Ahem. Time for another -------------- textfile. Anarchy Inc. -------------- (.... Daredevil, Ruby Tuesday, Modem User, Surf Rat, Dark Shadow ....) (.... Senator Bunker, Havoc T. Chaos, Moon Roach, Lord Omega ....) (.... The Misfit, Eric C. Thompson, and Alexander of Atlantis ....) Now that my compooter is no longer in a state of disrepair, we may proceed on one of our lilliputian excursions into that vast, untapped visceral body of ethereal knowledge, that antithesis of antimony (what?), namely, this file... Note that it is not done in cooperation with Radamanthine Dungeonwriters, Shadow Stories Inc., BfB, or any other such organization- just Anarchy, Inc. You must be here for one of two reasons- (1) You are bored, and when in such a state are apt to read anarchistic literature. Seek counseling. (2) Your English teacher has noted the literary quality omnipresent in files of said group, and now you are doing your homework. Have your English teacher seek counseling immediately. (............................................................................) /---------------------\ A D V E R T I S I N G | this is... | My friends, what is advertising? Chopped ham? No, | a cute box | it's chopped liver, chopped to a smooth texture... \---------------------/ Seriously, the only reason you read this file is because of it's name. THIS FILE HAS NO NAME. But I lied, it has a name. You can lie in advertising, it's considered standard practice to do so, even. YOU HAVE SUCCUMBED TO THE PRESSURE OF THE MASS MEDIA, and shame on you! Why, suppose there were a product on the shelf, called "This product has no name (TM)". You'd probably buy it. You bought this file, after all. Enough of that. Let's get down to proper things now. The mass media is out to get us. You don't think they do all the nice things that they do just for a service. Of course not. They want to sell you things. They want you to buy things. They want you to make them happy, monetarily that is. All advertising is not bad. Those public service announcements, (even though they are there to keep the government happy to keep the station on the air to keep advertisements on the air as well) are not bad, but they are rather boring. But since you're not buying these services, they don't care. /---------------------\ Since nobody but a splinter interest group ever | buy anarchy | expresses any remote interest in the mass media's \---------------------/ attack on our sanity, I think it about time some- thing's done about this. Why, it's a travesty, a travesty of sanity, if you will, and I'll not stand for it. So I write this text file. There, by the grace of god, be I, me, sitting front of me apple ][ (+plus+, not //c). Good grief, look at that commercial. Whatever happened to good adver- tising, like Ed Barbara Furniture USA hi kids! Not that that's a soothing voice, nor a good commercial; in fact if I had my chance I would probably do something on the level of garroting that man. Good grief, he[the Author]'s rambling again! We've got to put a stop to it! But first these messages... [note: there are no messages; there was but I had to save space- so I deleted 20k of ads. Sorry-/ed] [note: some people have been complaining about there being too many notes./ed]. /---------------------\ [I'm getting sick of this! /ed] [Gag!.../ed?] | reading boxes | Ever notice that a large percentage of commercials | causes cancer | are just for shows that you could watch just to see \---------------------/ other commercials? Wow! This stuff feeds on itself! Now you can see why this has to be stopped. Well, at least the cable companies almost don't have commercials, except between shows there exist commercials of other shows, but those other shows don't have commercials, so it does not feed on itself in that case. Still,... So, you're going to watch television anyway... Ahem. That's Ok, as long as you realize that the mass media advertising blitz really is nothing you can do about, except ignore. Or use the device known as a remote channel selector to quickly zap your television into obedience. Seems that those networks are going to have to learn that our viewing time is sacred to them, and they shalt not tamper with thus. Soon they will realize that 7 commercials in rapid fire succession will not keep us glued to that TV channel. On another note, you could do what I've done: Give up network TV series altogether. The only network prime time show that I watch is Mike Hammer (my hero?). That is, as soon as he's out of the clink. /---------------------\ Now there comes a time in any text-file writer's | 12:59:59 | to conclude his file. Now appears to be that time. | Time to wake up... | So, with a flash, I will vanish namelessly into that | (conclusion) | Big AE in the sky... \---------------------/ -poof!- "That's funny. I was reading this file, you see, and all of a sudden the author vanished." "Nothing funny about that at all. Haven't you noticed how that happens every time you read a text file?" "Oh yeah." (............................................................................) My sincere apologies for the unfortunate few who had not the courage to press the ESC key and sat through the entire reading of that FOMA. Ahem. Call The Works BBS - 1600+ Textfiles! - [914]/238-8195 - 300/1200 - Always Open