Holy crap, look at what book I just found...

SmileyBoy

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Tue Jan-25-05 10:45 PM
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Holy crap, look at what book I just found...

Edited on Tue Jan-25-05 10:49 PM by SmileyBoy

Right now, I'm at a computer at my campus library, and next to the computer I just got on is a book left behind by someone entitled "Unamerican Activities - The Campaign Against the Underground Press" by some dude named Geoffrey Rips. It includes such features as "Surveillance as Censorship", "The Underground Press and its Cave-in", "Sabotaging the Dissident Press", and "Fugitive Pages from the Alternative Media".

This looks like a book aimed against anti-war publications from the Vietnam days. There's a whole bunch of pics of pretty tame anti-war and anti-Nixon articles and cartoons from left-wing papers in the late-60's and early-70's, but then there's stuff next to it villifying each seemingly harmless one as if it's a mission statement of communism, or something. It's right next to me right now and I'm flipping through some of it, and it's pretty funny that they're having a hernia over some of these harmless cartoons and articles.

Should I wash my hands in bleach now that I've touched it??

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JohnKleeb

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Tue Jan-25-05 10:46 PM
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1. ooooooooh take it with you

Know thy enemy man.

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SmileyBoy

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Tue Jan-25-05 10:47 PM
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2. I dunno. My hands feel very dirty now.

This is like proto-Coulter stuff right here.

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JohnKleeb

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Tue Jan-25-05 10:50 PM
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6. Well then get high, it might become more bearable

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Skink

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Tue Jan-25-05 10:48 PM
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3. Just be thankful...

It wasn't "Left Behind".

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iconoclastic cat

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Tue Jan-25-05 10:49 PM
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4. Damn, I'd read that! Creeeeeepy.

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SmileyBoy

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Tue Jan-25-05 10:49 PM
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5. I've decided to take it with me.

I want a good laugh.

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iconoclastic cat

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Tue Jan-25-05 10:53 PM
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7. I'm going to try to hunt down a copy.

Edited on Tue Jan-25-05 10:53 PM by iconoclastic cat

I love that kind of stuff. I want to read "How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found," too.

Also, "Hit Man."

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SmileyBoy

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Tue Jan-25-05 10:58 PM
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9. I once thought of checking out one of Ann the Man's books from the library

Ya know, just for a laugh...

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LTR

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Tue Jan-25-05 11:04 PM
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10. I'd check out two

One to take a dump on, and one to cover it up.

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LTR

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Tue Jan-25-05 10:57 PM
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8. And yes, it can be yours

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0872861279/qid=1106711792/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0264247-1169536?v=glance&s=books

This thing was published in '81?!? :wtf:

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