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From: [email protected] (Nemickol)
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Subject: Re: A show of hands (ME!!, FUCKING ME!!)
Date: 13 Jul 1995 19:27:59 GMT
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In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Omar Haneef '96) writes:
|>
|> > Punks build community the same way anyone else does and most of the punk
|> > groups I've had the pleasure to hang out with (usually centered around a
|> > local band and not some national or international toy punk band) have had
|> > very useful and productive relationship with the community at large.
|>
|> > The former leader of pgh's premiere punk outfit (Thin White Line) while I was
|> > in school also managed the restaurant where we all ate lunch and where a
|> > certain girl named Debi (Jer should know who I mean) was working as a
|> > waitress and learning guitar chords. Last I heard she was still playing
|> > and so was Thin White Line. Carsickness (another pgh band) existed for 15
|> > years under different line-ups and finally ended up a Celtic Rock band
|> > without changing the basic line-up one bit. They moved where they needed
|> > to and did pretty well in the process. And there is no that these guys
|> > were punks. Punk is not Sid and Nancy although Sid and Nancy were punks.
|>
|> alright. And here is Nemickol on punks:
|>
|> Do you know any punks Omar? I mean *punks*.
|> Not Greed Day or Jerk-Offspring garbage gen-X
|> fools, but punks.
|>

Please answer this question. If not for us or the sake
of the discussion, answer it for yourself.


|> They hate things. They want to bring it all down.
|> They want to build things up the way they see fit.
|> They have great ideas, wonderful plans, strong ideology.
|> They don't give a shit about anything.
|> Many of them drink too damn much.
|> A lot of them dont think beyond buying the next vinyl.
|>
|>
|> My problem is not that I don't understand what you or Nemickol is saying -
|> its only English (joke! Don't get carried away) - but that you guys
|> contradict each other!


.mpa has had an extended tour with different punks than I have.
I've been around those type as well though.

We are begining to split hairs here.



|> My response to HIM is intercepted by YOU. Can't you
|> see how I'm closer to your and his stance then you are to each other? You
|> have different definitions of cyberpunk. Its not about anything. Maybe its
|> about our interpretations of what the books are about...
|>

This thread has nothing to do with the books.


|> > Noone *CAN* explain cp to you.
|>
|> But they do all the time...
|>
|>


We've made honest attempts.



Nemickol
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Christ himself had no less than 3 implants.








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