Newsgroups: alt.censorship, alt.angst, alt.fan.courtney.love, alt.music.nirvana, alt.activism, alt.atheism, alt.disasters.misc, alt.lies, alt.music.alternative, alt.music.hardcore, alt.music.journalism, alt.music.nin, alt.music.pearl-jam, alt.peeves, alt.politics.media, alt.politics.usa.constitution, alt.religion.satanism, alt.satanism, alt.society.generation-x, alt.speech.misc, alt.stupidity, alt.tv.mtv From: fofp@festival.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) Subject: Re: Help!!! Nirvana censorship References: <3q0j62$5gs@insosf1.infonet.net> Message-ID: Organization: Edinburgh University Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 18:30:10 GMT Lines: 94 Nate Smith (LORD_NATE@netins.net) wrote: : Dear anyone willing to help: : I am a freshmen in high school in Carroll, Iowa. Our school recently made : a student in 8th grade wear his "In Utero" Nirvana T-shirt inside out. If *I* was the student, or even someone who knew someone who once dated an ex-flatmate of the student's sister's second best pal, I'd wear *everything* inside out both as protest and to add to the air of surreality in the school engendered by such stupidity. Bonus points awarded for wearing underpants outside of trousers. Try it, the school board will probably have aneurisms. In fact try to figure out ways to make other things inside out (sit down Steiner!) and start a new craze. : The guidance counselor claimed the band and shirt were "Satanic", Satanic t-shirts AIEEEEEEE!!!! Run!!!! Whatever happened to childhood, I ask ya... Still, what's the point in remaining immature into my middle age if I can't pass on the benefits of that experience to help the young 'uns? Look, if a teacher at my old school had their head so far up their arse as to get worried about demonically possessed clothing, they'd have been dead meat. This woman is practically wearing a t-shirt with "Mess with my Mind!" written on it in dayglo. Get together with your pals and go for Guidance Counselling with progressively more warped stories about demonic clothing. Try to keep it just about plausible to start with so as not to blow the gaff. You know the sort of thing: point out that every full Moon, without fail, A SOCK GOES MISSING!!! Try to get her worried that there's a conspiracy amongst the girls in the school to shorten the acceptable hem-length. Get as many people as you can to wear identical pieces of some trivial item of clothing and start rumours about a cult. Award bonus points for originality. The loser of the game (apart from the woman herself of course) is the person who blows it by giving the game away. The winner is the person who convinces her to request a Police watch at full Moon to identify the site where a satanic rite is sacrificing people's socks to the Demonic God of Pink Scarves. : she : also accused the student wearing the shirt of being Satanic, although he : is not. I'm not saying I'm against Satanism, but this is prejiduce and : censorship. Damn straight! : The school and police department are debating whether or not to allow : students to wear Nirvana apparel in our school district. The Police Department?? This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for creative subversion. Don't miss it. If you do this right, before you can say "Habeus Corpus" you'll have the cops frisking everyone they find in possession of a red scarf. : Please send me : any comments or information related to this. I would like to prove to the : school that the members of Nirvana are not and never were Satanic. Don't the teach civics in that school? The point isn't even vaguely related to whether or not Nirvana were satanic or merely soporific, the point is that Satanists have Rights too. Look it up, it's Right there in the Constitution and everything, something to do with freedom of religion. Get to a t-shirt shop and get "Satanists Are People Too" t-shirts run off, or "Satan Stole My Socks" or whatever. Getting into an argument about whether Nirvana sacrificed goats is simply playing the school board's game. Oh, and rig the school record player to run backwards. It's a cheap shot, but it'd warm my heart to know that someone had done this :-) Subvert and Survive! Kurt would be proud of you. : Thank You, : Nate Smith : LORD_NATE@netins.net ^^^^^^^^^ Looks like some kinda satanist to me, whatcha reckon Jim-Bob? FoFP -- "Educated hillbillies. Nothing more, nothing less." -- Victor Ivanoff on the denizens of alt.peeves