Re: virus: education and the state
Sodom (sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Sat, 18 Oct 1997 15:04:07 -0400
chardin wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 22:14:32 -0400
> > From: Sodom <sodom@ma.ultranet.com>
> > To: virus@lucifer.com
> > Subject: Re: virus: education and the state
> > Reply-to: virus@lucifer.com
>
> > David McFadzean wrote:
> > >
> > > At 02:11 PM 10/17/97 CST+6CDT, chardin wrote:
> > >
> > > >I'm sorry if I seemed short--I was. I had just been taken to
> > > >the woodshed for my long quotes. I felt huffy and defensive. I
> > > >was trying to make a joke--you know, Sagan's forever talking
> > > >about billions and billions and billions of stars...I guess you
> > > >had to be there.
> > >
> > > It is interesting from a memetic point of view that Sagan never
> > > said "billions and billions". That was a Johnny Carson parody of
> > > Sagan.
> > >
> > > --
> > > David McFadzean david@lucifer.com
> > > Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/
> > > Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/
> >
> >
> > No, he definately did say it, a lot. Did you see the mini-series
> > Cosmos about 15 years ago?
> >
> > Sodom
> That is what I was thinking, but it isn't the sort of thing I could
> swear to. Last knight I kept thinking about it and thought I could
> see it in my mind's eye. I remember watching that series with him,
> but it was in the late 70s when I saw it. I was taking an astronomy
> course at the time and I remember that once in a while a white midget
> scientist would give a part in the series--I don't remember his
> name. There was a black guy in my class who was so funny. When the
> atronomy professor asked us if we had seen it, that black guy said :
> yeah, is that what you call a "white dwarf." It broke the class up. We were young--can we be
> forgiven? chardin
The biggest reason I remember it is that my cousin Greg Cliff of Cliff
Design created the poster and art for the project, so I payed close
attention. That remark was pretty funny : }
sodom