% X-NEWS: spcvxb news.admin.policy: 607 P Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.1B4+SPC1 6/9/92 VAX/VMS V5.5-1; site spcvxb.spc.edu< Path: spcvxb!rutgers!att-out!cbfsb!cbnewsf.cb.att.com!forbesq Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.flame,talk.bizarre,news.admin.policy,rec.music.synth,rec.music.makers.synth,rec.humor 0 Subject: =2= Night of the Usenet Winter Olympics5 Message-ID: <1992Nov15.072436.11408@cbfsb.cb.att.com> . From: forbes@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (Scott Forbes) Date: 15 Nov 92 07:24:36 GMT Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com  Followup-To: rec.humor_ References: <1992Nov13.083517.29864@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Nov14.072212.29383@cbfsb.cb.att.com> / Organization: Usenet Sports Programming Network A Keywords: Usenet Winter Olympics coverage -- exclusively on USPN!  Summary: It's too dark to see!	 Lines: 97 B Xref: spcvxb news.groups:41558 alt.flame:39196 talk.bizarre:73729 W  news.admin.policy:607 rec.music.synth:33565 rec.music.makers.synth:115 rec.humor:61233          \\=    ////     The Usenet Sports Programming Network presents...    (____)    \  /      ||     ||                                  .----. ;          o    o o o      | -> |            "WHAT the -- ?!" +         +=_.  | | |__    '----'         . o *        / / \-------\ \     ||            x+ _____-'|_\_________/_/_____||________  -/ ' .                                .--''    |   __1                             .-'            / /  o 2                            /               \ \ / o3                           /                 \ \ / o 2                          /                   \ \ /3                         |                     \ \/\ 3                         |                      \__/                          |                          |                          |   .                      F L A M E S L E D D I N G  1                   The 1992 Usenet Winter Olympics      Arthur Kent:@ >Hello and welcome back to USPN's exclusive coverage of the 1992A >Usenet Winter Olympics.  This is Arthur Kent reporting live from ; >Sarajevo, where the Flamesledding competition is underway. C >Flamesledding is one of the most dangerous events in the Olympics, B >and this year's competition has been very exciting.  Let's take a5 >closer look as the news.groups team enters the gate:   
 Ken Arromdee: ; >If everybody else were bobsledding off a cliff, would you?    Karleenus Schwartz Davis: 7 >Well, of course!  I mean -- AIYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!    Ken:B >Next!  If everybody else were bobsledding off a cliff, would you?   Jesper Lauridsen: A >Umm...  I suppose if everybody were doing it, there must be some  >good reason for it, right?    Ken:C >Sure.  [ AIYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ]  Next!  If everybody else   >were bobsledding off a cliff...   Arthur: B >It looks like we could set a record this year, sports fans.  Stay  >tuned as the Olympics continue!    #                                   *   A [Meanwhile, two men watch the proceedings from a nearby slope...]    Gene: B >Your plan is working flawlessly, Rich.  The sysadmins have turnedC >against each other, and are trying to enforce the Guidelines where C >they were never meant to apply.  In a few days they'll be ready -- C >perhaps even eager -- to return to the days of the Backbone Cabal.    Rich: C >Indeed.  There's nothing like a little threat to the status quo to @ >make people feel insecure, and make them want to force a littleA >order and structure onto the net.  By the time they realize what 3 >they've put into place, we'll be in control again.    Gene: B >And then we'll rebuild the net -- in our image.  Heh heh heh heh.> >No more rabble-rousing talk.*, soc.* or misc.* groups... just< >comp.*, sci.*, and only those rec.* groups that we approve.   Rich: ? >And, of course, with the Cabal making all the decisions, there 0 >won't be a need for news.* anymore, will there?   Gene: @ >Of course, of course.  You know, the time is coming soon when IA >will step down as head of the Cabal... and I'm starting to think B >that I may know who my successor will be.  Keep up the good work,> >Rich, and you may find yourself in the top spot someday.  ButA >enough about that now:  While we're in Europe we have some Cabal A >business to attend to.  Last month's currency crisis was a great = >success, but we need to do something about the Bundesbank...    [to be continued....] 