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Re: <nettime> Hey wait a minute -- aren't you guys *Canadian*? Bill Spornitz <spornitz@mts.net> Canadian Holiday Flamewar Erupts Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:10:02 -0600 From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz@mts.net> Subject: Re: <nettime> Hey wait a minute -- aren't you guys *Canadian*? Friends; I'm afraid to report that the distinction *Canadian* has taken a direct hit, *on the home front*, thanks to a number of factors. Whatever it is we _were_, what we _are_ very quickly becoming is estate workers; keepers of _your_ wells, bruces@well.com; our water for your thirsty lips and neon lights, our oil wells quenching your thirst for speed and convenience; comes with bullet-proof shell, interiors designed by your finest ergo-technocrons. What's that? No problem! How high? - all sold to you, f.o.b. your place, at your prices. We are joining the rest of the world, taking our place in the hollywood line-up of butlers and maids. Of well-keepers. Of butlers standing in wells. Just trying to get away from the smart bombs. hohoho b ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:34:39 -0600 From: Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com> Subject: Canadian Holiday Flamewar Erupts >From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz@mts.net> >Subject: Re: <nettime> Hey wait a minute -- aren't you guys *Canadian*? >Friends; >I'm afraid to report that the distinction *Canadian* has taken a >direct hit, *on the home front*, thanks to a number of factors. *So you're brazenly *admitting* that ADBUSTERS is Canadian? Ha! We always suspected it! >Whatever it is we _were_, what we _are_ very quickly becoming is >estate workers; keepers of _your_ wells, bruces@well.com; *Speak for yourself, wretched slave of NAFTA and FTAA! The Well is in distant, decadent San Francisco, while I live in the Republic of Texas. >our water >for your thirsty lips and neon lights *Okay, granted, you nailed the Californians on that one > our oil wells quenching your >thirst for speed and convenience; *I don't suppose you frosty Manitobans ever heard of "West Texas Light Crude," the global benchmark of the Greenhouse Effect >comes with bullet-proof shell, >interiors designed by your finest ergo-technocrons. *Well, they *used* to be our "finest ergo-technocrons," but Enron fired all of them last quarter, and now they stuff cordite into cruise missiles at minimum wage >What's that? No problem! How high? - all sold to you, f.o.b. your >place, at your prices. *Look, fella: this plaint will fall on deaf ears, for you're sending it straight to EuroLand. Get a modern currency, okay? The one you're using has a bird on it. >We are joining the rest of the world, taking our place in the >hollywood line-up of butlers and maids. Of well-keepers. Of butlers >standing in wells. Just trying to get away from the smart bombs. *I can only concur that the end is nigh, and every Torontonian will soon envy Kabul... Just last week I saw a wretched clan of Nova Scotian migrant farm workers, out in the field with their stoop-hoes... and it was *genetically engineered corn,* that was the real kicker! bruces http://www.well.com/conf/mirrorshades/ ------------------------------ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net