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Article #8Re: Coke and the Real Thing
From: Rick Braman
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1985 08:09
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1985 08:09
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> >OK folks, now that ALL of you have assumed you were the ONLY
> >ones who heard the old Coke is coming back, and just HAD to
> >tell the WHOLE WORLD (who undoubtedly knew already anyway),
> >you can stop patting yourselves on the back.
> >
> >WE ALREADY KNOW!
> >WE ALREADY KNOW!
> >WE ALREADY KNOW!
> >WE ALREADY KNOW!
> >
> >So shut up already.
> ----------------------------------------------
> This week 7 Black South Africans were killed by the Apartheid regime.
> The media took scant notice. The most massive air bombardment in the
> history of the Western Hemisphere continued in El Salvador as US supplied
> planes and bombs attacked people in zones of rebel control. The media
> took absolutely no notice. Congress just authorized CIA funding to
> overthrow the governments of Angola and Nicaragua. Barely a word on the
> net. But the media and those who control the public consciousness
> go to town over the reformulation of a soft-drink.
> And, alas, we are taken in, and pretend to care about such nonsense.
>
> As in Roman times,
> give them circuses to distract them.
>
> I mourn for my country.
> ihnp4!ihlpg!berman
AMEN! I couldn't agree more.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dataio.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!braman From: braman@dataio.UUCP (Rick Braman) Newsgroups: net.misc.coke,net.politics,net.misc Subject: Re: Coke and the Real Thing Message-ID: <702@dataio.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 04:09:21 EDT Article-I.D.: dataio.702 Posted: Fri Jul 12 04:09:21 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 01:26:39 EDT References: <814@ihlpg.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 44