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age 6
It is unfortunate that the reputation of the
Flagpole has been tarnished by Dennis’s
editorial. Perhaps I could have ghost-writ
ten it for him in a letter. However, the
Flagpole should recover quickly. Dan Mat
thews has a tough row to hoe.
Mark Hicks, Atheniophile
Letter #4
Which Came First, The
Chicken or The Egg?
Scientists have shown that there are
living things that possess the properties of
both plants and animals.
This is very convincing evidence that
animals evolved from plants.
Some plants reproduce with seeds.
The egg, whether it's a chicken’s,
reptile’s, or catfish’s, was probably some
type of seed in ancient evolution.
The chicken and the egg are the same
thing, they evolved together.
The chicken and the egg go all the way
back to the self-reproducing bacteria.
The bacteria goes all the way back to the
first chemical reaction that created life as
we define it.
The chemical reaction was a result of the
earth’s formation.
The earth’s formation was a result of the
universe.
Flagpole Magazine
The universe is a result of the unknown.
So where does this logic end? In our
beliefs.
3 basic beliefs about life and the uni
verse:
1) There is no beginning and no end.
2) There v/as a great beginning of exis
tence and it is continuing forever.
3) It's all in our minds.
Think about it next time those scrambled
eggs are slidin’ down your esophagus.
Bayon
Letter #5
A Final Word...
Dear Flag-babe,
Oh dear, oh dear! What an embarrass
ment this Dan Matthews Thing all is! I do
seem to recall having scanned the original
offending article by Dennis Greenia but,
failing to find anything nasty or interesting in
it, I must have passed on. “Imagine my
surprise’ 1 on reading this week’s Flagpole to
discover a full-blown scandal, complete
with so many pages of reproduced pro-Dan
verbiage that I can only infer a powerful
masochistic drive on the part of the Preda
tor. Like many others, I suspect, I hurried to
the pile of newsprint-for-recycling to re-read
the original, and suddenly ... nothing hap
pened!
Everyone offended by some forgetable
Local Color
February 21, 199
Rednecks’ cover being blown to the Frats, a
half-cock analogy to eunuchs' creativity,
some self-important bitching about relative
grammatical standards, culminating in a
flaccid threat of legal action — how pa
thetic, how very Athens!
Now, I fancy that an average fucked-up
farm-boy from some depressingly typical
part of rural Georgia might be expected
immediately to have hung his head and
started wringing the brim of his hat when
exposed to such naughtiness. On the other
hand, is it not the current entrepreneurial
concept to elevate Athens to the level of the
world? — if not quite capable of bearing
comparison to New York, perhaps to Austin,
someday (this is, after all, the Glorious
Soutn). Well, sorry chaps and chapettes,
but if y'all take any notice of, let alone
offense at, the Dan Matthews Thing, then
there is no hope of elevation for the foresee
able future, and I’d carry on writing risque
references to farmyard smells into my text,
a la M*d P*ppy. Meanwhile, perhaps the
huddle of free thinkers might consider get
ting together in the 40 Watt, welding the
doors shut, and keeping quiet for the inter
vening millennia — or has that happened
already?
Be good,
Jon Hughes, Grand Wizard of Mu
Delta Alpha Socialist Frorority
Down ton Athens • College Square
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