From: fun@thingy.apana.spaaaamtraaaaap.org.au (David Gerard) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Xemuseeding cafes and bookshops Date: 1 Sep 1997 20:03:35 +1000 Organization: Please try to understand before one of us dies. Lines: 46 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: thingy.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.3 UNIX) Xemuseeding cafes and bookshops is a wonderful pastime. Anywhere that is the least bit subcultural or mimics being subcultural (arty, hip, whatever; this includes the gay subculture) is likely as not to have a place where all and sundry plonk down leaflets advertising whatever. You walk in with your leaflets, you look where the other piles of leaflets are. You walk over and *plonk* your Xemu leaflets down. If you are in any doubt, just ask if it's okay and it probably will. The point is that: 1. the regulars will have gotten into the habit of at least glancing at the leaflet pile for news of any current events of interest; 2. the new Xemu leaflet is *very* attractive. This is the sort of environment where the light blue/green Xemu leaflets really come into their own - they look very nice, but are not obnoxiously in-yer-face. Juuust right. The other point is that in most subcultures, interesting new snippets of information are a major currency of social status. And the Xemu leaflet is *hilarious* - word of it and copies-of-copies and webpage hits will spread like wildfire. I mean, who could take $cientology seriously after hearing the tale of Xemu and the volcano? I mean, really. If leafleting the local gay strip, it may be an idea to use the bright pink paper. I know it sounds cliched, but it catches attention in that environment. Around here it does, anyway. I put piles of 'em up and down Commercial Road this evening and they fit *right* in. -- http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/scn/ http://www.suburbia.net/~fun/scn/ I hereby encourage all earthlink.net users to leave for a provider whose email and Usenet messages are not boycotted by the rest of the net, and for ISPs to continue to block earthlink.net email and Usenet messages from Earthlink, until earthlink.net *stop* the flow of junk email and spam. And they're this > < close to going under, too. Bewaaaare.