> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin C. Tangora
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 3:36 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS
>
>
> This is getting ridiculous. The signal to noise ratio
> has fallen to 1-to-10 or 1-to-20.

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> I've been wanting to complain for weeks,
> but as a mostly lurker, I held my tongue
> until a regular contributor spoke up.

Those that contribute set the tone.  Those that are silent do not.

There are rather simple avenues that you -- yes you!  All of you!  You know
who you are! -- can personally take to improve the signal-to-noise ratio.

I suggest that you gather your allies, foment mass insurrection, and retake
the theater lobby.  Instead of throwing popcorn at the noisy rabble, though,
perhaps a more surreptitious approach might be taken.  Subtle invocations of
rapture toward preservation of the gilding of the theater lobby ceiling;
weighty treatises on the relative merits of various poultices' efficacy in
regard to drawing the splattered "butter" stains out of the marble wainscot;
evaluation of preferential methodologies for bubble gum removal from the
patterned Wilton carpet; artistic asides analyzing Mucha posters and more;
dramatic discourses on the paradigmatic designs of Rapp and Rapp.

And for COD'S sake, please please transport us to a lobby in Chicago.  Or
LA.  Or perhaps an Eberson atmospheric in Akron.  I'd host it here in
Raleigh, but the bastards tore down all the really good theater lobbies.

Just a thought.
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Dan Becker,  Executive Director        "What's this? Fan mail
Raleigh Historic                                 from some COD?"
Districts Commission                         - With apologies to
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