Net Humor

The Dark Side of the Farce
Douglas Myers 1:270/720

It's late at night, at the end of a weekend in which I tried to catch up on all the mail I didn't quite get around to reading during the work week. The echos are still running through my mind and combining in unlikely ways.

The ZEC echo is in an interregnum right now, Bob Kohl having been fired and Gary Gilmore, the interim ZEC, in somewhat of a pickle. Gary is charged by his job description with conducting an election for a new ZEC, but Bob Satti has apparantly charged the RECC with the task of determining how the new ZEC should be selected.

Meanwhile, Bob Kohl has not been silent. He is currently in a shouting war with John Souvestre charging him with lack of moderator support in the past. John maintains that he just wanted a little bit of decorum - that maybe it was a good idea to talk with the local sysop or his uplink or the next uplink or the next uplink before asking for a feed cut for an entire net.

And in the ever-popular SUPER-BITCH echo, the bitches are trying to assign the appropriate Fidonet Stars to the roles of the Seven Dwarfs. As my eyes close I recall Bob Satti being nominated for Sleepy...

... and suddenly I realize the appropriate role for Bob Kohl. What famous character was originally a force for Good (as many of his former supporters maintain) and a rising star in the Fido Empire before he finally succumed to the Dark Side? Why it was Darth Vadar!

Eyes still closed and slumber falling upon me, it doesn't occur to me that Darth never made the cast of Snow White.

And what famous Princess, a member of the Imperial Senate, was chased across the galaxy by Darth and forced to retreat with her Rebel Alliance to a new region even as the mighty forces of Darth's Empire were destroying her home? This would be Princess Ruth Argust, of course.

One sysop, irate over zone 2 nodelist errors, has already ranted about "Satti the Hut." Durn, that man takes a beating...

But to my weary mind, another role is more suitable. Which young man wishes to leave the farm and reach for the stars? Though inexperienced and making a few mistakes along the way, he is nonetheless privy to some routed netmail to Obie Wan Kanobie and rushes to rescue the Princess. As young Luke Satti embarks on his adventure, he finds that within himself are the seeds of the last Jedi Knight. Though he must ultimately confront the Dark Side, he eventually rises to dispose of Darth Vadar.

Drifting to sleep, I wonder who is Yoda, who will take Luke by the hand and teach him to use The Force. As sleep overtakes, I recall that Yoda wasn't one of the Seven Dwarfs either...

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