🚀 go-pugleaf

	Sorry, I can't resist...we opened Gilbert and Sullivan's _Princess
	Ida_ last week here and Houston...(email me for the original - it
	was and is a vicious slam on the idea of a woman's college).

(Florian)
A Usenet college! maddest folly going!
What can readers learn within these groups worth knowing?
I'll lay a crown (the netters shall decide it)
I'll teach them more in half an hour outside it!

(Hilarion)      
Hush, scoffer, ere you sound your puny thunder,
List to their aims, and bow your head in wonder!

They intend to send a newsfeed to the moon - to the moon;
And they'll outstrip 56K very soon - very soon;
Then they'll learn to make their killfiles take the blow - take the blow,
When the signal-to-noise ratio gets too low - gets too low.

To catch flamers all unlighted they trepan - they trepan,
To trade Suns for Macintoshes they've a plan - they've a plan.
They've a firmly rooted dreading of KPD's news.groups threading
And they'll keep on it from treading if they can - if they can.
                
(all)                
These are the peculi-ars that all the alt-dot-uu'ers
Is hoping at their Universitee we shall see!
These are the peculi-ars that all the alt-dot-uu'ers
Is hoping at their Universitee we shall see!

(Cyril)
As for .sigs, they're under four lines, so they say - so they say;
And than quoted text they 've more lines every day - every day;
And they won't allow a spelling flame to fly - flame to fly;
And they'll practice what they're preaching by and by - by and by!
Each newly-joined aspirant to the cult - to the cult
Must repudiate all those outside of alt - 'side of alt
They mock at them and flout them, for they do not care about them,
And they're going to do without them's the result - the result!

(all)
These are the peculi-ars that all the alt-dot-uu'ers
Is hoping at their Universitee we shall see!
These are the peculi-ars that all the alt-dot-uu'ers
Is hoping at their Universitee we shall see!
In this college useful knowledge
Everywhere one finds,
And already, growing steady,
We've enlarged our minds.

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===/| Glenn Forbes Larratt      |    CRC OCIS     | "Quid pro quo,   |/
==/| glratt@rice.edu (Internet) | Rice University | Clarice."       |/=
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