Michael Press
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
In article
<lvd483t7qsajar4usfcq4a1tvmmneojuik@4ax.com>,
John Forrest Tomlinson <usenetremove@jt10000.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:57:23 -0700, RicodJour
> <ricodjour@worldemail.com> wrote:
> >What did cut and paste people do before Al Gore invented the
> >internet? Did they use scissors and glue like in a ransom note? If
> >they didn't have scissors (no doubt taken away for their own safety)
> >did they just eat the glue? These are the questions that keep me up
> >at night.
>
>
> I think they ranted just the same. I was on political (pretty
> left-wing) march in the 1980s about something topical -- perhaps US
> attempts to overthrow governments in Latin America -- and this guy
> runs up to us screaming about Krushchev. We say "What"? and he says
> "Kruschev is behind it all!". We tell him Kruschev is dead and he
> says "He's behind it all! He's behind it all!" and runs off.
>
> But at least he wasn't blaming Roosevelt.
You are positive it was not a bit of street theater?
--
Michael Press
<lvd483t7qsajar4usfcq4a1tvmmneojuik@4ax.com>,
John Forrest Tomlinson <usenetremove@jt10000.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:57:23 -0700, RicodJour
> <ricodjour@worldemail.com> wrote:
> >What did cut and paste people do before Al Gore invented the
> >internet? Did they use scissors and glue like in a ransom note? If
> >they didn't have scissors (no doubt taken away for their own safety)
> >did they just eat the glue? These are the questions that keep me up
> >at night.
>
>
> I think they ranted just the same. I was on political (pretty
> left-wing) march in the 1980s about something topical -- perhaps US
> attempts to overthrow governments in Latin America -- and this guy
> runs up to us screaming about Krushchev. We say "What"? and he says
> "Kruschev is behind it all!". We tell him Kruschev is dead and he
> says "He's behind it all! He's behind it all!" and runs off.
>
> But at least he wasn't blaming Roosevelt.
You are positive it was not a bit of street theater?
--
Michael Press