you people are gay

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.