mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Browne) (03/21/86)
Comrades: Our infiltration of the target newsgroup is almost complete. The enemy cannot distinguish between our agents and the true rumormongers. Unfortunately, neither can we. Therefore, I suggest that we use the following convention to identify ourselves to each other: 1) Begin posts to net.rumor with the phrase "I have heard a rumor that...". 2) End posts to net.rumor with the phrase "Can anybody verify this?" Alternatively, posting a followup to a post with these phrases will also serve to identify yourself as an ally to our glorious cause. Yours in bizarreness, Michael Browne -- UUCP: ..!seismo!k.cs.cmu.edu!mcb ARPA: mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu "It came time to move, so I packed up my Salvador Dali print of two blindfolded dental hygienists trying to make a circle on an Etch-a-Sketch..."
ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Ken Arromdee) (03/21/86)
I have heard a rumor that there is an attempted infiltration of net.rumor
by the undead newsgroup net.bizarre. We at Multiple Universe Distributors
are concerned about the continuing availability of this newsgroup as a source
of providing you with new information about our fine products, and we would
regret any such disturbance in relationships with our customers. So as for
the rumor, can anyone verify this?
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!jhunix!ins_akaa | |apak@oddjob.UUCP (Adrian Kent) (03/27/86)
I have heard a rumor that an increasing number of bizarre events are taking place on a universe-wide basis. For example: (1) A candidate who advocates that the head of U.C.'s divinity school should be burnt at the stake recently won the Illinois Democratic primary for secretary of state. Not only that, but she carried the ward in which the campus is sited by a majority of 2 to 1. (2) An undersecretary of state, speaking on prime-time TV, made a half-way truthful statement about the administration's central American policy. (`We cannot allow the Honduran government to accept this [the Nicaraguan government's pursuit of contras across the border]') I am told that the cause of this is the recent complete description of the laws of physics, by means of an analytic geometric reformulation of superstring theory, due to two physicists in this institute. As a result, the universe is undergoing an existential crisis, causing bizarre events to propagate out from the centre of the disturbance - here. The above examples support this theory, as do several recent postings on the group. Can anybody verify this?