"WhiteBuses" + Gary North humor contest

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Look, you can disagree with St. Gary as much as you want, as well maybe you should about various things, but the man does have a sense of humor, which is one thing some people on this forum do not seem to have.

Go to his site and find out the contest re: the white buses from Georgia that are driving around y2k rumorland. Gary wants to tell the world the truth about these buses and he is asking for our help.

Here is my explanation:

The Mystery Solved! It is clear to any right thinking person that these buses represent the benevolent forces of cosmic understanding come to help us through this tense millennial leap. The truth behind the buses was revealed to a staff member of John K at the Fed2K center, in a vision.... Jerry Garcia has sent a message from the Strawberry Fields beyond to Ken Kesey and all the merry pranksters of the world that the dreaded y2k problem is not about broken code but in reality it is about false perceptions and middle class opiates. Garcia has instructed the planet, and apparently J.K from DC has accepted this revelation, has instructed the planet to fight y2k fear and frenzy by sending PR men around the nation and the world in these buses to feed the citizens speeches and, if necessary, the proper medicine for those who persist in Y2K mental illness. The UN is part of the PR campaign and obviously stands for the extent of the y2k people problem: "Universal Nothing" will happen (but they aren't sure). The racks are for the stockpiling of LSD that the roving calmers intend to put into the waterworks of those communities which would rather read the GAO reports re: their water systems than the soothing comments from John K and friends. This cosmic calming campaign will wind up at the end of December (This according to Jerry's instructions) with JK and friends riding trains through local communities as the Millennium approaches with the Grateful Dead song playing "Driving that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones you better watch your speed....(But they will leave out the words "trouble ahead, trouble behind..." This is the obvious situation and only those not on drugs can't see it!!!!!! (PS. The reason they haven't booked the January segment of the tour is that despite Jerry's insistence, the Feds haven't yet found a national railroad that is compliant) Walter Skold

-- Jerry Garcia (LSD@y2kdenial.com), July 24, 1999

Answers

Nawwww. The buses are part of the new 7-Up campaign. Instead of calling itself the Un-cola, the new slogan is simply UN, and the company has hired all these summer-idled schoolbuses to drive around teh country spreading the UN-word.

-- Cash (cash@andcarry.com), July 25, 1999.

I think these buses will be driven into New York City late at night and sacrificed to the bizarre creative impulses of master graffitists. Then they will be driven to Central Park and heaped into a monstrous sculpture habitable for aging hippies and pigeons.

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), July 25, 1999.

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