You should try to hunt down the "Dysfunctional Family Circus" cartoons where
some clever individuals replaced the wholesome captions with just the sort
of "filth" your message describes. Choice!
-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan <eclauset@webslingerZ.com>
To: idm@hyperreal.org <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 4:17 PM
Subject: (idm) (off topic) quick before they notice
quoted 51 lines take a look at these fine examples of an active, vibrant online community:
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>take a look at these fine examples of an active, vibrant online community:
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>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0449148076/002-8668652-1158428
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>I've reprinted the best one here in case it's been pulled.
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>I'll Shovel the Cards
>by Bill Keane
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>Customer Comments
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>Strom Thurmond
>thastromeister@fatrichwhiteguyswithtoomuchtimeontheirhands.com from The
>good old US of A! , March 9, 1999
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>This type of smut must be outlawed! Within the confines of this great
>Republic we call the United States, a quiet plowman infects our youth. No,
>not the iconographic Johnny Appleseed afforesting our tables with Mom's
>Apple Pie, but a more sinister, inauspicious cultivator. Bill Keane, once
>apprehended in Connecticut for his failure to pay alimony, has once again
>invenomed the wonderful world of the United States. This book, filled with
>the grossest immoralities and wickedness the Old Testament can't match,
>has been released to a largely unaware audience. We look upon the Ida Know
>character in this seething cauldron of angst Mr. Keane calls "Family
>Circus" as nothing more than a harmless imp, a Puck if you will, spreading
>mischief and innocent mayhem. But I say look closer friends, and recoil in
>the understanding that Ida Know has created the work of the devil.
>Cleverly backdropping this demonic entity into the idyllic paradise the
>family otherwise enjoys, Keane lulls us into believing that life is
>controlled by the whims of supernatural beings. I say, where's the
>American Family Circus? God has blessed this country with the greatest
>leaders in the world, but Keane's depiction is quite frankly blasphemous.
>
>And it only gets worse, my fellow American. Read page 32 of this text.
>Little Billy is essentially forced to view his mother and father in a
>panel that pertains directly to the sexual. Barfy's bone? I don't think
>so. Then there's Uncle Roy's blatant lust for his NIECE! His flagrant
>homosexuality blazing across the pages with abandon! His frequent
>references to the sexual tension between Daddy and Neighbor Bob! How much
>more can our country afford to lose? In the end, will there be a country
>worth fighting for if this smut is allowed to propogate? My fellow
>citizens, I am proposing a bill. Senate Bill #57684 will directly outlaw
>Bill Keane's outlandish and nauseating filth from the face of this great
>country once and for all.
>
>Please email me with your name for a confidential petition getting this
>Bill off the ground. Thank you.
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