[PEN-L:2423] Re: SWM May Have Lied About Liking Sunsets, Long Walks

[Rosser Jr, John Barkley]

     Hey!  As someone who spends parts of his summers in 
Mad City, Wisconsin where the venerable (or should that be 
"venereal") _Onion_ is published, and has been reading 
since well before its recent internet fame, I gotta say 
that it is great. Don't knock it; laugh with it.
Barkley Rosser

On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:31:47 -0600 (CST) valis 
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> {sigh} OK, it's official: American academia is choking in 
> hyperprolix pomposities which not only the average person 
> but even the average intellectual and average Marxist find 
> utterly devoid of substantive content!
> Hardly a mystery, then, that The Onion (www.theonion.com),
> an inane rag calling itself "America's Finest News Source," 
> is indeed the most popular publication among the country's 
> 20-somethings the past few years, with titles like the one 
> gracing the current subject line introducing "news reports" 
> of grotesquely extended irony: parodies of actual issues and
> social tendencies.  I wonder who's compensating for what, 
> encountered where?!  Next case!
>                                                        valis
> 

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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
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