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melissa  
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From: melissa <missie.johnsonNOtbS...@eudoramail.com>
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
Name: Melissa Johnson
Age: 23
Where you live: Tampa, FL
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: white
Social ranking: middle-upper
Occupation: programmer (i.e., computer nerd ;)

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David Grant  
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From: David Grant <dgr...@kent.edu>
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
That's the theory.  Now the next step in the scientific method is to
test it.  So if you guys could answer this tiny survey and repost it
here under this same subject line, I'd appreciate it.

Name:
Age:
Where you live (Country/Town/State):
Gender:
Ethnicity:
Social ranking (Lower-lower, lower-middle, lower-upper, middle-lower,  
etc.):
Occupation:

Me?

Name: David Grant
Age: 20
Where you live: USA/Kent/Ohio
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: white (mostly Irish, Scottish, Dutch, Welsh... but some
Cherokee Indian)
Social ranking: Middle-lower ???
Occupation: student with a major in theater (acting/writing) and a
minor   in English


 
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From: jillybi...@aol.commitme (Jilly)
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
Name:  Jillianne Randall
Age:  26
Where you live (Country/Town/State):  Idaho Falls, ID  USA
Gender:  Female
Ethnicity:  Irish/Swedish/German
Social ranking (Lower-lower, lower-middle, lower-upper, middle-lower,  
etc.):  middle-middle
Occupation:  Agricultural Lab Technician, University of Idaho  (I work on a
tater tot farm!)
Jilly

"We don't need no stinking badgers!!"  --UHF

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From: Loopy <lo...@pyro.net>
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
In article <37D56839.899EC...@kent.edu>,
  David Grant <dgr...@kent.edu> wrote:

> That's the theory.  Now the next step in the scientific method is to
> test it.  So if you guys could answer this tiny survey and repost it
> here under this same subject line, I'd appreciate it.

> Name: Jen "Loopy" Smith
> Age: 23 (nobody likes you when you're 23)
> Where you live (Country/Town/State): Skokie, IL
> Gender: Female
> Ethnicity: Caucasian
> Social ranking: lower-middle
> Occupation: Magazine Editor

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From: alamo...@aol.com (Alamom28)
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
Name:  Linda Ward
Age:  44
Where you live (Country/Town/State):  Novato  CA  USA
Gender:  Female
Ethnicity:  Swedish/Danish/Norwegian
Social ranking (Lower-lower, lower-middle, lower-upper, middle-lower,
etc.):  middle-middle
Occupation:  Part-time receptionist - Real Estate office

 
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From: ane4040...@aol.com (Aimee)
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
Name: Aimee Newsom
Age: 24
Where you live (Country/Town/State): Memphis, TN
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Southun' Bapist Sicilian German-Jewish Sioux (non-practicing)
Social ranking (Lower-lower, lower-middle, lower-upper, middle-lower,
etc.): middle-lower
Occupation: Freelance
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David 'DuqEgghead' Egyud  
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From: David 'DuqEgghead' Egyud <egyud4...@duq.edu>
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
Name: David "DuqEgghead" Egyud
Age: 19 - soon to be 20
Where you live (Country/Town/State): At school, Pittsburgh, PA - at
home, Conneaut Lake, PA
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Social ranking: Not sure, but probably middle
Occupation: Student at Duquesne University majoring in sound recording
technology and music performance on tuba (and some on voice)

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Phil  
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From: "Phil" <abec...@prodigy.net.lenotata>
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience

> Name: Phil a'Becket
> Age: 16
> Where you live (Country/Town/State): Millersville, MD USA
> Gender: Male
> Ethnicity: White/caucasion/WASP/whatever you want to call it
> Social ranking (Lower-lower, lower-middle, lower-upper, middle-lower,
> etc.): middle-upper
> Occupation: Student/Car Washer

~Phil

 
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From: mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience

Name: Randal L. Schwartz, the first (no relation to our beloved Bermuda)
Age: 38
Where you live (Country/Town/State): a suitcase in a hotel near you
Gender: mail, er, email, er, Male
Ethnicity: western european mutt (english, scotch, irish, german)
Social ranking (Lower-lower, lower-middle, lower-upper, middle-lower,  
etc.): left-of-center, down one floor
Occupation: professional technical travelling comedian, yeah that's it.

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From: free...@aol.com (Free570)
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
Age:29
Where you live: Pittsburgh, PA USA
Gender: Female
Ethnicity:  Heinz 57, but around 50% Italian
Social rank: Middle-lower
Occupation: Stay at home single mom of 3 year old,  she's an "Al" fan in
training. But only the tame stuff, like "Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch"----which
is probably the only song she gets:<)

 
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brent wolford --==cyb0burnt==--  
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From: brent wolford --==cyb0burnt==-- <bu...@dsbp.cx>
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience

> Name: Brent Wolford
> Age: 25
> Where you live: USA/Albuquerque/NewMexico
> Gender: Malish
> Ethnicity: Whitish
> Social ranking: middlish (and rising)
> Occupation: professional student, internet programmer

see the links below for more.... :o)

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Date: 1999/09/07
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Date: 1999/09/07
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From: "Beth G." <raumz...@flash.net>
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
Name: Beth Gothro
Age:  37
Where you live (Country/Town/State): Michigan
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Yugoslav/Croatian and German
Social ranking: middle class
Occupation: Stay at home mom/homeschooler

 
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Paul E. Jamison  
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From: "Paul E. Jamison" <paulj...@wichita.infi.net>
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
Survey, with footnotes [0] (for JUSTICE!)

> Name: Paul E. Jamison
> Age: 46 [1]
> Where you live (Country/Town/State): Wichita, Kansas [2]
> Gender: Male
> Ethnicity: Caucasian [3]
> Social ranking (Lower-lower, lower-middle, lower-upper, middle-lower,
> etc.): Lower-middle
> Occupation: Engineer [4]

[0] A habit I picked up from alt.fan.pratchett, which
uses feetnotes a lot
[1] "Tain't the years, youngster, it's the mileage!"
[2] Which has gotten ridiculed a lot lately, due to
a certain State School Board and the Theory of
Evolution.Heck, I'll ridicule this state myself
given half the chance.
[3] Far as I know.  Genalogy is not my strong
suit.
[4] For Boeing, Planemaker to the World.

Paul E. Jamison, Esq.

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From: "Spatula" <spat...@vcinospam.net>
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
Name: Greg Webb
Age: 29
Where you live: USA, Mayfield, Kentucky.
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Good question.  I'll just say caucasian.
Social ranking: Dirt poor.
Occupation: Television news producer.  (Translation:  Basically a TV
newswriter, alhtough there's a bit more to it than that.)

 
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Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience

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From: Adam Kohen <adam.ko...@yale.edu>
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience

(delurking...)

> Name: Adam Kohen
> Age: 21 (for another ten days, anyway)
> Where you live (Country/Town/State): New Haven, CT
> Gender: male
> Ethnicity: whiteboy (mainly Eastern European--Polish, Russian,
> Hungarian, etc.)
> Social ranking: somewhere in the middle...
> Occupation: grad student -- paleontology

-AK

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Date: 1999/09/07
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From: Calvin Dodge <caldo...@ix.netcom.com>
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience

David Grant wrote:

> That's the theory.  Now the next step in the scientific method is to
> test it.  So if you guys could answer this tiny survey and repost it
> here under this same subject line, I'd appreciate it.

Name: Calvin Dodge
Age: 42 (you know - life, the universe, everything)
Where you live: USA, Denver, Colorado
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: English-Scotch-Irish
Social ranking: lower-upper
Occupation: System Administrator

Calvin "Weird Cal" Dodge

--
"... she was a calligraphy enthusiast with a slight overbite and hair
the color
of strained peaches. I'll never forget the very first thing she said to
me -
she said: 'Hey, you've got weasels on your face'.
THAT'S when I knew it was true love!"


 
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Mitsy  
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From: Mitsy <hbfam...@earthlink.net>
Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
Name: Mitsy
Age: 17
Where you live: USA/OC/California
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White
Social ranking: middle-lower?
Occupation: high school student

 
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Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience

Name: David House
Age: 26
Where you live (Country/Town/State): US/Portage,IN
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: English/German/Am. Indian
Social ranking : lower middle
Occupation: retail mgr.


 
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Date: 1999/09/07
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience


 
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From: drste...@aol.com (DrSteggy)
Date: 1999/09/08
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
Name: Jackie Arns

Age: 30

Where you live (Country/Town/State): USA, Southbury  CT

Gender: female

Ethnicity: American mongrel (English, German, Irish, Scotch

Social ranking (Lower-lower, lower-middle, lower-upper, middle-lower,  
etc.): Um.  Middle-middle I guess.  

Occupation: Veterinarian

Jackie Arns
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From: t...@aol.commiesymp (TW George)
Date: 1999/09/08
Subject: Re: Weird Al attracts a diverse audience
Name:  Anonymous
Age:  I'm only 3 1/2 years old.
Where you live:  My parents cellar
Gender:  Hermaphrodite
Ethnicity:  Full-blooded Troll
Social ranking (Lower-lower, lower-middle, lower-upper, middle-lower,etc.):
Somewhere south of slime-mold
Occupation:  Village Idiot

 
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