DrunkenThon <drunkenthon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Oh, I see. But that wacky guy was my silly analogy to spam, of course. ;)

Larry Doering posted the following to talk.bizarre in the mid-nineties:

] THINK of the computer highway AS a highway.
]
] There it is again. Some clueless FOOL talking about the "Information
] Superhighway." They don't know JACK about the Net. It's NOTHING
] like a Superhighway. That's a BAD metaphor.
]
] Yeah, but suppose the metaphor ran in the OTHER direction. Suppose
] the HIGHWAYS were like the NET. All right! Severe craziness. A
] highway HUNDREDS of lanes wide. Most with potholes. Privately
] operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of
] rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles. 500 member VIGILANTE
] POSSES with nuclear weapons. 237 ON RAMPS at every intersection. NO
] SIGNS. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing
] truck to ask directions. AD HOC traffic laws. Some lanes would VOTE
] to make use by a single-occupant-vehicle a CAPITAL OFFENSE on Monday
] through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would just SHOOT
] you without a trial for talking on a car phone.
]
] AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking BUS with hundreds of EBOLA
] victims and a TOILET spewing out on the road behind it. Throwing
] DEAD WOMBATS and rotten cabbage at the other cars most of which
] have been ASSEMBLED AT HOME from kits. Some are 2.5 horsepower
] LAWNMOWER ENGINES with a top speed of nine miles an hour. Others
] burn NITROGLYCERINE and IDLE at 120.
]
] No license tags. World War II BOMBER NOSE ART instead. Terrifying
] paintings of huge teeth or VAMPIRE EAGLES. Bumper mounted MACHINE
] GUNS. Flip somebody the finger on this highway and get a WHITE
] PHOSPHORUS GRENADE up your tailpipe. Flatbed trucks with ANTI-
] AIRCRAFT MISSILE BATTERIES to shoot down the KRUD Traffic Watch
] helicopter. A little kid on a tricycle with a squirtgun filled with
] HYDROCHLORIC ACID.
]
] NO OFFRAMPS.
]
] Now THAT'S the way to run an Interstate Highway system.

I hope this is helpful. Much of this applies to Usenet.
--scott
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Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

[...]

> ] NO OFFRAMPS.
> ]
> ] Now THAT'S the way to run an Interstate Highway system.
>
>
> I hope this is helpful. Much of this applies to Usenet.
> --scott

Excellent, archived. Thank you, Scott.

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