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'##::::'##:::'#####:::'########: VIVA LA REVOLUCION! CERDO DEL CAPITALISTA!!
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##:::: ##::'##.. ##:: ##.....:: ===========================================
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##:::: ##:'##:::: ##: ##::::::: THE HELOTS OF ECSTASY PRESS RELEASE #439 !!
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#########: ##:::: ##: ######::: ZIEGO VUANTAR SHALL BE MUCH VICTORIOUS! !!
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##.... ##: ##:::: ##: ##...:::: ===========================================
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##:::: ##:. ##:: ##:: ##::::::: "Confetti On Your Head" !!
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##:::: ##::. #####::: ########: by -> Mogel !!
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..:::::..::::.....::::........:: 1/15/99 !!
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!!========================================================================!!
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Greeting people with the traditional "what's up?" or how "how are
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you?" has become increasingly more of a default, it seems. This might
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sound stupid, but why bother asking if you don't care? I realize this
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could be one of those polite phrases that doesn't *have* to require an
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answer... but for some reason asking a non-rhetorical question and not
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expecting an answer seems silly. The worst part, though, are the
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answers that people do give. It's almost always the same.
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"What's up?"
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"Not much."
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"What's new?"
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"Not much."
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"How're you?"
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"Fine." (or, alternatively "Good" or "Okay".)
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The other day, when walking with my sister, she spotted one of
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her friends. They both said "What's up?" at the same exact time, and
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neither of them even answered the question. Am I the only person on
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the face of the planet that finds this odd?
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It's even gotten to the point where if people actually answer
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the question with anything other than the above phrases, they are
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considered weird. For a while I would tell people honestly how I was
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doing or what was going on if they asked. You'd be surprised how many
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people were shocked that I actually answered.
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This wouldn't bother me if I didn't have to deal with with every
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other person I run into on a daily basis. Once, as an experiment, I
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tried this on my friend:
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Mogel: "What's up?"
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Friend: "Not much."
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Mogel: "No, really. What's up?"
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Friend: "Not much!"
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Mogel: "C'mon, there has to be something!"
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Friend: "NO, NOTHING IS UP."
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Rather than the oh-my-god-that's-witty literal humor response of
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"the sky!" (or "the ceiling!"), I decided that a more effective way to
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deal with the problem is that when people ask "What's up?" I will
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respond by screaming "PARTY!", and throwing a handful of confetti over
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their head.
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They will be surprised and excited by the fact that something
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truly is going on... a party! That's right, throw a little spice into
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a common, empty question. It's a party!
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!!========================================================================!!
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!! (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #439, WRITTEN BY: MOGEL - 1/15/99 !!
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