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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

713.0. "Free Huey!" by SSGBPM::KENAH (Rust in her eyes, rust on her love) Wed Aug 23 1989 17:34

    Huey Newton, a founder of the Black Panthers, was found dead yesterday.
    
    Why am I entering this is a language conference?  Well, it's like this:
    Huey spent a lot of time in jail, and it was common to see the
    following, painted on walls, in the late Sixties:
    
    			Free Huey!
    
    An altered version of this graffito became one of my all-time
    favorites:
    
    
    
    			Free Huey!
    
    			       Dewey!!
    
    				 & Looey!!!
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713.1gratuityMARVIN::KNOWLESRunning old protocolThu Aug 24 1989 11:235
  Strange; one of my favourite graffiti was {OK OK: `one...was'}
    
    FREE GEORGE DAVIES 
        
    with every packet of Corn Flakes
713.2substitutionWELMTS::HILLTechnology is my Vorpal swordThu Aug 24 1989 11:577
    -1
    
    I preferred the alternative addition to this slogan:
    
    FREE GEORGE DAVIES
    
    ... I'd rather have free beer!
713.3Tech Writing In DisneylandRIGAZI::SPERANDIOThu Aug 24 1989 17:309
re:.1

you might like to know that the 3 names, while rhyming, are all spelled with 
different endings.
                      Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

Let's spell our graffiti correctly, folks.

- Skeezix
713.4What did he ever do to you?WELMTS::RISDONIs that all it takes?Fri Aug 25 1989 20:268
    this is loosely connected, since we are on graffitti!
    
    My all-time favourite is:
    
    BILL STICKERS WILL BE PROSECUTED
    
    
    Kate
713.5Ghad, this one is *still* 4/5s relevant!SSGBPM::KENAHRust in her eyes, rust on her loveMon Aug 28 1989 20:3610
    Another favorite, first spotted in 1965:
    
    		Post No Bills
    
    		  or Keiths,
    		   or Micks,
                    or Brians,
                     or Charlies
    
    					andrew
713.6My favouriteSAC::WILLIAMS_AAh! THERE you all are...Tue Aug 29 1989 14:105
    How about
    
    	ARE CASTRATED PIGS DISGRUNTLED ?
    
    -Andy
713.7Save Soviet Jewry-Earn Valuable Prizes!RIGAZI::SPERANDIOTue Aug 29 1989 23:374
Didja see where they're calling him "Doctor" Newton in the papers now?
A Phd.! How'd you like to be on *that* faculty review committee?