
I remember the good ol' alt.music.progressive days, before rec.music.progressive came along. Was on there from about 1994.
Henry
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Just found this on a.m.p - the reply is from me. I remember writing this, but I don't remember what Request Magazine was - was that from Tower, after (or before?) Pulse?
: >00b0...@bsuvc.bsu.edu (BOMB) writes:
: )
: )>HEY I AM LOOKING FOR A WAY TO TALK TO SHERYL
: )>CROW. ANYONE WHO HAS A PHONE # OR A PERSONAL
: )>ADDRESS BUZZ ME.
To quote a columnist from Request magazine on the lyric to "All I Wanna Do":
" 'I like a good beer buzz early in the morning...'
...that's nice. I hope you like a nice, wracking alley-puke in the
afternoon."
BABYMASH was actually a guy named Glenn Fletcher, who put out an album on cassette called "Fragment", way back in the day. I have it in one of my many boxes of stuff somewhere.
And a CD ("Eat Your Mash"), which I imagine a few of us have.
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