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Subject: Re: office purge 
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 16 Jun 93 16:28:14 -0400.
             <9306162028.AA20300@podge> 
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 16:40:09 EDT

This is what we've obviously needed these past few years.  Why, I can
remember four years back, back when we were in m11, and the Exalted Office
Manager On High would call up The Tech.  They'd immediately send over four
reporters and two videocamera teams (just to make sure, you understand),
and we'd have glorious proclamations like
	Ahem.  We, the Great Student Information Processing Board, have
noticed that certain peons, of unmentionable rank, have been leaving cookie
crumbs all over the office.  This is totally unacceptable to us.
Therefore, we demand the following actions:
	1.  If the cookie crumbs aren't swept away in the next 14.2
seconds, their filesystems will be scoured with Ajax.
	2.  Unless a written apology, suitable for submission for Phase II,
in triplicate, signed by your mother, stating that "Never shall we incur
the Wrath of SIPB" is not in our possession with 40 working minutes, you
shall have your palms glued together behind your back.

Then we sat around discussing how great it felt, because dammit, we were
*SIPB* members, and in those days, you didn't just casually capitalize SIPB
like you do these days.  No, oh no, capitalizing the letters "sipb" was
something reserved for ExecComm members and seniors.

So, I'd just like to say I'm very proud that we can still stand up for what
is rightfully ours, and by damn, if any little mamby-pamsy wants to put
BYTE magazines or an occasional book or two, or even something as totally
and obscenely ridiculous as GILBERT AND SULLIVAN (I mean, at the very
least, they could leave SONDHEIM in here), well, then it should just be
burnt.  Never mind the fact that one week's notice by email is probably a
totally inappropriate form to contact some people.  Besides, it's obvious
they can't deal with the extremely heavy burden of being a SIPB member,
because dammit, if they could, they'd just have stuffed all that crap into
their drawer after all.  So it's up to clean up the gene pool.

And you think I'm joking about the cookie crumbs.  Well, the next person I
find leaving cookie crumbs in front of my drawer will be personally and
publicly ridiculed at length.  So watch it.

dave
SIPB member, and damn proud of it.  I was flying the SIPB flag on Flag Day.
Were you?