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Will Dockery

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Feb 25, 2011, 1:39:51 PM2/25/11
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Hieronymous Corey <hieronymous...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> With a name like Will Dockery and the "target audience" you have, you
> should only be so lucky as to go as far they have, and are apparently
> still going almost thirty years later.  That's not a bad career by
> most standards.  What do you have going for you that you can afford to
> point fingers at their name calling techniques?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butthole_Surfers

The Butthole Surfers made some pretty good music for the times,
also... and have *two* Usenet newsgroups devoted to them!

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Hieronymous Corey

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Feb 25, 2011, 4:33:37 PM2/25/11
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On Feb 25, 12:39 pm, Will Dockery <will.dock...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Feb 23, 3:21 pm, Will Dockery <will.dock...@gmail.com> wrote:

"With names like they chose, it isn't much of a surprise that the band
just didn't get very far even with the target audience."

Will Dockery

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Feb 25, 2011, 5:29:02 PM2/25/11
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Hieronymous Corey wrote:
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> "With names like [The Butthole Surfers] chose, it isn't much of a surprise that the band

> just didn't get very far even with the target audience."

Obviously you don't understand what I meant by that statement. We can
go into it more, and I can educate you on it, or we can let it go.
Your choice.

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Hieronymous Corey

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Feb 25, 2011, 5:33:39 PM2/25/11
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On Feb 25, 4:29 pm, Will Dockery <will.dock...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hieronymous Corey wrote:
>
> > "With names like [The Butthole Surfers] chose, it isn't much of a surprise that the band
> > just didn't get very far even with the target audience."
>
> Obviously you don't understand what I meant by that statement. We can
> go into it more, and I can educate you on it, or we can let it go.
> Your choice.

All I did was quote you in context to the groups you added to the
thread. I don't care what you meant. Explain yourself, or don't.

Will Dockery

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Feb 25, 2011, 6:14:22 PM2/25/11
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Hieronymous Corey wrote:
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> All I did was quote you in context

No you didn't, but I can if you think that's so important:

> > > > Frank Sinatra once stepped on my little finger.  I used to have a small
> > > > scar that I would point to as I told the story of how Frank Sinatra once
> > > > stepped on my finger, but it has long since faded to blend with my
> > > > wrinkles and age spots so that now I have nothing to point to, and since
> > > > I have nothing to point to there is really no point to mentioning it
> > > > other than just mentioning it for the hell of it.  Like pointlessly,
> > > > see.
>
> > > Great story! Sammy Davis Jr while performing with the Rat Pack in Vegas
> > > tripped and fell on stage causing his glass eye to pop out and roll off
> > > stage. I had front row seats and made a dive for it catching it just
> > > before it rolled under the seating. After Sammy was helped back to his
> > > feet by Dean Martin and Peter Lawford he started searching for his
> > > missing eyeball. I stood up holding it high in the air yelling that I had
> > > found it. I was taken back stage to meet the rest of the Rat Pack and
> > > gave Sammy his eye back which he promptly washed off and reinserted. He
> > > then Wrote me a check for $1000 as a reward and invited me to remain
> > > behind stage and enjoy the food and drink layout while I got to bullshit
> > > with all of them. I then was treated to a limo ride back to my hotel
> > > where I had been given a room upgrade to the penthouse suite. And for the
> > > remainder of my stay I had a limo free of charge to do as I wished. It
> > > was my first vacation and probably the best I've had since.  
>
> > And when you told Sammy you'd like to come back and do it again, he
> > said, "Great! I'll keep an eye out for you!" Sure thing.
>
> Reminds me of the 1980s punk band Butthole Surfers, who named an album
> "Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis":
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_Corn_from_the_Socket_of_Davis


>
> With names like The Butthole Surfers chose, it isn't much of a surprise that the band
> just didn't get very far even with the target audience.

HTH & HAND.

Hieronymous Corey

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Feb 25, 2011, 6:38:31 PM2/25/11
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On Feb 25, 5:14 pm, Will Dockery <will.dock...@gmail.com> wrote:

> No you didn't, but I can if you think that's so important:

> > With names like The Butthole Surfers chose, it isn't much of a surprise that the band


> > just didn't get very far even with the target audience.

What do you have going for you that you can afford to point fingers at
their name calling techniques?

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