Red Iguana Dawn

Episode 2: Identity Crisis?

From: sprowell@grape.cs.utk.edu (Stacy Prowell)
Subject: RED IGUANA DAWN, Episode 2: IDENTITY CRISIS?
Date: 14 Mar 1994 20:01:08 GMT
Message-ID: <2m2fq4INN5a7@CS.UTK.EDU>

[We return once more to the secret hideout of Arch-Fi- er, Super Hero Publius, Basher of Atheists and Poster of No Reply! When last we left, he was about to reveal his plan to his sidekick, Ferret Boy. Let's listen!]

Ferret Boy: Publius? Publius? Hello? Please tell me the plan. At least give me a hint!

In article <2kd4ov$jgn@inca.gate.net>, publius@inca.gate.net (Publius) writes:
|>   Where is the mystery about the name, address and phone nomber
|>   of PUBLIUS?

Ferret Boy: Uh, I, uh, don't know. I don't get it. How can this be part of the plan? Would you be so good, O Great Red Lizard, as to explain this?

|>   Before I even posted on 'alt.atheism' I contacted 'Medusa'
|>   proposing some ground rules for conducting a discussion as
|>   to the Religious Nature of Atheism. I gave them my name and my
|>   Fax number - that being the only practical means of communication
|>   other than my 'Userid'. (Boy!- Am I glad I chose the ID of
|>   PUBLIUS. As any well educated American knows, that is the pseudonym
|>   of James Madison - when he submitted his contribution to the
|>   'Federalist Papers'.)

Ferret Boy: Yes. I remember that.

|>   I first posted under my actual name and my postings included my
|>   Fax number.

Ferret Boy: [Looking concernedly at the FAX machine in the corner of the hideout] Uh, do you think the atheists (scoff, scoff, spit, hack) could find our hideout using your FAX number?

|>   When I realized the dynamite effect of my ID I put it
|>   entirely in the Spotlight.

Ferret Boy: Wait, is this part of the plan? I don't get it. You put the FAX machine in the light, or your Secret Identity?

|>   This threat now,

Ferret Boy: What threat? Do you think you are James Madison? [Ferret Boy moves to feel Publius' forehead, but the Masked Iguana waves him away]

|>   with an implied hope
|>   that if someone knows where I live some proxy for the Yellow
|>   Bellied Renegade might be induced to do me harm...

Ferret Boy: Jeepers! So you do think they will find our hideout! We've got to move!

|>   Well - What am I supposed to do?
|>   Break out in a cold sweat?

Ferret Boy: No; help me pack up the Mozumderizer!

|>   How      
|>   about playing the game the other way.

Ferret Boy: [Looking out from behind the massive Mozumderizer] Huh?

|>   What is HIS phone number
|>   and address?

Ferret Boy: Whose? Bobby's? He hasn't talked to us since we stole his Mozum-

|>   I have "rednecks", "pig farmers", "creationist
|>   morons" and "religious idiots" arrayed on my side. I wonder
|>   what he and his fellow Renegades have going for them?

Ferret Boy: That's the plan? Uh, maybe I'll just handle the packing, uh, by myself. You just sit right there, don't worry, I'm just going out to the car...

|>                                             PUBLIUS

[Is Ferret Boy really leaving Our Hero? Will Publius' Sinister Plan work? Tune in next time and see!]

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