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From: [email protected] (Omar Haneef '96)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: A show of hands (ME!!, FUCKING ME!!)
Date: 11 Jul 1995 15:45:09 GMT
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Nesta Stubbs ([email protected]) wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Omar Haneef '96 wrote:
> >
> >I'm pleased that these responses came out to fascinating and personal BUT
> >this goes to show that y'all read interesting lives. Why are these
> >Cyberpunk? What makes them cyberpunk? I, and many of my friends have been
> >involved in near fatal road accidents, kicked out a landlord (very
> >patiently, and without force; but its the best I could do), um... "done"
> >computer animation and I bet there other people who do this sort of thing.
> >But that isn't, in itself, cyberpunk, right? (I mean I'm asking: is it?) And
> >furthermore, what is diy?
> > -Omar Haneef

> you are gathering information for a term paper.

You think I'm going to write a term paper -15 pages long- on dystopic cities
populated by the "real" cyberpunks on this newsgroup?

> Do we have to pose like the natives in the coca-cola shirts and big
> white toothed smiles? Maybe we can make all the women got topless
> like the natives too, I wouldn't mind. You can take photographs and
> we'll give you a pith helmet too. Be careful tho, we may be
> cannibals.

> I'm so glad you can identify with our DsCP, I mean it really
> legitimizes you. You no longer have to feel self-conscience when you
> go to a punk concert do you. We'll be sending you your complimentary
> pair of mirrorshades.

Do you honestly think that you are somehow more legitimate than me? In what
way? Why would I need you to "legitimize"myself? Get off the DsCP high
horse, nasty stub.

> --
> To John Dillinger, and hope he is still alive. |Nesta Stubbs|


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