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Benjamin Weiner wrote:
g-spot wrote: LOL. "Concise fashion" was remotely possible? And that's why phd's spend entire careers and write entire books on the very topic? There isn't a bumpersticker version. There isn't a 4 paragraph usenet version. It is not my job to be concise in a bike racing newsgroup where I'm not getting paid, and it isn't even on-topic. ... Greg Brady, Damn. I was sure you were getting paid by the word. As for concision, here you go: From http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/003030.html "The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time" Ayn Rand's A Selfish Christmas (1951) In this hour-long radio drama, Santa struggles with the increasing demands of providing gifts for millions of spoiled, ungrateful brats across the world, until a single elf, in the engineering department of his workshop, convinces Santa to go on strike. The special ends with the entropic collapse of the civilization of takers and the spectacle of children trudging across the bitterly cold, dark tundra to offer Santa cash for his services, acknowledging at last that his genius makes the gifts -- and therefore Christmas -- possible. Prior to broadcast, Mutual Broadcast System executives raised objections to the radio play, noting that 56 minutes of the hour-long broadcast went to a philosophical manifesto by the elf and of the four remaining minutes, three went to a love scene between Santa and the cold, practical Mrs. Claus... See, who said speech was free? Of course, it is on the usenet and you get what you pay for. ... that was rendered into radio through the use of grunts and the shattering of several dozen whiskey tumblers. In later letters, Rand sneeringly described these executives as "anti-life." You're welcome. Ben P.S. Own up - as a child actor, you were that elf, right? I was an elf in an engineering lab, just not at the north pole. No, I was was not a child actor, but I did act childishly. Thanks. |
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