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Date: Fri, 16 May 97
From: The Great Quail
"The Toast Queen states oh-so-provocatively:
> IMO the three flamewars that produce the most heat and the least
>light are politics, religion, and "Glass is a supercooled liquid
that
>slowly flows, and you can see it in old windows and I don't care
what the
>physicists say".
What? My God, this is the exact kind of thinking that makes me furious!
I
mean, haven't we all been through this tedious flame war *far* too
many
times? Those freaking chemists, man. Always ready to start a fight.
"Supercooled liquid," my ass! Only morons - and by that I include
all
those ninnies in the Royal Society, from Boyle to Lord Kelvin and
all the
way down - would buy into such an idea. Glass is a solid, and that's
that. This all goes back to the Arabian/Venetian alchemist question.
Just
because those pompous faux-Florentines were better glass blowers
. . . I
mean, who ever heard of anything like a "supercooled liquid!" Ohh
nnnooooooo, glass has to be special. Had to hold up the Renaissance
until
we could invent the retort and the alembic, didn't we? But did they
stop
there? Of course not! Then we had blue glass, with new improved cobalt!
A
coincidence that cobalt takes its name from Kobold, a German goblin?
Of
course not! It further proves the esoteric German/Italian ties,
highlighting the cross currents of this Eurocentric glass conspiracy!
I
though this stuff was all laid out in "The Chymical Wedding of Christian
Rosenbeaker." Why the hell did we even bother to *have* the Thirty
Year's
War for? And before that, the driving of the Moors out of Spain?
I mean,
*Hello!* Can you say Oppressed Baghdad Clay Methodology versus the
Euroglass Dogma Cultural Monolith?
Good Christ, I am sick of explaining this to people. Glass, glass
glass,
has to be bloody special. And not content with blue, we had to have
green
and brown glass, and for what? Oh, and don't even *think* of giving
me
that hydrogen peroxide/silver nitrate dreck. I'll believe in ultraviolet
light when I see it, baby, and not a moment sooner! Green and brown
glass
. . . just more crap to confuse future recycle programs with! More
stained glass for the cathedrals - but hey, isn't that why the cut
off
Laviosier's Head? There was a blow to those damned chemists, delivered
by
the harbingers of the Age of Reason. The Masons were into that one
up to
their eyeballs, I'll warrant, or at least until that Glass infiltrator
Robespierre. (Who, by the way, was a humble glazier named "Glassy
Sven"
before he became a tyrant.)
Oh, yes, we've all heard that supercooled liquid thing - and what
a lame
explanation it is! Remember, this is from the same people who brought
us
the concepts of Quintessence, Caloric Fluid, the Luminous Ether,
and the
infamous Phlogiston World Tour of the Late Eighteenth Century. Not
to
mention Cold Fusion, Flubber, and Buckeyballs! Do they take us for
a
bunch of fucking idiots? "But have you ever looked at the glass in
an old
house . . . " Oh, *please*! What a poor excuse to cover something
as
simple as shoddy craftsmanship! I mean, look at any pane of glass
- does
it sag? No! Just a few cases in those (by now certainly nearing the
status of an urban legend) so called "old houses."
Will the Glass Conspiracy ever stop? Or will they not rest until
we are
all thralls to GOG: the Glaziers Occupational Government? And the
whole
machineries of their lies and corruption! I will never forget the
way
they tried to co-opt our hero Einstein, coupling his greatness with
that
horrid four hour so-called "opera" from the seventies - and how obvious
it was, too, that this "minimalist" composer would go by the name
of
Philip Glass. . . . Damn their eyes, these devils! In their arrogance
they no longer even feel the need for secrecy . . . .
. . . but we'll show them!
So flame away, Fegs! I have held my own in this flame war on many,
many
lists, and I am not afraid to climb on my soapbox again!
Al-Quail ibn Hmuh ibn Feggi
Here endeth the great Quails rantings
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