alt.tv.seinfeld posters are in the newspaper

Dec 27, 199720 posts by 12 posters
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Posters discuss being featured in a Dallas newspaper article about Seinfeld fans, with mixed reactions to a psychology professor's commentary on the newsgroup community.

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m2nal
Many of the posters on this NG just made the paper in light of Seinfeld calling it quits http://www.dallasnews.com/arts-nf/over2-08.htm
The News Guy (Mike)m2nal

[email] wrote:

Thanks man, that was a great posting. We're famous. Good thing they didn't quote Justin.

Is Barry coming back?

Lee Salemm2nal

Dr. Robert Helmreich (a psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin) had the nerve to say of the Seinfeld NG posters in this article in the Dallas Morning News:

"They might not have the richest lives, but they're still really important as people," he said.

Well, gosh, gee, THANKS, Dr. Helmreich, for validating my importance as a person, even though I don't have a rich life! Not all of us can live the exciting existance of a PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR at Longhorn U (all rise and genuflect towards Austin, home of the revered psych prof)! Geez, what chutzpah!

A *college professor*? Why is it when some idiot journalist wants an opinion, he gets it from an idiot college professor? 99% of the college instructors I've known have no idea what real life is like. They get their ideas from books and theories, not from any practical application. They need to get out more. They need to talk to real people and not ridicule them. They need to. . .well, WATCH SEINFELD!

On Sun, 28 Dec 1997 16:44:23 GMT, [email] (Jacques Buuted-Thugge) wrote:

Speaking as an "idiot journalist," the reason is quite simple: typically whenever an "idiot journalist" does a story we like to find someone we can use as an "authority" on this or that thing.

College professors tend to hit the spot.

lee

In alt.religion.kibology LSB2000 wrote:

I used to be an "idiot journalist" and then one day somebody hit me with an "idiot stick" and reversed my polarity and I became a "really sickeningly dumb journalist" for awhile until I fell into a ditch that somebody had covered with a sign cleverly painted to look like solid ground! Ouch! Then I walked into a wall that somebody else had painted to resemble a road! Then I was an "idiot" again, but not for long, because somebody spiked my Advanced Silver Senior Vitamins with expensive gin and so I got drunk a lot from then on and talked about Elvis all the time! That makes me an "Ancient Drunk Idiot Journalist," I reckon, like Hugh fukken Downs.

Authority Figures: Soupy Sales, Shari Lewis, Senor Wences. All my heroes are socks with lipstick-painted-on mouths, because you can make them say anything you want them to say and it's like they really said it and then you can print that in your "idiot newspaper". Take that to the bank, Cannon!

Poor Spot! He's just some descriptive hyperbole in a Lee Bumgarner post!

Everybody wants a parasitic t w i n ! Everybody wants to feel like they b e l o n g ! Everybody wants to run away and join the c i r c u s ! [email]

On 7 Jan 1998 11:38:17 GMT, [email] (Tjames Madison) wrote:

Goddamn it, I keep trying to go incognito so people can't grep for my name and what happens? Followupers keep putting my name _back_ _in_.

sigh.

On 7 Jan 1998 11:38:17 GMT, [email] (Tjames Madison) wrote:

Goddamn it, I keep trying to go incognito so people can't grep for my name and what happens? Followupers keep putting my name _back_ _in_.

sigh.

Whatever. I can't speak for the other ngs, but your name doesn't mean anything in a.t.s. [email] (Hammer nail here--> <-- for a new monitor.)
RiboflavinDave

Dave wrote in message ...

<[email]

You've never heard of LEE Bumgarner? Really? And you claim to read a.t.s. Liar.

Kevin Allegood [email] "THE LOVE OF JESUS, INSCRUTABLE LOGIC ENGINE" - MegaHal

On 7 Jan 98 18:58:25 GMT, [email] (Dave) wrote:

Good. I wasn't talking about any spacific newsgroup.I'm talking about friends, family members (that sorta thing) deciding to see what I'm up to.

lee

The News Guy (Mike)Dave

Dave, he's really famous <grin> - here is a .sig of his from another NG Here are some of his registered NG's according to DejaNews: Don't see a.t.s there.

rec.arts.movies.current alt.religion.kibology soc.history.what-if rec.arts.tv rec.arts.sf.tv alt.horror sdnet.cablemodems comp.dcom.modems.cable

L. Shelton Bumgarner -- Keeper of the Great Renaming FAQ Nattering Nabob of Negativism * http://www.nottowayez.net/~leebum news:alt.society.generation-x.ls-bumgarner * The Angst Table

In article ,

Lee, you have great evidence here: NOW SUE THIS GUY TO DEATH.

FOR SOMETHING.

Lord Tlerll of alt.os.tlerll. I LIKE MONEY! PLEASE SEND ME FREE MONEY! *Objectivist* Anti-Microsoft page:http://home.earthlink.net/~tlerll/ms.html -------------------==== Posted via Bozo News ====----------------------- http://home.earthlink.net/~tlerll/ Troll, Flame, Cascade to Usenet
DaveTlerll
Nattering killfile of negativism.
*Flush*
Bye.
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On 8 Jan 98 12:41:03 GMT, [email] (Dave) wrote:

Um, the word you're looking for is "*plonk*." Besides, killfiles aren't perfect -- I could begin posting under a different name and differnet email address....

lee

You haven't heard my .WAVs. Believe me, it's *flush*.

Besides, killfiles

Go for it.  I'm a bit tired of 'LSB2000'.   What is that, the
part number of a luggage rack for a 1978 Pinto?
The new Lexus model?   The model number of the
wide-screen TV that the gang bought as a wedding gift
for 'the Drake'?  Maybe it's the part number of the
garbage disposal Kramer installed in his shower?  Or
could it be the extra powerful 12,000 BTU air conditioner
Kramer dropped on the puppy?  Hmmm.  Wait, I know,
it's the license plate number of the police car used to
pick up the "Smog Strangler"?   Maybe the catalog order
number for the Space Pen that writes upside down?
Whoops. Very sneaky. You got me. I didn't really killfile you. Yet. [email] (Hammer nail here--> <-- for a new monitor.)
TlerllDave

But it means 'PGP! PGP! PGP!' in middle Checkoslovakian.

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.net>,

quote Jerry Seinfeld, " are these guys Mirskheads or what???"

In article ,

^^^^^^^^^^^^ 'hit the spot', eh? I seem to recall that to 'hit the spot' is an expression used for describing an excellent and filling meal.

LEE BUMGARNER IS A CANNIBAL! CANNIBAL! CANNIBAL!

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DaveLee Salem

No shit, telling me I need to 'find God' to assuage my sense of loss??? And I noticed they included the "smarmiest piece of drivel" post without mentioning what an obvious troll it was.

This article is what happens when an idiot tries to 'test the pulse of the on-line community' and fails miserably.

     "I can understand it. When I saw it in the
     paper, I thought maybe I should go and see
     the screams and moans sure to be on the
     Internet," Dr. Helmreich said.

Like we're some kind of freak show for them to 'peek in on'? Screw you, Doctor. I may be Ratboy, but I ain't no lab animal.

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