Hello George.
26 Mar 97 00:02, George Erdner wrote to Steven Van Impe:
SVI>> No no no no no. You can't just say Genesis is Progrock. Genesis
SVI>> with Peter Gabriel is ProgRock. Phil Collins might at first have
SVI>> been Prog, but for moment he definately ISN'T.
GE> I had mistakenly assumed that the intended humor in my post was
GE> sufficiently obvious that I didn't need a stupid ":)" thingee at the
GE> end of it. I never thought anyone would take my little bit of
GE> absurdity as anything but humorous absurdity.
This stupid ":)" thingee is very useful for people who, like me, don't speak 
English at home and therefor do not understand many of the hidden humor 
inside such messages. May I point out that you didn't understand a simple 
statement as 'No a, no b'?
As to this one, I was quite sure you were joking. You mentioned the Supremes. 
But I was trying to get this discussion back in line. Most of the messages 
these days contain nothing but rubbish - flames are normal, and I can delete 
them with a single key; but I can't stand on-going discussions about whether 
or not you were flamed. And your messages mostly do not contain anything that 
contributes to a normal discussion.
My attempt was to use this message to improve my previous definition of 
ProgRock: after a split, every part of the band has to be reconsidered to see 
if they're still ProgRock (you might remember my definition was not based on 
single songs or albums, but on group concepts).
GE> But then, I guess that some people really thought that "Don't eat
GE> yellow snow" was serious advice from Frank Zappa.
Should one be really careful with an axe? Let's ask Eugene, shall we?
Do I have to explain this? Or do you understand it by yourself?
-/_-,
Steven
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