Re: Wannabes
MarvinSays@aol.com
Sun, 06 Jul 1997 15:19:05 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 7/6/97 7:05:23 PM, somebody wrote:
>So it's come to this? An innocent little joke by Sunny has got every idiot
>with no life of their own (and it would appear there are a lot of you on
>this list sitting around the house bored this summer. Turn off your
>goddamned computer and go swimming or pick apples or berries if this is the
>best you can contribute to the mailing list) on this list behaving as a
>contestant on To Tell The Truth trying to milk someone ELSE'S joke because
>not only are they too intellectually bankrupt to think up their own
>contribution to the list, be it humourous or not, but they'd rather
>sacrifice their own identity and walk around deluding themselves they are
>someone who has actually DONE SOMETHING, CONTRIBUTED SOMETHING with their
>life. Well, I'll have you know that I really am Malcolm Lawrence and find
>no need to hide behind such monikers as "candy colored clown they call the
>sandman." Takes a lot more guts to simply be who you are than dissolve your
>identity into whomever you idolize/the media idolizes. Ya bunch of fucking
>phonies. Sunny's attempt at humor was successful after we found out it was
>him because we on the list know Sunny's respect for JDS as well as all
>literature in general. The rest of you have nothing to add to the list
>outside of the fact that you've all just let the rest of the list know that
>you don't "get" Salinger at all.
>
>Malcolm
Yeesh. Ok, maybe all these people weren't very funny and they took an (at
one time) pretty entertaining post from "Sonny" a little too far, but if that
is enough to inspire such a pissed off rant from you, you've got more
problems than any of them...
-David