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max@prls.UUCP (Max Hauser) writes:
>From article <2055@limbo.Intuitive.Com> on the local newsgroup ba.singles:
>|   
>|   So, Paul Francisco will be coming out here in a few weeks and I've 
>|   volunteered to arrange a net.party for him. I met Paul at Holly Stowe's
>|   and Mel's Indiana Hoink back in October and found him to be a really
>|   cool and outgoing guy... [Ruminations on how to celebrate the Presence]
>
>Then in response to a query from a mystified reader (speaking for thousands),
>asking who-is-this-person-and-why-on-earth-should-we-have-heard-of-him,
>|  
>|   Sorry...Paul is just a frequent poster to soc.singles from Delaware.
>
>
>Gee, and for all the build-up ("meet Paul Francisco in person!") I had
>naturally assumed that he was a modern Celebrity.  The sort to appear on
>late-night UHF TV promoting discount travel cards, for example, or on 
>Hollywood Squares, or opening a nightclub act in Gardena.  I was naturally
>anxious to attend, and had even begun to hope for an autograph.
>
>Sadly, many of us gave up on soc.singles about five years ago when it became
>more or less useless.  Earlier it had been a forthright forum with honest
>and human discussion.  Not only did the traffic mushroom to the radical and
>unmanageable level of 100+ postings a day but most of the expansion
>consisted of what Jef Poskanzer deftly labeled "vacuous boring bozos."
>


     And 5 or 6 years ago, a visit by Griz or the Slime Sisters would have
recieved the same build-up.  Nothing's changed all that much.  But if you
can't handle the change you should actually bail instead of hanging around and
occasionally bitching how "it ain't like the good old days".

Bob c/o The OTH Gang
rcf@pnet01.cts.com