LTTTD

Thu Oct 1 16:56:16 UTC 1998

Let The Tonga Thread Die

Rik Schneider
Unix Systems Administrator
Net Asset LLC
1315 Van Ness Ave
Suite 103
Fresno CA 93721
(209) 490-4000

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My band career ended late in my senior year when John Cooper and I threw
my amplifier out the dormitory window. We did not act in haste. First we
checked to make sure the amplifier would fit through the frame, using the
belt from my bathrobe to measure, then we picked up the amplifier and
backed up to my bedroom door. Then we rushed forward, shouting "The WHO!
The WHO!" and we launched my amplifier perfectly, as though we had been
doing it all our lives, clean through the window and down onto the
sidewalk, where a small but appreciative crowd had gathered. I would like
to be able to say that this was a symbolic act, an effort on my part to
break cleanly away from one state in my life and move on to another, but
the truth is, Cooper and I really just wanted to find out what it would
sound like. It sounded OK. -- Dave Barry, "The Snake"